The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-12-20
Christmas Post Cards at Boyce's.

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Mrs. Philip V. VanArsdale, of New
York. is visiting relatives in Mount Holly.
Miss Anna Harris, student at Welles-
ley College, is home for the Christmas
vacation.
The II. B. Smith Machine Company has
had a new boiler installed In the works
at Smithville.
A number of people walked across the
Delaware river on the ice from Burlington
to Bristol on Sunday.
During the past week some of the local
dealers partly filed their houses with ice
eight inches In thickness.
William Richmond and wife of Lumber
ton, returned to their winter quarters at
Philadelphia, yesterday.
The annual report shows that eighty-one
veterans died at the Kearney Soldiers
Home during the past year.
John Bozarth of Mount Holly, has ac-
cepted position with E. ID. Holeman's
clothing establishment on Main street.
After being In California for nearly
seven years, George Greenwald returned
to his home in Lumberton, yesterday.
Cranes celebrated Christmas box paper.
We solicit your inspection before buying
elsewhere. L. s. Boyce, Stationer.
Mrs. Albert Arbor, Mrs. Charles Dem
ming and son Warren, of Delanco, spent
Thursday with friends in Mount Holly.
As sketch artists, Andrew COLON and
daughter, of Delanco. made quite hit on
their appearance at the Mount Holly
theatre
john W. Harris, who was operated on
for appendicitis, returned home on Fri
day. He is doing all right, except for
slight cold.
The Riverside Press, issued last Friday,
was enclosed In a colored supplement
highly in keeping with the Christmas
holiday season.
Thieves who broke into the residence of
Henry p Sheldon at Moorestown, on
Tuesday night, stole a revolver, watch
and some jewelry.
After travelling through the west for
several weeks, for the Victor Talking
Machine Co., Clarence Price returned to
his home in Mount Holly, on Saturday.
A jury In the Philadelphia courts, on
Thursday, rendered verdict of not guilty
In the case of Alexander Rhodes, for
merly of Riverside. on a charge of wife
murder.
A telegram received this morning states
that Frederick G. Norcross, son of s.
Budd Norcross, was seriously injured in q
railroad accident near Spokane, Washing.
ton, this morning.
The Christmas exercises of the Presby-
terrain Sunday school will be held on Tues
day evening, December g. The Union.
Vile Sunday school will hold its anniver-
sary on the same date.
Invitations have been issued for the mar
riage of Miss Ada Rebecca Vennel and
Allen Hickman Vance, both of Delanco.
The ceremony will take place at the home
of Mrs. Clara Vennel, on Thursday, De-
cember 20.
The annual meeting of the Firemens
Relief Fund was held last evening, and
the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, S. Earl Assay; vice president, Will
liam ]. Haines; secretary. Harry 8. Garon;
treasurer, George W. A. French.
United States Mashal Thomas ]. Alcott,
of Mount Holly, has advertised for bids
for the destruction of 1926 barrels of tomato
paste, seized for violation of the pure
food law at Quinton, where 1t had been
shipped from another state.
The Mount Holly public schools will
close for the Christmas holidays on Friday
afternoon and reopen on Wednesday, the
fourth of January. The schools will be
closed this afternoon In respect to the
memory of Joseph G. Bower.
Next Monday, at noon. the annual
Christmas dinner to children will be given
In the Masonic Temple by Mount Holly
lodge of Elks. All children are invited.
and will not only be given good, turkey
dinner. but other things besides.
On account Of the ice In the Delaware
river which causes much uncertainty and
irregularity in the schedule of the Della
ware River Transportation Company, the
timetable which has been In effect has
been suspended until further notice.
At meeting of the creditors of The R.
P. Sword Manufacturing Company, held
on Friday at the law Office of William A.
Slaughter. Robert A. Batchelder, of Cam
den, was appointed trustee in bankruptcy
He filed bond in the sum of $1,000.
Joseph Peak. aged "a years, a veteran of
the civil war, died on Friday, at the resi-
dence of his-in-law, Thomas Conover, on
Greenwood avenue, Mount Holly. from
stroke of paralysis. The funeral will take
place this afternoon, interment being
made in Brotherhood cemetery.
While walking on the upper creek Fri
day, Charles G. Morton, when opposite
the bungalow of the Early Risers' club,
saw water snake two feet long frozen in
the ice. He cut the reptile out, and it
proved to be quite curiosity while hang
ing In front of Morton's grocery store.
The annual fair and festival of the
Lumberton Fire Company will be held in
the Jr. o. u A. M. hall at that place on
the evenings of February Is, II and IS,
1911. Many valuable articles are to be
given away to holders of tickets. They
are ten cents each and include admission
to the fair.
New claimants for portion of the for
tune of Schuyler Rainier, the rich Flor
ence farmer found dead In his cornfield
last October, have appeared In the per-
sons of George and Samuel Wilson, of
Bordentown, who have assigned Attorney
II. B. Wells to push their claims as neph-
ews TO an equal division with the other
heirs.
Assembling at the residence of the
Misses Sherman, on Broad street, Friday
night, members of the congregation pro-
ceeded to the home of Rev. James II.
Durham to remind him that the occasion
marked the fourteenth anniversary of his