The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-23
Buv 1t at Boyce's.

of Mrs. George Moore, Branch street, G
!. Tuesday afternoon, November 80.
: A delegation of Mount Holly Masor
attended a chapter meeting Of that ordt
at Burlington on Saturday night.
Mrs. Francis R. Fithian, who has close
her home at Moorestown, is spending tw
months with friends in Mount Holly.
Mrs. M. E. Matlack has returned to he
: home In Mount Holly after spending
week with her parents at Rutherford.
A turnip weighing eleven pounds an
seven ounces, grown by George Russ. G
Delanco, has been placed on exhibition q
Riverside.
The Unionville Sunday school will Civ
supper in the Masonic Temple, Noun
{ Holly. on Friday and Saturday evenings
December and 4.
Vanilla, strawberry, chocolate ant
bisque ice cream, and orange and cherr.
water ice, at Joseph G. Bowers TO
! Thanksgiving day.
Harry Nolen, of Broad street, who 4
moulder employed at Smithville, re
ceived painful injury, on Friday, b.
running a nail into his left foot.
!, Business at the post Office will cease a
10 O'Clock on Thursday morning, and thu
office will remain closed for the balance o.
the day, owing to Thanksgiving.
Beautiful silver sets, gold filled watches
and chains. musical clocks, etc., giver
free to patrons. Call and inquire for par
ticulars, 11s Mill street, Mount Holly.
Blood poisoning developed in the case
of Arthur Forsman, farm hand of MARI
ton, who ran nail into bis foot month
ago. He died at the Cooper Hospital
Camden, on Wednesday.
While examining a threshing machine
a few days ago. Chalkley Zelley, Of
Moorestown, caught his thumb in the
Icogwheels. The member was 80 badly
injured that amputation became necessary.
The body of Richard Watson Glider,
journalist and poet, who died in New
York on Thursday. was buried in the
family plot in the cemetery at Bordentown
on Saturday, the place of his birth.
The latest analysis of the drinking
water supplied to the inhabitants of Mount
Holly. made on October 81, by the State
Board of Health. is very satisfactory.
There were no traces of typhoid bacilli
found in it.
Harrison Wright lives near the New
Lisbon school and takes quite an interest
in it. On recent visit he found the
school without a dictionary 30 he pre-
sented Webster's Unabridged edition to
the school.
Creditors of the Standard Shoe Com
pany, of Mount Holly, whose claims
against that concern amount to over
$50, 600. will probably sell out cheap. In
view of the report that they are not likely
to realize one cent on the dollar.
Anglers have just one more week for
the lawful catching of pike and bass, as
the season will come to close on No
vember 30. If weather conditions are
right, fishing will engage the. attention of
many sports on Thanksgiving day.
Henry Resented, Mill street, has the
largest stock of Christmas goods ever
shown in Mount Holly. The assortment
is general and will suit all tastes. People
in this section are invited to call and get
prices before going to Philadelphia.
Fire and burglars come unexpectedly
SO it is best to be prepared and place your
valuables in absolute security. The Mount
Holly Safe Deposit 6 Trust Company has
Safe Deposit Boxes to rent In its fire and
burglar proof vault for the low price of
81 90 and up per year.
Fifteen members of New Jersey Lodge,
No. l, Knights of Pythias, of Mount
Holly, will take the charity altar which
the former lodge received on Friday night
to Medford tomorrow evening and pre-
sent it to No. 1903. This altar is going the
rounds of all the lodges in the state for
the purpose of raising funds to build a
Pythian Home.
A robber who entered the house of John
Godfrey, at Moorestown, ransacked the
place from cellar to garnet, breaking open
bureaus and desks and scattering their con-
tents about. Some jewelry was carried
off, and a sum of money taken from a
child's saving bank. The solid silver was
hidden In secret place and this the burg
lar did not find. His loot amounted to
about $50.
There will be q union meeting of the
Sunday schools in the Presbyterian
church, next Sunday afternoon, at 8 As
O'Clock, under the direction of the Y. W.
G. T. o., who have secured Rev. Mr..
Hall, of Philadelphia, to address the
meeting, Mr.. Hall will also speak at the
Epworth League service In the n. E.
church, at 6.45 O'Clock, and he will preach
in the Baptist church at 7.30, p. m.
James Sweeney, who became bondsman
for William HoYt, one of the men arrested
for the illegal sale af malt liquor at Flor
ence Heights, took Hoyt before Justice
John Peacock, Friday evening, and with
drew as his bondsman. Constable William
McCune, who made some arrests In this
connection, made complaint before Prose-
cutor Samuel A. Atkinson, on Saturday,
stating that some of the men connected
with this alleged speak-easy had threaten
ed his life He was told to secure wit
nesses of that fact and have such persons
arrested.
The good effect of having a truant Of
fcer for the public schools is shown in the
results obtained In Pemberton township.
Since the appointment of truant officer
in that township the enrolment has in.
creased 104, making an average increase In
attendance of 100. The Birmingham school
has doubled its enrolment. In one of the
school districts there was boy 16 years
of age who had never gone to school and
could not read nor write. He attends
daily now and bids fair to become one Of
the best students in the school.
Miss Emile Adams Reese is to marry
Ralph Reeder, the winner of Carnegie
hero medal. Miss Reese is the step-daugh
ter of Major Thomas D. Landon, princi
pal of the Bordentown Military Academy
The ceremony is to be performed by Rev
l.