The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-01-29
LOCAL NEWS.

The Delanco Gun Club has awarded
contract for the erection of new clu
house.
Edward Gaskill, the Mill street harnes
maker, was numbered among the sick las
week.
Bishop A. G. Andrews, of New York
will preach in the NJ. E. Church mex
Sunday.
George w. A. French has been having
trouble with his right thumb, into whicl
he ran piece of wire.
Edward w. Evan, of Cherry street
who has been i'll for several weeks, is abb
to walk out on pleasant days.
Hires & Winner, of Palmyra, real estate
dealers, have dissolved partners, and Mr.
Winner will continue the business.
Robert Peacock, student in Prosecutor
Atkinsons office, is i'll with appendicitis
for which disease he was operated upon
yesterday.
At a regular communication of Mount
Holly Lodge, No IA, F. and A. M. held
last night, the Fellowcraft degree was
conferred
John Ewing, of Delanco, cut his head
badly with an axe, Friday morning, while
ehopping wood. The axe caught In q
clothes line
Our assortment is large, strictly first class
and up to-date. Our prices are right.
L. s. Boyce, stationer.
Because she receives more abuse than
kindness. the wife of Mount Holly man
living on Main street, is being urged to
leave her husband by her parents.
Rev. A. L. Bangor, of Gulf Mills, Pa,
will be present at an all-day meeting to
be held in the Christian Church at Bridge
boro, on Wednesday. February 6.
The property on Garden street, which
George K Townsend inherited by the
recent death of his mother, has been pur-
chased by Mrs. Joseph G. Bower for
81, $50.
The Junior Girls Friendly Society of
ST. Andrews church will hold a candy
sale in the gymnasium on Saturday after
noon. February 2, from three to five
o'clock
Miss Margaret E. Perkins, of Beverly,
aged rs years, and one of the oldest
members of the Episcopal Church at that
place. died Friday after an illness of only
a few days.
Miss Ida Dubell, of Florence, one of
survivors of the Atlantic City horror by
which nearly sixty persons were killed,
has so far recovered as to be able to get
out occasionally.
On Saturday evening next an oyster
supper will be held in the basement of
the Methodist Church at Indian Mills,
and on the following night revival SER
vices will begin there.
For constant headache and neuralgia
look to your eyes. Eye strain is generally
the cause. Consult Stiles & Co., eye
specialists. at Masonic Temple, Wednes-
day, January 80. Free examination
After confinement from the injuries
which he received in a collision with a |
trolley car at Camden, while driving log |
wagon, William Eldridge, of Mount Holly, |
is able to be about again. The motorman
of the car had both legs cut off.
Considerable interest has been centered |
in the Sunday school which has been |
organized for the accommodation of the |
children in the western end of the town. |
Nearly forty names have been enrolled. |
The meetings are held in the Kiner build |
ing.
Fenimore Brothers, on Grant street, are
again conducting business ON the site of |
their recent misfortune. The -four and |
feed mill is in operation, aud the work of |
erecting the hay press will soon be CON-
pieted. This firm is prepared to handle
more business than ever.
The windmill of Samuel Stern, of Riv-
erside. was damaged by fire, Friday morn
ing, to the extent of SIS. The flames
were extinguished by the fire department.
While running to the fire son of Henry
Bracy fell over wire stretched across the
sidewalk and broke his leg.
The Moorestown Choral Society will |
render the beautiful cantata of "The Rose |
Maiden, in the town hall, at that place, |
on Tuesday evening, February 5 The
the choruses will be accompanied by
twelve instrumentalists, who are members |
of the Philadelphia orchestra
Judging by notes which they left be-
hind them, and which may lead to their
detection, it is believed that local parties |
have been breaking into the boat houses |
at Delanco. Nearly all of them have |
been entered, but it is thought that moth !
ing of any special value has been taken. |
Closets and drawers were searched and |
their contents scattered about.
The skilful drawing of an ordinance,
by Philadelphia lawyer. for the Bell
Telephone Company, giving that corpora
tion the right to use all the streets in
Mount Holly for the purpose of laying its
coDduits. will probably carry with the
franchise the right to use the north end of
the Lumberton turnpike. which has since
been acquired by Northampton township
1t is the belief that the ordinance provided
for such contingency as this, and which
is now causing some contention. In this
opinion Richard B. Eckman, counsel for
the township, partly concurs.
A rumor is current among the employees
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
car shops at Pavonia. that Master Me-
chanic Page has made a thirty-five per
cent. reduction in the wages of some of
the piece hands, which they consider prac-
tically an invitation to quit. This end, it
is believed, is desired so that most of the
departments can be closed and the work
taken to Altoona and Trenton. Those
who do not care to entertain such an
opinion, state that when the matter is
brought to the attention of the officials it
will be found that the superintendent has
exceeded his authority. and that such
action will not receive the sanction of his
superiors. There are hopes for certain
number of the men, however, who declare
that IT will be necessary to maintain one
department, at least, in which to do the
work that is constantly found necessary
for the electric road running to Atlantic
City.
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