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

evening.
Several persons about town are quite
, as the result of being overcome with tt
heat last week.
The work of repointing the stone walls {
the Methodist Church was begun last wee
+ by W. s. Gale.
Richard p Holeman and wife on FIR
! day celebrated the twentieth anniversar
: of their marriage.
The scholars of the Methodist Sunda
school will hold their annual picnic q
. Rancocas Park tomorrow.
Ground was broken on Washingto
street, last week, for the erection of tw
houses for Ellsworth II. Burtis.
In order that the force of moulders ma
be increased, an extension is being adde
to the Columbian Iron Works at Haines
port.
, William M Baugh died in Philadelphia
on Tuesday, aged 70 years. He was
a brother of Hartman Baugh, of Noun
Holly.
If you want fine Georgia peaches, waite
melons, cantelopes, pineapples and fresl
vegetables. get them at Cavanaugh's
Main street.
In runaway at Pemberton, a few day
since, Mrs. Pierce Thompson tainted
Her grandchild was with her at the time
but neither were hurt.
Rev. August F. A. Neudoerffer, the new
pastor of ST. Paul's Lutheran church, nea
Hainesport, has taken up his residence il
Mount Holly, on Clifton avenue.
Having resigned his position as heat
waiter at the Arcade Hotel, John A. Stew
ems is now employed at Atlantic City
Isaiah Stevens, his nephew, is there also
The Metropolitan band, of Burlington
gave a very creditable concert at Rancocas
Park on Sunday night. The concerts art
to be continued every Sunday night until
further notice.
A team of horses in the driveway lead
ing to DIR. Carriers stable, on Friday af-
ternoen, became frightened at a trolley
car, and during their prancing broke the
tongue of the carriage.
The work of erecting an addition to the
office of County Collector Powell is now
under way. 1t became necessary to re.
move sycamore tree for this improve
ment. The job is in charge of contractor
W. S. Gale
Thomas W. Nippins has again come
into possession of the laundry property
on Mill street. Mr.. Nippins is erecting a
new barn at his Pine street residence, to
replace the one destroyed by fire several
weeks since.
1t is said that the late Dr. Herman A.
Newbold contracted tuberculosis of the
throat while performing an operation on
patient in New York hospital, during
which he cut one of his fingers, permitting
the poison to enter his system.
There will be no circus in Mount Holly
to-day, at least not by the Welsh-Sautelle
combination. their itinerary having been
SO disturbed by storms that they cannot
reach here as bad been anticipated. This
circus has had very hard luck of late.
A pet bantam hen and duck have been
killed by two fox terriers entering the
yard of Blanchard II. White, at Pember-
ton. He proposes, in order to escape fur
ther trouble, that the dogs shall either be
killed or confined where they will not do
any harm.
An electric ball was seen to burst in the
middle of Washington street. during the
storm Tuesday afternoon. The lightning
struck the track near GaskilPs coal Office.
and for time crippled the machinery in
the signal tower that works the trolley
derailing switch. Henry Rossell, the
fiagman, and several others felt the shock.
AS Solomon Chambers was hitching up
his team at his home near Georgetown,
Thursday morning he accidentally struck
one of the horses, and it began kicking.
Chambers undertook to avoid the horses
hoofs, but was badly kicked in the alb
domen and rendered unconscious. Physi-
clans fear that internal injuries have re-
suited.
A party of Mount Holly sports, includ-
ing the two John Throckmortons, George
NJ Sleeper, Levi Shinn, Robert F. Storey
Edward r. Smith aid Atwell Wright,
went to Barnegat bay, on the Tuesday
shore excursion train, and caught 2O2
weak fish. At least this is what they re-
ported, and we have no reason to doubt
their veracity.
There is halt in the matter of building
a new school house at Bunker Hill. The
plans are said to be too elaborate and ex-
pensive for the people of Westampton
township and the outcome is problemat-
ical. Ezekias W. Esham, of Mount Holly,
was the only contractor WI bid for the
work and his figures were not accepted,
because of the impossibility to proceed
with the structure.
Surrounded by pleasure-seekers and
clasped in the arms of its mother, Edward,
the 13-months-old child of Mrs. Wilmer
Mcdowell, of Merchantville, died We'd
nesday morning on the steamer Thomas
Clyde as the excursion boat was nearing
Chester, Pa. The mother and her dead
baby were put ashore and the excursion
party proceeded down the bay. The
body was taken in charge by coroner.
Elwood Mount, a carpenter living at
Columbus, who was working on the John
L. Kuser home near Bordentown, while
taking his noon hour on Tuesday fell
asleep and on awakening found that thief
had cut his trousers pocket and stole
about 800. A farm hand giving the
name of Daniel Mcclure, working on a
farm belonging to Kuser, has disappeared
and was traced as far as Trenton where
all trace of him was lost
Harry Beaver was landed in Jail, on
Friday afternoon, by Constable William
H. Thompson. of Pemberton, where he is
wanted for stealing two suits of clothes
from Harry Hughes last September
Beaver was arrested near Bridgeboro by
Constable Peter Beatty. of Moorestown,
who turned the prisoner over to Thomp-
son. The latter took Beaver to Pemberton,
and at hearing before Justice White, be
was committed to jail in default of bail.
For some time farmers in the vicinity Of
Beverly have been suffering from thieves
whose depredations became so regular and
costly that several men Joined hands tc
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