The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-04-11
LOCAL NEWS.

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Kate Moncorn will take place on April 20
According to the proclamation issued
by Governor Stokes. next Friday will be
Arbor day.
C. T. Woolston has started to rebuild
his carriage factory, recently burned al
Riverton.
There was little furry of real, genu.
inc, Simon pure snow on Saturday morn
ing throughout this section.
Twenty-one new members have been
added to the Calvary Presbyterian
church, Riverton. since January /.
The Board of Education, of Riverside,
has decided to celebrate Arbor day by
planting trees around the school building.
Two young men or man and wife can
secure board in central portion of the
town by addressing Board, care of News
Office.
Ross W. Quicksall has removed his
jewelry store from THE News building to
the store belonging to DR.. r. G. Barring
ton, opposite.
The Springfield Select School will give
the comedy ''She stoops to conquer, in
Stanton's hall, Jobstown. on Saturday
evening.
The regular meeting of the w. Q. T.
U. will be held at the home of the presi-
dent, Mrs. Sarah r. Lamb, No. 103 Union
street, on Friday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
bob" Black, of Camden, will go South
the latter part of this week and take up
his duties as umpire in the Southern
League, where he made out finely last
year.
The store at the corner of Garden and
Risdon streets has been rented by William
Whitaker, who will open a bicycle and
automobile repair shops and carry line
of sundries.
J. Edgar Evan has resigned as clerk in
the Farmers National Bank. Applica
tions for the position may be made in
writing only to Box 606, Mount Holly
post Office.
A breast pin set with pearls and tur-
quoise, was lost on Tuesday, April 4, on
either West Washington or Chestnut
street. The finder will be rewarded by
leaving it at 202 West Washington St.
Ellis H. Parker will remove his billiard
room to Arcade Hall and will open on the
second Monday in May. The South Jersey
Tobacco Company will occupy the store
to be vacated by Mr.. Parker and the floor
above it.
John Guild Muirheid. former secretary
of the Interstate Fair Association, died
Friday afternoon at Trenton. His death
was due to diabetes, from which disease
he had been suffering for many years. He
was Sc years of age.
Walter Throckmorton, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Throckmorton, pupil at the
deaf and dumb school, at Trenton. broke
his left wrist, on Wednesday, while exer-
cising in the gymnasium. He was brought
to Mount Holly by his mother on Friday.
The following unclaimed letters remains
in the post office tor the week ending
April s: Mrs. George Betzler, William S.
Black, G. A. Borden, Miss Ray Coverly.
Mrs. M. G. Gibson, s. G. Golden, Ellis
Housenick, Lydia D. Lippincott and Miss
Mary E. Shreve.
THE News is a good advertising med
ium. A lost handbag. advertised on
Tuesday. was returned to the owner
on Friday. A breastpin, advertised in
the same issue, was found few days
after on dress that had been hung up
without removing the pin. 1t pays to
advertise.
A large fire ragged on the meadows be-
tween Gloucester Landing and Lower
Bank, on Wednesday. Before the fire
could be put under control it had de-
streams of the ASullica river, cutting off
the travel between Egg Harbor and Low
er Bank. The large bridge at Gloucester
Landing was only saved by the efforts of
the residents there
Pemberton Inn is closed and will re-
main 80 until the May term of court con-
venes. A recent decision of the Supreme
Court removes the licensing power from
Borough Council to the County Courts.
Mr. Hartman has his application ready
and it is signed by large number of citi-
zens. There is not likely to be any OBJ
lection to the license as it's generally con-
ceded that he has conducted a very
orderly house.
Remarkable nerve was exhibited by
Miss Hannah Griffith, employed in the
shirt factory at New Egypt, when she
met with an accident at her sewing ma
chine, on Wednesday, the needle of which
plunged through the bone of her index
finger. So firmly imbedded was the steel
instrument that the top of the machine
had to be taken off and the needle broken
before the girl could be released. The
needle was extracted from the bone by
DIR. Howard Allen. Miss Griffith with
stood the painful ordeal without the use
an@sthetics.
A marriage took place In the office of
Squire j. Fred Laumaster, on Wednes
day evening, the contracting parties being
Wesley Baxton Bass, native of Virgin
la, and Julia Cousins, who was born in
South Carolina. The bride resides In
Mount Holly, and the groom is waiter
at the Ivanhoe. The wedding party
drove to the matrimonial station in a cab,
which was not on hand when the cere-
mony was over, because of its brevity,
so the bride and groom, escorted by their
supporters, wendell their way up Main
street in the rain with only one umbrella
to protect the quartette, which was a
good looking and happy set of colored
people.
Taylor G. Wainwright, son of Captain
Joe Wainwright. of Toms River, cut him
self with an axe at his Island Heights
home, on Wednesday, and narrowly es-
capped death. The cut was on the fore
head, and the frontal bone was cut
through. Wainwright was breaking up
a piece of an old boardwalk. and was
striking with the back of the axe. There
was a clothesline over his head, but he
did not know it, and as he struck heavy
blow the axe caught the line, and the
sharp blade struck him in the forehead.
The bony process over the right eye was
cut through, and another cut was made
higher on the forehead, which also went