The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-28
w. H. Reeves was appointed postmas-

George w. DuranQ Will De canOluat
for reelection to the position of freehold
Der from Northampton township.
!, Miss Abbie Combs is now in possession
+ of the rooms over Justice Clevenger's of
fee, formerly occupied by Miss Kat
Archer
, Justice Clevenger has full court this
week, during which he will give hearing
to eight actions on contract and decided
two landlord and tenant cases.
Any one having capital stock of the
Farmers National Bank for sale may hear
of customer, by sending number of
shares and price to Box 607, Mount Holly,
M.
Wanted. Young lady or young man
for office work Permanent position to
right party. Prefer one who has had
some experience in typewriting. Weaver
Mfg Co.
Governor Murphy sent two nomina-
tons to the Senate last evening one of
them being that of Hon. Charles G. Gar
rison for another term as Justice of the
Supreme Court
The ladies of the Baptist Church will
| give their annual supper in the Masonic
Temple. on Friday and Saturday evenings
next The menu will include all the del
icacies of the season.
Frank Carter, living near Chesterfield.
on Wednesday last slaughtered twenty
pigs, the finest that have been killed in
Burlington county this year. Their aver
age weight was S77t pounds.
On Saturday afternoon a sneak thief,
who is known, entered the residence of
William Wright, on Union street, opened
drawer in the kitchen, and from pock-
ct book distracted 50 bill and some
small change.
The Mount Holly Banjo, Mandolin and
Guitar Club will present Miriam Lee
Farley, instructor of elocution at Pen
nington Seminary and Miss Maude M.
Heisler, contralto soloist, of Merchant
vile, at their annual concert on Tuesday,
February II.
"Chickaree Glory, house on the South
Pemberton road occupied by Job and
Antonio Ferrare, brother Italians, was
broken into on Friday, and two suits of
clothes, some Undertaking and pair of
shoes taken. 1t is thought to have been
the work of tramps.
! The election of officers of Company E,
last night, resulted as follows: Captain,
Nelson B. Gaskill; 1st Lieutenant, James
F. R. Long; I'd Lieutenant. William F.
Sooy; 1st Sergeant. Nathan W. Everline;
I'd Sergeant, Alfred Dellett; Corporals,
Robert Hawkins and William J. Shanahan.
Clifford D. Shute, butcher of Palmyra,
had narrow escape yesterday afternoon.
The horse he was driving became fright
ened at the cars and ran away. The wag-
on was demolished and Shute was thrown
to the ground. His left leg was fractured
in two places, and it is feared he is injured
internally.
| Vice Chancellor Grey has filed decree
in the case of Quinn vs. LIE Due, in which
he sets aside the conveyance of 200 acres
of cranberry Dogs in Ocean county. Quinn
had an attachment on the land, and al
legged that when the sale under writ
took place he was fraudulently prevented
from attending the sale.
Elizabeth p, widow of the late Benja
min F. Lee, deceased, of Mount Holly,
died on Saturday night at Rosedale, at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Will
liam Dilworth, in the 56th year of her
age The funeral will be held this morn
ing at H. 80 O'Clock from the residence of
Frederick Fl. Lee, on High street.
In order to settle the estate of Israel
Powell, deceased, Jacob @. Hendrickson,
executor, offers for sale one-half inter
est in cranberry bog and tract of land
of "a acres in Pemberton township for
$1,000. The net income of the present
year of the half interest was $685. 1t is a
rare opportunity for good investment.
Jack Reed, of Trenton, was defeated by
Richard Lamb, of Browns Mills, Saturday
afternoon, in a live bird match. The con-
ditions were % birds for $50 side. Lamb
was in rare form and killed "a. He missed
the third bird and then made run of
81 straight. Reed missed several hard
ones in the first 10 and his highest run
was IS. The match took place at Browns
Mills
While looking over some old papers in
Prosecutor Samuel A. Atkinson's office
yesterday, an indictment was found against
John Mackin and John Mclean, who
were charged with assaulting an officer.
The document was drawn by Andrew D.
Woodruff, Attorney General. The indict-
ment was found by the grand jury at the
August term of court. 1894, and is in a
good state of preservation.
Persons desiring copies of the ''Centen-
NAL Anniversary" proceedings of the
First Baptist Church, Mount Holly, can
obtain them of Lorenzo L. Sapp, at T.
Walter Borton's store, s F. Sapp's meat
market, and at the Office of Justice ]. D.
Clevenger The books contains a COM
plete history of the Church and reference
is made to many of the old inhabitants of
the town. The engravings of several pas
tors of the Church are also to be found in
the book. Price 25 cents; by mail SOc.
The Rancocas creek at Delanco was on
Friday the scene of the biggest ice gorge
at that nlace for MANY years There were
two tug boats caught in the gorge between
the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge and the
county bridge. They were held there for
several hours, not being able to move.
The sand barge in tow by the Hattie Kill
liam slightly damaged the county bridge
by being wedged against it. The tug
boat Harry Schauble was also fast there,
and it looked for awhile as if they would
be damaged by being swept against the
county bridge.
William Briggs. janitor at the High
School, met with surprise yesterday
morning He was burning paper in the
heater when there was a sudden explo-
sion and fire and smoke rushed out of the
heater door, binding Mr.. Briggs, who
hurriedly got out of the way. When he
, thought it was safe to again go to the
heater he found the top had been lifted
J from it, and he had to get mechanic to
restore things to their normal condition.
} There was evidently some sort of explo-
sive in the paper that was being burned.