The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-06-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Holly.
The store you have confidence in
BoYce's.
The work of improving portion o
Union and Buttonwood streets is well un
der way.
Miss Kinsinger, of Mount Holly. las
week entertained Miss Anna Coleman, o
Pemberton.
Washington Camp. No. II. P. o. s. o
A., will elect officers at Its meeting OF
Thursday evening next.
Former Judge Joseph H. Gaskill will
not occupy his residence in Mount Holll
this summer as reported.
DIR. H. Eugenia Whitehead, of Noun
Holly, has been elected a member OF thu
Burlington County Medical Society.
T. Harry Bowker has purchased pail
of PAGERS which are able to step mile
with the best team in the county. 1t Ii
said.
William NJ. Zelley, of Pine street, dice
on Thursday from heart trouble, aged u
years. The funeral took place yesterday
afternoon.
Barclay EVAN has settled at Pomona,
a new town that is enjoying boom neal
Los Angeles, California. He formerly re-
sided at Ewanville.
One of the proposed Improvements to
be made at Browns Mills is the establish
ment of golf links and the erection OF
handsome club house.
About thirty members of New Jersey
Lodge, No. /, Knights of Pythias. OF
Mount Holly. will visit the lodge at Med
ford tomorrow evening.
Miss Emma Smith, connected with
hospital at Somerville, where she is learn
ing to be trained nurse, visited her par
ents in Mount Holly last week.
Guests from Mount Holly were present
at a marriage which took place in Phil
adelphia Wednesday evening. The con-
tracing parties were DIR. William A.
Newell, resident physician at the Epis-
copal Hospital, and Miss Florence N.
Oorrell.
Having remained unconscious for a
long time 1t was feared that Lyman Saidt,
of Pemberton, was suffering from frac-
ture of the skull. His condition has been
serious The young man was struck on
the head with base ball bat during a
game on Wednesday afternoon.
There will be morning and afternoon
base ball games as well as dancing, with
music by the Peerless orchestra, on July
8. at Rancocas Park as well as moving
pictures and illustrated songs In the
Rancograph. There will be sports for all
and display of fireworks In the evening.
The list Of unclaimed mail in the post
Office for the week ending June 10, is as
follows: Mrs. May Carmeon, d. Gold
stein, 2; J. B. Hawkins, DIR. George B.
Hershey, Mrs. Annie Jenkinson, Miss
Jennie Little, Jack Waters, F. Swincic-
key, foreign; Mrs. c. A. Lippincott, pos
tai.
A suit to recover damages for the de-
struction Of cranberry boys and standing
timber on the Bullock estate in Spring
field township, is to be brought against
the Central Railroad of New Jersey by
William P. Bryan, of Vincentown, who
represents a company that recently pur-
chased the property.
The laugh would certainly be given to
the America Hose Company should that
organization be compelled to respond to
an alarm of fire just at the present time.
Its truck Is at Archer's carriage factory,
where defective wheels are being over
hauled and put in good shape. For tenn
porary use q homemade 'erisl" truck
has been installed. Should this appear
In public 1t would create sensation.
Survivors of the Eighth Alabama Regi-
ment, which was commanded by Colonel
Hillery Herbert, who was secretary of the
NAVY In President Cleyeland's Cabinet,
will be the guests of General E. Burd
Grubb at Edgewater Park, on June %.
At the same time Mrs. Grub will tender
q reception to the Daughters of the Con-
federacy, who will come north for the oc-
casion. Old soldiers who fought with
General Grub will be on hand to welcome
those Confederates with whom they battled
in the sixties.
It is said that couple of slick swind-
iers haye been operating in several of the
South Jersey towns during the past three
weeks. They offer to teach the women
folks how to make beautiful lace designs,
which they agree to purchase for $40, but
they require a deposit Of $3.50 to cover
the cost of the patterns. When the cash
deposit is received the men are never seen
again. There is another chap with plenty
of gold In his front teeth, who is lining
his pockets with the same precious metal
by soliciting subscriptions for newspapers
and magazines.
BY reason of the stearing gear getting
out of order while speeding over the
Pemberton and Browns Mills road Sum
day afternoon, the automobile of Martin
v. Gauntt, of Birmingham, became I'M
manageable, ran into ditch and threw
the occupants out Mrs. Perkins, wife of
Z. s. Perkins, of Merchantville, was the
only person hurt. When the auto upset
abe was pinned under the machine. She
bled considerably from the mouth. An un-
known doctor happened to pass at the time
and he succeeded In stopping the flow OF
blood. He could not tell the extent Of
the woman's injuries She was removed
to a farm house and then taken to Penn
ton for medical treatment.
Mrs. Annie Stuart, who resides with
her daughter, Mrs. Edward Rudd, near
New Egypt. wandered away from home
Friday. and became lost in the pines.
She is very old and nearly blind although
hale for her years In other respects. Her
intention had been to visit neighbor,
but as dusk came on she became confused
and lost her way. At nightfall when she
did not return, inquiries were made and a
searching party was formed. After an all
night search the aged woman was found
Saturday morning by her little grand.
daughter, Eetsie Rudd, lying under g
pine tree completely exhausted and In g
serious condition. She was carried home
and medical aid was secured. Mrs. Stuart
Ia the mother of three sons who served In