The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-08
LOCAL NEWS.
Buy your Christmas gifts at Boyce's.*
Tempting displays of Christmas goods

A carload of cranberries recently shiI
ped from this county brought $12 per bal
REL
The engagement is announced of Wa
ter Ziegler and Miss Elizabeth Taubel, Q
Riverside.
Lincoln L. Gratz has been elected Su
pervising Principal of the schools of PEN
berton township.
Residents of Maple Shade held meet
ing last night to organize Building ant
Loan Association.
Mrs. Ada v. Wills has purchased pro
perty at the southwest corner of Garder
and Cherry streets for So 300.
Howard Frake has purchased house
on East Mill street. The property be
longed to Philip Karg, of Bristol, Pa.
George W. Savage and wife will close
their house on Ridgway street and reside
In Philadelphia during the winter season
The carrying of freight is matter SAID
to be under consideration by the directors
of the Burlington County Railway Com
pany.
The Buttorworth farm, near Pember-
ton, owned BY Mrs. Mary G. Melcher, OF
Mount Holly, has been rented to Walter
Oliver.
A Christmas box, prepared by the Home
Missionary Society of the Presbyterian
Church, was shipped to the mission at
Hot Springs, N. c., on Wednesday.
"Longfellow' is the subject of lecture
to be delivered by Rev. c. l. FitzGeorge,
of Moorestown, In the Mount Holly M. E.
church. on Friday evening. at eight O'Clock
Admission 10 cents.
Earl Thompson, of Moorestown. has
stepped into the field as candidate for
the position of county engineer, an
Office that may be created by the Board of
Freeholders at the January meeting.
Angul Guss. of Philadelphia, is now
In possession of the business formerly con-
Quoted by Arthur Damask. The latter
and his family are preparing to sail for
Greece, which country they will visit
for two months.
The property On Mill street, belonging
to Mrs. Maria Sharp, has been consider
ably improved by the addition of a front
pcrcnfand changes in the sidewalk. This
Is the house In which Stephen Girard
lived few years after the close of the
Revolutionary war.
Coming from her home at Fairview to
Riverside Mrs. Susan Taylor middle
aged woman. was waylaid by two negroes
In dense woods which she had to pass
Wednesday night. Finding no money in
her purse which they took from her, they
proceeded to gag her when her cries for
help routed them.
The coroner's jury at Toms River, on
Tuesday, held 17-year-old Willie Steigert
for the killing of 17-year-old Andrew J.
Tilton week ago. Steigert is now in
jail, and the Grand Jury, which meets to-
day, will presumably find bill against
him for murder, as the evidence before
is now alleged that the youthful murderer
is incompetent mentally and morally, and
that this fact will save him from the cleo
trio chair. His parents have retained
County Solicitor r. Ten Brock Stout 70
defend him.
Henry Kunzi, of Bordentown, few days |
since, had direful experience. Noticing |
that two faucets In the bathroom were |
keeping up steady dripping, he pro-
cured washers to stop the leaks. Before
commencing the work he went down into
the cellar. and turned off the water, and
upon coming upstairs again replaced the
returning to the cellar turned the water
on again. Owing to the fact that he had |
neglected to screw down the top of the
faucets, the water spouted out like twin
fountains, and before it could once more
be turned off the house was flooded. Mr.. |
Kunzi states that never before was he
aware that water could do so much dam |
age in a short time.
While out in Lion Swamp. South Bev-
erly, last week, in search of some laurel
for Christmas decorations, James Camp
bell found black snake measuring over
four and half feet in length. The. snake
was lying on bed of leaves summing it.
self, when Mr.. Campbell spied it and be
ing without club 1t was some time be-
fore he could find one large enough to kill |
1t with. After finding one he returned to
the place where he first saw the snake but
found that it had moved. Following the |
direction in which it had gone he soon |
found 1t again and took several minutes to
kill It, He then took it to Beverly and |
had it on exhibition in front of the post |
Office Mr.. Campbell claims 1t was forty |
six years old and was the first snake he
ever saw so late In the season.
Despondent because his wife had left
him and his crops had been mostly failures
Thomas Emmons, 40 years old. farmer
living on River road, between Burlington |
and Florence, blew off his head with a |
shot gun shortly after ten o'clock Wed |
nesday morning Emmons had been des-
pondent for several days, and the arrival
of his wife's father and brother to carry
away some of her belongings is believed to
have inspired the deed. Emmons went to
Burlington early In the day, and friends
whom he met say he could talk of nothing
but his troubles. Ten minutes after he
returned to his home shot in the second
story bedroom drew his father-in-law to
the place. A terrible sight met his eyes
when he opened the door, Emmons al
most headless body lay against one wall,
while blood was spattered over the walls
and ceiling of the room. The suicides
five year old son, over whose future with
out a mothers care the father had brood
ed most, carried the news to the nearest
neighbors. Coroner Bisbing had theTemains
removed to the Burlington city morgue.
Neighbors say Emmons' wife is in Phila-
delphia. Emmons was for several years
net captain at the Dutch Neck Shad Fish
cry. adjoining his farm.
The fifth annual meeting of the South
Jersey Local Assembly of the Brother
hood of st. Andrew was held at Riverside,
last week. The Ladies Auxiliary provid-
ed supper for those attending. DR.. John
Wilkinson, Jr., of st. Paul's Church,
PHILADELPHIA. made the address on 1.-THE