The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-17
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very best L. 8. BoYce, stationer.
The paint business of the late Samu'
6 L. Bullock is offered for sale In advertise
ment elsewhere.
} The w. c. T. U. viii meet at the HON
: of Mrs. Eddy, 14S Archer street, on Tues
day, November "a, at three o'clock.
The covered wooden bridge at Bridge
! boro is now the only one of its kind i
the county. since the abandonment of tn
one at Crosswicks.
!, Improvements have been made to tw
houses on Grant street owned by +. d
Lee A noticeable change is the cutting
down of some large maple trees.
Word has been received that the Wal
rope works at South Beverly will run OIL
full time, commencing on January 3, will
an increased force of employees.
i The Sheriff's office at the jail is to b.
enlarged by adding to it the room on tn
north side. The heavy stone wall be
tween the two rooms will be torn down.
There will be private sale of house
hold furniture, including some old styl'
pieces, at No. Brainard street. on Wed
nesday and Thursday, November 10 ant
10. from a. m. to p. m.
The fifth annual meeting of the Soutf
Jersey Local Assembly, Brotherhood o.
st. Andrew, will be held in st. Stephens
Memorial Church. Riverside, on St. An
drew's day. Monday evening. November
80
A COW that wandered into one of the
buildings at the Florence iron foundry,
on Sunday. fell into pit and broke Its
back. Power was put on one of the cranes
and the dead animal hoisted to the sur.
face.
Seized with an attack of vertigo at his
home on Wednesday morning, Thomas
Gillette, of Moorestown, fell heavily. He
struck the sharp edge of window sill.
cutting himself SO severely that several
stitches had to be taken in the wound.
The sounding of an alarm Thursday
evening, gave the f1remeu run to Church
street, but there was nothing doing.
Flames and sparks shooting out of the
cupola at Alcott's foundry gave the i'm
preston to some one that there was fire.
Solomon Headley, of Buttonwood street,
was the first to fall victim to the Ice and
snow. Leaving his home Yesterday for a
trip to the western states, he fell in front
of the house and fractured his right
shoulder blade He was removed to the
Burlington County Hospital.
The Young Friends Association of
Mount Holly met at the home of George II.
Kille, Al Garden street, on Thursday even
ing. The attendance was 90 The programme
consisted of essays, music and readings.
The next meeting will be held in the
Friends meeting house on December 10th.
The report of the Commissioner of Pen
slons for the fiscal year ending June 30,
shows that during the year there were
"a, 1873 deaths among the survivors of the
civil war who are on the pension roll.
This falling off was equal to about five
per cent. of the total, and left 628, 084 on
the roll.
On Saturday afternoon County Detec-
tive Parker, of Mount Holly, and Con-
stable Borton, of Riverside. arrested John
Freck and Lucius Wishart, both of the
latter place. They are charged with the
theft of harness from Ezra B. Brock, of
Fairview. The officers recovered the
stolen property. Freck secured his re-
lease by giving bail.
Frank Bryant is visiting his mother, on
Pine street. For four years he has been
at California, Ohio, where he was in the
employ of R. D. Wood & Co., who had
the installing of water plant at that
place. which is a surburb of Cincinnati.
The plant is to furnish water for the latter
city. The work has just been completed,
and Mr.. Bryant has returned to the home
office at Camden.
Charles B. Jessey. of Moorestown, is
recovering from an attack of blood pol
soning as the result of picking the head
from small pimple which appeared Oh
his knee. He continued with his work in
the field, but the limb soon became very
painful. After trying home remedies
without avail a physician was called, who
found that the poison had extended in
both directions and reached nearly from
the ankle to his hip.
During the week beginning Sunday,
November 10Th, special services will be
held in St. Andrews Church daily at 7.3O
O'Clock in the evening, at which DEVOTION
al addresses ~ eminent speakers are being
arranged for. Christians everywhere are
urged by Brotherhoods and organizations
of many churches to participate in the
observance of this week as a Week of
PRAYER. All are cordially invited to attend
these daily services.
A new rule has been instituted at the
Jail and prisoners will not be admitted
unless properly committed. Heretofore
when arrests have been made after just
ices have gone to bed the prisoner has been
allowed to go into the Jail and be given a
hearing the next morning. Sheriff Wor-
rell does not propose to allow this custom
to be followed, 80 it will probably be ne
cessary for the township committee of
Northampton to have lookup.
Joseph Lamb, of Clifton avenue, had a
narrow escape from injury while cunning
on the Slack farm yesterday. In com
pany with Charles Todd, of Camden, he
was tramping through some swamp land
and as Todd, whose gun was resting on
his arm, attempted to step over grass
covered hill, his gun was accidentally
discharged, and the shot tore away both
barrels of Lambs gun. The latter came
to town and got Jesse Wells gun to finish
out the day, leaving his own damaged
weapon on exhibition at the saloon OF
John Forbes, on Water street. The man.
ner in which the steel barrels were cut of
makes the gun curiosity.
During the past week the chief attract
ion at Beverly, among the colored people
at least was SO called divine healer, who
Ia accomnauied bv what he terms a prODh.