The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12

Elizabeth Ward, of Edgewater Park, hs
been announced.
A special pension officer has been dom
a little spooking around Burlington dul
| +. ing the past few days.
Z A petition has been sent to Congress
man Gardner proposing change in tn
present mail service for Tabernacle.
: Don't fail to see Fitz 6 Webster's 81
Breezy Time" Company at the Oper
House on Wednesday evening, Februar
: 10.
Mrs. Oliver L. Jeffrey has sold tw
small lots of land in the village of George
town to John P. Hutchinson of that plac
for $500.
Huron Wood, of Camden, and Mis-
Laura Hunter, of Florence, were marrie'
on Thursday at the brides residence b.
Rev. Mr.. Sherry.
,, A. s. Dulin, of Moorestown, and Ed
ward Schwabenland, of Riverside, are in
terested in an electric railroad to be bull
at Washington, D. G.
Rev. Albert L. Longley, who has beer
curate at st. Mary's Church, Burlington
has been called to Trinity Church, Asbury
Park, to be it's rector.
Announcement has been made of the en-
gagement of Miss Bessie Logan to JOSEPH
Morton, lawyer of Sheldon, Iowa. Miss
Logan formerly resided in Mount Holly
All the Indebtedness having been paid
on the Methodist Church at Georgetown,
the mortgage was burned on Sunday,
with exercises appropriate to the occasion
Several pieces of silverware have been
left from suppers held at the Masonic
Temple recently. The owners may have
the same by calling on Mr.. Mead, the jan
itor.
On Friday evening the Knights OF
Pythias gave the third degree to two es-
quires. After the degree team had put
on their new uniforms, flash light photo
graph was taken of them by Joseph A,
Ward.
Mrs Charles E. Travis fell on Tuesday
evening, on Mount Holly avenue, and
struck her head with considerable force
against door step. She was removed to
her home and the physician found it nee
essary to stitch the wound.
Gertrude, wife of Bert Dill. died at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Tice, on Cherry street, on Thursday. De-
ceased had been a sufferer from diabetes
for several months and on Tuesday was
taken much worse
Ella, daughter of James Pierce, residing
on Water street, died Wednesday after a
| lingering illness. Deceased was feeling un-
usually well in the morning but few
hours afterward complained of feeling bad
and expired shortly afterwards.
1t would be but fairness to those citi-
zens who do clean snow from their walks
| if the authorities would enforce the law
against delinquents. The man with help
has less excuse for neglect than the poor
man who has his daily task to perform.
The Eureka Beneficial Society, of Riv-
erside, elected these officers last week:
President, Adam Kreps, ST.; vice presi-
dent, Charles L. Kreps; secretary, John
F. Winkelspecht; financial secretary, Will
liam j. Collins; treasurer, A. G. Stecher.
Several property owners at Edgewater
Park have filed remonstrances against the
Camden 6 Trenton Traction Company
tunneling the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks at that place, and the hearing that
was to have been given the Traction Com
pany in Beverly township has been post
poned.
Delanco on Thursday. The thieves lock-
ed a door between the store and house at
Mr.. Willis place of business and ran
sacked the residence. They secured about
So in money. Before leaving they fasten-
ed the doors so that the locks had to be
broken by an officer to get in.
Charles M. Suffer, son of the late Dan
iel Suffer, and Miss Lille, daughter of DR..
r. E. Brown, were married on Tuesday
afternoon, at the newly furnished home of
the happy couple, on Pine street. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. G. II.
Pendleton, pastor of the Baptist Church,
and witnessed by the immediate relatives
of the contracting parties.
After school was dismissed at Palmyra
on Tuesday afternoon, two ladies on
horseback found great amusement in
driving the children going home indoors
and other places of security by making
believe to run over them. 1t may have
been fun for those on the horses but it was
terrifying to the children. If the offence
is repeated the women will be arrested
advice of his physician, announced on
Monday evening that at the session of the
New Jersey Conference, to be held next
month in Camden, he would ask for SUI
pernumerary relation for one year. This
announcement was great surprise to the
officials of the church and regret is ex-
pressed that his health will not permit of
continuation of the good work he has
been doing in Mount Holly. Mr. Owens
and family will visit his father at West
Bromwick, England, where he will spend
his vacation.
ga Breezy Time" will be at the Opera
House, Wednesday evening, February 49,
AS direct refutation of the statement that
farce comedies are dead, here comes ga
Breezy Time" 1t is an out and out farce
comedy, put together simply and solely
for the purpose of making as many laugh
as possible, and altogether out of the ques-
ton the rise and fall of the American
drama The piece has many more pretty
women than climaxes, more comic sur
prises than counter plots, and more catchy
music than ingeniously worked-up situa-
lions, but to use the American vernacular,
''it goes. 1t not only goes, but it goes
with a rush.
The Union Fire Company has elected
these new officers: President, William B.
Wills; Vice President, Frank B. Dennis;
Secretary, John E. Elbertson Assistant,
Job Collins Treasurer, Philip Karg; Jani-
tor, B. G. Mathews; Foreman, John
Forbes; Assistants, John Riley, Harry
Filler John Fl. Peak, G.. Norman Shemeley,
Edward T. Hancock, Joshua Danley, Ro-
bert Hawkins; Trustees, George II. Peak,
Harry S. Garon, Charles B. Elbertson,