The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-09-29
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ago, and broke her arm.
The wedding of Miss Verns Richardson
of Riverside, and Mr.. Harry Peacock, o
, Tacony, Pa, on Labor Day, is announced
At New Brunswick, yesterday, occur
Sred the burial of Mrs. Sarah B. Smith
formerly of Mount Holly. Death wa
due to paralysis.
, An interesting programme marked thu
forty first anniversary of St. Paul's Lu
therau Church, which event was celebrat
ed on Sunday in the presence of a large
congregation.
Mrs. W. P. Melcher is building large
barn on the Butterworth farm neal
Pemberton, to replace the one destroyed
by fire some time since. 1t will be loo
feet long and S5 deep, with cement floors
and will be up to date in every particular.
samuel Wood, Of Mt. Laurel, is in the
West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, Cam
den, with serious Commissions as the result
of runaway Friday night. Wood was
driving through Hartford when his horse
took fright. At street railway crossing
a car hit the rig. The horse was killed.
There was hurry call for the police on
Saturday night. People on upper High
street became alarmed over the actions of
two drunken men, who were quarreling
and making threats to shoot each other.
The strangers left before the officers ar
rived, although the latter ran to the scene.
At the First Baptist church next Sun
day services appropriate to the dedication
of the new organ will be held. In the
merning at 10. 80 Rev. G. s. Neil, of Phil
adelphia, will preach. Subject, "The
religion of the beautiful" In the even
ing there will be special musical service
by organist and choir, assisted by several
extra voices.
Struck by a train at Broad and Stacy
streets, Burlington, Saturday night, Mrs.
Jane Garrett, 81 years old, survived in
juries in what many witnesses thought to
be fatal accident. Mrs. Garrett is deaf,
and not hearing the approaching train,
walked directly in front of the locomo-
tive. She was hurled to the side of the
track and deep cash cut in her head,
but her physician says she will recover.
The receivers of the State Mutual
Building Association, of Camden, are
busily at work getting the affairs of the
Association in shape. There seems to be
good prospect of q fair dividend. An
offer of Western concern to give 500 per
share for the stock was refused, and it is
thought the stockholders will get 6OS6 OF
their holdings, if not all of them, SO
there does not seem to be any need of
disposing at low rate.
A marriage ceremony was performed at
the jail, yesterday, by Justice Petit, OF
Moorestown. The contracting parties
were William Munson and Matte Fryer,
both of Philadelphia. Previous to their
trouble the couple were pupils at the Col
ored Industrial School at Bordentown.
The groom had been in Jail for three
months. The nuptial knot was sufficient
to secure his release from the charge pre-
ferred against him by the bride OF seven
teen years.
In 1880, Professor ]. L. Prescott Eek
man met gentleman by the name OF A.
s. B. Lothrop. His home was In Wor-
cester. Massachusetts, and he was con-
nected with Jennings band, and. with Mr..
Eckman, they played engagements during
the Garfield campaign. The friendship
thus started has continued and on his re-
cent vacation Professor Eckman went to
Worcester to SET his old friend. The
Mount Holly man was royalty entertained
and musicale was given in his honor
On Sunday. Mr.. Eckman played his
euphonfum in the church choir and he
could easily have remained in the city as a
member of the choir had he so chosen.
Joseph Martin is in the county jail,
accused of attempting to kill Mrs. Dora
Myers, of Burlington, Saturday evening.
Martin had annoyed several residents
before he made a disturbance at the door
of the Myers home. Ordered away by
Mrs. Myers, Martin, 1t is alleged, drew a
revolver and fired the weapon at the
woman. Her son, aroused by the racket,
saw the stranger and pushed his mother
aside Just as the bullet crashed through |
the screen door, Martin tried to escape
on the ferry boat Doran, but ran into the
arms of Constable Charles Gilbert, of
Hartford, who, with Patrolman Hayes,
took him to the city jail. Magistrate
Smith held him for the grand jury.
Professor Frank Parsons died at Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning, |
from cancer of the liver. Mr.. Parsons
was born in Mount Holly in 1854 and re-
ceiyed his education at the academy on
Mount Holly avenue 20 graduated from
Cornell University at an early age and
took up the study of the law. but he never
practiced the profession. He was the
author of several works on political
economy and government ownership of
railroads. His knowledge of the former
subject gained him the attention OF West
ern colleges and he lectured In that section
of the country for some time. He was
called to Boston to lecture in the Boston
University on many subjects, Insurance
Law" being one of his specialties. His
remains were brought to Mount Holly and
were inferred in the Mount Holly GENE
terry yesterday.
Gen. Grub Nominated for Congress.
Without any definite idea OF what was
to be done representatives of the Demo-
cratic party met at Burlington, on Satur-
day, and consulted upon the question OF
who should be nominated to contest for
the seat of Hon. John ]. Gardner, Mem
Der of Congress from the Second Congress
sionsl District. There was hope that
James 81. Birch, ST., of Burlington, could
be induced to take the nomination, but he
refused to be pulled in. Then Thomas
Birch. his son, was selected. but his papa
would not let him enter the contest, and
withdrew his name, at the same time of
fering as candidate Gen. E. Burd Grubb
of Edgewater Park.
This created quite sensation and there
was heated discussion whether the Demo-
cratic party was to be forced to go into
| Republican ranks for a candidate or
I-Lo4kor aoroa afaunch nemocrat ah0u1d