The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-11-06
Rever,v Ia soon TO have gas. the pipes

Beverly is soon to have gas, the pipe
having been distributed there last week.
i A valuable horse belonging to Williar
B. Ogburn died Sunday of acute indiges
ton.
The annual supper of the Good Inten
Fire Company will be held January 1St
and 10Th, 1901.
Budd Sherman, of Bristol, Pa, visite'
his daughter, Mrs. Whitall Monroe, o.
Pine street, last week.
1t is expected that the bell presented t
the M. E. Church will be rung from it
new location on Sunday.
Mark R. Sooy addressed large and en-
thusiastic Republican mass meeting a
Moorestown on Saturday night.
Edward Hack and Jehu Wilson have re
ceived contract to paint the Sacred
Heart Church. They began the work yes
terday.
Mrs. E. Earl johnson has bought thu
parish house property on Washington
street. She will convert it into boarding
house.
Theodore Dassikle, of Palmyra, wa:
committed to jail yesterday on charge
of stealing three chickens from Augusts
Schoemdist.
General E. Burd Grubb and family have
returned to their home at Edgewatel
Park. They have been spending the sum-
mer at Narragansett Pier.
Joseph Schubert, of Philadelphia, de-
livered very interesting lecture in the
Methodist Church on Friday evening.
His subject was Hitting the Mark"
Miss Beatrice Sooy, elocutionist, will
take part in the entertainment for the ben
eft of the Good Intent Fire Company, in
the Opera House, Thursday evening, 18th
inst.
Benz ur theatre parties are getting nu
merous in this neighborhood A party OF
ten went from Mount Holly on Friday to
see the play, which they pronounce beau
tiful.
Anna Marian Deekin, daughter of Ben
jamin Deekin, of 'Bucto, died in Phil
adelphia dispensary on Sunday. The body
was brought here yesterday by T. Clifford
Keller.
The sewing school formerly connected
with Trinity parish will hereafter meet
every Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock,
in St. Andrews parish house, in the rear
of the church.
The artesian well being drilled by the
Water Company has reached depth of
about $50 feet. Great difficulty is now
being experienced with the drilling, a
hard, cement-like substance having been
reached. 1t is hoped to strike good water
a short distance lower.
When you cannot read your evening
paper, when you cannot thread your
needle without difficulty or annoyance,
call on our specialist, and we will tell you
without charge whether glasses will cor
rect the trouble. Stiles & Co., eye spe-
cialists, at the Masonic Temple, Wednes-
day, November IA.
Bernard Bosch, of Oak Lane, Philadel-
phia, a representative of the American
Fire Engine Company, experimenting
the testing Wednesday afternoon of the
new Silsby steam fire engine purchased
by Ocean City. was thrown to the ground
by dog and had his left leg broken near
the ankle
Bishop Earl Cranston preached Sunday
and evening in the M. E. Church.
A special thank offering was taken and
$3.50 was pledged. The amount will be
used towards reducing the church debt.
In the evening the Bishop spoke on the
pleasant relations between the churches of
the town, the remarks being prompted by
the recent gift of bell to the M. E.
Church.
Elk. Congressman James Buchanan died
suddenly at Trenton on Tuesday. He had
been suffering with Bright's disease for
some time, but the end came suddenly.
Deceased was brother of Rev. J. G.
Buchanan, of Pemberton. The latter was
the Baptist Convention at At
Iantic City, and was addressing the mem
bers when telegram containing the sad
news was handed him.
Hallow Fen was celebrated by the
folks and there were many mas
queraders on the streets. Their pranks
were mainly harmless, but as is usual on
such occasions, there were some who ex-
ceeded the bounds of propriety and used
means that were not at all creditable. To
throw stones at houses and to assault peo-
pie who answered pulls at the door bell,
were not only mean, but amounted to
The Woman's Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton of New Jersey will hold its annual
convention in Moorestown, Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 18th and 18th of Novem
Der. The sessions will convene in the
and afternoon, and on TUESDAY
evening Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, pres
ident of the National Equal Suffrage
League, Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, State
President of New Jersey, Mrs Mary V.
Grice, of Riverton, Mrs. Blankenburg,
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Miss Jane
Campbell and other noted speakers are
expected to be present and address the
meetings, which are free. At the one in
the evening collection will be taken to
defray expenses. All are cordially inyit-
ed to go to any or all of these meetings.
That portion of the Lumberton turn
pike extending from the railroad to Wash
ington street, has been turned over to
N Northampton township.
ersOnal.
Bert Seaman of Providence, r. l., is a
visitor in Mount Holly.
Squire John P. Barton, of Riverside,
was in Mount Holly yesterday.