The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-03-04
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1902.
LOCAL NEWS.


at Delanco to cost $12, 600.
1t is said that twenty three new houses
are to be erected at Riverside this spring.
Marion Circle, No. 9, B. Of o., initiated
several candidates on Wednesday even
ing.
Lewis S Brown has purchased Kumpf's
hotel at Vincentown. and will take posses.
sion on the 22d of this month.
1t was very fortunate that the fire de.
partment was not called out during the
recent severe spell of weather.
Charles P. Farmer, of Burlington, has
purchased house in Mount Holly from
Artillas A. Anderson for s., 500.
The Legislature may knock out the
stamp trading business, bill to That
effect having been introduced.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union will
celebrate their anniversary in the church
on the evening of Thursday, March 8.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of G. c. Darnell, of Med
ford, and Ethel W. Zelley, of Jackson
VILE
The people of Mount Holly have no.
body to thank but kind nature for clean
ing snow from some of the walks about
town.
way street to the residence ON High street,
over the insurance rooms of John r.
Howell
The hog that was slaughtered on We'd
nesday at the Mill street hotel weighed
722 pounds There were sixteen correct
guessers.
The ladies of St. Andrews Church last
week shipped a box of clothing to South
ern Virginia, to be used in missionary
work there.
The wretched weather which has been
experienced during the month of Febru-
airy, will make the advent of spring all
the more welcome.
Owing to their small membership, Lady
Franklin Home, No. Z, B. of o., of Ma
sonville, has been merged with Lady Ma
rion Home, of Mount Holly.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Mrs. Charlotte Brown, of
Mount Holly, and Samuel Frederick
Houston, of Chestnut Hill.
In order to get relief from throat and
stomach trouble, Richard Greenwald, the
well known bill poster, has entered ST.
Joseph's hospital, Philadelphia.
The Methodist ladies are now arrang
ing for their supper and bazaar which
they will give in the Opera House from
April 8 to 8, for the benefit of the church.
Peter F. Mattson, well known citizen
of Burlington, who was buried last week,
was the father Of Mrs. Edward A. Colby,
and Mrs. Frank Nippins, of Mount Holly.
Samuel Brown, of Medford, has pur-
chased the residence of the late Samuel
r. Wetherill, deceased, corner of Garden
and Cherry Streets Mount Holly, for 81,
800.
Samuel @. johnson. of Mount Holly,
who recently returned from the Philippine
Islands, will return there for another three
years campaign, having reinlisted in his
old company.
The election boards will sit to-day from
to 9 P. NJ, for the purpose of revising
the registry lists, which presents the last
opportunity to get voter qua ifled for
the election to be held next Tueseay.
Word has reached Mount Holly that
John W. Taylor. of Logansport, Ind,
formerly residing here, has gone into bank
ruptcy, which news is not at all surprising
The liabilities are said to be $50, 568 90,
with assets of $575.
On Thursday morning Col. Charles M.
Sloan, the well known insurance agent of
Mount Holly, forwarded to the executors
of Ezra Budd Marter, deceased, of Edge
water Park. check for $4,000. This is
the kind of insurance that pays.
The New York Board of Health de
clares that lighted lamp with its wick
half turned down is the most prolific
breeder of diphtheria in the world, and
warns all mothers against leaving such a
light in sleeping room for children.
The passengers on the first train from
Mount Holly to Burlington, on Saturday
morning, were afraid to cross the Asss-
cunk bridge, and climbed out of the cars
while the crew ran the train back and
forth over the trestle work to prove it
was safe.
The fortieth annual meeting of the
Building and Loan Association of Mount
Holly will be held in Red Mems hall, Mill
street, on Monday evening. March 10, at
730 o'clock. at which time the officers
will be elected for the ensuing year and
a new series of stock issued.
A $4,000 iiIe-size statue of George B.
Mcclellan, the famous soldier and states
man, is to be put in prominent position
in Washington, d. c., and is expected to
be one of the most artistic of the many
statues which embellish the American
capital.
1t is noteworthy that there are 470 col
ored farmers in New Jersey, who till 49,
211 acres. Many are tenants. but the col
ored owners of farms estimate the total
value of their property, including live
stock, implements and machinery, at near
ly half million dollars.
State Librarian Buchanan has reported
that the New Jersey travelling libraries
are not success. Out of sixty towns
which were receiving the books a year
ago. twenty towns have dropped out, and
the Librarian concludes that the scheme
can never become profitable.
Tomorrow there will be a shooting
match at Browns Mills for purse of $50
between Willis J. Buzby. of Chatsworth,
and Richard Lamb, of the former place.
There will also be five bird handicap for
a purse of $50 open to all shooters Last
year Buzby killed twenty four straight
birds. He has entered to shoot in the
Great American handicap at Kansas City,
which will come off next month.
The degree team of Pocahontas Tribe,
L. o. r. M, of Mount Holly, went to
Pemberton on Saturday night and con-
ferred the Adoption work on several pale
faces who were scared out of years
growth This same tribe of noble braves
last night conferred the same work on
several candidates from Cotoxon Tribe,
No. 222, of Medford, who came to Mount