The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
Post Cards. Buy it at Boyce's.

noIice IL o.bOyce, statlOner.
j Henry Rue has resigned as member O.
t the Board of Education of Springfield
township.
n For sale.-Seven room frame house
e location good; cheap. Address A. A. An
s derson
An oyster supper will be given by the
, ladies of the Lutheran church, in the hall
E at Hainesport, on Saturday evening, Octo.
Der 81.
George F. Ried, of Lumberton, has
been elected director of the Farmers
r National Bank, vice Samuel H. Cham
bers. deceased.
At meeting of Washington Camp. No
II, z. o. s. of A., to be held on Thursday
evening, the matter of holding a district
meeting in Mount Holly will be acted
upon.
Matters pertaining to the winter cam
paign of the Young Mems Christian Asso
citation will be the subject of discussion at
a meeting of the members to be held this
evening.
Conductor Dolan, of Newark, who runs
between Jersey City aud Trenton, was in
Mount Holly, on Sunday, with his family,
visiting Mrs. George Mount, on Bispham
street.
Thomas Pitcher entered the Soldiers
Home, at Kearny, on Thursday. His
brother, E. Plum Pitcher, will go to
Tompkinsville, Pa, this week, where he
may continue to reside.
John B. Joyce, now living over Aliens
pharmacy, has rented the house on Main
street where William W. Curtis, deceased,
resided, and with whom William c. Weth-
erill and Mrs Mary Borden will board.
Mr.. Allen will occupy the entire drug
store property.
Cards have been issued for the wedding
of Ernest Mason Martin and Miss Helen
Augusta Dudley. The ceremony will
take place at Windsor, Vermont. on Wed
nesday, October "a Mr.. Martin is a
works.
The twenty min tn annual convention of
the Burlington County Sunday School
Association will be held in the NJ E.
church, Moorestown, on Thursday, No
vember 8. The speakers will be Rev. J.
Madison Hare, D. D., of Newark; Rev.
Floyd w. Tompkins, d. D., of Philadel-
phia; Rev. Charles A. Erdman. of Prince
| ton.
The Sunday school board, of the NJ. E.
church, held a meeting last evening and
elected the following officers DR.. A. r.
W. Atwood, superintendent; Howard E..
Alcott, Mrs. E. L. Prickitt, assistant
superintendent; John H. Dobbins, secre-
tary; L. s. Boyce, treasurer; John M
Huff, chorister; Carrie Cronk, organist;
Bessie Anderson, assistant organist; John
D. Mason. librarian.
Mary Mitchell, of Burlington, was taken
to the school for girls at Trenton, yester-
day, by Sheriff Norcross. Alice Kelley, a
companion, also of Burlington. may be
committed to some Philadelphia institu-
ton by Judge Gaskill next Saturday,
when her case will come up for settlement
In court. These two girls were mixed up
in serious charge preferred against
Burlington man, against whom the Grand
jury brought in no bill of indictment.
One of the most exciting coon hunts
occurred near Edgewater Park on Sun
day. John Matterson and about Thirty
other young men started out for chest
nuts, and when near Lakeview were con
fronted by three large coons, who had
their nest in an oak tree near by. The
coons at first put up a fight, but finally
tried to make their escape back to the oak
tree Matterson and several others went
back and secured few more clubs, lad
der and two dogs, and then the fun began
in earnest. The ladder was placed against
the tree, but while Matterson went up one
side the coons came out at the hole just
below, and men and dogs started out af
ter them, who led them through woods
and field before they surrendered. The
dogs, after hard fight, managed to get
the coons under control, enabling the
men with axes and clubs to put three
coons to death after a chase of three
hours.
Two unique weddings took place at
Palmyra Wednesday evening. The brides
were fast friends and arranged to have
everything connected with their nuptials
as near alike as possible They dressed
alike, had the houses decorated alike and
went away in the same carriage. Miss
MaIde Swope, daughter of A. G.. Swope
and wife, was married to William Lewis
de Hallway at her fathers home, Rev. G.
L. Candee officiating. She was given
away by her father. Miss Lille Swope,
sister of the bride, was maid of honor, and
the best man was William WestneY. Miss
Helen Sawyer played Mendelssohn's Wed
ding March. Mr.. and Mrs de Hallway
went directly to their home in Newark.
The other wedding took place at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. MAIN, where their
daughter, Miss Frances, was married to
James Hartley, Rev. j. W. Nicholson
officiating The bride was given away by
her father. Miss Bessie Hartley, sister of
the groom, was maid of honor The
groom was attended by Amos Main,
brother of the bride. The wedding ma rich
was played by Miss Estelle Beuhler.
Unable to locate Murderer.
Notwithstanding the work of both the
Prosecutor of this County and the Com
missioner of motor vehicles at Trenton,
the death of John Robinson, near Dor
dentown, is still an unsolved mystery.
Robinson was a colored boy twelve
years old. On the afternoon of September
10Th he was found unconscious on the
stone road alongside the trolley track
about mile above Bordentown. He died
about twenty minutes afterwards.
The only reasonable explanation of his
injury seemed to be that he had been
struck by a passing automobile. 1t is diff
cult to believe that the boy could have
been so badly hurt without the knowledge
of the occupants of the machine, and it is
almost incredible that any one would
knowingly have left him dying inIthe road
without assistance.
The day was pleasant and over hun
bred automobiles passed through Borden
town that afternoon. Suspicion was di-
rected to two of these, but no one in Dor.
dentown could give the number which
either of them carried. 1t was found that
the driver of one of these machines has
frequently violated the speed laws on the
roads of this county, but his machine was
traced past the scene of the accident he