The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-02
LOCAL NEWS.
Yesterday was May day.

open on May 20.
Wilmer s. Chance is having an addition
al room placed to the rear of his residence
on Main street.
Trolley tickets on any road in South
Jersey, 81 for 81, can be purchased at the
drug store of Dr. E. D. Prickitt
Egg plants, radishes, lettuce, onions
cucumbers, string beans, fruit, candy and
nuts at Thos. Cavanaugh's, Main st.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Mount Holly and Jobstown Turn
pike Company will be held in Mount
Holly this afternoon.
The America Hose house has been
draped in mourning out of respect to Ed
ward p. Holeman, who was secretary of
the company for number of years.
John Elberson has severed his connec-
ton with the firm of Haines, Jones g.
Cadbury, of Philadelphia, and accepted a
position as stenographer with the Bell
Telephone Company.
The following persons compose the
graduating class of the public school at
Columbus: Emma B. Doherty, Leah K.
Ridgway, Kathryn K. Kinsley, Nina Ann
Shinn and Augustus Townsend.
Thursday will be pension day. j. Fred
Laumaster, who has been legislated out of
Office as Justice of the Peace, will be at
his Office to execute pension vouchers as
heretofore, as he has been appointed no.
tary.
Having returned from his protracted
trip in the south, Nelson Burr Gaskill is
arranging to spend the summer at some
resort, perhaps in Canada or Maine. He
will resume the active practice of law
again next fall.
Charged with stealing $14 from Frank
Lowden, after an orgie in a shanty near
Morris. Clifford Horner, John Ryan
Frank Richter and Herman Marchellus
were held for trial by Justice of the Peace
Hires. at Palmyra, on Thursday.
A notice has been issued by the County
Board of Elections for the first election to
be held in the newly created township of
North Hanover, at Henry Grants hall,
Cookstown, on Tuesday, May 8, for the
purpose of electing full complement of
officers for that township.
On Sunday, there was lost between St.
Andrews Church and the residence of
Mrs. H. B. Wills, on High street. an
open-face gold watch, with chatelaine.
The initials III B. W." are engraved on
case Return to Mrs. H. B. Wills, No
408 High street.
The month of April on the whole was
an unusually cold one, and at no time did
the temperature reach as high a mark as
it did during the latter part of March.
For the past few days the temperature
has been little higher, but fires are still
needed most of the time, especially morn
ings and evenings.
The Court of Pardons, at a meeting
held on Thursday, dismissed the petitions
of Gustave Werbach, convicted in Janu-
airy, 1904, of larceny and embezzlement,
and William Meters. convicted July, 1904,
for assault with intent to kill. Both men
were sent up from Burlington county.
The popularity of the Pine Mills Hotel,
at Browns Mills, under the management
of Howard T. Warrick, is growing. Last
week the house was full of guests and it
became necessary to send some to other
places. 1t is known as the most popular
resort in the pine belt.
Mrs. Stephen Smith, living near Moores-
town, was found wandering in Mount
Holly, on Sunday. She is patient at
the Burlington County Insane Asylum,
and while out for walk with other
ladies, Sunday morning, she escaped from
her attendants. Mrs. Smith was returned
to the institution by Detective Parker.
John Ward, aged 80 years, laborer on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, was admitted
to the Cooper Hospital, Camden, Sunday,
with a fracture of the skull over the left
ear. Ward was taken to the hospital by
friends, who said he was found along the
railroad tracks near Edgewater Park,
where he resides, early Sunday morning
He is supposed to have been struck by a
train. He died late Sunday night.
BY the provisions of Chapter IA of the
laws of the last session of the Legislature,
every female insane patient removed from
one institution for the care of the insane
to another institution of the same kind, or
being removed from such an institution to
her home, must be accompanied by
female. A fine of $50 follows refusal or
neglect to observe this law.
The establishment of pleasure park
at Bulls Head, near Masonville, by the
Burlington County Railway Company, is
being talked of, with George H. Bates, of
Atlantic City, as manager. who inspected
the grounds last week If such plan is
carried out the spot selected will be put
in shape for picnics, making it very con-
venient for Sunday school outings, ETC.
A lake will be formed for boating and
other forms of pleasure 1t is pleasant
location for such a purpose
David Meeks got himself into trouble
early Thursday morning. While standing
in front of Sherman's shoe store he at
tempted to punch Clifford Flenard The
latter lodged and Meeks'f fist went through
large plate glass window, causing dam
age to the extent of about $40. One of
his knuckles was disjointed and the hand
badly lacerated. When the second as
sauit was made on Flenard, William A.
Glover interfered, and on his complaint
Captain Branson arrested Meeks, who was
committed to jail in default of 5000 bail
The assault was entirely unprovoked
Meeks was released on Saturday
E1-County Clerk Levi French is quite
i'll in hospital at Atlantic City, He is
suffering from diabetes and gangrene. and
his death is looked for at any moment.
A few days ago Mr. French was seized
with pains which were supposed to result
from eating canned goods. On Sunday
his condition was such that a physician
was summoned from Philadelphia. He at
once decided that there was but a slight
chance for the recovery of the sick man
and that an operation might be advanta-
geous. This was performed and revealed
a gangrenous situation of great gravity.
There is yet to come pathetic feature
in connection with the murder which re.
suited from an assault committed at
Hainesport on Sunday week. On steam
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