The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-06-12

II yesterday, where she will spend a wee
n or two.
Frank Frantz, member of the Phils
a delphia police force, spent Thursday Il
J.. Mount Holly.
Judge Gaskill will hold special session
r of court on Thursday afternoon. Judg
Joline will sit here on Monday, June Is.
Mrs Benjamin r. Lamb fell down stair
t at her home on Union street. on Saturday
and broke her arm, receiving other bruises
On September /, Edward Nippins, o
5 Mount Holly, will take possession of tn,
5 hotel at Lumberton, having paid $9,75'
for the property.
The strawberry growers of Camden anC
parts of Burlington County, have arrang
ed for big strawberry show In the Had
| donfeld opera house next year.
George Seel, of Palmyra. has very sor.
: arm, the result of running thorn in hi
thumb several months ago. Gangrene hal
developed, and his arm may have to b.
amputated.
The inmates of the Children's Home
are getting ready to occupy their new
quarters and they will probably be trans
ferred to the Dobbins Memorial Home be
fore Saturday.
The Riverton Iron Pier Company, at itl
twentieth annual meeting, elected these
officers: s. Robinson Coale, president; Johr
G. s. Davis, treasurer; Charles L. Flana
gan. secretary.
Rev. R. H. Baker. after spending two
weeks at Waterville, Maine. where Charles
E. Tobey, his aged father-in law, was
buried, returned to Mount Holly on Fri
day. He occupied his pulpit in the Bap.
fist church on Sunday.
Announcement is made of the marriage.
of Miss Bessie Carly. of Columbus, to
Elmer Miller, of Burlington. The cere-
mony was performed at the Methodist
parsonage, in Mount Holly. by Rev.
George M. Hughes on Saturday, May g.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has organized relief system for
San Francisco sufferers and would like to
have wearing apparel for women and
children and toys and picture books for
children. ANY articles sent to Mrs. Henry
l. Budd. High street. Mount Holly. will
be forwarded to California.
During the first shower on Saturday
night lightning struck the residence of
Charles HI. Crammer, on the Smithville
road, tearing off some weatherboards. Two
telephone poles near the house were felled
to the ground and an electric swith box
demolished, which put that section in
darkness. Thomas Clevenger, living a
short distance away. was quite severely
stunned.
Professor James II. Wilson, who has
been supervising principal of the public
schools of Riverside for the past six years,
will not return to that place nextyear. II
is claimed that he has been very active in
the movements instituted by the Law and
Order Society in closing stores and other
places of business on Sundays. Professor
Theodore Green, of Rockway, has been
elected to succeed Professor Wilson.
The Smithville base ball club won its
seventh straight victory on Saturday,
when it defeated Vincentown by the score
of to 2. Marpole, Vincentown's pitcher,
was knocked out of the box in the seventh
inning. Erickson pitched for Smithville.
The latter club will go to Pensauken on
Saturday, and will play here on the Both.
Manager Martin says the game here will
not be easy for Mount Holly, and certainly
not be 10 to / shot like last Saturdays
exhibition.
The Mount Holly base ball club was re-
suscitated on Saturday and played game
with PembertOn on the High street
grounds. Mount Holly. Both sides were
rusty. but gave gretty good exhibition.
Parker, Mount Holly's effective pitcher of
last year, was in fine shape, and kept the
visitors down. Seaman played at short
stop. with Linton behind the bat. Con-
way, Pemberton's pitcher, was touched up
for several hits. The score was 10 to in
favor of Mount Holly.
Strawbridge & Clothier have received a
letter from Joseph Cross, who was hurt at
Paris by being thrown from an automo-
bile 1t was written ON the first of June,
week after the accident, and it said Mr.
Cross would be compelled to remain in
bed another week. He was pretty badly
hurt. His leg was wrenched, his shoulder
blade severely hurt and his nose was al
most If not entirely broken. He had put
his eyeglasses on the day he wrote for the
first time since the accident.
A day or two since George W. Durand,
| William B. Ireland and Martin Fl. Girven
took trip down the creek in the "Cove. I"
When near Centreton Ireland called for
more steam and he was accommodated
Just at this point Capt. Girven neglected
the wheel for moment, and the increased
speed caused the launch to shoot up on a
sand bar. The party was compelled to
remain high and dry until the turn of the
tide and within sight of Dager's hotel
Distress signals were given. but the life
saving crew pulled out to the stranded
boat and politely informed the pleasure
seekers to "skidoo"
By an accident at the railroad station
yesterday afternoon Richard II. Hart, of
Bordentown, had one leg cut off at the
thigh, and the other Just above the ankle
The man was a brakeman on a freight
train which had just arrived from Cam
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train and while he noticed another train
coming in the yard, evidently thought 1t
was on another track, for he stepped In
front of it and was struck. He was re-
moved to the Burlington County Hospital.
where he died last evening.
Arrangements have been completed for
providing playground for children in
the rear of the court house There will
be swings, parallel bars and trapezes,
some of which were presented by John D.
johnson. others being the property of the
old Y. NJ. G. A., and kindly donated fol
the present use. 8. Budd Norcross gave
carload of sand for the children to die
In. Benjamin W. Zelley will act as super
intendent of the grounds and see that
good order is maintained. There will b.
plenty of light in the evenings. Lumber
is on the ground for erecting benches ano
for the other work necessary and it i,
thought everything will be in readiness
by Saturday.
The existence of few cases of typhoid
fever was sufficient to make inquiry as t.
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