The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02
LOCAL NEWS.

Buy IL al boYces.
Walter s. French, of Mocrestown, Is il
with pneumonia.
Removed to So High street. William J
Bill, fine and heavy footwear and first
class repairing.
8. 2udd Norcross has purchased hous
on Water street from William Murdoch
for $500.
Frederick q. Lee sailed for Nassau. Ba
hamas, last week, owing to the illness o
his son Edward.
An oyster supper will be given to-mor
row evening by Georgetown Lodge
Knights of Pythias.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua E. Borton, O
Moorestown, haye returned from thei
months visit to Florida
Rev. Mr.. Conover, pastor of the Bap
fist Church, at Pemberton, is said to have
received a call from church at Pitts
burg, Pa.
The Hygiene Ice Company. newly
formed concern, is having plans pre-
pared for the erection of an artificial
Ice plant at Bordentown.
TERRY McGovern." the well known
prize fighter, is son of Daniel Harring
ton, deceased, of Mount Holly. This fact
does not seem to be generally known.
Following are the officers of the Ladies
Aid Society of the Methodist Church
President, Miss Anna R. Burr; secretary,
Mrs. Lizzie s. Haines; treasurer, Mrs. II,
l. Budd.
Mrs. Rebecca King, of Moorestown,
has just picked. lemon of her own rails
ing, weighing one pound, eleven ounces,
and measuring fourteen inches in circum-
ference.
Owing to dullness in business Samuel
P. Richmond, of Mount Holly. night bar
tender at Guys Hotel, Philadelphia, has
been laid off that cheaper help might be
employed in that position.
The visit of Miss Mary Budd Hoskin-
son to relatives in Minneapolis, Mimi,
where she has been spending the winter,
eliminated in her marriage, on Sunday.
February IA, to Alexander Craig Shultz,
of that city.
Owing to inability to get settlement
for loss sustained by the burning of his
buildings on farm near Arney's mount,
Frank R. Kelvey has brought suit against
two insurance companies to recover what
he claims is due him.
Resolutions have been passed by sew
eral church organizations, OF Burlington,
calling the attention of Prosecutor At
kinson and Sheriff Worrell to alleged yio-
lations of the Excise Board and also to
the prevalence of gambling in that city.
The forty-seventh annual meeting of
the Building and Loan Association OF
Mount Holly will be held on Monday
evening, March g. at Z 80 o'clock, at Red
Mems hall, at which meeting officers will
be elected for the ensuing year. A new
series of stock will be issued.
The fire brigade of the Florence Iron
Works was called into action. Thursday
night, blasts of the whistle indicating
that fire was in progress. Immediately
everything was hustle and excitement.
The firemen got right on the job and ex-
tinguished the blaze, which was confined
to some framework in one of the pits.
Having heard him lecture here on sew
eral occasions, Mount Holly people will
be interested in the announcement that
Rev. DIR. Madison G. Peters has renounced
the Baptist creed and has been accepted
by the Presbytery of Brooklyn. In max
ing this change he said: Some men make
q change of faith and stick to it. have
seen my mistake and acknowledged 1t. l
am only coming back home"
The next visit of Stiles g. Co. eye
specialist. to Mount Holly, will be Wed
nesday, March 10. when a representative
will be at the Masonic Temple and ex-
anime your eyes free of charge. II you
suffer from headache, neuralgia or other
pains in the head, correctly fitted eye
glasses or spectacles may remove the
trouble. Stiles s. Co., will frankly give
you an opinion on the subject
After trying In vain at other places to
get married, Howard Steward. not yet Of
age, and Anna Movak, aged 10 years. who
ran away from Trenton, last week, came
to Mount Holly, where they met with no
better success in their efforts to embark
on the matrimonial sea- Thoroughly dis
gusted with the fate that pursued them.
and being without money, the youthful
pair started to walk back to Trenton.
In basket ball game full of spectacu-
lar goal shooting, Mount Holly won from
Merchantville by the score of 30 to 40,
Thursday night, before large audience
Gauntt was high scorer for the evening,
tallying total of is points in the game
Lemke was close second, with 16, and
Borden scored 10. McFadden. as on other
appearances, was the star for Merchant
Vile. The Mount Holly second team lost
their game by the score of % to 81. Gal
lagher played good game for the re-
serves.
While the family of Thomas B. Denness
was giving attention to matters Incl
dent to the firemen's parade, last week, a
sneak thief made a pretty good haul at
his residence, securing three diamond
rings, valued at between $500 ana $500.
At least this was the first impression con-
corning the jewelry, the loss of which
was not noted until day or two after
the parade. The rings had been placed
in a glass dish on the sideboard. From
this dish Mrs. Denness threw some pea
nut shells into the fire, and she Is now
uncertain as to weather her rings were
not burned. The ashes were examined
but nothing to indicate their presence was
found.
As result of the steering gear break
ing. the automobile of Richard Lamb ran
into a tree opposite the farm of Edward
E. Logan, on Thursday. The machine
contained representatives of the Board OF
Freeholders, who had been inspecting 8
bridge at Pemberton. The automobile
was damaged in front, and some of the
occupants, who were thrown out on the
ground in a heap, we're hurt. Turner
Birkhead, the aged chairman of the
finance committee, was injured about the