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


Sunday school has purchased new piano
George W. Slimm, of Andersonvile,
Pennsylvania Railroad conductor, ha
been i'll for two weeks.
| On Sunday next Rev. Mr. Kionka, pas
tor of the Lutheran Church, at Riverside
will confirm class of ten at Hainesport
Richard E. Lewis is now collecting TO
the Inter State Telephone Company
Dick has sold his motor cycle to Charlie
Morton.
The regular meeting of the W. @. T. q
will be held at the home of Mrs. A. Boyce
No. Is Garden street, on Friday at
O'Clock, p. m.
A nugget of gold, received from tn,
Conrow Brothers. living in Montana, wa
shown to Mount Holly friends last weel
by Theodore Wills. of Red Lion.
An in-growing toe nail has been inter
fering with the business of William ]
Morgan, of Bispham street, keeping hin
confined to the house for several days las
week.
Having rented the store on Main street
formerly occupied by Harris Glover, Her.
man virgins will remove his restau
rant from Garden street to that place this
week.
Elwood Deviney, paper hanger, en-
ploYed by T. Walter Borton. was taken
quite ill, on Friday, while working at the
residence of William B. Ireland. He was
removed to his home on Murrell street,
but soon came around all right again.
Because of a new order issued, the con-
ductors on the trolley cars running to
Burlington are now taking up two separate
fares, instead of collecting both fares on
the first round among the passengers,
which has been custom adopted for con-
venience.
The Burlington County Prohibition
Convention will meet in the Court House.
Mount Holly, on --ursday afternoon at
100 o'clock. The Mount Holly Alliance
will have charge of the meeting in the
evening, when there will be singing, read
ing. and speaking by Rev. William G..
Meyer.
Henry Bowman will remove from Lum-
berton to his own house in Mount Holly
on Andersonville. He has been awarded
the contract for loading the sand cars at
the former place for j. w. Paxson g
Company. He takes the place of Capt.
Michael BOUCHER, who has served the
firm long and faithfully.
A gentleman of German descent, resid-
ing at Camden, wearing diamonds and
with large roll of money in his pocket,
was found by officer Collins sleeping on
step in fountain square on Wednesday
night. and taken to hotel, where he was
placed in bed. When asked what he was
doing there, the stranger replied: Il am
waiting for car to 60 to Camden"
Allen Filler and Stacy Powell are the
names of two boys who have been placed
in charge of Ellis Parker, the probation
officer, by Justice Laumaster. The young
lads, it is charged, set out to whip little
German boy, who ran into the yard of
Charles B. Vansant, on Madison avenue,
whose wife came out Of the house to pro-
tect him. This sngered the boys and
they threw stones at her, resulting in
their arrest.
An Italian, giving the name of Solomon
Wartell, entered the Trinity church build
ing through window, Wednesday night,
where he expected to sleep until the next
day. His actions were observed, however,
and complaint was made. When Police
man Severns entered the church with a
lantern, the fellow was sitting in a pew
eating loaf of bread. Justice Slack gave
him two days in jail.
Having returned from Paris, where she
has been spending the winter, Miss Lillian
Barnes Allen, owner of the Rancocas
stock farm, on which she has two hundred
horses, has ordered into commits
sion her magnificent houseboat Tomoko
On May 80, Miss Allen will go to Sleeps
head bay and reside there during the
summer. Some of her best horses will
appear on the race track there.
On Thursday night, it is alleged, Harry
Stockton entered barn and stole a
horse, wagon and harness, the property of
G.. Howard Curtis, of Water street. 1t is
said that the outfit was sold the next day
for $21 at Philadelphia bazaar. Will
liam Sine also charges Stockton with the
theft of So. Stockton was arrested at
Marlton and brought to the county Jail
yesterday afternoon by Detective Parker
and Constable Throckmorton. He was
given hearing before Justice Slack and
to Jail in default of $500.
The conference of the A. NJ E. church,
which closed its sessions in Atlantic City,
last week, made the following appoint
ments: Cookstown, W. G. Campbell;
Burlington, ]. h. Morgan; Moorestown,
7. ]. Oliver; Beverly, T. A. V. Henry;
Mount Laurel, c. G. Collins; Crosswicks,
]. A. Pierson; Allentown, W. M Middle
ton; Pensauken, ]. II. Robinson; Mount
Holly, James Grooves; Bordentown, A
Fl. Newton; Riyerton, F. w. Thompson:
Cresson, A. L. Wade. Rev. L. W. Gener-
cite, who had been stationed at Mount
Holly, has gone to Gouldtown.
A mic inf he 10
seen in this section, and believed to have
been the enc which has been seen fire.
quentiy, was killed Thursday morning by
Lewis Southland, at Golfers Mills. The
carcass is eight feet long and nearly four
inches thick. Stories of the huge snake,
which had been seen by various persons
in the last few years, are now recalled and
it is felt certain that the creature has been
slain. In some instances the stories had
the snake "as big round as stove pipe
and as long as two fence rails"
Miss Pierce, living near Viucentown,
has sworn out warrant for the arrest of
an unknown man who, she alleges, enter
ed the home of her uncle, Joseph Bud
den, for whom she keeps house, and COM
mitted serious crime while she was
alone 1t is said that the deed was the
work of one of two young men who were
in this section selling a patent medicine,
alleging that they represented the Gundy
Medical Company, of Philadelphia, but
which has no existence When the in
truder left the premises, Miss Pierce has
tened to her nearest neighbor and gave
the alarm. Willing hands joined in the
pursuit, but the fellow left town before