The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-03-29
DR.. L. D. Tebo. of Bordentowp. has


At New Egypt, last week, Mrs. Waite
Webb shot black snake that was nearl,
L six feet long.
e Wardell Hopkins, a prominent farme
living near New Egypt, died on Saturday
f from appendicitis.
: The first quarterly conference of thu
Mount Holly NJ E. church will be hello
8 next Monday evening.
: The ladies of the Methodist Church al
Tabernacle will hold fair and festival
a on Friday and Saturday evenings next
A record price has been received by AL
bert Hughes, Tabernacle farmer, for 6
> SOW with eleven 4.weeks' old pigs. They
? brought $50.
Clarence Carmelia, of Mount Holly, has
l removed to Marlton, where he is working
George W. Haines.
Charles Mcgowan, farmer near Marl-
ton, has received 300 bags of seed pota'
toes, and will put 100 acres of land in pc.
JaLOes tnls season.
The ladies of the Methodist church will
; hold cake, pie and bread sale in the store
adjoining THE NEWS office. on the after
noon of Saturday, April 16.
A large audience was present at the
Baptist Church on Sunday evening. The
special Easter music rendered by an aug
mented choir was very fine.
A meeting of the Burlington County
Lyceum of History and Natural Sciences
will be held in the Lewis building, Friday
evening, April 1, at 1880 o'clock.
Clarence 8. Durand, of Buttonwood
street, who is employed in the census de-
partment at Washington, D. c., has been
visiting his family In Mount Holly.
Beautiful articles of silverware, gold
filled watches. chains, musical clocks, etc.,
given as premiums Call and ask for par
ticulars at 11S Mill st., Mount Holly. St.
A large number of people visited the
various burying grounds in Mount Holly,
on Sunday. On many graves there were
parted loved ones.
L. 8. Boyce, stationer, is giving away
absolutely free, souvenir post card of
the old mill which was destroyed by fire
on March 18th. Call and secure one
before they are gone.
At meeting of the Knights of Pythias,
on Friday evening, George W. A. French,
master of finance, reported the collection
of dues to the amount of 1922 II, being
the largest weekly receipts in the history
of the lodge.
County Superintendent Herman A.
Stees has appointed Thomas Ridgway, of
Chesterfield, to the Board of Education
for one year. Mr.. Ridgway and L. F.
Klein received the same number of ballots
in the recent election and the decision was
left to Mr. Stees.
DR.. David D. Wood, the celebrated
blind organist of St. Stephens Episcopal
Church, Philadelphia, who has given mu-
steal recitals in Mount Holly, died at his
home on Sunday. He was one of the best
known organists and composers in the
country
The Democrats of this county are ar
ranging for a dollar dinner" to be held in
the Auditorium hotel, Burlington, on
April ID. it being the 167th anniversary of
the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Promi- |
neut speakers from all parts of the state
are expected to be present.
Any boy anxious to earn money out
side of school hours can secure position
with us. To our best boys we are going
to give savings banks and cash prizes.
The work is easy and does not interfere |
with school duties. s. Earl Assay & Co.,
3S Main street, Mount Holly.
A considerable area was burned over in |
the woods along the South Pemberton |
road Sunday afternoon. Some men from
Mount Holly extinguished the flames af-
ter underbrush and valuable trees had |
been destroyed. 1t Is supposed that sparks |
from passing locomotive started the fire. |
The unclaimed letters that remain in the |
post Office for the week ending March 20, |
are: T. J. Arthur, Miss Helen A. Brown, |
Mrs. Sarah Fisher, Mrs W. L. Prickett, |
Foster Seed Co., Edward Kramer, F. |
Angelic Fastiggs, (foreign), Miss Bessie |
Adamson and Miss Florence Beverland. |
Through the legislative representatives
of this district, consignments of English |
pheasants and Hungarian cartridges have
been received in various localities and lib |
Grated throughout the county. Some of |
the birds were placed near Mount Holly |
by Charles G. Morton and Alexander Du- |
bell.
A picture of Norman Harker, of Mount |
Holly, appeared on Sunday in the illus
trated supplement of the Philadelphia |
Ledger As a member of the Mask and |
Wing Club the young man takes the part |
of one of the flunkies In THE Desert of |
Mahomet," to be rendered by the princi- |
pal dramatic organization of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. whose formal per-
Torrance was given at Atlantic City on
Saturday night.
Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has
placed the Mount Holly High School on
its approved preparatory list. and grad
yates from the latter school can enter the
college without examination. Yet the |
State Board of Education does not think
Mount Holly is of sufficient Importance
to have supervising principal, faYoring
Vincentown instead. Well, maybe Vim
centown will be put on Wellesley's list
some of these days.
While Rev. P. ]. Doernis, the aged
rector of St. Joseph's Catholic church of
Beverly, was administering the commun-
ion on Sunday, the altar, which was a
profusion of flowers, was discovered on
fire. The calmness of the priest pre-
vented stampede. He, with the assis-
lance of Francis Smith, a well known
lawyer, and Edwin Collar, smothered the
blaze before much damage was done.
Collar was painfully burned about the
hands The blaze was caused by lighted
candle dropping into infammable Easter
decorations.
We have just received another carload
of that famous Seal of Minnesota Flour
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