The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-09-10
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Fair will be week earlier this year-Se
TENDER Oath. 25th, 26th and 9th.
Colored Post Cards of Mount Holly
new views Q for cents. 25 cts. doze1
L. s. Boyce, Stationer. % Garden st.
Justice Slack received watermelon
last week. that weighed so pounds.
was expressed to him from Salisbury Nc
A. ]. Morris gave a cantaloupe to Co
G. M. Sloan, last week, that weighe
eight pounds. 1t was tender and finel
favored.
Horace S. Lippincott, station agen
at Birmingham, leaves to-day on a min
months trip to Carifornia for the bene6
of his health.
Upholstering. carpet laying, furnitur
repairing, floor staining, vanishing an,
kalsomining. Samuel J. Taylor, 20 Higl
street. Bell 37S D.
Lawyer George Gilbert, of Beverly
will return to the Hahnemann Hospital
Philadelphia, to receive further treatmen
for his inward trouble.
| The National Lodge of the Brotherhood
of the Union will meet in Mount Holly to
morrow morning. The banquet will b.
served in the evening
| At Unionville, on Sunday, occurred the
death of Mary Emily Lear, widow of vii
liam Lear. and daughter of the late Philip
Bovine, in her 9th year.
At a public sale held on Tuesday, the
milk route of Harry Leary was sold fol-
$500 to Mrs. Kilbride, who had previously
offered $500 for the business.
A new house is to be erected at 'Bucto
for Mrs. Melvina Deacon. to replace the
one recently destroyed by fire. Mrs. Dea-
con is living at Burlington at present.
At II O'Clock on Sunday morning, from
the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Wal
ter L Davis, Madison avenue, occurred
the burial of her father, Edwin ]. Lloyd.
Edward Veneman, who occupies the
Jervis s. Zelley farm, cut both his hands
badly, on Thursday, the result of fruit
jar breaking while he was tightening the
top.
The first autumn meeting of the
Women's Home Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian church will be held at Ran
cocas Park on Thursday afternoon at $50
o'clock.
Reuben Baum, of Bordentown, twice
committed to the reform school, is in the
county Jail awaiting the action of Judge
Horner. The boy was put out on farm
and ran away.
The annual meeting of the fire depart
ment will be held in the house of Union
Hose Company, on Friday evening. Sep
TENDER 90, at which time officers will be
elected and other business transacted.
A man giving the name of John Schaum-
bueftel, of Philadelphia, confined In the
lookup at Burlington, tried to commit
suicide, Sunday night, by slashing his
arm with the ragged edge of the top of a
sardine box.
1t requires all sorts of entertainments
for so vast crowd as attends the Mount
Holly Fair, but 1t is safe to say that the
satisfies every man, woman
and child who witness the many amuse-
ments offered.
A man giving his name as Gould John
son, 81 years old, of New York, has been
to the county jail, charged with
entering the home of James Pangleton,
colored, of Riverside. and stealing two
and some wearing apparel.
The Locust Grove clambake, which |
was to take place last week, will be held
on Thursday of this week, at Locust
Grove, ON the road between Mount Holly |
and Burlington. Invitations issued for
the former occasion are still good for the
next.
The public schools opened yesterday
with a good attendance. All of the
teachers were present with the exception
Of Miss Branson, who was detained by the |
illness of her mother. Miss Edith Eayre,
il 1uLnUCllOl, WILL dOt do supply 1OA OuACC |
weeks
The Young Women's Christian Tenn |
perance Union will hold their annual
business meeting on Tuesday evening |
Sept 10, at the residence of Miss Grace
Prickitt 405 Garden st. at 745 P. M. |
ALI members are requested to be present |
IS there will be election of officers for the |
coming year.
Samuel Tears, of Writings, Is mourning |
,he loss of setter dog that was bitten by
A copperhead snake. Tears was about to |
read on the reptile, not seeing 1t, when
he dog jumped on the snake and probably |
saved his life. They were some distance
rom any house and Tears was not able to
reat the dog for the bite until it was too
ate to save its life.
George Worby, living near Cross Keys,
vas arrested on Wednesday by Officer
Nelson Peak on charge of assault and
battery on William McClain at cranber
y bog. The defendant is alleged to have
struck his victim with club and threat
ened to shoot him with revolver, which
be displayed. Worby was committed to
the county jail.
AT Marion, on Wednesday evening,
John Evans, aged IA years, fell from
telephone pole and broke both bones In |
his right forearm, besides receiving other
il, ;,,r{ao Tho xo,,nn mon faIl a d{cfano
Of fifteen feet In his descent he fell on
Harold Endicott, who was also up the |
pole few feet The latter was not in |
jured to any extent.
Rev. George M. Hughes, pastor of the
Mount Holly M. E. Church, is quite Ill |
at his summer residence at Ocean Grove. |
He was here last week and ON Tuesday
did not feel very well and decided to join
his family at Ocean Grove. When he
reached that place he was suffering great
pain from what appeared to be neuralgia
over his right eye. The latest reports are
that he is still quite sick.
Richard P. Holeman has been elected a
member of the vestry of st. Andrews
church, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of George Rendell. There is still
another vacancy, owing to failure to elect
at the Easter meeting. Under the rules
of the church, the congregation must act
in the latter case and meeting for that
purpose will be held on Friday evening.
Vacancies arising from death, resignation
or other causes after election, are filed by
the vestry.
Charles Fitzpatrick, rural mail carrier,
of Beverly, while driving along lonely