The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-09-01


on Sunday.
Mount Holly souvenir post cards. 9TH
Very Best" Here and at Jones' Phai
> macy. L. s. BoYce, stationer.
The post office will close at 10 o'clocl
/ on the morning of Labor day and will re
main closed until the following day.
It The Camden Baptist Association will
! hold It's annual meeting in the Baptis
Church, at Pemberton, on September q
: and IS.
b Fred Rider, who plays left field on thu
Riverside base ball club. broke the thumb
+ on his right hand, in a recent game o.
: base ball.
G. W. Eldridge, of Masonville, is {
trolley conductor, haying entered the ser
vice of the Burlington County Railway
Company.
The New Egypt cornet band will fur
nish music at the harvest home to be
given on Thursday by the Baptist Church
at Jacobstown.
1t ia said that conductor r. Harry Rob
bins, of Pemberton, will take the run OF
John G.. Clark, deceased, which will
necessitate his living In Camden.
| George Brannin Evans, of Moorestown.
and Miss Laura Geraldine Albray, of
Newark, will be married at the home of
the brides parents on September 8.
Typhoid fever has attacked Samuel
Leeds daughter, of Pine street. and Miss
Marion Townsend, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert L. Townsend. of Madison
avenue
johnson Brothers, of Camden, have
purchased the machine shop business on
| Washington street, recently conducted by
Leonard j. Sparks, who is now employed
in Philadelphia.
| While digging stone on the Oak Mount
farm, near Cookstown, week ago.
William Stevens found a nest OF young
adder snakes. He succeeded in killing
thirty-two Of them.
Grant Bacon, prisoner, confined In the
county Jail, offers one dollar to the per-
son who can appear In court, on Thursday.
and give testimony that he ever desired
to rob or commit burglary.
Raymond, son of William Shannon, of
Water street, is quite an artist at sign
painting for boy of his age, and his
talent should be developed. He
has recently done some creditable letter
ing.
Labor day, September z, will be point
of interest at Rancocas Park, where the
annual picnic and harvest home of Keep
ava Tribe, No. 257. Improved Order of
Red Men, of Beverly, will be held The
public is invited to be present
For several days the condition of John
COLON. aged II years. OF Delanco, has
been serious, the lad being i'll with lock-
jaw. As the result of getting his hand
mashed under culvert plate, two Of his
fingers were amputated and tetanus
followed.
Mechanic Circle, No. is. Brotherhood
of America, will give peach festival
and entertainment In the Opera House, at
Smithville. on Tuesday evening, Septem-
Der g. The reputation of this circle is a
guarantee that all who attend will have a
good time. There will be peaches and
cream and other good things.
The third annual camp meeting of the
local preachers of the New Jersey Metho-
dist Conference will take place at Fletch-
er's Grove, Delanco, from September to
18, inclusive. The committee in charge
Is composed of the following: Revs. A.
Wagg, D. D., district superintendent;
George s. Hammell, c.. A. Barnes, ]. a.
Kirkbrlde, c. II. Ellis and G. W. Powell.
Another carload of carriages ane wagons
has reached the warerooms of Judson
Gaskii the Garden street carriage man,
and 1t contains some entirely different pat
terms from any that have been shown at
this place before. ANY one desiring a
really good vehicle at low price should
call and examine this stock. The quality
of the goods handled by Mr.. ,Gaskill has
been shown to be of the best, and Gus
toner once gained is generally retained.
At meeting of progressive citizens of
New Egypt, on Wednesday, it was decid
ed to at once begin the erection OF a
large summer hotel to accommodate be
tween 300 and 400 guests. Such house
was first thought of last year, but was not
carried out. Its need has been felt more
than ever this year. A committee con-
sisting of former Senator George L. Shinn,
DIR. w. G. Jones and w. Scott ChafeY was
appointed to have building plans prepared
and to solicit stockholders for the enter
prise. The site selected is directly along
the beautiful Oakford Lake.
Mrs. Bridget McMurney. of Philadel-
phia, was injured while alighting from q
trolley car in Mount Holly on Thursday
evening. Getting out at Madison avenue
she was in hurry to catch a train. As
she stepped from the trolley she was
knockedsdewn and run over by horse
driven by William II. Worrell, and owned
by Mr.. Rath, who is occupying Mrs.
Mrs. McMurney was badly bruised about
the limbs and body, and suffered severely
from nervous shock She was carried
into Shinn's grocery store, and later taken
to the residence of Mrs. Wookey, on West
Washington street.
Paul Swain, the 14-year-old son of
John Swain, Of Bordentown, was shot In
the left side by Thomas 81. Lee, the
7-year-old son of Jonathan Lee, who re-
sides on Elizabeth street, a neighbor of
the Swaims The boy had secured his
fathers pistol from a sideboard in the
house, and going to screen window
pointed the weapon toward the street
where boys were playing and pulled the
trigger. the ball striking Swain. 1t is
said that the boy did not point the weapon
to hit any one and did not think it was
loaded. The injured lad was removed to
St. Francis Hospital, at Trenton. and is
reported to be In a serious condition
| Young Lee was taken before Mayor Gabel,
and held under $500 bail to appear when
wanted by the Mayor.
"Lone BILL" known as John A. Kick
man, proprietor of rAe American Amuse-
ment Company. which gave performance
In Mount Holly last week, was arrested
Saturday night just as he was about to
leave the Opera House for another field of
operation. He attracted large crowds
nightly by display of his ability to get
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