The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-04-04
William G. Kirby, of Kirby's Mills,

l Trouble with one OF his knees prevent
: A. A. johnson from leaving his home.
W. Scott Pierce, of Merchantville, VIII
4 desires to live in Mount Holly, has beef
; here trying to secure suitable residence
Two young men or a man and wife car
secure board in a central portion Of tn
/ town by addressing Board. care of NEW
Office.
l There seems to be an increase in tn,
r number of bicycle riders about town
which may be the result of improved
streets.
J Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock, of Harrison
avenue, has taken up her residence al
Vincentown, where she resided before
coming to Mount Holly.
Charged with having forged notes ant
issued worthless checks, A. Il. Hummell
a butcher of New Egypt, was arrested
yesterday and taken to the county Jail a
Toms River.
Following are the unclaimed letters in
the post Office for the week ending April
/; Miss Emma Gaskill, F. F. Gumaer,
Miss Catharine Mitchell, Samuel Nc
Knight, Miss Ella Peak, D. W. Vain
wright.
The many friends of County Road
Supervisor Edwin S. Buzby, of Borden
town, are panied to hear of the death Of
his wife which occurred on Sunday.
Sympathy is extended from all parts OF
the county to the sorrowing husband.
Before Judge Gaskill, in open court, on
Saturday, Prosecutor Atkinson took the
oath of Office for his new term. Judge
Gaskill followed the custom of the higher
courts and ordered every one in the room
to stand while the obligation was being
administered.
A portion of your income deposited
every week or month with The Burling-
ton County Safe Deposit and Trust Com
pany, Moorestown, N. j., will be a great
helper when that Rainy Day" comes.
One dollar and upward opens an account.
Three per cent. interest paid. Com
pounded annually.
Miss Elizabeth A. Beavis, of Lancas-
ter, Pa, has sold her dwelling house on
Bispham street. Mount Holly, to Charles
P. Jones for 81, 100. This sale was made
through the real estate agency of John D.
Clevenger. Charles Morgan, the present
tenant, will move to the house to be va
Gated by Mr.. Jones.
A pair of horses attached to a wagon
load of household goods became frightened
at an automobile near Unionville, yester-
day, and ran away. The wagon was up
set and broken and the goods were badly
damaged. George SmireS, who was driv-
ing, was thrown violently to the ground
and received bad sprain of one of his
ankles.
Joseph G. Bower has placed on exhi
bition his usual display of Easter novelties,
and it is very attractive, particularly to
the children. Mr.. Bower presents most
everything in this line one could wish
for. 1t costs nothing to examine the
stock, and very little money is required
to make purchase.
A serious fire was averted early Friday
morning, by the rare presence of mind of
ex-city Clerk Clarence L. Hazard, at his
home in Beverly. Mrs. Hazard had
arisen and ignited a match. The head
fell off and instantly the bed clothes were
ablaze, and the room filed with smoke
Mr.. Hazard, with bare hands, beat out
the flames. A number of articles in the
room were destroyed.
Chester L. Appleton, of Mount Holly,
has completed the stationary engineering
course in the American School of CORES
pondence at Armour Institute of Tech
nology, Chicago, his average grade
throughout the course being more than
$50. This completes Mr.. Appletons
second course in this school, he having
previously graduated from the electrical
engineering course.
Invitations are out for the wedding of
Lawyer Harold B. Wells, of Bordentown,
and Miss Grace A. Heisler, of Pemberton
The wedding will take place at the Meth
odist Church at Pemberton. on Tuesday
evening, the 25th inst. Mr. Wells is a
graduate of Princeton College, and Miss
Heisler is graduate of the Woman's
College, Of Baltimore, and the daughter
of William H. Heisler, president of the
Manufacturers National Bank. of Phil
adelphia.
Hoping to keep the matter secret from
their parents. Miss Mary A. Roman, of
Crosswicks, and Joseph A. Page, of Col
umbus. left their homes Saturday night
on pretext of going to Burlington on an
errand. They later met and drove to that
city, where they were married at the
Methodist parsonage by Rev. Percy Per-
inchief. The news of their marriage
leaked out in some unknown manner, and
then they blushingly received the con-
CALCULATIONS of their friends.
Professor Waite, of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, D. c., will
come to New Jersey at an early day for
the purpose of inspecting the apple trees
in an effort to discover the causes of the
various diseases with which the trees are
afflicted. New Jersey is one of the best
apple states in the country" said Profess
sor Waite the other day, 'but the trees
are afflicted with nearly every disease
known to the department"
Henry Webb of Pasadena, son of David
Webb. claims to be champion fox hunter
of the pine belt Since last December he
has shot or caught eleven foxes Three
were killed in one day within three hours
One of the finest has been mounted and is
in Green's hotel, Philadelphia. His fox
dog is not fox hound but small mon
grel, weighing but 25 pounds, which he
claims beats any fox hound he has tried
so far.
For soliciting help from prominent Ger
mantown families under the guise of
being an incurable rheumatic with a sick
wife and crippled children, Francis Nc
Nally. of Riverside, was given three
months In the House Of Correction BY
Magistrate Fitzpatrick at the German
town police station last week. To some
of his dupes the man represented himself
as collecting funds for poor family liv-
ing in Oak Lane Mentally was found
guilty in the Burlington County Court
last October for assault on Officer Borton,
of Riverside, and was released on parole.
Probation Officer Parker reported the
Germantown episode TO Judge Gaskill on