The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-12-14
Christmas post cards at Boyce's, q

beautiful. L S. Boyee, stationer.
Red Cross Christmas stamps have been
placed on sale In Mount Holly. The pro-
ceeds will be used for fighting tuberculo-
sis.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Anna R. Kirby, of
Kirby's Mills, to Evans Ballinger, Of near
: Cropwell.
An interesting programme has been pre-
pared for the Farmers Institute to be
: held in the Grange hall at Moorestown on
Thursday.
As the result of her clothes catching
: fire at her home near Windsor, on We'd
t nesday, a sister of John and Frank Let's,
of Mount Holly. was burned to death.
She wants nice dress for a Christmas
present. We have a guaranteed black
tatfeta silk for 85c, 75c, Soc, 81 90 and 81 .25
} per yard. I. Il. Lippincott, II Garden
street.
While buying Christmas presents for
! her Sunday school class in Philadelphia,
Miss Hattie Cain, of Beverly, had her
purse snatched by pickpocket whomade
his escape.
Three new Victor talking machines and
100 new records just received. Ten per
cent. discount on all goods during Decem-
Der to Sunday schools and grangers, at
Rosenfeld's.
James B. Borden, of Jacobstown, son
of Walter E. Borden, has been elected a
member of the Philadelphia Stock Elk
change. Mr.. Borden is engaged in the
bond business.
The December issue Of The Acorn, pub
lished by scholars of the Mount Holly
High School, is an attractive number. 1t
has an illuminated cover and is filed with
interesting reading matter.
st. Elizabeth's Guild of st. Andrews
church, Mount Holly. will give an oyster
supper and needle work sale in the Parish
building, on Wednesday afternoon and
evening, December 10Th. Supper 25c.
After spending two months with rela-
tives In Mount Holly, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard G. Lewis sailed for England on
Wednesday. Their daughter, Edith. will
prolong her visit here for several weeks
Evans G. G. Shinn and Miss Kate West |
were married on Wednesday evening by
Rev. George T. Harris. On emerging |
from the Methodist parsonage the happy |
couple were met by fife and drum corps. |
Having decided to remove from Mount
Holly. George W. Savage. corner of
Ridgway and Buttonwood streets. will
dispose of desirable line of household
goods at public sale on Friday afternoon.
December II.
Miss Fannie G. Bright, of Bridgeboro.
who is employed in Hollis box factory at
Riverside, has two mashed fingers, the
result of getting them caught between
belt and wheel on a machine which she
was operating.
Wilbur Dilks, of Palmyra. surprised
his large acquaintance last week by an
nouncing his marriage of year ago and
bringing his wife home from Camden.
She was Miss George Willar, former
resident of Palmyra.
Henry H. Savage and Miss May 81.
Barriger, daughter Of Brigadier General
Barriger. deceased. of Washington, D. c.,
were quietly married at the home of the
bride, on Ridgway street, at noon on
Wednesday. The ceremony was perform
ed by Rey. James Stoddard.
The home of William d. Cowper-
thwaite. farmer living near Medford, has
been transformed into a hospital. He Is
unable to be about because OF fall
which badly wrenched his back. His
mother fell and broke her arm and the
four children are Ill with chicken-pox.
Terribly burned while saving their in
FAINT daughter when their boathouse was
destroyed by fire on October 8, Alfred
Beswick and his wife, who have been at
the Burlington County Hospital. were re-
moved to their home at Beverly last week.
Mrs Beswick is able to walk, but her
husband is still bed fast.
The directors of the Burlington County
Farmers Exchange have elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Aaron L. Col
Inns, Moorestown; vice president, John
O'Leary, Jr., Vincentown; secretary and
treasurer, Harry Brick, Medford. The
exchange is looking for suitable head
quarters in Mount Holly.
Eugene and Josephine Sullivan, both of
the tramp order, who hail from Trenton.
I--k - D,,-i{, r-to,, 10 ar uyooh RI 1at drunk |
in order that they might be committed to
the county jail They like this institu-
ton during cold weather, having spent
time within its portals on other occasions.
They claim the feed is better here than
they get elsewhere.
The advance guard of winter. which ar
rived on Thursday, found the mercury
down to twenty degrees at some places in
in Mount Holly. The sudden change
) side-tracked light weight garments and
increased business for the clothing mer-
chants and coal men. The Ice dealers
would like to get In the game, too, but
their time may arrive later on.
Lewis Branson, of New Egypt, was
obliged to have finger amputated Fri
day, and there Ia even danger of losing |
his whole hand. Last summer Branson |
went fishing and during the day he
caught big catfish. In taking it from |
the hook 1t filmed him severely on the |
left hand. For nearly three months
physicians looked after the hand but moth
ing seemed to do any good.
The building at the almshouse in which |
tramps are lodged. was the scene of a fire
on Wednesday night, which damaged the
interior of the structure. The fire started
in a bed occupied by hobo, forcing the
occupants to make a hastY exit.
The fire apparatus kept on the premises
was used effectively. A good supply of
water from the stsndpipe soon quenched
the flames. Steward Harbert easily mas
tered the situation and allsYed the fears
of the inmates Of the county house.
A SON of Mrs. John Swslino. living on
the road to Hainesport, after being thrown
through "a window Thursday evening,
spent the balance of the night in Justice
Stacks office, and on the following morn
!, iro was treated at the hosDital for a cold