Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-12-28

The school boys have been looking
anxiously for cold snap to freeze
Nelly's and Hunters ponds. They
would like to indulge in little skat-
ing before the holidays are over.
Our merchants report busy week.
Goods can now be bought from our
merchants as cheapas you can get them
in Philadelphia, and our advice has
always been to patronize our home
dealers.
Mrs. Parnell, the mother Of Charles
Stewart Parnell, is now comfortable at
'Ironsides," near Bordentown, N. j.
The recent agitation in her behalf has
resulted in the raising of about $4,000
for her.
The Street Committee are at work
on the bills for tagging and curbing
Oh Church and Broad streets and they
will be distributed in day or SO, when
Treasurer Soby will be ready to receive
the amounts.
Hope Hose Co. No. 2, will give
ball at the Beverly Rink on Monday
evening, January 9th. The fire laddies
have engaged good music for the dan
cling and expect to make this ball the
event of the season.
A good way to start off the New
Year is to send your home paper to
some absent friend or relative for one
year. Quite a number have already
tried the plan. 1t is not too late to
send in somebody's name.
Lodge and other organization secre-
taries will find these columns open to
them for the announcement of the re-
suit of their respective elections, so
please send in results as soon as prac-
ticable after such elections.
Farmers throughout the county are
demanding lower rents for next year.
They say the rents have been too high
for years, and it is utterly impossible
for renter to live and pay the rents.
Many are now complaining.
Several rather illegible letters were
mailed to Santa Claus. Chimneys
are the favorite post offices, although
some have been sent through the mails,
and the supplies came in good time
and gave general satisfaction.
James Mcconnell, of Burlington,
jumped from a moving train at our
station, on Saturday afternoon and
did some ground and lofty tumbling"
He took header on the ground and
had his nose and face badly skinned.
Miss Annie E., daughter of William
Sutton, died at the home of her father
on Monday afternoon, Of consumption.
The funeral took place on Thursday
afternoon and the remains were inter
red in Asbury M. E. Church ground,
near Bridgeboro',
Confectioner G. M. Higgins store,
ON Cooper street, has been trimmed
with evergreens. His place of business
was a great attraction the past week,
and he was kept busy at work in order
to meet the demand for confectionery
and Christmas goods.
A man whom it is stated was a
driver of one of the beer wagons from
Burlington, was arrested by Marshal
Fish, on Christmas, for selling beer on
the streets. He was taken before |
Mayor Roberts and held in his own
recognizance TO appear.
The members of Mystic Lodge, No.
"a, K. of p, of this city, will visit
Hope Lodge, of Burlington, on We'd
nesday afternoon, January LIST, 1890, |
at 4 o'clock, on which occasion there
will be thirty-one members who will |
receive their third degree.
Miss Mary Thorn, of this city, stepped |
from a train that had just started at
Beverly station, on Monday and was
thrown violently to the platform cut
ting her face above her left eye and
otherwise injuring herself, Dr. Roberts
was summoned and dressed the wound.
Those of our own citizens who are
inclined to growl over the condition Of
our streets should drive over the roads
Of other towns and townships. They
would probably discover there are
just as bad places as Beverly, and that
bad roads naturally follow bad weather.
Perhaps never before has the beauti-
full custom of exchanging gifts been
more carefully observed than this year.
In all of ones shopping tours the COM
ments of ones neighbors show that
they were all purchased for somebody
else whom they wish to please and sur
prise.
Some vandals went into the woods
of George w. Wolf, near Charleston,
a few days ago and completely stripped
the branches of two holly trees loaded
with berries, leaving only the trunks
remaining. The perpetrators if found
out will be made to suffer the penalty
of the law.
Harry D'Esta, who appeared here
last year, with the Pawnee Medicine
Co., has now a travelling troupe of his
own, and will give performance in
Odd Fellows Hall, this (Friday) eve
ming. See programmes which have been
distributed around town, for fuller
particulars.
In order to get the BANNER off so
that the force could enjoy Christmas,
and New Years, the paper is punched
together this week and large batch Of
correspondence left over till the New
Year, when we will start off with all
the adjacent villages represented by
regular correspondents.
The following officers were elected
on Thurday evening of last week at
the meeting Of the Beverly Firemen's
Relief Association, for 1SS9-90: j. l..
Simon, President G. c. Butler, vice
president; John T. Morrell, treasurer;