The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-04-07
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Easter cards and booklets. Our assol
ment is large; our prices are right. L.
Boyce, stationer.
EASTER Praise" is the title of a canta
to be rendered In the Methodist ChurC
on Easter evening.
Falling from the step at her home, G
Monroe street, the granddaughter of Jaco
Gaskill, broke her arm.
The county convention of the Brother
hood of America will be held at Pembe
ton, on Thursday evening. April %.
There will be something doing to-nigh
as ten candidates are to be initiated b
Washington Council, No s, Jr QUA. n
Sheds for the protection of his stock 9
coal. wood, ETC., have been erected in tn
yard of Stacy B. Lippincott, on Washing
ton street.
While cunning along the shore. las
week, Philip Karg, of Mount Holly, sue
ceeded in gathering lot of fine duck
and geese.
James B. Jordan and Miss Mary B
]Coyle are to be married at St. Mary
church, Bordentown, on Wednesday
April g.
Good Intent Fire Company will
hold its annual meeting tonight, wher
officers will be elected and other business
transacted.
Gen. E. Bnrd Grubb. of Edgewatel
Park, has been selected as orator OF the
Memorial day exercises to be held al
Tuckerton.
After being confined few days with
injuries received by the kick of horse.
DR.. John G.. Feaster, of Jacobstown, is
able to get about again.
Samuel J. Taylor. of Monroe street, is
now ready to make awnings, lay carpet,
cover furniture, etc. a telephone call
will bring him to your house.
The military men of Mount Holly be-
longing to Company E, will go to Cam
den on Friday night, where the Third
Regiment will hold battalion drill.
July has been fixed as the date for the
unwilling of the Mercer county soldiers
and sailors monument which is to be
erected ON the Court House lawn, at
Trenton.
A bill has been passed by the Legisla-
ture making it necessary for all wagons or
other. vehicles to carry at least one light
from 10 minutes after sunset to IS minutes
before sunrise.
Col, George w. Balm, of Kentucky,
under the auspices of the w. @. T. u,
will speak in the first Baptist church, at
Moorestown, this evening, on the subject:
"If Could Live Life Over"
George Henry, a negro living at Jordan
town, shot himself in the leg recently
while cleaning revolver. With much
courage he extracted the bullet with his
penknife, and then poured salt water into
the wound to prevent blood poisoning.
While playing with companions. on
Tuesday, Herbert Oliver dislocated his
arm at the elbow. His injury was at
tended to at the Burlington County Hos
pital. Oliver was one of the boys riding
In the wagon on Church street that ran
over and injured Ruth Reeves.
Thomas Gulick was so badly injured,
Wednesday morning, that it was neces-
sary to remove him to his home on Hulme
street in wagon. At the time of the ac-
cident he was working in the new sewer
trench on Mill street, when he was caught
by the caving in of an embankment
All the foreign hands employed at the
Florence iron foundry were discharged
last week. The night force, composed
mainly of foreigners, ask for an increase
In wages. They were receiving $1.40 per
day and wanted raise of sixty cents. |
This was refused and they quit work.
A freak chicken was Matched out at the
home of Coroner Bisbing's parents. at
Florence, last week. 1t possessed two
bodies, one above the other; four wings, |
four legs, but only one head. 1t was alive
when discovered, but was shortly after
wards killed by the mother hen, who
stepped on its head, crushing it. The Gu
riosity has been preserved in alcohol.
By retaining his presence of mind under |
difficulties, Elmer Legion, farm hand.
got things Strengthened out without any /
serious injury to himself. While blowing |
near a deep washout on a farm at Jacobs
town, the bank suddenly gave away,
throwing both horses, the pillow and him
self. Altogether Legion had quite a
serious time saving himself from getting
killed. One of the horses was badly hurt
and the pillow broken.
Burlington Lodge, B. P. O. Elks,
gave might in Elkdom" In Turner'S
Hall, at Riverside, Wednesday evening, |
in honor of the Riverside members Of the
lodge Covers were laid for nearly three |
hundred guests. The principal feature of
the occasion was the banquet. The col
ors of the lodge-were used profusely in all |
rarts of the hall, and there were some fine |
Elk decorations. The address of welcome |
was made by Thomas s. Mooney, of Bur |
lington, and the response was given by |
William H. Holt, of Riverside, after
which all formalities were dropped. A
vaudeville entertainment was given by
talent from Philadelphia. Among those
present were ex-Sheriff Joseph G. Bower,
Freebooter William B. Ireland and Geo.
w. Durand, of Mount Holly.
The new 42-horse power automobile be-
longing to DR.. George W. Vanderveer. be-
came somewhat cratic, on Thursday, by
refusing to move when he wanted Co start
and by attaining additional speed when he
wanted to stop. But this is only the ex-
perience of beginners. The physician
became stalled on High street, defective
vibrator causing one of the engines to
stop. A few minutes later, while turning
on Garden street, to enter his yard. the
defective machinery corrected itself,
causing the automobile to shoot forward
with such force that the doctor could
not stop its progress in time. and the
car crashed into the porch at the resi-
dence of Elwood Stead, knocking out
one of the columns and tearing away the
side railing. The machine sustained slight
damage.
Held without bail for a serious crime,
William Pitman was committed to jail on
Wednesday afternoon. The young man,
who has a wife and child, is charged with