The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-12-16
LOCAL NEWS.

Fenimore Jones was taken to the aims
house yesterday.
A ball will be given in the Lewis build
ing on Christmas night
Canned goods. plum pudding, butter
eggs, cheese, etc, at Sapp's
Richard Lamb will conduct a shootin,
match at Browns Mills on Christmas
John r. Deacon, of Philadelphia, mad
business trip to Mount Holly on Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Sarah E. Regain has purchased tn,
Japhet B. Deacon farm in Westamptol
township
Mrs. Alfred B. Jones and daughter, O
Cambridge, Ohio, are visiting relatives il
Mount Holly
George Haines, of Jacksonville, hal
bought the coal yard and business O.
Charles Darnell
William Mutt, near Lumberton, is in {
very serious condition from the effects o.
a paralytic stroke
George w. Savage and wife went t.
the coal regions Of Pennsylvania las
week to visit relatives.
The exercises at the hospital on Sunday
afternoon were conducted under the au
spices of the Epworth League.
A party of Mount Holly people art
considering trip to the Pacific coast, tC
be managed by Robert F. Engle.
Frank P. and Alfred B. Bozarth will
administer to the estate of John A. Bo-
Earth, deceased, of Mount Holly.
Fine apples, oranges and fruit baskets
Bring your table baskets and have them
filled with choice fruit by Matlack. No. 4
Mill street.
Judge Joseph H. Gaskill has removed
to Philadelphia for the winter, and is at
the Lorraine, Paramount avenue and
Broad street.
Joseph Worth, who is employed by
Charles Elberson, fell out of the latter's
freight wagon, on Friday, and received
painful injuries
Caterer Robert Street, of Mount Holly,
will have charge of the terrapin supper
to be given at the Jacksonville hotel on
Thursday evening
Ezekias W. Esham has returned to
Mount Holly for the winter. He has been
engaged al Sea Side Park in conducting
building operations.
In order that the bill of fare at the Jail
might be served steaming hot, the tramps
confined there have been compelled to
break up egg coal for use in the kitchen
range.
Miss c. Timing. of London. England,
young and gifted speaker, will give an
address under the auspices of the w. G.
T. U. in the Lumberton M. E. Church to-
morrow evening.
A bright respectable boy, IA to 16 years
old, who is not afraid of work, and can
come recommended, can hear of a good
home and chance to learn a trade by
calling at THE News office.
William h. Parry, of Hainesport, is
counsel for Frank II. Carney, of Newark,
who was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment for attempting suicide. The
sentence has been stayed by an appeal.
The Baptist Sunday school will have its
Christmas celebration next Tuesday even
ing; st. Andrews and the Methodist on
the following Wednesday evening, and
the Presbyterian on the following Friday
evening
While adjusting some steam pipes at
his green house, on Thursday. j. Frank
lin Hunter gougsd large piece of flesh
out of his right thumb by the slipping of
a monkey wrench, which sent his hand
through pane of glass.
Franklin Dye, Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, gives notice to all
cattle dealers in this state that, owing to
the appearance of a very contagious dis
ease in Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
it is not safe to procure cattle from those
states until further notice
With their horse on one side of the
fence and the wagon on the other was
the predicament in which Edward Allen
and wife, of Vincentown, found them
selves by the horse suddenly taking fright
at a bush by the roadside. The occupants
were thrown out but escaped injury.
Harold B. Horror will continue his
skating park this winter. He has erected
a house fer the accommodation of pa
irons, and in its construction he used the
foundation which was not destroyed in
the recent burning of the small building
on Union street, owned by Sarah Forker
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Victor Hugo Reid, assistant
supervisor at the railroad station, and
Miss Mabel Ernest, youngest daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William s. Kelley. The
event will take place on Saturday after
noon, December 81, at o'clock, in St.
Andrews Church.
The residents of Moorestown are not an
ticipating with any degree of pleasure the
proposed abandonment of the railroad
station at the west end of that town.
which, it is said, will be- used as freight
depot A railroad official, on Friday,
said nothing is known at headquarters
about any change in present arrange
ments.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Haines, of Vim
centown, have issued invitations for the
wedding of their cousin, Miss Sadie E.
Nickison, to John W. Adams, on Decem-
Der %, at 7.30 p NJ The contracting
parties are residents of Wheeling, W.
Va, and the bride-elect is niece of Geo.
III. johnson, of Mount Holly
John Quigley, who had been In the Bur
lington County Hospital for some time
suffering from an abscess on the liver,
died on Saturday morning. His funeral
will take place this afternoon. Mr. Quig-
izations and of Relief Fire Company.
The members of the latter will attend the
funeral IN a body, the uniformed drill
corps. in which the deceased was greatly
interested, will attend in their uniforms.
Thirty shares of the capital stock of the
Mount Holly Water Company, ten shares
of the Mount Holly, Lumberton and Med
ford Railroad stock, thirty shares of the
Rake Pond Cranberry Company, and the
handsome brick house on Mill street, late
the residence of Mrs. J. E, Whitaker