The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-17
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built at Beach Haven.
o There was beautiful display of flow
ers in the different cemeteries on Sunday
e All the green houses on the stock farm
of Pierre Lorillard at Jobstown, are to b.
4 rebuilt.
B. Frank Lewis, who has been engaged
y in the feed business here, will remove t.
Cookstown.
Albert H. Sutherland will extend thu
electric light line from Moorestown tt
Merchantville.
Samuel j. Smith has sold his stable
property on White street for $500 to thu
Rancocas steamboat line.
: Rosha Thompson, of Wrightstown, hat
an Easter gift on Sunday, in the shape O.
a baby boy weighing IA pounds.
, DIR. w. z. Barrett has left Mount Holly
for good He is now connected with 6
dental establishment in Newark
1t is said that the collections at the
'Bucto Methodist Church for the month Of
February amounted to only II cents.
At Edgewater Park to-day will occur
the marriage of Miss Geraldine Stradling
and DIR. Abram Howard Macpherson.
Salad, rhubarb and asparagus roots and
Quaker City poudrette, for sale by Owen
Bros, Madison avenue, Mount Holly.
E. H. Burtis has rented his vacant store
on Mill street, to Rosenfeld Bros. & Glass,
who will open novelty store in few days.
On Wednesday night some thieves en-
tered the hen roost of Charles Braddock,
Jr., of Medford, and carried away some
choice Buff Cochins
The public fountain is to be repaired
and put in good shape by the business
people of that locality, and the telephone
pole is to be removed.
| On Saturday night Officer Denness ar
rested John Wilkins, of Lumberton, for
being drunk and disorderly. Justice G.
J. Krayer imposed fine.
The stockholders of the Mount Holly
Electric Light Company have been paid
off in full, and some of them were glad OF
the opportunity of unloading.
| A divorce has been granted to Mrs.
Jerusha A. Let's, from her husband, Am
brose Let's, of Mount Holly. Blanchard
| Fl. White was the attorney in the case.
| Samuel G.. Clevenger, of Red Bank,
came to Mount Holly on Saturday to see
his aged mother who is very ill. Mrs.
John D. Clev enger is down with the grip.
The Weaver Manufacturing Company,
on Garden street, are still so pressed with
orders that it has become necessary to in
crease the force and continue night work.
The Burlington florist who had tenn
porary store in Mount Holly previous to
Easter, sold out everything on Saturday
night and had sixty orders that he could
not fill
The lecture on missionary work to be
delivered by DR.. Patton in the Presbyte-
rian Church this afternoon and in the
Baptist Church this evening will be very
interesting.
Edward F. Burns, of the firm of Burns
s. Saltar, of Philadelphia, lessees of the
Otto Gas Engine Works, and his wife,
will sail on the Teutonic on June 10 for
three months tour through Europe.
The Industry Building and Loan Asso-
citation will hold meeting in the office OF
Judge Joseph II. Gaskill on Monday
evening, April 90, when the Goth annual
report will be presented and new series
of stock issued.
On Sunday morning about four o'clock,
the outhuildings on the farm of Mac Bell,
near Archertown, in Ocean county, were
burned to the ground. The fire was OF
incendiary origin. There was small in
surance on the place.
The latest steal from the trolley road
running to Burlington, consisted OF 2OS
pieces of bond wire. This is the short
piece connecting the two rails. The COM
pany is now doing away with this wire
by placing a sheet of copper on the inside
of the fish plate, which serves the same
purpose.
There will probably be no contest over
the will of the late Hettie A. Stevens,
colored, of Mount Holly. The relatives
of the deceased woman, who were be-
queathed 81 each, say they will be salts
fed if there is enough left from the estate
after the debts are paid, to give them
their legacies.
Harry Murphy is soliciting advertise
ments and subscriptions for base ball
score sheet to be issued every evening,
which is to contain the official scores of
the National League, American Associa-
ton and Burlington County League. The
idea is to have the sheets posted in num-
Der of places about town.
| Washington Fire Company, No. 1, OF
Delanco, has been organized and these Of
fcers elected: President, Joseph M. Ba-
con; vice president, Thomas Lowell, Jr.;
secretary, William Matthews; treasurer
and foreman, George M. Bacon; chief,
John A. Lightcap. A new ladder truck
is to be purchased at once.
The stockholders of the Columbus
Water Company held meeting on Tues
day Samuel R. Ware was chosen chair
man, and Davis c. Wells, secretary The
annual report was read and approved.
The following were elected directors for
the ensuing year: Joseph F. Taylor. Clay
ton Hancock, Charles L. Carslake, Samuel
Ellis, DR.. Calver, Davis @. Wells, A. N.
Dobbins.
Stacy Briggs, mason, had poor luck
on Thursday in his efforts to catch mess
of fish, He made a dive into the creek
but came up empty handed. While work
ing in the rear of Engle's cigar store,
Stacy lost his balance and away he went
headlong into the water. He had hard
work to satisfactorily explain matters to
his comrades at the Post meeting on Fri
day night
On Friday Mamie Black, wife of VIM.
Black, of Trenton, was arrested for at
tempting to poison her husband by put
ting laudanum in his lager beer. 1t was
shown that she had done this before in
order to quiet him when drunk. As the
quantity used was not sufficient to kill,
the woman was discharged. William is
brother to Thomas Black, who was ar