The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-02-02
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Lincolns Birthday post cards a
Boyce's.
i F. Carlton Dalton received shower o.
post cards, yesterday. in honor of hiI
birthday.
! A government pension of $12 per month
has been granted to Mrs. James Wiseman
of Mount Holly.
4 At the post Office yesterday morning al
i o'clock the mercury registered eight de
grees above Zero
i A tract of pine land near Chatswortf
IL being surveyed by William P. Randall
of Mount Holly.
If the Red Mems hall. at Florence, car
be rented, moving picture show will be
started at that place.
After being Ill for several years. Charles
F. Steward, well known resident of Flo
renee, died Wednesday morning.
Benjamin Mullen fell on an icy pave
ment at Bordentown, on Saturday night,
fracturing an arm in two places.
Lawrence Hubbs, of Willingboro, was
successfully operated on at the Burling-
ton County Hospital on Thursday.
Robbers made clean job of their visit
to the loft Of Charles Bright, at Willing
boro. having stolen all his pigeons.
Joseph Conover has been retained as
tender of the drawbridge at Willingboro.
There were seven applicants for the po-
sition.
The letters that remain unclaimed In the
post Office for the week ending January
Both, are: William Gorden, George Nor
ris, Miss Mary McHugh. Morris Evans
and wife.
The remains of Mrs Augusta Hoile,
who died at the Baptist Home, In Newark.
were inferred in Mount Holly on Saturday
morning. The deceased was well known
former resident of Moorestown.
The Christian Church people at Will
lingboro will hold their annual all-day
meeting tomorrow. Lunch will be served
free in the w. G. T. U. hall. There will
be preaching by several clergYmen.
The timber on ten acre tract. near
WOODLAND, sold by Hudson B. and Nor
decai s. Haines to William 81. Vanvane,
is soon to be cut down. Among the fine
timber there is said to be one chestnut
tree that will yield 1900 feet Of lumber.
Company K, Third Regiment. N. J.
Vol. Infantry, will give banquet and re-
union in commemoration Of the tenth an
niversary Of their return from the Span
sh-American war, on Thursday evening.
February II, in the Auditorium Hotel at
Burlington.
There may be q coincidence In the dis
appearance of colored cook, at Moores-
town, who left for parts unknown on
the same day that Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
O. Roberts and hired man by the name
of Dennis Stump became violently Ill after
drinking tea and coffee.
| Becoming SO frightened over discussion
of the mysterious hoof prints, which re-
Gently attracted so much attention, a
colored cook at Moorestown packed up
her belongings and returned to the south,
leaving Mrs. Il. @. Middleton with four
children Ill with the measles.
Horace Roberts, near Fellowship. has
started the erection of barn to re-
place the one destroyed by fire last sum-
mer. 1t is said that, the man who was
accused OF setting the place on fire, and
who was tried and acquitted, intends to
bring suit for damages against Mr..
Roberts for false arrest
The sum Of 81, 900 owing, the county by
the Camden and Trenton Railway Com
pany, which is In the hands of receiver,
was the the subject under discussion in
Mount Holly. last week. by the finance
committee Of the Board of Freeholders,
who are making arrangements to proceed
to collect the money.
The building of the Enterprise Shoe
Company, of Lumberton, having been
purchased by Budd Jones. has been
removed to the latter's farm, near Eayres-
town. The work was In charge of Will
liam 81. VanYane, of Maple Shade. j.
Aquila Jones had thirty horses attached
to it, and it took nearly five days to get 1t
to its new location.
Among the list Of corporations which
have not paid tax to the State OF New
Jersey for two years is the name Of "Con-
cert Hall Association, of Mount Holly"
Under the law this corporation now legally
passes out of existence, although 1t has
practically been dead for long time. the
opera house belonging to the association
having been sold by the Sheriff under fore
closure proceedings long since.
On Thursday afternoon, Rev. James F.
Gregory, pastor o. the Capitol Street
Presbyterian church, Harrisburg, Pa,
lectured before the faculty and students
of the Manual Training and Industrial
school for Colored Youths. at Bordentown.
Subject, "The Fifth Commandment. I"
Rev. Mr. Gregory is a graduate of Am
herst college of the Yale Divinity school.
He was for number of years an instruct
or at the Bordentown school
As the result Of additional honors COM
ing their way from exhibits at the recent
poultry show. held in Philadelphia. John
and Walter Garrett, who secured four rib
bon prizes, have silver cup which they
are exhibiting with much pride. The last
acquisition to their success as exhibitors
was received for having the best bird in
the group of red and yellow maltese hens.
Every one of their entries won prize,
thus placing Mount Holly in the list of
towns to be recokoned with In matters of
this kind.
The Board of Health has decided to en-
force the quarantine regulations in Mount
Holly In case of contagious diseases.
Their attention has been called to laxity
10 this matter, and further violation may
result In the imposition of the penalty
prescribed by law, which is severe. The
board has discussed this question fully
and Is prepared to act. Last week a
Young lad whose sister is i'll with scarlet
fever, was seen ON the street talking to
friends, while he was supposed to be in
the back yard getting fresh air. This is
an excellent way to cause the spread OF
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