The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-10-17

Forty pairs of working pigeons for sale
by E. II. Lundy, Arney's Mount; Jobs.
town pest office
On Friday next only, coal scuttles will
be sold at Is cents each at Rosenfeld
Bros on Mill street.
The Burlington County Fair Association
will have a sale of straw and hay, on the
Fair grounds. on Thursday afternoon.
The proposed trip to Fredericksburg of
the 23d Regiment Volunteers Association
has been abandoned, as sufficient num-
Der of comrades failed to agree to go to
secure reduced railroad fare.
Samuel S. Wyllie died at his home, cor
ner of High and Brainard streets. on Fri
day morning. He was taken suddenly i'll
about a week previous with sharp at
tack of heart trouble with which he had
been afflicted for long time. Mr.. Wyllie
was 80 years of age. He may be said to
have grown up in the Mount Holly Ma
tional Bank, having entered its service at
an early age as clerk and being advanced
until, at the time of his death, he was as
sistant cashier. He was thoroughly con-
versant with the details of the National
Banking system in general and of the
Mount Holly Bank in particular. He was
valuable officer and will be greatly
missed. He leaves widow and two sons,
one of whom is clerk in the bank. His
funeral services were held yesterday, Rev.
James Stoddard reading the Episcopal
services and Rev. James II. Durham, of
the Presbyterian Church, offering prayer.
Interment was made in the Mount Holly
cemetery, the remains being borne to the
grave by the following pallbearers: Jere-
miah H. Colkitt. Walter l. Dill, George
M. Hillman, T. Walter Borton, Joseph A.
Ward and William A. Townsend.
In some unaccountable manner the barn
on the farm of Samuel A. Dobbins, ST.,
caught fire Saturday evening, and in
sho TT time all the outbuildings and their
valuable contents were doomed. Shortly
after Z o'clock Mrs. Edward T. Dobbins,
whose husband conducts the farm, con-
Guided to put her two children. to bed.
Hearing the dog bark Mrs. Dobbins open
ed door and looked out, but she saw no
one and the dog ran back of the barn.
Putting the children to bed Mrs. Dobbins
was about to retire herself when she was
attracted by cracking sound which kept
getting louder. Opening her bed room
door to ascertain the cause, she saw the
barn on fire. She ran down stairs and
sent in an alarm over the telephone. Be-
fore Mrs. Dobbins and the children were
dressed, Clifford French arrived and
broke in the front door. not knowing that
any one was home. He secured some
buckets and blankets, and these played an
important part in saying the dwelling.
AS there was no water to be obtained
from the fire plug out Madison avenue,
the firemen were helpless and could not
get into service. Willing hands saved
what they could, but the loss is heavy.
If Mr.. Dobbins receives the full amount
of his insurance he will lose about 81, 500
His seven horses and four cows were not
in the barns and were saved. 1t became
necessary to carry the largest hog from
its pen owing to its stubbornness Some
were burned to death, and
others were running around with their
feathers on fire. Had it not been for this |
fire, Mr. Dobbins would have had a pros
porous year, and there is much sympathy
for the young man in his misfortune |
New buildings. it is said, will be erected.
Over sixty tons of hay were consumed, |
together with other crops, valuable seeds,
wagons, harness. etc.