The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-06-06
LOCAL NEWS.

per year.
Contractor Gale will soon install me-
culvert at the corner of Garden and Cherr
streets.
The "Husking Bee" recently given fc
the benefit of the Burlington County Hos
pital, netted $65. 95.
A soda water fountain has been place
in the pool and billiard room G
Ellis FL. Parker in Arcade Hail.
Ellsworth Fl. Burtis will erect tw
dwelling houses on his Washington stree
lot, and not three. as has been stated.
At their meeting ON Thursday evening
Washington Camp, No. II, P. o. S. of A.
elected one candidate to membership.
Fresh strawberries, egg plants, onions
radishes, peas, tomatoes, lettuce and al
seasonable vegetables at Cayanaugh's
Ellis III. Parker has sold his perry-go
round to Herman virgins, who con
templates locating the same at Pemberton
The committee of arrangements TO
Young Mems Day, which occurs June IL
will meet in the Presbyterian church thi
evening at o'clock
Sheriff Bower, on Thursday, sold tn
property of George Freeman, of Borden
town, to John P. Hutchinson, the com
plainant. for $500.
The new steam roller, recently pur
At IN hxr n
Freeholders, for the use on the county
roads. has arrived at Stanwick.
The Burlington County Hospital ha
received a donation from Master Car
Evan, who recently gave an entertain
ment which Melted one dollar.
The discussion of business affairs en-
gagged the attention of several members o.
the Burlington County Retail Druggists
Association at the Arcade Hotel, OF
Thursday.
Word was received last week of thu
death at Utica, N. Y, of Rev. G. Cotton
Kimball. D. D.. L. L. D., who formerly
conducted a private school in Mount
Holly. He was II years old
Reuben Chamberlain, Jr., who, while
recently employed on the farm of ]. Ed
ward Engle, near Jobstown. ran away
with the hired girl, is now confined in the
Jail at Mays Landing, because of some
trouble committed in Atlantic City.
Charles E. Brinser. who has been assist
ant supervisor at the Pennsylvania Rail
road station in Mount Holly for about
eighteen months, has been transferred tC
Brownsville, Pa, on the Monongahela
division, which is promotion very pleas
ing to his many friends. He will be
succeeded by F. B. Pitcairn.
James Smith, colored. aged % years,
and native of Virginia, died on Thurs
day at a. M, and was buried at p. m.
He was employed on the John Davis
farm, on the Burlington road. Smith was
taken with spotted fever on Monday and
lived but three days, during which his
sufferings were terrible.
Many persons think because their bust
ness is small that a bank does not want
to be bothered with it. They are mistaken,
SO far as The Burlington County Safe De-
post and Trust Company, Moorestown.
N j., is concerned. They welcome the
small account as cordially as the large
one. One dollar will start an account.
The annual report of the State Board of
oIo hot foo 0hor in
lington county have been retired the past
year on annuities of $3.50 per annum each,
they being Nehemiah r. Whitacre, of
Marlton, and Anna r. johnson. of Mount
Holly. There has also been small in
crease in the salary of teachers through
out the county, men receiving monthly
average of 5000 Gan increase of 5000
and women $44.1 Gan increase of $3.50
per month.
Frank Phillips, of Philadelphia, is the
new landlord at the Birmingham Inn
for the coming season, which opens
this evening with a dance. His social
qualities and knowledge of the bust
ness will no doubt add to the popular
ity of this summer resort. A new system
of plumbing has been installed and other
needed improvements made. party OF
thirty people stopped there on Sunday
Quite number of guests have already
secured rooms, and sixty more are booked
to arrive on the 10Th inst The outlook
for promising season is very bright.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has begun crusade to exclude trespassers
from its tracks. This crusade is to bt
taken up all over the system in an etfor
to reduce the appalling death list o.
people killed on tracks who have no righ
there Statistics show that fifty-six pei
cent. of all the people killed in this coun
try in 1908 were railway trespassers. A
total of 1854 people were killed and
1884 were injured. This list is twenty
times greater than in Europe, where thu
laws against trespassing are stringentlN
enforced The laws in this country are
not stringent, and those in effect are sci
dom enforced. The number of people
who use the tracks as a public highway i
startling. The trespassers are general.
reckless of consequences, and often swarm
over moving trains in an effort to stea
rides.
A young colored boy, with larg
bundle and considerable obesity, cam
near passing in his checks, on Tuesda,
afternoon, in n attempt to board troll
lev car after it had crossed the Washing
ton street bridge. Just at this point NOR
power was applied and the speed of tn
car was increased just as the lad grabbe
the rear railing with his left hand. Ere
quent attempts to swing himself on tn
steps were unavailing, because he coul
get no purchase with his right hand, an
Just as often would he fall back on tn
vitrifed pavement only to find his fee
working faster than they ever WEI
before. Realizing his helpless condition
and the danger of being thrown under tt
wheels of the car, conductor HowaI
Shinn grabbed the frightened boy by tt
coat and held him until the car come to
stop at the railroad crossing. After r
ceiving severe lecture for his foolhard
ness, the boy stepped off the car and we
back after his bundle. being unable
speak word for the want of breath,
he was completely exhausted from his u
pleasant experience.
The wedding of Miss Rebecca Day
Lilly to Eugene HaIes Hires was solem
lied in the New Egypt Methodist Episc
pal Church Thursday evening at o'cloc