The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-12-18
Post Cards. Buy it at Boyce's.

With eggs selling at almost pr0hibitiv'
prices, hens are fast losing their popular
ity.
Reduction in everything purchased be
fore Christmas H. V. Stratton, 80 MAR
street
We have the Paul E. Writ fountain
pen, $1.0O to SO 80 H. V. Stratton, 50
Main street.
Rev Mr. Conover, of Philadelphia, ha'
been elected pastor of the Baptist church
at Pemberton.
A lodge of the Daughters of Liberty
with nearly forty members, has been or
ganized at Cedar Run.
The Bell telephone is now at home in
9heir new building. A pay station will be
continued at Jones drug store.
Rev. Percy Perinchief, of Burlin gton,
and Rev. George M. Hughes, of Mount
Holly, exchanged pulpits on Sunday.
All outstanding bills against North
ampton township should be in the hands
of Clerk Hawkins by Friday night next.
The Mount Holly public schools will
close on Friday evening for the Christmas
holidays and reopen on Wednesday, Jan
uary 2.
| Mark H. Nicholes, veteran of the civil
war, who was buried at Pemberton, last
week, was brother TO James p Melodies,
of Mount Holly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cross contemplate
making an early visit to their son. Harry
II. Cross, who is engaged in mining enter
prises in Mexico
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.
Buy your turkeys, chickens and ducks
for Christmas or New Years at Frake's
Market, 80 Mill street. They have an i'm
mense line to select from.
If lodge secretaries will kindly send
THE News their officers elected for the en-
suing term we will gladly publish the
Sdu6 III Our lOChl COiuinuo
Joseph Kaighn, of Moorestown, has
sold the Engle farm of one hundred acres,
in Evesham township, to Mrs. George
Denny, of Camden, for 81. 500.
Miss Mann Madden is now bookkeeper
for John NJ Knuth, the plumber. She
succeeds Miss Katie Brown, who has ac-
cepted position in Jamison's store.
A dance will be given at Jobstown, on
New Year night, by several young men
residing in Mount Holly, who are said to
belong to the twice eleven and one club.
Morris Singer is the name of a suspicious
character who was arrested, on Wednes-
day night, by officer Collins. The man
had two tin boxes in a bag and said he
came to town to buy up old paint brushes.
He was held for further investigation.
1t is said that Edward F. Burns. whose
residence on Union street is offered for
sale, will remove his family to Chicago,
which will be his business headquarters
after his firm erects new plant there for
an extension of the business of the Otto
Gas Engine Company, OF Philadelphia.
Claude, aged 2 years, son of Joseph M
Thompson, of New Egypt, came near
being burned to death on Wednesday
evening. The little fellow was playing
with a feather buster, and thrust the
feather part in the stove which took fire
at once. Pulling it out as it was mass
of flames, the lad was quite badly burned
about the face and hands.
Mrs. Lizzie w. Worrell, wife of George |
D. Worrell, of Broad street, has purchas-
ed the John R. Deacon farm of 1870 acres, |
near Chambers corner, for $4,000. Her |
father, Charles H. Woolston, will move on
the place in the spring. Samuel W. EN- !
mons, the present tenant, will move TO the
Jacob Merritt farm near by. The sale
was made through the real estate agency |
of A. A. Anderson.
Joseph T. Apologize, of West Wash
ington street, and Miss Mabel B. Platt, |
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Plat, of |
Budd street, are to be married at the
BRIDES home on Christmas evening, by |
Rev. George M. Hughes. Miss Maud |
Gibbs will be the bridesmaid, and NAL
colin Vanzant will act as best man. The
happy pair will keep house on Budd
street. The groom is the popular clerk
in Cowgill's grocery store.
The finest display Of candy for the
Christmas season ever presented in Mount
Holly can now be seen at the store of JOS
eph G. Bower, who guarantees every piece
to be free from adulteration which is
necessary under the pure food law. His /
ice cream parlor presents a great array of |
sweetmeats of all kinds and the prices are
right One of his features this year is
candy made to initiate a loaf of bread, |
which sells at 20 cents per pound.
New buildings to take the place of the !
ones destroyed by fire are now being cree
ted for renewal of the grist mill and hay
press busine IS of the Fenimore Brothers
at the Grant street station They will
soon be able to take care of all their old
customers and as many more new ones
who may desire to patronize this worthy
firm, which has shown considerable pluck
after sustaining loss from two disastrous
fires 1t is said single buildings will be
constructed and fire wall erected be
tween them.
An incendiary is suspected of having
destroyed the buildings on the farm of
Theodore B. Gaskill, between Pemberton
aud Vincentown, on Thursday evening,
the fire having consumed everything but
the house, machinery and live stock. The
loss is heavy but is partly covered by in
surance. The farm is occupied by Isaac
Rogers, who was at Pemberton when the
barns were the equal of any in the county,
excepting those on the Rancocas stock
farm at Jobstown. For an hour the sky
was brilliantly illuminated.
John W. Davis was last week appoint
ed postmaster at Burlington, vice n w.
c. Hays The latter official has been in
ill heath for long time, and at present is
in sanatarium in Pennsylvania. While
his mind is clear he is very weak, with
the chances against his recovery. The
government held the position for him un-
til the postal authorities became convinc-
ed that Mr., HAYS would not be able to
return to his post and then the change
was made. The new postmaster was in
the contest when an eDdeavor was made
to Gust Mr.. Hays. Having been mention
ed then, and being the choice of the peo-
pie in event of a change, it was but nat
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