The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-07-24
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


Holly, have removed to Springside
Spalding's base ball and athletic goods
l.. B. Boyce, stadoner, % Garden st.
The old legend In regard to st. Swith
ms day is not holding good this year.
b. Frank Deacon, of Union street, cele
brated his SOth birthday on Thursday.
DR.. r. s. Clarke was called to Medina
n. Y, last week, by the death of his sister
Aubrey Worrell has accepted position
with Strawbridge & Clothier, of Philadel
phia.
DIR. John ]. Flynn removed a tumo
from the hand of Mrs. Orlando Moore, o
Red Lion. on Tuesday.
The members of the Presbyterian Sun
day school enjoyed their annual picnic a
Rancocas Park on Thursday.
At Sheriff's sale, on Thursday. tn,
property of James L. Godfrey, at Bever
ly, was sold to Samuel B. Golf for $500.
Wednesday, August /, has been select
ed as the date for the Odd Fellows pic
mic, which will be held at Rancocas Park
Stacy P. Wilkins, of Fostertown, wht
was SO seriously injured by pair o.
mules tramping on him, is slowly recover
ing.
There will not be a banner yield oil
huckleberries this season, as the late frosts
injured the vines while they were In
bloom.
Miss Laura Reed, of Riverside, Is suffer
ing from second stroke of paralysis,
which affects the whole of one arm and
part of her side.
While at Jacobstown, on Tuesday, a
horse belonging to John b. Bozarth, of
Mount Holly, was kicked by another
horse and had its leg broken.
George Riley, Jr., of Pemberton, who
is employed in the machine works at
Smithville, is suffering from painful in
jury by getting his foot mashed in a
freight elevator.
The home of Frank Bradley. near the
South Pemberton station, was set on fire
by an oil stove on Wednesday afternoon
The flames were extinguished with few
buckets of water
Two strange men in town last week en-
deavored to gain entrance into several
houses. The excuses given were not sat
isfactory and they were turned down. 1t
is believed they were sneak thieves.
ri Vol,
for the balance of the summer, taking the
place of William G. Morgan. the engineer
who had his wrist broken by mail crane
while passing the station at New Lisbon.
As the. result of being kicked in the
stomach by cow, Lewis Shinn, of Jobs
town, is taking an enforced rest. So is
horse that belonged to Ralph Shinn. The
animal was gored in the breast by bull
and bled to death.
James 7. Dalrymple is nursing a few
fractured ribs. While in Burlington he
walked ahead of his horse, which was
nibbling grass Raising its head sudden
ly the end of one of the shafts was forced
into Mr.. Dalrymple's side.
While attempting to swim across the
lake at New Egypt last Wednesday, Mrs.
Anna Smith, of Staten Island, who is an
expert swimmer, was seized with violent
cramps, and she was rescued by William
G. Long and Edward Smith.
Ell Stackhouse, a contracting carpen-
ter, of Haddonfield, is one of the men
having charge of the building operations
on Washington street, being conducted
by Frank =. Davis and DIR. C. E. Lord
Stacy Atkinson is doing the mason work.
There is good opportunity at the pres
ent time for boys and young men to OBJ
tain positions at the works of the H. B.
Smith Machine Company Smithville, N
J. The works are crowded with orders,
and young men and boys desiring to learn
good trade should apply at once.
On Tuesday last Thomas Elbertson re
ceived a visit from his son, Griffith Ell
bertson, who had not been here for 81
years. Mr. Elbertson is incapacitated by
chronic attack of rheumatism, and will
seek treatment at some eastern resort be-
fore returning to his home at Indianapo-
lis.
1t is feared that mental arrangement
will seize Harry Harris, of Pemberton,
unless the pressure on his brain can be
relieved by surgical operation. For
month he has been unconscious from q
fractured skull. He had lucid interval
of few hours last week and then fell in
to relapse.
A large building for the storage of cram
berries is to be erected by Evans & Wills
on their bog at Friendship. 1t is said the
crop will be injured by the appearance of
the fire worm, which should have arrived
in May, when its destruction is brought
about by flooding the boys. There is
now no method of exterminating it.
Next Tuesday evening the Luther
League of st. Paurs Lutheran church will
hold lawn social on the lawn of the
residence of Jacob Ritter, In Hainesport.
In addition to the usual attending Incl
dents of such gathering there will be
presented programme Of vocal and in
strumental music, addresses and recita-
tions. The public is invited to attend.
The exercises will begin at eight o'clock.
Norman Harker, s. Lawrence Bullock
and Nelson Pumyea will soon be touring
England and Scotland on their bicycles,
they having sailed for Antwerp, on Fri
day, on the steamship Menominee, of the
Red Star Line, on which there is a ship
ment of cattle. 1t is some of these that
the boys will care for in payment for their
passage across the ocean. The work is
said to be of most healthy nature and
has many followers from the ranks of
college students. 1t is an assured fact
that the young men will have good time
before returning home.
All details have been completed as to
the selection of monument to be erected
at Salem Church Heights, Fredericks-
burg. Va, as a memorial to the famous
Twenty-third New Jersey Volunteers.
which organization had such distin-
guished career In the Civil War. United
States Marshal Thomas j. Alcott, OF
Mount Holly; Captain E. II. Kirkbride,
of Medford, and General E. Burd Grubb,
of Edgewater Park, the commission ap-
pointed by Governor Stokes to superin-
tend the erection and dedication of this
monument. arranged to go to Fredericks.
burg to day to make final selection Of