The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-09-18
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

Abraham LippincOtt OF Mount Holly, Il
repairing his barn on Garden street.
The theological studies of William G
Morgan, of Bispham street, will be takel
up at Richmond, Virginia.
The Alumni Association of the Noun
Holly High School will hold an adjourned
meeting next Saturday evening.
Harry Norcross, Douglas Abrams ant
Clarence Assay, went to Barnegat Pie
Sunday after crabs and brought quite {
number home,
Geneva johnson, of Mount Holly, wa
taken to the Burlington County Hospita
on Friday The young lady has been sicl
for long time.
Mrs. Edwin Ridgway, of Crosswicks
had the misfortune to tear the ligament
of her left thumb loose by falling on
slippery board.
A building in which Belgian hares ane
fancy rabbits are to be raised is to b,
erected on the farm of Mrs. r. w. Wills
near YOUNGSTOWN.
All the real and personal property of thu
late Jacob G. Henderson was bequeatheC
to his wife absolutely, to whom letters O.
administration have been granted.
There was quite time on Water street
Wednesday evening after the storm, one
house was full of water and men were
com nallad tn hail III ont
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the post office for the week ending
September Is: Mrs. Job G. Dorsey, Lewis
Wiswell, Mrs. Bertha Wilson.
Leslie r. Fort, publisher of the Lake
mood Times and Journal, and son OF
Supreme Court Justice j. Frank Fort, will
be married at East Orange on October 1C
to Miss Helen W. Osmun.
Because of the frequent heavy rains,
there is quite depression in the vitrified
brick pavement at Allinson's corner,
under which the Bell Telephone people
tunneled to lay their conduits.
October oath, the wedding of DR..
Joshua Hilliard of Mannahawkin, mem
Der of the Ocean County Board of Tax
alton, tc Miss Leah French, daughter OF
the late County Clerk Levi French, of New
Gretna, will take place.
Spaldings Foot Balls, Basket Balls,
Punching Bags, Boxing Gloves, Peck and
Snyder Roller and Ice Skates, etc., at low
est retail prices. Our assortment is large,
but if we haven't it in stock. we will get
it promptly. L. 8. Boyce, Sporting
Goods.
The annual session of the Grand Circle,
Brotherhood of America, convened for a
two days session at Atlantic City yester-
terday. Marion Circle, No. 9, of Mount
Holly, is being represented by John
Throckmorton, ST., his sons, John and
Charles, Samuel Bodine, Andrew Mails
bury, John A. Watts, Raymond Bowker,
and Howard Batchelder and G. ]. Krayer.
Charles Jones, young colored lad, liv
ing near Hornerstown, who was unsuccess
full in his attempt to get away with
N6WclI OudiCy nOlcC ACOCAbift eAANU LILO
hand at house breaking, on Tuesday. By
breaking two window lights out of the
rear of the store of Harry Hopkins, while
he and some friends were off fishing, Jones
entered the building and took a can of
ginger snaps and other sweets
Mrs. Whitehouse, of Pine street, was
found in her bedroom sitting in chair
dead, on Wednesday morning. Mabel
Sharp, grandchild, went up stairs to
summon the parent to breakfast, and re-
turning to her mother, said: Grandma
can't hear" Mrs. Jennie Sharp, becom-
ing alarmed, rushed up stairs and found
her mother lifeless. The deceased had
been stricken with heart disease.
Harold Clevenger Warner, of Columbus,
and Miss Janet Sexton, of Pemberton,
while visiting at Trenton, fell in love at
first sight and desided to assume the re-
sponsibilities of married life then and
there. With this determination fully es-
tablished the young couple called in Rev.
Alfred w. Wishart, pastor of the Central
Baptist church, who performed the mar
riage cermony. They will reside at Col
umbus.
William Ayres Crosswicks farmer,
and his 10-year-old son, Lester, were
trampled and gored by herd of cattle
while driving the animals from field to
the barn on Wednesday. The child
sought to hurry calf, when its mother
distance with her horns. The elder Ayers
went to the rescue of the boy and he, too,
was attacked. He was given a broken
nose and other painful injuries.
Henry j. Robinson of New York, has
closed deal with the heirs of the late
William Hurry for the ownership of the
Bamber tract of several thousand acres.
1t includes valuable water power at Bam-
Der on Cedar Creek, cranberry bog, cedar
swamp and pine barrens, with valuable
clay and sand deposits. 1t is in Ocean
County mostly and is crossed by the
Tuckerton railroad. The price is not
made public, but $50. 900 was asked for it
year ago.
The Mount Holly delegates who went to
Atlantic City, on Wednesday, to attend
the annual meeting of the State Firemen' s
Relief Association, had good time. One
of the representatives was Policeman job
Collins While walking on Atlantic Av
inue during the evening. he tripped and
caught a running colored sneak thief who
had snatched lady's pocketbook. He
turned the fellow over to an officer. The
latter summoned patrol wagon, into
which the prisoner was hustled and taker
to the central station.
Oyster and clam shippers along the
Tuckerton railway, are up in arms ovel
the announcement that the daily fas
freight connection from Writings to Phila
delphia, is to be left off. by the p r. r
next month. The train, known as tn,
oyster express, has for some years allowed
the shippers, from Barnegat to Tuckerton
to put down their shipments in Camden
Philadelphia and Trenton the same day
they left the water; and the next in Harris
burg and Pittsburg. Shippers threaten t.
retaliate by using the c. r. R. route, i
this train is left off.
Freight train No. 400, from Camden t,
Jersey City, ran into the rear end o
freight train No. 1916 on its way to Tren
ton, near Kinkora, at o'clock on Wed
aoadnr morning number of cars ruer