The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-23

ed The post office at Mount Laurel ha
IN been discontinued.
Plants for the flower and vegetable
lie garden in all desirable varieties at Ros
g. bach's, Pemberton.
For rent. nine-room house No. II
lie Church street. Mount Holly. Address A.
r A. Anderson, Mount Holly.
DIR. R II. Parsons, wife and daughter
# sailed on the. steamship iceland on Satur-
J, day on two months trip to Europe.
It The ladies of the Baptist Church of
Pemberton will have twenty five cent
= supper in the l. o. NJ. hall on Saturday
+ evening. June 81.
The Epworth League will hold an old
fashioned spelling bee at the conclusion Of
!, its regular meeting in the Methodist
e Church on Friday evening.
A large tarantula jumped out of bunch
of bananas that was being unpacked by
: George Bell. of New Egypt AS the
e insect was very lively, it was killed after
3 short battle.
Arthur Presley created somewhat Of a
l surprise, last week. by resigning as cash
! Ter of the Riverside National Bank. Al
t bert Pancoast, of Hightstown, has been
8 elected to succeed him.
The Burlington county lodges, Brother
hood of America, will hold their annual
picnic at Rancocas Park on Saturday, Au-
, gust l. The usual attractive programme
, will be presented on that occasion.
George Gengal. 80 years old, a machin-
list, employed at the Roebling plant. was
drowned in the Delaware river while
bathing at Roebling Saturday night He
was married only three weeks ago.
Brought home from Philadelphia hos
pital, where he had gone for treatment
about two weeks ago, William II. Beatty,
ST., of Beverly, died Friday afternoon.
He was 65 years old and prominent Elk.
At Dreamland moving pictures and
illustrated songs every;eyening. Come and
see life motion pictures. The best in the
country. We use first quality only. Backed
by Lubin Film Service Company, of Phil
adelphia.
The death of Alberta May Brotherton.
aged 10 years. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
William Fl. Brotherton, of Burlington,
occurred Yesterday morning at the Bur-
lington County Hospital, where she was
undergoing treatment.
On Friday Bishop Luther B. Wilson, OF
Philadelphia, appointed Rev. Everett van
bright of Mauricetown, to the pastor |
ate of the Methodist Church at Haddon
Heights Mr.. Van bright was a former
preacher at Lumberton.
Col. Young, of Kentucky, will deliver
an address at the local option meeting to
be held in the Court House on Thursday |
afternoon at 2 o'clock. at which time an
executive committee will be appointed to
take charge of the campaign.
Theophilus Price, of Tuckerton, State
Fire Warden, while making an investiga-
ton, on Tuesday, found the cause OF re-
cent fires in the pines near Medford. Two
of them were set and the other two got
beyond control of charcoal burners.
Milton Jewett, of Palmyra, was very
badly bruised and had his face lacerated
by jumping of q train Wednesday night.
By mistake he got on Mount Holly train.
When it slowed up at Pavonis Jewett
jumped off and landed IN lot OF cinders.
The large willow trees which have been
growing from the carpet mill ruins, corner
hfnr afP0Qfc have
been cut down. If the stagnant pool OF
water there could also be Gu out 1t
would rid that neighborhood Of an an
noyance.
Unclaimed mail remains In the post
office for the following persons; Miss Fran
ces Clark, Mrs. Oliver, Robert Hadden,
Lawrence G. Haines, Samuel Haines, Da-
vid Miller, Richard Not, Mrs. T. Root.
J. x. Still, Robert West, Miss Bertha
Wilson. Postals, Miss Frances Darch, Q.
Miss Ella L. Farrell one of the recently
elected teachers In the Mount Holly
schools, has resigned to accept position
in Atlantic City, While the resignation
was only presented on Thursday Of last
week, there are already several applicants
for the vacancy and there will not be any
trouble to get another teacher.
In an effort to round up the persons
who have been breaking into freight cars
in this section, Dennis Frawley, Penn
sylvania Railroad detective, brought to
the county jail, on Sunday morning, eight
tramps The fact that they were hand
cuffed together presented novel sight
as they assembled the Jail steps.
Samuel M. Holt, who has been operat-
ing type. setting machine in the Govern
ment printing Office at Washington, is
home on vacation. He has just receiv
ed the result of his civil service examine
ton. and has scored mark of 90.25, and
has been informed that there is but one
person ahead of him in any contest for
the position he has been holding.
The next visit of SSles & Co., eye
specialists, to Mount Holly, will be Wed
nesday, July /, when representative will
be at the Masonic Temple and examine
your eyes free of charge. If you suffer
from headache, neuralgia or other pains In
the head, correctly fitted eyeglasses or
spectacles may remove the trouble.
Stiles s. Co. will frankly give you an
opinion on the subject.
Abner Rogers and John Alloway, of
Vincentown, were committed to the coun-
ty jail, on Saturday, charged with burg
larv. According to a confession made by |
Rogers, they robbed the stores of Aaron
R. Pitman and Harry Allen, at Vincen-
town, on the night of June 10. The case
was put in the hands of County Detective
Parker, on Tuesday, and after making an
investigation he had warrants issued, and
the prisoners were arrested on Saturday |
by Constables Throckmorton and Bozarth.
/ Harry Dunbar, of Beverly, manager of
the Dunbar Comedy Company. and trained
goats, met with peculiar accident, Fri
day morning, when en- route from Mt.
Carbon, Pa, to Pottsville, where he is for
a few days with his goats. One of the
cars Of the Eastern Railway Company's
line plunged down an embankment eight
feet deep. The goats were tied with halt
/ ers in the car and were hanged by the
neck as though strung upon gallows,
and only by quick cutting Of the ropes
were the goats rescued alive. Mr.. Dun
, bar was badly shaken up and was pain
fully injured, but physicians claim moth
e ing serious.