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

t The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry j. Sherman, of Union street, is
: quite i'll.
, The annual picnic of the Friends First
day school will be held at Rancocas Park
| on August LIST.
e Palmyra townships population is 2,64S,
gain in five years of 343; Eastampton
township, 5S7, gain of g.
+ John s. Rogers, of stanwick, has been
awarded the contract to make alterations
to the Mount Holly Bank.
Good ten room house, all conveniences,
rent $40 per month; also five room brick
house, So per month. A. A. Anderson.
! Rancocas Park will be open every night
during the balance of the summer, and
the merry go-round will be in operation.
, The Mount Holly Presbyterian Church
has received 1890 from the estate of
Thomas Morrison, deceased, of New
Lisbon.
The Columbus Snapper Club is arrang-
ing for its annual picnic to be held in
Townsend's Grove, Columbus, on Tues
day, August 8.
Repairs are being made to the walls and
roof of the Methodist Church. The tin
cutters. which are worn out, will be re-
placed with copper.
Louis B. Davis lost ring between Mill
street hotel and South Pemberton road
Has on inside initials L. B. D. Reward, if
returned to the hotel.
The coal yards of ]. G. Gaskill, S. B
Lippincott and E. II. Stokes will be
closed Saturday afternoons until Septem-
Der LIST, to give their employees half
holiday.
Walter E. Harrington has resigned as
general manager of the Camden and
[ Trenton trolley road. 1t is rumored that
Paul R Goldey will be Mr.. Harrington's
successor.
The Trenton Manufacturing Company
has rented the shirt factory on Risdon
street, recently vacated by Liebovitz &
Sons They will continue the manufac.
ture of shirts, beginning some time in
August.
At the residence of Harry Albright, on
East Mill street, last night, occurred the
marriage of Thomas Strickland, of
Browns Mills. and Miss Sarah MCGEE, of
Mount Holly. The ceremony was per-
formed by Justice of the Peace John D.
Clevenger.
The second game of base ball between
Pemberton and New Egypt will be played
at the latter place on Thursday afternoon
Two special cars will be attached to the |
los train from Mount Holly, with spec
ial rate of 43 cents for the round trip from |
Pemberton to New Egypt.
There was convention of Baptist
Young Peoples Societies at Camden last
week. Rev. r. II. Baker, of Mount Holly,
delivered an address on ''The Function of |
a Young Peoples Organization. Rev.
Frank G. Woods, of Moorestown, spoke
on Qualification for Service.
One night last week some chairs at the
residences of Charles Travis and Mrs.
Frank Haines, on Garden street, were re-
moved from the front porches. A search
was made and the missing articles were
found to have been thrown in yard close
by. The perpetrators of this piece of
malicious mischief, it is said, are known,
and repetition of the offence will get
them into trouble.
Joseph Williams, one of the colored
boys confined in jail awaiting trial for
robbing the residence of Samuel H.
Chambers, on Garden street, has sent
word down town to have his shoe box
broken and burned. He believes it is a
'hoodoo." Joseph was a shoeblacking
merchant, doing business in front of
Greenwald's barber shop. The box in
question is the one used by Stephen Dick
son. sentenced to two years in state prison
for stabbing his sweetheart. 1t was also
owned by John Devan, alias Handsome"
who served term in the reform school,
Williams received the box as a legacy
from his former companions and now he
is in trouble.
A. F McCorquodale, of Bryan, Texas,
who recently received considerable motor
iety in Camden, by reason of his escapade
and arrest on complaint of Mrs. Herman
virgins. of Mount Holly, who charged
him with the theft of her gold watch
while they were stopping at hotel, will
be tried at Doylestown, Pa, in Septem-
Der. for an alleged criminal assault on
Mrs. William G. Fisher. of Bristol, with
whom he boarded. While alone in the
house McCorquodale entered the kitchen
and asked Mrs. Fisher for a match. 1t
was then that the struggle ensued, which
terminated with the appearance of Miss
Rumsey The fellow was committed by
Squire Craft, and taken to Jail by con-
stable Bloodgood. McCorquodale was
counting lady in Mount Holly by letter,
and when he made his first appearance
here she disliked the man and turned him
down. He had not been in town a day
when he was arrested as a suspicious
character. "You can't arrest me, he said
to Detective Parker. eff you want trou-
BILE, +" said the latter, ''you can have it, as
think you are big enough for me to HIT
"Well, you officers have all the law on
your own side, )" said the stranger, and he
went to Jail, but was soon released Par
ker says the man is first. class crook He
beat the boarding houses at New Egypt.
Going from there to Pemberton he tuned
piano and spoiled the instrument. Then
he went into the country. Stopping at
a house McCorquodale said he had been
sent there to put the piano in good shape.
A message over the telephone, however,
proved that the fellow was an imposter,
and he was ordered out of the house.
ASTORIA.
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Personal.
Mr.. and Mrs William Sherman went to |