The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-04-20

ice is composed of Isaac L. Shinn 6 Son
Joseph P. Lennon has sold five lots I
land, near Browns Mills, to Blanchal
q. White.
! ]. Evans Haines, who has been liYin
on White street. has removed his famil
to Camden.
Improvements are being made to tn
property on Garden street owned by l
W. Prickitt.
To encourage early buying you get
watch, guaranteed for year, with
. reasonable purchase at Bayersdorfer's.
In the Mount Holly cemetery hand
some monument has been erected at tn
grave of the late Col. Charles NJ. Sloan.
Joseph Gill, of Moorestown, has bee
!. operated on at the Pennsylvania Hosp
tai, Philadelphia, for an abscess on one
his intestines.
j Refreshed vegetation Is showing beIe
fetal effects of the rain which fell las
week, which frightened lawns and set
tied annoying dust.
| An all-day meeting was held in the NJ
E. Church at Bridgeboro on Sunday. Tn
Berge sisters, of Camden, singing evan
gelists, took part in each service.
1t is said that burglars made an unsuc
cessful attempt to enter the residence O.
Frank P. Cook, at Smithvilie, on Wed
nesdaY night. They made noise while
operating and were driven off.
The monthly business meeting of the
Epworth League will be held on Friday
evening, in the M. E. church. After the
business there will be fine musical an6
literary programme rendered. All are
| invited.
The Y. W. G. T. U. will hold a social
meeting at the home of Edna Everline, or
Green street, next Tuesday evening,
April g. If stormy that evening the
meeting will be held on Thursday even.
ing, April 30.
Herman Eichner, of Palmyra, and Miss
Margaret Keebler. of Riverside, were
married at st. Peters rectory, by Rev. T.
]. Goth, on Wednesday afternoon at 8
O'Clock. After the reception the happy
couple left for Niagara Falls.
Harley Marlsberry was committed to
jail on charge of bigamY preferred by
his wife, Mrs Ellen Marlesberry, living
at Moorestown. She alleges that after
his marriage two years ago he went to
Imlaystown and married Martha Rogers.
A Burlington township farmer put out
$3.50 worth of pea seed, which operation
cost him that much money. The crop
had started nicely, but the recent wind
storm ruined 1t totally. Here was cash
loss of $500, to say nothing of the profit
on the crop.
There has been exhibited In the jewelrY
window at the store of ]. Harry Halt
silk banner and the medals which are to
be awarded by the County Y. M. 9. A. to
winners in the various contests at the an
nual field meet to be held in Mount Holly
on May 20.
Richard F. Ford, of Bordentown, who
has a wife and children, was committed
to the county jail. on Tuesday. to answer
charge of assault on his wife, breaking
dishes and driving his family from
home The complaint was sworn to by
Ford's son.
A large number of people went to the
Presbyterian Church, on Thursday even
ing, to listen to lecture on Palestine, p"
by Rev. W. P. Finney, of Moorestown.
As part of the stereopticon apparatus did
not arrive, the lecture was postponed I'M
til the following evening.
Governor Fort, on Wednesday, appoint
ed DR.. Richard G. Darlington, of Mount
Holly, member of the State Board OF
Medical Examiners. A. Engle Haines, OF
Lumberton, succeeds John E. Darnell as
a member of the Board of Visitors to the
State Agricultural College.
The following letters remain unclaimed
in the post Office for the week ending
April II: VIM. Camborn, Mrs. W. e. Dit
wiler. Mr.. Eckert, l. E. Farrell, Mrs.
Edith jackson, Miss Katherine Scott.
Postals for Master Willie Denny, Miss
Mary Howard, Mrs. Killian, Elmer B.
johnson.
The citizens of Delran township will
meet at Bridgeboro, on Friday next, when
a report will be submitted by an expert
giving the probable cost of installing IL
Illuminating gas and electric light In that
territory. If the effort warrants the ven
ture subsequent meeting will be called
with the object of organizing stock
company.
Alfred Taylor, proprietor of store at
Stanwick, and who also keeps a pool
room, was held under $500 bail for court
on Thursday by Squire Aaron E. Burr,
on the charge of keeping and operating
gambling den at his place of business. A
dozen witnesses testified that they had
gambled there, and also bought and drank
whisky on the premises.
Teitleman's grocery store, at Burling-
ton, on Tuesday evening, was damaged
by fire to the extent of $500. The trouble
was caused by some one throwing match
in the oil tank While engaged in fight
ing the fire Charles Fairbanks, Of the En-
deavor Company. received bad lacera-
ton of the wrist, which penetrated to
the bone, severing an artery.
The ACCESSIBILITY of dividing about g.
600 acres of pine and swamp land in
Woodland township, belonging to the es-
tate of Sarah N. Black, deceased, is a
matter upon which report will be sub
mitted by Judge John G. Horner and JOS
eph Huff, of Mount Holly, and Walter
E. Borden, of Jacobstown, Vice Chancel-
lor Pitney having appointed them as
commissioners for that purpose.
Three hundred invitations have been
issued for an anniversary and reception
to be given In the town hall, at Delanco,
this evening, by the Patriotic Order Sons
of America of that place. The speaker
of theeyening will be ]. Virgins Thorn,
state secretary of the grand lodge. In
addition to music and refreshments. a
special feature of the evening will be the
awarding of gold badges to eight past
presidents.