The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-12-09


ter Clara spent Sunday in Millville.
F. S. billiard, of Vincentown, is able tc
get about again after protracted illness.
The grip has had pretty tight hold on
Freebooter Garwood, of Medford, during
the past week.
| Mrs. S. P Cline returned on Saturday
after a two months visit to her sister
at Joplin, Mo.
The handsome sorrel mare owned by
John Black, has been sold to a Philadel-
phia party for $500.
The cleanliness and attractiveness of
work done at A. d. Prickett's Mill street
laundry is unsurpassed.
Three degrees will be conferred to NOR
row evening by Marion circle, No. 9,
Brotherhood of the Union.
The annual meeting of the Northamp-
ton Firemen's Relief Association will be
held next Monday evening.
The work of building the new lookup
for Medford will soon be commenced. 1t
will consist of two steel cages.
The Burling ton County Traction Com
pany is building q car barn at the entrance
to the power house at Hainesport
William Dick, assistant secretary of the
Philadelphia Board of Education, with
Mrs Dick, spent Sunday in Mount Holly.
The Young Friends Association, which
was to have met on the 18th of this month,
has postponed the meeting until January
Mrs David T. Haines, of Broad street,
will leave for Hartford tomorrow, where
she will spend the winter with her daugh
ter.
0f IL Of tho Tpfa
State air Association shows that. despite
the stormy weather, the last fair Melted
81, 600.
A sand company has purchased of j. j.
Fenstermacher a large farm near Rance
cas-, which is underlaid with valuable
moulding sand.
A meeting of the W. c. T. q. will be
held at the residence of Mrs. Samuel Ell
berson, 222 Garden street, on Thursday,
December II, at o'clock P. M.
The ladies of the Sacred Heart church
will give supper in the Masonic Temple
on Saturday evening. An excellent menu
will be served from O'Clock to II
Postmaster Cowperthwait and ex-Sheriff
Fenton will give their usual Christmas
dinner to the poor children of Mount
Holly. on Thursday, December 20.
Tuberculosis caused the death of six
teen cows, on Thursday, on the Richard
son farm, near the fair grounds. They
were killed by order of the State Tuber
culosis Commission.
An oil stove that had burst into flames
was thrown from the second-story window
of the residence of William Wright, on
Union street, yesterday afternoon, just in
time to prevent serious trouble
Ladies embroidered and hemstitched
handkerchiefs in a variety of styles. Also
mems all linen hemstitched as low as 124
cents. Children's all linen hemstitched
only cents. s. S. Evan, 90 Main ST.
Mount Holly Lodge, No. ID, F & A. M,
last evening elected the following officers
w. M, Christian J. Krayer; S. W, Joseph
w. Colkitt; j W, George w. Durand;
Secretary, James S Hulme; Treasurer,
Walter l. Dill; proxy to Grand Lodge,
Joseph G. Cowgirl.
A special business meeting of the mem
bers of the Baptist Church will be held
tomorrow evening for the purpose of tax
ing action on the resignation of Rev. C.
II. Pendleton. as pastor. There is SEN
timent among large number of the mem
bers against accepting it.
mann Hospital, Philadelphia, where he
parted company with his appendix. His
return was fastened by his close proxim-
ity to the bed on which tombstone, the
murderer of Kate Hassett, died. This
affair made Edwin so nervous he conclud-
ed to come home.
Several people from Mount Holly at
tended the funeral of the wife of Dr.
nhn A Inn Of Har rir1 frfn nal
terday She died last week at her home
at Williamsport, Pa, from appendicitis.
Mrs. Klump visited relatives in Mount
Holly about month ago, when she was
apparently in excellent health.
The Woodbury. Board of Education de
cided there should not be any Christmas
holidays, and the pupils threatened to
strike In this they were encouraged by
their parents, and the board was compell-
ed to rescind its resolution. The new law
which governs the apportionment of the
state funds by the daily attendance, has
great effect on some boards of education.
The Mount Holly Dorcas Society re-
ports the distribution for the past year of
1877 made garments, 587 yards of materials
unmade, besides blankets and other arti-
Giles not classified as clothing The chart
tably disposed may wisely enlarge its aid
to this old and worthy society whose de-
mands exceed its resources. Mrs. G. VI.
Sloan is secretary, and will be pleased to
hear from any one on the subject.
Joseph G. Bower, the baker and confec-
toner, has prepared for Christmas with
one of the finest assortments of choco-
lates and preserved fruits ever seen in
Mount Holly. They are packed in hand
somely decorated boxes of various de-
signs, some of them being hand painted.
They range in price from 15c to 50 per
box. These goods are all imported, and
they were made by Fry, of Bristol, Eng
land.
On Friday, December 10, there will be
produced in this town for the first time at
the opera house, the great sensational
comedy drama of New York life, "The
Lights of Gotham" This great play has
been one of the seasons biggest successes,
and five different companies under the
management of Culhane, Chace & West
on are now touring this country, and it
will be produced by this enterprising firm
in London. England, in September. VIM.
II. Chace plays the principal male part
and the company is under the personal
management of Will E. Culhane, this
being the original New York company
Among the well-known members of the
company are the famous three st. Felix
Sisters, who play the principal soubrette
and boy parts.
Citizens Discuss Coal.
There was meeting of citizens at the
Good Intent engine house, on Friday
night, to devise ways and means to secure
more coal for Mount Holly than the linn
tied amount now being received by the
dealers.