The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-02
LOCAL NEWS.

with pneumonia.
The new Lutheran Church at Riverside
will be dedicated on May 2.
An election for officers of the new town
ship of Tabernacle will be held mex
Tuesday.
The annual encampment of the G. A
R. will be held this year in June at AS
bury Park.
Vanilla, chocolate, bisque and straw
berry ice cream and orange ice at Bower
for Easter.
The property of Jackson L. Kelley, OF
Mill street, has been sold to Walter Sher
man for 1900.
Admiral John j. Read is now settled in
his new Quarters at the Portsmouth, IN.
H. navy yard.
The first lightning and thunder storm
of the season passed over Mount Holly
on Tuesday evening.
George F. Cronk, having been the low
est bidder, has been made tender OF the
King street draw bridge.
A petition is in circulation in Moores-
town to bond the town for $50, 600 for the
construction of a sewer system.
Nathan w. Austin has purchased from
the executors the William Austin farm in
Westampton township for 1892
During the past six weeks Col Sloan
has paid OUT S., 500 in the settlement OF
life policies and fire claims in Burlington
county
The game laws of New Jersey will be
published in full in THE News of next
week. Every sportsman should secure
copy and preserve it.
The unclaimed letters in the post office
for the week ending March 30, are Will
liam B. Towne, Mrs Marie Walker, Will
helm Peters, II. R., 8.
The farm on the Ark road. near Mason
vile, belonging to Patrick Cassidy, has
been sold to Jacob Eckert for 81 ,468. 1t
contains forty seven acres
"Spikey" Reeves created disturbance
at his home, on Tuesday evening, and 1t
is alleged that he struck his daughter. He
was arrested and bound over for court.
According to the late census New Jer-
sey has seven persons who have passed the
century mark, the oldest being Noah Ra-
hey, of Middlesex county, who is 12S
years of age.
At a meeting of the Firemen's Relief
Fund on Friday evening, Franklin Dill
S. Earl Assay and Joseph G. Kingdom were
elected delegates to the convention to be
held in Atlantic City, in September.
The Florence township committee has
organized by the election of the following
officers: Charles Lynch, chairman; Wal
lace Fewkes, treasurer; Nelson B. Gas
kill, counsel; Richard ]. Early, ]. Frank
Warren, road overseers.
The township treasury has been some
what enriched during the past few days
by number of peddlers taking out Ii
censes. Some of them paid willingly,
while Others were compelled to step up
and settle or quit business.
Rev. George L. Dobbins had narrow
escape from accident at Camden, on Wed
nesday He was alighting from train at
Haddon avenue, and stepped to the
ground before the cars had stopped. He
was thrown to the platform and badly
bruised
Samuel W. Smith lost control of his
runaway team on Wednesday, and the
horses dashed across the railroad tracks
directly in front of a train at East Moores-
town. The engine demolished the wagon
and Smith was seriously injured, but he
will recover.
A lady who has been remarkably sue
cessful in the rearing of palms, says that
instead of washing the leaves with pure
water, use milk and water, which she de-
clares preserves them wonderfully, and
prevents the ugly brown spots which are
apt to spoil the appearance of palms. The
roots she occasionally waters with cold
coffee.
Sportsmen in many sections of South
Jersey are indignant at the defeat of AS
semblyman Wrights bill, providing for
fee of SIS for non resident gunners. The
bill met with the approval of resident
sportsmen, particularly in the southern
end of the state, who have for years con-
cerned themselves in legislation that
would tend to stop the influx of non-res-
idents during the cunning season.
The law concerning the granting of Ii
of spurious, vinous, malt and brewed liq
uors in cities of the third and fourth
class in this State, does not apply to Bor-
dentown or Burlington. Had there been
no excise board here, the matter would
have been different. As the law reads,
provision is made to the following effect:
s'This act shall not apply to any city or
cities where the power to grant licenses is
now vested in excise boards or excise COM
missions"
Sidney Skillman, secretary of the chick
en- Matching firm of Sinnickson, Skillman
& Reed, of Madison avenue, called at
THE News Office on Saturday and report
ed progress. Their incubator contains 100
eggs, most of which are expected to come
into profit this week. "Say, l can hear
those infants knocking for admission to
this hemisphere already, said the popu-
lar assistant supervisor. ''We have or
dered the section gang to run a siding to
the works on Thursday. Next week we
will be loading eggs into gondola cars
like chunks of ice sliding down a coal
shute Come over.
The dropping of John L. Severns from
the police force did not set well with the
people of the town and there was more
criticism of the act than there has been of
anything ever done by that body. Not
only was the displacement Of Severns de-
nounced but there was general dissatisfac-
ton that his successor was Democrat.
Severns demanded an explanation of the
reason of his removal. If he had been
derelict in his duty he wanted to know it.
The committee agreed to give him what
he asked and Friday night was set.
When those interested met they found
petition from large number of citizens
asking for the reinstatement of Severns.
The request was promptly acceded to.
The officers are now the same as last year.