The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-13

n Mrs. Sarah Hodson, of Paxson street
died yesterday.
e Anthony Taylor, of Rancocas, has re-
n moved to Mount Holly.
Joshua NJ Reeve has resigned his po-
sition as captain of Company E.
A large tree in front of Edward B
Jones drug store was cut down yesterday
Alfred M. Joyce is now a corporal Of
l Company E. He succeeds Peter Il. Cleve-
land.
e Harry Fl. Cross has opened an Office as
surveyor and real estate agent in Atlantic
City.
Franklin B. Lewis tripped in his office
3 yesterday, severely spraining one of his
ankles
7 1t is possible that bicycle path will be
constructed this spring from Red Lion to
} Vincentown.
A large deer from Tuxedo arrived at
Jobstown on Tuesday for Pierre Loril-
lard's game preserve.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union will
have charge of the services at the hospital
next Sunday afternoon.
AS the result of the effects of vertigo
recently, John Longstreet fell against a
table and fractured rib.
The exhibit of the H. B. Smith Ma
chine Company at the Paris exhibition, is
to be in charge of A. NJ Hall.
Josiah W. EVAN lost one of his valuable
team of grey horses yesterday. Death was
the result of a severe case of indigestion.
j The Misses Danz, of Garden street, gave
reception on Friday evening in honor
of Miss Annie Garrett, of Lansdowne, Pa.
William Fitzpatrick, of Philadelphia,
and Patrick Fitzpatrick, of West Ches-
ter, Pa, were visiting in Mount Holly
last week.
Harry Harker, of Garden street, has
removed to Merchantville where he will
be connected with the firm of Collins q
Pancoast.
DR.. o. T. Sailer, of No. IS w. list ST.,
New York city, has purchased of William
IT, Ridgway house and lot on Mount
Holly avenue.
st. Patrick's day will be celebrated at
Centreton, where shooting contest will
take place. There will also be several
QUOT matches.
Miss Catharine Beatty, of Mount Holly
avenue, tripped on Friday at her home
and dislocated her shoulder. She died
this morning.
Tickets are now on sale for the Relief
Fire Company's fair, to be held April 7
to a. A number of valuable articles will
be given to ticket holders.
Thomas Lynn and his daughter, Miss
Minnie Lynn, have closed their residence
on Broad street, and are spending the
month at the states capital
A large dock is being constructed for
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany under the supervision of Frank
Richardson, of Mount Holly.
Whooping cough is reported to be quite
prevalent in some of the nearby towns.
A number of middle-aged people at Med
ford are afflicted with the malady.
Mrs. Finley, of Smithyille, who has
passed through very serious operation
in Philadelphia hospital, is doing very
nicely, and will soon be able to return
home
On Saturday next Grant Davis will take
his turn at slaughtering mammoth hog,
and all the good guessers are invited to
assemble at the Mill street hotel on that
occasion.
As soon as John Carter completes a
sentence in the Gloucester county Jail, he
will be brought to Mount Holly to stand
trial on charge of robbing the railroad
station at Marion.
A terrapin supper was served in the st.
Paul's NJ E. Church, West Washington |
street, last night, under the auspices of |
caterer Robert Street. The proceeds will |
go towards paying the pastors salary
An appeal will be taken in the suit of
Elwood Mount, of Columbus, against Cor |
nelia L. Brown, of Mount Holly, wherein |
judgment was given plaintiff for $76.46, |
for repairs made to a farm house belong |
ing to the defendant.
Two bodies were exhumed at Taberna- |
Gle last week and reinterred in West Lau-
rel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. They |
were those of Robert Tetlow and his
brother Joseph. The latter died in 1868, !
from wounds received at Fredericksburg |
The Moro Phillips Chemical Company
of Camden, have purchased the phOspho |
rus works at Texas, near Centreton. |
On account of a rumor that the business
is to be enlarged, the people living there
are taking courage, as they were under
the impression that it was to be closed.
The remains of William G. Paine were
inferred in Mount Holly yesterday. De-
ceased was son in law of G. Foster Cox,
and lived in Pennsylvania. He had been
in poor health for some time and knowing
his end was near desired to get to Mount
Holly before he died. His hope was not
realized, however, as he expired on the
train, on Thursday, before reaching Phil
adelphia.
Owing to change in the law, which
now requires that appropriations sh all be
voted for on the election tickets. no town
meeting will be held in Northampton
township to-day. The Republican tickets
contain the amounts recommended to be
appropriated by the township committee.
The amounts were furnished to the Dem
ocrats, also, but they did not place them
on their tickets.
Mrs. Walter Cline, of South Medford,
and Mrs. Benjamin Smith. of Cross
Roads, have been held in bail for court
on a charge of receiving stolen goods. 1t
is alleged that they urged Lizzie Shinn to
steal from her employer, Albert L. Haines,
and disposed of the plumber. When the
trial comes off Lizzie promises to divulge
some interesting facts. She has been re-
leased from Jail under 5000 bail.
The tug boat Israel W. Durham, which
has rested for several months in the mud
at the bottom of the Delaware, opposite
the Riverton pier, has at last been raised
by the Giant, derrick owned by Phila-
delphians. The tug is lying on the shore
and looks a complete wreck, being
filed with mud The lifting and pulling
has considerably strained the Durham,
but her owners are confident that in a
short time they will have their boat in
running order.
Vice Ordinary Reed has rendered de-
cision in the Antrim case from this county
argued before him some time since. In
the trial in the Burlington county courts
over the manner in which certain charges
had been made by one of the executors of
the late Benajah Antrim. 1t was testified
that three items, amounting to 81 ,080, had
been charged against one of the heirs by
order of the deceased in his lifetime. An
attempt was made to show that this state
ment was not correct, but Judge Gaskill
decided that the sum must stand An ap-
peal was taken and the decision rendered
on Friday sustains the Burlington county
courts.
TO THE DEAF.-A rich lady. cured
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