The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Sheriff Bower has had new meta
awning erected in front of his bakery oil
High street
John Cotton, of Medford, has secured ,
position as bar tender at the Mill stree
hotel, Mount Holly.
Two cases of typhoid fever are report
ed on Pine street. and the disease has de
veloped In .other parts of the town.
The indications bid fair for large CROP
of chestnuts. which is sign of the ap
proach of an unusually cold winter.
If you want fine Georgia peaches, water
melons, cantelopes, pineapples and fresh
vegetables. get them at Cavanaugh's
Main street.
Six members of New Jersey Lodge. No
l, Knights of Pythias. paid fraternal
visit to Hope Lodge, No 10, of Burling
ton, on Thursday night.
The annual clambake of the Masons Of
New Jersey, given at Pleasure Bay, on
Thursday, was attended by many members
of the order from this county.
The attack of a vicious dog on Ander-
sonville, Wednesday morning, resulted
disastrously to the leg of Fred L. Owen.
DR.. Flynn dressed the wound.
As the result of jumping from the
second floor of Kirby's grist mill. at Med
ford, ON Wednesdays son of George
Powell sprained both his wrists.
Albert Hansell, near Rancocas, and
Daniel Evan. of Smithville, are two
farmers who have been receiving good
prices for their large crop of apples
Two trolley cars, loaded with colored
people from Moorestown, passed through
Mount Holly, on Thursday morning, on
their way to Burlington Island Park.
The sum of $275 was taken from gas
slot machine. in the cellar OF Harry N
Smith, on Pine street, by person who
craWled through window and broke open
the meter
The guests which Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
W. Leach, of Pine street. entertained.
last week, included Misses Dora Leach,
Margaret Hodson, of Bridgeton, Ollie
Hodson, and Laura Heidenrick, of Sche-
nectady, N. Y.
Progress has been made TO such an ex-
tent in clearing the grounds that Roose-
welt Park. on the road to Hainesport. will
be opened on Thursday, when the Sunday
school of st. Paul's NJ E. Church will
hold its. picnic there.
For being the most interesting one
year old child in the baby show at the
Farmers picnic at Washington Park. ON
Wednesday. the prize was awarded to
Sylvia Harris Smith, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Edward r. Smith, of Mount
Holly.
A correspondent from Browns Mills
says: Howard T. Warrick. proprietor of
the Pine Mills hotel, is to be congratulate
ed for keeping the best house there during
the summer for many years past. He has
great many classes of people to deal
with, but he knows how to humor them,
and 50 he gets along all right"
Frank Rigg and Mrs. Fannie Haines,
who live in the latter's house on her farm
at Jacksonville, are the defendants in a
Supreme court suit brought by George F..
King, a former tenant on the place, for
$500. the value which King places as his
interest in twelve acres of rye which the
parties will not permit him to gather.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
approved of the organization of the
Peoples National Bank, of Pemberton,
with capital stock of $25. The or
ganizers are William H. Smith. w. H.
Hartman, Howard B. Ballinger, Thomas
Early, Clifford f. Budd and J. FL. Kelsey
The fact is stated that this application is
in lieu of one to organize the Pemberton
National Bank approved May IS.
During the past week gloom has per-
vaded the home of MIR. and Mrs. Charles
H. Pew the former suffering from blood
poison and the latter having carbuncle
under one knee From knife handed to
him by groceryman in Mount Holly. Mr..
Pew. attempted to sample new cheese,
when his hand came in contact with the
point of the instrument, pricking the flesh
slightly. In a very short time blood
poison developed, which was attended
with severe suffering. Both patients are
now getting better.
Notice has been given to New Jersey,
especially South Jersey, rural mail carriers
that to facilitate collections it has been
decided by the Post Office Department
that each rural mail box in use on a rural
route shall be designated by its proper
number, and mail matter addressed to
such boxes by number alone should be
delivered if the business conducted be not
improper and unlawful The boxes will
be numbered consecutively. A circular
letter of instructions to postmasters will
shortly be issued. By another letter soon
rural letter carriers will be authorized to
paint the rural boxes. the carrier to be al
lowed twenty five cents a box for his
labor.
If an affirmative verdict by a coroner's
jury is of any value in preventing the
lawful suits to recover in cases of fatal
accident, the verdict rendered in the case
of Thomas Lucas, who was killed by a
trolley car, would be of little value to the
Burlington County Railway Company. as
the jury made two vital errors: First, by
stating that Lucas was killed on Satur.
day. August IL. when the fatality occur
red on Sunday, August 10; second, thai
he was killed by car belonging to the
Burlington County Traction Company
when there is no such corporation in ex
istence That the death of Lucas was al
but by the verdict rendered the compan,
is not properly exonerated from lega
standpoint. However. that makes no diff
ference. On Wednesday evening Super
intendent John s. Gilbert met with rela
tives of the deceased, and after paying al
expenses of the funeral, he was given
release signed by the Lucas children.
William Schafer, for many years wei
known cigar manufacturer -On Madison
avenue, died Friday night at the age o
SO years. The deceased leaves wife ant
one child, Mrs. Philip Karg. This cas-
is a particularly sad one. On Thursda,,
afternoon Mr.. Schafer was stricken dow
with what was reported to be peritonitis
at his new home on the Hainesport road