The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-02-14

Alonzo Mead Is on the repair list, hay
ing been confined to his home by Hines
for several weeks.
Nelson Burr Gaskill has returned t
Mount Holly, entirely recovered from hi
attack of appendicitis.
Francis o. Durand and Miss Anna 3
Crockford were married on Saturda
evening by Rev. r. II. Baker.
Charles G. Robson, at one time tn
wealthiest resident of Riverside, died a
that place on Friday afternoon.
Tbs remains of Lille May, wife o
Frank Lippincott, of Camden, aged 2
years, were inferred in Mount Holly yes
: terday.
The wedding of Arthur Semple an,
Miss Lydia Kier, of Philadelphia, is an
nounced to take place in that city on Feb
rsary %.
Josiah Deets, of Mount Holly, recent,
: arrested and taken to Camden, has beef
sentenced to one year in the state prisol
for bigamy.
On Friday next civil service examina
tion will be held in Philadelphia for eligi
bles as clerks and carriers in the Noun
Holly post office.
Nelson Gibbs, of Wall street, died OF
Saturday. The funeral will take plac,
from. the residence of his father, Abe
Gibbs. on Pine street, to-day.
Lost.-On Saturday, between the girls
mill on Mill street and Madison avenue
bunch of keys belonging to Joseph W
Colkitt. Return to the owners office. .
Triplets were born, on Wednesday, tt
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Croshaw, living al
Wrightstown. All three are boys ano
are doing well. The father is a prosper
GUS farmer.
The following letters await owners al
the Mount Holly post office: Thomas
Breen, G. Fl. Finney, Mrs. E. P. Heryey
Walter Patrick Desmond, Miss Ellen
Machen, Mrs. Subers.
An oyster supper, for the benefit Of
aged and INDECENT ministers, will be given
by the Epworth League of the Smithville
Methodist Church on Wednesday evening,
February %. A very enjoyable time ID
promised.
| An operation has been performed on
John Henry Harker, of Browns Mills, for
the removal of a dead bone in his arm,
which was fractured last May when Mr..
Harker was badly used up by an accident
in Parker's saw mill.
The Newton-J ones Entertainers will be
at the opera house on Saturday evening.
This, from all accounts, will be one of the
! best in the M. E. Church course. Three
attractions are to follow. Course tickets
may be secured at Boyce's stationery store.
David Carr, of Browns Mills, is anxious
for pool match with some of the crack
players of the county, fifty balls for $50.
His challenge is directed principally to a
local player of that place, but any man
can have his money by winning it.
Victor corn and oat feed and Quaker
dairy feed, $23 per ton; Eddington feed,
something new, analysis, II protein and
474 fat, $23 per ton. Dried grains, malt
sprouts, hominy feed, gluten and cotton
seed ]. W. Colkitt & Co., Mount Holly,
n j.
The storm on Sunday evening greatly
interfered with the attendance at the
Lincoln services in the M. E. Church, yet
about 300 persons were present. The
pastor preached on "Lincoln's Greatness. +"
The decorations were neat and appro-
pirate.
The latest appointment at the Mount
Holly post Office is John ]. Cardwell,
who will take the position recently held by
Miss Christian, and who, it is reported,
will 60 on duty to- morrow, subject to the
civil service examination which will take
place on Friday.
Richard Lamb has had an architect and
builders looking at the Washington House
with view of ascertaining the cost of
building new hotel. Unless he changes
his plans he will put up brick building,
three stories high, and will extend it ten
feet down Water street, making the build
ing 30 feet long.
Fred M. Allen, employed on the Rance
cas- stock farm, has been suffering from
exposure during the past week. A few
days since he was rendered unconscious
by falling from cart. He laid in the
snow for several hours, and when discov-
cred was nearly frozen.
Becoming discouraged at the price re-
ceived for their crop of Keifer pears last
fall, some of the largest growers, near
Charleston, have taken out their orchards,
in order to give room for more profitable
fruit. The sum received was very little
in excess of the cost of picking and mar
keting.
The rifle range of Company E, in Mount
Holly, is said to be more in favor with
the Burlington county militiamen than
the range in the armory at Camden. 1t
will be used on Tuesday evening next by
a squad from Company A, of Burlington,
who will come to the county seat in
charge of Captain Stone.
A woman belonging to the tramp fra
ternity gained entrance to the press
room Of the Mirror Office on Sa turday
night. Seating herself on pile of paper
she began to sing in boisterous manner.
On the complaint of Miss Nora Naylor,
Officers Branson and Collins took the Of
fender to Jail, where the inebriate gave
another vocal selection, entitled Its All
a Mistake"
g. Howard Lundy and Miss May Ridg-
way, daughter of Ephraim l. Rfdgway,
of Glenolden, Pa, were married by
Friends ceremony at noon ON Tuesday,
at the residence of the BRIDE The couple
sailed on Wednesday for London, where
the groom Is engaged in business. They
were accompanied on the trip by the
brides father, who is going for the bene-
fit of his health.
Personnel of the Newton-Jones Enter
tanners, who will be at the Opera House
on Saturday evening, February 10: Mrs.
Addie Jewell Newton, mezzo soprano,
violin virtuoso, guitar and banjo soloist;
Miss Theo. Marie Jewell, vocalist, man
dolin and guitar soloist and accompanist
s. Platt Jones, humorist and dramatic
reader and impersonator; F. Jess New
ton, trombone, euphonium and French
horn soloist and guitarist.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company has
increased its holdings on Cornwall ore
banks shares by buying those held by
Mrs. Euphemia P. Grub de Cerkez, of
Newark, for 5000, 900. Mrs. De Cerkez is
a widow, the daughter of General E. B.
Grubb. The Pennsylvania Company sew
eral years ago paid $2,O25, 900 to the G.
Dawson Coleman estate for fifteen shares
and 81, 200. 900 to the Clement Grub es.
tate for eight shares.
Stealing chickens has again become
popular pastime in this section. In this
respect quite a number of Mount Holly
people have suffered more or less. The
heaviest loser thus far reported, how
ever, is Mrs. Samuel j. Clevenger, resid-
ing on Burr's road. She had forty nine
nicely fatted roosters which she had in
tended to kill on Wednesday, but that
work was postponed, because thieves
stole the entire flock on the previous
Monday night.
Peter Lowell. farm hand, who has
been employed by John Colkitt, near
Columbus. is patient in the Burlington
County Hospital with frozen feet and
hands, and efforts are being made to pre-
vent the necessity of amputation. The
man is suffering from exposure, having
laid down in the woods of Joseph Taylor
for several hours. After coming to his
senses Lowell found that some one had
taken his bottle of whiskey, watch and
seven dollars in money. He managed to
hobble back to Columbus, and was cared
for by Howard Archer. DR.. Dubell or
dered his removal to the hospital
Three robberies and one attempt is the
record at PALMYRA on Thursday NIGHT