The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-25
Plants for Memorial Day, at S. P
Cline,s Mount Holly


new introductions Of merit In the plan
/ line at Rosbach's, Pemberton.
| On account of Memorial day the bank
will close next Monday, and business a
the post Office will be suspended after Il
O'Clock.
The public school on Burr's road TO
the coming year will be in charge of Mis-
Mary Lippincett, of Mount Holly. She Il
now teaching at Red Lion.
Harry Hoffman, of Riverside, had hi
hand badly torn by Jagged board a
Taubel's mill last week. A splinter near
ly four inches long was removed from be
meath the flesh by local physician.
CHARGED by his wife with beating hel
and threatening to kill her if she made
complaint against him, Norman Gaskil
has been committed to the county jail
The couple are 10 and II years old re-
spectively.
A severe case of ivy poison caused John
Sheets, of Delanco, to seek relief at the
Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia. The
case is one of particular seriousness and
has attracted the personal attention OF
several of the professors.
Having accepted position as clerk in a
hotel at Elberon, Richard s. Folwell, of
Mount Holly, will remain at that resort
during the summer season. The young
man spent last winter at Lakewood. oc-
cupying similar position.
Large congregations attended the Pres
byterian Church on Sunday, to hear DR..
Hamill Nassau preach on africa" in
which dark continent he has spent nearly
fifty years. The evening sermon was IL
Illustrated with stereopticon views.
A vicious shepherd dog, belonging to
Ephraim Ford, bit boy named Rossell
on his finger on Tuesday. The lad de-
sires to kill the dog, and promises to do
so if the township committee will give
him permission to carry revolver.
Harry Adam Greifsu had his leg ampu-
tated at the hospital here on Wednesday.
The operation became necessary from an
injury which he received several years
ago at the Risdon-Alcott foundry. when
he struck himself on the knee with
hammer.
From now until June list is the time to
plant dahlias. We have 90 of the best varie-
ties at 81 dozen. including such as Tho
mas Parkin, Mrs. Roosevelt, Gen. Butler,
Standard Bearer, and many others that
are generally sold at Csc to SOC each. Ros-
bach's, Pemberton.
A suit to recover $50 900 damages has
been instituted by Mrs. Blanche Allen, of
Vincentown, against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for the death of her
husband. Edgar G. Allen, who was struck
by train at Lumberton on December %
last, receiving injuries which resulted In
his death.
''The Lion and the Mouse" was an in
teresting entertainment given at the Opera
House on Thursday evening, under the
auspices of the Alumni Association of the
Mount Holly Public School Miss Miriam
Lee Farley, well known elocutionist
and impersonator, was well received by
the audience.
The Turner Birkhead property at Bey-
erly was sold on Thursday by Sheriff
Worrell to the Mechanics National Bank,
of Burlington, for 1850 1t was sub
ject to an encumbrance of 50. The
property of Blanche M. Shaw, of Burling-
ton, was also sold at the same time to H.
E. Shaw for $2,OO5.
A discarded olive bottle, taken from
garbage barrel at the residence of E. P.
Budd, on High street, contained four live
rats, which had crawled in to get some of
the brine The three on the inside could
not turn around. The fourth was wedged
tightly in the neck of the bottle and
could not get out. The rodents were
drowned and buried in their glass encase-
ment.
Charged with stealing watch from one
of his fellow employees at the Riverside
watch case factory, George Mclaughlin
was given hearing before Justice Zeig-
Ter Tuesday evening, who later commit
ted him to jail without bail to await the
action of the grand jury. Mclaughlin
purloined the watch, it is alleged, from
his shopmate's vest pocket while the lat
ter was temporarily absent from his bench.
Toooh Ir;raor Of Raornav Grad 90
years, was seized with vertigo while Wis
ting at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Theodore Merritt. of Beverly, last Mon
day When found several hours later Mr..
Fireng was unconscious and had two
ribs and an arm broken. On the same
day Michael Cunningham, aged so years,
fell down stairs and was painfully cut
about the face and body and otherwise in
iured.
Joshua Townsend, who keeps restau-
rant in Bristol, had the surprise of his
life. few days since, and one of his pa
irons had good cause to rejoice. A GUS
toner who sauntered in and asked for
plate of raw oysters, had them quickly
put before him, but hardly had COM
menced placing them where they would
do the most good, when complaint was
made that there were small stones in
among the oysters, and he accused the
of endeavoring to play prac-
tical joke on him. On investigation being
made it was discovered that the so-called
pebbles were in reality fair-sized pearls,
fifteen in number, and for which the
lucky finder has since been offered $780,
On Sunday Sheriff Worrell, Deputy
Sheriff Fleetwood and Detective Parker
went to Palmyra to investigate robbery
which occurred at the general store of
Joseph NJ Roberts at As o'clock that
morning. Constable Tones discovered
two men in the store collecting an as
sortment of articles. He started to arrest
them, but as he appeared on the scene the
men ran away, leaving two suit cases be-
hind, filled mostly with shoes. The men
fled in the direction of Camden. 1t is be-
lieved that they belong to a gang of
thieves with headquarters in Philadel-
phia. Two men who recently robbed this
same store are now serving terms in the
state prison.
There is indignation over the fact that
some COWS affected with tuberculosis, be-
longing 20 Robert G. Wills. of Marlton.