The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-12-11


Topetoy, has been purchased by Dr. Il
+ r. Faringer.
5 Workmen are engaged in the installa
ton of new sewer, ON Pine street, which
is to connect with the mill race.
8 Seats for the University Club concert
at the Opera House, next Tuesday even
fling. are selling like hot cakes.
T As the result of falling from a wagon
and landing on his head, Charles Penn, OF
Bridgeboro. received bad scalp wound
In some instances farmers are now keep.
t ing watch on their chicken coops, and the
vigil will be continued until after the hol-
idays.
Mr.. and Mrs. William s. Bovine, of
Burlington, spent Wednesday in Mount
Holly with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Long
street.
Il Evan F. Brown, of Mount Holly, was a
visitor at Moorestown, last Tuesday, at
which place he resided for about fifty
years.
At Philadelphia. on December 3, &C.
CURED the marriage of Sarah J. Lee, of
that city, to Harry Singleton, of Mount
Holly.
Charles O'Byrne. nephew of Capt Elton
A. Smith, of Smithville, cut a a deep cash
over his eye by running against an iron
fence
On Wednesday occurred the death of
Eliza Livezey, of West Washington street,
where she kept notion store for several
years.
While working at Riverside, last week,
Aaron Bishop. OF Bridgeboro got his
hand caught in a machine and had one of
his fingers cut off.
After serving on the engineering staff
under supervisor Wainwright, William
Priestly has been transferred from Mount
Holly to Camden.
The Christmas fund of the Baptist Sun
day school was considerably increased by
the sale of pies, cakes and bread on Satur-
day afternoon.
|
eral weeks in Mount Holly, Capt. F. W.
Patten has sailed ia the schooner Kineo
for Galveston, Texas.
The county bridges at Hainesport and
Pemberton are to be supplied with safety
gates, as method of preventing accidents
when the draws are open.
The New Jersey Fence Company, of
Mount Holly, manufactured 100, 900 feet
of wire and picket fence this year, which
is the record output in its history.
The residence of Mrs. Samuel Lishman,
of Evesboro, will be the scene of neck
tie social, on Saturday evening next, for
the benefit of the Sunday school at that
place.
Mrs. Emma Tuch, of Riverside, has re-
turned home from the Jefferson Hospital,
Philadelphia, where she underwent a sue
| cessful operation for neuralgia of the
nerves.
William 81. Sapp is recovering from
wound which he received while trimming
| telephone poles on the Jacksonville road.
During this work he cut a deep cash in
his foot.
| Having finished his four years in the
United States navy, Clifford Ridgway is
now at his home in Wrightstown. Dur
ing his term he received five promotions,
and is now rated as an electrician.
Game Warden Foulks. of New Egypt,
has been appointed District Deputy Grand
Master, l. O. o. F., for the nineteenth
district, wrich comprises five lodges in
Ocean county. On Tuesday the warden
sold three guns for 1913 co. He took them
| from some Italians who were caught in
the pines killing game out of season.
]. Franklin Hunter and Miss Letitia p
Randall of Mount Holly, were married at
Fairview, Pa, on Thanksgiving, where
they will continue to reside. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Harvey s.
Fisher, rector of st. Johns Episcopal
church, of Norristown. Mrs. Jackson
Brainerd, of Tioga, was matron of honor,
and Roy Hunter the best man.
While preparing to give an illustrated
lecture in Methodist church at Fairmont,
Minnesota, on November g. fifty feet of
celluloid film took fire, and in their efforts
to extinguish the blaze, Rev. and Mrs.
William G. Meyer, formerly of Mount
Holly, were somewhat burned, and suf-
fered personal loss in clothing to the ex-
tent of 800. The church sustained dam
age amounting to about $780,
During the hay press fire, on Grant
street. ladies furnished refreshments to
some of the firemen. but for some reason
there was an oversight to those who re-
NAMED all night and played water on the
ruins from two streams 1t is said that
this fire caused loss to the department
of about $500, and as the respective COM
panies have no money with which to
make the loss good, they should be assisted
There is great need for more new hose, a
number of sections having been destroyed
Ornithologists recognize the value of
r quail, which are weed destroyers during
/ the summer, but the question whether
or not they migrate is of most importance
e when the propagation of them is sought.
e Because of their scarcity it has been sng-
gested by prominent gunners to have q
closed season for quail for three years,
but until the migration question is settled
it would hardly pay for the state to spend
from 81. 900 to $1,000 per year for bird:
: only to have them go south when colo
J. weather comes. Eight thousand one hun
bred and seventy eight quail were liber
4 ated in New Jersey this year.
!. A large number of people attended
d Farmers Picnic, given last night il
!. the Gaskill building by Bright Star Lodge
e No. IS, Shepherds of Bethlehem. Wis
e itors were present from nearby towns
II About fifty members were dressed to rep
+ resent farmers, and the lodge room wa
e decorated with products of the farm
e Music, speaking and various games mad
J. up the programme for the evening. whic
was followed by refreshments, consistin
of lemonade, doughnuts and apples. TIL
n occasion was most thoroughly enjoyed b
az those present The Supreme officers wi
Il visit this lodge next Monday night an
In they will be given reception.
It. DR.. H. Benton Young, who has repu
m tation in Mount Holly as a successful ey,
a. sight specialist, firmly believes in advel
to Using, and he has fallen in with the otht
IN live merchants of the town in order thu
a he might have something to say to til
he people of this section during the plea