The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-12-18
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

The Methodist church fair, at Jacobs
town, netted over 800.
Souvenir postal cards. Mount Holl,
street scenes. Boyce's of course.
The Bell Telephone Company is install
ing lot of new polls along Woodland.
This advertisement and 75c, will pur
chase one dollars worth at STATIONS
A. Lincoln Sailer has been retained tt
act as manager of the Mount Holly Opers
House.
You are sure of getting full value fol-
your money at 80 Main street, H. v
Stratton.
The news stand at the railroad station is
now in charge of George Thomas. who
succeeds Walter G. Shinn.
After a serious attack of pneumonia,
Charles Fl. Pew, of Jobstown, is now on
the road to recovery.
An ice house for the convenience OF
Rancocas Park is being erected at that
point by Walter Allen.
A week from to day will be Christmas,
on which occasion business in Mount Holly
will be generally suspended.
During the past week ex-Assemblyman
D. Shedaker, of Edgewater Park. was
very i'll, but he is now getting batter.
Christmas and New Year souvenir post
cards. Our assortment is large, our prices
are low. l.. S. Boyce, Stationer
After long illness, which at times be-
came very serious, Mrs Joseph Robinson,
of Lumberton, is able to be out again.
At Rosenfeld's, on Mill street, you can
find an immense line of toys, automobiles.
wagons, and everything for the young
people.
At Vincentown, on Wednesday, occurred
the burial of Caleb Ridgway, a well
known farmer, who was So years old and
very wealthy.
Mrs. Ella Haines Scheetz. of the Ivan
hoe, Mount Holly. has resumed her Wed
nesday shopping in Philadelphia, and will
give all orders her careful attention.
William G. Jefferss, employed on
farm, near Jobstown, was admitted to the
Burlington County Hospital, on Wednes
day. A horse kicked him and broke his
right leg.
For sale, the desirable property on
Union street, Mount Holly, lately occu
pied by the subscriber. Apply to +. F.
Burns, 33rd and Walnut streets, Philadel-
phia.
As Christmas falls on our regular pub
LEGATION day, subscribers. to The News
may look for their paper on Monday after
noon next. at which time it will be dis
tributed about town.
Mrs. Howard Dempster finds it easier to
get her husband in Jail than to get him
out again. She had him arrested for as
sault and battery. Since then she has been
charge on the town. If her husband is
not released from Jail, the Overseer Of the
Poor may find it cheaper to send her to
her parents, W no live in Virginia.
On Friday morning at 3 O'Clock G.
Foster Cox, of Garden street, was sitting
in his bed room smoking a cigar, and in
less than four hours be was corpse, death
having resulted from Brights' disease
Two days previous to his death he was
driven out in the country, and it was
necessary to carry him to and from the
carriage. He had no use of his lower
limbs.
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Gardiner, of
Tabernacle, had bad luck on a recent trip
which they made in wagon to Jackson
vile. On their return they stopped at a
hotel at Flyatt. With them was their
baby, not yet three months old. When
they got out of the carriage they found
that their child was dead 1t was not
known whether the infant was smothered
or had frozen to death.
Having died at the Burlington County
Hospital, the body of Rose Gallagher was
removed to Philadelphia, last week, by
Undertaken Earnest, where it was buried
by relatives. This is the young lady who |
was so terribly burned by her clothing
catching fire when she fell down cellar
with lamp in her hand, while serving as
domestic in the home of AssemblymaR
John B. Trick, of Vincentown.
On Saturday morning, during the SEES
sion of court, Judge Gaskill administered |
the oath of Office to the following free |
holders who were elected on November |
Jackson Jordan, Willingboro; Richard
Hall, Eastampton; William A. Black, !
Bordentown township; William B. Ireland,
Northampton; Edward T. Haines, Lum-
berton; Frank P. Jones, Beverly township;
George " Bozarth, Woodland; George f.
Maxwell, Washington; Charles E. Wood
ward, Chesterfield; Thomas L. Assay, !
Springfield, Arthur Haines, Tabernacle;
Joseph L. Hilton, Chester; William A
Wilkins, Mount Laurel; Joseph Sykes,
New Hanover; j S. Mathis, Bass River;
Charles E. Joyce. Southampton.
The Burlington County Lyceum of His
tory and Natural Sciences has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year.
Il lCoi0Chb, NhoAlCo GW an u1CiilJts VICE
presidents, Franklin B Lewis, Thomas ].
Bean; secretary, Henry J. Sherman; treas
urer, Joseph G. Cowgill librarian, james
w. Deacon; curators, Charles H. Estill
DR. r. II. Parsons. Joseph G. Cowgirl,
b. F. II. Shreve, DR. John j. Flynn,
Charles Ii. Engle. B. P. Wills, George
Rendell, Rev James Stoddard, James W
Deacon. DR.. E. D. Prickitt, James S.
Merritt. F. B. Lewis. B. F. H. Shreve,
John r. Howell, DR.. W. P. Melcher, Clar-
ence II. Polhemus, Frederick II Lee, Jos
eph G. Cowgirl, j. W. Deacon; board of
control, Joseph Cross, Edward B. Jones,
Edward Ii. Lewis. Edward D. Stokes
Charles Penn, of Writings, is said to be
one of the worst wood thieves in the neigh
borhood He has cut and slashed for years
without regard to property rights, and
although he has been hauled up before the
courts necessary evidence to convict him
was not forthcoming. When T. Newbold
Bovine, of Bustleton, one of the heirs of
the os1ate VI OooAgo ~ DIVINE, utcedSeu,
recently went to Buckingham station to
look over piece of cedar with the view of
selling it, he was surprised to find that
some one had been cutting in it, and more
80 when he saw some of the cedar in the
possession of Penn, loaded on a wagon and
ready to start for Toms River This is
the way some of the pine ''squatters" get
their living. 1t is difficult to get evidence
against them. In some cases the matter
is allowed TO 90 uunoticed for fear tha+ q