The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-26
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1901.
LOCAL NEWS.

RAYMOND Haines, of White street, ha
a broken arm as the result of fall.
Sheriff Charles r. Fenton was spec
tator at the New York horse show las
week
The Paiama Whist Club was entertaine'
by Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Tomlinson
on Tuesday evening.
Albert Bishop, of Lumberton, has beer
committed to Jail charged with crue
treatment toward his wife.
Pocahontas Tribe, No. IS, l. 0. R. M.
will give a three days fair and festival
beginning on December 10.
Thomas Newman and Miss Name b
Willitts of Smithville, were married a
Lumberton, on Tuesday, by Rev. D. E
Clair.
Herbert Jones was quite seriously in
iured last week while returning home
from Mount Holly by falling from his bi
cycle.
Word has reached Mount Holly that
Frank Lippincott, printer who learned
his trade in the Herald office, is losing hif
eyesight.
Quarterly meeting will be held in The
Methodist Church at Vincentown next
Sunday. Dir. W. P. Davis, the presiding
elder, will deliver a sermon.
Walter Allen, of Mount Holly, has been
awarded a contract to build barns on the
John Egan farm, near Hartford, to replace
those destroyed by fire recently.
David Mcconnell and Miss Anna M.
Peacock, of Medford, were married on
Wednesday. The ceremony was perform
ed at Lumberton by Rev. D. E. Clair.
The stone road between Mount Holly
and Smithville has been completed and is
a very creditable job. Allen +. Powell
was the supervisor and he gave the work
careful attention.
A musical entertainment for the bene-
fit of the Methodist Church at Rancocas,
will be given in the o. U. A. M. hall on
the evening of December 6. The Mount
Holly Banjo Club will take part
The petition for Communication of SEN
tence of John Young, one of the murder
ers of Washington Hunter, was presented
to the Court of Pardons on Tuesday 1t
was made special order for tomorrow.
Mrs Sallie Hunter, living at Cambridge,
near Riverside, widow of the late Wash
ington Hunter who was murdered last
January, is suffering with broken arm
as the result of falling off her porch
few days since.
Charles Tilton, of Mount Holly, expe-
rienced considerable trouble with COW
which he was driving through Mason
vile on Thursday. The animal became
fractions and only surrendered after being
securely bound with ropes
Detective Ellis II. Parker and Consta-
BILE A. E. Gaskill went out cunning on
Thursday and arrested two large hares,
weighing nine pounds each. Their many
friends would like to know the true his
tory of that hunting trip.
Edward L. Durand has his cove on
Green street pretty well filled with water,
which he has been pumping at intervals,
and now he is waiting to see how his ex
pertinent will turn out in gathering ice
there during the coming winter.
The Burlington County Board of Edu
cation will meet at the Court House on
Saturday at 1870. DR.. Taylor, of Asbury
Park, will speak on Medical Inspection
of Schools" and Prof. John Enright,
County Superintendent of Monmouth
county, will deliver an address.
Southern papers received here give an
account of the suicide, at Savannah, Ca,
of James Sanguienetto, who took cyan
ide of potassium During the recent
Mount Holly Fair this fellow was arrested
by Detective Ellis H. Parker for playing
the film iam game in connection with
photograph gallery.
Counsel for Thomas Carey, who was
before the court at the last term for as
saulting an officer, will probably have
another chance to eloquently portray the
peaceful character and excellent repu-
tation, as a citizen, of his Client who was
arrested last week on charge OF larceny
of ducks and turkeys from neighbor,
Hugh Hagerty.
The New Jersey Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, on Thursday, in session at Tren-
ton. elected these officers: Grand master,
Harry F. Pine, Camden; deputy grand
master, Chester Thompson, Clinton grand
warden, E. L. Ross, Cape May; grand
secretary, Lewis Parker, Trenton; grand
treasurer. ]. R. Dolen, Bordentown; rep
resentative to Sovereign Lodge, Henry j.
Melosh, Jersey City. The Grand Lodge
decided against the accepting of the Odd
Fellows Home at Trenton.
Next spring the Secretary of Agricul-
ture will distribute throughout the coun-
try young trees and seeds. Each mem
Der of Congress will be asked to furnish
list of constituents to whom he would
like to have trees or seeds sent. Inc
seedlings will be grown in the govern
ment propagation houses, and forwarded
to their destinations with specific instruc-
lions as to how they should be raised and
cared for In this way the government
expects to start several million new trees
every year.
There will be rejoicing among the
travellers on the Burlington branch when
the trolley is again in operation Passen-
gers who take the four O'Clock. train from
New York because it is fast line, do not
relish waiting at Burlington half hour
1t would be bad enough it there was a
decent waiting room, but to be compelled
TO take the choice between standing out
side in the cold, or sitting in hot, stuffy
four by five pen, is very disagreeable.
The comfort of passengers at East Bur
lington is something that evidently does
not concern the railroad officials.
Now that the Jacksonville stone road is
completed, it would be in order to
have a petition circulated among the
property owners on Union street getting
their consent to have the macadam road
continued down that thoroughfare so as
to connect with the High street stone
road which continues on to Burlington.
Such proposition would undoubtedly re-
ceive favorable consideration by the Board
of Freeholders, and it is not unlikely that
the township of Northampton would ap