The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-30
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Fine stationery. Buy it at Boyce's.
Cunning coats, vests and pants, a
Bayersdorfer's. .
Isaac r. Parker and wife spent last weeh
in Washington, D. G.
A. Elwell Gaskill has purchased the
: house of E. Earl johnson on Pine street.
Clarence B. Mount, of Stanwick, was
calling on Mount Holly friends Wednes
day morning.
For a first-class job of shoe repairing
try w. ]. Bill, corner of Church and Pine
streets, Mount Holly.
Workmen in the pines have been made
happy by the excelsior plant at Hanover
station resuming business.
A very interesting harvest sermon was
delivered in the Methodist Church, Sun
day morning. by Rev. George M. Hughes.
The Peerless orchestra, of Mount Holly,
will furnish music for dance to be given
In the Opera House, at Smithville, Thurs
day evening.
You can have your home on Velox Sou
venir Postal Cards. We invite your in
spection of our samples and terms. L. s..
Boyce, stationer..
An old fashioned masquerade party will
he given this evening by the Daughters of
America after the business of their lodge
meeting has been concluded
Desiring to obtain further knowledge
as veterinary surgeon, DR.. William Fitz-
patrick is row taking an extra course at
the McKillops College in Chicago.
Mrs. Ella Haines Scheetz, No. 1O1 Gar
den street. Mount Holly, has resumed her
Wednesday shopping in Philadelphia, and
will give all orders her careful attention.
Eleanor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas r. Finley. of Union street, enter
tanned some friends, on Saturday after
noon, the occasion being the fourth ami
versary of her birth.
Having recently buried his wife, and
there being nothing to keep him here
any longer, Richard T. Kennedy is ar
ranging to leave Mount Holly. After the
election day on November 6, he will enter
the Soldiers Home at Kearney.
Joseph M. Thompson,o of New Egypt, on
Thursday was chosen State Vice Councillor
of the New Jersey Jr. o U A. NJ, at the
State Council in Trenton. Mr.. Thomp-
son was not candidate. and the election
came as surprise to him and his friends
The sight of big eel. which she saw
pulled from the river by fisherman and
which fell writhing at her feet, caused
Miss Emma Brown, young woman of
Mount Holly, to faint at the town wharf
in Burlington on Friday. She fell to the
ground in collapse and lacerated her face.
Friends soon revived her.
The bowling season will open in Mount
Holly on Thursday evening. The first
team is composed of Morris l.. Throck-
morton, A. Kropp, Harry Claypoole, Fred.
Schmidt and Harvey Burtis. Following
are the players of the second team: Pow
ell Wetheril, Harry Frake, Samuel An
derson, Herbert L. Townsend and Harry
K Hand.
w. s. Gale has been awarded contract
to paint the residence of Richard Ash
hurst, out Garden street The paint is
to be made from four hundred quarts Of
the whey of milk, into which sugar, Port
land cement and other ingredients are tt
be used. A similar mixture was placed
on the house twenty years ago, and will
the exception of few places it is still il
good condition.
Thomas Webur, of Philadelphia. wal
arrested at Moorestown. on Friday, anl
charged with the shooting of the daughte
of Levi Ellis, of Centreton, who received
q gun shot wound in her breast. To tn
the crime. After arriving at the jail
however, he told Samuel K Gaskill, th
jailer, Just how it happened, and that
was an accident.
Mrs Charlotte BOLTON Stout has issuet
invitations for the marriage of her daugh
ter, Miss Sara Stout, to William Gibbo
McIlvain, son of Mr. and Mrs. James {
McIlvain, of Mount Holly, Oh Wednel
day, November z, at 7.30 p. NJ, at th
Fourth Presbyterian Church, 47th stree
and Kingsessing avenue, Philadelphi,
Mr.. and Mrs. McIlvain will reside at Rio
ley Park, Pa.
Entering the yard of John w. Harris
on Main street, early Thursday mornin,
to leave his daily supply of milk, Harr
Hawkins, Sr., found woman lying
the grass near the kitchen door. Upe
investigation the PROSTATE form was four
to be that of Sallie Powell, of Burlin
ton, who was very much under the inf
ence of liquor. Constable McCormic
who was passing at the time, assisted
carving the woman across the street
the jail.
Friday evening the members of Ho
Hose Company, No. 2, of Beverly held
reception in honor of housing a magni
cent combination hose carriage and chen
cal apparatus. The entire outfit CT
nearly $1,000, is modern in every particul
and fine addition to the fire dePartmel
The carriage is a special design and kno'
as No. hand and horse hose carriage.
has hand pole for hand use and sha
for horse. 1t is built light and has rol
bearing axes. 1t has capacity for carl
ing 800 feet of hose on the reel, and
equipped with axe, crowbar, two ma
lanterns, two torches. an automatic go
on rear axle for the purpose of striki
when carriage is run by hand, and b'
bearing rotary gong on front dash to
used when horse is attached.