The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-02-06


maids conventions" held in the gymns
SUM Of the St. Andrews Church.
a Bert Sutherland has received larg
order for telephone poles from the Allan
tic Coast Telephone Company, of Atlanti
City.
The property of Mrs Emma A. Bowe
on West Washington street, has bee
sold to p j. Jordan, of Camden. 70
$500.
Horace Cronk and James L. Anderson
sailed on Friday for the island Of ia
maica, where they will spend three 0
four weeks.
Miss Marion Hilliard, of Vincentown
a recent graduate of the State Norma
school, has decided to take post grad
uate course.
The Mount Holly Banjo, Mandolin ant
Guitar Club will give its annual concer
in the Opera House, on Tuesday evening
February 27th.
The store on Garden street, formerly oc
cupied by J. s. McIlvain, has been rented
by Mr.. Wilkinson, who will conduct 6
grocery store there.
| The Webster Foundry Sand Company,
of Centreton, has announced that the
wages of its employees will be increased
10 per cent. on March 1.
Walter E. Dobbins of Burlington, has
opened a law Office In Mount Holly, hav-
ing rented the room on Main street for
merly occupied by James Lippincott.
Joel Wainwright, and ex-Assemblyman
Wildes, of New Hanover township, and
Assemblyman Wright of Mansfield town
ship, were among the callers at THE News
office on Friday
The tire few off a driving wheel of a
freight engine on the West Jersey & Sea-
shore Railroad, near Wenonah, on Thurs
day night, and wrecking crew had to be
sent to the rescue.
The shoe factories of F. B. Lambert &
Co. and Leech Brothers, at Riverside,
which have been closed owing to financial
difficulties, are expected to be in full
operation again this week.
The committee of Beverly township
will on Saturday of next week, hear the
application OF the Trenton & Camden
Traction Company for permission to build
its line through the township.
In most every town in the county a re-
vival meeting is in progress, and the list
of conversions is long one. Last week
Rev. Marshall Owens gave the gam bling
places about town some pretty sharp
raps.
The people living at Kinkora and Three
Tuns are quite anxious for continuation
of the cold weather, SO that the Knicker
booker Ice Company might fill their large
ice house, which would scatter several
hundred dollars among the laborers in
that neighborhood.
The postal authorities at Washington
stamps in books. 1t is intended to have a
book that will fit in vest pocket and
contain 10 stamps. To prevent sticking
oiled paper will be used. The book is to
be sold for 25 cents.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of DIR. Street & Son, of Camden, who are
well known dentists with large practice
among the people of Burlington county.
The methods employed by this firm re-
lieve all fear of the dental chair, as their
work is dom. without pain. :
In some places on Friday morning the
mercury was down to four degrees, which
was thought to be the coolest spell of the
season. 1t was cold enough at least to
afford healthy exercise to those young
men who come to town every morning on
their bicycles to attend school.
At Imlaystown, on Wednesday, occur
red the marriage of Miss Nola DAVIS,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac DAVIS,
and John Hendrickson. The ceremony
was performed at the residence of the
bride by Rev. George Swain, D. D., a
Presbyterian minister of Allentown.
While Mrs. Alfred Eddy, of Grant
street, was engaged in taking some arti-
cles down cellar on Monday evening, a
lamp that she was carrying overturned
and set fire to her dress. She was alone
at the time and before the flames were ex-
tinguished, her hands, neck and breast
were badly burned.
The Standard Hicks Hammock Com
pany has received another large order fol
S12, 600 worth of goods. They now have
orders in that will require nearly six
months work to fill. Mount Holly needs
few more just such enterprising man
ufacturing industries and the town would
soon thrive.
Francis B. Lee, of Trenton, the lawyer
and writer, will deliver o lecture to thu
teachers of the Burlington County Teach
ers' Association, at the high school il
Moorestown, next Saturday. His topi'
will be Burlington County in History.
Mr.. Lee is well up in New Jersey history
and his address is sure to be an instruct
| i've one.
A few days since, Drs. VanDervee
and Branin, of Mount Holly, and Dr.
Keelor. of Hahnemann hospital, Philadel
phia, performed an operation on Abraham
". Stokes, of near Jacksonville, who re
Gently had his ankle broken. The opera
ton was very successful, there being
large number of small pieces of bone re
moved from around the ankle. Mr.. Stoke
is improving.
A story is being told of an attorney nc
over a hundred miles from the count
seat, which, If true, shows that the fello'
is quite keen. A client of his got th
idea that it would be good thing to pul
chase Judgment held against man
whose affairs he was already interested
So his attorney was directed to buy th
Judgment for 800. This was done, br
when the client came to get his propert
he found that the market was much liv'
lier. and he had to cough up an exit
, 800 or 5000 before he could get the judl
ment.
Rebecca Smith, convicted last week
adultery, was In the Jail In a very p
, o,,l;ar condition. The woman was trie