The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-08

house. S. per month. A. A. Anderson.
J. St. Paurs Lutheran Church, near Hainei
f port, has purchased from George Clayto
g a house and lot on Washington street fc
a parsonage.
4 Unclaimed letters remain in the pos
n Office for AIDA Williams Gilbert, An
brose Let's, Dennis Lippincott, Miss Ma
Mitchell, Caytucio N Marlachette.
Lawyer George NJ. Bacon had an ace
, dent on Thursday. Turning a corner
4 Riverside, bis automobile collided with
trolley car The machine was disable
but Mr.. Bacon escaped injury.
The Camden and Trenton Railway CO
q has adopted the half hour trolley SEIZED
ule, which went into effect on Saturday
The corrected time table will appear i
the next issue of THE NEWS.
q B. II. Porter, of Chicago. arrived i
Mount Holly, on Saturday. and left 70
the east on Sunday. He will return t
this section in October for the purpose o
buying the cranberry crop.
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A jolly camping party left Mount Holly
yesterday, for Seaside Park, where the,
will remain a week. Included in tn,
number were George T. Durand, Harrl
G. Randall, James W. Bowker, Norman
N. Gale, j. Byron Grigg.
A special meeting of the Board of Free
holders has been called to meet at tn,
Court House, on Wednesday, August 8
for the purpose of considering and acting
on an application of the Delaware and At
lantic Telegraph and Telephone Company
to lay conduits on certain improved roads
in the county.
Jacob Claypoole, ST., of Cherry street,
Mount Holly, who works at Scudder's
planning mill. Camden, met with an &C
cident, on Thursday, having the fingers
of his left hand cut off by circular saw.
He was removed to Cooper Hospital, and
his wife was summoned by telegraph. He
returned home on Friday.
Alterations being made to the school
house at Jobstown have caused wrangle
among the members of the Board of
Education. Although the work is pro-
crossing under the supervision of William
Fl. Apologize. yet chairman Deviney re-
fuses to sign any orders, and in this stand
he is backed up by Theodore Wright and
Alfred Cox.
While riding a bicycle, on Tuesday,
Walter, son of Charles Throckmorton,
corner of Pine and Shreve streets, fell off
the wheel and bent his left arm above the
wrist, and at the same point where it was
fractured several months ago while the
young man was exercising in the gynna-
SUM attached to the school for mutes, at
Trenton, of which he is a pupil.
1t will not be long before practica
test will demonstrate whether or not the
patent of Restore Lamb, of Mount Holly,
will prove an economical substitute for
wooden railroad ties. Over two hundred
of his patent concrete and steel ties are
now in their seasoning stage. When ready
for installation they will be placed on the
railroad between Pemberton and Lewis
town.
A fire company is to be organized on
the county farm, and to this end over
thirty names have been secured for mem
bership, In case of fire at the almshouse
bell will be rung, and if similar trouble
occurs at the insane asylum, steam
whistle, yet to be installed. will give the
alarm. Freebooter Charles A. Bovine
will probably see that the company is
supplied with necessary apparatus.
Further census returns are as follows:
Riverton borough, 1867, in 1900, 1882, an
increase of 1862; Tabernacle township. 1852
Pemberton township, 1905. 1893 in 1900,
increase, 213; Lumberton township, 1888,
1924 In 1900, increase, SO; Southampton
township, 1860, 1901 in 1900, decrease, Al
Medford township 2O9O, 1869 in 1900, inl
crease, 81. Shamong, sos. $40 in 1900,
decrerse, 402 Beverly city, 1858, 1850 in
1900, increase, 3O8.
Bradford W. Storey, of Mount Holly,
for many years superintendent of the
works of the H. b. Smith Machine Com
pany, of Smithville, has been elected
night superintendent of the extensive
machine shops of the r. D. Wood Com
pany at Camden. There are number of
machinists employed there who learned
their trade under Mr.. Storey, and he will
not be among strangers. He assumed the
duties of bis new position last night.
Robert F. Storey, son, is also employed
at the same works.
After having served several years in
state prison, Joseph B. Standish was lib
Grated yesterday morning, his term hav-
ing expired AS soon as he got sniff of
the fresh air of freedom, he was hand
cuffed and again placed under arrest by
George d. Bower. Deputy Marshal. This
action was taken on telegraph instruc-
lions from United States Marshal Thomas
]. Alcott, of Mount Holly. who received
word from Richard Sylvester, Superin
tendent of Police, to forward Standish to
Washington, D. c., where he will be tried
for crime committed In that city. The
prisoner is regarded as first class crook,
and was greatly disappointed at this in
reference with his liberty.
The thirty sixth anniversary of Pocahon-
tas Tribe, No. IS. l. o. r. NJ, of Mount
Holly, will be celebrated by a picnic of
the red skins of the county at Rancocas
Park, on Saturday. August ~. The pro-
gramme on this occasion will be a most
interesting one, and general invitation
is extended to ALL Past Grand Sachem
Joseph E. Nowrey, of Camden, and others
will deliver addresses. There will also be
present some of the Great Chiefs of the
state. 1t was the Red Men who took a
prominent part in throwing off the yoke
by which England held this country, and
party of forty citizens, disguised as Red
Men, had the honor of throwing cargo
of tea into the Boston harbor because of
their objection to the high tax imposed by
t. British.
nc ANNUAL mectlng lOI Inc ciccIlon VI
directors and auditors of the Peoples
Building and Loan Association, will be
held on Thursday evening, August II. at
No. 81 High street. Amendments TO the
constitution changing the night of meet
ing to the second Thursday in the month,
and the annual meeting to the month of
November. will be submitted. The Peoples
Association has matured and paid the full