The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-05-08

# Cemetery. Call on or address Morris II
It Keller.
Mrs. Galen, widow of the late Charles
i Galen, of Mount Holly avenue, was buried
g yesterday morning
Automobile for sale. holds four. buying
8 new model same make. W. 8. Rendell, 451
i Main street, Mount Holly N. J.
Harry l.. Walters. who is engaged at
: the Columbian Iron Works, Hainesport,
4 has not severed his connection with
THE News.
= Mrs. Martin BayersdOrter and son Stan
l ley, are spending the week in Washington,
D. c. Mr.. Bayersdorfer will join them this
evening.
T. Lacey Atkins will continue the ice
business formerly conducted by Atkins &
Anderson, ]. Clayton Anderson having
retired from the firm.
Charles B. Hornor, the nurseryman,
offers for sale a fresh Guernsey cow. She
is six years old and has taken four first
premiums at the Mount Holly Fair.
Charles Anderson, living in the pines,
sentenced to two years in state prison for
stealing chickens, was taken to Trenton,
yesterday, by Deputy Sheriff Fleetwood.
A reception was rendered the senior
class of Mt. Airy Lutheran Theological
Seminary, on Friday, at the parsonage OF
the Lutheran Church, on the Hainesport
road.
Top overcoats and fires were quite COM
Portable this morning, there being low
temperature. Alexander Forbes reports
a light frost last night, but which may do
no harm.
The directors of the Burlington County
Fair Association are making preparations
for series of sports on their grounds on
Decoration day. There will be racing
and base ball.
The old veterans of Gen. A. E. Shiras
Post, No 26, G. A. R., of Mount Holly,
have engaged the local ffe and drum
corps to furnish music for the exercises to
be held on Memorial day.
While in George Greenwald's barber
shop, on Saturday, Frank Dennis was
seized with an attack of vertigo He was
given medical attention and removed to
his home on Mount Holly avenue.
The sidewalk in front of the Bell Tele
phone building, ON High street, was
closed to travel this morning, repairs
being necessary because of washout
during the storm ON Sunday evening.
The Rudolph Thompson house at New
Egypt caught fire from the chimney one
night last week. Thompson smelled
smoke as he was going to bed, and got to
work quickly and put the fire out.
The German choir of Zion Lutheran
Church, Riverside, will visit st. Paul's
Church, near Hainesport. at the German
service next Sunday morning. Excellent
music will be given by this choir.
Lillian, the 10 year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Stacy g. Woodward, near New
Egypt, swallowed pin Wednesday morn
ing while dressing for school. DR.. Allen
was unable to extract it. The child was
taken to Philadelphia hospital.
Mrs. Leah Parker missed her footing
Tuesday morning and fell to the bottom
of the stairs at the home of her son,
William A. Parker, near New Egypt.
She died before medical aid could be Sc
cured. She was a highly respected lady.
and was about rs years old
Lawyer j. H. Kelsey. of Pemberton
has begun suit against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, on behalf OF Pitman
& Stackhouse and Alfred Cox, whose
properties were destroyed by IRE at Ju-
liustown, last week. Pitman & Stack
house claim that sparks from an engine
fired their hay press, and Cox claims dam
ages because the fire spread to and de-
stroyed his mill. Each party asksfor,
81, 900.
There was a game of base ball on Sat
urday. on High street between the Y. M.
q. A. teams of Mount Holly and Burling-
ton. The former was successful by the
score of to 8. The game was delayed
somewhat by the actions of the owner of
plot of ground opposite to the ball field.
Balls frequently go on his property and he
claims that his crops were damaged by
boys running over his cornfield after the
balls last year. On Saturday two balls
went into this field and the owner got hold
of them and refused to give them up I'M
less he was paid for them.
Robert R. Galley, Y M. G. A. secretary
at Peking, China, will deliver an address
in the Presbyterian church on Sunday
evening, his object being 1.-THE Awakening
of China" Mr.. Galley has been working
in the Chinese empire for nearly ten years,
and escaped with difficulty from Tien-
Tsin at the time of the Boxer uprising.
When at Princeton he became famous as
a member of the championship foot ball
team. He will be the principal speaker
at the Burlington Y. NJ. C. A. conven
ton next Saturday.
The debate in the NJ. E. church on Fri
day evening, under the direction OF the
literary department of the Epworth
League, was we'll attended and proved
very interesting. The subject under dis
cussion was: Resolved, that the world is
made happier by the increase of wealth
and luxury" The affirmative side, which
was represented by Henry G. Shinn and
Richard B. Eckman, was declared winner,
both by the unanimous award of the
Judges and the vote of the audience.
The speakers on the negative side were
Rev. Louis Heb, county secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association, and
Joseph s. Shreve.
There appears to be good chance for
stone road between Mount Holly and
Medford. State Road Commissioner E.
C. Hutchinson has promised to push the
matter along, but insists, before any def
mite action is taken, that the turnpike
shall be abandoned Lumberton has al
ready agreed to purchase its half of the
turnpike, but Mount Holly forgot to put
the appropriation on the ticket last fall.
In order that the project may not be de-
layed. number of citizens of Mount
Holly have given promissory note to the
owners of the turnpike, and will take
chances on Northampton township giving
aid in December next. Work on the stone
road will begin soon.
+ Samuel s. Bower and wife, of Phil
] adelphia. were the guests of MIR. anG
q Mrs. Judson Gaskill, on Garden street, or