The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-01-31

rent. Apply az 80 darQen street.
| Hon. Joseph 81. Gaskill and wife lef
last week on trip to Florida.
Agents of the Law and Order Societl
are said to be quite active at Riverside.
Mrs. Walter Loveland, of Riverside, ha
a broken leg, which she received in a fsl
at her home few days since.
Theodore M. Fireng, of Burlington
has instituted proceedings to secure q di
vorce from his wife, Sophia L. Fireng.
Edward Fl. Lewis has been elected Il
succeed the late Richard P. Holeman as
vestrymau of St. Andrew Church.
Mrs. Sarah Antrim, aunt of Ellsworth
Reeve, of Branch street, died at the Bur
lington County Hospital on Thursday
night.
There will be a musicale In st. Andrew
parish house on February 16. Mr.. and Mrs
William j. Baird will render vocal Sc
lections.
DR.. benjamin. F. Soby, 80 years old
city treasurer of Beverly for nearly 81
years, is so III from cancer that his recov
cry is doubtful.
The farm belonging to Evans r. Tom
linson, near Rancocas. has been sold tt
Joseph Rogers, for $4,000. The farm
contains $50 acres.
Walter Tyler, Of Burlington. and Mis-,
Anna Lafferty, of Bordentown, were mar
Tried at the latter place, Saturday night
by Rev. D. ]. Duggan.
Leon Claypoole. who was In the Bur
lington County Hospital, where he wa:
operated on for appendicitis, has recovered
aud returned to his home.
There will be special music at the
Lutheran church, Hainesport, Sunday
morning, when Messrs. J. Spott, and A.
Albright, of Florence, will sing.
james v. Cain, recently retired captain
of Company G, Third Regiment. of Bev.
erly, was probably fatally stricken with
Bright's disease on Saturday.
Valentines and Valentine post cards.
Our assortment is large, unique, refined
and beautiful, and will appeal to your
taste. L. S. Boyce, stationer.
Although he killed a large fox while
out cunning last week, Elmer Erickson,
of New Egypt, had the misfortune to ia
tally shoot his valuable hound dog
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Metho-
dist church will hold cake sale next Sat-
urday afternoon in the room adjoining the
Office of Morris Fl. Keller, on High street.
Mrs. Harry Norcross, of Mount holly.
died on Friday night She was removed
from the parlor to her bedroom up stairs
and expired while being placed in Nor
ris chair.
David E. Sooy, 1876 Mill street. wishes
to extend thanks to all kind friends who
In many ways assisted and offered con-
ISOLATION to him owing to the death Of his
wife last week.
Robbers entered the Medford post Office
last night .and blew open the safe with
nitro glycerine. All the money, stamps
and valuabes were taken. The loss has
not been ascertained.
There will be civil service examination
on February 18th Of candidates for clerk
and carrier for the Mount Holly post
Office. The examination will take place
in the Philadelphia Office.
Benjamin f. Hirshblond, who has rented
the Burtis property on Mill street, ex-
poets to open his new clothing and fur
nishing store next Saturday. He will
carry line of ladies' goods. See adv.
The Fidelis quartette, of Philadelphia,
will render the musical portion of the
entertainment at the reception and BAN
/ quet to the ladies by Mount Holly Lodge
of Masons on the evening of February 8.
A farce entitled Glass Day, together
with comedy music, will be given in the
Mount Holly opera house on the nights of
February and 10. The affair is under
the auspices of the Mount Holly Alumni
Association.
Do not forget Thursday evening, Feb
ruary Q, at O'Clock. Madame Layah
Barakat will lecture then in the Metho-
dist Episcopal church on "The Women of
the Orient" Everybody is invited. The
admission will be 10 cents
Justice of the Peace Bennett Risdon
closed his weeks business on Saturday
night by performing marriage ceremony,
The contracting pa rites were William q,
Frake, of Mount Holly, and Miss Alverta
Moore, of FELTON,, Delaware.
A few minutes after he had returned
from the state convention of municipali-
ties in the interest of commission govern
ment, in Trenton, on Wednesday night,
Mayor Farmer, of Burlington, led q
squad of policemen In raid upon a no.
torious boathouse on Delaware avenue.
-Four occupants, woman and three men,
were arrested.
Frederick Sgman. of Moorestown, APP
piled in Camden for a divorce. He al
his wife. In his bill Sigman declares that
his angry spouse chased him out of the
house with red hot poker, then tore a
board from a pigsty and struck him.
Other domestic infelicities included
throwing dinner plates and that she went
through his pockets for small change.
After she had been missing from her
home since January 20. Julia Bayset, the
dor for Of Mr Mr.
Raymond Bayset, of Roebling, was ar
rested Wednesday afternoon at Trenton
while she was waiting for car to take
her to New Brunswick. When asked why
she left her home the girl stated that she
had been ill-treated and abused by her
father.
George Hartshorn, of New Egypt, was
| surprised last Monday when he found a
hen among his flock that had not single
feather on its body. During the day he
killed some of his chickens, when the one
in question was treated in the same man
ner as the others. After the hen had
been laid aside with those that had been
prepared for market, it jumped down
| from bench unobserved and ran out In
the field with the other fowls.
Have you seen the new 1911 calendar of
The Prudentialf 1t is beauty and has
aroused the enthusiasm of the Company's
agents. The picture represents young
mother holding up her big, blue-eyed
| baby for the attention of an admirin &
world A mother and child like this, the
agents say, should bring out in any house
hold the desire of husband and father to
protect his family through life insurance.
The new calendar is free and the Company
will gladly send a copy upon request to
the Home Office of The Prudential,
Newark. New Jersey.
The city of Beverly evidently wants the
company of tramps, as an item has been
published to the effect that persons of the
wandering class will be served with meals
costing 25 cents instead Of Is cents as
heretofore. The action of the city au.
thorities in raising the price of the meals
and in giving publicity to the fact will be
appreciated In other quarters, as it will
have a tendency to draw the trampine
fraternity from those places where the
meals furnished them is much below the
standard they will expect to get at the 81
cent boarding house.
Leon Crammer, son of Robert Cram
mer, of Cookstown, a lad of about Il
years, was the victim of bold holdup or
Tuesday evening while on a bicycle going
to his home at Cranberry Hall. When
near South Run bridge two men ran from
the woods. One caught the handle bars
while the other man threw him to the
ground, injuring his knee quite badly
One then held him while the other wen
through his pockets and robbed him Of
his watch aud chain, penknife, and wha