The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-16
Do YOU boil your drinking water If

Do you boil your drinking water II
not, now is good time to begin.
Mrs. NJ. A. Reamer will conduct the
Epworth League service In the N. E.
Church next Sunday evening.
The stork left 5-pound baby girl at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Ritter, on
Pine street, on Sunday morning.
Mrs. Budd NJ Rigg, of Florence. will
sing solo at the opening of the Moose's
new home In Mount Holly next Tuesday
evening
The members of the Ankokas Canoe
Club will give minstrel show in the
Mount Holly Opera House on Wednesday
evening, February 81.
Beginning next Saturday night no NOV
ing pictures Will be shown in Mount Holly
for two weeks, during which time there
will be show in the opera house
under the management of a medicine
company.
The revised bids for the new school
building were opened on Thursday even
ing. There were ten bidders. The high
est figure was $42, 800, the lowest $32, 45O.
Joseph Steelman, of Bridgeton, was the
lowest bidder. The matter was not de-
cided but was laid over until Thursday
evening.
The township ordinance requiring the
removal of snow from the sidewalks with
In certain time after its fall, has been
apparently forgotten, like many others.
A few years ago number of property
owners were arrested and fined for failure
to observe this statute, which is still on
the books, and for long time afterward
the sidewalks were quickly cleaned.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Burlington County Fair Association
was held on Saturday. The terms of
three directors had expired-Edward B.
Jones, Elton A. Smith, and Benjamin W.
Zelley-and they were reelected. Bena-
jah p Wills was elected president and
secretary, and Charles Evan Merritt,
treasurer. A dividend of five per cent
was declared.
There were quite few exhibitors from
this section at the Burlington poultry
show which closed on Saturday night
In the Barred Plymouth Rock class Dr.
J. Ridgway Haines, of Mount Holly, re-
received fourth prize for cocks and first
for cockerels. Fred Dunston was another
Mount Holly winner. In the Rose Comb
Rhode Island Red class, he got third prize
for light cockerels and third for pullets
Fire destroyed a dwelling house at New
Lisbon, Tuesday night. The house was
situated opposite the railroad station and
was occupied by Harry Pitman. The fire
was discovered about ten O'Clock at night
by Mr.. Pitman who was not able to get
any water, all the pipes and wells being
frozen, so the house was soon destroyed
and the occupant did not save single
piece OF furniture The fire caught from
a defective 1ue In the second story Mrs.
Pitman and her children were away from
home at the time of the fire.
Columbus.
Nearly all the ice houses In this section
have been filed with 11-inch ice.
The temperature record for last Satur- |
day morning was 100 below zero In |
Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Dobbins left last
Thursday for Jacksonville, Florida, to |
spend the winter.
Rev. 1. D. Moore, L. c. Ingling, George
Black and Robert Gould attended the
poultry show at Burlington last Friday.
The local W. c. T. U. will be largely
represented at the Burlington County w.
0. I. U. convention to be held at Mount |
Holly on Thursday.
Columbus Camp, P. D. s. of A., will |
give an unusually interesting humorous
In the Grange hall on
Saturday evening, January 20.
A slight fire at the Georgetown school
house last Wednesday made it necessary
% close the school two days for repairs.
The teacher, Miss Minnie Blake, and her
pupils deserve much credit for the prompt
of the fire by forming bucket
brigade and carrying water to the loft
where, by heroic efforts, they succeeded
IN saving the bnilding from destruction.
The Grand officers of the New Jersey
Improved Order of Red Men will oficiate
1t the installation of the Columbus Tribe,
High Sun No. 1872. on Wednesday even.
ng, January 81. 1t is expected that
from all Tribes In the
district and others outside will be present.
A banquet is to be rendered the Grand |
officers and visitors in the Grange hall at
The conclusion of the 'sleep."