The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-12-10

Wetherill's, A Main street, Mount Holly
The wedding of Harry j. Sherman, o
Mount Holly and Miss Alice Ethel Cor
don, of North Readfeld, Maine, takes place
next Tuesday.
The fire department came near being
called out on Friday evening by I
blaze at the gas works, caused by a tub
blowing out of pipe.
At the almshouse on Saturday, Steward
Harbert gathered % loads of ice a inches
thick. This is probably the first croI
harvested this winter.
The Union Fire Company has elected
these delegates to the Firemen's RELIEF
Association: Job Collins, Howard W
Batchelder and Frank b. Dennis.
Elwood Norcross, of Smithville, who il
employed in a machine shop at Trenton,
had two fingers and part of another one
on his left hand cut off on Friday.
Miss Emily N. Bovine has sold the ia
cob Lorillard, Jr., farm, in Springfield
| township, which she recently purchased
to Edward Doyle, of Philadelphia, fol
So, 900.
Isaiah Atkinson and wife, near Jackson
vile, made it very pleasant for the mem
bers of the Farmers Social Club who as
sembled at their residence on Saturday
evening.
A delegation of the Mount Holly
Banjo Club went to Rancocas on Friday
evening to take part in an entertainment
given for the benefit of the Methodist
church there.
The trolley wires between Mount Holly
and Burlington are to be removed this
week Byron Grigg will have charge of
the train which will convey the crew to
and from their work
If you want to make home attractive
buy Photograph or Gramophone We
sell them on easy payments. Order them
now for Christmas presents. WetherilPs
a Ma in street, Mount Holly.
The third quarterly conferences of the
Methodist Churches at Smithville and
Lumberton were held on Sunday. Ser.
mons were delivered at both places by the
presiding elder, Rev. W. P. Davis, D. D.
Another change has been made in the
railroad timetable. Additional service to
Lumberton and Medfcrd has been given
Trains leave Mount Holly at 6. 40 A. M,
1895, $50 P. M. Leave Medford 40 A.
M, 1.30, 5.25 P NJ.
Letters of administration on the estate
Holly. have been granted to Mrs. Eliza
beth Clifford; on the estate of John r.
Slack, deceased, to G. Edgar Shreve; on
the estate of Margaret Scott, deceased, to
Ellis W. Scott
The Jacksonville stone road has been
completed, but the Italian laborers who
did the work have not yet received their
final payment of wages. They have filed
40 hn1a I'M 10 nfran
Hilpot & Co., from the county There is
also an unpaid bill for stone, due Stanley
s. Co.
Charles T. Parker died at his home in
Burlington on Saturday. Mr.. Parker
served as county clerk for one term and
soon after retiring from that office was
given a clerkship in Washington which he
held at the time of his death. For some
time he has suffered from kidney trouble
which caused death.
A petition is being circulated for sig
natures for the pardon of Peter Joseph
Cramer, the aged Bridgeboro' bigamist,
who is in the hospital connected with the
state prison at Trenton. His case is most
serious as he is suffering with cancerous
condition of the liver. The petition is
being numerously signed.
Detective Ellis H. Parker has been doing
some good work recently. His latest ar
rest was that of Rose Williams, a colored
woman wanted for robbing the residence
of John Frismuth, at Riverside, Of goods
amounting to 1856. The woman was
caught at Glenside, Pa, and taken to the
Norristown Jail, where she was held pend
ing extradition to Mount Holly.
Mrs Mary Clarke DeVore, of Utah, will
speak in the Presbyterian church, on
Friday afternoon at o'clock, and the same
evening at 730. Her subject will be
''Mormonism. Her EXPERIENCE in Utah
has been of an exciting nature, her life
having been once attempted, because OF
her boldness in exposing the illegal prac-
tees of the Mormons. Public invited.
Admission free.
1t has been decided to have parade of
the National Guard and political organi-
cations on the occasion of the Inaugural
ton of Franklin Murphy, Governor elect,
on January 81. 1t is likely to be the
largest ever seen in Trenton. The Frank
lin Murphy Association, Of Jersey City,
will be the principal organization in line
1t is altogether possible that the First
Brigade Of the National Guard will be
ordered out, together with the Essex
Troop.
The following officers of Gen. A. E.
Shiras, Post No26, G. A. r., were elected
on Friday evening: Commander, Thomas
S. Pitcher; Senior Vice Commander, Isaiah
Smith; Junior Vice Commander, David E.
Sooy; Chaplain, Robert NJ. Brown; Sur
geon, Ridgway W. Rossell; Officer of Day
Henry G. Claypoole; Officer of Guard,
Alexander Deviney; Quartermaster, John
Throckmorton; Janitor, William | John
son; Council of Administration, John
Throckmorton. The installation will take
place the first Friday evening in January.
Irwin Mathis, of Mount Holly, drove
over to Burlington, on Friday, and while
stopping at Brennan's Hotel on South
High street, left his horse in charge of
Harry Schuyler and Harry Assay, two
members of the South High street smart
set. When he came to look for his team
a few minutes later, both it and the boys
had disappeared. Mathis Immediately
swore out warrants for the arrest of the
young men, They were soon located by
an officer and lodged in the city Jail. At
a hearing before Justice Smith they con
fessed to taking the horse for drive with
the intention of returning it, Bail was
given for their appearance at court.
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