The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-03-13
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spent Sunday with friends in Mount Hol
Barrington's pharmacy is now in char
of II. D. Rogers, of Clifton Heights, F
Prosecutor Samuel A.. Atkinson W
: one Of the Lenten visitors who spent Su
I day at Atlantic City.
An enjoyable musical treat was given
the Methodist church on Friday evenin
under the auspices Of the Epworth Leagu
Lenten services will be held in Ora
Episcopal church, Pemberton, every Tue
day evening, at 7.30. Rev. A. W. Bos
t wick will preach.
But little damage resulted by the e
plosion of a gasoline stove at the resta
rant of John L. Thomas. on Water stree
Saturday morning.
The Misses Emma Bussom, May Boy,
and Tillie Assay will leave for Washing
ton, D. c., tomorrow, where they e.
pect to have good time for week.
The officials at the Jail say they will
glad when they get rid of Albert L. Jone
charged with stealing chickens, he bein
one of the most dangerous men in the il
istitution.
There was a large attendance at tn
Baptist Church on Sunday. In the morn
ing Prof j. r. Dill, of the National RI
form Association, preached on THE Ad
vantages of Well Spent Sabbath" l
the evening the pastor. Rev. R. H. Baker
preached on "Chivalry.
Miss Frances Day, of Jersey City.
member of the State Board of Children
Guardians came to Mount Holly, Thur:
day morning. and removed Maggie Clar
from the Burlington County Children
Home, who will receive care at anothe
institution until she can be placed in tn
care of some good family.
The Board of Health will start out OF
April to make its annual spring clean
ing of the town. With cheerful co-ope
ration by the people themselves and will
the assistance to be rendered by the Vii
lage Improvement Association, this worl
can be soon accomplished and the tow
be made to look neat and tidy.
The Otto Gas Engine Company, o
Philadelphia, of which Edward F. Burns
of Mount Holly, is the vice president anC
general business manager, began to cleal
its recently purchased tract of land a
Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday morn
ing, on which will be erected greatly
enlarged plant and the business will bs
removed from Philadelphia as soon as al
the buildings are completed.
1t is said that if the firm of Norcross &
Edmunds, who have a sand plant at Biz.
mingham, begin to wash sand again for
use in the filtration beds at Philadel
phia, injunction proceedings will
be taken to abate the practice.
1t is claimed that the large volume of
sand which passes down the stream is
gradually filling up the creek. Legal pro-
ceedings of this nature were about to be
instituted when the washing of sand
ceased last fall
The people of Moorestown have had a
resolution prepared by their representa-
tive, Joseph L. Hilton, to be presented to
the Board of Freeholders, at meeting to
be held in the court house tomorrow, In
which the county will be asked to pur-
chase two bloodhounds to be used in run
ming down criminals, especially when
murder has been committed. If the prop
osition is favorably acted upon, the ami
mails will be kept at the county Jail and
under the training of Samuel K Gaskill,
the jailor.
Having been declared insane, Frank
Durand, resident of the pines, was re-
moved from the county Jail to the asylum
at Trenton, on Wednesday, by Deputy
Sheriff Fleetwood. A large pruning knife
was found on the man before he was taken
away. 1t was secreted in the lining of his
coat. Durand had been committed for
threatening to kill Edmund Braddock. of
Medford, when the latter went to his Gran.
berry bog at Buzby's Mills, where the
Frenchman had worked, for years. The
thought seized Durand that Braddock had
been planning his death since 1901.
A prominent citizen of Vincentown,
while in Mount Holly, on Thursday, call
ed on Squire Clevenger to make a COM
plant, but as the latter official is taking
no more criminal business, he referred The
complainant to other justices or to Pros
ecutor Atkinson. The trouble arises over
the fact that some of the storekeepers at
Vincentown persist in keeping their places
OF business open on Sunday to the annoy
ance OF church people, who could not get
Justice Robert Brown to issue warrants
for the arrest of some of the offenders.
There has been a noticeable decrease in
the cash receipts at the different Sunday
schools, which has resulted from children
spending their pennies for candy, etc.
A verdict for the loss of an arm has
been given by a jury before Judge Bar.
rett in common pleas court, No. 2, at
Philadelphia, awarding 81. 500 damages to
james Cunningham, of Bordentown, in
his suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. April 6, 1908, Cunningham
was working on gravel and construction
train for the company near Florence.
While he was shoveling dirt from one of
the cars the train startad and he was
thrown beneath the wheels. In addition
to other injuries Cunningham's left arm
was mangled so badly that it had to be
amputated near the shoulder 1t was al
legged that the signal to start the train was
given without warning to the workmen.
Some thoroughbred cattle on the farm
OF Mrs. Esther W. Strawbridge, at Moores.
town. became suddenly i'll last week. and
hard work on the part of DR.. Gardner,
OF Moorestown; DR.. Mecray, of Maple
Shade, and DR.. p L. Gauntt, of Mount
Holly, saved their lives On Thursday
two choice heifers and yearling bull be.
came stricken. much to the surprise OF
Lewis Stewart. foreman of the farm, who
had taken good care of the cattle. The
case was diagnosed as one OF arsenica
poisoning, which was verified by subse
quent investigation. 1t is not known
whether the arsenic was put in the man
ger that day or placed In the feed boz
some time previously. Mrs. Strawbridg,
had received $500 for the bull. which wal
being held temporarily at the disposition
of the purchaser. Detective Parker ha
the case in charge.
Charged with deceiving people by pre-
tending that he was deaf and dumb.
stranger, evidently from the south, wa
committed to the county Jail for thirt,
days on Wednesday. He gave the nam
of James NJ. Jewal, of Baltimore, wher