The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-26
Easter Sunday will fall on April 7.

EdStcT DuuQdJ WILL ANii OhA a pa
Miss Lizzie stradling and Henry Sapp,
of Mount Holly, were married on Tues
day.
Justice Krayer gave Ellen Deylin sixty
days, on Friday. for being drunk and dis
orderly
The barns of Nathan D. Pancoast at
Moorestown were destroyed by fire on
Tuesday.
Miss Florence M. Haines. of Moores-
town. and George H. banks, of Philadel-
phia, are to be married this evening.
Fred L. Owen, who has been suffering
with the grip for the past six weeks, is
improving in health, and will soon be out
again.
officer Collins found horse and carry
all wagon without an owner on Water
street Saturday night. He took it to Eel
ley's hotel.
The hog killed by James Berry, on Fri
day, weighed 73O pounds. There was
about 1855 in the box and thirteen per-
sons guessed us e4dCt WC1SAp.
Ellis II. rarker, of Wrightstown, and
Miss Cora E. Giberson, of Manahawken,
were married by Rev Charles Bowden at
the latter place on February ~
Arthur W. Kelley, of Atlantic City, has
been appointed court stenographer by
Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hen
erickson, in whose Office Mr.. Kelley read
law.
On Wednesday evening. March 8. the
degree team of New Jersey Lodge, No. l,
Knights of Pythias, will go to Medford
to confer the third rank on four candl-
dates.
sixty-fve years ago last Friday the
great OK roast took place on the Delaware
river at Burlington. A number OF resi-
dents are still living who took part In the
affair.
While dog belonging to William Be
/ van, of Lumberton, was sitting on tne
railroad track making observations Few
DAYS since, a train came along and cut the
animal in half.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon Baugh, OF Bisp-
ham street. had been married forty-two
years on Thursday, aDd in the evening
large number of friends rendered them
surprise party
The following unclaimed letters remain
| in the post office for the week ending Feb
ruary 90: Mrs. Samuel Coffman, William
Leslie Edison, 4; Ebnezer Excl, Miss An
ME Tompson, Mrs. Kelley.
Several Pennsylvania Railroad employees
will remove to Palmyra in the spring, and
it is rumored that petition will be sent
to the Legislature to change the name
from Palmyra to Pennsyville.
The Boards of Registry will sit on Tues,
day, March 5, from 1 to 8 P. NJ, for the
purpose of revising the registry lists to De
used at the spring election. This will be
the only opportunity to get registered
On Wednesday in St. Andrewss bury
ing ground, Mount Holly, was inferred
the remains of William Bowen Buck, OF
PHILADELPHIA. who was retired merchant
and president of the New Jersey Cincin-
natl
Charged with cutting down some trees
on Fred Schrsyshuen's ice house lot,
Howard Finch, who made no denial OF
the fact was on Thursday held in $1oo
bail for his appearance at court by Justice
Laumaster.
Lewis A. Davis, residing near Moores-
town. was arrested in Philadelphia on
Friday. He tried to hang himself in his
cell. using his suspenders for moose
He was discovered and saved from death
by vigorous methods.
| A large number of guests were present
at the marriage of J. Edward Engle. OF
/ Hainesport, and Miss Viola N. Jones,
which took place at Vincentown on Wed
nesday evening. The ceremony OF the
Friends Society was used.
Miss Bessie Smith, of Glassboro, and
Hosea Garrison, were married few days
since. The bride formerly resided at Vim
centown, and enjoys the distinction OF
having taken trip around Cape Horn to
the Hawaiian Islands with Captain Patton
and wife.
The persons who have been robbing the
school houses in this neighborhood are
working their business in the upper part
of the state. They entered the school
house at Bordentown one night last week,
and a night or two later were heard from
at Lambertville.
A certificate of payment of the capital
stock of the River Shore Gas Company,
of Riverton, has been filed in the county
clerks Office, The original certificate
called for $4,000, but the capital stock
has ben increased to $4,000 all Of
which has been paid in cash.
The following from an exchange will
apply right here In Mount Holly Speak
we'll of your town. If you are dissatis-
!, fed, move away If you cannot help
talking tell your troubles to your neigh
, bors. but not to strangers No town can
advance where chronic kickers or grumb-
lers abound.
Rev. Thomas B. Appleget, of Nights
town, Examiner of the Amboy Division
Pennsylvania Railroad, who was stricken
! with apoplexy about two months ago
7 suffered another stroke Sunday morning
He is now unconscious and the doctors
t saw his condition is serious, although they
hove homes of his recovery.
The following nominations for Borough
officers of Riyerton have been made
5 For Mayor. D. A. MacCarroll; for Council
Samuel Rudderow and William A. Major
Commissioner of Appeals, George Nc
nhenny; Collector, E. G. Stoughton; Jus
tice of the Peace, L. j. Caddington. Ben
iamin Lippincott, the Freebooter of Gin
g naminson town ship, was endorsed.
At the annual meeting of the Burling
ton County Society for the Prevention o
Cruelty to Animals, held at Burlington
!, ON Thursday, the following officers wer
y elected: President, William 7. Harding
Mount Holly; vice presidents, Howar'
Flanders, Burlington, Mrs r. Bowdel
+ Sheppard, Riverton; executive committee
Mrs. w. G. Binney, Reginald Branch
Col. Nathan Haines, Mrs. Carrie Flanders
; I. snowden Haines, all of Burlington
treasurer Mrs. W. G. Binney; secretary
II Reginald Branch.
A certificate of incorporation OF tn