The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-16
Burlington.
Alice Reed, one of the teachers at the
Captain James Lawrence School, is re-
ported on the sick list.


Alice Reed, one of the teachers at tn
Captain James Lawrence School, is re
ported on the sick list.
The death and burial is announced O
Mrs Clark Hall, of Lancaster, Pa
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank johnson
of this city.
Miss Florence Duncan has returned tc
her home in Camden after an extended
visit here to her sister, Mrs Thomas |.
Shinn, of Staley street.
Howard Lippincott, of Penn street, who
recently graduated from the Architectural
Department sof the Drexel Institute has
received his diploma.
Spanish war veterans of this city are
planning a celebration for next month to
mark the tenth anniversary of the muster
ing of their company for service.
Thestwenty second anniversary of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union of the
First Baptist church, of this city, will be
celebrated with special service in the
church here, Tuesday night. April 90.
While carrying barrel of sweet potatoes
downstairs at his sons home, John Post
tripped and fell to the bottom, striking
his head on every step on the way down.
He sustained severe injuries about the
head and shoulders. On account of his
advanced age it will be sometime before
he will be able to be about.
Company A, Third Regiment, of this
city, held their first annual smoker at
Grand Army Hall, on Lawrence street,
Wednesday night. Corncob pipes and
cigars were smoked during the entertain
ment furnished by select talent procured
by the entertainment committee. A ban.
quet followed. Fully $50 were present,
including several regimental officers.
Brent Colioggo, the Italian, who was
the victim of murderous assault few
days ago, when he was stabbed by one of
three fellow countrymen, who attacked
him, is getting along nicely. Luigi
Decangalli, who did the stabbing, is being
held in $500 bail for court. Salvatore and
Antonio De Camgalli, the other two men
in the affair, who were being held as
witnesses, have fled the city.
Charity is to be the object for which
members of the Presbyterian Ushers' AS
ISOLATION of this city will give minstrel
show in the Auditorium theatre here next
month. The performance is to be for the
benefit of the Kings Daughters Society.
One of the features of the affair will be
local skit, entitled "a Half Hour in Perry
Robinson's Barber Shop" written by a
local newspaper man.
James B. Raymond, coored, of Altoona.
Pa, wanted in that city for the embezzle-
ment of school funds, was arrested here
Wednesday, by Shumsrd and Marter,
policemen, and is being held for requisition
by the Pennsylvania authorities. He is
alleged to have collected large sum of
money last fall for colored institution of
learning in the south and then fed from
The city, He was recognized here by travel
Ing men who notified the Altoona police.
Juveniles acting the part of highway
men at night have been giving fright to
some OF the ladies at Burlington. As Mrs.
Charles Brewin, OF this place, was passing
st. Mary's church yard, she received
severe nervous shock by boys jumping
from behind tree and exclaiming your
money or your life, after which they ran
away laughing. The lady became almost
exhausted by fright. The police will put
a stop to the practice.
John Fl. Oliver, secretary of the First
Baptist Sunday school, and Miss Emile
Johnson, a pretty teacher in the same
school. were missing from their places at
Sunday afternoons session. INQUIRY
brought forth the information that the
young people had stolen march on their
friends and slipped off to Atlantic City,
where they were quietly married Friday
night. Their engagement had been an
nounced for wedding next October. The
bride is the only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Jesse johnson, of Penn street, and when
she left home Friday morning her parents
supposed that she was going to visit an
aunt at Atlantic City. They were sur
prised to receive messages on Sunday
night, announcing the marriage. Rev.
DR.. j. 0. B. Lowry. pastor of the FIRST
Baptist church, Atlantic City, tied the
knot.
Physicians at Burlington, last week,
were puzzled over the case of Paul Burtis, |
'he 15-year-old son of E. Fl. Burtis, vice
president of the Burlington Board of
Trade and member of the local Board of
whose body was swollen to
nearly twice its normal size at the waist
as the result of a peculiar internal disorder
caused by blow on the stomach. While
1T school the lad was struck in the alb
1omen with book playfully thrown at
him by playmate. The blow knocked
the wind out of him, but he thought
nothing more of the affair until a few DAYS
later, when he became sick and his
stomach began toswell. During the week
The lower part of his body was abnormally
1istended and the attending doctors had
trouble to reduce the swelling. The lad
suffered mol pain, but had high tempera-
ture, .and the physicians say that the blow
probably caused Inflammation of the
intestines, resulting in the forming of
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