The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-09-25
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

dorfer's.
The Jewish New Year was celebrate,
on Thursday.
Lodge secretaries are getting out thei
quarterly statements.
A coat of fresh paint has been applied
to the Union National Bank.
Souvenir postal cards. Mount Holl,
street scenes. Boyce's of course.
The Mount Holly Lodge of Elks will
hold social session on Thursday evening
Harry Nolen has accepted position al
Jersey City. where he began work yes
terday.
John j. Cardwell has purchased the
Wilbur F. Vannote property, on Madison
avenue, for 81, $50
The west side property owners on High
street are to raise their sidewalks to con-
form to the new grade.
Scalpers are not allowed to buy up
tickets at the Mount Holly Fair. All pa
irons get square DEAL"
Having given up his employment at
Washington, d. c., j. Scattergood has
returned to Smithville
At its annual meeting, last week, the
Burlington County Railway Company
reelected all its old officers.
A. e. Gaskill, deputy postmaster. has
purchased two lots, one on Monroe street
and the other on Fairview street.
The onion Fire Company conducted a
fair and festival for three days last week,
the event drawing to close on Saturday
night.
During fair week the Lillian Foster
Goodwin Stock Company will give nightly
performances at the Mount Holly Opera
House.
Judge Endicott will be succeeded in the
Burlington County Circuit Court by the
new appointee, Judge Frank T. Lloyd,
of Camden.
John F. Browning, of Burlington, and
Miss Emma Fox, of Mount Holly. were
married at the latter place, on Thursday,
by Rev. James II. Durham.
Charles Hooper, formerly of Mount
Holly, is secretary of the firm of Hooper
& Tucker, of Birmingham, which will
engage in the muskrat business the COM
ing winter.
Meeting James Mullen on West Wash
ington street. on Tuesday, William Cronk
took from him coat which it was said he
mac frxrirfr AZ, coll nronH oao,xrad his
property just in time.
The coating of gravel placed on Main
street stone road was of good quality
and has been very beneficial. Its applica-
ton was needed, because the top dressing
had all been washed away.
1t is said that the cranberry picking has
about ended on some of the boys where |
the berries were so badly injured by scald |
In these instances the season has been the |
shortest known in years.
While on Main street, Wednesday even
ing, Harry Newcomb, of Burlington, was
seized with fit. In falling he struck an
iron post in front of the Arcade Hotel, |
cutting cash in his forehead.
Follow the crowd next week and it will |
take you right into the ground of the Bur |
lington County Fair Association where |
there will be the finest Fair ever seen in
this state. October 2, 3, and 5.
The season at Rancocas Park came to |
close on Saturday night with dancing.
There may be some winter attractions
there, but as yet manager Ellis Fl. Parker
is unable to announce his future plans
Wormwoods dogs and monkeys-35 of
them. Each one a star performer and the
tricks they do are really amusing. They
will be seen every day inside the ring at
the Mount Holly Fair, October 2. 3, and
s.
An addition to the machine shops, at
Smithville, is being erected on the foun-
dation that was laid in 1885, Orders re-
ceived by the H. B. Smith Machine Com
pany. on Thursday morning, amounted to
Sc, 900.
While at the Camden terminal, on We'd
nesday, George w. Durand, of Mount
Holly, saw man electrocuted who had
stepped on the third rail of the new trolley
road running from Camden to Atlantic
City. The unfortunate man was horribly
burned.
A socialistic address was delivered at
the fountain, on Wednesday evening, the
meeting having been opened with few re-
marks by John B. Leeds, of Moorestown.
The speaker answered some of the argu-
ments of Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
who spoke in the Court House on Monday
afternoon.
John s.. Foreman, an ironworker, aged
"a years, of Churchtown, Pa, while
working on a building at the Roebling
plant at Kinkora, on Tuesday, lost his
balance and fell to the ground, distance
of forty feet He landed on his head,
crushing his skull Death resulted few
minutes after the accident.
Charles Haines, who is employed by the
South Jersey Tobacco Company, was
seized with a slight stroke of paralysis,
Wednesday morning, while cleaning the
horses in his charge. He was found in
the barn unable to proceed with his work,
one side of his body being affected He
was removed to his home at the corner of
Pine and Church streets
1t was not the milkman but thieves who
were denounced Wednesday morning,
when some residents on Broad street had
no cream or milk for breakfast. Before
the milkmen arrived in that neighborhood
several pals and the money which they
contained had been stolen. Entering the
yard of Captain Walter A. Barrows the
thieves opened the exposed refrigerator
and after satisfying their hunger carried
away the balance of the provender 10 the
milk pals.
A novel method to commit suicide was
adopted by Stephen Birdsall, on Wednes-
day. He was SO years old, farmer, and
lived near Georgetown. Going into the
field while mentally deranged the unfor-
tunate man put a rope around the top of
of stack of cornstalks. The other end
he wound around his neck three times,
leaving a short section hanging He held
on to this until he was strangled to death.
In this position he was discovered by a
son, who thought his father was asleep.
Lifting his hat to ascertain this fact the
Young man saw that theface was black and
learned what had happened. He loosened