The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-04-18
LOCAL NEWS.

Sloan confined to the house during tn,
past week.
An addition, two stories high, is being
built to the Children's Summer Home a
Cinnaminson.
George G. Dennis, the expressman, will
change his residence this week from Mon
roe to Bispham street.
Alice, daughter of Robert T. Evans, o.
Hartford. has a broken arm, which she
received while jumping rope.
Employme it in the Office of the Watcl
Case factory, at Riverside. has been giver
to Clarence L. Price, of Mount Holly.
The residence of the late DR.. Calver
near Bustleton, has been purchased b,
Joseph F. Maloney, of Mount Holly.
Egg plants, radishes, lettuce, onions,
cucumbers, string beans, fruit, candy and
nuts at Thos. Cavanaugh's, Main st. =
Simon Gillian dislocated his right thumb
on Wednesday. This is only one of the
many accidents to which base ball play
ers make themselves liable.
William P. Randall, employed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has
been promoted, and transferred from Cam
den to the Jersey City Office.
Horace Carson, of Philadelphia, and
Ethel, daughter of Andrew F. Lippin-
colt, are to be married in the Methodist
Church, at Pemberton, on Wednesday,
April 90.
Capt. Martin L. Haines, of Vincentown,
has been confined to his home during the
past ten weeks His illness prevents him
from getting very far away from the
house.
James L. Anderson, Benjamin E Col
kit and Albert Harker were the three
successful contestants for base ball, Of
fered by L. S. Boyce, for the best story
on the superiority Of Spalding's base ball
supplies
A branch of the W. G. T. U. has been
organized at Coopertown with these off
GERS: President, Mrs. T Sherman Borden;
corresponding secretary, Miss Ethel South
ard; recording secretary, Miss Estelle Rue;
treasurer, Miss Florence Jordan
House bill 283, which extends the terri
torial limits of Florence township has
been signed by the Governor. This bill
takes from Burlington township some
land purchased by the foundry people and
thus puts all their property in Florence
township.
William Horn, who sustained a hem
orrhage of the brain, on Tuesday, by
falling from scaffold at Rogers terra
Gotta works, at Moorestown, died in Coop
er Hospital, Camden, on Wednesday.
The deceased leaves wife and several
children.
The Supreme Court of California holds
that it is not the duty of an engineer to
check the speed of his locomotive on see-
ing team slowly approaching crossing
$50 feet away, but he is entitled to pre-
sumo that the driver will stop before
reaching the crossing
County Clerk Watson T. Sooy is one of
the incorporators of the Sooy Oyster Co.,
of Green Bank, which has filed certif-
cate at the clerks Office. The sum of ST.
600 has been paid in, and the authorized
capital is $4,000. The object is to pro-
pagate and cultivate oysters and CLANS
Because of her dangerous condition,
Emma G Witcraft. the divorced wife of
Charles Gilbert, of Green street. was re.
moved to the Burlington County Insane
Asylum, on Wednesday, by Constable
Throckmorton. Some time ago the I'M
fortunate woman was released from the
State Hospital at Trenton.
In view of the severity of the past win
ter and the depth to which frost entered
the ground, it seems remarkable that nice
sound potatoes could now be dug from
last years patch. Nevertheless, this is
what William II. Lewis, of Woodland, did
last week, securing basket full from
few hills which he did not disturb last
fall
Believing that the curtain factory of
Benjamin Cross, on King street, was on
fire, passer-by turned in an alarm and
called out the department at $50 O'Clock
on Wednesday morning. The burning of
leather in nearby shoe factory, result
ing in large volume of smoke falling on
the Cross building, was responsible for
the attending excitement.
Rev. G. Il. Barnes, the unordained pas
tor of the Methodist Church, at River
side, where there is no baptistry, brought
several converts to Mount Holly, on Sat-
uaday afternoon, and they were immersed
in the pool of the Baptist Church, the
officiating clergyman being Rev. William
G. Meyer, pastor of the Methodist Church
These candidates are to be received into
full membership of the Riverside Metho-
dist Church in May.
A new railroad tie, constructed of con
crete and steel. is Intervention of Restore
B. Lamb. of Mt Holly, for which he has
been granted two patents. 1t is designed
to supplant the wooden ties now being
used, and at the same time lessen the dan
ger of travel by preventing the rails from
spreading, which is cause for accident.
The durability of the new tie, although
more expensive, makes it cheaper than
those now in use. A number are to be
tested on the line of the Union Trans
portatiOn Company.
In putting out a fire under his automo-
bile, Ernest Haines, of Vincentown, had
one of his hands burned quite badly.
He was returning home from Smithyille
with some friends and found that some
thing was wrong. Crawling under the
machine the young man found leak in
the gasoline pipe, and this had started &
blaze which was eating its way into the
wood work Timely discovery undoubt
eddy prevented an explosion of the case
line tank, which contained several gal
Ions of oil.
An electrical storm of unusual severity
visited Palmyra Tuesday night, accom-
panied by high wind. The residence of
Henry Yost was struck by lightning and
damaged to the extent of $500. The bolt
struck the peak of the house and travel
ed down the roof to the caves, where it
entered the building, and continued to
the first floor, tearing hole in the plaster
in the hall and reducing the furniture to
kindling wood. The building was set
afire by the lightning and an alarm was