The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-03-17
Easter post cards. Buy it at BOyce's.

Easter post cards. Buy it at Boyce's. :
Douglass Abrams, of Red Lion, visite'
friends in Mount Holly, on Sunday.
Henry Butterworth and wife, of Har
risburg, Pa, were visitors in Mount Hol
~ last week.
Mrs. Rachel G. Evans entertained he
daughter, Mrs. Albert D. Austin, Of Had
donfeld, last week.
| Three persons, arrested at Moorestowr
for chicken stealing, were received at the
county jail last night.
A. A. Anderson last week sold two
properties belonging to the Emeline
Williams estate. Charles A. Smith
bought one of the brick row of houses on
Water street Frank ]. Dillon purchased
house on Washington street.
A fine program is promised for the en-
tertainment to be given in the Baptist
Church on Tuesday evening, March "a
under the auspices Of the scholars of the
Sunday school. There will be musical
and literary selections and other numbers.
A message received over the telephone,
yesterday, by Justice Slack, conveyed the
information that Mary A. Johnson, daugh-
ter of Lemuel Johnson, of Mount Holly,
had run away from the State Home for
Girls, to which institution Mary was COM
mitted about year ago.
Inquiry has been made whether the
Water Company intends to finish the dam
this summer The secretary of the com
pany says that work will be resumed as
soon as the weather warrants There is
no intention of stopping and losing the
money that has already been expended.
Mrs. Walter W. Sherman, who kept
boarding house on Washington street, left
tor Philadelphia, yesterday, where she
will work at her trade of upholstering. at
which she is said to be expert. Her
daughter. Miss Alice o. Sherman, who
two weeks ago was married in Camden to
Bernard Stern, of New York, will proba-
bly, reside at Reading, Pa.
While at the Relief engine house, yes
terday afternoon, John Throckmorton,
overseer of the poor, was seized with neu-
ralgia of the heart. Timely assistance
rendered on the part of Robert Myers IN
getting the afflicted man to his home and
taking a physician there was OF great
value. as the condition of Mr.. Throck-
morton was critical. He is somewhat bet
ter this morning. Neuralgia of the back
gave him much trouble while on gun
ming trip at Barnegat bay week ago.
Thomas Cramer, an aged emyloye at
the Florence iron works. was caught IN
belt, Yesterday, and had 1t not been for
the quick action of his fellow workmen
In stopping the machinery he would have
been ground to pieces. Every stitch OF
was ripped off his body, even to
his shoes. When released from his peril
GUS position he fell distance OF twenty
feet. Executing for few slight bruises
about the body, Cramer is none the worse
fer his experience.
A stranger came to Mount Holly, one
day last week, possibly with the intention
Of settling here. The first sight OF the
town gave him chill, however, and when
be saw the old ruins at the corner OF Mad:
son avenue and King street, and heard
how long that disreputable condition had
been in existence, he merely went up the
street and then returned to the station and
look train. Why is that spot allowed to
remain as it does, not only an eyesore, but
4 breeding spot for mosquitoesf Have
1ot the owners any pride in the matter,
personally or publicly2 To have such
Jpot in any portion of the town Is bad
enough, but to have it located in place
where it is seen by all who come here by
team cars or troll ey, gives the stranger
BAD idea that the other beauties OF the
own cannot entirely efface.
The tuberculosis exhibit was removed
rom Mount Holly on Wednesday.
During the ten days it was here 1t was
7iewed by 900 persons, little more than
,ne-tenth of the population OF the town;
This was not very encouraging as 1t had
,een hoped that great interest would De
aiken in a subject that is of vital I'M
The two lectures were well
lttended. The indifference shown to the
Exhibit and to the efforts of those who |
ried to give an object lesson OF value is
,nly another instance of how the town
.cts In such matters The Village I'm
orovement Society, which could have
been of great benefit, was allowed 10
lecay because of neglect to give sub
stantial aid. The village nurse, whose
work has been productive of good results,
s retained here only by the strenuous
Efforts of few who contribute and col
ect just about enough funds to barely
.over expenses. Yet Burlington on one
ide and Moorestown on the other, keep
me or both of these institutions going in
rood shape to the benefit of the respective
localities.