The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-12-28
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1909
LOCAL NEWS.
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Lawrence Horner. of Bridgeboro. ws
stricken with appendicitis last week.
New Jersey Lodge, No. 1, Knights G
Pythias, will confer the first degree nez
Friday night.
John B. Dolan has quit the drug bus
ness and is now employed in Wetherill
dry good store.
Members of Good Intent Fire Com
pany have decided to give social som
time during January.
There will be no skating on the pond o
Charles B. Hornor this year. He has de
cided to use the ice for domestic purposes
An organ In the church at Tabernacl
was put out of commission by some mic
who started housekeeping In the bellows
By the slipping of an axe while trim
ming trees for Pearson Taylor, at Wrights
town, Abner Lewis cut bad cash In hi
arm.
Mrs. Thomas ]. Rattigan, Of Borden
town, fell down stairs at her home las
week. She broke an arm and bruised he
head.
The heirs of the estate Of John Shinn
deceased, have sold house on the nortl
side of Church street to Mrs. Thomas W
Nippins.
A fine programme has been prepared
for the anniversary exercises of the Pres
byterian Sunday school to be held thil
evening.
A lot Of ground In the rear of the car
riage factory on Buttonwood street, be
longing to G. o. Gsskill, has been sold te
Judson Gaskill for $500.
The Mount Holly Safe Deposit and
Trust Company has increased its annual
dividend from four to five per cent. and
added 5000 to the surplus.
Members of the township COMMITTEES
will receive IS per day for their services
instead of % as heretofore, by reason of a
law passed by the last legislative.
Raymond Schmid, of Riverside. was
painfully injured, last week. as the re-
suit Of being pushed head first into the
dump in the school house yard by play
mates with whom he was romping.
Homer T. Lippincott and Miss Sabilla
R. Dixon, both of Vincentown. were mar
ried at the Trinity Methodist parsonage,
Trenton, by Rev. Charles q. Elder, on
Wednesday evening, December 10.
Having rendered her resignation as a
member of the State Board of Childrens
Guardians, Mrs. William B. Abbey, Of
Mount Holly. has been succeeded by
Robert L. Fleming, CT Hudson county.
While moving into his new residence on
Thursday, Louis Vandegrift, of Riverside.
had 1.-TWO tendons completely severed In
his right hand by chandelier falling on
him. 1t required six stitches to close the
wound.
The difficulty existing between the Law
and Order Society, of Camden, and those
persons who were arrested at Riverside
for playing foot ball and selling cigars on
Sunday. has been adjusted without fur
ther court proceedings.
While shopping In q department store
at Philadelphia, last week. Miss Louise
Gaul, of Delanco, detected a colored
woman In the act Of stealing her watch.
The young lady was SO taken back that
she made no cutlery and the pickpocket
escaped.
In auditing the accounts of Charles T.
Rogers, overseer of the poor. at meeting
of the township committee on Tuesday
night last, it was found that during the
last year he expended $1,717.S8 of the
1900 appropriated for the maintenance
Of the poor.
George Hoover, of Burlington, while
going to work at Delanco Thursday morn
ing, was thrown from the Camden and
Trenton trolley car at High and Broad
streets and badly bruised. Hoover was
stepping in the car when 1t gave sudden
Jerk, throwing him heavily to the street.
Owing to the absence of explanations
in many cases In the sale OF Red Cross
stamps, numerous packages are now being
held by the government because of the
fact that they were used to pay postage
ON Christmas presents forwarded by mail.
Ignorance Of the fact that the stamps have
no postage value misled many people.
Happy is the father who opens an &C.
count for his son or daughter with the
Mount Holly Safe Deposit g. Trust Com
pany. Such gift will delight your boy
or girl on Christmas morn. and instill a
fondness for saving. Three per cent in
terest paid on time deposits. Mount
Holly Safe Deposit & Trust Company,
Mount Holly, N. ]. Capital. 800. O0O. 90;
surplus and profits, $50. 1924.
Having sold a strip of land to the
Mount Holly Water Company for 1925,
Edward L Durand reserves the right to
use as much water as he wants to food
his Ice pond; to cut and gather ice on the
creek from a point 100 yards above the
dam to the raceway at the end Of the
Hack property, and to maintain his boat
house on its present site. This agreement
may be terminated by either party at the
expiration of ten years.
An animal which Is in class exclusive
iy by itself, and one that Is priced very
highly, is an Esquimaux dog that was
born In Etah, the most northerly settle
ment in the Arctic regions. 1t was brought
from that frozen country by the famous
discoverer of the North Pole and present
ed to DIR. Robert N. Keely. of Browns
Mills. who has named 1t ''Peary" in honor
of this intrepid explorer who risked hi
life for the benefit of science
Christmas cheer In the shape of coal
meat and provisions came to the home o.
Joseph johnson, on White street. whose
family of small children were found t.
be in want while the father was danger
ously Ill with pneumonia, disease from
which his son had Just recovered at thu
hospital. johnson is a team driver To-
Harry Mullen. When his condition be
came known purse was soon made VI
for his relief This kindness was highly
appreciated.
After the family of Joseph g. Bowe
went down to the bakery to attend II
Christmas shoppers on Wednesday even