The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-09-04
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at the grounds OF the Burlington county
Fair Association will be sold on Saturday,
September 10.
The Mount Holly Big Five will open up
the new bowling season with the Excelsior,
of Philadelphia, on Thursday night.
Chairs reserved for ladies.
John W. Harris, of Mount Holly, made
enough money out of big real estate
deal, on Wednesday, to take him across
the continent thirteen times.
Just one week more of enjoyment is
coming to the school children, as the va
cation season will come to an end next
Monday, when the schools will reopen.
1t was a creditable show that Watson's
Orientals gave at the Opera House, on
Thursday evening. 1t was clean through
out, the programme being quite interest
ing.
After spending a most enjoyable vaca-
ton at Ocean Grove, Rev. George nj.
Hughes returned to Mount Holly, last
week, and occupied his pulpit in the M.
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As a veteran of the civil war, Thomas
S. Pitcher, of Water street, will take ad-
vantage of his privilege to enter the Sol
diers' Home, at Kearney, arrangements
for which are now being made.
Typhoid fever has laid low the entire
family of Adolph Kettler, retired butch
er, living near Riverside. So serious is
their condition that physician and
trained nurse are in constant attendance
Two arteries in the left wrist of Bert
Smith were severed with chisel, last
week, while he was working at Moores-
town. The young man lost considerable
blood before medical aid could be secured
Samuel Heller, of Mount Holly, is the
happy father of a new ten pound girl
baby. This is the 10Th child in % years
Mr. Heller is 43 years of age and his wife
is SO years old. There is no race suicide
in that family.
A large crowd is expected at Rancocas
Park, on Thursday, when the Daughters
of America will hold picnic there. The
committee has invited eleven councils to
be present. There will be speaking by
state officers.
The large quantity of fruit which a
young man in Mount Holly has been pur-
chasing during the summer and which has
been done up for winter use, explains the
rumor that he is to be married during the
present month.
After returning from a five weeks trip
to Beach Haven, Calvin Adams, living at
Moorestown, engaged in game of base
ball, on Tuesday, and for the next five
weeks he will nurse broken arm, which
he received by falling off fence
The weather man was no respector of
person, last week, when he upset the
well laid plans for several picnics. Rain
fell every day for week. The ground
was so thoroughly soaked that heavy
crop of grass and weeds soon came up.
Rebecca F. Collins, wife of Edward Col
lihs, living on farm near Wrightstown,
died suddenly of valvular heart trouble,
Thursday afternoon, while working about
her home. Coroner De Worth viewed the
body and gave.a burial permit.
While trying to turn around in the mud !
in Uaion street, opposite Dr. Harker's
residence, yesterday morning, the street
sprinkler, operated by George G. Dennis,
got stuck, and the driver was compelled
to do considerable digging before he
could get out of the mire.
Reginald Branch, of Burlington, has an
unique explanation of the excessive rain
fall. He says it is the result of delayed |
snow storms that were side tracked last
winter 1t seems to us more like job |
lot of storms at the seasons end which |
the weather man has been disposing of at
bargain prices.
Prof w. COLON Cook will be- at the
school house on Brainard street, on Thurs
day, to receive applications for admission
from nonresident pupils. He will also
examine residents who intend to enter the
school for the first time this year and give
them the proper grading. This does not
apply to kindergarten pupils.
During the business hours of tomorrow
Red Mems hall, on Mill street, will be oc-
cupied by the Senior Mechanics, where
the annual meeting of the grand lodge
will be held. In the evening county
convention of the Brotherhood of Amer /
lea will be held there. These two events
will bring many visitors to Mount Holly.
Michael Bait, Roumanian laborer, en-
ployed at the Roebling plant at Kinkora,
got up in his sleep at his boarding house
at the plant, early Wednesday morning, |
and walked out of a second story window, |
falling to the ground and injuring his
spine He was removed to St. Francis |
his back is broken.
r. P. Sword, of Philadelphia, vice
president and superintendent of the Wis
sahickon Manufacturing Company, an or
ganization formed for the purpose of
manufacturing a patent rubber roofing, |
will soon remove his family to Mount
Holly, the company having rented the
shoe factory building on Risdon street, in
which to carry on its industry.
Frank Wright Of Garden street, who
went to Europe as a "cattle puncher,
has returned home with fund of knowl-
edge which makes interesting recitals to
his friends. While abroad the young man
saw considerable of the continent. Cou-
pied with his trip to California, about
two years ago, Frank should have pretty
general idea of the geography of the
world.
On Saturday evening next the Alumni
Association of the Mount Holly High
School will hold its quarterly meeting in
the Buttonwood street building at 7 As
o'clock A large attendance is requested
as business of importance will be consid-
cred. Nearly one hundred tickets have
been sold for the University Extension
lecture course to be given under. the au
spices of this association.
A trip from Little Rock to Mount Hol-
| ly, their marriage and return to the west,
was the experience last week, of Lewis
Reinman and Miss Helen Aston, both of
Arkansas The bride came here to visit
relative, Samuel Elbertson, on Garden
street, and it was at the latter's home,
on Tuesday evening, where the ceremony
WAS nerfOrmed by the Rev George F.