The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-12-21
sRERIFF's SALES.
LOCAL NEWS.

George D. Worrell completed a job O
steam fitting at Kirkwood last week.
THE News wishes all its many friends
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
The pupils from colleges and seminarie
vacation.
Officer Denness, having recovered from
his recent illness, is again doing duty OIL
the police force.
The thermometer dropped to 18o yester
day morning, the lowest point reached
thus far this winter.
Turkey thieves have been operatin,
quite extensively in various parts of tn
county for the past two weeks.
The sale of properties in Northampton
township for non-payment of taxes ha
been postponed until January 6.
Owing to the high water the works of th,
Fl. B. Smith Machine Company were com
PEELED to be closed on Wednesday.
The Unionville Sunday school will hol(
its anniversary exercises on Thursday
evening of next week, December 80.
The Lumberton Ministries will not give
their proposed performance in Noun
Holly until after the first of the year.
On Friday afternoon ]. Fred Laumas
ter attended the funeral of his brother-in
law, Adolph Rowland, in Philadelphia.
If you want desirable Christmas pres
emit for friend or member of the family
call at Doron's ewelry store. "a Main St.
Cards have been issued for the wed
ding of Lorenzo L. Sapp and Miss Nellie
81. Dill at the Baptist Church ON Dec. 20.
The Good Intent engine, which is beins
rebuilt at Seneca Falls, N. Y, will be fin
ished and returned the latter part of mex
month.
Edward Baugh, who has been seriously
i'll with typhoid fever, is somewhat better
now, and the indications are that he will
recover.
The new station that is soon to be
erected at Writings. to replace the one
recently burned, will contain dwelling
apartments.
Prof. Lawrence Elberson, of Button
wood street, has rented the former Wyllie
house on Union street, and will take pos
session February l.
The Burlington County Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, of Moorestown, has de-
clared its annual dividend of per cent
and carried S., 1000 to the surplus fund.
The midwinter convention of the Bur
lington County w. G. T. U. will be held
at Beverly on January 20, 1898. The
meeting will be addressed by Miss Kate
Lunden.
The pupils of the Hartford public school
will hold Christmas exercises in the
school on Thursday evening, and pho
nograph exhibition will be added the en-
tertainment.
William Bryan, drunken tramp from
Medford, who employed his time insult
ing ladies and trying to enter houses about
town on Saturday, was arrested and sent
to Jail for thirty days
More rain fell here on Tuesday than in
any one day during the past two years.
The low meadows were flooded, and the
creek was SO high at Burlington that the
water came up to the railroad bridge.
Bradford w. Storey sold five shares of
stock of the a. B. Smith Machine Com
pany at public sale at the Arcade hotel
on Saturday. They brought $3.50 per
share and were sold to Joseph Powell.
Rev. ]. HI. Durham preached an excel
lent sermon in the Presbyterian Church,
Sunday morning, on 1.-THE Glory of the
Incarnation" A delegation was present
from a Camden church to listen to Mr..
Durham.
Henry Outland, of North Carolina, and
John Fl. Dillingham;, of Philadelphia.
ministers of the Society of Friends, con
Quoted services in the meeting house at
the corner of Main and Garden streets on
Saturday evening
A sunrise prayer meeting will be held
by the Christian Endeavor Society of the
Presbyterian Church on Christmas morn
ing. An invitation has been extended to
the Epworth League and Baptist Young
Peoples Union to participate in the SER
vices.
You can call up s. F. Sapp on No. 20 OF
the local telephone. or you may visit his
market on Garden street and procure an
extra fine turkey. or anything IN the poul-
try line for your Christmas dinner. His
high grade of meats need no comment,
they do their own advertising.
slight fire occurred in Dolan's fruit
store on Saturday night shortly after six
O'Clock. The flame from large lamp be.
came so high that 1t set fire to the ioist to
which 1t was suspended. The lamp ex-
tinguished itself as it dropped to the floor,
letting quantity of oil run out.
The anniversary exercises of the Bap-
list Sunday school will be held on Thurs
day evening. The Methodist, st. An
drew's and Trinity entertainments will
take place on Friday evening. The ex-
ercises of the Presby terrain Sunday school
will be held on Tuesday evening" 2Sth
inst.
1t is said there is an effort being made
m havn kun hofalS OF Iohotoun ILL., d.:
road hotel was recently sold to Mrs. Jos.
eph R. Evans, and ]. Leander Murphy ID
said to be booked as the new tenant
Mrs. Elwood c. Evans wants to open an.
other house. She is said to have all the
signers for the other house aiding her.
An alarm of fire was sounded on Satur
day night, flames having been discovered
in the rear of the house occupied by Mrs
Elias Hargrove, corner of Church anC
White streets. In some unaccountablt
manner an overcoat hanging in the shet
got on fire and created quite blaze. Tn,
services of the fremen were not required
Miss Kate Rhees, who has been ava,
on visit for several weeks, has returned
home. During her absence her house OF
Garden street was entered several time
by thieves and number of small article
stolen. 1t was also discovered that tn
beds had been occupied. and that the mis-
creants had made pretty free use of tn
house in general.
There was an exciting runaway il
Mount Holly on SATURDAY.. A hors