The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-02-13

}The freeholders viii meet tomorrow in
4 the Court House
Presiding Elder Lake preached in thu
Methodist Church Sunday morning.
The telephone line to Jobstown wa!
completed yesterday and is now in ser
vice.
! Sheriff Fenton and Deputy Doughty
yesterday took four prisoners to the state
prison.
The list of delinquent taxpayers il
Northampton township will be published
in our next issue.
The B. Y. P. q. of the Baptist Church
will have charge of the services at the
hospital next Sunday afternoon.
Harry Walker, of Fellowship, had his
leg broken and back injured on Friday
A tree he was cutting down fell unexpect
eddy and struck him.
| On Monday evening, February 26, Rev.
Father Russi, of Burlington, will lecture
in the Church of the Sacred Heart on the
Church and its progress.
Miss Susan Ellis, of Mill street, aged 90
! years, was stricken with paralysis, on
Wednesday, which has affected her left
side. Her condition is alarming.
Quite delegation from Pocahontas
Tribe of REQ Men went to Columbus on
Wednesday evening to take part in eel
ebration of the 10th anniversary of the
local lodge there.
James Mullen, of Rancocas, has been
admitted to the Burlington County Hos
pital suffering from a fractured skull,
the result of fight ON Saturday night.
His condition is critical
Charles III. Bennett and Samuel III.
Chambers took the dimensions of the
different buildings at the fair grounds yes
terday under instructions from the Cam
den Safe Deposit and Trust Company.
Congressman Samuel Forker died at
Edgewater Park on Saturday, in the 10th
year of his age His funeral will take
place this afternoon at o'clock. Funeral
services will be held in the parlor of the
house at the cemetery.
A large poplar tree on the Clayton
Rogers estate was blown down by the
high wind last night 1t carried tele-
phone and electric light wires with it,
and blocks travel, as it stretches from one
side of the road to the other.
A few days since the trackwalker be-
tween Burlington and Mount Holly re-
ported TO the OmclalS mere InaI tue rem
sylvania Railroad Company had suffered
another loss by hieves, who had stolen a
half mile of wire from along this end of
the trolley road. The matter was at once
reported to headquarters and to the local
police, but the culprits have not been ap-
pretended 1t is believed that the booty
was hurried to Burlington and thence to
Pennsylvania by way of Trenton. An or
ganized gang seems to be engaged in this
business One man is in Jail for a similar
crime, and others seem to be paving their
way to the same institution.
Fire completely destroyed the large barn
of Walter Garwood at Evesboro at noon
on Thursday. With much trouble the
stock was all saved A large lot of straw,
and other crops, also some harness were
burned. A milk house was destroyed and
the cow shed was badly burned. Two
truck shelvings were also burned. The
fire broke out while the folks were eating
dinner. 1t was very foggy and most of
the neighbors knew nothing of the fire
until it was over. There were only six
people there when the roof fell in. Partly
covered by insurance in Medford Com
pany The origin is a mystery.