The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-15

shop Is to be opened on High street.
Interesting revival services are bein
held in the Methodist Church at Lumbe
ton.
John NJ. Huff is again employed at th
works Of the Taylor Manufacturing Com
pany.
Jerome B. Grigg and family expect t
leave for Joplin, Mo-. any time after th
25th inst.
A hay press is to be operated in Noun
Holly by William Sherman and Allen N
Fenimore
Henry NJ. Lincoln has purchased tn
property on Pearl street belonging to Mrs
Lucelia Haines.
The engagement of Edward Bonsel
and Miss Bertha Hoffman, of Palmyra
has been announced.
Bob Fitzsimmons, hog weighing so
pounds, will be ratified of at Brown
Mills on Wednesday, January 30.
J. Harley Shemeley, the haberdashe
now doing business at Pemberton, is verl
anxious to again open in Mount Holly.
The Farmers Social Club will meet a
the residence of Mrs. II. B. Lippincott, a
Lumberton, on Saturday evening, 1911
inst.
Miss Florence Sharp, daughter of Johr
Sharp, of Mount Holly. is suffering witt
broken wrist at her home in Atlantic
City.
Charles M. Suffer received large con
signment of fancy pigeons on Tuesday
and will hereafter devote much of his tins
to raising these birds.
Gilbert Baker, who was formerly In
business in Mount Holly, has resigned
his position as member of the Wild
wood borough council.
The successor of the late John G. Sims
as secretary of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, will probably be Lewis Neil
son, native of Florence.
Rev. Marshall Owens, pastor of the M
E. Church, and Rev. Charles 81. Pendle
ton of the Baptist Church, exchanged
pulpits on Sunday morning.
Lewis c. Lynch and George W. Both
ner are keeping bachelors hall in an
abandoned house on'the South Pembertor
road. They are enjoying themselves
hugely.
Children 8 underwear at greatly reduced
prices. Ladies' wooden stockings, good
quality, only % cents per pair. News
silk skirts. black and collors, 81. s. s.
Evan, 2S High street.
Two mischievous boys defaced the sigr
of Charles Dattilo, cobbler, corner Of
Water and King streets. When he ap
pealed to their parents they ordered it re
lettered at their expense.
Following is list of letters remaining
unclaimed in the post Office for the week
ending January 10: Silas Barber, Aaron
B. Ball, Mrs. Laura Bishop. George A.
Gravatt, John Hendrickson, B. Horner,
Mrs Owl.
At the annual meeting of the Nall &
Williams Tobacco Company, of Louis
vile, Kentucky, held on Tuesday, Frank
s. West, a former Mount Holly boy, was
elected secretary and treasurer OF the
company.
While working on the new building OF
the Taylor Manufacturing Company, on
Tuesday, A. j. Kerlin fell to the ground,
a distance of IS feet and struck on his
side. He was badly bruised and suffered
considerably from the shock.
1t is said that number of pike were
taken from the upper creek last week by
some boys who stunned the fish while
they were under the ice hunting for air
holes, The matter should be reported to
Constable Gaskill, the local Fish and
Game Warden.
At the annual meeting of the West Jer-
sey Surveyors Association, held in Cam
den on Tuesday, the following officers
were elected: President, Henry s. Haines,
of Burlington; secretary, Harry J. Sher-
man, of Mount Holly; treasurer, james
Lippincott, of Mount Holly.
An amendment has been introduced in
the Legislature to the state road act by
increasing the annual appropriation from
$3.50, 900 to $500, 900, the state to pay two
thirds of the cost of new roads instead OF
one-third as now, and the county to pay
one-third instead of two-thirds
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. johnson gave a
reception at their home on High street,
on Thursday evening, which was very
brilliant affair The extensive alterations
and improvements to their residence have
been completed, and it is now thought by
many to be the finest house in the county.
Bright Star Lodge, No. 10, Shepherds
of Bethlehem, gave chicken supper to
it's members last evening and very good
time was had by all present. Hereafter
these suppers will be of monthly occur
renee, the expense of the same to come
out of the sinking fund and not from the
lodge treasury.
Nelson P. Greedy, between Mount Hol-
ly and Burlington, is building an addition
to his fruit house, which will be 4Ox4O
feet, ten feet high, built of corrugated
iron. At the south end of the fruit house
he will have cold storage room that will
hold 800 barrels more. He has "a horse
power gas engine to run the plant.
If the people residing on Broad OF
Union streets want to have stone road
they must get together and circulate pc
tition for the same, or the matter may &C
by default The road to Jacksonville will
soon be constructed, and it would be &
grand thing to have it continued through
one of these streets to the centre of the
town. The same would also apply to ar
extension of the Smithville road on Mil
street.
Mrs. VIM. II. Stewart and Mrs. Geo. W
Durand will give progressive euchre a
the home of Mrs. Stewart, 224 RUTLAND
avenue, this evening. from s to 10 o'clock
Tickets 25 cents They can be had a
Curtis and Jones ::stores. The proceeds
are for the benefit of the Burlington
County Hospital. Tomorrow evening
the ladies of Mount Holly will give mu
steal tea in the Masonic Temple for thu