The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-02
LOCAL NEWS.


Risdon street.
Edward Ireland has taken position
Aliens pharmacy.
DIR. Richard H. Parsons and family wi
sail for Europe on the Goth OF this montl
Every borseman should see w. u. A
the handsome stallion owned by FREQ
shreye. of Mount Holly.
st. Andrews Sunday school Will Degl
its morning sessions next Sunday, openin
at quarter past nine o'clock.
Harry Norcross and Isaac hooei's wei
fishing on Decoration Day, ana Drousn
home several large shad.
Dabl,a and perennial Phlox, each
twelve best varieties and each one doiia
a dozen. at Rosbachs', Pemberton.
The engagement is announced of WI
Ham DeCou. Jr., of Crosswicks, and Mis-
Mary E. Taylor, of Merchantville-
The cemetery at Jacobstown has bee
enlarged to the extent of ten acres. Sex
ton Reed will lay out the new part In iots
Mouut Holly souvenir post cards II
colors, 81 views, Q for Cts, 20 Gus
dozen For sale here and at Jones
Pharmacy. L. S. Boyce. ststioner.
The young people Of the NJ E. Church
will give light tea on the church ia"'
ON Thursday. June 4. from P. m. CAKE
Too orao,,, and strawberries. Price twenty
five cents.
Under the auspices of the women :
Christian Temperance Union sermon
will be preached in the Methodist Cnurcl
ON sunday evening, June 2. by Mrs
Springer. a missionary from Africa.
Preparatory to laying new Sidewalk
in front OF the two houses which he re
Gently purchased on Union street, George
D. Worrell has had stone curbing set to al
official grade established by Surveyor )
w. Harris.
Benjamin West, of Paterson, paio
Mount Holly a visit on Sunday. de was
cake baker at Bowers bakery when 1t was
conducted by the father of the ex-snerin
and is now engaged in the baking business
at Paterson.
Jane. widow of William Cobb, OF Cam
den. in her s2d year. was buried In the
Mount Holly cemetery Saturday aiter
noon. The funeral was held from the
residence of her son, Charles P. Cobb, on
Water street.
The Young Women's Christian Temper
ance Union will hold an important meet
ing Tuesday evening, June I'd. at the resi-
dence Of Miss Lydia Garon, Rossel street.
at 7.45 D. m. All members are requested
to be present.
Harry Brown, of Moorestown, who is
still cripple from the injuries which ne
received in the Camden railroad accident
several months ago, spent last week In
Mount Holly with his sister, Mrs Jere d.
Colkitt, on Union street.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF the Metno-
dist Church, at Marion, has been reor-
panized Following are the officers: fres-
ident, Mary Cline; vice president MRS
Moore; secretary, Ida Haines; treasurer,
Eva Farrow; collectors, Mrs. Farrow and
Mrs Sharp.
number of favorable comments have
been made on the window display at Du-
bells drug store, which is composed oil
flowers and fruit. Excellent taste is shown
in the artistic arrangement The same
skill in decorating is to be seen on the SODA
water fountain.
Owing to a meeting of the General Con-
ference at Winona Lake, Indiana, to De
gin on August 81 and to continue Tor a
week. the Burlington quarterly meeting
of the Society of Friends will be held In
Mount Holly on August %, which is one
week earlier than the usual time.
Beginning next Sunday the services IN
Grace Episcopal church, Pemberton, Will
begin at 7.45 p. m. The sermons fer the
first four Sunday evenings will be on the
following subjects: June z. The open
pulpit in the Episcopal church; June H.
Local Option; June 81, God Is love; June
2s, Foreign Missions.
The Young Friends Society OF Phil
adelphia will make pilgrimageto Mount
Holly. on Saturday, June 20. They will
ioiu the local society and hold picnic on
the Friends grounds at the corner OF
High and Garden streets. The programme
will consist of addresses and literary ex
ercises.
About / o'clock on Sunday morning,
while opposite the West End Hotel, Lewis
Lynch fell into the Rancocas creek. His
cries for help attracted the attention OF
Policeman George 81. Branson, who was
home at the time eating his midnight
lunch. He rushed out and rescued Lynch
just In time.
The Misses Marion Quinn and Katie
McGuiggan, who occupy house on Ris-
don street, saved their home from being
DESTROYED by fire on Friday afternoon.
The trouble was caused by defective fue
In a rear second-story bed room. Some
furniture was burned before the ladies
extinguished the Dlaze.
The next visit of Stiles & Co., eye
specialists, to Mount Holly, will be to
morrow when a representative will be al
the Masonic Temple and examine your
ewes free of charge. If you suffer from
headache, neuralgia or other pains in the
head, correctly fitted eyeglasses or spec
81 II
Co., will frankly give you an opinion OIL
the subject.
Young people under the age of sixteer
years, who are not permitted to enter thu
moving picture shows alone, are working
various schemes to get in. and of friends
they frequently ask this question, "Ar'
YOU going to the moving pictures 2" Th'
significance of the query is quite appa
rent. and In some instances the inquisitiv
thus secures free admission, the generou
escort paying for both.
The parlor meeting of the w. G. T.
last week, was quite success. Th
apron and cake sale Melted neat sum fo
the free ice water stations in the tow
which will be opened about July l, br
the fund Is ten dollars short of what
cost last year to maintain this accommod'
.tion to the public. If any one feels suff
sciently interested to contribute to tt
cause, Mrs. Charles II. Engle, of Garde
street, will be glad to receive any sun
that may be rendered.
Notwithstanding had weather condition