The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-05-05

| Spalding's base ball supplies, etc. L.
s. Boyce, 25 Garden street
John D. johnson bought new Packard
touring car last week.
The lovers of music will find the merry
Widow Waltz" on the fourth page of this
issue.
Next Sunday evening in the Methodist
church, Rev. G. NJ. Hughes will preach
Cd the Third Commandment.
Mount Holly souvenir post cards in
colors. 81 views, 2 for 5 cts, 20 cts.
dozen. For sale here and at Jones'
Pharmacy L. S. Boyce, stationer.
The weather report for the month of
April is as follows: Clear days. II; stormy
days, 2; partially cloudy and clear days, 8;
partially clear. cloudy and stormy days, 9.
The Melody quartette, of Philadelphia,
will give musicale in l. o. M. hall, Penn
berton, on Thursday, May IA, for the
benefit of the Baptist church there. The
programme will consist of choruses, solos,
duets, and readings.
There will be pie, cake and candy
sale for the benefit of the organ fund OF
the Baptist Church, on Saturday after
noon, May Q, in the store formerly occu-
pied by Howard V. Stratton on High
street. Sale to begin at $50 o'clock.
At the residence of John W. Bodine in
Camden, on Saturday evening, the sur
viyors of Company H., Third New Jersey
Volunteers, met in annual reunion. A
business session was held, after which the
old soldiers were given fine dinner by
Mr.. Bodine and his wife.
Owing to the storm on Thurday even
ing last, the entertainment to be given for
the benefit of the new organ fund of the
First Baptist Church was postponed
until Thursday evening of this week,
when it will take place in the lecture
room of the church, at eight o'clock. Ad
mission ten cents.
The unclaimed letters that remain in
the post Office for the week ending May
2nd are: Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Atkin-
son, Howard Blake, Rev. William Mac
Rosie, Henry P. Bird, John Creedon, Miss
Grace Hewling, Walter Monkey, Mrs.
Charles E. Shinn, Jr., Miss Gertrude
Wilson, Amy Wetherill.
In the Presbyterian church next Sunday
Rev. J. H. Durham will preach on the
theme, Church and Labor" The Cen
eral Assembly has for five years main
tanned department in its board of home
missions, devoted to the securing OF closer
relations between the church and labor |
unions, and has appointed the second
Sunday in May for discussion OF the
subject.
Colony 10, National Society of New |
England Women. has elected the follow
ing officers: President 81. N. Pancoast,
Palmyra; 1st vice president, Mrs. Richard
p Holeman, Mount Holly; End vice pres
ident, Mrs. Lorenzo W. Prickitt. Mount
Holly; secretary, Mrs. Harry ]. Sherman,
Mount Holly; treasurer, Miss Mary Ober,
Mount Holly; board chairman, Mrs.
George L. Ridley, Riverton.
The next visit of Stiles s. Co., eye
specialists, to Mount Holly, will be to-
morrow when representative will be at
the Masonic Temple and examine your
eyes free of charge. If you suffer from
headache, neuralgia or other pains in the
head, correctly fitted eyeglasses or spec
tacles may remove the trouble. Stiles q
Co., will frankly give you an opinion on
the subject.
That the picking of buttercups is in
furious to the health of children is the
belief of prominent physicians, who de-
clare that in many instances so called
cases of measles are not measles at all,
but are the effects of gathering butter
cups and inhaling their perfume. But
tercup fever" which is sometimes fatal,
is the term given the disease. In Germany
and Holland there are laws forbidding |
the growing and picking of buttercups,
and the punishment is severe to the VIC
lator.
On Saturday occurred the death of Mrs. |
Francis Brown, widow, living on Har-
bert's alley, running east from Pine street. |
Her death was due to consumption. On
Sunday her daughter, aged about twelve |
years, died with the same disease. 1t is |
said that the remaining boy and girl, four |
and six years, respectively, are similarly |
afflicted. The bodies will be shipped to
Toms River to day for burial, Overseer
of the Poor Throckmorton says these
deaths revealed one of the most affecting |
cases of poverty that ever came to his no.
tice The case will be laid before the |
township committee tonight.
The annual reunion of the survivors of
the 23d New Jersey Volunteers was held
at the residence of Gen. E. Burd Grubb,
at Edgewater Park, yesterday. Col. Hill
larry A. Herbert, who commanded the
rebel forces in the conflict at Salem
Church, Va. when the 2Sd regiment was
in action, was guest at the reunion.
Several members of the Daughters of the
Confederacy were also present The
members of the regiment were marched
up the gravel walks of Gen. Grubb's home
in command of Captain E. 81. Kirkbride.
After being greeted by Gen. Grubb and
Col. Herbert, the members strolled around
the place until time for the business
meeting. They were served with lunch.
An important merger of telephone lines
and interests was consummated May 1, by
which the Farmers Telephone Company
will cover territory of % miles in length
between Pemberton and Hightstown, in
the counties of Burlington, Mercer, Mon
mouth and Ocean absorbing the interest
of the Bell Telephone Company in that
territory, together with number of adj
ditional lines adjoining formerly operated
by the Bell Company. The Farmers
Company has taken long time lease on
the Bell interests and will operate the
lines in future. Arrangements are being
made for connecting with the Farmers and
Traders Company, at Hightstown. which
will be of great benefit to the patrons of
both companies, and the whole merger is
one that meets with general approval.
This change does not affect the traffic
ageerment now in force with the Inter-
State Telephone Company.
! Securely fastening the doors and win
dows in the kitchen at the home of Stacy
Prickitt, of Medford, on Wednesday
morning, Matte Wells, 80 years old, turn
ed on the gas at the gas stove. When
Mrs Prickitt tried to enter the room she
found the door barred and was compelled
to force an entrance. Thereon was filled
with gas and Matte lay dead on the floor.