The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-02-04

The execution of government pensio
vouchers is gladdening the hearts of wa
veterans to day.
i George c. D. Powell, at one time in tn
carriage business In Mount Holly, died /
Reading, Pa, on the 23d ult.
Rev. Henry Wescott, former pastor 0
the Baptist church at Columbus, in thi
county, died at Farmin gdale last week il
the 95th year of his age.
There has been about forty converts re
ceived In the Methodist church as tn
result of the union revival meetings con
Quoted by DR.. Smiley and Mr.. Hanson.
A furnace in nail mill at Sunbury, Pa.
exploded yesterday. Three relatives o
Mrs. Gustav Shaedle, of Mount Holly
were among the victims. Edward A
Krebs, brother. and Grant Reeder, nephew
were killed; and Wesley Reichenbach
cousin, was injured.
While crossing the street. Emil Wagner
aged rs years. was struck and badly hur
by trolley car at Palmyra yesterday
afternoon. He was carried unconscious
to the home of B. F. Upper, where hi'
injuries were dressed by Drs. Boyse anc
Lore, after which he was taken to his
home. Up to a late hour he had not re-
gained consciousness
A letter written by Miss Fannie Brittin,
mailed on December 80, 1854, at New Or
leans, and addressed to Miss Elizabeth
Garthwaite, Newark, N. j., arrived at Its
destination last week, and was claimed
by Mrs. Elizabeth B. Nichols. When the
two women were girls they attended
school together. Why the letter was de-
layed for over fifty years has not been ex-
planned. 1t contained nothing of i'm
portance.
|. Like huge knife solid, drifting cake
of ice reaching across the river distance
of nearly mile, cleaved into the old
wooden and gravel wharf at Beverly, yes
terday, and demolished it. The wood
work and piling were cut away as If with
a saw and the gravel surface settled into
the river. The ice then piled up to a
height of about twenty five feet. The
wharf was built many years ago. 1t was
from there that steamers took away regi-
ments mustered into service during the
Civil War and landed wounded and dying
soldiers brought back from the front to be
taken to local hospital.
There is quite an epidemic of appen-
dicitis in Toms River and vicinity. Mrs
T. ]. r. Brown, wife of Prosecutor Brown,
was operated on yesterday at the General
Memorial Hospital in New York city and
is in precarious condition. Miss Mabel
Apologize underwent an operation at the
Long Branch Hospital. Mrs. J. j. Parker
of Burrsyille, and James D. Holman, Jr.
grandson of former Sheriff Charles L.
Holman, the cranberry king" were
operated on at the Lakewood Hospital.
William B. Penn, of Waretown, died at
the Cooper Hospital, Camden, from the
same ailment.
The peculiarities of rates and traffic
were made public last week in transac-
ton in this neighborhood. When BUSH
ness is dull some agents in order to make
good showing go around among coal
dealers and, even though assured that
there is nothing doing" will ship car
load or 80 of coal and wait developments.
Two cars were sent to Mount Holly firm
on this basis. and the shipper was notified
that the coal was not needed and there
was no room In the bins for it. A dealer
In an adjoining town said he could use one
carload, so it was reshipped to him.
The freight rate to Mount Holly was $1.7
per ton, the additional expense from here
to the town to which the coal was sent be-
ing ten cents per ton, making $1.05. But
the railroad company's main office declined
to accept this sum because the rates from
the mines Ito the town in question were
81. 95. The man who got the coal, however,
says he will not pay the excess and fur.
Their says he will haye his coal shipped to
Mount Holly hereafter and then reshipped
to his yard, Jas the saving of en'cents per
ton is quite an item.