The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-02-07
LOCAL NEWS.

turer, has received new lou OF slelgns.
A race matinee will be held on the Fail
grounds on the afternoon of Memorial
day.
The engagement is announced of Ar
thur Engle and Miss Annie Ballinger, OF
Medford.
Fresh tomatoes, egg plants, pineapples.
grapes, oranges. lemons, California grape
fruit, candy, etc., at Cavanaugh's.
Having recovered from recent opera
ton for appendicitis, Miss Clara Wolcott
has returned to her home in Mount Holly.
The Epworth League of the M. E.
church will hold a social in the lecture
room on Friday evening of this week, at
7.45 o'clock All are welcome.
While walking on Brainard street.
Wednesday afternoon, Miss Ida Joyce
sustained fall, receiving a deep cash in
her head and number of bruises.
A gradual improvement is reported in
the condition of ]. NJ. Harrison. of Lum-
berton, who is i'll from stroke of paraly-
sis, his left side and tongue being affected.
At the horse sale of Pitman & Stack
house at Vincentown last week. horses
averaged $166. A black hearse team was
sold to Undertaken Grobler, of Pemberton.
Joshua j. Willitts, of Wrightstown,
has been reappointed mail carrier between
that place and Bordentown. His salary
has been increased from $500 to $3.50 per
year.
The directors of the Moorestown Water
Company have been examining number
of filtration plants, and they may decide
upon that method to improve the supply
of drinking water for that town.
Some of the calendar manufacturers
have made mistake by announcing that
Thanksgiving day this year will fall on
November %. Others which designate
November 80 as the day, are correct. as
Thursday will be the last day of the
month.
Warren Hankins has Joined the force of
men employed by the Western Union
Telegraph Company in taking down its
poles and wires along the line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He
left Mount Holly with the linemen on
Thursday.
Eldredge L. Mathis has been cited to
appear in the Chancery court, on or be-
fore the sixth day of March next, to an
swer in suit for divorce instituted by his
wife, Lena NJ Mathis. Charles EVAN
Merritt, of Mount Holly, is solicitor for
the petitioner.
After being unhitched from carriage
in the yard of the Arcade Hotel, on Tues
day, horse belonging to County Col
lector Joseph Powell concluded to return
home. The animal ran out into the
street but failed to accomplish his pur-
pose, being captured on Washington
street.
A large crowd at the wharf at Bristol,
Pa, on Saturday, saw Martin Larkins, of
Lowell, Mass, cut hole in the ice, then
plunge into the river in his tights and
swim around for time. Then he climbed
out and was rolled in snow bank to
avoid too sudden reaction. He was
applauded by the spectators.
Robert T. Evans stands high man with
the trolley motormen and conductors who
recently became stalled in the snow near
Masonville. Taking them to his home
Mr.. Evans kept them from cold and
hunger, for which kindness they will
ever hold him in grateful remembrance.
Elijah G. Hutchinson. the newly ap-
pointed State Road Commissioner, was
waited upon by committee of Burling
ton county freeholders, on Thursday, and
he assured them that all roads in this Sec
tion which had been approved by his pre-
decessor would be completed. The roads
in question are those running from
Lumberton to Cross Roads, Mount Holly
to Eayrestown and Red Lion to Taber-
nacle.
On Thursday, at Riverton, occurred the
death of Sallie II. Hunter, widow of the
late Washington Hunter, who was MUIR
dered few years ago by four burglars
from New York city while engaged in
robbing the house at Cambridge. For
this crime John Young and Charles Brown
were hanged in Mount Holly, and Otto
Keller is serving ten years in state prison
Charles Miller has never been captured.
The railroad station at Delanco is to be
moved from its present site to within
about so feet of Walnut street. II 900
brick arrived on Tuesday for the founda-
under the present structure. The build
ing will be raised to level with the
tracks and it is possible that passengers
for east bound trains will be required to
go under the tracks to a platform on the
south side.
At the annual meeting of the New Jer-
sey Cranberry Growers Association, held
in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President
E. a. Durell, of Woodbury.; vice presi-
dent, Benajah P Wills, of Mount Holly;
second vice president. ]. D. Holman, of
Whitesville; secretary and treasurer, G.
Erwin, of Elwood; executive committee,
Theodore Budd, of Pemberton; Joseph j.
White, of New Lisbon: e. H. Durell. G.
Erwin and A. J. Rider, of Trenton; repre-
sentatives to State Board of Agriculture.
C. Erwin and A. j. Rider.
According to announcement John A.
Bidwell, of Mount Holly. and Florence
R. Geiger, of Wissahickon, are to be
married tomorrow at the home of the
brides parents. 1t is said the happy pair
were brought together by their love of
music and literature The ceremony will
be performed by Rev. Daniel ]. Martin,
of the Wissahickon Presbyterian Church.
After the wedding supper the couple will
leave on trip through the South. Miss
Geiger is the composer of several popular
pieces of music.
1t will be of interest to crack shots in
the National Guard to know that the Ma.
tional Match, which was authorized by
Congress two years ago. will probably be
shot this !summer at Sea Girt. where il
was shot the first time. The Nationa
Board for the promotion of rifle practice
at its meeting recently in Washington, re
ferred the selection of place for thu
holding of the match to committee con-
sisting of General George II. Harries o.