The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-11-25

/. Harry II. Cross, of Atlantic City, ha
been spending few days in Mount Holll
with his parents.
The corner stone of the new Methods
Church at Delanco, will be laid at 230 P
M, on Thanksgiving day.
A number of Mount Holly ladies gave
a very pleasant dance in the Academy
building on Saturday evening
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Aleck Blum, of Mount
Holly, and Rosie Cline, of New York.
A chicken supper in aid of the Sacred
Heart church will be given in the Masonic
Temple. on Saturday evening, December
10
The Medford Epworth League held q
rally on Friday evening, at which an ad-
dress was delivered by Rev. N. ]. Wright,
of Mount Holly.
While working around gas engine, on
Wednesday morning, some exploding gas
flashed in the face of Robert f. Storey,
Robert d. Crammer and wife, of Cooks
town, have been separated by an absolute
divorce granted the husband. Blanchard
ID. White was the attorney.
Henry H. Wilkins, former resident of
Mount Laurel township, died at Ceilings
wood, on Friday, from Bright's disease.
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Miss Miriam Hendrickson has been en-
gagged in soliciting throughout the county
in the interest of the Children's Home. 1t
is said her mission has been quite success
full.
The union Thanksgiving service will be
held Thursday at 1870 A. Nj. IN the Bap-
tist Church. The sermon will be deliv-
cred by Rev. N. j. Wright. All are in
vited.
While husking corn on his farm on
Wood Lane, on Friday morning, John
Bozarth fell unconscious from II stroke of
apoplexy, which caused death the follow
Ing day.
The contract to paint the buildings on
the lair grounds has been awarded to the
Iomhnsun Brothers, who agree to do The
work for $637, the association 10 furnish
the materials.
1t is said that basket bali team is
about to De formed by company OF
young ladies residing at MedIord. here
is u chance Tor the athletic association to
secure some attractive talent.
Two OF the students al the engraving
schoul On Cherry street, have accepted
positions III the watch case factory AT
Riverside They are Miss Lillian Lew
alien, OF Mount Holly, and Miss Fannie
W hIte, OF Medtord
Efforts are being made to secure the re-
lease from state PRISON of Charles l.. War
ner, the defaultlng ex-treeholder of Lum
Derton township. 10 this end petition
Is being circulated, and numerous sigma
lures are being obtained.
Rev. John W. Lynch, of New Egypt,
has been very successful with his revival
meetings which have been conducted III
Golfers Mills. The whole district school,
consisting of twenty-five children, was
converted one afternoon.
Fields Juvenile Minstrels will be seen
at the Opera House, Thanksgiving even
ing. The performers are boys under ff-
teen years of age, who give perform
ance wholly creditable in every way. 1t
is distinct novelty and one worth seeing.
The Philadelphia Quartette, together
with George Venting, an accomplished
elecutionist and fine musical and lite
rary programme, are the features OF an
interesting entertainment to be given in
the Baptist Church on Thanksgiving
evening.
Over one hundred dollars was realized
for the Burlington County Hospital by
the chrysanthemum show and tea given at
Lumberton, on Wednesday, by Mr.. and
Mrs. Caleb s. Ridgway. 1t was highly
creditable affair. Nearly all the chrysan-
themums were sold and the proceeds given
to the hospital
The Burlington County Liquor Dealers
Association met in Palmyra, on Tuesday,
and elected the following officers: Presi
dent, George W. Mount, Burlington; Vice
President, Charles Hecker, Riverside;
Secretary, Fred. E. Pfeffer, Burlington;
Treasurer, Benjamin W. Zelley, Mount
Holly; Financial Secretary, Grant Davis,
Mount Holly.
On Wednesday Edwin McIlvain, who
had been feeling badly for some time and
whose ailment was diagnosed as appendi-
citis, was taken to the Hahnemann hos
pital, where the chief surgeon confirmed
the diagnosis and the young man was OPP
Grated upon. when the surgeons discov-
cred the trouble to be strain with no
signs of appendicitis. While the young
man was under ether, however, it was de-
cided to remove the appendix. and there
will not be any mistake in future diagno-
SEES on that score.
The exhibition of moving pictures in
the M. E. church Thursday evening was
not at all up to what was expected from
the advance representations. The moving
pictures were very old stock and poor
taste was displayed in sandwiching religi-
Gus pictures between, the jumping from
religious scenes to the "Darktown Fire
Brigade" being hardly consistent. Among
the funny features of the exhibition were
the novel announcements displayed, such
as Dangerous Lunitic, ""Babies Quarl, >
Business Rivels," Mount Pele," and
others equally startling.
A complete full size vestibule train,
containing numerous passengers, starting
from the centre of the stage, going d.
rectly from. but keeping in full view of
the audience, growing smaller and small
er. till it becomes mere speck in the dis.
lance, then vanishing altogether, only to
reappear as it rounds a curve apparently
many miles away where it crosses trestle
over deep mountain ravine, which trestle
is blown to atoms by terrible explosion
an instant after the train, with its cargo
of human freight has passed over to safe
ty, is only one of the many sensational
scenic surprises in Lincoln ]. Carter
new play THE Darkest Hour" which
will have its first appearance in the Opera
House, Mount Holly, on Monday evening,
l neeember | with the faVOrite German