The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-15
Rich cut glass, Community silver, etc.
L. s. Bovce. 25 Garden street.

81 MICH cup glass, community suNel, GU
L. s. Boyce, IS Garden street.
y James Comfy and wife left Mount Holl.
last week, to go to Florida for the winter
l. Wouldn't warm coat sweater make al
excellent gift2 We have them. l. q
It Lippincott.
New Jersey Lodge, No 1, Knights o
Il Pythias, will confer the third degree mex
il Friday night.
Susanna Brotzmann has accepted {
: position as clerk in the dry goods store Of
E. A. Bussom.
: Edwin H. Ogburn was in Trenton on
Thursday, attending the convention Of
the Y. W. G. T. O.
r While practicing In the Y. M. c. A.
gymnasium, last week, Stokes BurtiE
fell and broke his arm.
Miss Clara Goodrich, of the Chicago
Training School, will deliver an address
! in the Baptist church tomorrow night
officer Collins found bicycle in front
. of the Opera House on Wednesday. 1t
awaits an owner at police headquarters.
Nathan s. Wright, of Columbus, has
purchased the chicken farm, on the South
Pemberton road, near Smalley's corner.
The property belonged to Francis D.
Peters, of Ardmore. Pa.
, Go to Rosenfeld's for Christmas presents
for all members of the family. A fine line
of toys, sleds, dolls, automobiles, etc., and
many useful articles for the adult mem
bers of the household. Mill street, Mount
Holly.
A delegation of the Ocean County
Board of Freeholders and others interest
ed, will meet the Burlington County
Board of Freeholders, In the Court House
at Mount Holly on Wednesday, Dec, %,
at 10 a. M, for the purpose of creating an
interest toward improving the newly laid
road from Browns Mills to Lakehurst.
Cards of invitation have been issued
for the wedding of Miss Annie Pauline
Green, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. B
Green, to Professor J. Thomas Caruthers,
of the Ironsides Industrial School at Bor-
dentown. The ceremony will take place
at the home of the brides parents, at Col
umbia, Tennessee, on Tuesday. Decem
%.
A farm wagon belonging to Reading
Margerum and DR.. W. P. Melcher's car
rage collided on Pine street last night.
The carriage was upset and badly broken
and the horse ran away. DR.. Melcher
was thrown violently to the ground and
had his right shoulder broken. His
driver, John Costell, had one of his legs
injured and his head bruised.
Albert Ashton, of Toledo, who was
nearly killed at Riverside, ON October 16,
while doing an acrobatic act over an ele-
plant in Robbins circus, has just left
Cooper Hospital. His spinal column was
fractured in fall, but the surgeons got
the vertebr@ to knit, and when the man
left the institution he showed slight out
ward effects of his injuries. His days as
an acrobat are over, however.
Eight South Jersey Lodges of Elks had
representatives at meeting held in
Camden yesterday to organize an associa-
tion to stimulate interest in the order by
holding annual reunions. These officers
were elected: President, James K. Car
mack. Atlantic City; .svice president,
Charles R. Fenton, Mount Holly; secretary, |
Morris R. Odell, Camden; treasurer,
Edwin Fitzgeorge, Trenton. 1t is pro-
posed to hold the first outing at Atlantic |
City.
A few days before Thomas Emmons,
living near Burlington, took his own life, |
he left gun belonging to Charles Hobbs, |
of Florence, in cabin along the river
road, near the fish cabin, and 1t was the |
same gun that Emmons reported the loss
to the police of Burlington city on the |
morning of his death. Saturday, Officer |
McCune located the gun. and found it
had been taken by Claude Bayne. Nc
Cune placed Bayne under arrest. The
opinion prevails that Bayne is mentally |
off.
The initial number of q paper called |
The Acorn appeared last week. The pub
LEGATION is to be issued monthly in the in
terest of the Mount Holly schools, and is |
edited by pupils of the high school: The
object, as stated in the first issue, lis (1st) |
to broaden and strengthen the minds of
the high school pupils by having them TO |
think and write upon subjects of personal
interest; (2d) to furnish students and pa |
rents with reliable, condensed account |
of all important school news, as well as
the opinions of the students of the sew |
eral classes of the high school on various
subjects"
David McCarron, an elderly man, who
was said to haYe been a former Mayor of
Riverton, where he now resides, was put
under $500 bail yesterday in the City Hall
Police Court, Philadelphia, on the charge
of embezzling $112.54 belonging to the
Philadelphia Life Insurance Company.
The money repr esented premium on an
insurance policy paid to McCarron on
August 90, last, by M. E. MaroneY, 211
Hale Building. James 81. Gleason, an in
spector for the insurance company, said
that McCarron has written letters in reply
to demands upon him, acknowledging the
receipt of the premium, but had failed to
pay it over.
Because of the notoriety he attained in
proposed efforts to resuscitate the next
person electrocuted in the state prison for
murder, the presence In Mo unt Holly, on
Wednesday, of DIR. Frank G.. Scammell, |
of Trenton, proved to be an attraction.
On the superstition that the published
stories about the matter were correct, local
physicians spoke to Mercer county's ply
sicians on the subject. During CONVEX
sation of this nature DR.. Scanned assur
ed DIR. Richard H. Parsons that the whole
thing was farce. 81 never had any
such idea in my head" remarked DR..
Scanned, 1T is a matter never dream
ed Of The story was sent from Trenton
by newspaper correspondent. who heard
a few remarks made in a discussion re-
lative to the belief of certain New York
physicians as to whether an electrocuted
person was killed or simply stunned. l
never said would try the experiment of
resuscitation and do not intend to-"
Dennison's Christmas seals, tags, etc.,
for sale at Boyce's.
Fresh, new umbrellas, good quality.
from 75c up. l. Il. Lippincott.