The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-02-20


in W. A. Norcrcss grocery store.
| On Thursday evening, March 8, Con
lpany E will go to Camden for battalio
drill.
j William Taylor has resigned his positio
as assistant in the meat department G
j Allinson's store.
Several persons yesterday found the ic
on some pavements to be just what it
cracked up to be-
/ Frank Kempton will occupy the dwell
! ing of No. "a Main street, which is to b
vacated by Mrs Fox.
Rev, K. Boyce Upper, D. D., vii
occupy the pulpit of the Baptist Churc
on Friday evening, at7.45.
Herbert Kille, of Garden street, has re
eived prize of S. for solving the ferr,
boat puzzle in the Sunday Inquirer
A surprise party was rendered Mr.. an,
Mrs. Edward Smith last evening. the oC
casion being the fifth anniversary of thei
marriage.
The shore train on Saturday afternoon
met with an accident at Toms River. Thu
wrecking crew did not return here unit
Sunday morning.
| On Friday evening one proposition TO
membership was received by the Knight
of Pythias, and one candidate was giveI
his first degree.
town on Friday. Inquiry revealed thu
| fact that they are to be converted int
umbrella handles.
BENJAMIN Fenton was found drunk il
the snow on Saturday night by Officer
Severns and locked up. Justice Krayel
gave him four days.
A set of dishes was recently presented
to Mrs. Henry G. Claypoole, on Pine
street. by the ladies of the G.. A. r. The
gift was birthday remembrance
Mrs. Samuel Elberson, of Garden street
gave supper to the members of her Sun
day school class on Thursday evening A
few invited guests were also present.
Miss Susan Ellis, who is in her Goth
year, died at her home on Mill street on
Sunday morning from paralysis. The
funeral will take place tomorrow
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of Concert Hall Association will be held
in the office Of Franklin B. Lewis, on Fri
day, February %, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
AS the result of his sleigh upsetting at
Masonville last night, ex-Sheriff Charles
Fl. Shinn, of Mount Holly, was thrown
out and had his shoulder blade dislocated.
A party of young people from Mount
Holly took sleigh ride in the country
last evening and spent few hours with
Miss Julia Haines, who lives near Jack
sonville.
The case between Sims 8 Darnell, of
Atlantic City, and Theodore Philip, of
Mount Holly, to recover for services rem
dered in the collection of bill, has been
compromised.
Rev. Frank A. Foy, of Jersey City,
who formerly resided in Mount Holly, is
the spiritual advisor of Edward Clifford,
who is in the Hudson county Jail under
sentence of death.
The Burlington County League mana
gers will hold meeting in Burlington
this evening. 1t is said that Beverly and
Delanco will not put ball teams on the
diamond this year.
The public sale of household goods,
stock ETC., by Harry Harker, at his resi-
dence on Garden street, near Branch
street, Mount, Holly, has been postponed
to Wednesday, Feb. 81.
Miss Belle Mcintosh sustained severe
fall at Jones corner on Saturday night.
She was carried into the drug store and
given attention, where she was compelled
to remain for quite while.
The Republican voters of Northamp-
ton township are requested to meet in
America Hall, on Thursday evening at
7.30, to appoint committee to take
charge of the spring primary.
On Saturday Samuel A. Atkinson re-
ceived his commission from Governor
Voorhees, as Prosecutor of the Pleas for
Burlington county 1t is dated April 4,
and is for full term of five years.
A mule attached to one of the Centre
ton steamboat freight wagons gave out
on Main street on Saturday afternoon.
The Journey to Mount Holly through the
storm was too much for the animal.
The members of Company E, of Mount
Holly, are again agitating the question of
a new armory. It is said that the state
will appropriate 81, 600 for this purpose if
the company can raise like amount.
Marion Circle, No. 9, Brotherhood of
the Union, will on Wednesday evening,
February %, confer the Franklin, Jeffer
son and Washington degrees on candi-
dates from Mount Holly and Moorestown.
On Saturday Sheriff Fenton sold the
property of Lydia Evans, in Vincentown,
to Benjamin B. Brown for SO, 900; also
the property of Barney B. Brown, in Mt.
Laurel township, to Isaac Pennypacker
for 800.
Horace Cronk owns a horse that is
somewhat different from most animals Of
that character, because it baked on Tues
day noon while going home to dinner.
Generally horses balk while going the
other way.
Edward H. Stokes, a prominent citizen
of Trenton, died suddenly in that city on
Saturday. He had been afflicted with
heart disease for some time. Mr.. Stokes
was born in Moorestown, and removed to
Trenton in 1910.
On Tuesday Howard Storey and Frank
Craft, of Burlington, through their at
torney, purchased eleven properties from
the township of Northampton, which had
been bought in for non payment of taxes.
The price paid was $378.7O.
Sunday was the tenth anniversary of
Rev Martin Aigner's rectorship at Trinity
Church. He preached sermon ap-
propriate to the occasion on Sunday morn
ing. Last evening he was rendered re-
ception at the parish house in honor of the
event
Jones & Ireland and J. L. Anderson &
Son, packers of canned goods in Mount
Holly, have decided to pay 81 per ton for
tomatoes this year. This is one dollar
more than the price agreed upon by the
State Association.
Two dogs that had cat cornered in
front of Bowers bakery, on Tuesday at
ternoon, created some excitement. After
being bitten in the leg the feline retreated
to the yard Of w. W. Curtis, but not be-
fore putting up pretty good fight in the
face of heavy odds.
Engineer Charles Gable, when he ar
rived in Mount Holly with the belated
owl line on Saturday night, was nearly
frozen. He was covered with snow which
the fly wheels threw up into the cab. The
windows contained about foot of driven
snow, and it was impossible to see any,
thing ahead.
The remains of James Mullen, who was
killed in fight at Rancocas, were buried
on Thursday after the inquest. OF the
witnesses detained in jail George Fread
has been discharged from custody under
$500 bail Mrs. Mullen and McCully are
unable to furnish security.
FL. E. Eder who is now associated with
the management of the Tampa Bay Hotel,
at Tampa, Florida, will have the manage
ment of the famous Hotel Kaaterskill, in
the Catskill mountains, during the coming
summer The Kaaterskill is one of the
largest summer hotels In the world.
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the Mount Holly post office: Miss Lucy
Adams, Mrs. Emma Crinclor, ]. Brown,