The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-07
LOCAL NEWS.


will be held at Burlington Island o
August 7.
The Board of Freeholders will hold
meeting at the Court House, Mount Holly
tomorrow.
The engagement is announced OF Chas
Gray, of Juliustown, and Miss Ethel hog
ers, of Vincentown.
Mount Holly souvenir post cards. TN
Very Best" Here and at Jones Phar
macy. L. 8. Boyce. stationer.
The property on Brainard street
which he recently purchased, isnow being
occupied by Walter T. Stewart.
]. Howard Burr, of Pemberton, who
has been i'll for some time, has been pen
Gifted by a trip to Atlantic City.
Frederick shaw, formerly OF Mount
Holly. was married to Miss May Richards
Elder, of Brooklyn, on Monday. June 81
Because of his proposed trip to Italy
the fruit and confectionery business Of
Louis Garbarino has been sold to Jobr
Garbarino. of Camden.
Having received much benefit from hel
treatment at the Burlington County Hos
pital, Mrs. William Bennett has returned
to her home at Jobstown.
Two building lots on Point street. al
Lumberton, belonging to Mrs. Mary Ryan,
of Mount Holly, have been sold TO Al
bert ShEltz, of Philadelphia.
Frederick c. Trappe and Walter Cot
ton, theatrical performers, of Lumberton'
delighted large audience in the Mount
Holly Opera House, Tuesday night.
While taking her fathers cows to pas
ture, Miss Viola Potts, of Chesterfield,
was kicked on the head by horse that
was pssturing in the road and badly in
jured.
There Is quite an improvement In the
condition of Hugh Wixted, OF Hartford,
who is In a Philadelphia hospital recover
ing from an operation for the removal OF
q diseased bone from behind his ear.
Miss Mary F. Ravens and George Al
bert APP, both of Bordentown, were mar
ried Wednesday at their furnished home
on Prince street, by Rev. U. G. Hagaman,
pastor of Trinity Methodist Church.
The reception of probationers into full
membership was feature of the Sunday
morning service in the Methodist church.
A sermon appropriate to Independence
day was delivered In the evening by Rev.
George M. Hughes.
Benaiah p. Wills. of Mount Holly, re
ports that the apple and pear trees on his
farm, near Marlton. have been injured by
blight. and that fruit of this variety will
be scarce, as the havoc wrought from this
cause is quite general.
Mrs. Thomas R. Finley, of Union street,
while shopping in Philadelphia, on Tues
day, laid her pocketbook containing $40
on a counter for minute while she look
ed at some goods, and when she reached
for the purse it was not there.
The work of erecting two stone col
umns, eight, feet high and three feet
square, at the new entrance to the
Mount Holly cemetery, was begun on
Wednesday by W. s. Gale. This i'm
provement will add beauty to that part of
the grounds.
Many of the Y. NJ G. A. members of
the Associations In Burlington, Monmouth
and Ocean counties, are now enjoying
their annual outing of two weeks at
camp located on Metedeconk river, near
Bay Head. Mount Holly is being well
represented
Persons wishing to engage their berries
for the winter should get their orders
ready, as the members of Gen. A. E.
Shiras Post, No. %. G. A. R., have de-
cided to hold their annual lhuckleberry
picnic at Blacks lower mill. in the pines.
on Thursday, July 10. For details con-
suit Capt. Middleton or Quartermaster
Throckmorton.
Alfred B. Jones, formerly of Mount
Holly, has accepted an offer made by the
Diamond Rubber Company, of Akron,
Ohio, in consequence of which he has
resigned his position as engineer Of main
tenance Of way with the Cleveland, Akron
and Columbus Railroad. Mr.. Jones and
family came to Mount Holly, last week,
to visit their parents.
A result of the front gate being open,
a COW belonging to Daniel Cline, neigh
Dor. got into the yard of Wellington G.
Bozarth, on Ridgway street, Few days
since. When the latter went home and
found this intrusion, he made efforts to
get rid of his unwelcome visitor. While
trying to do SO, however, the animal
caught Bozarth by its horns snd tossed
him over the fence.
Boyd Fletcher, aged 10 years. adopted
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William Darby, was
drowned Wednesday afternoon while
bathing near the steamboat wharf at Bev-
erly. Young Fletcher was poor swim
mer and had been cautioned not to go into
the water. He was caught by swift cur
rent and was carried out into the stream,
where he sank His body was recovered
bv John and Clarence Bintliff.
Walter McWilliams. living on the Eden
Valley farm, near Florence, on Wednes-
day. set a steel trap under rail pile and
caught an animal which Is said to be
wombat. Nothing like 1t exists in this
section. 1t has a beaver head and its
tail is like that of coon. The fur is
-, I'D 6na and the creature uses its
front legs like squirrel. Its burrow
under the rails was filed with the skulls
and bones of rabbits, chickens and other
prey.
With the idea that 1t must either be
good or be killed. Teddy. the blood hound
which caused scene at the Jail by at
,tacking cook named Sweeney, was tax
an out on Tuesday to the Grant street
station and given exercise along the rail-
road by Constable Gaskill. As there was
no return of the dogs bad temper. the
animal was taken to the the Jail apparently
in happy frame of mind because of Its
outing, and once more the dog has Won
favor from Its keeper.
Harry Relyea. grandson OF the Rev
Milton Relyea, for many years a promi
nent figure In the New Jersey Methodist
conference, and once pastor in Mount
Holly, has been assigned to the pastorat'
of the Methodist church at Lavalette. neal
Point Pleasant, by the Rev. Dr. John b
Haines, the presiding elder of the district