The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-05-12
LOCAL NEWS.


soon be in order.
The block system is being installed Q
this division of the Pennsylvania Raj
road.
Maggie Smith has purchased lot o
Hulme street from Thomas W. Nippir
for 800.
Mrs Lydia A. Stevens, living nes
Cookstown, died ON Thursday after
weeks illness.
Miss Elizabeth Cotton, of Tabernacle
has broken arm, the result OF fallinl
from her bicycle.
Clarence L. Durand has purchased
house on Buttonwood street, from Howar'
L. Keeler, for $3.50.
After being confined two weeks witt
the mumps, Joseph Harris, of Pine street
is now able to be about.
Maurice B. Comfort and Miss Katherine
Shotwell are to be married at Moorestowr
on Saturday afternoon, May is.
Falling against circular saw where h'
was employed, James Fisher, of Pen
sauken, had his leg badly lacerated.
An osteopathic physician wants to rent
two communicating rooms as offices in 8
nice neighborhood. State terms, etc.
Luke Armstrong was showing rye
stalks, on Friday, measuring five feet two
inches, raised on a lot on Monroe street.
Arrangements are being made by Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Garbarino for their pro-
posed visit to Italy. They will sail in June.
The members of the Ushers' Union Of
the Methodist church will be entertained
this evening at the home of DR.. A. r. w.
Atwood.
A handsome gold watch was presented
to Miss Minnie S. Tribolet, last week by
her parents, in honor of her eighteenth
birthday.
Good progress toward recovery is being
made byJ. Howard Burr, OF Pemberton,
who was operated on for appendicitis
last week.
A property on the east end of Ridgway
street, belonging to Walter G. Hancock,
of Philadelphia, has been sold to Edward
A. Merriam for 81. 750.
Mrs. Frank T. Morton, of Garden street.
who has been ill with typhoid fever for
nearly nine weeks. is recovering. Her
fever was broken on Thursday.
Mount Holly souvenir post cards in
colors. 81 views, Q for 8 cts, % cts.
dozen. For sale here and at Jones'
Pharmacy. L. s. Boyce, stationer.
Letters for Mrs. Josephine Globerts and
Miss Pearl Schafer, and postals for Mrs.
J. Dalanson and Miss Margaret Taylor
remain in the post Office unclaimed
Director w. G.. Irons, of the Metro
politan band, has signed a contract to
give eight concerts during the summer.
Sunday evenings. at Rancocas Park,
beginning, July II.
Franklin Dill was taken ill. 1t was found
that he had suffered stroke of paralysis
which slightly affected his left side. His
many friends are pleased to know that he
is able to be about.
Charged with abandoing horse which
he hired from Edward Barnaby, of Smith
vile. Charles Jacques, colored. was arrest
ed by Constable Throckmorton, Tuesday
night, and committed to Jail for court.
The defendant claims to live at Smithville
and the team was abandoned at Rancocas.
Jacques was committed by Justice Ben
net Risdon, this being his maiden case
since entering Office.
The contract for large, up-to-date safe
deposit vault has been awarded by the
Farmers National Bank, of Mount Hollys
to the York Safe and Lock Co. The
vault will be built in the rear of the bank
and will contain large number of safe
deposit boxes which will be rented to the
public at popular prices. The improve
ments will be completed in September.
The bank will offer city protection with
night Waterman.
A very eloquent and instructive lecture
was given in St. Mary's Hall last Tuesday
evening, by DR.. Francis N. Thorpe, to an
appreciative audience, under the auspices
of the knights of Columbus. The sub
ject was THE Strength and Weakness of
American Institutions" After the lecture,
In addition to the music rendered by Pro
fessor Murphy's orchestra, there were
vocal and instrumental pieces by the
Misses Eckman, Joseph Kilbride, and Mrs
Bertha Won Brinke.
The congregation of the Baptist Church
has elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Clerk, M. Lidie Smalley;
treasurer, George Stead; deacons for three
years, Morris H. Keller, Charles Fort and
William A. johnson; trustees, Samuel A.
Atkinson, George D. Worrell. c. s. Hell
Ter, M. II. johnson, Isaac Parker. Joseph
G. Dudley and William W. Worrell; or
ganist, Mr.. Tyler; chorister, Mrs. Ernest
Martin; pew collector, George ]. Stead:
deaconesses, Mrs. Margaret Lippincott,
Mrs. Samuel Emerson, Margaret Worrell,
Mrs. George Moore, Mrs. George Stead.
Flames discovered in the rectory of st
Peters Catholic Church, Merchantville,
shortly after two o'clock Thursday morn
ing, burned out almost completely the
interior of the house, entailing a loss
which may reach $4,000. The Rev. P. j.
Clune, rector of the church, was awakened
to find the rectory filed with smoke and
flames. The fire was spreading rapidly
and he telephoned for the Merchantville
fire department. When the fremen ar
rived they did what they could to save the
furnishings, but before the flames were
extinguished most of the interior of the
rectory was either burned or damaged by
water. Father Clune is unable to explain
how the blaze originated.
A highly intelligent Polish lady living
In Kensington, who officiates as inter
prefer in the Philadelphia courts, known
as Mrs. Smith, for short, and who holds 1
similar position in the Burlington county
courts, was in Mount Holly yesterday
While comforting with the authorities re
garding the large number of criminal case
coming from Riverside, in which her ma
tive countrymen are implicated. she sug
gested remedy for the moral and socia
condition of that growing town, where tn
Polish population is rapidly increasing
because of the many industries there. TIL
establishment of Polish Church at tina
place. she declares, would prove bless
Ing to all concerned. In fact it is neede