The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-05-07
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at Boyce's.
a Show, decorative and cactus dahlias
twenty-five finest varieties at Rosbach's
r Pemberton.
The entertainment at the opera house
! last week, for the benefit of the Baptis
church. Melted $135.50.
r George Parker has been appointed sex
. ton of the NJ. E. church, and has moved
into the house on the church property OF
Brainard street.
Charged with stabbing man named
Brown, James Jackson, of Palmyra, was
committed to the county Jail yesterday
Both are colored.
Warren A. VanDerveer, j. Carr Gillian
and Nelson Pumyea are the managers of a
dance to be given In the Masonic Temple
on Saturday evening.
Rev. Charles A. Ricksecker. of Phila.
delphia, preached in st. Andrews church,
on Sunday. Rev. James Stoddard, rector
of the church, was in New London, Con-
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celebrating her Goth birthday.
A meeting that will be full of interest
is to be held this evening by Washington
Council, No 5, Jr. o. U. A. M, as twelve
candidates are to beinitiated. This lodge
now has membership of three hundred,
with over $40, 900 in the treasury.
If sacred concerts are giver. at Rance
cas- Park this summer, they will be held
on Sunday afternoon, instead of in the
evening as heretofore. No large picnics
of secret societies will be held at the park
this season on Saturdays, other days in
the week being considered more suitable.
Clifford s. Sims, who for the last two
years has been assistant to the president
of the Erie Railroad, has resigned this po-
sition to become general manager of the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Sims is also to be-
come vice president of the company with
in short period.
A white frost made its appearance in
the cranberry district, on Saturday night.
1t was sufficient TO do slight damage on
those few boys the water had been drawn
off for repairs to be made. Nearly all the
boys are flooded, and this condition will
remain while indications point to con-
tinuance of cold weather.
The remains of James 8. McIlvain, of
Washington street, were buried in the
Mount Holly cemetery on Saturday after
noon. The deceased died suddenly of
uramic poisoning on Wednesday morning.
He was assistant superintendent of the
Prudential Insurance Company of the
Camden district.
The combined lodges, Knights of Pyths
las, of Philadelphia, are to initiate In the
first degree with the uniform rank, In the |
Academy of Music. that city, on Thurs
day evening. The password is the only |
finest Pythian display ever seen in this
section of the country. Members of the
order in Burlington county will be well
represented.
The manner In which Constable Nelson |
Peak, of Medford, handled the Beebe
tragedy, at Chairville, has brought much |
praise to that officer from citizens and also
from Prosecutor Atkinson, who regards
him as q man well fitted for detective |
work. Peak worked up this case during |
theweek previous to holding the inquest,
and the manner In which he collated the |
evidence greatly facilitated the proceed
ings, as well as the work Of the Prosecutor. |
The Mount Holly and Jobstown Turn
pike Company has elected the following
directors: President, William B. Wills;
secretary and treasurer, William G. Lip |
pincott; Franklin B. Lewis, Henry L. Lip
pincott, Thomas S. Logan, Samuel Ellis.
John Black, Charles B. Smith, Edward |
E. Logan. A dividend is payable on and |
after May 49, The dividend was declared
payable on and after May IS. The road
at present in is good condition.
State Road Commissioner Hutchinson
does not regard with much favor the
building of a macadam road on Union |
street, Mount Holly, which will form
connecting link with stone roads running
to Burlington and to Jacksonville. He
may refuse state aid for that purpose, on
the ground that the proposed extension
should be built by Northampton town
ship. Freebooter Ireland has not given !
up hope, however, and he will go to Tren-
ton this week to again press the matter.
Paul Burtis, son of Ellsworth II. Burtis, |
of Burlington, is in private hospital in
Philadelphia, where an operation was per-
formed to relieve him of the trouble with /
which he has been suffering for some time. |
About four weeks ago the boy was struck |
in the stomach by book thrown at him |
by companion. His stomach swelled to |
great size and 1t was feared peritonitis |
would result. After vain endeavors to
reduce the swelling the operation was re-
sorted to and beneficial results seem sure
to follow as the boy is recovering nicely. |
Three cases of spinal meningitis within
the last few days, one Of which resulted
fatally, have been the source of consider.
able anxiety to residents of Palmyra and
vicinity. Edward Steck, aged 8 years.
died at the home of his grandmother on
Jessup street, Philadelphia, on Sunday,
after brief illness. Two weeks ago a
little girl in the family was taken i'll, and
the local physician pronounced the case
spinal meningitis. She recovered after a
slight attack lasting but few days. Then
brother was stricken, and he was taken
to the home of his grandmother in Phila
delphia, accompanied by his mother,
where he had about regained his health,
when the third case developed In his
brother Edward. Mr.. Stack took the little
sufferer to the city that he might receive
his mothers care, but he died.
Medford had its usual weekly excite
ment, Saturday night, when it was learn
ed that robbery had been committed on
the farm of William D. Cowperthwait,
who lives on a back road between Med
ford and Vincentown. David Thomas,
who was present when David Beebe was
killed at Chairville, on the night of Sat
urday, April 81. had been in the employ
of Compartment for about two weeks.
Thomas got up early in the morning, and
when his absence was noticed one of the
farm hands reported the loss of gold
watch, suit of clothes and some money.