The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-05
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J Government pensioners were made hap
: Ply, yesterday, by the execution of theil
quarterly vouchers.
, The tenth anniversary of Court Nc
Kinley, No. SO, Foresters of America, will
be celebrated next Tuesday evening.
my Wite's Family" booked for the
J Opera House last night. was not present
ed owing to cancellation of the date.
The Upton tract of %, 1000 acres of pine
land, in Woodland township, is to be sold
Negotiations to that end are now under
way.
If you want to furnish any room in the
house, you can save money by making
your purchases at Rosenfeld Bros, Mill
street.
The union revival services, which have
been so successfully conducted at Medford
for several weeks, are to be continued
until next Sunday.
Splendid short stories appear each week
in the Sunday Magazine of 1.-THE Phila-
delphia Press" They are crisp and
breezy-iust the kind that are so hard to
find and so delightful to read. Buy ''The
Press" every day in the week; you will
get all the news and all the features.
There will be an entertainment in Town
Hall, Columbus, on Saturday evening,
| for the benefit of the new NJ E. church.
The programme will be interesting and
varied. Arthur N. Dugan, former
member of the Imperial MINISTRIES, will
give several funny numbers.
A poisoner has wiped out Is dogs,
several of them valuable pets, within three
days. Residents are enraged over the
slaughter, and have offered reward of
$50 for the apprehension of the poisoner
A curious feature of the case is that the
dogs are mostly found lying dead close by
the homes of their owners at Edgewater
Park
The township committee of Northamp-
ton has been served with notice from the
State Sewage Commission, that the sew
age from Mount Holly must be diverted
from its present outlet in the creek. Sim
liar notice has been served to all munich
palities whose sewage empties into pub
lie streams. Northampton's notification
provides that the new outlet shall be in
operation on or before January l, 1911.
P. G. Waldron, horse shipper, who
had arranged for sale of Canadian horses
in Mount Holly, on Friday afternoon, re-
fused to receive the animals because of
their late arrival and publicly declared
the sale off. The horses, which reached
the freight station Friday afternoon, were
taken to the Arcade stables to be cared for
1t is said their disposition now rests with
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
A letter from Mrs Mortensen, formerly
Mrs. Schafer, who at one time resided in !
Mount Holly, says that her son, Richard |
Darlington Schafer, died on the 18th of |
December. The little boy. who was nine |
years of age, was hit on the throat with |
SNOWFALL, and an abscess formed, which |
resulted fatally. The death occurred at |
Whitewood, South Dakota, where the
mother now lives
While walking along Main street last |
night with bundle under her arm, Mary |
Mulholland was arrested by Policeman |
Job Collins, on whose complaint she was
to Jail. The bundle contained |
which the woman is al |
legged to have stolen at the almshouse.
Later in the evening telephone message |
to that effect was received from Steward |
George F. Harbert, who said he would |
come to Mount Holly to. day and enter a
formal complaint.
An accident that resulted fatally oc-
CURED about three o'clock, Friday after
noon, as the Burlington freight was leav-
ing on its trip west. Howard Ludlow,
of Camden, was the fiagman on the train. |
While standing on the platform opposite |
the ticket Office he attempted to get on
moving car, but his foot slipped and he |
fell, the wheels cutting off his left leg
below the knee. The train was stopped |
after he had been dragged for some dis
lance. The unfortunate man was remov-
ed to the Burlington County Hospital,
where he died Sunday morning.
On Monday, February IS, there will be
a meeting in the Court House to which |
the public will be invited There will be |
an address by DR.. Mccormick, of Ken
lucky. The National Medical Association |
has engaged this physician to deliver adj
dresses in the different counties, and the |
New Jersey Association has selected |
Mount Holly as the place for the meeting
in this county. The idea of these meet
ings is to get the medical fraternity and |
the laity more closely together that they
may become better acquainted. A more
notice of this meeting will be |
published later.
The weather manAnade no mistake in |
snow storm for Monday and
Tuesday. The ground was covered with |
nearly foot of the dry. downY flakes |
this morning, which had drifted badly in |
some places during the night. Shovelers |
were out at an early hour, and in many |
cases they made the sidewalks passable
Mllkmen were retarded in their deliveries,
and in some cases it became necessary to
skip customers for the day. In the early
morning the storm seemed to have spent
itself. but shortly before o'clock the
snow began to fall again. Steam and
trolley Car service has been interrupted.
Employees of the foundry of R. D. Wood
& Co., at Florence, with the cooperation
of members of the Catholic, Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian Churches, are
planning large reception to William H.
Thatcher, superintendent of the works, and
his wife, Mrs Ella NJ Thacher, on their
return from trip to Jamaica, Cuba and
Florida They are expected home early
next week. Mr.. and Mrs. Thacher left
Kingston two days before the recent
earthquake. Mr.. Thacher, who has held
the position of superintendent for many
years, was forced to take vacation on
account of i'll health, much to the regret
of his 900 workmen Mrs Thacher is
prominent in the W. g. T. U. of the State
and will soon make a trip around the
world. attending the National Mothers
Congress in California and Sunday
school convention at Jerusalem.
Wedding in Mount Holly.
On Tuesday evening Miss Anna Ruth