The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-12-03

Micajah E. Matlack and family have
gone to Washington, D. c., where they
will remain for the winter.
The annual supper Of the Sacred Heart
Church will be held in the Masonic Tenn
pie, on Saturday evening, December A.
Clifford E. Budd, of Pemberton, has
purchased cranberry bog in Southamp-
ton township of William P. Bryan for
5000.
Miss Lillia T. Branson has resigned as
teacher in the Mount Holly schools and
Miss May V. Maggie has been elected to
fill the vacancy.
Upholstering. carpet laying, furniture
repairing, floor staining, vanishing and
kalsomining. Samuel ]. Taylor, 20 High
street. Bell S7s D.
Emma, the year-old daughter of An
drew Parks, of Tabernacle, is suffering
from burns which she received while play
ing with matches.
The congregation of the Baptist Church
is planning to raise e., 500 for the purpose
of installing new pipe organ. The one
now in use has not given salts
faction for long time.
| Deputy County Clerk Charles NJ At
kinson is the assignee for Edward
T. Murphy, Burlington township
farmer, who made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors.
Charles Smith, colored, of Burlington,
tried to cut his wife's throat Saturday
night. Neighbors interfered and Consta-
BILE Mccormick arrested Smith, who was
held under bail for court.
The quarterly meeting of the Alumni
Association of the Mount Holly High
School will be held in the school house,
on Buttonwood street. on Monday even |
ing, December 8, at 7.45 o'clock. The
election of a new president at this meet
| ing will be considered.
An entertainment will be given in the
gymnasium, tomorrow evening, under |
the auspices of the boys choir of st. An |
drew's Church. There will be an orches- |
ira, quartette and selections by Ernest A. |
Atkinson, Miss Raby, Miss Folwell and
others. The proceeds are for the benefit |
of the choir camping fund.
T. Clifford Keelsr found a watch on
Main street, one night recently, and when
he began to talk about the matter in the |
store of Samuel P. Cline, the discovery
was made by J. Estill Simons that his |
watch was gone. After giving descrip- |
ton of the same 1t was found that the |
timepiece picked up Keller belonged to
Simons.
The executive committee of the Bur
lington County Board of Education met |
at Moorestown, on Friday, and considered |
the question of the next annual meeting.
Saturday, January IS, was the date fixed.
The meeting will be held in Mount Holly |
to be followed by the annual banquet.
1t is hoped to have as speakers DR.. F. H.
Green, of West Chester, Pa; William c.
Smallwood, who has made study of san
| itary inspection of schools, and Lewis
Bevier, State Inspector of schools.
On Tuesday morning Fl. II. Earnest
shipped the body of Alfred Pullen to the |
residence of the latter's brother, Addison |
Pullen, at Hightstown, where the remains
we're inferred that afternoon. This is the
man who committed suicide at the West |
End Hotel by turning on the gas. His
death was a surprise to his people, who |
had not seen or heard from him for TWEEN
ty-two years. The remains were placed in
charge of Undertaken Earnest, who Sc
cured Identification through sister of |
the deceased living in Trenton.
Someone who probably bears a grudge |
against Charles Jobes, plumber, of Bev-
erly, attempted to set fire to his house
early Thursday morning. Had not Mr..
and Mrs. Jobes been awakened by the
yelping of their dogs the dwelling would
have been burned down and perhaps the
family cremated. As it was, Mr.. Jobes
found two brooms, stolen from the out
kitchen, against the rear of the house
blazing high, and some piles of paper
near the dwelling was a mass of fame
The burning articles were saturated with
kerosene.
Howard Greenwood, of Lumberton,
recently had miraculous escape from |
| serious accident when he went down stairs
TO get some medicine for his mother who /
was taken Ill during the night. The
young man, who was carrying lamp,
tainted as he entered the kitchen His |
delay in not returning with the medicine
caused alarm, when other members of the
family made an investigation. They
found Howard with his head resting in |
the coal scuttle, and in falling he struck |
the stove, breaking off the hearth. The |
most singular part of all is the fact that |
the lamp, with the chimney broken, was
resting on his breast and burning brightly. |
The following recommendations for
changes in the present law will be sub
mitted to the Legislature by the new Fish
and Game Commission: To exact gun
license; license for non-residents; no spring
shooting; abolishing July shooting of
woodcock; no sale of game; woodcock
season. October in North Jersey and No
vember l in South Jersey; bass fishing to
open June Is; no nets, except minnows,
to be used after June 10; limit amount of
game one person can shoot; limit amount
of game to be taken out Of state; license
fee to be exacted from unnaturalized
foreigners the same as from non-residents;
prevent use of fish baskets and eel weirs;
no pound net within one mile of the coast.
A bad character, resulting from the
fact that he had served a term in the
Camden county Jail, was the ground on
which Justice Slack gave William Davis,
colored, thirty days in Jail on Wednes-
day. Ella Gibson, of 'Bucto, caused the
arrest of the defendant She charged that
The threatened to carve his wife. After
the contesting forces settled down in the
legal sanctum of the 'Squire's Office Mrs.
Davis startled those present by stating
, that her husband had made no such
, threats against her whatever, and there
was no justification for his arrest. The
! Justice found that the defendant had been
+ married under the name of VIM. Young,
t and that he had also travelled under the
r alias of George Jackson. On the ground
that he was a suspicious character, ques-
t lions were piled to Davis thick and FAST