The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-04-10
LOCAL NEWS.

Town roller mills.
Miss Sarah Page, of Garden street, hs
been very i'll during the past week.
Spalding's base ball and athletic goods
L. b. Boyce, stationer. % Garden street. =
Elmer c. Stevenson has bought tn
farm of George NJ Kimble at Jackson
Vile
The social given In the NJ E. Church
on Friday evening, by the Epworth Leagu
was largely attended.
Miss Byrde Norcross, teacher of plan
and organ. Apply for terms at Sheriff
residence. Mount Holly, N. j.
The friends of Samuel P. Richmond
can now find him at Guys Hotel, Phil
phia, where he is employed.
Mary Jane Trout died in Mount Holl,
on Sunday from apoplexy. after shor
Illness. She was 80 years of age.
A frame house on West Washington
street, owned by Samuel K. Dobbins, Jr.
has been sold to j. Edward Dobbins fo
5000.
Benjamin Lamb, Of Union street, who
was recently stricken with paralysis, IL
now able to take short walks on pleasant
days.
Alfred Miller, of Indian Mills, has lost
the end of one of his little fingers. which
he had cut off while operating Q potato
planter.
An Easter festival will be held In Me-
chanics' hall, at Tabernacle, on Saturday
evening next. for the benefit of the GENE
terry fund.
J. Frank Antrim has for sale, on the
Jamison farm, fine quality Of gravel.
gritty aud pebbly; excellent for surfacing
stone roads.
Walter S. Sapp is now employed by the
Victor Talking Machine Company, of
Camden, to which place he has removed
his family.
1t is now proposed to organize brass
band among the members of the Union
Fire Company. The initial steps were
taken last Friday night.
John Britton, of Burlington, win spend
thirty days in the county jail. While in
an alteration, on Friday, he threatened
Henry Cornell with revolver.
Caroline, widow of George E. Dudley.
died at the residence of her son, Joseph
@. Dudley, on Buttonwood street, on Sun
day, from pneumonia She was "a years
of age.
With the price of ice, coal, water and
house rents soaring skyward in Mount
Holly, the outlook is not very cheerful to
those railroad men who have been placed
on half time
Charles Estel, of YOUNGSTOWN, buried
his daughter. Helen NJ, aged one year, at
Cream Ridge, on Friday. About two
months ago Mr. Estel's wife dropped dead
while attending church at the latter place
In the Methodist church on Sunday
morning one person was baptized, four
were taken into full membership with the
church, and two received ON probation.
At the evening service three other proba-
TONERS were received.
The Jurors drawn for the December
term of court had plenty of work to do.
They disposed of several important ac
lions, in addition to two murder cases.
The panel has been discharged for the
term, which was the busiest for several
years
At meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Burlington County, held at
Riverside, on Wednesday, Mrs. Thacher,
of Florence, delivered an interesting ad-
dress, giving her experience while cross
ing the continent to California.
Boys interested in base ball are hustling
in the endeavor to sell tickets for the Re-
lief Fire Company's Fair, which win be-
gin next Saturday night. as the club SELL
ing the greatest number of tickets is to
be equipped with new uniforms, except
ing shoes There is also some sharp com
petition for the freman's badge.
A bank book belonging to the b. B.
Smith Machine Company, which contain
ed check for 5000, was picked up, last
week, by Restore Colby, who is employed
at Jones drug store. He handed it
to the treasurer of the company while the
latter was searching for it. Anxiety was
quickly relieved by prompt action on the
part of the young man.
Freeholder Clayton H. Brick, of MARI
ton, is getting things in shape at Lake
Kenilworth for the coming season. A
building to be used as a dining room and
kitchen is about to be erected. This is
one of the most desirable places for rest,
recreation and enjoyment to be found in
the county. A big season is looked for at
Lake Kenilworth, which affords good pike
and trout fishing.
This week being Holy Week services
will be held in the Methodist church every
evening, except Saturday, at 7.45 P. M.
The purpose of these meetings is to bring
all who will join in them to careful and
helpful consideration of the lessons they
bring. On Easter Day Rev. George M.
Hughes will preach in the morning on
1.-The Resurrection" and in the evening he
will deliver the third of his series of SER
mons to young men: 1.-THE Young Man in
Conflict" An elaborate musical progam
will be rendered at this service.
A family memorial service, as tribute
to the memory of the late Robert Owens,
father of the Rev. Marshall Owens, pastor
of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church, Camden, whose death occurred
in England last Tuesday, was held in the
parlor of the parsonage on Friday, at the
same hour the funeral was going on in
England. The service was held in the
presence of the family of the Rev. Mr..
Owens and few intimate friends. The
Rev. James Moore, Presiding Elder of the
Camden District, presided, and the Rev.
John D. Heisler and the Rev. II. T.
Gravatt assisted at the exercises.
A suit for divorce has been instituted
in the Court of Chancery by Attorney
William C. French, of Camden, for j
F. Carroll Swisher, of Philadelphia, against
his wife, Ellen A. Swisher. of Ellisdale
The suit is brought on statutory grounds
the wife being charged with misdemeanor
According to the papers in the case, the
couple were married on October II, 1888
at Ellisdale, and lived together until Feb
ruary II, 1900. At times they resided a
1926 Arch street, Thirty third and Spring
l.