The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-05-26
NewMount Holly views at Boyce's.

garden in all desirable varieties, at ho'
bach's, Pemberton.
The Salesmen's Association. OF Phi
adelphia, will hold picnic at Rancoca
Park on Saturday, June o.
Richard Fitzpatrick was one OF tn
graduating class of the Philadelphia Co
lege of Pharmacy last week.
Under a new law children under 16 year
of age must be accompanied by parent
at Dreamland moving pictures.
At Rancocas Park, on the evening o
June s. shirt waist dance will be give
by a number of Mount Holly younI
men.
The young ladies of Vincentown CAV
very successful festival in the Baptis
Church, at that place, on Saturday even
ing.
Edward B Jones, through Kelsey q
Bowker, has sold dwelling house, OF
Pine street, to Mrs.-M. L. Coon, of Julius
town.
T. Harry Bowker received painful In
Jury, on Friday, by running rusty mai
into bis right hand above the thumb clea
to the bone.
Budd M. Rigg. of Burlington, and Mis-
Elsie, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Newton
Morton, of Florence, are to be married OF
Thursday. June II.
The engagement is announced OF Car
Zitzelman and Miss Reba Troth, both o
Scranton, Pa The bride-elect formerly
resided in Mount Holly.
Members of the Washington Camp, No
II. Patriotic Order Sons of America. have
been very active of late. and at the meet
| ing held Thursday night twenty-five pro
positions were received.
On Thursday, June 4, ]. F. r. Long
and Walter Rhees will assume their pc
sitions as captain and first lieutenant, re-
spectively, of Company E, they having
passed the examination required by The
State Examining Board.
The w. c. T. U. have arranged to pre-
sent a framed picture of Frances e. Will
lard to the Mount Holly High School al
!. 80 P. N. today. and Miss May Sparks
of the Gloucester county W. G. I. U.
will deliver a short address at that time,
The unclaimed letters that remain In
the post office for the week ending May
23d: Roy G. Brown, Miss Marguerite
Elm, 2, Samuel @. Johnson, Louis Mer-
com. F. s. Webb, Mrs. A. Richards,
Arthur Wilson. Postal, Katie Johnson
Convenient pocket cards, issued by the
Farmers National Bank for free distribu-
ton. containing the correct schedule OF
trains running between Mount Holly and
PHILADELPHIA. which went into effect on
NAV "a. can be obtained at the bank and
at THE NEWS Office.
The condition of Mrs. Ida Clayton, OF
Hartford, Is much improved and her early
recovery is looked for She recently be-
came temporarily incapacitated after wit
Messing the assault which Thomas Carey
is alleged to have made on Mrs. Louisa
Arnold with a shovel.
The fire company at Wrightstown mas
elected the following officers: President.
Albert Watson; vice president. Charles
d Walters; secretary and treasurer. Harry
R. Davis; chief. George G. Danley; assist
ant chief, Charles D: Walters; engineer,
William Davis; assistant engineer, Edwin
L. Davis.
Death came to q four-year-old boy liv-
ing with a family named johnson, who
reside near Cresswicks, In peculiar way
ON Tuesday. The child had crawled into
a dog house, and 1t Is supposed he had
some matches with which he set the
straw therein on fire. AFTER while
smoke was seen coming from the kennel,
and 1t was found that the child had been
smothered and his body burned to crisp.
During a recent midnight shower at
Medford, singular phenomena occurred
at the home of Albert Cowperthwait,
when thunderbolt entered the home, ex-
ploded with terrific report in the sitting
room and shattered mirror In thousand
fragments, but doing no other damage.
AS everything was tightly closed 1t is
mystery how the ball of fire got into the
house. 1t did not come in on the telephone
wire. and there seemed to be no other
passage.
A well dressed visitor under the infiu-
ence of liquor become quite gay, Friday
night. After entering Dreamlsnd, inspir-
alton seized the fellow as the pictures be-
gan to move, He got up and began to
dance besides cutting other capers. I'm
able to quiet the man Abraham Saltzman.
the proprietor, grabbed the fellow by the
coat collar, and elected him. When.taken
before Justice Slack the defendant said
his name was John P. mckinley, Of
Merchantville. He was sent to jail for
ten DAYS In default of a So fine. McGin-
lev at one time worked In Mount Holly.
Two trolley cars met in head on col
lision at Moorestown, at O'Clock Wednes-
day morning. and three Lien were quite
badly hurt, while several other passen-
gers were cut and bruised. The 12 OS car
from Camden failed to slacken its speed
as It peared the switch at Chester avenue,
and instead of going onto the siding 1t
crashed with full force into the front of
a Mount Holly car, which had just arriv-
ed. The Mount Holly car was telescoped.
The motorman of this car. John Hill. OF
Camden. was pinned down In the wreck
age and had both legs badly lacerated.
Harry Wright. of Moorestown, received a
fracture of the left ankle and dislocation
of his right knee cap. Charles Bray, of
vineland, was taken to Cooper Hospital,
Camden, with severely sprained leg and
numerous cuts about the body.
As the law provides that shade trees
NAV be trimmed twelve feet from the
ground, 1t is now In order for the township
committee to put force of men at worf
and trim the trees on Union street, be
tween High and Buttonwood streets, IL
order that the light from the newly-in
stalled electric arc lamp in front of Fol
wells barn might cover much large
territory on that thoroughfare than is nov
the case. The new lamp is decided i'm
provement in its present location, which
has always been very dark place. Whil'
some property owners have done littl'
trimming, the situation demands authori
tive action so that the work may be speed
lily and properly done. This step nov
seems to be q necessity, not only to ge
the full benefit of the light, but to pre-