The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-01-24

John O. Frederick and Robert G. Hut
Crimson, Of Bordentown. are on thu
United States grand jury for the January
term.
At its meeting on Tuesday night thu
township committee passed an ordinances
prohibiting the dumping Of ashes on i'm
proved streets
Cancer of the breast Is the affiictior
which has overtaken Miss Elsie Harris, o.
Roebling. The young lady formerly re
sided In Mount Holly.
Mckinley day will fall on Sunday, Jan
uary 20, at which time the wearing Of I
pink carnation will pay silent tribute t.
the martyred President.
Valentines and Valentine post cards
Our assortment is large, unique, refined
and beautiful, and will appeal to you
taste. L. 8. Boyce, stationer.
While at the home Of Richard E Nor
cross, on Ridgway street, last week, bill
mother fell and fractured wrist. 6h'
was alone when the accident happened.
A delegation from Mount Holly, or
Thursday night, went to Roebling anC
visited the Patriotic Order Sons of Amer
lea camp recently organized at that place
Weather predictions for the balance Of
winter may be prognosticated on Candle
mas day. February 2, which is the date
for the annual visit of the mythical ground
hog.
After years of study of weather condi
lions, George w. Scott, a weather prophet
living at Bordentown, declares that fol
every fog this month we win have white
frost in May.
Edward Clifford Ayrss, of Philadel
phia, and Miss Adele Kyle Stockham. Of
Moorestown, are to be married In the
Presbyterian Church at the latter place
tomorrow evening.
Bankruptcy proceedings by creditors
have been taken against Charles A. Sims
& Company, of Philadelphia, whose la
bilities are reported to be $3.50. 900 in ex-
cess Of the assets
| The younger element in particular will
| be interested In the announcement that on
Friday Township Clerk Harry Hawkins,
Jr., issued license for circus which
will make its appearance in Mount Holly
on Thursday, May4.
The Burlington County W. G. T. U.
Institute will be held in the Baptist
Church at Moorestown, on Thursday,
March %. At the evening session there
will be an address by Prof. Francis a..
Green, of West Chester, Pa.
The handsome pleasure yacht May, be-
longing to Alexander VsnRensselaer, OF
Philadelphia. of which Richard French.
formerly of Mount Holly, was recently
made captain, has been sold to member
of the New York Yacht Club.
Counterfeit fifty cent pieces are said to
be In circulation in certain parts OF the
state. They are of the issue of 1875. The
coins are an exact imitation of the origi-
nal. except a slight difference In the
weight, the counterfeit being little
lighter.
Bids were opened on Thursday by the
road committee of the Board of Free
holders and a contract awarded to How
ard Mathis to finish the gravel road run
ming from Gardeners corner to Atsion, his
price being SO. 4s5 So. There were five
bidders, the highest being $21, 800.
John F. Lowden died on Wednesday at
the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Carrie
Flanders, of Burlington, in which city he
was an active business man many years
ago. It was only recently that he lost
bis wife, which may have fastened his
end, as he had been i'll for some time. He
was quite we'll known in Mount Holly.
]. Arthur Lowden and Miss Alice Adell
Cheseman, both of Burlington, were mar
ried there In the Broad Street Methodist
Church parsonage, on Wednesday even
ing, by Rev. G. s. Lawrence. Friends
gave the happy pair royal send-off with
rice, confetti and old shoes when they
boarded train for Washington, D. G.
Following Is the list of unclaimed mall
remaining in the post Office for the week
ending January 81: Letters, Edw. Barnes,
Mrs. Mabel Bergman, Miss Ida Donnelly,
Foster Seed Co, Q, Miss Edna IA. Tyneson,
postals, Miss Annabelle Drake, Mrs NJ.
H, Hanes, Miss Bertha Lippincott, The
Misses Paulson, Elwood Sapp, William
Rogers.
The American house at New Egypt,
which for three years past has been run
by Robert A. Abbott, was sold Thursday
by Sheriff Cox to David W. Maloy, Of
Bordentown, for $50. 1928. This is a
much smaller sum than the house was
mortgaged for when Abbott bought it.
The foreclosure suit was brought by the
mortgage holder. Samuel H. Mount, who
conducted the hotel some years ago.
Arrested on capias by Deputy Sheriff
Fleetwood. on Wednesday, Charles Riker,
of Burlington, was placed In the county
jail. The proceedings were taken by
Amos e Dubell, of Columbus. who sold
$3.50 worth of horses to the defendant
taking in payment personal note which
was found to be without value because Of
Misrepresentation alleged to have been
made BY Riker as to his financial stand
ing.
A deed conveying a tract of land or
New Market street, Philadelphia, to John
Bartram, was exhibited at a meeting OF
the Burlington County Historical Society
held at Moorestown on Wednesday night
The document, which Is In good state Of
preservation and owned by Anna Mary
Kaighn, is printed on vellum and bears
date of January %. 176S. 1t also con
tains the royal seal used before the Rev
olution.
W. Scott Jackson, of Toms River, mus
give up fortune of 100000, according
to decision rendered on Wednesday BY
Vice Chancellor Walker. The estate wa
willed to jackson by his sister. Mrs
Louise A. Aumack, also of Toms River
and the court holds that the man undul,
Influenced her in making the will. Th'
property came to Mrs. Aumack through
her husband, who had advised her as t.
the manner In which he wished 1t dis
posed of upon her death. 1t was allege'
that Just lprior to Mrs. Aumack's deaf
jackson induced her to make will faveI
able to him, and then, according to tn