The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-05
LOCAL NEWS.

Alfred Darnell, the new postmaster a
Mount Laurel, has received his commits
sion.
Alfred Doron was considerably bruised
on Wednesday by falling on the icy side
walk.
Mrs w. s. Reeves, of Lumberton, fel
a few days ago and cut her head quit
badly.
An effort will probably soon be made t.
reopen the original shoe factory at Lum
berton.
A homeopathic pharmacy is about t.
be opened in Mount Holly by an exper
in that way of doctoring.
Union memorial services were held il
the Methodist Church Sunday afternoon
in respect to the late Queen Victoria
Frank sooy, who is registered with s
A. Atkinson, will continue to study law
in the office formerly used by his father.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage of Mrs. Jennie Esher, formerly
Nippins, to gentleman residing in Tren
ton.
The fall of snow on Wednesday ena
bled some of the venturesome sports t6
exercise their high steppers for short
time.
Abe Coombs, the circus man, who has
been sojourning in Louisiana, is now EN-.
ployed on the farm of A. W. Lof1and al
Marlton.
1t is not generally known, but New Jer'
sey has had five different Governors in the
past five years and only two of them were
elected by the people.
There will be a sale of household goods
at the residence of Elwood K. Morris, No
II Church street, on Thursday of this
week. at two o'clock P. M.
The Century Magazine for February
contains an article on ga Remarkable
American, from the pen of Prof. Francis
N. Thorpe, of Mount Holly.
Asa Gaskill, father of Judge Gaskill,
died this morning. His funeral will take
place on Friday, at o'clock. The day of
burial will be the 92d birthday of deceased.
Mrs. Mark Haines, who lives near Ran
cocas, died at the residence of Dr.
Faringer, on Garden street, Satur-
day, where she went to be operated on for
the removal of cancer.
Samuel Murphy, after an absence of a
few months in Philadelphia, where he was
confined in hospital from illness, has re-
turned to Mount Holly to work in Atlee
d. Prickett's harness shop.
1t was Gle arly demonstrated last week
that it would be almost impossible to get
along without long distance telephone
at the jail. The Prosecutor found it very
useful in working on the Hunter murder
case.
Over $40, 900 in taxes has been collected
in Bridgeton, and the delinquent tax col
lector will have little to do this year. 1t
would not be bad idea to have the
Bridgeton tax collector to get to work in
this neighborhood.
County Superintendent Herman A.
Stees was delightfully."- surprised at his
home in Beverly few evenings since by
the gathering of number of his friends,
the occasion being his birthd ay as well as
1. -
Howard johnson, of Lewistown, was
painfully injured on Wednesday awhile
adjusting tn reshing machine at the
almshouse. The machine was started sud
denly which caused pitchfork to fly in
the air, the tine of which entered his eye.
He was taken to hospital in Philadel-
phia, where it was found that the sight
was not destroyed.
Thomas McHugh, of Pearl street, who
has long been suffering from locomotor
ataxia, died at his home on Saturday
morning. Deceased had not been under
q physician care for some time, Coroner
Wells was summoned After viewing the
body and ascertaining the facts in the
case, he issued burial permit.
Major General Sewell has designated
Col. Gilmore to command the provisional
regiment that will represent the New Jer-
sew National Guard at the inaugural pa
rade in Washington on March 4. 1t has
been decided that battalion will be tax
en- from each regiment to form the pro
visional regiment, and that one regiment
shall provide the Lieutenant Colonel and
each of the other three shall provide a
Major. In this way each regiment will
be equally recognized and the companies
will be composed of picked men.
On Saturday of this week, Feb. 9th, at
the High School building, will take place
the examination for letter carriers. 1t is
safe to venture the assertion that such a
class as that which will assemble in the
school room that day has never been seen
in a public school room before in this
town. There will be men of various pro-
LESSONS and trades-both white and col
ored. Day and night are these applicants
studying, in preparing for the examina-
ton, and many of them have been train
ing" hard for the ordeal.
When William D. Hartshorne, of Cooks.
town, left the train of the Union Transpor
tation Company, on Friday, he discovered
that he had lost his pocketbook contain
ing $500. He telegraphed ahead and wa
informed that conductor Henry Roger
had the missing property in his possession
having found it on the floor of the car
When the valuable package was delivered
to its owner, the latter handed the con
ductor $50 bill, but Mr.. Rogers declines
to received it, claiming that he should not b
paid for being honest. Mr. Hartshorne
however, did not agree with him and in
sisted that Rogers should take the money
saying it was worth $50 to find an homes
and conscientious man occasionally.
Letters testamentary have been issue'
to Harris Cox on the estate of Margare
Heisler, deceased, of Mount Holly, who
among other requests, leaves $50 to tn
Methodist Church. The Surrogate ha
also issued letters testamentary on the es
tate of Mary Ann Burrell to Clarenc
Still and Addie Fithian; estate of Susal
Schuyler to Joel R. Haines; estate o
Mary Wells to Jesse Wells. Letters o
administration on the estate of Alfred L
Black to Henry M Black; on the estat