The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-07-03
The odor from the automobile gasoline

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stall pay station at Rancocas Park.
Plenty of severe storms for July is Il
prediction made by DeVoe, the wealth
prophet, of Hackensack.
Many crates of cranberries are no
being shipped from the pines to the Ne
York and Philadelphia markets.
While transacting business in his Off
on Thursday afternoon. County Collects
Joseph Powell was severely attacked wit
vertigo.
Alfred A. Sheaver, of Newark, an
Elizabeth Hampton Ruark, of Moul
, Holly, were married ON Wednesday, b
Rev. James H. Durham.
Congress having adjourned, Micajah /
: Matlack. clerk of the printing committe
of the House of Representatives. has r,
turned to Mount Holly for the summer.
!, A hotel man living in Middlesex count
is negotiating with Henry Barry for tn
purchase of the West End hotel at Moore'
town. An offer of $40. 800 is being cor
sidered.
AS the result of running rusty nail i
his foot, Russell Morgan, of Pembertor
has been very i'll with lock- jaw. TIL
young mans condition is now one of i'm
provement.
On Sunday evening, June II, at tn
Methodist parsonage, occurred the mar
riage of Fred Claypoole and Miss Clar
Walcott The ceremony was performe'
by Rev. George NJ. Hughes.
DR.. Raymond s. Clarke and wife ant
the latter's mother, Mrs. Samuel Galley
are stopping at the Birmingham Inn. Th'
doctor makes daily trips to Mount Holly
to attend to his dental practice.
Just before he concluded to put an ent
to what appeared to be very poor after
Moons fishing at Eayrestown. on Thurs
day. Rev. ]. W. Nicholson, of Palmyra
caught two beautiful pike of large size.
Special singing was one of the features
at the meeting for men held in the cour
house, on Sunday afternoon, when an in
teresting address on 1.-THE Noble Art O
Self Defence" was delivered by Rev. Err
nest A. Boom, of Merchantville.
Last week occurred the burial of Mis-
Efie Lucas. The deceased was a schoo
teacher at New Lisbon. In April she wal
terribly burned as the result of her clothes
t.,
Cured at the Cooper Hospital. Camden.
Glendale. near the forks of the Rance
cas- creek, was made lively last week by a
camping party, consisting of Warner
Vanderveer, Herbert Kille, Aubrey Wor
rell, Lawrence Bullock, Jack Gillian and
Norman Lynn, of Mount Holly. The
boys had royal good time.
While hauling a load of hay in the
barn of ]. Howard Burr, at Pemberton,
on Thursday, Swede. who was driving,
was struck by the beam over the driveway
His back was injured and he suffered con
cussion of the brain. For time his con
dition was considered critical.
Freebooter George Bozarth, Of
Chatsworth, does quite business as a
side issue in the purchase of snakes hav.
ing a corner on the market in his section.
He says the business this season will NOT
equal that of last year, when he purchased
,049 snakes. for which he paid $157.35.
Notwithstanding the extreme heat of
Friday Dory Gaskill went into the hayfield
and helped make up for the absence of
one of his men who was sick. Another
young fellow, aged about 80 years. went
out to the field and the way those two
raked hay made the younger men look
sick
1t is reported that the franchise granted
to the Bell Telephone Company in Mount
Holly is to be the subject of an attack by
its rival, the Inter State Telephone Com
pany, on the ground that the provisions
of the law were not complied with. An
outbreak between these competing cor
porations is looked for.
At the regular semi annual meeting of
the Ushers' Union. of the NJ. E. Church,
held on Thursday evening, the following
officers were elected. President, William
III. Dobbins vice president, Henry G.
Shinn secretary, DR.. A. r. w. Atwood
treasurer, Dallas Pierce executive com
mittee, R. B. Dickerson. L. 8. Boyce,
Pocahontas Tribe, No. IS, Improved
Order of Red Men, has elected the follow
ing officers: Prophet, A. Morris Haines
sachem, Herbert Heller; senior sycamore
B. Garfield Bozarth; guard of forest, u ohr
B. Dobbins; chief of records, Charles a.
Fitzgerald; collector of wampum, Frank
Dennis; keeper of wampum, Albert II
Lear.
On Tuesday, in company with one {
his classmates in the veterinary depart
ment of the University of Pennsylvania
Frank Wright. of Garden street, saileC
for Europe, In charge of several horses
that were shipped by trainer. Afte
their work in this connection has beer
accomplished, the young men will max,
Three hours after a watch had beef
taken from the residence of L. W. Prickett
on Garden street. it was recovered in
pawn brokers' Office in Philadelphia. A
soon as the theft became known, Detectiv,
Parker reported the number of the watcl
to the detective bureau in Philadelphia
A pocketbook which the sneak thief car
ried awsy.has not been recovered.
If you want fine excursion tomorrow
or any other day, take one of the Della
ware River steamboats,, on which you cal
go 40 miles for 40 cents. The timetable
which appears elsewhere, will give infor
nation as to time boats leave differen
points. Every Saturday and Sunda,
there are evening excursions. Music an,
refreshments on all boats, and competen
caterer is In attendance on all trips.
Helen Brown, the Is year old daughte
of Mayor F. G. Brown of Riverton, nal
rowly escaped drowning while swimmin,
in the Delaware off Riverton Wednesda
afternoon, in company with Miss Doroth,
Brooksbank and Miss Margaret Baum. +
C. Brooksbank, father of one of the girls
sprang to the assistance of Miss Brown
He missed her. however, and William
Kerrigan also plunged in and brought he
ashore. She was unconscious. but r,
covered later.
One of the prettiest weddings of til
June season took place at Riverside O
Wednesday morning at st. Peters Cathol
Church, when Miss Adele Marie Claus
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Claus