The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-02-21
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


first floor of the Arcade Hotel
A contract amounting to $3.50, 600 ha
been awarded to Charles A. Sims & Co.
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Charles Austin, who has been living
with his wife at Unionyille, has taken VI
his residence with relatives near Pember
ton.
A big crowd attended hog killing al
Pointville, on Thursday. The ANNA
was very large, tipping the scales at SOs
pounds.
Charles Y Flanders, formerly Mayor Of
Burlington, was stricken with hemorrhags
of the nose on Wednesday morning. His
condition has since improved.
Harry Smith, of Mount Holly. messen-
ger boy of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, has resumed business again, having
recoved from an attack of tonsilitis.
Lost.-On Saturday. between the grist
mill on Mill street and Madison avenue, q
bunch of keys belonging to Joseph W.
Colkitt. Return to the owners Office. .
Coasting on the ice down Buttonwood
street, from the Mount to Union streets, is
pastime which has afforded great pleas
ure to number of boys during the past
week.
A Waterman is wanted at the Smith
vile works Must be middle-aged, sober
and industrious, and able-bodied. Apply
at the office of the 81. B. Smith Machine
Company.
Tomorrow will be Washington's birth
day. In Mount Holly the financial insti-
buttons and county buildings will be
closed and the post Office will close for the
day at 10 o'clock.
A flock of quail has been seen at the
bog railroad bridge several times during
the past week. The birds are unusually
tame, permitting persons to walk very
close to them.
As soon as the weather will permit, this
vicinity will be stocked with quail, sixty
fine birds having been brought to Mount
Holly by Game Warden Howard Mathis
for that purpose.
Prof. Samuel D. Quigg, formerly super
intendent of the public school at Vincen-
town, is confined to his home, in Delanco,
suffering from injuries as the result of q
bad fall on the ice.
Charles H. Fitzgerald, book keeper at
the works of the Il. B. Smith Machine
Company, at Smithville, will resume his
duties this week, after an illness of over
two months from typhoid fever.
John s. Gilbert, secretary and general
superintendent of the Burlington County
Railway Company, is now living on
Union street, in the house belonging to
the estate of Lydia Ann Troth, deceased.
.sReddy," said to be the biggest pig in
Burlington county, will be killed at
Grant Davis Hotel, Mill street, Mount
Holly, on Thursday, March 2, at o'clock
and will be weighed at P. M. The usual
guessing privileges will be allowed.
1t is reported that the Public Service
Corporation has obtained control of the
Camden and Trenton railway. operating
trolley line between Trenton and Camden,
and that the Public Service Corporation
will assume charge of the Trenton line on
March 1.
Victor corn and oat feed and Quaker
dairy feed, $28 per ton; Eddington feed.
something new, analysis, II protein and
474 fat, $s3 per ton. Dried grains, malt
sprouts, hominy feed, gluten and cotton
seed. J. w. Colkitt s. Co., Mount Holly,
N. ].
Cortland Inglin, local blacksmith, of
Pemberton, while shoeing mule belong
ing to Benjamin Powell, on Tuesday, was
kicked and severely hurt by the animal.
Ingling was vowing vengeance upon the
kicker, when the mule, the following day.
in passing his shop, slipped and broke its
neck.
A frozen water pipe running into the
Milbine property, on Main street. was
cause for tearing up portion of the
street pavement yesterday. After burn
ing cord wood for several hours, the
workmen managed to get through the
cement foundation, when more wood was
burned to kill the frost in the ground.
William C. Worrell and Miss E. Regars,
of Florence, we're married at the home of
the groom's parents, on Wednesday even
ing, by Rev. W. W. Wescott Miss
Annie Regars was maid of honor and
William L. Hamilton the best man. AT
ter wedding supper had been served, the
happy couple left for Washington to
spend their honeymoon.
Plummer Bullock, wanted here on an
indictment charging him with stealing a
horse and wagon from Theodore Phillips,
valued at about 1910, was arrested last
week by state detective at Richmond,
Va. On Thursday night the prisoner
arrived in Mount Holly, being In the GUS
tody of Constable John Throckmorton.
A fire of apparent incendiary origin
destroyed the large barns on the farm of
Joshua Fenimore. near Perkins, south of
Beverly. shortly after midnight Friday
morning. Two horses were burned and
the farm implements and other contents
of the buildings destroyed Neighbors
formed bucket brigade and saved the
house.
Squire Joyce, of Browns Mills, has
been engaged to perform marriage cere-
mony tomorrow, when Miss Jennie Par
ker, of the above place, and John Cowell,
of Philadelphia, will become man and
wife. They will Immediately start for a
trip to Florida, returning on the fifteenth
of March, when they will be given a
reception at the Pine View Cottage, own
ed by M. Warner Hargrove. to which one
hundred cards will be issued.
The sensational features attending the
execution of Rasinger, at Bridgeton, on
Wednesday, were witnessed by Sheriff
Bower and Deputy Fleetwood. of Mount
Holly. When the trap was sprung the
rope broke. letting the murderer fall to
the ground. The broken cord was
thrown over the cross beam and held by q
number of persons, the body being sus'
pended until physicians pronounced the
man dead.
There was laid at rest on last Wednes
day one of the noblest women of Borden
town, the mother of Assistant Station
Master Harry Nevius, of the P. R. r