The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-08-20
The heavy..ralns are doing much dam.

picnic at TAUNTON on SATURDAY
Quarterly meeting was held In the \
E. Church at Indian Mills on Thursday.
John Taubel, of Riverside is sufferin
from stroke of paralysis, which affec
!. his left side.
Stacy c. Prickett, of Medford, has gon
: to Philadelphia to have an operation pc
formed on his spine.
The Interstate Telephone Compan
: will ask for franchises to do business i
Delanco and Riverside.
: The young folks of Chairville will hol
: peach festival on the school house law
on Saturday evening, August 81.
: Rev. Eli Clifford, of Clayton, had
purse containing $12 stolen from him q
the Pitman Grove camp meeting.
While working at saw in his saw mil
on Pine street. ON Thursday, William F
Rossell was badly cut on his left hand.
A new edition of Boyd's county di
rectory has been issued. There are n
new features except that it contains NOR
pages.
Mrs. John Sharp suffered stroke o
paralysis on Friday. She has been re
moved to the residence of her daughte
! in Philadelphia.
Thieves effected an entrance into tn
hotel at Centreton. on Thursday night
They secured some money, quantity o
, whiskey and several hundred cigars.
/ The grocerymen of Mount Holly will
close their stores on Wednesday, Aug. %
} at 10 A. NJ, to attend the Merchants pic
} mic to be held at the Burlington Islant
Park.
If you have headache or neuralgia
which is often caused from defective eyes
consult Stiles & Co., eye specialists, at the
Masonic Temple, Wednesday, August 81
Hours: $50 to 4.
John Mickle, of Medford, purchased /
horse in the city on Friday and took il
home, turning it into field with colt
The latter in play, kicked the new conner
and cut its leg badly.
! Mount Holly was represented at the
Brighton Beach race on Thursday. Those
in the party were George l. Bovine, T
Harry Bowker, Joseph Powell George
Dubel and Elwood Stead.
The remains of Mrs. Annie M. Griffiths
who died at the residence of her sister
Mrs Isabella Watkinson, on Cherry street,
were buried on Thursday in the Wood
land cemetery at Philadelphia.
A reunion of the descendants of Lew
and Hester Platt, of Florence, was held
on the Mount Holly Fair Grounds Oh
Wednesday. Five generations were rep
resented and many people were present.
On Friday afternoon Constable Gaskill
arrested Andrew Mathews on Risdon
street, where he was found defying the
whole neighborhood. He paid a fine OF
So 45, instead of serving four days in Jail.
An accident which was devoid OF
serious results, occurred at Rancocas a
week ago in which Horace johnson, aged
10 years, was struck on the chin by a ball
from Flobert rifle in the hands of Nor
decai Haines, aged IS years.
Lemuel johnson took his two daugh-
tiers, May and Bertha, to Willow Grove on
Friday. The trolley car in which they
were riding struck an ice wagon, tumbling
it over ON it's side A boy who was rid
ing on the back part of the wagon re-
ceived fractured skull. The car was
rendered useless. The passengers were
badly frightened.
William Wallis, of Florence, found a
boy of II years walking alone on the street
Wednesday night crying freely. He
said his name was Thomas Wolfe.
of St. Johns Home, Philadelphia He
was taken to Florence by a man
who was going to adopt him, but on land
ing him from the boat they in some man.
ner got parted. Mr. Wallis took charge
of the boy and sent him back to the Home.
The trolley road was opened in Burling-
ton on Tuesday. The car that first passed
through the place was No. IS, and ii
began running on the 18th of the month,
the number of passengers carried being
1920. The Mount Holly Banjo club went
on its annual tour last week. Manager
Troth purchased 10 tickets at the railroad
station As the trolley road and the mu-
sicians had good luck, the superstitious
bad luck concerning the number IS seems
to have been sidetracked.
William Campbell, II years of age, OF
Jersey City, was drowned at Barnegat
Pier Sunday morning about 2 o'clock.
The boy arrived at the pier at late hour
on Saturday night intending to spend the
next day grabbing and fishing. At one
o'clock he was awakened by an older
brother who had accompanied him and to-
gether they started to pull in few crab
lines suspended over the ties into the
water A gale of wind was blowing at
the time and Campbell, while bending
over, was blown off the pier. Neither Of
the boys could swim. A float was thrown
to Campbell but the darkness prevented
his reaching it. The body was recovered
later in the day, and was taken charge OF
by his father, Charles Campbell, a Penn
sylvania railroad conductor.
| Theodore B. Wells, of Southampton
township, appeared before Justice Krayel
on Friday evening in pretty bad condi
ton. Both his eyes were. inflamed and
there were large black Jumps beneath
them. His lips were cut, there was gast
over his left eye and his nose had the ap
pearance of being broken. He asked fol
warrants for the arrest of Grant Stump,
William Jennings and Henry Evans Of
Medford, who assaulted him on Wednes
day night While at Fox Chase on We'd
nesday, Stump was whipping man, and
lady called on Wells to stop him. Thu
latter interfered, and in the scuffle tina
followed Wells managed to take care o
himself Later in the day he drove t.
Red Lion, and as he alighted from his car
rage the men attacked him. He wa
kicked number of times and receives
internal injuries. Jennings and Evan
were arrested on Saturday by Constabl
Woodruff, and Justice Allen, of Medford
held them for court under 5000 bail. TIL
officers have not yet captured Stump, VIII
said he wanted to kill Wells.