The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-04-25
LOCAL NEWS.

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Harry F. Jones has accepted position
with the Campbell Preserving Company,
of Camden.
T. Lacey Atkins was quite ill last week.
He was found unconscious in his yard. on
Thursday.
Egg plants, radishes, lettuce, onions,
cucumbers, string beans, fruit, candy and
nuts at Thos. Cavanaugh's, Main st.
The Roosevelt Republican Club, of Bev-
erly, having 1875 members, has formulat-
ed plans for the organization of brass
band
Daniel Collins, colored, of Kinkora, So
years of age, died Wednesday afternoon
at Mckinley hospital, Trenton, from con-
gestion of the brain.
The Daughters of America, of Lum-
berton, held festival and supper at that
place on Saturday night. There was a
large attendance
Following are the unclaimed letters re-
naming in the post Office for the week
ending April %: Mrs Harry Dodson,
Geo. Duff, A. N. Jones, B. H. Peacock,
Lawrence Waterman.
There was an unusually large number
of people from the country districts in
Mount Holly on Saturday night. and the
merchants who advertise felt the effects
of their presence.
Wanted Every good-looking man.
woman and child in Burlington county to
sit for photographs at Pickard's Main
street studio, Mount Holly. Prices from
one cent up. Open Sundays.
The Burlington department store is now
conducting the five and ten cent store in
Mount Holly, having purchased the bust
ness from Benjamin Abraham, who will
continue to act as manager.
Ninety per cent. of headache is caused
from eye strain. If you have headache
or neuralgia have your eyes examined by
Stiles & Co., eye specialists, at the Ma
sonic Temple. Mount Holly, tomorrow.
Henry H. Savage, student in the
law office of Captain Walter A. Barrows,
has been appointed an agent of the Phil
adelphia Casualty Company, and is pre-
pared to write accident, liability and
plate glass insurance.
The finance committee of the Board of
Freeholders, with several members of that
body. paid visit to the almshouse on
Thursday. They were invited by Steward
Harbert, who desired them to see many
defects in the property. There will pro-
baby be an interesting report at the
meeting next week.
Mechanic Circle, No. IS, Brotherhood
of the Union, of Smithville, did itself
proud on Thursday evening by initiating |
six members into the circle. From the |
supreme Office in Philadelphia come words |
of praise in recognition of the work re-
Gently done by the Smithville member
ship. The same circle initiated four |
members on the 18th of last month.
Mrs. Robert Given, living near Marlton,
who tried to kill her husband by shooting |
him while in bed, and who was committed |
to the Mount Holly jail, was removed to |
the insane asylum at New Lisbon yester- |
day. Her mental condition grew worse
while confined here. She labored under
the delusion that she was going to be /
hanged yesterday, and declared she could |
hear carpenters erecting the scaffold
The water which the Relief engine
threw on the Pine street saw mill, during
test of the machine given on Tuesday,
had much to do with saving the building
from destruction by fire. Frank Stewart
was burning some brush nearby on Wed
nesday, and spark flying on the water
soaked roof, started blaze which burned
good sized hole. The flames were dis
covered and extinguished by William H. |
Rossell and Constable John Throekmor-
ton
Mrs Bertha Borden, wife of Charles
Borden, died Wednesday at her home in |
Groveville, a few miles from Bordentown,
from injuries received by having her
dress take fire from her cook stove on |
Monday. As soon as Mrs. Borden dis
covered she was on fire she ran from the !
house into the open air, where the wind |
famed the flames, burning nearly: all of
her clothing from the body. She was 2S
years of age. She leaves husband and
two children, one babe six months old. |
The election of officers of st. Andrews
church, yesterday, resulted as follows:
Wardens, Charles Evan Merritt, Edward |
Wills; vestrymen, B. F. Haywood Shreve,
VIM. Burling Abbey, Richard c. Barring
ton, George Rendell, Charles A. Sims,
George A. Lirpincott, William A. Slaught |
er, Clarence H. Polhemus Deputies to
convention, Charles Evan Merritt. B. F.
Haywood Shreve, VIM. Burling Abbey;
alternate deputies. William A. Long,
George Rendell. Edward Wills.
Washington Camp, No. So, P. o. s. of
A., of Delanco, will celebrate their tenth /
anniversary tonight Several addresses
will be made by prominent members of |
the organization in this and other states,
notable among which will be one by ex-
Mayor Kenney, of Reading, Pa. At the
close of these exercises the camp and its
guests will enjoy banquet. The festiv-
tiles will be continued tomorrow even |
ing, when the Churchill Entertainment |
Bureau, of Philadelphia, will entertain |
the members of the lodge and their friends |
in the town hall.
Great excitement prevailed at Toms |
River Friday night. over the big forest
fire that threatened the town. The fire, |
which had taken a southwest course dur
ing the day, changed its course at night,
and came sweeping towards the village
and made things very uncomfortable. 1t
got within half mile of the heart of the
town and but hundred yards from several
dwelling houses, and it looked as if moth
ing could prevent the destruction of many
houses, if not the town, when, after all
hopes had been given up, the wind shifted,
driving the fire in the opposite direction.
The fire came so near the village of Ian
Okla that the people had to pillow the field
to prevent it coming into the town. Two
houses were burned near the village. Ian
Okla was destroyed by a forest fire three
years ago. At Barnegat Park small
house was burned. and nearly the whole
tract of valuable pine timber containing
much game, was burned