The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-01
LOCAL NEWS.

Thomas Bartlett, one of the oldest rel
idents of Vincentown, is ill from strok
of paralysis
Richard Lambs PAGER, Miss Mills &c
second money in the 2 ID class at Elmirs
on Tuesday.
Herbert Tucker, of Smithville, has bee
licensed in Philadelphia, to marry Hele
F. Burns. of that city.
English services will be held the frs
Sunday of every month in the Lutheran
church near Hainesport.
Good ten room house, all conveniences
rent $40 per month; also five room bricl
house. S. per month. A. A. Anderson. :
Samuel A. Dobbins, ST.. has sold to ]
G. j. Wolfsberg four acres of land along
the railroad. in Eastampton township
Joel Haines, of Wrightstown, is recov
ering from an illness which was though
to have been slight stroke of apoplexy
Eva Taylor, of Three Tuns. Pa, hal
purchased from r. B. Borel, Jr., thu
virgins property, at Eayrestown, fol
$500.
II you want fine Georgia peaches, water
melons. cantelopes, pineapples and fresf
vegetables. get them at Cavanaugh's
Main street.
James D. Flynn, who has conducted {
saloon on High street for many years. has
sold his business to James Donnelly, Of
Burlington.
Miss Flossie Cooper will resume her for
mer position as operator at the local ex.
change of the Inter State Telephone Com
pany this week.
The Vincentown Methodist Church will
hold it's annual harvest home in the camp
woods on August II. Several good speak
ers will be present.
A machine shop is being erected in the
rear of the trolley power house at Haines-
port. where necessary repairs to the roll
ing stock will be made.
The band concert at Rancocas Park, on
Sunday evening, was largely patronized
and the trolley service was good. The
Metropolitan band furnished excellent
music.
While endeavoring to trip hay rake at
the home of Branson Lamb, at Jacobs
town. on Tuesday afternoon, the machine
caught the bare foot of Roy Gordon, cut
ting it badly.
Everett Taylor. the harness maker, who
was employed by Atlee D. Prickett, of
Trenton, is now in Mount Holly doing
work in that line for himself. He has a
room in the rear of the Arcade shoe store.
An interesting meeting of Court Mount
Holly, No. SO, Foresters of America, was
held on Tuesday evening. the event clos
ing with refreshments. In addition to a
few grand lodge officers. VISITORS were
present from the river towns and Camden.
While nearing Mount Holly, on Wed
nesdaY morning. young man was thrown
off his bicycle and went into wire fence.
In addition to a cut on his throat, the
flesh on his arm. leg and breast was torn
and his clothes ruined. The return trip
was made on the cars.
One of the cars of the Burlington Coun-
ty Railway Company got its nose injured
in collision at Camden on Sunday even
ing. When turned over to Motorman
Jacob Garbarino at Stanwick, the fender
was smashed, the glass on the headlight
broken and the front window was gone.
While the Seeds house on the Browns
Mill road was being repaired, last week,
Elwood johnson, of Pemberton, while
carrying bricks up a ladder to the masons,
was struck on the head and painfully in
jured by brick falling from above. The
family objected to johnson returning to
work, stating their belief that there was
a design on his life.
In a suit against G. Burtis Pew to re-
cover on note for $40, given counsel as
part payment for defending Pew in the
divorce suit which his wife successfully
brought against him, Jacob G. Hendrick-
son recovered judgment before Justice
White, of Pemberton, from which there
will be an appeal. Pew did not appear
to defend the divorce suit.
Amos L. Poinsett, of Paxson street, en-
tertained his great nephew. Somers Feni-
more, of Red Lion, last week. The boy
has always worked hard on farm, but
he had an easy and somewhat exciting
time taking in the sights about Mount
Holly, where he saw his first trolley car.
Upon leaving Vincentown for the county
seat Fenimore took his first ride in the
steam cars. an experience he will long re-
member.
Despondent because his girl wife. Ray
Levy, refused to live with him, Thomas
Levy, of Brooklyn, attempted to kill him
self. Saturday morning, at hotel in New
Egypt, where he is a summer boarder.
He was found by the proprietor of the
house after he had cut his throat and
partly severed his windpipe with razor.
When arrested Lew begged that he be
allowed to finish the job. Levy's wife is
said to be very beautiful. He is wealthy
and conducts business in New York and
Philadelphia.
Suffering from severe bruises, internal
injuries, and with his shoulder blade
fractured and other bones broken. Oscar
Reidanbaker, of Parry, was brought to
the Burlington County Hospital on Fri
day. He had started out to capture snap
pers, and while walking on the railroad
track at Horning Grove, was struck by
the east bound passenger train which ar
rives In Mount Holly at $50 A. NJ The
proper signals were given to warn the
man of his danger, but for some reason he
failed to heed them.
Repairs and improvements to cost about
90, 500 are to be made to the property at
the corner of Pine street and the South
Pemberton road, which is owned by Ed
ward T. and Murrell Dobbins, of Phil
adelphia These gentlemen have not Civ
en- up the idea of converting the place in
to Mary L. Dobbins Memorial Home, in
honor of their mother. and it said that
when proposed addition is erected and
modern conveniences installed the spa
cious house will be used as home for in
digents. This is the property that was
recently donated to the Burlington Coun-
ty Cbildrens Home Association, but il
was declined, as the board of managers
could not see their way clear to expend
the money necessary to put the place in
suitable condition.