The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-12-25
LOCAL NEWS.

The days are now beginning to lengthen
Only six days more remain of the pres.
emit century.
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The News wishes all its readers a
Merry Christmas.
Fred Shreve was out early with his
sleigh on Friday afternoon.
Joseph L. Reeves has felon on his left
hand that is causing him much suffering.
The open season for all game, except
webfooted fowls, closes with December
81.
The Mount Holly Banjo Club will give
an entertainment in Moorestown on jan
uary II.
The post office will close to-day at 10
O'Clock and remain closed for the balance
of the day.
The Mount Holly Banjo Club proposes
putting billiard and pool table in their
room in the Lewis building.
The young people of Pointville gave a
dance on Saturday evening, in which
large number participated.
Winter, astronomically, begins on De-
cember 81 and lasts eighty days. 1t
started in on Friday with snow storm.
The members of Company E went to
Camden on Wednesday evening for bat
TALON drill, after which they participated
In dance.
U. s. Culinary, who is connected with
the hammock factory in Mount Holly,
buried his father at Wilmington, Del,
last week.
On account of the lecture in the Meth
odist Church. on Friday evening, the
Epworth League postponed its election of
officers until next Friday night.
The locomotive on the sos train from
Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon, broke
down at Pavonia, and the passengers
Were transferred on the COS train.
The pleasant weather during the past
week has been of great advantage to the
merchants, many of whom have broken
all record in the matter of holiday trade.
Judge c. E. Hendrickson, of Mount
Holly, is prominently mentioned as one
of the candidates for the Supreme Court
bench, to succeed the late Judge Ludlow.
There was good attendance in the
Methodist Church, on Friday evening, to
1s.4o~ - +I,o 1ao+,,ro 1o1iuarod hu Dr
Adams, of Brooklyn. on Bishop Simp-
SON."
Very interesting exercises were held
last evening by the Sunday schools Of the
Baptist Methodist and st. Andrews
Churches. In each instance the program
was well rendered.
A number of ice houses about the coun-
ty were filled last week with good quail
ty of ice. Farmers wanted to run no risk
in the matter, and they took advantage of
the first opportunity.
A large number of people from Mount
Holly will spend New Years eve in Phil
adelphia to see the illumination of the
public buildings They will also witness
the parade on the next day.
Miss Annie Cody, who has lived in the
family of William G.. Lippincott for the
past twelve years, fell on the pavement
on Union street on Friday evening and
broke a leg.
Farmers are now pleased over the fact
that they can take their loose hay and
straw across the Delaware river, as the
Gloucester Ferry Company will run boats
for that purpose on Tuesday and Friday
of each week
At meeting of the Ushers' Union of
the M E. Church on Thursday evening,
the following officers were elected |: Presi-
dent, L. s. Boyce; Vice President, Rich
ard Dickerson Treasurer, Dallas Pierce;
Secretary, Harry Bullock.
On Thursday evening next some mort
cages are to be burned in the Methodist
Church at Rancocas, and the occasion
will be celebrated with appropriate exer-
cises. The Sunday school will hold its
annual festival this evening.
Abraham Eye, farmer near Jobstown,
who lost two cows from hydrophobia, has
been unable to detect the disease in his re-
manning herd of CATTLE which has been
quarantined. The dog that caused the
trouble has not been located.
Among the Christmas presents received
In Mount Holly last week was complete
toy set of firemen's paraphernalia, which
was sent to Col. Charles M. Sloan, Presi-
dent of the Relief Fire Engine Company,
by some of his admirers in Philadelphia.
A machine for giving out change is on
trial at the Farmers National Bank. By
simply pressing key the desired amount
of change will tall into the hand from
slot. The machine will not work unless
there is coin enough in it to give the exact
sum needed.
A warning has been sent out to various
New Jersey towns to look out for a'Rev. J"
George A. Rose, editor and proprietor of
the Christian Herald, of Poughkeepsie,
NY The paper has been dead for sew
eral months but REV" Rose is still So
hciting subscriptions.
On Sunday the churches in which di-
vine service was held, were dressed in
1akeir gay CARDS of green, of holly and
n intertwined. Good audiences were
9nt in all the churches to celebrate
Ne hymns of praise and prayer, the ami
versary of the Sayiour's birth.
Following is list of the unclaimed let
tiers remaining in the post office for the
week ending December 60 Lewis B.
Bates, Haven T. Chase, Mrs Anna r.
Gardner, Wilbert Matthias Edward Lucas
2, William Pew, Reeve Pearce, Miss
Agnes E. Pettengill, c. B. Smith, David
WindnagIe and Mrs. Mary J ohnson.
The Burlington Enterprise says; 81. H
Doyle, the popular Broad street tobacco
mist, says that Mckinley times have hi
him hard. Ever since election he has
been overwhelmed with orders, among
which was a recent one for a thousand
: pounds of cut plug for T. Harry Bowker
of Mount Holly. Let the good work &c
on"
Surrogate Kirkbride has issued letters
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