The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19

/ The Delaware and Raritan canal vii
J. open next Monday.
v Improvements are to be made to the in
: terror of the Presbyterian church at De
lance.
! Reports received indicate that the quai
f recently liberated in this section are doinl
nicely.
f A brass band is being organized among
4 the members of the Junior Mechanics o
Beverly.
: James Lippincott and Mrs. DR.. Bud'
+, took tea with Mrs. Benjamin Haines, il
Burlington, on Friday.
\ The Sons of Veterans gave fair ant
8 festival in the Masonic Temple. on Frida.
and Saturday evenings.
Q Mrs. Fenimore, of Moorestown, remov
e ed to Mount Holly yesterday, to the for
| mer Buchanan property on Garden street
Ex-Sheriff Emley and daughter, o
! Jacobstown, spent Saturday in Philadel
{ phia and remained in Mount Holly ovel
Sunday.
A steam sand digger arrived at Haines
port few days since, and on Sunday {
gang of railroad men took it to Sane
Hickney.
Marion Circle, No. 8, Brotherhood Of
the Union, has accepted an invitation tc
attend the Presbyterian Church on Sun
ldav evening March 81.
The farm owned by Samuel M. Holt,
back of the Ashhurst place, was sold to
Walter Allen, on Saturday, for $500 above
mortgage on the place.
Isaac B. Huff has secured a contract to
build handsome house at Jacobstown,
for Prosecutor Eugene Emley, of Passaic,
who will use it for a summer residence.
On Sunday the funeral services of ex-
president Benjamin Harrison were held in
Indianapolis That is why one flag was
at halfmast in Mount Holly. on thet day.
Clifford W. Budd, of Pemberton, has
been elected Director in the Farmers
National Bank, vice Henry G. Risdon,
who sold his stock and retired from the
Board.
Florist Hunter, on Grant street, will
have fine stock of Easter plants, which
he will deliver to all parts of Mount Hol-
lily. Orders for cut flowers must be in by
April 4.
United States Marshal Thomas ]. Alcott
was reappointed, on Friday, for another
term in the Office he has already accepta-
bly, filed for four years. Mr.. Alcott has
made model official.
William H. Holt, president of the Bur
lington County Base Ball League. was in
Mount Holly yesterday. He says he is
going to get the league together in short
time The present outlook is that Mount
Holly will not have a base ball team in the
field this year.
There was sale of Mount Holly Nation
al Bank stock, on Saturday. The follow
ing shares were sold: Five at $40, and at
$40. % to Harry Wright; at al and at
$4O75 to Josiah Huston; 5 at $4,000 to
Alfred Doron; 2 at $40 % to Samuel Aus
TIM par value $25.
About Z o'clock Sunday morning the
body of Ransom G. Stowell, of Palmyra,
was found cut in half at the waist on the
tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad He
was last seen alive between 10 and
O'Clock Saturday night, and was then in
an intoxicated condition. 1t is supposed
that in attempting to pass over the tracks
he tripped and fell face downward across
the outer rail of the west bound rail,
and was run over by freight train which
passed there for Camden shortly after
o'clock. Stowell was go years of age.
Undertaken Morris H. Keller has been
exhibiting device for lowering caskets
into the grave. 1t is very neat and con-
venient affair, enabling one man to do the
work. The frame is made of aluminium
and rests on the edge of the grave The
casket is placed on straps which are con-
cealed on wheels inside of the side rails.
There are steel guiding bars, which en-
ables the body to descend properly even
| if the frame is not in line with the box at
the bottom. The mechanism is worked
by friction, and the casket can be lowered
or raised at any speed desired.
Engineer William G.. Morgan, of Mount
Holly, who has been holding the throttle
for the past fifteen years, killed his first
man on Saturday afternoon. The accident
occurred in Camden, and the victim was
Charles Miller, publisher of the Stockton
Times. The unfortunate man was trying
to get out of the way of an approaching
freight train, and stepped on the track
twenty feet ahead of Mr.. Morgan's train.
The latter gentleman could not stop in
time and his engine struck Miller, but did
not mangle his body. His back and legs
were broken.
At Trenton on Friday the Grand Lodge,
Ancient Order United Workmen, in ses-
sion elected these officers: Grand Master
Workman, Frank W. Tussey, Camden;
grand foreman, Y. w. Nice, Plainfeld;
grand recorder, ]. H. Lippincott, Camden;
grand receiver, Goldson Test, Camden;
grand overseer, Edward Cadmus, Bay
onne; grand guide, A. Y. Tomlinson,
Elizabeth; grand inside Waterman, Chas.
Wood, Camden; grand outside Waterman,
George P. Sutton; grand medical exami-
ner, DIR. Elmer Garwis. Trenton; grand
trustee, l. V. Bond, Newark; grand rep
resentatives, William s. Lambert, Newark;
H. s. Rutherford, Cape May, and W. H.
Mccullough, Swedesboro.
On Sunday morning Rev. James Dun
ham delivered an interesting sermon in
the Presbyterian Church, taking for his
theme the dying words of the Saviour:
'It is Finished" On Monday afternoon
the Ladies' Aid Society met at the resi-
dence of Miss Campion, on Broad street.
Tomorrow afternoon the Junior Endeav-
ors will meet. On Thursday and Friday
evenings there will be delivered in this
church a lecture on home missionary
work by Rev. G. E. Finch, of New York
He will speak on ''the Southern Mountain
GERS and the Territory of Alaska" The
lectures will be very interesting and there
should be large attendance. A collect
ion will be taken.
The meetings which were held in the
Baptist Church last week will be contin-
tinued this week. Two services are held
daily, from to 4 in the afternoon, and at