The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-21

post cards at BoYce's, Is Garden street. i"
The W. C. T. q. will meet at Nj
Amanda Boyce's, on Garden street. I
January 18th, at three o'clock.
At vincentown, on Tuesday, occurr'
the death Of Elizabeth Warren. wido
of AsburY Hancock, aged 81 years.
= Mount Holly Lodge, No. SO, Foreste
of America, will celebrate its tenth ann
versary in Red Mems hall on the evenin
!. of February II.
A fire escape has been placed In the re-
of the Dill building, on High street, tt
upper floors of which are used by sever
. secret societies.
The Anderson canning house propert,
} on Water street, is likely to be sold, b.
, cause of the death of the proprietor, 2
+ A. James, last week.
There is indignation among farmer
J around Lumberton, because work hs
} been abandoned on the stone road for tn
balance of the winter.
A quartette composed of Mount Holl
voices and a first-class elocutionist vii
give an entertainment in the Pemberto
Baptist Church on January SOth. Pre-
ceeds 60 to organ fund.
Quite a number of people from Noun
Holly are in Trenton to-day to see Gov
ernor Fort inaugurated. Among them
his aged father. Andrew II. Fort, who il
making the trip in an automobile.
Pinesalye Carbolized acts like a pou
tice. draws out Inflammation and poison
Antiseptic healing. For chapped hands
fps, cuts, burns Sold by II. B. Allen
Mount Holly, F. 8. billiard, Vincen
town.
George Austin, carpenter, working al
Bridgeboro, met with a serious mishap 8
few days since. While driving a nail il
few back with considerable force, strik-
ing the pupil of his eye, the sight OF
which may be lost.
Sportsmen have very little appreciation
of the time given them to catch pike
during the month of January. So far but
one lone fisherman has been seen to get off
the cars at New Lisbon and make his way
toward the creek.
Prof. L. L. Gratz, principal of the public
school, at Pemberton, was painfully in
jured and confined to bed, several days
last week. While exercising his horse the
animal became frightened at a passing
load of stalks and ran away.
Donation day for the Children's Home
(Jan. 23) will be remembered at Dream
land moving picture show. The receipts
for that evening will be turned over to
the Home. Performance will begin at
$50 P. M. Admission five cents, as usual"
A classical entertainment for the benefit
of the Methodist Sunday school, of Lum-
berton, will be given In Mechanics
hall, at that place, on Friday evening,
January "a, by Miss Ala Bidwell, a well
known elocutionist, baritone singer and
violinist.
While driving near the tenant house on
the farm Of Edward E. Logan, ON the
South Pemberton road, Wednesday morn
ing, John CottTell, who is employed by
DIR. w. P. Melcher, found coin purse
containing sum of money. The owner
is requested to call at THE NEWS Office. =
When the Mount Holly Fair opens next
fall 1t will be on grounds free from en-
cumbrsnce, as all indebtedness has been
paid off. This action was taken at the
annual meeting of the Burlington County
Fair Association. when the old officers
were re. elected and dividend of five per
cent. declared.
Constable Thompson, of Pemberton,
would like to find the man who entered
the residence of Mrs. Annie Collins and
carried away some articles of value and
small sum of money. More plumber might
have been secured had it not been for
Rev. Milton Relyea, who occupies part
Of the house. 1t is believed that by walk
ing about his bed room he frightened the
thief away.
Attorney Harold B. Wells has filed in
the Supreme court an appeal in the case
of M. Walter Maitland vs.. Joseph 8.
Swain. This was an election contest
tried in the Burlington County Circuit
court on Saturday. December IS, over the
Office of common council in the second
ward of Bordentown. In the trial before
the Circuit court Maitland succeeded in
having Swaim's election certificate an
nulled and the election set aside, but he
now seeks to have himself declared legal
ly elected. Maitland is a Democrat and
Swain Republican.
Mrs. A. Moody, of Hartley, Delaware,
who Is visiting her son-in-law, Titus
Voshell. of Riverside, while coming down
stairs Wednesday after making prepare
tions to return home. picked up her 49,
month-old grandchild, which had crawled
to the top, tripped and fell down the
flight of stairs and sustained an ugly cash
across her forehead, the skin tapping over
her eyes. 1t required thirty five stitches
to close the wound. Mrs. Moody, at her per-
sonal risk, saved the child from any in
juries.
James c. Hires, aged 70 years, whole
sale grocer in Philadelphia, died at his
home in Riverton Wednesday afternoon,
after being i'll less than two days. Mr..
Hires came home from his office Monday
afternoon, went to bed and early Tuesday
morning he became unconscious and never
rallied. He was born in Bridgeton, and
when about 20 years old went to Camden
and engaged in the grocery business He
was successful from the start. Twenty
years ago he moved to Riverton and be-
came deacon In the Central Baptist
Church, position he still held at the time
of his death.
John Gillespie, who married Miss Eliz-
abeth DIETRICH at Riverside several months
ago, was arrested Thursday charged
with bigamy by Mrs. Lillian Gillespie, OF
South Bethlehem Pa, who says that she
married the defendant in Mount Helly in
1888. Gillespie was taken before Magis
trate Zeigler, waived a hearing and was
committed to the Mount Holly Jail tc
await the action of the Grand Jury. After
he refused to have hearing Mrs Gillespie
No. preferred the additional charge Of
non.support. The action was the result
of conference held several weeks ago by
the two women. At the time Gillespie