The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-05-12
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Tuson, the milkman. See advertise
i ment.
The residence of Caleb Dudley, O
Union street, was sold to Clarence Pric
yesterday.
5 William B. Pearson is considering tn
/ advisability of accepting lucrative pc
sition in Mexico.
Plants for the flower and vegetabl
garden in all desirable varieties, at Ros
bach's, Pemberton.
}, Samuel s. Bower has removed from
Philadelphia He is now living In hi
house on Mill street, opposite Cherry.
i Joseph Harris, of the Continental Fielt
Club, will be given a trial by the Noun
Field Club at Vincentown, next Saturday
/ Franklin Dill is recovering from hi
recent attack of paralysis. Yesterday hi
came down town and transacted som,
business.
Township Clerk Hawkins has rented
Brannan's store, next to st. Andrew
church, as the polling place for the. frs
election district.
J. Howard Burr, of Pemberton. who
was operated on for appendicitis, last
Monday, is getting along nicely, and his
early recovery is looked for.
Frank A. Elberson, of Union street, has
accepted the position of foreman in one OF
the department. shops at West Chester, Pa,
where dairy supplies are manufactured.
Albert Hitler, of Bordentown, while
cutting bolts at the Roebling plant at
Kinkora, on Saturday, was injured in the
left eye by a bolt flying up and striking
him.
The voters in the first election district
who desire to abolish the voting machine
now have chance to signify their wishes
by signing petition for special election
on the subject. The paper may De found
at the store of Samuel P. Cline.
At West Philadelphia. on Saturday, ocs
CURED the burial of Mrs. Maud Kellogg
Lynch, who died at her home at Jersey
Shore, Pa. The deceased was the wife of
Rev. Percy Lynch, and former teacher
in the Mount Holly public schools.
The Rev. Thomas J. ]. Wright, OF the
Beverly Methodist church, will be the
orator at the Memorial Day observances
which will be held at Soldiers National
Cemetery at that place, under the direction
of the local Grand Army Post. Various
lodges and school children will take part.
The Ladies' Aid of the M. E. church
will give a supper in the Masonic Temple
on May 16, the day of the Y. Nj. G. A.
field meet. The price of the supper will
be % cents. This supper is not, as some
have gained the idea, an exclusive affair,
but everybody is welcome and invited to
come and aid good cause.
E. ]. Williams, of Norwood, Pa, was
elected principal of the public schools at
Beverly. The other teachers are Levi
Wire, Misses Anna Dickson, Helen
Holmes, Florence Perkins, Mary Elmes,
Helen Valance, Isabel Atkinson, Bertha
Kelley and Mrs. Thomas Fogarty. The
teachers salaries have been increased to-
$50 a month. Miss Morton, who had
taught thirty years, resigned, and will be
placed on the retired list.
The wife and daughter of Governor j.
Franklin Fort were in Mount Holly,
yesterday, visiting the Chief Execu-
tive's father, Andrew II. Fort, who
is suffering from ailments incident to old
age. Mrs. Margaret Manwaring, daugh
ter, living in Michigan, is also at the bed
side of her father. Yesterday he said he
would get up and walk about if he could
only see Several years ago Mr.. Fort
was attacked with an eye trouble, which
has gradually progressed until now he is
totally blind.
At the meeting of the Ocean county
School Board Association Saturday the
matter of truancy occupied a prominent
part, and resulted in the appointment OF a
committee to see if it were possible to
have juvenile court and detention school
established in Ocean county to take care
of hayward children and start them right
in life. The committee is composed of
]. s. Stormes, of Barnegat; Charles w.
Dampman, of Point Pleasant; and Joseph
H. Brown, of Tuckerton. L. s. Hansen,
of Toms River, was made vice president
of the association, vice Fl. A. Tolbert, of
Barnegat, resigned. What to do with the
railroad tax from the state was discussed
fully. The association passed resolutions
urging the Board of Freeholders to carry
out the law of the last session by making
an office for the county superintendent at
the court house.