The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-03-27

Typewriter supplies. Buy 1t at Boyce's.
Easter post cards and booklets. Buy it
at Boyce's.
Seed sweet potatoes can be had by call
ing at 141 Cherry street, Mount Holly. .
John R. Deacon, of Philadelphia, was
transacting business in Mount Holly
yesterday.
New postals-The Fountain. Mount
Holly National Bank and the Farmers
National Bank, for sale by Boyce
Clara A. Butterworth died in Philadel
phia hospital on Sunday. Her remains
will be inferred in Mount Holly to-day.
Benjamin Gibbs Kerlin and Miss Viola
May Sanderson, both of Burlington, are
to be married on Monday evening, April
Is.
Charles r. Gauntt, of Mill street, died
on Sunday evening of Brights disease,
aged IS years. The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon.
Norcross & Edmunds yesterday were
awarded the contract to furnish the sand
to be used in the filtration beds being
built in Philadelphia.
Rev. William M. Washington will speak
of the Work of the Church in the Mount
aims of Kentucky at the 4.30 afternoon
service at St. Andrews Church on Thurs
day.
Efforts are being made by the county
Y. M. G. A to have lecture delivered in
Mount Holly by Rev. F. G. Green, prin-
cipal of the West Chester, Pa, Normal
School.
The resolution providing for an investi-
cation oflife insurance companies was de-
feated in the Assembly last week Speaker
Robbins voted for the resolution; Assem-
blyman Trick voted against it.
William Mcfarland, who recently swal-
lowed stick pin, suffers no incon venience
therefrom. 1t is still in his body. He has
left the Burlington County Hospital, where
he was admitted ON account of the acct
dent
There was meeting at the home of |
Louis Heb, secretary of the Y. M. G. A, |
on Thursday night, to discuss the question
of organizing base ball league for this
county, of Y. NJ c. A clubs. Represent |
atives were present from Medford Moores- |
town. Beverly and Mount Holly Another |
meeting will be held this week, to take |
final action.
hes 10 fbo fof 1f
Henry Lewis, near New Egypt Only last
week the SOD, Thomas Lewis, was strangl-
ed by the mud and slush on the highway
where he mad fallen in fit. On Sunday
night his large farmhouse was entirely de-
stroyed by fire. forcing Mr.. Lewis and his
grief-stricken family to take up their
abode in a stable which was saved from
the flames.
The Court of Errors and Appeals of
New Jersey has filed an opinion in the
suit brought by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road against the Intercity Link Railroad
Company, in which the court orders the
commissioners appointed to condemn the
land of the Pennsylvania Company at the
triangle at the ferryIterminal in Camden to
make their report before June /. The
commissioners, Edmund E. Read, Freedom
G. Lippincott and A. ]. Fulmer, were ap-
pointed by Judge Garrison on the applica-
ton of counsel for the Intercity Link
Company last June. Attorney Joseph H.
Gaskill, for the Pennsylvania Railroad, ID
obtained writ of certiorari to carry to
the Supreme Court for review the action
of Judge Garrison in appointing the COM
missioners. With the certiorari Judge
Garrison allowed an order restraining the
commissioners from going ahead with
their work. The matter was appealed to
the Court of Errors and Appeals, which
has removed the stay and directedS the
commissioners to proceed with their work
The building of tunnel from Camden to {
Philadelphia is now assured.
The friends of Miss Lillian Hurff, the
daughter of Walter B. Hurff, living near
Marlton, are congratulating her on her
display of nerve when man broke into
the house on Friday night. She was in
the kitchen late in the evening, when she (,
heard noise in the cellar, the outer door 3
to which was unlocked. In answer to her
call the intruder said he wanted some
thing to eat. Lillian went up stairs and,
calling James Henry, the farm hand, who I
had retired, they went into the yard and /
the cellar door. Miss Hurff then 4
got a pistol and was on guard all night.
in fear that the intruder
would try to escape and thus make dis
turbance that would alarm her father who b
Is suffering from an affection of the heart
In the morning constable Cline was sum- 7
moned and he arrested the intruder. He
proved to be George Hoy. who has been
working on farms in the vicinity of MARI
ton for seven years. Yesterday he was I
to the State Insane Asylum, suf- t
fering from melancholy, the result of fam
lily troubles dating back ten years. Hoy !,
has served eighteen months in state prison
for murderous assault on Thomas Pine, c
Of Marlton. The unfortunate man has a
for breaking into cellars. II
Will Build This Summer. In