The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-09
LOCAL NEWS.

AONAk NEWS
A good many people had money to bul
on the Fourth
$4,000 colored post cards of Moul
Holly. 1s new views. Buy it at Boyce's
The Board of Freeholders will meet
regular session at the Court House tt
morrow.
Miss Sarah r. Bozarth, of Mount Holly
has been elected principal of the Lincol
Park school.
Frank Pratt, the Water street blacl
smith, has been nursing an injury on hi
right arm. He says he was kicked by q
automobile.
Frederick Corruthers, of Riverside,
lad three years old, cut the end of f1nge
off with q butcher knife while hacking
piece of wood.
Mrs. Lydia w. Stackhouse. OF near Med
ford, announces the engagement of he
daughter Helen Mabel. to Charles Reev
Williams of Stanwick.
August Farwick, of Riverside, Will
using butcher knife for screw driver
let it slip and nearly severed the forein
ger of his left hand.
William F. Poisez, Jr., and Miss Revilll
N. Hughes, both of Atlantic City, cam'
to Mount Holly, on Tuesday. and wer'
married by Justice Slack.
The Peoples Building and Loan Asso
citation purchased the machine shop Of B
W. Storey, on Paxson street, at Sheriff.
sale, on Wednesday, for 5000.
The Inter state Telephone Company
have just installed Royal typewriters in
their equipment. Mount Holly people
are quick to appreciate a good thing.
Following is list of the unclaimed let
tiers remaining In the post Office for the
week ending July g. Henry Parker. M. J..
A. M. Gullis, Albert Myers, Harry Myers.
Miss Maud Horner, of Juliustown. is
now able to be about her room. Four
weeks ago she burned her foot badly at
the fire which destroyed Noah N. Gaskills
buildings.
George Camac of Water street, was ar
rested on Saturday night for committing
an assault and battery on his wife. Ina
bility to furnish $500 bail led to his i'm
prisonment.
Mrs. Joseph G. Bower, of High street.
left the chair in which she was sitting, a
few days ago, just in time to escape In
jury from a section of plaster which fell
from the ceiling.
Asher Faulkner, of Wrightstown, aged
IL years, was badly injured, on Saturday,
while putting hay in barn by getting his
right hand caught between a rope and
pulley. The boy was brought to the Bur
lington County Hospital. where three of
his fingers were amputated.
The celebration in Mount Holly ON the
Fourth brought to light the record of sew
eral men. all of whom are past seventy
years of age. 1t was stated ON reliable
authority that Charles Fort, Willitt Shinn
and James L. Anderson never shot
fire cracker. G. Oakford Gaskill has never
had on pair of skates and never shot
a gun. Abraham Jones has never eaten
an oyster, or banana, or tasted ice cream.
The Pennsylvania railroad is trying q
new experiment at Barnegat bay bridge.
Heretofore they have soaked piling in
creosOte to preserve them from the borers.
Now they have a trsinload of terra Gotta
pipe In which the piling are to be encased
from the bay bottom to above highwater
mark, and the space between the pipe and
the piling to be filled with cement. They
think this will keep the teredo worms out. |
The members of Company E, of Mount
Holly, left Saturday morning for Fort
Hancock, where they will spend week |
with the Third Regiment in the engage
ment of military duty that will be entirely |
new to them, consisting of regular army
work, repelling of landing forces, blowing |
up of hostile fleets, target practice with |
the big guns and other coast defence ma
neuvres. The trip should be very pleas
and and instructive one.
N A6Ab az hoiuCoROAb Ou buC night VI |
July A, came near resulting In murder
The trouble occurred In the Polish quar- |
ter of that town, during which Frank |
Miller was beaten on the head with a |
brick He was badly injured, there being
a fracture of the skull. Charged with the |
crime warrants we're issued for William |
Urban, William Shepherd and Martin /
Shepherd. The men were arrested by
Constable Snyder and committed to Jail |
by Justice Jamison.
The New Jersey State Horticultural So |
ciety will hold special summer meeting |
on Saturday. June 90. In the Keiffer pear
orchard of John s. Collins, near Mer-
chantville. 1t is proposed to hold a short |
morning session at the Collins Cold Stor- |
age Plant, at 11.3O, and then adjourn for
lunch in the Collins & Pancoast hall, Mer !
afternoon session. Among the speakers |
will be DR.. Edward B. Voorhees, and Fl. |
w. Collingwood.
Sitting on the rail of the trolley bridge |
at Rancocas Park, Thursday evening,
Christian G. ]. Wolfsburg got in to dose |
and fell to the ground below, distance of
several feet. He received a severe cash
on his forehead. Noticing that he was
going to sleep. Constable George Snyder,
of Hainesport, one of the Park guards,
started to grab Wolfsburg just as the lat
ter went over. The young man thought
some one had struck him with a black
jack. He was removed to Mount Holly,
and conveyed to his home, on Pine street, |
in a wagon.
One of the pleasant features at the In.
stallation of the officers of New Jersey
Lodge. No. 1, Knights of Pythias, on
Friday night, was the presentation of a
handsome gold emblem to Samuel B. Gale
for his faithful service as outside guard
during the past 30 years. His acceptance
of the gift, which came as complete sur
prise, showed that he had been keenly
touched by the consideration of his fel
low members. Mr.. Gale and Col. Charles
M. Sloan are the only surviving charter
members of the first Pythian lodge organ
lied in the state.
Samuel Sydney Smith was picked up by
the police at Atlanta, Ca, last week, and
was unable to give any account Of himself
for while, but finally 1t was learned that
he was member of the Masonic fratern-
ity, and that he belonged either at Mount
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