The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-12-12

= Counterfeit silver dollars are circulatin;
in Mount Holly.
Isaiah Dillon has decided to take up hi
residence in Philadelphia.
Moorestown is to have a free mail de
livery, beginning March l, 1900.
). Officer John L. Seyerns will act as thu
n day policeman for the next two weeks.
Philip Smith, of Buddtown, lost forty
r chickens by thieves few nights since.
n Some of our store fronts have already
: been decorated with Christmas greens.
v A new porch has been added to the res
idence of Horace Cronk on Cherry street
|. Frank T. Morton has freak at his store
in the shape of a cat with double claws OIL
: each fore foot
Joseph Day, sexton of the Mount Holly
= !; cemetery, has invented new device fol
catching moles.
q John Simons has bought the farm neal
Arney's mount, occupied by Joseph j.
Rambo, for $500.
John Quigley, who became seriously i'll
: last week with acute indigestion, has con-
siderably improved.
Deputy Sheriff Doughty has received
his commission as Notary Public from
Governor Voorhees,.
The engagement is announced of Mason
, Suits, of Long Island, and Miss Reba
Earlin, of Browns Mills.
A valuable colt on the farm of P Lo-
rillard, at Jobstown, dropped dead from
heart disease on Tuesday.
James Lowden has removed his family
from Mount Holly to Burlington, where
| he has charpn of q OrOparV ctOro
Miss May Zeitz has given up her posi-
Company to accept employment in Phil
adelphia.
George W. Risdon, who recently died
in Philadelphia, was former resident of
Mount Holly and the inventor of the
Rochester lamp.
Howard Cooper, of Mount Holly, who
is in the Philippine Islands with the U.
S. Army Signal Corps. is ill with fever
and has asked to lie sent home.
The entertainment given by the Baptist
Sunday School on Thanksgiving night
netted $40, which is to be used to treat
the scholars at Christmas time.
The Union Fire Company has elected
these delegates to the Firemen's Relief
Fund of Northampton: Charles Bennett,
George B. Dennis and John Riley.
George Hoile has sold his property on
the road from Masonville to Easton meet
| ing house, where he formerly lived, to
Louisa Biggerman, Of Philadelphia, for
81 900.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Joseph T. Archer and Miss
Mary NJ. Everline, on Tuesday next, at 6
t. M, at the home of the bride on Green
street.
The entertainment given in the Opera
House by Miss Beatrice Sooy, on Thurs
day evening, for the benefit of the Child
ren's Home, was exceptionally pleasing
to those in attendance.
The rafting of windows and doors ON
Thursday afternoon in this neighborhood.
led many to believe there had been an
earthquake. The occurrence was the re-
suit of an explosion at powder mill in
Pennsylvania
You will make a mistake if you do not
read the advertisements in this issue of
The NEWS. There are several new ones,
and the old reliable advertisers have much
to say that means the saving of dollars to
you. Be sure and patronize them.
John Corners, of Turkeytown, has been
John Clevenger, of Vincentown, of sew
eral dollars. The crime was committed
at Burlington, on Tuesday, where eleven
ger got drunk after disposing of a load of
charcoal
Michael Butler, of Mount Holly, has
again received the prize money of $35 for
keeping his five miles of railroad in the
best condition between here and Hartford
Michael is good section boss, and he re-
membered his men by dividing the money
between them.
The revival meetings in the church at
Cookstown will continue throughout the
present month. On Wednesday evening
Bishop Cyrus d. Foss delivered a very in
teresting lecture there. 1t was largely at
tended by people from the surrounding
country.
On Wednesday noon as Elmer E. Down
er was hitching up colt in the rear of
Brannin's tin shop, it became frightened
at some sparrows and ran out of the alley
The animal proceeded across Main street
and fell on the pavement in front of Mark
r. Sooy's law office, and fortunately es
capped injury The sulky was somewhat
broken.
Numerous complaints came to the po-
who employed young children to sell
merchandise for him, and who failed to
keep his promise to give them ring for
their trouble. Several children turned
oyer the money to him, and that was the
end of the matter so far as they were con
cerned.
Officer Collins had tussle with Mary
Ann Hicks on Wednesday afternoon.
IL l.
When the policeman arrived there Mary
Ann had full possession of the gentlemen's
waiting room. She upset the water cooler,
danced jig on the radiator and came
near knocking down one or two bystand
ers before she cooled off. The policeman
escorted his charge to Jail in a street car,
which they had all to themselves. JUS
tice Clevenger committed her for thirty
days.
No more selling on commission. Ihave
bought 500 pairs of shoes at a very low
figure. / have been in business for 81
years and never in that time have struck
bargain like this. They are mostly
ladies and misses wear and / can sell
them cheaper than any ever offered on a
bargain counter in Mount Holly. can
stand all the jewing you want to do on
these goods, but none on my regular work.
Custom work and repairing a speciality.
Leather and shoe findings for sale. John
Bill SO Church street. Mount Holly.
The game wardens in the lower part of
this county appear to be doing some bust.
ness Within the last two weeks they
have arrested five men for illegal shoot
ing of ducks. Some time ago, while on a
fishing trip down Barnegat bay, we al
luded to the manner in which the wardens
| in this neighborhood looked after illegal
fishing, and the man who was sailing our
boat said it would not be healthy for a
warden who would enforce the law strictly
down that way. The arrests above al
luded to were of residents of Atlantic
county. Perhaps the wardens look after
non presidents only.
Good Will Lodge, No. IA, Ancient Or
der of United Workmen, elected these
officers on Tuesday evening to serve for
the ensuing year: Master Workman, DR..
Richard Fl. Parsons; Foreman, Christian
j. Krayer; Overseer, Walter A. Barrows;
Guide, Isaac Uncles; Financier, George
W. Hand; Receiver, Samuel L. Tomlin
son; Recorder, Samuel S. Wyllie; Inside
Waterman, Samuel Emerson; Outside
| Waterman, William A. Norcross; repre-
sentative to Grand Lodge, Walter A. Bar
rows; alternate, Joseph G. Cowgirl; Med
ical examiners, Drs. r. H. Parsons Elmer
D. Prickitt and George W. Vanderveer.
Father Burke's lecture on ''Our Flag in
Peace and War;" at the Sacred Heart
Church on Tuesday evening, was attend
ed by fair sized audience. The lecture
was a magnificent one, full of patriotism,
and amply sustained the high reputation
of the reverend gentleman as logical
reasoner and eloquent orator. At the