The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-12-03

meat-del1very wagon, of a new design.
r William Holt of Cherry street, has beef
: quite seriously i'll for the past few days.
, Mrs. Frederick H. Lee, presented tn
Hospital with a large turkey for Thanks
giving.
, Thomas A. Hamilton, who formerly OPP
Grated laundry at 81 Mill street, will re
open at the same place next Monday.
A regular meeting of the W. c. T. U
will be held in the Gaskill building OF
High street at P NJ on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs Isaiah E. Atkinson, of the
Jacksonville road, will entertain the
Farmers club at their home on Saturday
evening.
AS the result of running a bone in his
thumb, John W. Reeve, employed al
Childs grocery store, is suffering from
blood poison.
On Saturday steam roller came down
Union street and at the corner OF Button
wood it broke several of the iron plates
which cover the culvert there.
The Court of Pardons heard argument,
on Tuesday, relative to the Communication
of John Young's sentence to life impris-
onment The petition was refused
At the NJ E. Church, Thursday even
ing, December 18th, DR.. Marshall of
Camden will give his amusing lecture on
"Some Values of Humor in Daily Life ]"
The house belonging to the estate of the
late James R. Snyder, deceased, on Mill
street, was sold at public sale on Satur-
day, to the widow, Margaret Snyder, for
1920.
George Bothner who has been confined
in the Hospital for sometime as the result
of beating he received at the hands of
Lewis Lynch, was discharged from that
institution on Saturday.
The boarding house of Charles Crosta,
on Main street, Riverton, was entered
Tuesday night by sneak thief, who got
about 5000 in money, clothing and other
valuables belonging to the boarders.
James S. McIlvain, who recently re-
moved to Glassboro, will return to Mount
Holly next Monday and will reside on
Cherry street Mr.. McIlvain will be in
charge of the business of the Prudential
Insurance here
The Commissioners of Appeals met on
Tuesday. In Northampton township very
| little complaint was heard relative to
real estate valuations The amount of
So so dog tax was RENTED; 500 poll tax;
$167 on real estate, bank stock, etc.
A large and first class fresh stock of
groceries can be found at Durands new
store on High street. Call and see the
goods and get prices. Then you will be
sure to buy. Also meats and provisions.
Orders called for and delivered to all parts
of the town.
| Mrs Albert Lear, of Mount Holly,
went to Philadelphia, last week, to visit
her daug hter, Octavia Shinn. When Mrs.
Lear entered the house she learned that
her daughter was i'll with smallpox. The
visiting lady is now quarantined in the
house of her daughter.
At the recent fire which destroyed Hunt,
Wilkinson & Co. s building, Philadel-
phia, gold watch belonging to II. w.
Kempte was lost 1t had been presented
to him by Relief Fire Co. At meeting
of the Company, last night, it was decid-
ed to present another watch to him.
A baked bean supper will be given this
evening at the residence of Mrs. George
W. Durand on Clifton avenue, the tickets
to which are 25 cents. AS the object of
this supper is for the benifit of the Bur
lington County Hospital, preparations
have been made for large attendance.
George Upton, of Burlington, who has
been running farm on shares belonging
to Richard Mott, was given hearing be-
fore Justice Clevenger, on Friday, and
held under 800 bail, on a charge of OBJ
tanning quantity of fertilizer from
Charles A. King, of Mount Holly under
false pretences.
The Camden & Suburban Railway
Company has secured a -horse-pow
snow pillow for use on it's out-of town
routes. The pillow has at its front an g.
foot wheel, composed of blades, which
gathers up the snow and ice as it revolves
and discharges them through chute in
the rear of the car.
Justice Garrison has granted rule to
show cause why writ of certiorarl
should not be granted to review the ordi-
nance recently passed by Burlington's
council giving a franchise to the Dollar
Gas Company. The rule was granted on
the application of the present company,
and is made returnable December IS.
Rev Stephen Lyons, formerly rector OF
the Church of the Sacred Heart, but now
living at Millville. will deliver a lecture
in the church here, on Tuesday even
ing next His subject will be Church
and State" Rev. Mr.. Lyons has many
friends here who will be glad to again
hear him speak in the church where he
formerly preached.
The United States government last year
paid out $3.50, 900, 900 to its 100000 pen
sioners. The number on our pension roll
is greater than the armies of Great Britain,
Italy, Austria Hungary and the Ottoman
Empire combined, and the cost to pay
them greater Few people stop to realize
the fact that the standing armies of those
countries are maintained at less expense
than it costs to pay the people on our
pension roll.
1t has been definitely decided that the
Government will retry John l.. Semple,
the Camden attorney, upon the question
of whose guilt or innocence in the scheme
of manufacturing 500 counterfeit plates
by Taylor and Bredell in Moyamensing
Prison, the jury at the last term of Court
was unable to agree United States
District Attorney Holland stated that the
trial would come off at the May term of
Court and that Arthur Taylor and Bald
win Bredell would be held as witnesses.
Some arrangement should be made by
the railroad company to prevent blocking
the road at the Mount Holly station by
freight trains Under the law the trains
have certain limit and while they sell
dom exceed it at the point named, yet
they do interfere with travel, which is
heavy there. Twice last week ply