The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-07

i The Mounyhsfly public schools reopen.
ed yesterday
The work of paving Madison avenue
win soon be completed
! A coal famine is p17Vai.iug in Mount
Holly, the dealers having very little on
hand
The armory of Company E is draped in
mourning out of repect to the late Gen.
i Sewell.
The recent improvements to ST. An
drcw's church entailed an expense OF
So, $50. 16.
| The blizzard which De Voc predicted for
this section on New Years day failed to
make its appearance
i Ths Burlington county Traction Com
pany has taken possession OF the Noun
Hclly Street Railway.
| Louis Garbarino will remove his family
| to Mount Holly in the spring and occupy
4 his residence on Brainard street.
A number of Mount. Holly people wit
messed the celebration in Philadelphia
attending the greeting OF the New Year.
Harry Branin has presented to Sheriff
Fenton miniature scaffold, in imitation
of the one upon which Charles Brown was
recently hanged
Medals awarded by the State of New
JERSEY to men who responded to Presi-
in ho iuil
are now being distributed.
Mrs. Patience Hawkins, of Hoboken.
was buried at Bordentown on Tuesday.
Deceased was the mother of Mrs. Benja-
min F. Lee, Of Mount Holly.
Ice nearly six inches thick has been cut
by Edward L. Durand from his cove on
Green street. Isaac L. Shinn has about
completed arrangements to pump water
into his cove.
The week ofprayer began on Sunday,
and in observance of this annual custom,
services will be held in the different
churches on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings of this week.
james NJ. Smith has been acting as bag
gage d aster at the Mount Holly railroad
station for 90 years. His S4th year will
be rjunded out next month Jim" is
certainly veteran at the business.
On Monday next the Court.of Errors
ard Appeals will render decision on the
application for a new trial in the case of
John Young, who is under sentence of
death for the murder of Washington
Hunter.
Miss Minnie Saturday, of Mount Holly,
who has been employed in nursing an in
valid * the residence of Mrs. Sophie De
Camp in Burlington, N. !; : tined there
on account of one of the latter's sons hav
ing the smallpox
A surprise party was rendered Miss
About forty friends proceeded to her home
on Mill street and took possession. remain
ing until late hour, during which an
elegant time prevailed.
Charles Reeves, of Rutland avenue,
met with painful accident on Saturday.
Putting on pair of old gloves he began
to clean some paint brushes with gaso-
line. While lighting his pipe the gloves
took fire, burning both hands badly.
Christmas trade is oyer, and our mer
chants will have to turn their attention to
the usual needs of the community. There
will be natural falling off in business,
as is customary after a great rush, and we
must not get the idea into our heads that
depression has come again. 1902 will be
another good business year unless all
signs fail.
Mrs. Anna K Atkinson, widow of Job
Atkinson, of Mount Holly, and sister of
Mrs. w. w. Pancoast, of Merchantville,
died at the Merchantville Inn on Tuesday.
aged about SO years. The funeral took
place from the residence of Mr.. Pancoast,
on Saturday morning at II o'clock. LITTER
ment was made in Mount Holly.
Most of the papers throughout the
county are advertising that the next term
of court will begin on January 81. The
correct date is the 28th. The most i'm
portant case to come to trial will be that
of Mrs Mabel Haines. who is charged
with murder. February 8 is the date
selected for this hearing.
During the past month, the pension
lists show as follows: Mahlon Decamp'
Bordentown increase and restoration, $40
Edward W. Peak, medford, increase and
restoration, $40; Alice A. Appleby, New
Egypt, original widow, $12; Richard s
Adams, Beverly, increase. $40 Melvina
Deacon, Mount Holly, original widow, 3d.
Job K Bells, Riverton, original, So
James H. Smith, Juliustown, original, So
Daniel H. Harmer, Beverly. increase, $40;
George Brown, New Egypt, increase, s. :;
Hosea B. Taylor, Burlington, increase, $40.
On Thursday morning Surro gate Endi-
colt admitted to probate the will of the
late George W. Whitman, deceased, of
Burlington. The executors are Jessie L.
Whitman, of St. Louis, Mo-, and Francis
E.. Dove, Of Norwich. Conn. They are
to create a trust fund from which sutfi-
Gent interest is to be derived to pay $50
per month to Hannah L. Heyde, sister.
| during life. To Emma F. Dove is given
a piano, silverware, beds and table linen,
articles of ornament and bric-a-b rac. The
residue of the estate, which is valued at
nearly 800, 900, is bequeathed to Jessie L.
Whitman, niece The decedent was a
brother of the poet, the late Walt Whit
man, of Camden.
Fire broke out early ednesday morn
ing at Bordentown, in a large building
owned by William c. Thorn, and used as
tobacco warehouse, entirely destroying
the building along with number of other
buildings, and for time the business
section of the city was in danger of de-
struction. The stables of J. Holmes Long
street, president of the Bordentown Water
Company, and the creamery of II. A.
Shoell were laid in ashes. The fire is at
tributed to careless New Year celebrators.
The high wind carried the sparks over the
housetops and threatened other buildings
in the vicinity. John Jones, a member OF
the fire department dropped dead during
the fight against the flames as result OF
excitement.
Three weeks ago the Knights of Pythias
Al soAs, 81