The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-08-11
LOCAL NEWS.


worms.
On Thursday the Baptist Sunday schoc
of Pemberton will hold its annual picni
at New Lisbon.
The barber business of Eugene Haine'
deceased, on High street. has been pul
chased by Levi 6hinn.
A handsome, high priced baby coach, /
good order, for sale at very low figure
Address W." Mount Holly p. o.
A camp meeting, under the auspices
the Methodist Church, began at Rancoca
ON Friday. 1t will continue for ten days
Weekly drills by Company have beer
discontinued. They will not be resumed
again until the first Monday night In DC
tober.
The engagement of Morris Scheftier
clerk at 8. STEMS store, Riverside, and
Miss Mamie Scheffier. of New York city,
has been announced.
A lawn fete will be held on the parish
grounds at Lumberton, on Saturday even
ing, by the young ladies of the Episcopal
Church at that place.
The circulating library of the Burling-
ton County Lyceum will close on Satur-
day, A gust IS, and open Monday, Aug.
81, from nine until twelve In the morning
as usual.
The Sunday school children of the
Christian Church, at Bridgeboro. have re-
cited over six hundred verses of Scrip
ture from memory during the past three
months.
Having been the successful bidder In
competition with three other firms, t.
Walter Borton, of Mount Holly, has been
awarded contract for some fine deco-a
tive work in the new Clayberger house at
Lumberton.
John Pittman is fagman at Bucking
ham, a station near Writings. He is
under 16 years of age and Is six feet two
inches tall. He lives with his father at
Mount Misery, and walks four miles to his
work every day.
The sale of property in Northampton
township for unpaid taxes, which was to
have taken place on Thursday, August .,
at the ottice of Justice Slack, has been
postponed by Collector Frank 8. Davis to
Thursday, September 10.
The grist and saw mill Belonging to-
Asher Parker, Pointville, was destroyed
by fire last week, while the employees were
absent from the building. 1t is supposed
it was fred by the gasoline engine. Loss
$1,000. There was no insurance.
Bolivar, the biggest elephant ever in
captivity, recently died at the Geological
Garden, Philadelphia, of old age. A few
days since several persons from Mount
Holly saw the beast while being dissected.
The huge skeleton will be set up In the
Academy of Natural Sciences.
A party of sixty tourists from Lexing-
ton. KY, who recently visited Atlantic
City, concluded to make their headquart-
ers at some popular hotel on the avenue
bearing the name of their state, and they
selected the Frontenac. owned by VIII
liam F. Watts, formerly of Mount Holly.
The residence occupied by Charles La
tour, on Grant street, has been purchased
by Frank Spencer, of Burlington, who
will remove to Mount Holly in November;
Mr.. Spencer is superintendent of the
Standard Shoe Company, on Water street,
of which his son, Lewis, is one of the
proprietors.
Mrs Charles Davis. of Wrightstown,
recently met with an unpleasant expe-
rience. Going into the cellarway she saw
large snake coiled up on the floor and
came near stepping on 1t. Mrs. Davis
scream attraeted her husband, who came
rushing to the house, but the reptile es-
capped before he reached there.
After gathering about twelve quarts OF
huckleberries in the pines. on Tuesday,
Josiah Woodward started to return to
New Egypt. and after travelling several
miles over the sandy roads found that he
was lost. Finally reaching house he
learned from the occupants that he was
getting pretty well on toward Manahaw
kin.
The unclaimed letters that remain In
the post Office for the week ending August
Sth, are F. G. Colkitt, D. D. s., Gertrude
N. Drake, Mrs. G. Lederer, R. o. Mitch
ell, Miss Mary Vincent, Eomaso Persia.
Postals, Miss Elizabeth Fisher, Miss Vera
Jones, Miss Eleanor Hart, Mr. w. 81.
Harker, Miss Anna Rose, Mrs. Gertrude
Pomell, John Smith, s. II. Sheib.
David Hubbs, employed at the Risdon-
Alcott foundry, on Church street, met
with a painful accident yesterday morn
Ing A car used to carry cores about the
moulding room ran over and mashed his
foot. The injured man was removed to
the home of Mrs. Samuel Finch. on Wash
ington street, with whom he boards. This
is the second time Hubbs has had foot
mashed
The reed bird season will open in less
than three weeks, and already these birds
are lowering over the marshes along the
Rancocas creek. Those who violated the
law last year by the Wholesale slaughter
of reedies while on the roOst will run
risk If they attempt to repeat the per-
Torrance, as the game warden will lay
plans for the arrest of those engaged In
the practice.
Bishop Scarborough, who has been re-
ported seriously i'll at his daughters cot
tage at Avon.b by Sea. was much i'm
proved last week. When seen, he said
that his illness had been brought on by
the extreme heat He will remain at
Avon for about eight weeks. ''This is
the first vacation have had In ten years,
he said, "and am going to take advan
tage of 1t to get thorough rest" DR..
William A. Clark, of Trenton, the bishops
physician, has advised him to abandon
all work for the present.
An insect that bores into lawns and
brings up piles of dirt like ants, which
are plentiful at M0orestown. have reached
Mount Holly. They bore hole about q
half inch In diameter. into which focuses
are stored for food. Their sting is pain
full. but no more SO than the hornet. The
new visitors are about six times as large
as honey bee. and are known as thu
digging wasp or Specius Speciosus. The,
are now increasing in number. when ter
wears ago they were extremely rare.
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