The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-05-01
Rich cut glass. Buy it at Boyce's.

= Rich cut glass. Buy it at Boyce's
Is spalding's base ball and athletic good
L. b. Boyce, ststioner. IS Garden st.
# The police report everything ~ havin
been quiet on Saturday night No Oh
Il was arrested.
Y BENJAMIN Kerlin and bride, of Burlini
ton, paid visit to relatives in Mour
' Holly on Sunday.
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sentence Buy 1t at Boyce'sf" See Boycs
, window for particulars.
: Considerable inquiry is being made q
to whether or not Mount Holly will hay
. base ball club this season.
Everything for the flower and vegets
BILE garden, of best quality at REASONABLE
prices Rosbach-s. Pemberton.
Smithville and Mount Holly Y. M. G. A
played game of ball in Mount Holly OF
Saturday Smithville won by the score o
IA to 8.
For cash with order. Early cabbag
and tomato plants at $2.25 per 1000. A
Rosbach's, Pemberton. Special prices oil
large quantities.
Frank Elberson, a machinist, employed
in the railroad shops at Pavonia. came
near getting knocked out by an injury tt
his right hand few days ago.
An emergent communication of Noun
Holly Lodge. No. IA, F. and A. NJ, fol
the comforting of degrees, will be held ir
the Masonic Temple this evening.
Mrs. Zilpah Armstrong. mother of Miss
Ella Armstrong, died on Saturday after 6
protracted illness at the age of so years
The funeral will be held tomorrow morn
ing.
At the meeting of Good Intent Fire
Company tonight nominations will be
made to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of vice president William J. Bran
nan.
| William L. Powell, formerly of Mount
Holly, announces the marriage In Phil
adelphia, on the 25th of April, of his
daughter. Rena Gilbert. to William B
Noblette.
During the brief thunder storm, yester-
day morning, tall pine tree in the yard
Of William Haines on Ridgway street, OPP
posite the cemetery, was split open from
top to bottom by bolt of lightning.
In response to instructions issued by
Bishop McFaul, of Trenton. collection
will be taken in the Church of the Sacred
Heart, on Sunday, for the benefit of the
California sufferers. The instructions
cover all churches in the state.
The Water Company, at the request of
the township committee, will this week
install fire hydrant on the east side of
Pine street, south of the railroad, and
one on the south side of 6hreve street
near the residence of John Throckmorton.
The members of the Baptist Young
Peoples Union will hold Clipping So
cial' on Tuesday evening of next week,
in the lecture room of the Mount Holly
Baptist Church. Cake and ice cream will
be offered for sale. All are invited to at
tend.
Francis 81. Green. A. NJ, principal of
West Chester State Normal School, will
deliver a lecture in the Presbyterian
Church on May II, at eight P. NJ, under
the auspices of the Mount Holly Y. NJ.
G. A. Subject. "A Literary Ramble
Around Boston"
Through information furnished by THE
NEWS, the pocketbook which Clifford r.
Bower recently found on the road between
Bordentown and Columbus, while pro
ceeding to Mount Holly in his automo-
bile, has been restored to the owner, Mrs.
Conklin, of Mansfield Square.
Rev. A. w. Bostwick will preach q
series of sermons in Grace P. E. church
Pemberton, ON the following Sundays:
May 9. Agnosticism and Christianity; 18th,
The dangers of an emotional religion; Goth,
Jesus Christ, the Saviour of men; 9th,
Higher criticism and the Bible.
In the first mail this morning, but too
late to publish, The News received let
ter from John II. Croshaw, who is in San
Francisco. He and Mrs Croshaw are well,
but the latter is slightly nervous-not
surprising In view of the experiences of
the past week or two. The letter came
through without stamp, as it has been
impossible to get them.
After several years unsuccessful effort
to secure a new public school building at
Tuckerton, citizens meeting Friday
night decided to submit to vote of the
people the question of issuing $1,000
worth of bonds to make additions to the
present buildings. The meeting was at
tended by State Superintendent Baxter
and County Superintendent Tilton.
Two ladies living on Shreve street, dur
ing the absence of their husbands, on
Wednesday, were locked up in the county
jail an account of which they said they
expected to see in The News. But the
ladies were not arrested, however. They
visited the institution, and while there the
couple were locked in cell ''just to see
how it felt" There was a relief to the
sensation when the door was unlocked.
The most striking feature of the organ
ization of The Burlington County Safe
Deposit and Trust Company, Moorestewn,
N. j., is its notable Board of Directors,
which is composed of seventeen members
of whom three are bank presidents, one
bank vice president, one cashier, and
seven directors of prominent banking in
situations in Burlington and Camden
Counties. They pay three per cent in
terest on time and special deposits. One
dollar opens an account.
But for his timely discovery late Sun
day night Peter Corbitt. a hostler at the
round house of the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Bordentown, would have tperished
miserably in the building. Cor
bitt was working in. the pit be.
meath an engine when in some man.
ner the damper fell and pinned him to the
bottom of the pit. He said he must have
laid there, unable to move, for fully a
half hour. His groans were heard by the
occupants of nearby house. who got up
and went to his aid. Other help was Sc
cured and the man was released. To add to
his misery and peril the pit was almost
sitting with gas from the ire-box of the
engine, and Corbitt could not have lived
many minutes longer. He is, suffering
severely from his terrible experience.
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