The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-02-11
LOCAL NEWS.
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friday Will De Ot. tdicnuho my
Valentines and valentine post cardi
L. s. Boyce. stationer.
Samuel A. Borden is about to take pos
session of his new residence on Broa
street.
Morris c. Engle. formerly of Noun
Holly, is successfully condueting an apiar.
In Cuba.
Leonard Emory, of sykesville, is a pain
full sufferer, caused by grain of sand il
his eye-ball
As the result of stroke of paralysis
Hugh McSwiggan, of Indian Mills, is In
serious condition.
Official business may soon take United
States Marshal ThomasJ Alcott, of Mount
Holly, to Mexico.
Mrs. Joseph G. Bower has sold the
Townsend property, on Garden street, te
Charles NJ. Suffer.
For stealing chickens at Crosswicks
Elvin Ross, colored, has been held under
bail to answer at court.
NJ. Harris, of Ewanville, has been sui
fering from wounds on his hand and wrist,
caused by the teeth of dog
An oyster supper will be held in the
basement of the Methodist Church. at In
dian Mills, on Thursday night next
Andrew F. Lippincott. OF Pemberton.
because of serious illness, was recently
removed to the Burlington County Hospi-
tai.
There will be a novelty cake walk in
the Lewis building this evening, and a
masquerade dance win be held there next
Tuesday night.
The funeral of William Stewart, ST.,
took place from the residence of his son.
Reeve Stewart, on Washington street,
Sunday afternoon.
Some farmers are of the opinion that
the ground is worth more than the income
from old Keiffer pear orchards and are
having the trees removed.
Members of the Foresters of America
are looking for pleasant time this even
ing, when they will celebrate the tenth
anniversary of the organization of this
lodge.
Joseph N. Brown, secretary Of the
Camden Association. delivered an address
in the Presbyterian Church. on Sunday
afternoon, to the boys of the Mount Hol-
ly Y. M. @. A.
Ellis Trick, of VincentowH, will give an
entertainment in the hall at that place on
Thursday evening. February 81. The
proceeds will be donated to the Burling-
ton County Hospital.
Consumers of electric light complain |
that the reduction in price which the
Public Service Corporation has made to
patrons in Mount Holly is an increase
rather than reduction.
Apoplexy caused the sudden death of
George B. Hancock, of Moorestown, on
Thursday night The deceased, who was
q retired farmer, took an active interest
in the government of that town.
Having given up the business of con-
Quoting boarding house at Asbury Park,
Benjamin Frazier, formerly of Mount
Holly, has engaged as salesman with the
Brown Shoe Company, of st. Louis.
Rings Little Liver Pills wake up lazy
livers, clean the system and clear the skin
Try them for biliousness and sick head
ache. Price 25c. Sold by H. B. Allen.
Mount Holly, F. s. billiard, Vincen
town.
For the third time within a year E.
Chandler Reed, of Beverly, an employee
at the Philadelphia Custom House, was
compelled to undergo an operation at JEFF
ferson Hospital. He was wounded in the
leg in the civil war.
Because of inconvenience in reaching
the train, it has been found difficult to re-
tain a teacher for the public school at Re-
treat Miss Bessie Butterworth. of Vim
centown, who was the eighth, has
agreed to stay the term out.
Samuel z. Bird, of Beverly before re-
firing Thursday night, sat down for
quiet smoke by hot stove, and the chair
went through hole in the floor. Mr.
Bird was thrown against the stove. His
clothes ignited and his arms we're badly
burned.
A representative of the Public Service
Corporation will be present at the next
meeting of the township committee to in
vestigate the complaints which have been
made to the effect that the electric lamps
in use in Mount Holly are not up to the
required candle power.
As Joseph Bowker. of Pemberton. was
the harness to a horse, the ami
NAL accidentally stepped on cat that
made its home in the barn. When Bow
ker released it from its painful position,
the feline bit the horse on the leg. Blood
poisoning soon developed, and the horse
died in great agony.
A man and woman in Salvation army
uniform, claiming Darby, Pa, as their
residence, were picked up in MountHolly,
Friday, by Detective Parker while can
wasting the town. They had collected con-
siderable cash and, admitting that they
had no connection with the Salvation
army, were dismissed with warning to
leave town Immediately.
Carlton Haines, of Tabernacle, is SER
iously perplexed over the problem of farm
help. In his employ is Clarence Emmons,
a very good man on the farm, but to keep
him Haines says he will have to plant two
extra acres of potatoes for the benefit of
Emmons The latter, says Haines, at one
meal ate two loaves of bread, half peck
of potatoes, some meat and other thingsin
besides drinking half gallon
of milk Emmons makes pretty expen-
sive boarder, but the situation demands
his retention.
The right of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company to charge storage on packages
forwarded by the five cent express system,
under certain conditions, has not yet been
decided in favor of that corporation. To
recover damages for such an overcharge,
which was refused. and which resulted in
the retention of suit of clothes, ]. Colby |
Montgomery, of Pemberton, brought suit,
and at the trial in Mount Holly, before
Judge Joline, jury rendered verdict in
favor of the plaintiff The case was APP |
pealed, and instead of decision having |
beeu rendered in favor of the railroad
company, as already published. it is an
nounced by J. H. Kelsey and Samuel w.