The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-04-24
LOCAL NEWS.

sale by Martin Bayersdorfer. =
Mr. and Mrs Harold B. Allen, of Ocea
City, spent Wednesday and Thursday
Mount Holly
The residence OF Mrs. William T. Ha
ding, on Union street, has been given
fresh coat of paint.
Postmaster Charles L. Carslake, of Co
umbus, journeyed to Mount Holly in a
automobile. on Friday.
A falling axe recently struck the foe
of Peter W. Stelle, of Chesterfield, cuttin
that member quite badly.
The engagement is announced of {
Brook Wallace, of Moorestown. and Mis-
Berenice Budd, of Pemberton.
Herbert's ground meat and bone make
hens lay. Also excellent food for SINAI
chickens. Smithville road.
The young men of Jacobstown held
meeting last week and discussed the pro
posed organization of brass band.
Miss Byrde Norcross, teacher of plan
and organ. Apply for terms at Sheriff
residence, M ,'int Holly, N. J.
Geo D. Worrell, the Mill street plumb
er, has been distributing thermometers t.
his customers in Mount Holly and vicinity
William W. Branson and wife, of Rah
way, spent Sunday in Mount Holly will
the latter's brother, Captain George H
Branson.
William Briggs, of Risdon street, the
popular trolley motorman, was made the
father of 1Ot pound baby boy on Thurs
day evening.
The laborers employed by the II. B.
Smith Machine Company, at Smithville,
had their wages increased rs cents per day
on Wednesday.
Harry Hawkins. Jr., has been given an
interest in the insurance business of Col.
Charles M. Sloan, with whom he has been
employed for several years.
A festival and supper was held in the
town hall at Vincentown, on Saturday
evening, by the Ladies' Aid Society of the
1ACtAO0loo NAu4CA a. bAdt paw
Through the efforts of the civic com
mittee of the Woman's League, of Mount
Holly, a sprinkler has been put In use to
settle the dust on several streets.
Having recovered from an operation to
which she submitted in Philadelphia hos
pital, the eldest daughter of Barclay AL
To- 80 hoa
The Postmaster General has issued
notice that rural mail carriers have the
right of way on all the country roads,
and that other carriages or conveyances
must surrender that right to them.
Charged with putting gasoline on cat,
Major w. P. Montague, of New Egypt,
has been arrested and fined $40 and costs.
The action was brought by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
will repair your watch and not charge
you over one dollar. / care not how much
repairs it needs. but in many cases less
than one dollar. My work must give sat
isfaction or your money back. II. V.
Htratton, jeweler. 80 Main street.
The Burlington County Teachers Insti-
tuition will be held in the parish house of
Christ Church, Riverton. on May IL. On
Friday evening, May II, an exhibition of
the work done in all grades of the school
will be held in school building No. 2.
Clifford r. Bower, of Mount Holly,
while riding in his automobile from Bor-
dentown to Columbus, on Friday, found q
pocket book with valuable contents lying
In the middle of the road. The owner
can have the same by proving property.
Rev. W. P. Finney, pastor of the Pres.
byterian church at Moorestown. is mem
Der of the Pennsylvania Society of the
Cincinnati, and upon the invitation of
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, will at
tend the burial of the body of John Paul
Jones, which will take place at Annapolis
today.
Unclaimed letters in Mount Holly post
Office, week ending April 21st, 1906: Miss
Anna May Crammer, Miss Delanco, Mr.
Dudley Oak Mont Dernels, Miss Ada
Fisher, William Grant. Mr.. Philip Har-
man, Mrs. Elwood Hall. H. w. Merriam
Shoe Co., Mr. Afford Patterson. Mr.. Ben
Bernard, Mr.. LIE Roy Carleton.
A gray team of draught horses belong
ing to Farmer Sutphin, of the Jacksonville
road, took fright on Saturday morning and
came dashing down High street. AL
though the tongue had dropped to the
ground by reason of the end breaking,
the driver held on to the lines with con
siderable pluck, but it was not before AL
linson's corner was reached that the animals
were checked in their mad fight. Very
little damage was done.
For committing an assault and battery
on Raymond Cameron, Wednesday hight.
a warrant has been issued for the arrest
of Charles Flora, who is now fugitive
from Justice. When arrested "Wappy"
will probably be returned to the state
prison, from which institution he is out
on parole. When liberated he had over
thirty months to serve on a sentence of
ten years for stealing chickens. More than
once he has been in trouble since return
ing to Mount Holly. but leniency was ex-
tended Flora has been working in the
iron foundry at Florence.
Governor Stokes has named General E.
Burd Grubb, of Edgewater Park, United
States Marshal Thomas J. Alcott, of Mount
Holly, and ex-Surrogate Elwood 81. Kirk
bride. of Medford, the State Commission
to erect monument at Salem Church,
Va, to the memory of the Twenty third
New Jersey Volunteers who fought there
The Legislature authorized the expendi-
ture of So 900 for the monument, and the
veterans of the regiment gave the ground.
This battle field was purchased by General
Grubb commandant of the famous regi-
ment, who gave the ground to his regi-
ment in trust. All of the members of the
monument commission saw active service
throughout the Civil War.
The cry for competent farm labor is
heard in the rural sections of New Jersey.
and it will grow louder when the season
of harvest comes. Right at our doors i'm
migrants from Europe are being landed by
the thousands almost daily, the majority
of them being agricultural laborers. and
still the labor famine in the State contin
ues How to turn some of this human
tide into the farming sections of New Jer
sey is a conundrum that requires to b.
solved by the State itself. In SOM
counties sturdy young men from the Carl
isle Indian school work for farmer