The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-11

4 Manager Troth has had the opera house
fumigated with formaldehyde.
Edward P. Kiner and family will this
week remove to Franz ford, Pa.
Thos. N Page, of Burlington, former
resident of Mount Holly, was buried yes
terday.
Don't forget the concert of the Mount
Holly Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club
at the opera house tonight.
Don't forget the annual fair of Relief
Fire Company, which occurs April 8 ito 10,
in the engine house on Pine street.
A festival and oyster supper was given
at Buddtown, on Saturday evening, by
the ladies of the Methodist Church.
A meteor illuminated the northeast
heavens at $50 o'clock on Friday even
ing. The spectacle was very pretty.
j Owing to mishap TO the steam heating
apparatus of the M. E. Church, the con-
gregation worshipped in the opera house
on Sunday.
The supper for the benefit of the Bur-
lington County Hospital will be given in
the Masonic Temple on Thursday and
Friday evenings of next week.
Judge Garrison will come to Mount
Holly, on Thursday afternoon, for the
purpose of passing sentence upon John
Young, murderer of Washington Hunter
Sheriff Charles R. Fenton has placed an
order for fifty new bed ticks with William
H. Stewart, the shirt manufacturer on
Water street. They are to be used at the
Jail.
! John Atkinson, of Burlington. will &C.
cupy his farm near Jacksonville, this
spring. Mrs. Burr, the present occupant,
will remove to the William Longstreet
farm.
These postmasters were nominated tc
the Senate by the President yesterday:
August c.. Stecher. Riverside; Elmer E.
Dyer, Medford; James w. Kelley, Tuck
erton.
Captain Nelson Burr Gaskill last night
gave the members of Company E a turkey
banquet at the W ashington House, to eel
citrate his ascendancy to the command of
the company.
AT meeting of the directors of the
Mount Holly Water Company, yesterday,
it was decided to award the contract for
filtration plant to the New York Cont
mental Jewell Filter Co.
The wife President Roosevelt has pre-
sented the members of the Humane Fire
Engine Company, of Bordentown. hand
some lace handkerchief for its fair, which
opens on Thursday, February 20.
A new machine for the cancellation of
stamps has been received at the post office.
1t will be put in operation this week, and
will displace the old hand stamp system,
which was laborious, noisy and unsatis-
factory.
Rev. s. Harper Leeper will be in Mount
Holly on the afternoons of Tuesday and
Wednesday, February 18 and 10, at which
time he will speak at special services to
be held in the Presbyterian Church. of
which he was the former pastor.
Miss Hendrickson, who was assaulted
by negro at Maple Shade, has recovered
from her mental depression and has left
the hospital where she was being treated.
The trial of the man, who is in Jail in
Mount Holly, will be pushed at an early
day.
Selling off winter boots, shoes and rub
bers at bargain prices to make room for
spring and summer footwear as my place
is small. Custom work. repairing and
making for deformed feet speciality
Leather and shoe findings for sale. John
Bill, 33 Church street, Mount Holly.
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 win be
sure to buy Also meats and provisions.
Orders called for and delivered to all parts
of the town.
A Mount Holly member of the Penn
sylvania Railroad bridge gang arose on
Thursday morning, evidently with de-
sire to remain home rather than face the
severe weather. Finally he made prop
osition to his wife that if she would stand
out in the cold for ten minutes he would
go to work. 1t is not known whether the
lady complied or not, but the man failed
to show up that day, and his companions
have been running him pretty hard over
the occurrence.
The State Law and Order League of
New Jersey has appointed committee,
consisting of Joseph S. Middleton, presi-
dent, and Rev. DR.. S. II. Ham, secre-
tary, and c. B. Coles, of Moorestown, to
confer with representatives from local
leagues throughout the state which will
hold a convention in Camden this week,
with view to appealing to the courts to
see if some relief cannot be secured from
the action of grand Juries in counties ig-
noring complaints where evidence is sufi-
Gent to secure convictions A prominent
member of the league said that this &C
ton was brought about by the grand jury
of Burlington county ignoring complaints
recently in cases of persons charged with
violations of the liquor laws, by refusing
to believe witnesses.
Elihu W. Allen, man who had reached
the age of nearly ninety -four years, died
at the home of his sonin-law, in Trenton,
on Thursday. He had numerous relatives
in this county, where he was formerly well
known. In early life he gave considerable
attention to literature, and was writer of
both prose and poetry for the local papers.
His productions possessed some merit, but
were never published in book form. His
wife has been dead for a number of years.
He is survived by five children, one of
whom is Joseph c. Allen, of Medford
Elihu formerly lived with this son, but for
some time past had made his home in
Trenton. Another son, Alfred E. Allen,
was killed in 1888 in mill near Medford.
There are four daughters-Rachel, wife OF
Henry B. Sealace. of Trenton Martha,
wife of Allen Ely, of Solebury; Mary,
wife of Allen Tomlinson, of Rancocas;
and Caroline wife of Henry Hough, also
of Rancocas. The deceased was mem
Der of the Society of Friends, and was
buried beside his wife in the graveyard of
that people at Buckingham, Pa 1t is I'M
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