The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-03-28
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, MARCH %, 1905.
LOCAL NEWS.

over Smithyille on Friday.
The property of John R. Deacon, OF
Main street, is now occupied by Johr
Butterworth and family.
Buy of Cavanaugh If you want fine out
of-season vegetables. Choice fruits of al
kinds, candy and peanuts. Main street
After being confined to the house fol
several weeks with tonsilitis and other
ailments, Joseph l. Mcdonald is again
able to attend to business
A public sale, including live stock,
wagons and miscellaneous articles, will
be held at Pine Mills Hotel, Browns
Mills, on Friday afternoon next
Samuel W. Shinn has purchased the
property at the corner of Union and But
tonwood streets, now occupied by Pro-
lessor Lawrence Elberson
Thornton Stockton is the manager and
Morris K. Perinchief captain of the
Mount Holly High School base ball club,
which has been organized for the coming
season.
Because the brick culvert at Smithville
was not large enough to vent the water, it
has been supplanted by a large iron pipe,
which was installed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company.
Gorton's MINISTRIES will appear at the
Mount Holly opera house next Saturday
night. They will give the same perfor-
nance that has been produced in the large
cities; no curtailment.
Palmer D. Atkinson, of the South Penn
berton road, had bad luck in Mount Holly
on Thursday. His wagon, containing a
load of wet brewers grain, broke down
while he was driving on Main street.
Residences are to be exchanged on the
Dobbins farm, on the Lumberton road,
between father and son. s. A. Dobbins,
Sr., will occupy the cottage, and Edward
Dobbins will remove TO the farm house.
A dramatic entertainment by local
talent will be given in the Smithville
opera house on April 18th. 1t will con-
sist of two-act comedy, my Turn
Next, and the laughable farce, ''Rooney's
Restaurant" Musical selections will also
be rendered.
Of the prizes offered by the Grand
Lodge, Independent Order of Mechanics,
for the greatest increase in membership
during the past year. the second, consist
ing of handsome pair of gavels, was on
Tuesday awarded to Nonpareil Lodge,
No. %, of Mount Holly.
Joseph Plat, of Indian Mills, has had
the index finger on his right hand ampu-
tated, the result of a trifing wound re-
ceived several weeks ago. He hit him
self on the knuckle and caused slight
bruise. to which but little attention was
paid. After a time the finger got sore
and blood poison followed. making the
operation necessary.
At the inspection held in the King street
armory, on Tuesday evening, it is said |
only one member of Company E was alb
sent. Considering the stormy night this
speaks well for the interest taken. For |
its good showing the company was warmly |
congratulated by General Gilmore and
Major Shivers. The company will go to |
Camden on April 10, for battalion drill.
After having enjoyed their spring va
cation of week, the pupils of the pub.
lie schools are again busy with their ed |
vocational work. and it will not be long
for the time to arrive when examinations |
will be held preparatory to the closing of |
the school year, period anticipated with |
pleasure by all persons connected with
the institution.
81 went there to serve a notice on him |
to vacate the premises and he stung me on |
the neck" This is the manner in which |
Frank Pratt began, on Saturday night, to
explain to Justice Slack the trouble he |
had with Charles Cole, ex-dog catcher,
who lives in house on Water street own
ed by Pratt. In explanation of his side /
of the case, Cole said he thought the
landlord was trying to enter his home and |
he simply pushed him out.
uldSbCI AdIl IeObuluSS, VI MY
was three times bitten while protecting
little girl from the assaults of an enraged |
dog, whose teeth penetrated her flesh |
The screams of the boy attracted the at |
tention of Karl's father. who encountered
difficulty in getting his son free from the
dog, which was afterwards shot. The bow
was hurried to the office of Dr. Alexan-
der FL. Small, who cauterized the wounds |
The annual school meeting for North
ampton township was held in the court
house on Tuesday evening. Richard j.
B. Slack was chosen chairman, and JOS
eph c. Kingdom was appointed secretary.
The Board of Education presented re-
quest for the appropriation of $13.274.
which was voted. Joseph G. Bower,
Frank Dill and George w. Durand were
reelected members of the Board of Edu-
cation. Thomas B. Thorn, William NJ
Reeves, Wellington Bozarth and Jacob
Haag acted as tellers. Twenty six votes
were cast
The legal voters of Westampton town
ship will hold special school meeting in
school house No. 2, on Saturday after
noon, April s, when the following pro
positions will be submitted; to authorize
the Board of Education to purchase land
and to erect and furnish a school house
thereon; to condemn land for school pur-
poses; to borrow money to defray the ex
penses of such action, alteration or re-
pair, and to provide for the payment of the
same by ordering direct tax, or by bond
ing the township.
An enjoyable reception was rendered
Rev. W. G. Meyer by the Ushers' Union
of the M. E. church, on Thursday even
ing. in honor of his return to Mount Holly
were made by Joseph s. Shreve. on behalf
of the official board; by Horace Cronk,
for the Sunday school. while DR.. A. r. w.
Atwood spoke for the Epworth League
and the Ladies' Aid. Rev. R. H. Baker.
of the Baptist church, and Rev James
Durham, of the Presbyterian church, also
made remarks, TO which Mr.. Mover re-
sponded. At the conclusion of this pro-
gram refreshments were served.
1t was not the reading of yellow cover
ed literature that has caused page to be
written in the early history of Frank
Hendrickson and Budd Krayer, two
youthful residents of Mount Holly, which
led them on a romantic canter Wednes-
day morning. 1t was simply desire to