The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-05-29
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A full afternoons entertainment
at promised to those who go to the F
IT, Grounds tomorrow afternoon.
Ice cream for Decoration day,
as Bowers The favors will be vanilla. chot
It. late, strawberry and cherry and oran
water ice.
e. Samuel W. Semple, of Burlington, hs
at ing recovered from his recent serious
ness, is able to resume his trips to t
a. county seat.
lie Goods Use of Men," is the title of t
sermon to be delivered next Sunday eve
IN ing by Rev. George M. Hughes, in the
J. E. church.
The eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs Eva
p Haines. of White street, is i'll with dip
IT liberia. Mr.. Haines, who is employed
1t Philadelphia, is under quarantine.
The Rev. Mr.. Pearce, of Wayne, Pa
l. has declined a call to the Baptist churc
/. Palmyra, because the members of his pre-
: ent charge will not accept his resignation
]. The following unclaimed letters renal
n in the post Office for the week ending Ma
90: Edmund Darnell, Chas. Darnell, Base
3 & Greenfield Co., Mrs. Elsie NJ D. Claw
son, Aron Haines.
1t is reported that gas leaking from tn
I main on Buttonwood street, south of Gal
den street. has destroyed a number c
= wells on that thoroughfare, leaving pre-
/ perty owners without water.
In addition to the extra fast race at tn
T Fair Grounds, tomorrow. there will
four other trials of speed. The classe
will be $50 mixed. $40 mixed. 8 minut
mixed, and free for all mixed.
The township committee of Eastamptol
has put up boards at several corners il
Smithville, warning drivers of automo
biles and other vehicles that the place i
dangerous" and urging caution.
A large automobile that took q crank,
turn at Hornerstown, last week, began
running backward until it reached
bridge, breaking the rail and landing in
ditch. The machine managed to get on
and went away apparently unscathed.
The commencement exercises of the Pal
myra High School will be held on June IA
The members of the class are There's
Bunting, May Davies. Hazel Windish, Ids
Hartman, Jennie Holbrook, Mary Yost
Grace Gerner, Edna Sherman and Walter
Joyce.
Reed Bird, SO years old, of Crosswicks.
was stricken with apoplexy on Friday,
while cleaning well on Richard Beatty's
farm, near Extonville, and died before he
could be removed. Bird was well digger.
He was single, and lived with Mrs. John
Bird. his stepmother.
Aaron 8. Branson, of New Egypt, was
on Friday appointed notary public by
Governor Stokes. Esquire Branson is
nearing 96 years old, and during the greater
part of that time has served as a notary
public. He is the oldest citizen of Plum
stead township, and no doubt the oldest
notary public In New Jersey.
Henry II. Savage had fortunate es-
cape from serious injury, on Friday, while
riding horse belonging to William Sher-
man. The stirrup broke. causing Savage
to fall to the ground. The animal kicked
him on the leg but no bones were broken
This Is twice within short time that Mr..
Savage has realized on an accident policy,
many of which he has issued In Mount
Holly.
George Hates, night clerk in the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company's freight off,
ces at Camden, stepped on an unfinished
platform about o'clock on Sunday morn
ing. The planking was loose and Hates
fell through, receiving cuts on his face
and body. One eye was badly injured
and his jaw broken. After having his
wounds dressed at the Cooper Hospital he
was brought to Mount Holly.
Mr.. and Mrs Edgar E. johnson, No. 10
Washington street. celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary of their marriage on
Saturday night, from until 10 o'clock,
during which time many guests called to
extend congratulations. There were pref
ty decorations and an orchestra furnished
music. Rev. Edward Braislin, who mar
ried the couple a quarter of century
ago, was numbered among the guests.
Frank Stiles, former engineer on the
Pennsylvania railroad, whose home was at
Vincentown, died while seated In chair
at the home of Miss Fannie Suydam, at
Bordentown, at about l o'clock Wednes-
day morning. He was single man, 43
years old. The cause of death is said to
have been paralysis of the heart. Coroner
Deworth gave burial permit The re-
mains were removed to the home of his ia
Their at Vincentown.
Although the county of Burlington and
township of Chester have $500 each to
disburse among those who are entitled to
the reward for the conviction Of the Allin-
son murderers, no settlement of the claim
has yet been made. notwithstanding the
anxiety of those interested to get their
money. Prosecutor Atkinson has prepar-
ed what he and the court believes to be a
legitimate list of the claimants, but this
has failed to receive the approval of the
Chester township officials.
Probably the largest sassafras tree in
New Jersey stands near the residence of
Thomas Newbold, in Springfield township.
1t is fourteen feet in circumference near
the ground and the trunk Is nearly the
same girth for six feet to the first limbs,
which are about foot in diameter, and
have spread of thirty feet, while the top
most boughs seem to be forty feet high
1t is ON the south side of the public road
leading from Wrightstown to Jobstown,
which was laid out March 9th, 1897.
Under habeas corpus proceedings insti-
tuted before Judge Gaskill, an order has
been made for the release of Henry Smith
of Bordentown, who was committed to the
county jail for ninety days at hard labor.
The commitment was made by Mayor Ga
bel, of Bordentown. 1t was shown that
there is no law providing for the terms
of the commitment, and besides that the
papers, which the law provides shall be
filed with the County Clerk within thirty
days from the date of the commitment.
were not on record at the proper time.
Continued drought for the past week or
two has made things unusually dry in the
country districts, and as result the early
crops are beginning to suffer greatly.
Strawberries are beginning to ripen well.
The fruit is still small, however, but has a