The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-09-24

niue LegnOrn cnlckenS OF all Sizes, ~
sale at the Mission House, Masonville. :
An addition has been added to the greer
house of John E. Elbertson, on Mill street
For style and durability try Stetsol
Hat. Bayersdorfer has the exclusive
agency.
Sunday was the last day of summer
The sun crossed the line, yesterday, south
bound.
There was quite time on Water street
one night last week, when one man got bill
his eye blaokened.
Walter johnson, and family of Noun
Holly, has moved to Medford. at which
place he is employed.
Colored Post Cards of Mount Holly. Is
new views. for cents. % cts. dozen
L. s. Boyce, Stationer. 25 Garden st.
The Burlington County Convention Of
the Diocese of New Jersey, opened its
fall meeting in Trinity Church, at Moores
town, yesterday.
The work of wrapping Keiffer pears,
preparatory to their shipment, is engag.
ing the attention of many girls at Hart
ford and Moorestown.
While putting cat out of his house al
Bridgeboro, Ralph Woodington, losing
his way In the darkness, fell down stairs
and was painfully injured.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Mount Holly Water Company
will be held in the company's Office on
Saturday afternoon, October 5.
Samuel Hubbs of Riverside, after hsv-
ing picked 80 baskets of apples. which he
left in the orchard, had every basket stolen
and carted away during the night.
Clois w. Snyder and Miss Florence B.
Cooper, both of Mount Holly, we're mar
ried in Camden, on Wednesday evening,
at the residence of Samuel Edwards.
The Young Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union will hold a special meeting
at the residence of Miss Lydia Garon,
Rossell street, Tuesday, September oath,
at z 40 P. M.
The unclaimed letters that remain In
the post Office for the week ending Sep
TENDER 81: Mrs Clara Adams, Mr.. John
Davidson, Mrs. Ellen Horner, DIR. H. G
Upchurch.
Alexander Bright, of Bridgeboro, has
been engaged to make repairs to the
steeple of the Lutheran Church, at River
side, which was recently shattered by
lightning.
One hundred trained bloodhounds have
been ordered for use by the New York po-
lice department. They will be used in
hunting down criminals. A bloodhound
with an especially good nose can follow
the tracks of man through the crowded
streets of city.
Death reaped an awful harvest of Union
veterans In the past fiscal year. The adj
vance figures of Pension Commissioner
Warmers report show that 81, 201 soldiers
and pensioners of the civil war died dur
ing that period. On June 80 there were
967, 81 pensioners on the rolls.
The State Board of Agriculture has es-
tablished dairy institutes in various sec
lions of the state, similar to the agricul-
tural institutes that have been held an
nually for some time. The Institutes are
In x.yha
production of milk and butter form a
leading industry.
Burglars attempted to rob the Fields
boro post office early Wednesday morning.
They bored the front door of the Office,
which adjoins the residence of Willis
Leatherbury, the postmaster, and then In
serted hand and unlocked the door from
the inside. They secured nothing, and it
is believed they were frightened away, as
they left their tools behind them. The
office has been broken open twice before
during the last year and half.
Gunners had fine sport on the marshes,
and many reed and rail birds
were brought in. The birds are In good
condition and worth the price asked, as
no game is harder to get. Saturday was
the day for which gunners had been
anxiously waiting, and their anticipation
was augmented by the storm on Thursday
and Friday, which, added to the condi-
tions brought by full moon, furnished a
varxr birh tide uybioh varr,itfoA fha ,,,ah
ing of boats over the marshes and the
killing of many stoothsome birds.
Working on confession made by
William Burns, who was arrested and
committed to the Mount Holly jail on a
charge of robbing the home of Benjamin
Mechlin of Riverton, of several hundred
dollars worth of art works, jewelry,
silverware and clothing. Chief of Police
Major and Justice Hires recovered part of
the booty in Camden on Thursday. With
a search warrant they went to Pine
street house, where Burns was arrested,
and found a woman wearing some of the
stolen clothing. A search of the house
Burlington county's watermelon crop,
taken as the standard of Jerseys output,
is turning out to be a whopper. if not a
record breaker, despite predictions other
wise, made earlier In the season. Farm
ers were joyful over high prices obtained
for the first melons of the year, but the
public is now having its inning. Where
the housewife was paying so cents for any
sort of melon three weeks ago, prices
have tumbled until the fruit is now sell.
ing in the market at 50 per hundred, with
prospects of still further decline from
the ripening crops. Many farmers are
shipping their entire melon crop by cana
to the upper Delaware valley, where
prices, such as obtained here early In thu
season, are still steady.
BY hurting himself under the heels of I
runaway horse Charles Cook, of Burling
ton, saved the life of Mrs. Charles Sapp
wife of a member of the ]. F. Budd Sho
Manufacturing Company, whose afternoon
drive on Wednesday, ended in death
defying dash across that city. Cook wa
trampled by the animal, which was abou
TO leap into the river, but his actiol
caused che horse to stumble, and. seizini
the reins, he dragged it down until othe
pedestrians aided him. Mrs. Sapp wa
entertaining Meyer Behal, of Texas.
millionaire leather dealer, who is her hus
bands guest, by drive about the city
Behal was thrown out on his head whe
the rig hit fire hydrant, and the runawa
| a moment later grazed the front end of