The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-12-26
LOCAL NEWS.

Mount Holly Fife and Drum Corps
Neil Suffer, who is attending school I
Lawrenceville, is home for the holiday
Howard Eckert has succeeded JAIME
Assay in the employ of the Crew-Levic
Oil Company.
There will be no further drills by tn
members of Company E until the nigf
of January 8.
The annual meeting of the Mt. Laurt
Pursuing and Detective Company will b
held at Mt. Laurel on January 8.
The highest cash price will be paid 70
all kinds of raw furs at Parker's billiar
room, No. 10 High ST.. Mount Holly.
Michael johnson went to Philadelphia
on Friday, where he will receive treat
ment in hospital for varicose veins
Some of the young people of Lumber
ton will give dance on New Years nigh
for the benefit of the fire company at tina
place.
The contest for the position of postmas
ter at Columbus has been brought to
close by the appointment OF Charles L
Carslake.
Mrs. G. Fl. Atkinson, of Pointville, at
ter receiving treatment at a Philadelphia
hospital has returned to her home muci
improved In health.
In addition to having succeeded ALFRED
B. Joyce as janiter of the Opera House
Jacob Haag also has charge of the lodg'
room of the P. o. s. of A.
Honors were conferred upon Jerome b
Grigg last week. He has been president
of the Commercial Club, of Joplin, Mo-
and upon retiring from that office was pre-
sented with a watch and chain studded
with diamonds.
1t is said that during the recent sale Of
some goods at the Mount Holly Academy
property, several articles were stolen, and
that people were detected carrying OF
things which they did not purchase. Mat
tiers became quite mixed for while, but
they were finally Strengthened out.
For the excellent condition In which
these section bosses have kept their
territory on the Amboy division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, two prizes have
come to Mount Holly $50 to William Nc
Intosh and s25 to Michael Butler. E. F.
Hancock, of Pemberton, also received
so5
In addition to having secured an as
sistant teacher for the high school at Med
ford, the Board Of Education of that
place has appointed Nelson Peak as tru-
ant officer. 1t is his intention to see that
every child in the township, between the
ages of and IA years, is regular at
tendant at the public school.
What is said to be the largest wrought
iron stern frame ever made. weighing ST.
800 pounds, was completed at the Mac
Pherson, Willard & Co. steam forge, at
White Hill, last week. 1t was construct
ed for steamship for the Southern Pacific
Steamship Company, now being built at
Cramps shipyards, Philadelphia.
As Samuel j. Cowperthwait, who keeps
a general store at Columbus, was driving
to Bordentown early last week, and when
near J. Holmes Longstreet's farm, he met
an automobile, when his horse became
frightened and turned the wagon upside
down. Cowperthwait was injured in the
left temple and left shoulder
Mrs. John Reeves, of West Washington
street, ran down the yard, on Thursday
morning, with the evident intention of
jumping into the creek, but she was
caught by Howard Taylor before accom-
plishing her purpose. 1t is said the wo-
man was laboring under a temporary
mental arrangement because of illness
Miss Alice Riley, sister in-law of Alfred
Wolfrom, proprietor of the West End
Hotel, died suddenly Wednesday night.
She was found dead in bed the following
morning. The woman retired for the night
in her usual good spirits and health. Cor
oner Bishop and DR.. Parsons were call
ed. and they found that death resulted
from heart trouble.
The Firemen's Relief Association of
Northampton township held its annual
meeting at the America Hose Company's
house, last week, and elected the follow
ing officers: President, S. Earl Assay; Sec
rotary, Harry Garon; treasurer. G. w. A..
French; trustees, Samuel E. Colder and
Frank Naylor. There is about $11, 900 in
the treasury, and there was gain last
year of about $500.
A step looking to the amelioration of the
condition of the prosecuted Jews has re-
suited In Hebrew relief association being
organized in this county. Samuel Stern,
of Riverside, is the president, Herman
Krupnick, of Mount Holly, vice president,
Nathan Worth, of Burlington. secretary,
and Lewis Kaplan, of Burlington, treas
urer. The collectors for the fund for the
relief of the prosecuted Hebrews are Her
man Krupnick and William Gardiner,
Mount Holly, Samuel Stern and Nathan
Worth. Riverside. Nearly $50 has already
been contributed.
A. h. Assay and Casper Lippincott, who
are charged with robbing the vacant resi-
dence of William H. Getzner, of Phil
adelphia, located on the Jacksonville road,
near Burlington, on Wednesday night,
were placed in the county Jail Thursday
evening. Both men denied that they had
stripped the place of its costly fixtures
but claimed that the work had been done
by accomplices. who are still at large. II
the capture of these men Constable Nc
Cormick exhibited considerable bravery
by entering the cellar of the house wher'
they were hiding.
Giovanni Cayaldi. an Italian, "a year
of age, indicted for killing Iron Cranmer,
of West Creek, pleaded guilty to murder
In the second degree at Toms River, OIL
Tuesday. The trouble occurred during
fight, and because the prisoner was no
armed, but used a revolver handed t.
him by friend, the plea was accepted
and Justice Charles E Hendrickson sen
fenced Cayaldi to twenty years at har'
labor in the state prison. Eckard p Budd
of Mount Holly, was counsel for the de
fence, and he made an eloquent plea TO
as light sentence as the crime woul'
permit.
From the present outlook the Delawar
and Atlantic Telephone Company will pus
its work here in short time Requests 70
nermissinn To Law wires under sidewalk