The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-25

on Sunday.
Charles Stewart has moved from Ewes
boro to Mount Holly. He is employed
in the machine works at Smithville.
The Ushers' Union of the Methodist
church will hold their regular business
meeting this evening at the home o.
Harry Bayles.
1t is said that the fellow who defraudeC
many people in Mount Holly by the sale
of self-heating fiat iron, carried away
about 5000 in cash.
A brick addition is being built to the
house on the McIlvain farm at Bunker
Hill, by Mr.. Britton, who recently pur
} chased the property.
The sale of lands for unpaid taxes in
Mount Holly, will take place at the Office
of R. J. B. Slack, on Thursday, August
8, at o'clock. P. M.
i Several deer have been seen in the
vicinity of Goose pond, recently, by G. F.
Horner, of Tabernacle, who reports that
Cut prices have been placed on all our
oil and gasoline stoves. Now is the time
when they are needed. Call at our store
on Mill street. Rosenfeld Bros.
Cyclers are warned not to ride their
wheels on the sidewalk, as there is a fine
of S. for violating the law in this respect.
Notices to that effect have been posted
about town.
William Austin, one of the three negroes
sentenced to forty nine years in the State
Prison last summer for assaulting Mrs
Charles Biddle, died on Saturday. Death
was due to consumption.
John p Hutchinson, of Georgetown,
has decided TO plant at least twenty acres
in hard woods and all kin6s of timber
which will thrive In this latitude. Such
an acreage in years to come will be very
valuable
AS the result of falling over a croquet
wicket at her home, on the Jacksonville
road. Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Samuel
Pew fractured her arm and received other
painful injuries. The unfortunate woman
is 81 years old.
Benjamin Frazier, superintendent of the
Mount Holly Shoe Company, on Grant
street, reports the business of that concern
to be double that of last year. Large
orders are being filed for their trade
in Australia and Cuba.
Rev. William G. Meyer is expected to
arrive home from his trip to Denver, Col,
on Thursday. The regular Wednesday
evening prayer meeting of the Methodist
church will therefore be postponed until
Thursday in order that Mr.. Meyer may
be present.
Captain Slaughter, of Company E, of
the Third Regiment, N. G. N. j., returned
home from rifle practice at Sea Girt early
Saturday morning. He took thirty nine
men down, out of whom at least fifteen
succeeded in qualifying as marksmen on
the short ranges.
The weather. on Tuesday, was the hot
test experienced here in many years.
Sleeping at night was a difficult matter
with many people. During the showers
in the evening some hail fell on the At |
kinson farm on the Jacksonville road, but
it afforded no relief.
The Brotherhood of st. Paul, young
mems organization connected with the
Methodist church, elected the following
officers on Monday night: President, Ebe
W. Parsons; vice president, Howard Cram
mer; secretary, s. Lawrence Bullock;
treasurer, Edwin Ogburn.
Ono of three tramps who were quar-
rellin.s among themselves at Bridgeboro |
while under the influence of liquor,
last eek, came to grief He was bounced
upon by the other two and nearly killed.
The man was so badly injured, it is said, |
that lie will be disigured for life.
TIL, following are the unclaimed letters |
renal ling in the post Office for the week
endin Il July %: Geo. R. Babylon. Miss
Mary Feese, Frank Hanes, Miss Mary Lee
Jacks IN, Anna Andrews Jones, Mrs |
Frank T. Unice, Ralph Maggie, Mrs. R. c. |
Patterson, Mrs. Hanna Swinson, Alfred |
Steiner, Miss Mable Schermerhorn.
The power house of the Burlington J
County Railway Company was able to
resume business after an hours shut down,
on Thursday night when there was but
10 Il h. sw&o ~,
became clogged and the pump failed to
supply water for the boilers. A new and !
more powerful pump has been ordered,
and IFS early arrival is expected.
On Tuesday evening train from Bur |
lington passed WOODLAND station at high |
rate of speed. A person who had charge |
of horse at that point, declares that no
whistle was blown for the crossing and |
the bell on the locomotive was not rung. |
The gentleman alleging these facts lives
in Mount Holly, and he intends TO enter a
formal complaint to the officials of the |
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Bessie Sinclair, colored. with residence
in Philadelphia, was recently employed at
the home of Elwood Stead, on Garden
street, Mount Holly. After leaving there
Mrs. Stead missed dress and some under |
clothing. Learning that the woman was
in Burlington a warrant was issued on the
complaint of Mrs. Stead and Bessie was
arrested on Wednesday night and brought
to the county Jail, charged with theft.
Samuel Simons, the thirteen year old |
drowned Wednesday afternoon. at the
Delanco wharf. He left home shortly
after noon to go fishing. Later bis clothes
were found on the wharf and it is presum-
ed that he grew tired of fishing and went
in to battle. As he was alone at the time
it is not known how the drowning occur
red. The body was recovered the next
day.
Fred Frederickson, Oldest son of Mich
ael Frederickson, farmer on the Cooper
town road, near Edgewater Park. sud
denly disappeared from his home and
his whereabouts are unknown. He was
working in the field until $50 p NJ
on Tuesday, and complained to one of the
other farm hands that his head seemed to
pain him from the heat, and he left the
field to go to the house for water. That
was the last seen of him by any of his
friends
Burlington county farmers have again
come to the front with two freaks which
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