The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-07-29
Bordentown.

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Russi and daughter
and Miss Rosie Cain are spending week
at Brindletown Park, in the pines.
David Singleton, carpenter living
here, while at work yesterday, was over
come by the heat and was taken to his
home
Joseph Ravens is nursing sprained
wrist received while operating the punch
ing machines at Burlington Isl and Park
on Wednesday.
The wife of Rev. j. E. Adams, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, is visiting at the home
of her mother, Mrs. Allen Thompson on
Burlington street.
Warden Cook has brought suit against
Harry Haines for allowing his dog to run
at large in fields inhabited by rabbits.
The Justice reserved his decision.
Ralph VanKirk, former resident of
this town, so years of age, and for many
years conductor on the Camden & Am
boy railroad, is quite i'll at Trenton.
Mr.. and Mrs John L. Kuser and Mr..
and Mrs. John P. Hutchinson have re-
turned from Bloomingdale Park, Pa,
where they have been for the past ten
days
Miss Grace Enright, daughter of Thorn
as Enright, who has been spending week
at the home of John Enright, her uncle,
on Farnsworth avenue, has returned to
her home at Camden.
Mrs. John A. Carr and daughter, Miss
Ada Carr, have returned home after six
weeks absence. Mrs. Carr has been di-
viding up the time at the home of her SON
in-law at Moorestown, at Atlantic City
and Philadelphia.
Jimmie Shields, former resident of
Bordentown, who played ball with club
here years ago, and who has been visit
ing relatives here, has started for his
home at st. Louis, Mo-, where he is on
the police force.
Daniel Beckett, the 18-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Beckett, who dis
appeared from his home in this city, on
May oath, has been heard from by his
parents. He is working in the vicinity of
Roxborough. Pa.
The Gabel building has been selected by
the government as the post Office site, and
work on the interior of the building in
question has already been started 1t is
supposed that it will be ready by August
list, but the equipments will hardly be
ready by that time.
A defective fue in the kitchen of the
home of Patrick Brennan, on Spring
street, set fire to the house, on Sunday,
causing slight loss. Before the fire de-
partment arrived the fire was put out by
garden hose and buckets brought into
play by neighbors and Others
Lewis Bailey, who was kicked in the
region of the abdomen by his horse while
trying to drive it from the pasture field,
on Wednesday afternoon, and was taken
to st. Francis Hospital at Trenton, where
an operation was performed, died from
the effects at the hospital on Friday The
body was brought to his home Saturday
afternoon.
Miss Rita Jaques, daughter of Mrs. Jos
ephine Jaques. of the Washington House,
narrowly escaped being killed by acct
dentally falling backward into the cellar
from pair of stairs leading from trap
door behind the barroom, on Wednesday.
She struck her head, her left limb is
badly bruised and she is suffering from
shock 1t was'a miracle that she was not
killed outright, but there was not single
bone broken.
A man thirty years of age, fairly dress
ed and who was blind was found sitting
along the tracks of the Camden and Tren-
ton trolley road near the mile hollow,
Friday afternoon, and brought into Bor-
dentown and handed over to Marshal
Marian. The man had been drinking. He
gave the name of p Schell, and told
the Marshal he had been drinking for
some time. He had a railroad ticket on
him from Baltimore for Asbury Park,
and card, on which was printed charity.
Whether he got off train here or came
from Trenton by trolley is not known
He was placed in the city hall for the
night and next morning placed on a train
for Asbury Park.