The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-12-04
LOCAL NEWS.

Thanksgiving. by loose paper flying abo1
the streets.
The amount of the state franchise ia
which Burlington county will receive til
year is $14, 95S, rs.
Mrs. Caroline Borden, of Jacobstow
is recovering from a serious illness. 81
was stricken while in church.
Micajah E. Matlack has returned
Washington, where he will be busily en-
ploYed while Congress in in session.
You can have your home on Velox Sol
venir Postal Cards We invite your il
spection of our samples and terms L.
Boyce, stationer.
Rev. George Gunnell, of Philsdelphi;
noted public speaker, delivered an e.
Sunday evening
Some of the Mount Holly sports VIII
play the races struck long shot on Wed
nesday, one of them winning $50 an
another $500.
Many tickets have already been sold TO
the supper which will be sgiven mex
Saturday evening by the ladies of tn
Sacred Heart Church
Edward Hellings, of Mount Holly, ha
his right eye badly burned while pourin
lead into the journal of an engine at tn
Pavonia car shops, last week.
A derailed trolley car between Moores
town and Camden, caused an abandon
ment of the $50 p M. trips from Noun
Holly to Burlington on Thanksgiving.
William Raymond Hillery. formerly o
Mount Holly, and Miss May Stella Vol
Sweringen, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, ar
to be married on Tuesday, December 49,
The case of John s. Bozarth, of Noun
Holly, who secured judgment against thu
American Telegraph and Telephone Com
pany, for the killing of his horse has beer
appealed.
The real estate and the entire stock o.
goods in the Curtis dry goods store, have
been transferred to the sole ownership OF
William G.. Wetherill, who is well quail
fed to conduct the business.
James E. Cullen, who died in Philadel
phia, was buried on Sunday afternoon
from his late residence on Madison avenue
The funeral was attended by delegation
from the order of Good Fellows.
After several years residence in Cam
den, Wardell Phares and family have re.
moved back to Mount Holly. Mr. Phares
is employed in the foundry of the H. B.
Smith Machine Company, of Smithville.
A representative of Dun's Commercial
Agency visited the business men of Mount
Holly, last week, and from the data he
received they will be given rating in the
new reference book which that firm is
about to issue.
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the post Office for the week ending De-
cember It'll. Henry S. Alvoid, Andrew NJ
Ditzel, John Dougherty, VIM. H. Harris.
Mrs. Anna Koose, Miss Helen Minor
Samuel a. Powkes.
After many weeks of hard labor the
foundation for one of the dams on the
upper creek has been completed. The
balance of the work will be of concrete,
and this will be laid next spring, when
work will begin on the second or main
dam.
A new front has been installed in the
building on Mill street belonging to the
Bed Men, adding greatly to its appearance.
The lower floor has been made into one
room for the meat business of John
Worth. and the hallway widened that
leads to the upper floors.
Mrs. Edwin D. Rogers, of Medford.
and formerly of Mount Holly, with both
her hands badly burned, is at New Lis
bon visiting her mother. Mrs. Charles H.
Deacon. While dressing a wound on the
head of her mother in-law. Mrs. A. W.
Lonand. the young lady was urned by
some cotton taking fire.
There will be many ''rubes and rubies''
on the streets, next Monday night dressed
in agricultural garbs. and with decorations
of hay, straw. etc., who will attend a
Farmers Picnic" to be held in the lodge
room of the Shepherds of Bethlehem, il
the Gaskill building. Much preparation
is being made for this event, and nearly
two hundred people are expected to be
present.
On Friday morning William Newcomb,
of Monroe street, was found dead in the
rear of the West End Hotel. The body
was removed to the morgue of Under
taker Earnest and Coroner Deworth, oil
Bordentown, summoned. The latter is
sued burial permit, giving heart disease
as the cause of death. Newcomb haC
been feeling badly for several days, anc
it was his purpose to enter the Burling
ton County Hospital on the day he died
He was veteran of the civil war.
Entrance was effected into the railroad
station at Smithville, on Thursday night
by men who clearly demonstrated tina
they were after nothing but money, an6
the sum they received amounted to les
than three dollars. Nothing else wa
taken. A check, some jewelry and othe
valuable contents of express package
were not disturbed, except being scatter
ed over the floor. There is no possibility
of Identification should the men be ar
rested. as the money was not marked.
Many of the people who pass throug
Washington street to the railroad static
avoid the dangerous condition of the side
walk fronting Archer's carriage factory
The earth in that vicinity has settled pei
ceptibly during the past few weeks, ant
prediction is made that the entire stree
will become so inundated as to result in
general cave in. That concrete wa
of sufficient depth will have to be cor
strueted at the bend of the creek in ordt
to protect the bank from the strong It'd
at that point seems certain. The soons
the matter is attended to the less the 10
will cost.
After arising On Wednesday mornin
Mrs. Joseph Atkinson, who lives on I'll
Jacksonville road, found that she was III
able to dress herself and she was give
assistance. Coming down stairs she e
tered the yard, being closely followed
her daughter, who saw that somethin
was wrong. The latter broke the fall
her mother when she collapsed. The Lac
was carried into the house and remain,
unconscious for three house. A physics
was hastily summoned, and he found til
Mrs. Atkinson was suffering from paral
sis. = She is now slowly improving.
Local merchants are receiving their no