The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-02-28
LOCAL NEWS.


with the grip.
Judson C. Gaskill managed to take
short walk, on Thursday, after his lonl
confinement from illness.
There will be meeting of farmers, OF
Saturday next. for the purpose of organic
ing grange at Willingboro
Buy of Cavanaugh if you want fine out
of-season vegetables. Choice fruits of al
kinds, candy and peanuts Main street
It has been decided to build an add
ton to the Presbyterian Church, at De
lance, to be used for Sunday school pur
poses.
1t has been necessary, during the pas
week, to make number of excavations
in the streets about town to thsw out
frozen water pipes.
Four deer heads are being mounted by
Samuel Brown, the taxidermist. Wher
completed they will be shipped to Chel
tenham, England.
William Fitzpatrick is expected tc
arrive home to-day. He has been attend
ing lectures at the Ontario Veterinary
College at Toronto, Canada.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Elizabeth r. Engle, daughter of the late
Samuel T. Engle, of Mount Holly, AND
Albert Hansell, Jr., of Rancocas.
George H. Poole, of Mount Holly. and
Miss Jennie E. Stuckerson, of Yardville
were married on Saturday last by Justice
of the Peace John D. Clevenger.
The National Bank Department al
Washington acknowledge the election Of
Henry L. Gregg, president of the River
side National Bank, in place of Charles
Mitsch.
DIR. William FL. Ships, of Bordentown,
has been appointed by Governor Stokes
as delegate to the anti-tuberculosis con-
II to 49,
At the auction rooms of Barnes q
Lofiand, in Philadelphia, on Thursday,
% shares of stock of the Union Nationa'
Bank, of Mount Holly, were sold at 500
per share.
The Burlington County Board of Agri-
culture has selected Benajah P. Wills to
serve as its secretary and treasurer, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
Henry 1. Budd.
Eleven members of Washington Camp,
No. II, P. o. s. of A., attended, district
meeting held at Camden on Tuesday
evening. Nearly two hundred members
of the order were present.
Concert Hall Association stock is not
bringing very high prices Forty-three
shares were recently sold for $3.50 per
share, and ten shares were disposed of at
81 per share. Par value $25.
Although he has more than year yet
to serve as justice of the peace, John
D. Clevenger says that under no circum-
stances will he commit to Jail any more
tramps or strangers who are intoxicated.
After having been confined to the house
since Christmas, at which time he fell and
severely injured one of his ankles, Will
liam Cronk is again able to get about,
although he has not entirely recovered.
Tickets for the trolley club cars run
ming between Moorestown and Camden,
can be purchased at the drug store of DR..
Elmer D. Prickitt Arrangements will
soon be made for better connections with
these special cars
William s. Fryer, of Tuckerton, will
succeed Jackson l.. Kelley, the marble
cutter, on Washington street. Mr. Kelley
has also sold his residence, on Main street,
and it is said he will engage in the hotel
business at Ellisburg.
The conservatism, integrity and strength
that characterize the manag ement of The
Burlington County Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, Moorestown, N j., are
matters of common knowledge. They
paw three per cent. interest on deposits.
Four boys, ranging in age from 16 to IS
years, escaped from the Jamesburg Re-
form School on Wednesday, and were
picked up by the Trenton police. Among
the lot was James Maroney. of Moores-
town. They gave the police long run
before they were captured.
Sunday, March 9Th, will be q notable
day at the Presbyterian church, Bustleton.
In the afternoon the presentation and
dedication of beautiful library of 100
books and handsome quartered oak case
will take place. In the evening baptism,
reception of members and communion.
William Dick and John Clark have been
tried and convicted in the Mercer county
courts of highway robbery. The prison
ers were identified in the jail at Freehold
by Detective Ellis H. Parker, of Mount
Holly, to whom Judge Rellstab has writ
ten for their records before passing SEN
tence.
Charles Cole, the dog catcher, had an
other unpleasant experience at the "brick
row." on Water street, on Tuesday after
noon, but this time he was not threatened
with a butcher knife. In self-defence.
however. he swung his club meanacingly,
as crowd of about forty men, women
and children tried to get dog away from
him.
For quite awhile, on Tuesday night lates
two men disturbed the neighborhood at
the corner OF Garden street and Mount
Holly avenue by their boisterous conduct
and profane language. Hearing Of the
matter from a young man who had been
calling in that vicinity. the police fastened
there and arrested Joseph Wilson. The
other man had left and his name was not
learned.
Bert Shinn has illustrated that there is
no place like home. When charged with
stealing chickens he hastily left Mount
Holly, but he returned on Wednesday
afternoon and surrendered to the author
tiles. His father furnished bail in the
sum of $500. Additional charges have
been preferred against Shinn, Joseph
McCue and Edward Rittenhouse. The
last named is yet to be heard from.
Theophilus Truitt, colored, living at
Bunker Hill, sought advice from Justice
Laumaster, on Friday. While driving
near Rancocas TRUTHS dog was shot on the
farm of Frank Dennis. but not killed, al
though the wound may prove fatal. The
provocation for the act is not known, ard
Truitt is unable to tell who did the shoot
ing As the dog was a trespasser, and
may have been running chickens or sheep,
he was advised that nothing could be