The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-29
Buy YOUR New Year gifts at Boyce's.


Mrs. Elizabeth Sine, of Trenton. spent
her 10th birthday in Mount Holly, on
Wednesday.
} The Y. w. C. T. o. will hold meeting
at the home of Grace Prickett, Garden
! street, tonight at 7.45 O'Clock.
Mrs. Mary Wingate. of Burlington. was
operated on for appendicitis at the Bur-
lington County Hospital, on Thursday.
The policemen of Mount Holly desire
to thank those merchants and others who
kindly remembered them with Christmas
gifts.
The annual meeting of the various
banking institutions throughout the coun-
ty will be held on Tuesday morning. jan
uary IL.
Walter A. Barrows has sold his three
story brick building on High street. near
St. Andrews Church, to Benjamin W
Zelley.
The basket ball game in Mount Holly
tonight will be with the Riverton team,
who claim to be champions of the county.
A good contest may be looked for.
Several building lots with meadows
back of them, located on Brown street,
Mount Holly, are offered for sale. Apply
to Frank L. Sherman, 116 Gardentreet.
Isaac H. Lippincott has purchased from
Robert s. Gaskill the property on Garden
street, formerly belonging to Sarah J.
Gaskill, and it is said he will make store
of the first floor.
| Claude Giffen, the young man who fell
from trestle at the Florence Iron Works,
on Tuesday. and was removed to Cooper
Hospital, Camden, died there on Wednes-
day. His neck was broken.
At the Methodist church next Sunday
morning will be held the quarterly Love
Feast at 6. As. The Communion service
will follow at 10 80 The collection at this
service will be donated to the Burlington
County Hospital.
Following is a list of the unclaimed
mail remaining in the post office for the
week ending December %: Mrs. Jennie
Bowers, Miss Kate Burr, Mrs. John Hage-
man, Fred Knip, Ross Morrell, George J :.
Shaver, Arthur G. Hance (postaD.
People in this section are interested In
sentence of three months in the Eastern
Penitentiary and fine of 800 imposed
on NJ. Weber Watkinson, formerly OF
Mount Holly, who was convicted in Phil
adelphia for swindling in connection with
the promotion of the United States Graph
lite Company.
On Friday and Saturday evenings the
motion pictures at Dreamland will be the
Passion Play. These pictures were TO
have been given last week but they got
lost on their way here, but they will be
displayed on the evenings named and
there will be an interesting lecture with
them. %sl
The dinner given to children by Mount
Holly Elks on Christmas day was very
successful affair, 1877 youngsters partaking
of the bountiful bill of fare. After the
dinner each child was presented with
box of candy and an orange, and the
manager of the opera house gave each
one ticket to the moving picture show.
A quiet wedding was solemnized at the
home of the late Edward B. Deacon, on
the Burlington road, Wednesday after
noon, when his daughter, Miss Eva Dea-
con, was married to Harry e. Hancock,
son OF the late Budd r. Hancock. The
ceremony was in accordance with the
practice among Friends. and was per-
formed In the presence of Mayor @. Tay-
lor Rue, of Burlington. Owing to the re-
cent death of the brides father, the we'd
ding was quietly celebrated.
Pocahontas Tribe, No. 1s, l. o. R. M.
elected the following officers last night;
Sachem, James B. Bennett; senior saga
more, Lewis Chambers; junior sycamore,
William Beyers; prophet, Chas. H. Fitz-
gerald; chief of records, John B. Dob
bins; keeper of wampum, Albert II. Lear;
collector of wampum, Frank Dennis; rep
resentative to great council, Garfield Bo-
Earth; trustees, Charles Il. Fitzgerald, J
B. Bennett, Lewis Chambers; janitor,
Joseph NJ. Stradling; guard of forest,
Daniel Eddleman.
II one were to take the reports in city
papers seriously it would appear that a
female iDmate of the County Asylum got
out of the institution during the snow
storm last Tuesday and possibly persisted
In the cold. As fact the woman left the
place on the 2Sth of November when the
weather was not cold. therefore in no
danger of freezing. The report of Su-
perintendent Deacon for the month OF
November contains the item: Escaped,
l." Efforts have been made to locate her
and it is thought she will soon be in her
old quarters again.
Some time ago the Public Service Cor
poration promised that there would be a
yearly reduction of five cents per thousand
cubic feet for gas until certain minimum
had been reached When the promise
was made the price was $1.25 and there
had been two cuts, the rate the past year
being 81 10. In this weeks NEWS the
Public Service gives a substantial New
Years gift to its customers and announces
that hereafter the price for gas will be 81
per thousand feet. This will be appre-
ciated by those already using gas and it
will undoubtedly add more customers to
the list.
/ About two weeks ago Miss Lizzie JUS
tice was thought to have been numbered
among the missing. Her sisters. Mrs.
Briggs. of East Mill street, and Mrs Will
liam Atkinson, of Water street, knew
nothing of her whereabouts. 1t was when
Informed by Thomas Shinn, of Chester
field, that he intended to seize and sell for
rent some clothing on storage In his va
cant house on Branch street, Mount Hol-
lly. that Mrs Briggs knew that the girl
was not with relatives in Philadelphia.
. AS letters sent to the latter place did not
reach her, an investigation was started.
T Her father, who lives at Seaside Park.
, Joined in the search but without avail.
e The alarm created over her disappearance,
e which dated from last March, was dis
8 PEELED ON Christmas day, when the miss
ling girl came here to see about her cloth
a thing. Although Lizzie did not call or
( her sisters at that time, she had a tall
a with John Grady, to whom she said sh'
e was living in Philadelphia Relative