The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-05-14
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LOCAL NEWS.

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1t will pay you to take look at OF
geraniums. Rosbach's, Pemberton.
Thomas Dougherty, of Palmyra,
spending thirty days in Jail for being dii
orderly.
Furniture upholstered and done up an
carpets cleaned. Samuel j. Taylor, 2
High street.
Charles Reed, of Riverside, and Mis-
Florence Major. of Burlington are to b
married this month.
The mother of Charles A. King, of But
tonwood street, died at her home at Jack
sonyille, on Friday evening.
Thursday will be great rally day a
New Egypt, when efforts will be made t.
clear the Methodist Church of all indebt
edness.
Rosenfeld Brothers, ON Mill street, ar
booming their business by giving away
looking glass to every person purchasing
goods to the amount of one dollar.
Walter Powell, of New Egypt, a from
bone player in the band ON the U. s
cruiser Tennessee, has received an honor
able discharge on account of i'll health.
On the fifteenth day of every month a
2 P. M, Chief Halleran, of the Moores
town fire department, will send in falls,
alarm for the purpose of testing the sys
TEN.
A sand barge ran into the county bridge
at Riverside, on Thursday, smashed 4
complete nest of piling, wrecked wins
and put all the electrical wires out of bus
mess.
Over forty chickens, from four to eight
weeks old, raised from eggs costing thirty
cents each, and belonging to Harry Barck
low. of Moorestown, were killed by dogs,
on Tuesday.
fakir has been doing" the people
of Riverside, selling them cast iron
raZors for one dollar each. Some of the
victims wish they had spent their money
for lemons.
Proprietors of grocery and meat stores
of Delanco, are now closing their places of
business at noon on Wednesday. This
arrangement will continue through the
summer.
While wrestling friendly bout with
some friends, on Friday, John McCarey,
of New Lisbon, had his shoulder disloca-
ted. He was removed to the Burlington
County Hospital.
While playing ball in Mrs. Hendrick-
sons yard on Thursday afternoon. bat
hit Baker Sharp near the left eye, causing
laceration in which several stitches were
taken. permanent scar may remain.
A deed signed by Daniel j. Cowper-
thwait, president, and Joseph Powell, sec.
rotary. conveying to Northampton town
ship portion of the northern end of the
Lumberton turnpike has been recorded In
the County Clerks office.
When Frank L. Garbarino, of Mount
Holly, returned from his trip to Mexico,
on Friday night he was sent to Wilkes
Barre, Pa, to look after members of the
liam AAohN <1SoOOidlAOu, III nave UCCu
committing murder in that section.
The tenth anniversary of Washington
Council, No. 30, Daughters of America,
will be held in the Gaskill building this
evening An interesting programme has
been prepared. This lodge is said to be
the best, financially, of any other lodge of
that order in the state.
Governor Stokes has named the commits
sion to investigate the subject of stone
roads, particular attention to be paid to
ascertaining whether the enormous cost
of construction in recent years is due to
the control of the quarry output by the
trust. John E. Darnell is a member of
the commission
As he was walking along the Camden
turnpike west of Moorestown, Friday
night. Frank Rogers, of Philadelphia, was
knocked down by an automobile and bad
ly injured. 1t is thought that his left leg
is fractured. The extent of his injuries
cannot be ascertained, because Rogers will
not permit the physicians to etherize him.
With the mercury at 80 degrees at the
greenhouse of J. Wardell Shinn, ice the
thickness of window pane formed on his
property Saturday and Sunday nights.
The low temperature has killed lima beans
in some sections, blighted strawberry bios
SONS, and corn will be retarded in its
growth for six weeks. In some cases re-
planting viii be necessary.
The high water in the Rancocas creek,
last week. caused by the heavy rains and
letting water off the cranberry Dogs,
did no damage whatever to any of the
dams between Mount Holly and Browns
Mills. The washing away of few
yards of embankment caused water to
overflow the wheel pit put down last fall
by the Mount Holly Water Company.
Elk Judge Beniah P. Wills has been
granted divorce from his wife on the
grounds of desertion. The history of this
case is too well known to require repeat
ing here. Mrs. Wills left her home and
her husband to take up her residence with
her daughter who married the man
through whom the seeds of dissension
were sown in the Wills home She went
to Long Island to live and report says
that the relations there were not entirely
happy, and Mrs. Wills and her son return
ed to YOUNGSTOWN, where they now live.
Caleb Rogers, one of three men confined
In Jail charged with the murder of David
Beebe, at Chairville, on Saturday night,
April 81, will receive financial assistance,
it is alleged, from the Junior Mechanics,
of Tabernacle. of which lodge he is q
member. 1t is probable that Eckard P.
Budd, who has been retained to defend
Rogers, may act as senior counsel fol
Theodore Wells and Walter Simons, the
other two men implicated. A date fol
this trial will probably be selected next
Monday, when Judge Hendrickson will
come to Mount Holly to charge the grand
jury in the matter.
William B. Ireland, northampton
member of the Board of Freeholders, wen
to Trenton. on Wednesday, to confer will
State Road Commissioner Hutchinson OF
the matter of building a stone road OF
Union street. Mr.. Hutchinson appears t.
be quite firm in his intention not to favo
any such project. He claims that tn,
road is township charge and that tn,
county should not be put to the expens,
of building it. He may be right but h,
should not lose sight of the fact that an,