The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-08
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1901.
LOCAL NEWS.

S0clatlOn Will meet III inc Nouio 1ouso vi
Saturday.
The telephone exchange in Burlington
is in charge of Mrs. Lille Sutherland, o
Mount Holly.
Samuel S. Johnson has purchased
house on Buttonwood street of William
Wright for 500.
The Lincoln Club, which had pleasan
quarters on Garden street, has sold its en-
tire outfit and disbanded.
Wanted-A competent nurse for
young baby, reference required Appl,
at 204 Main street, Mount Holly.
A house and three lots out Pine street
the property of A. A. Anderson, have beef
sold to Lawrence O'Brien for $4,000.
William D. H. Smith, who has beer
clerking in Jones drug store, is now il
charge of pharmacy at Lansdowne, Pa
The young people of st. Andrews
Church, at Jobstown, will give box so
cial in GRATIS Hall, on Wednesday even
ing, October %.
English services were held in the Ger
man Lutheran Church at Hainesport, or
Sunday morning, by Rev. W. II. Rickert
of Philadelphia.
Cards have been issued for the wedding
of Emily, daughter of John | Bishop, Of
Columbus, and John S. G. Harvey. The
event will take place this evening.
The baby of Mary Gauntt, which was
burned to death in the recent fire at the
residence of Henry Brown, was buried
last Monday in the cemetery at Lumber
ton.
The Daughters of America, of Lum
berton, cleared $50 from their recent fes
tival, during which set of Haviland
china fell to the lot of Walter Stewart, OF
Mount Holly
The list of unclaimed letters in the
post office for the week ending October
is as follows: Miss G. R. jackson, Mrs.
Matte E. Wells, Mrs Emma Seaman,
Peter JOS Kremer.
John Moore, of Juliustown, was arrest
ed and lodged in Jail, on Tuesday, charg-
ed with committing an indecent assault
on Mrs. Susan Vanderveer, an aged lady
living at Arney's Mount.
Benjamin W. Zelley, proprietor of the
Washington House, will accommodate an
extra number of boarders this week, in
the house recently vacated by John w.
Harris, which he will use as an annex to
his hotel.
Since the assassination of President Nc
Kinley, A. II. McNeal, proprietor of the
big iron foundry in Burlington, has dis
charged all the Poles, Hungarians and
Italians to whom he has been giving en-
ployment.
A beautiful memorial window was
placed in st. Stephens Episcopal Church,
Beverly, on Sunday. 1t was gift from
Capt. j. B. Bartlett in memory of his
niece, Miss Anna Clark The placing of
the window occurred on the anniversary
of Miss Clark's death.
On account of the numerous accidents
which have occurred at the Cooper street
railroad crossing, Beverly, a meeting of
the Progressive Farmers Club, of Coop
ertown, will be held next Monday even
ing, to take action toward having safety
gates erected at that point.
On Thursday morning while walking
down High street, Charles R. AlphOnzo,
of Syracuse, N. Y, fell in front of Stew
arts cigar store as the result of an affec-
ton of the heart, from which he had suf-
fered before. He was removed to the
Burlington County Hospital The unfor-
tunate man is an acrobat and aeronaut.
and has an engagement to appear at the
Mount Holly Fair. He has recovered and
will perform at the fair.
Detective Ellis H Parker made an i'm
portant capture in the upper part of the
state last week. For some time past a
gang of thieves has been reaping a har-
vest by stealing brass journals and
valves from railroad cars. Mr.. Parker
got on the track of the men, and after
visiting Perth Amboy, South Amboy and
New Brunswick, he arrested four Poland
ers with jaw breaking names and landed
them IN Jail He also recovered some OF
the stolen property.
George B. Snyder, employed at Haines-
port, has intmated, according to pub
lished story, that some of the Polanders
at work in the iron foundry there, knew
that President Mckinley and four Other
prominent persons were to be shot. He
saws some of the Poles there have beer
receiving anarchistic literature, and that
previous to the Presidents death some OF
them were summoned to Washington and
Paterson. Detective Ellis H. Parker has
been making an investigation at Haines
port.
The condition of the Mill street race
of which so much complaint has beer
made, has not been neglected by the au
thorities, who have been devoting much
time and attention to the subject and it will
not be long before something will be dont
to abate the nuisance. 1t is problem thai
requires delicate handling and hasty &C
ton is out of the question. On Thursday
next representatives of the South jersey
Gas. Electric and Traction Company will
come to Mount Holly, and together will
the Board of Health, the subject will
be considered. 1t is hoped this confer
ence will favorably settle the question o.
rebuilding the dam.
While attending the Democratic con
vention in Mount Holly week ago, Will
liam Rogers, of Willingboro, became il
of indigestion and neuralgia and he wen
to the residence of his son-in-law, Allel
Fenimore, on Garden street. On Wed
nesday evening Mr.. Rogers sent for Ben
jamin W. Zelley, to whom he stated tina
he was getting better, and that he woulC
be able to act as marshal at the fair whicl
begins to-day, a position which the in
valid held for nearly fifty years. He grew
worse however, and died at o'clock tn
next morning. Deceased was an activ
Democrat and had several times bee
nominated for Sheriff and Surrogate. Hi
familiar figure on horse back on the rae
track at the fair grounds will be recalled
by thousands of people
his Two sisters near Vincentown, was