The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-04-27
Rordentown.

Games being continued in the same pc
sition at the Samuel Aaron school.
Bordentown.
Mrs. Josephine Shreve, wife of Mahlon
Shreve. died at Hedding, near Borden
town, on Friday night. She leaves nc
children.
Edward Carlin left on Friday for New
Orleans. to superintend work in that city
for R. d. Wood 6 Co., manufacturers of
iron pipe at Florence. He will be absent
some three months.
At meeting of the excise board, held
on Tuesday night, all the hotels, saloons
and wholesale places were granted IL
censes, with the exception of the Amer
lean House, whose license does not ex-
pire until June.
The Haines 6 Hoilingshead Co., of this
city, have the contract to sink an artesian
well on the Rigg farm, near Bordentown,
belonging to w. 81. Borden. The pipe is
to be Al inches diameter and is to be driven
about 400 feet.
Harry B. Nevius, who has resided in
Bordsntown all his life, will move to
Camden with his family, where he holds
position as assistant trainmaster on the
Camden and Amboy division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
Richard Thomas has nodded a strong
portrait bust of the late Professor Will
liam mcfarland, father of DIR. Burr
mcfarland, of Trenton, who was the
principal of the Bordentown High School.
1t is on exhibition in a window of the
Bordentown post Office building.
Josiah Willis, stage driver, carrying
mails and passengers between Borden
town and Wrightstown, while walking
along the street at the latter place, We'd
nesday morning, was bitten on the left
leg by a dog which came upon him un-
awares.
Among the certificates of Incorporation
filed at the Secretary of States Office, last
week, was that of the Columbia Envelope
Company, Bordentown; capital, $25, 900;
incorporators, William 81. Rife, John Hen
derson and George W. Swift. Jr. The
company is to manufacture envelopes,
paper bags, general paper goods, etc.
A man and woman, who said they were
James Reynolds and wife, two old round
ers, claiming to belong at Camden, were
committed to the county jail yesterday for
thirty days each by Mayor Gabel for
being drunk and disorderly at the Penn
sylvania railroad station on Saturday.
City Marshal Thorn had his hands full In
landing the pair in the city lookup.
John P. Hutchinson, James B. Wood
ward and Walter Robbins, representing
the Bordentown Banking Company, and
Frederick ]. Potter, representing the
First National bank of Bordentown, at
tended the New Jersey Bankers conven-
ton, held at the Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic
City, on Thursday aud Friday of last
week.
Lydia Williams, widow of Charles Will
liams, died early on Saturday morning in
the 10th year of her age. She leaves two
sons, William and Joseph H. Williams.
She died at the home of her son William,
on Burlington street Her funeral will
take place on Wednesday morning at H.
80, and her remains will be taken to Allen
town, N. j., for interment.
The Rev. Harry st. Clair Hathaway,
rector OF Christ P. E. Church. here, will
sail from New York on the steamship
Adriatic, of the White Star line, on We'd
nesday, on two months trip abroad. He
will visit Southampton, Salisbury. Isle of
Wight, Winchester, Oxford, London,
Canterbury. The Hague, Amsterdam.
Cologne, The Rhine, Lucerne, Como, Mil
an, Florence, Rome, Pisor, Geneva, Paris
and Cherbourg. He will return by the
steamship Oceanic, due in New York July
1. Christ church vestry voted Rev. Mr..
Hathaway vacation of two months to en-
able him to take this trip.
The remains OF DR.. James D. Hopkins,
the veterinary surgeon, who died at his
farm near Bordentown last Wednesday,
were buried in Evergreen cemetery. be-
tween Newark and Elizabeth, on Satur-
day afternoon. Twenty years ago DR..
Hopkins was territorial veterinary for
Wyoming and later. with the valuable
experience acquired in the field, he came
east and located at Newark. He was a
member of Northern Lodge, F. and A.
M, and the funeral services were con-
Quoted according to the Masonic ritual
Rey. DIR. Henry R. Rose officiated.
A jury empaneled by Coroner Bisbing
met in the city hall on Wednesday and
considered the case of Winfield Carr. the
ten year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Carr, of Bordentown, who was killed af-
ter jumping from a wagon on Monday
morning and running in front of Cam
den and Trenton Railway car. The jury
rendered the following verdict: THAT he
came to his death by an unavoidable acct
dent by being struck by Camden and
Trenton Railway car" 1t had been stated
budb du autOuODllC " LII w Z.
Harrington, of Trenton, was on the road
at the time Of the accident, and that it
was running at high rate of speed. 1t
was shown that such was not the case,
and that the automobile was going at a
moderate speed.
One man was drowned and two others
had narrow escape from the same fate
on Friday afternoon while diving for the
body of Jack Marion in the "Hell Hole
in the Delaware river, at Bordentown.
The drowned man was John McCabe,
whose address is unknown. He was about
SO years old. Leo Mullen, 81 years old,
of 255 Mercer street, and Miles South, 40
years old, of Al Market street, Trenton,
were the two who escaped from watery
grave. They had to swim quarter of q
mile to shore after their boat had capsized
and was crushed to pieces on some rocks.
McCabe never came up after he made 9
dive into the sixty foot hole, and 1t is be-
lieved his body is held by the forty feet