The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01
LOCAL NEWS.

at Lakewood.
Miss M. L. Smalley takes subscription
for all magazines and gives clubbing rates.
AS the result OF horse kicking him
John Stuart, of Beverly, has deep gas
in his head
The Unionville Sunday school will hol
its annual supper In the Masonic Tempt
on Friday and Saturday evenings of thi
week.
The old carpet mill walls at the corne
of King and West Washington street
have been torn down and the lot is beinl
filed in.
Interested parties will hold s meeting
tomorrow to arrange for the establish
ing of an evening grammar school a
Riverside.
County Detective Ellis 81. Parker Il
making thorough investigation Of thu
mysterious shooting of William BALM
ger at Edgewater Park.
On Saturday evening. November 81. a
Burlington, occurred the marriage o.
Frederick W. FIGHTER and Miss Bertha III
Hozier, both of Riverside.
George c. Taggart, of Burlington. ant
Miss Elizabeth Annie Rudolph. of River
side, were married on Wednesday even
ing by Rev. G. H. Barnes.
The season for catching bass and pix
closed yesterday. Under the law angler
will be given an opportunity to fish fo
pike during the month Of January.
Three letters remain unclaimed In thu
post Office for the week ending November
%. They are for Mrs. Mabel g.. Collins
John w. Carnes. and DR.. Rankin Ref.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Mount announce
the birthday anniversary of their daugh
ter, Miss Elizabeth A. Mount, at theil
residence, 276 Holeman street, tomorrow
evening.
Miss Vallie DeVert Alexander, who has
been teaching In the public school at Riv-
erside, has resigned to take position as
supervisor of the local department of a
college at Alexandria, La.
Christmas and New Year post cards.
Booklets and fancy boxed paper. Our
assortment is large, of high quality; our
prices are moderate. L. b. Boyce,
Stationer, IS Garden street.
On Saturday Sheriff Worrell turned
cut q lot of tramps from the jail, and in
oho~~o - ro,a+abla naabili tba an 70 r al
up and burned the leaves in the court
house yard, adding much to the appear
ance of the place.
A dog poisoner has been causing reign
of terror among the owner of canine pets
in Burlington. Half . dozen dogs have
died within a week, and bits of poisoned
meat have been found in yards where
dogs are confined.
George w. Tichenor, who has been OPP
Grating Photographic studio in Mount
Holly. will close the same about January
and return to Burlington, where his
business In that same line demands his
exclusive attention.
Gunners found dead deer at Big Beaver
Dam last week. There was evidence to
show that those who killed the animal
took steaks of venison home with them.
The price per pound will come high II the
guilty parties are caught.
Outside of his period of unconscious
ness but little injury was sustained by
Clinton, the year-old son of Winfield
Estelow, of Riverside. The lad fell out
of second-story window to the pave
mcnt, landing on his back.
At the home of Mrs. Anna Stills, on
White street, Friday morning. mouse
fgnited match which set fire to rug In
the kitchen. A cat playing with the curl
ing smoke attracted the attention of the
daughter, who threw the burning rug
from the house
James Harold Rossell, Of BordentOwn,
formerly of Mount Holly. employed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, met
with serious accident. on Friday night,
at Birmingham. In some manner he was
thrown from freight car, the wheels
passing over his left leg. The unfortu-
nate man was brought to Mount Holly,
and amputation below the knee was per-
formed at the Burlington County Hospi-
tai. The patient ia getting along nicely
Mrs. Margaret Ryan, widow of John
Ryan, died at her home at Fellowship.
Tuesday night, at the age OF 80 years.
Mrs. Ryan retained her faculties to re-
markable degree, and her death from
heart failure came as surprise to her
many friends. As the oldest inhabitant
Mrs. Ryan was widely known In Fellow
ship. and her death will be a source Of
regret to the community. Funeral ser
vices were held from the residence of her
son-in-lsw, Thomas Fitzgerald, at Fellow
ship
Samuel J. Taylor, of Mount Holly, and
County Auditor Robert Peacock. of Flor
ence, are running neck and neck in race
for record in shooting rabbits, both hav-
ing been made victims by friends. A
practical Joker caused Taylor to shoot q
rabbit which proved to be cotton-tsils
hide stuffed with saw dust. Peacock
knocked over rabbit while cunning last
week, and upon gathering the game ne
was almost paralyzed to discover that bun
ME was tied to fence and that 1t was
already dressed for the market.
The march of improvement seems to
have started on Washington street. The
piece of pavement owned by the township,
near the Burlington railroad, was allowed
to be in a miserable condition for long
while, yet at the same time property
owners all oyer the town were notified tc
put their walks In order. Whether any
one served notice on the committee Is moi
known. but on Saturday the walk
was repaired so that 1t is no longer &
stumbling place. Ezekias Esham hal
bought the old walls of the carpet mil
which have long been an eyesore, and h
is having them torn down and the brick
are being cleaned and carted away.
In fling his answer to his wife's di
xorce suit In the Court of Chancery a
Trenton, Robert Rainier, an engineer, a
Roeblipg. denies the desertion allegation
and saws that he was forced to separat
from her through cruelty. Rainier DC
clares that his wife said she no ionge
cared for him and told him to leave ne
presence and never again return to hel
He alleges that she made other harsh an