The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-12-27
New Year Cards, Booklets and ealen.


4; New Year Cards, Booklets and Calen-
dars. L. 8. Boyce, ststioner.
i Postmaster Cowperthwait and assistants
made prompt delivery of the heavy mails
last week.
The usual watch night services will be
held In the Methodist Church on New
Years eve.
Upsetting cup of hot tea on Wednes-
day evening, the little child of Mrs. Cole
ridge, of Bridgeboro, badly burned its
hands.
Robert A. Semple, Jr., received bad
cash over the eye by falling casting, on
Friday, while In a storage bin at the
Hainesport iron foundry.
While working on the trolley road at
Kinkora, Friday, Harry Robinson, of
Florence, had his shoulder dislocated by
getting caught between two cars.
A. G. Buck, secretary of the Wrights-
town Grange, will deliver an address at
the annual meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture in Ohio, on January 1S.
Henry Resented desires to thank the
public for Its liberal patronage during the
year 1910. which has been his banner year
He wishes to extend happy New Year
greeting to all.
Next Monday being holiday, it is re-
quested that all advertising copy and
nthar rnatfar infandod For fho navt iao,,o nf
THE News be sent to this Office not later
than Friday night.
In the Church of the Assumption at
Jobstown, on Wednesday morning, Janu-
airy II, will occur the marriage of John
Mccormick and Miss Uppenstein. both of
that place.
Following are the unclaimed letters re-
naming In the post Office: Florie Althrope,
Mrs. Dontonia Bonelli, Miss Mae Conover,
James Cooper, Miss Lille Parker, Fred
W. Miller, Robt Snow, Mr.. Teakette.
Mrs. Sarah Watkins, Joe Wagon, F. W.
VanKirk.
Richard French, of Silver Greek, New
Mexico, is visiting relatives In Mount
Holly. He went west with the idea of
engaging in mining operations, but at the
last moment changed his plans in this re-
spect. He has been made captain of the
May, the handsome pleasure yacht an
chored opposite Philadelphia, and former
ly owned by Alexander VanRensselaer.
Jacob s. Prickitt and Beulah j. Austin
were married at the Methodist parsonage,
Mount Holly, December 25, 1860, by Rev.
Samuel Vansant. They have lived the
most of their fifty years in Mount Holly,
twenty-three years on Bispham street.
where they now reside. Mr.. Prickitt is rs
and she is five years his junior. Both are
enjoying good health. They received a
purse of gold from their two children, FL
mer E. Prickitt and Mrs. Ida Cook. Mrs
Prickitt has her first table cloth bought
fifty years ago; 1t is linen with picture of
Washington woven in the center.
After being connected with the Otto
Gas Engine Company, of Philadelphia,
for about sixteen years, Edward F. Burns,
formerly of Mount Holly, having dis
posed of all his stock to that corporation,
has resigned as vice president and gen.
eral manager and will sevef his connec-
ton with the concern on January LIST. He
wanted to quit sooner, but the company
persuaded him to accept large sum and
remain fiveIyears longer, which time would
have expired next May. Mr.. Burns will
retire to private life with large fortune.
Having passed through many years of
severe business strain, he will now seek
health and pleasure while young man.
Mrs. Charles Brown, aged 80, of Mount
Holly, died Sunday, at the home of her
son-in- law, Dean Angus Crawford, of the
Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va.
She has wide acquaintance in the Allan
tic states and In England. She is survived
by two daughters, Mrs. Crawford and
Mrs. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, wife of the
Bishop of Southern Brazil; two grand
sons, Angus Mcdonald Crawford, head
master of the West Texas Military AGA
deny at San Antonio. Texas. and Charles
Brown Crawford, of the Bellevue Hospi-
tai. New York, and a nephew, Captain H.
B. West, In command of the revenue cut
ter Yamacraw. Her remains will be in
tered in Mount Holly to-day.
Assemblyman White thought for time
that he would have to give himself a
Christmas present of new overcoat. On
Saturday afternoon Abner Coombs, a
Pemberton man, accosted the Assembly
man on the street for a small loan. Mr.
White said he did not have any change but
he would be in his Office in few minutes.
Coombs started for that place but when
White got there the other fellow was not
ON hand. Later in the evening the As
semblyman searched for his overcoat and
could not find 1t. Knowing that Coombs
had been in the Office he suspicioned that
circumstance had something to do with
the missing garment, so he sent out a
police alarm. and later In the evening was
informed that the man and the overcoat
were in custody at the city hall. Burlington.