The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-30
LOCAL NEWS.

farm on the Jobstown pike.
Frank Harris had his finger hurt in
machine at Smithville few days since.
Samuel p Chafey. who has been EN-
ployed at Hot Springs, Va, has returne'
to Mount Holly.
The Prohibition State Convention viii
meet in Trenton on May to nominate
candidate for Governor.
Thomas Norcross, of Philadelphia, VIII
has been dangerously ill with pneumonia
is on the road to recovery.
Walter A. Barrows, of Mount Holly
has sold another one of his lots in River
side to Martin CRUDE for $3.50.
The young people of Jobstown will
give ball to morrow evening. The even
will take place in GRATIS hall.
Cats in the neighborhood of Garder
and Cherry streets have killed thirty-tw
young chickens for Mrs. Samuel Galley.
The annual meeting of the Jobstowr
and Mount Holly Turnpike Company viii
be held in Mount Holly on Monday, May
9th.
Washington Council, No. 10, o. .. A
NJ, will pay fraternal visit to Enter
prise Council, at Jacksonville. tomorrow
night.
Several residents of Georgetown are
afflicted with pink eye, which disease is
said to be spreading in some sections Of
the county.
The May school of methods of the W.
G. T. o., of Burlington county, will be
held in the Methodist Church at Bridge
boro' on May %.
John Throckmorton, Jr., and Edward
McKenna, both of Mount Holly, have
gone to Brooklyn, where they are EN-.
ployed in shoe factory.
All the unfinished shoes at the Com
pany's factory on Grant street, which has
closed indefinitely, have been sent to the
state prison for completion.
The Board of Freeholders have con-
demned the bridge between Delanco and
Riverside, and new structure will have
to be erected at the expense of the con.
tractors.
nette, of Mount Holly, who was recently
committed to the insane asylum, is Sc
rious, and it is thought that she will not
survive great while.
Oliver Peak, son of Walter Peak, OF
Mount Holly, who had been paroled from
the Reform School, has been returned by
an officer of the institution, who picked
the boy up at White Hill.
The Junior League of the Methodist
Church at Rancocas, will hold fair and
festival next Saturday evening in the o. U.
A. M. Hail. Strawberries, confectionery,
etc., will be sold for the improvement of
the church.
Benjamin Deacon, of Mount Holly, has
sold his cottage at Sea Side Park to S.
Spencer Scott, of Philadelphia, Mr. Deas
con will at once commence the erection of
a fine cottage at the corner of Ocean and
First avenues
George f. Harbert, Steward of the
Almshouse, has planted 100 bushels of
potatoes, and he is now preparing 136
acres Cor corn. All the outbuildings on
the county farm have been white washed
and the orchards neatly trimmed.
William Flowers has succeeded his
father, George Flowers, as engineer at
the electric light works Mr.. Flowers was
dropped to reduce expenses. He has
been employed there for twelve years.
This is the first time he has been out of a
job for twenty five years.
The members of Lumberton Council,
No. 10, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, will give the
first strawberry festival of the season in
their hall on Saturday evening, May II. Ice
cream, cake and other refreshments will
be served Each admission ticket will
entitle the holder to chance on an enam-
eled bedstead, ice chest and an umbrella.
William B. Ross, teller of the Vincen-
town bank, recently set some choice eggs
under hen. Desiring to know how mat
tiers were getting along he lifted the
chicken few days since in order to get
look at the eggs, and to his surprise he
found that little black kitten was al
so occupying the nest, being carefully
tucked away under the setting hen.
At Palmyra, on Wednesday, occurred
the marriage of Miss Hannah Sampson
sister of Rear Admiral William T. Samp-
son, to Alonzo Chase, prosperous farm
er. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. A. H Cameron, pastor of the Pres
byterian Church, and was followed by q
wedding dinner. Rear Admiral Sampson
was unable to be present. but he tele-
graphed his congratulations and best
wishes.
A lady went into tobacco store on
High street, Tuesday evening, to pur-
chase some goods for her husband. She
stepped up to the counter and failed to
notice a suspended gas burner from which
was protruding small flame. AS she
leaned forward to look into the cigar case
her hat caught fire. Several gentlemen
rushed to her assistance, but the blaze
was not extinguished before the feathers
and some of the other trimmings had gont
up in smoke.
It appears that Mrs. Howard Smith act
ed rather hastily in going to Prosecutor
Atkinson and making a complaint tha
her.husband had gone off with Katie Nc
Donald, of Philadelphia. 1t is fact
however. that during Katie's brief resi-
dence in Mount Holly. her actions wer'
such as to arouse the righteous indigna
ton of Mrs. Smith. Howard returned
home on Tuesday and denied that he hat
eloped. He said he had been in Whining
ton, Delaware, since he left home. wher
he has good paying position, to whicl
place he will remove his family.
Some of the real estate men in Noun
Holly come in contact with peculia
doings ON the part of their tenants Ere
quently they find that some portion of
house has been appropriated for kindlinI
wood, and in other instances they fin
more than one family living in house
But case on Topetoy seems to have ez
ceeded all expections in this respect
When the agent called to collect his ren
he found the front porch converted into
pig pen, the cellar into chicken yard
and in the parlor was hive of bees and