The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-20
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

his meat market on Mill street.
The property of Charles M. Suffer, Q
Pine street, has been purchased by Georp
Stead for $1,000.
Because of i'll health Miss Bessie Maso
has resigned her position as teacher at tn
Moorestown public school.
One of the articles lost in Mount Holly
last week, was railroad check for $500
belonging to H. M. Quigley.
Miss Byrde Norcross, teacher of plan
and organ. Apply for terms at Sheriff
residence, Mount Holly, N. j.
William Ireland. of Burr's Mills, is sui
fering from blood poison, the result OF
falling log crushing his thumb.
Unclaimed letters remain in the pos
office for Samuel Burkart, Mrs. Florenc
Brown. Arthur O'Neill, Eckford Watson
Charles B. Hornor & Son, nurserymel
at Mount Holly, offer for sale an extr
flne lot of Barred Plymouth Rock cocker
els. prize strain.
One of the improvements which Is need
ed, and which would be highly appre
ciated, is a better system of light in thu
court house.
The formation of Law and Orde
League at Moorestown is being contem
plated. To that end public meeting
will soon be called.
One of the buildings on the fair groundl
has been affording shelter for number
Of crap shooters, but they are now look
ing for other quarters.
The farm of III acres on the South
Pemberton road. belonging to Charles
Butterworth, has been sold to Mrs. 0. l.
Jeffrey, of Mount Holly.
Wilbert Engle. of Chairville. while en-
gagged hauling ice. on Tuesday, was kick
ed in the chest by fractions mule, sus-
tanning fracture of his breast bone.
A tract of about eight acres of land on
the Jacksonville road, opposite Willitt
Shinn's property, has been sold by Sam
uel II. Chambers to William Sherman.
Capt A. F. Prescott, of the Fifth In
fantry, U. s. A.. was in charge of the In
spection of the members of Company E,
which took place at the armory on Wed
nesday night
John s. Gilbert is now residing on
Broad street. The brick dwelling which
he vacated on Union street, is now occu
pied by its new owner, Franklin Zelley,
of Springfield township.
Sons and grandsons of veterans Of the
civil war have formed an organization for
the care of Joseph r. Ridgway Post, G..
A. R., of Beverly, which is rapidly de-
cressing in membership.
Isaac Wilson, of Bloomfield, Ontario.
Canada, will be present at the quarterly
meeting to be held in the Friends meet
ing house, Mount Holly. on Tuesday.
February 81, at 1890 A. M.
Glen. Hinchman, well known Penn.
sylvania Railroad conductor, was taken
quite i'll, on Tuesday, when his train
reached Long Branch. 1t is believed that
his illness is due to blood clot on the
brain.
One day last week Tylee White walked
from Hartman's hotel. Pemberton, to Da-
Wis hotel, Mount Holly. distance OF six
miles, which he covered in SO minutes on
a wager of $15 1t was alleged that he
could not perform the task inside OF an
hour.
On Tuesday, the Mercer county Board
of Freeholders granted permission to the
Trenton Street Railroad Co. to extend
Its line from Yardville to Crosswicks.
The freeholders have no jurisdiction be-
yond Crosswicks, as the improved road
terminates there.
William Fitzpatrick, of Mount Holly.
who is at the Veterinary College at Grand
Rapids. Michigan, in the last monthly ex-
animation, was high man in his class on
Disease and Treatment" getting mark
of 90. In the class on Anatomy" Mr..
Fitzpatrick stood number with mark
of 95.
It will be necessary hereafter. In the
building of porches. not to encroach upon
the street line, as the township committee
has passed an ordinance regulating that
matter. An ordinance has also been pass
ed prohibiting the promiscuous throwing
of circulars and other advertising matter
about the streets.
DR.. George o. Forsyth, of Pemberton,
and DR.. John Feaster, of Jacobstown.
veterinary surgeons, who each had . fin
ger of hand bitten by a mad horse at
Jacobstown on Saturday, January 81, and
who have been at the Pasteur institute.
New York, for eighteen days treatment,
returned to their homes Wednesday.
At the steam mill of ]. W. Colkitt &
Co. you will find full line of all kinds OF
feed carried by f1rst-class mills. For grist
work none better and few as good. Wet
brewers grain. 1873 cents per bushel; corn,
90 cents per bushel; cracked corn and feed
meal, $1.10 per hundred. Car to arrive
Ceroline, $120 per hundred. All feeds al
owest cash prices.
The annual meeting of the American
Cranberry Growers Association was hello
in Philadelphia last week. when the ole
officers were re elected. as follows: Presi
dent. E. Il. Durell, Woodbury.; first vic
president, Benajah P. Wills, Mount Holly
second vice. president, James D. Holman
Whitesville; secretary and treasurer, A
]. Rider, Hammonton.
At the court house, on Tuesday even
ing. Village Improvement Society wa
organized and the following officers elect
ed: President, Joseph R. Gillian; vic
president, Richard P. Holeman; secretar
and treasurer, Miss Mary W. Budd; ez
ecutive committee, Joseph Cross, Frede
rick Fl. Lee, Henry J. Sherman. j. Sexto
Folwell, s. Budd Norcross. F. B. Shreve
DR.. Francis Newton Thorpe.
One of the men engaged in rebuildin
the barns on the Alfred Bovine farm, re
Gently destroyed by fire, is Estilow 81
mons, of Mount Holly. who assisted /
their erection fifty years ago. When th
barns were burned 1t was thought to hav
been the work of an lncendiary, and thi
conclusion was correct The disaster WIS
caused by boy about II years of ag'
who lived on the farm, and who was tai
en- from home in Philadelphia. He ws
sent to the tenant house at the end of tt
lane after some change, and before r.
turning he entered the grain barn and 81