The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-09
LOCAL NEWS.

The shad fisheries at Burlington will
begin operations tomorrow.
Quite number of Mount Holly people
spent Easter along the shore.
A rubber neck" social will be held in
the dancing academy at Marlton to NOR
row evening.
Miss Lydia S. Shreve, of Garden street,
has sold some land north of the mount to
Abraham L. Lippincott.
Frank Nippins, of Cherry street, is i'll
with pneumonia. His milk route is in
charge of Joseph Shinn,
Miss Lulu Green, of Jacobstown, aged
II years. died on Tuesday after few
days illness with diphtheria
A track tank is to be constructed at
Browns Mills so that the shore trains can
secure water without stopping.
David Parker, well known resident of
'Bucto. was buried on Thursday. De-
ceased died from a stroke of paralysis.
The paper firm of Claypoole & Dicker-
son, on Mill street, has been dissolved.
The business will be carried on by the
latter gentleman
Exercises appropriate to Easter were
held in all the churches in Mount Holly
on Sunday, and some fine musical pro-
grammes were rendered.
Improvements are under way at the gas
works. Two new gas making machines.
two new purifiers and storage tank are
to be added. SO it is said.
A delegation of the members of Unity
Lodge, No. SO, of Mount Holly, attended
a district meeting of Odd Fellows at
Medford on Friday evening.
Corporal George A. Linton, of Com
pany E, will probably be promoted to the
position of sergeant, made vacant by the
resignation of Harry P. Cox.
A fire that assumed dangerous proper
tions was started in the woods at Bridge
boro', on Tuesday, by some reckless boys
The flames were extinguished with diff
Guilty.
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the post Office for the week ending
April 6: William L. Edison, ESQ.,; J. H.
Hamilton, Thomas Ingeles, Mrs Bertha
Stokley.
The executors of the estate of the late
Anthony Bullock, deceased, have sold the
grist mill property at Recklesstown to
Charles E. Wallace, the present occupant,
for So, 600.
The voters of the new township of
Tabernacle will elect officers next Tues
day, the date of election having been
changed from the 9th to the 10th. A
spirited contest is looked for.
Mott Maxwell farm hand at Marion,
fell through hatchway in the barn of
Lemuel P. Tomlinson, by whom he was
employed He received lacerated scalp
and nearly cut of his right ear.
Charged with malicious mischief in an
old house on Murrell street, Willie Quig
ley was taken before Justice Laumaster,
on Tuesday afternoon. The lad was dis
charged after being reprimanded.
On Thursday at the residence of his
son, Frank H. Alloway, on Cherry street,
occurred the death of Franklin Alloway.
Deceased was 70 years of age, and re-
Gently removed from Vincentown
hat said to haye been worn by Boston
Corbett, the soldier who killed John
Wilkes Booth, and a pair of shackles
worn by slave before the war. are relics
in the possession of DR.. Still, on Madison
avenue
An illustrated lecture entitled ''The
Sweetest Story Ever Told, will be given
in st. Paul's Church on Thursday even
ing by Dr. H. A. Monroe, who will be as
sisted by Mrs. M. E. Pennock, contralto
soloist.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will inaugurate the block system of ser
vice between Camden and Trenton. Al
ready the big signal posts with their sig
nails and lights have been deposited along
the line and the installation will shortly
commence.
Extensive improvements are to be made
to the state grounds at Sea Girt. 1t is pro-
posed to get the United States govern
ment to appropriate sum of money for
the purpose of lettering the condition of
the grounds by filling in the channel near
the rifle range,..a considerable tract of the
grounds being under water.
Grover the young son of Charles Brad
dock, of Red Lion, had an unpleasant ex
perience few days ago. He entered the
barn yard and was attacked by dehorn-
ed COW, which pinioned him against corn
crib. Grover would have been killed had
not his father fought the animal off.
The amateur minstrel show will be held
in the Opera House tomorrow evening,
the date and place having been changed.
A good deal of fun is looked for at this
entertainment, which is given for the ben
eft of the hospital. 1t will no doubt be
largely attended, as good many tickets
have been sold.
After nine days illness with pneumo-
MIA, Curtis Colby died at his home on
Pine street on Thursday morning. De-
ceased was member of Nonpareil Lodge,
I. O. M. and Knights of Pythias and the
Good Intent Fire Company, whose house
is now draped in mourning. The funeral
took place on Sunday afternoon.
Samuel J. Smith died at his home on
Church street, Thursday morning, from a
stroke of apoplexy. The remains were
inferred in the Methodist cemetery at
Burlington on Sunday afternoon. De-
ceased had conducted restaurant in
Mount Holly for over thirty years. He
had been in the business longer than any
man in Burlington county
Patrick McGonigle and Miss Elizabeth
Boylen, of Jobstown, are to be married
tomorrow morning in ST. Andrews Cath
olic Church there. The ceremony will be
performed by Rev. P ]. Hart, of Mount
Holly. At the conclusion of the exer
cises the happy couple will repair to theil
home in Georgetown, where wedding
breakfast will be served.
What might have been very serious
accident was narrowly averted Thursda!
morning at the home of Washington W
Watts, who occupies the northerly side o
a double frame house on Madison avenue
About o'clock heavy stone slab on tol
of chimney between the kitchens OF IN