Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-11-30


dollar notes. They are numbered B,
| 10,555,174, and bear the portrait Of
General Hancock
Our merchants are already laying in
goods for the holidays, and it will not
be necessary for anybody to go out of
town for holiday presents.
E. A. Hurry, our popular grocer, has
not had time this week to write up a
new understandable has been too
busy with the new arrival.
A. G. McElroy, paying teller of the
Fidelity Trust Company, of Philadel-
phia, was off duty a few days last week
ON account of a severe cold.
Sixty thousand peach trees, 5 to 6
feet high, $500 per hundred, s35 per
thousand. For sale by N. P. Greedy,
Box 1853, Burlington, N. j.
Scarcely has the smoke of the last
political battle cleared away than the
local politicians have begun laying
pipes for the next campaign.
According to the old legend "the
first three days of December rules the
Winter" Make note Of this and
see if there is any thing in it.
VIM. Hill, who moved to Cape
Charles City, Va, several years ago,
has returned to this city and taken up
his residence on Cooper street.
Messrs j. w. Hamer and Alban
Spooner, on Saturday, shipped from
Virginia, a lot of game which they had
captured on their cunning trip.
The Public and Farnum Schools clos
ed on Wednesday and will be re-opened
on Monday, to allow the scholars to
enjoy the Thanksgiving holidays.
Two box cars jumped the track at
the Mount Holly crossing, on Monday
morning and delayed the $50 train,
east-bound, for thirty-fve minutes.
OF all the horrible thoroughfares on
this foolstool, possibly Cooper street is
the worst. Soundings in the mud fail
to show that there is any bottom.
Charles Stokes moved on Wednes-
day from DIR. Rodman's house, on
Warren street to Mr.. Hesser's house,
on the new annex, South Beverly.
That newspapers do wrong occasion
ally is an indisputable fact, but the
amount of good accomplished by them
will outweigh the harm many times.
The BANNER will be furnished gratis
for the balance of this year to all new
subscribers who will pay their subscip-
tions in advance, for the coming year.
Prof Carl Reese, has been secured
as instructor of the Beverly Musical
Association. The members contem-
plate giving an entertainment shortly.
The leading insurance companies
would rather insure property using
the Edison system of incandescent lights
than if they used the best headlight oil.
The New Jersey political gossip in
the Philadelphia Times mentions Edi-
tor Logan's name in connection with
the Assistant Secretaryship of the Sen
ate
Beginning Sunday December LIST,
the Philadelphia Inquirer will issue a
Sunday edition. The paper will con-
sist of twelve pages and sell at 3 cents
per copy.
The yacht Codurus, owned by G.
Ross Grub, of Burlington, passed up
the river on Monday, from Salem, in
command of William F. Britton, for
merly of this city.
Every man in town, this week, who
was too busy to drag in bod of coal
or split an armful of wood, at home,
could be seen watching the men dig
ging in the water pipe trenches on the
Coopertown Road.
The Church and Broad Street i'm
provements are much appreciated by
the residents on those streets, and the
work is a credit to the contractor, A.
T. Perkins, of this city.
The mystery regarding the disap-
pearance of John Shaffer, of Bristol,
has been cleared up, as his body was
found floating in the Delaware at
Burlington on Saturday.
Mark r. Sooy, administrator Of
Eliza Perkins, deceased, will sell her
household goods, etc, on Thursday,
December 9th, at her late residence,
Cooper and Putnam streets.
Chas. Cramer, tinsmith, is putting
on new tin roof on Edwin Kiple's
house, on Laurel street above Warren.
|. I. Craythorn is doing the same to
Mr.. Ncafe's house adjoining.
If there is anything more needed in
this town than another, it is a public
hall where entertainments and public
meetings can be held. There isn't
place in town fit for such purposes.
A special meeting of Beverly Fire
Co. No. l, will be held on Thursday
evening, December 9th, to elect the
officers to the Relief Association and
any other business which may come up.
The steamboat Norwood, running
from Trenton to Philadelphia, now
makes daily trips between those points.
She ran aground last week near Tren-
ton, and had to be hauled off by tug
boat.
One of the most aggravating sights
that our local sportsmen have witnessed
of late, was flock of some sixty wild
geese that passed over our town ON
Friday afternoon, going towards the
Southwest.
Those little shoulder capes, so popu-
lar among the ladies, remind one of
six foot high man trying to keep warm