The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-09

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acres of onion sets under cultivation.
Large orders are keeping the sand plan
at Birmingham running night and day
Here-'The heart of Mount Holly, N
]" Five cents each. L. 8. BoYce, sta
TONER
The W. G. T. U. will meet at the resi-
dence Of Miss Jamison, 104 Garden street
II next Tuesday afternoon, at $50.
Schrayshuen is supplying his customers
with the thickest and purest ice, which
contains no sediments or germs that are
incidental to natural pond ice. ct
, A peony with an extra heavy bloom, as
If celebrating its golden anniversary, Is
owned by Mrs Charles G.. Holdcraft, of
: Bridgeboro The plant is fifty years old.
Richard s. Folwell, son of J.. Sexton
Folwell, has been sending to Mount Holly
some fine post views of Wildwood. where
the young man is employed at the Edge
ton Inn.
The B. Y. P. U. will give a social on
the lawn of DR.. w. P Melcher Thursday
evening, July IL. Ice cream, cake and
candy will be on sale. Everybody well
come.
You save thirty five dollars. The Royal
Standard typewriter, sixtY-fiye dollars, is
equal to any one hundrded dollar machine
made. The most practical typewriter
eyer built. See it.
J. Dewitt. of Philadelphia, who is &C.
cupying the Theodore B. Gaskill resi-
denee, at Birmingham, objects to boys
going In swimming there. and the proper
ty has been posted with trespass notices.
When Capt F. W. Patten. of the schoon-
er Kineo, again sails across the ocean, he
will be accompanied by his wife and
daughter. The Captain and his family
are visiting at the residence of DIR. w. P.
Melcher.
The Young Women's Christian Temper
ance Union will hold their meeting on
Tuesday evening, July 8, at the residence
Of Mrs. Charles Atkinson, 131 Broad
street. at 7.15 P. N. All members are re-
qucsteu 10 DC present.
After he gave negro a pair of old
shoes, yesterday. the latter tried to ham
mer down the front door of the residence
of Rev. John W. Lynch, of Burlington,
which he also bombarded with stones. |
The man was arrested.
Under law passed at the last session |
of the Legislature the term of office of all |
District Clerks expire on the first of July. |
The Board of Education of Northampton
township. at a meeting held on Friday
evening, elected Franklin Dill for one
year from July 1.
The sale of the West End Hotel pro-
perty, on Washington street, has fallen
through. Henry G. Fry, of Camden, who
agreed to take the place for 1924 600, back
ed down it is said, because of the disputed
ownership of small alley In the rear of
the hotel that was closed several years
ago.
After experimenting several years with
secret process In the manufacture of
concrete blocks, which are designed for
structural work, Walter II. Semple, of
Mount Holly, is interesting capitalists at
Camden, where company may be form
ed to manufacture concrete blocks by his
method.
Prof. G.. NJ. Sladen. in charge of six
teen members of the choir of St. An
drew's Church, left yesterday for point
near Red Bank, where they will camp for
week. Thursday will be ladies' day,
when the camp will be put in shape for
their reception. A very handsome flag
was made for the occasion by Prof. Sla-
den, who is quite genius.
large crowd is expected to take DOS
session of Rancocas Park on Friday, July
10, on the occasion of the annual picnic !
of the Pomona Grange. An orchestra has
been engaged to furnish music for the
dancing that will begin In the afternoon I,
The out door sports and other forms of
amusement will serve to entertain the :
grangers, who invite their friends to ioin !
them. Prominent speakers will be pres g
ent.
Howard s. Beebe, of Chairville. has
made himself liable to arrest for an al s
legged assault on Aaron Moore, Jr.. after .
the two men had engaged in wrestling !
bout at Vincentown. They left together !
In an apparently friendly mood, going 8
down to the grist mill to attend to some
business. While there Beebe suddenly I
hit Moore while his back was turned and ,
knocked him down. Then he jumped on
him and would have injured him severely I
had not the miller interfered Beebe was
recently released from jail under bail on {
charge of fighting. II
John Mazinger, employed at John A.
Roeblings plant. near Kinkora, was struck ,
by trolley car over a ravine near Kin |
kora, on the Camden and Trenton Railway, {
at late hour Saturday night. He was
killed. The man was on his hands and !
knees crawling over the trestle. Walter {
Johnson, the motorman, discovered him |
when too late to stop, and the man fell in
to marsh thirty feet below. His neck
was broken, his back broken in two places,
and he had large cash in his neck. His
body was identified and brought to Bor-
dentown and placed In the morgue. He !
has wife and children In Hungary. II
Lightning was very considerate In its
visitation to Chester Dudley, during the |
shower Sunday evening. With Els
worth Branin. the boy was under !
the awning at Halls grocery store,
corner of Garden and Risdon streets. A
bolt Of lightning came down and ripped {
off the left leg Of his trousers and his
stocking. Dudley was knocked down and
getting up he was knocked down the Sec
ond time but not injured. Branin was
knocked several feet and rendered uncon-
scious. 1t was narrow escape from
DEATH A trolley car was struck on West
Washington street. The storm did con-
siderable damage In Pemberton township,
where vegetation and fruit were cut by a
heavy fall of hail. A daughter of Shreye
Robbins, who was sitting on her porch,
on Garden street, was stunned.
An unsuccessful attempt was made Sat
urday mig ht to burn the large warehouse
of Edward Rigg, Jr., coal and general
farming supplies dealer of Burlington.
The building is on wharf along the river
front. The fact that the incendiaries fred
the building at time when many people