The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-08-03

Mount Holly and miscellaneous souvenir
post cards. L. s. Boyce. stationer.
]. Edward Worrell, of Garden street, is
having his house and store newly painted.
A carbuncle on the back of his neck has
been causing trouble to c. =. Heller for
several days.
James NJ Davis and family will occupy
the house belonging to Benjamin W. Eel
lev, at the corner of Union and Cherry
streets.
The largely attended picnics now being
held at Rancocas Park, are proving an
attraction to pickpockets, who have be-
come active.
Roy Haines, son of Burr Haines. of
Ridgway street. submitted to an operation
for appendicitis at the Burlington County
Hospital on Friday morning.
Prof. Atkeson, of Morgantown, Va.
overseer Of the National Changers, will be
one of the speakers at the annual meeting
of the Rancocas Grange to be held at Ran
cocas Park tomorrow.
The handsome driving horse belonging
to Charles Coles. of Lumberton, slipped
while running in the yard on Saturday
and broke its leg. The animal, valued
at $500, had to be killed.
Mrs. ]. Harry Halt is entertaining Miss
Laura Bowling, of Philadelphia; Miss A.
Weaver, of York, Pa. and Miss May Van
Deursen and Miss Mamie Tones. of New
Brunswick. On Thursday evening
''kitchen shower" was given Miss Tones,
whose engagement to Richard Fitzpat-
rick, now located at Wildwood, has re-
Gently been announced.
The work of remodeling the three-story
brick building belonging to Blanchard d.
White, on High street, is to begin this
week. The front wall will be torn down
and rebuilt. There will be law offices on
the first floor, and the upstairs will be
fitted for residence purposes. William G.
LeConey is the architect; Walter Allen,
the builder.
r. Il. Russell, proof reader. of Phil
adelphia, is suffering from fractured
skull, received in diving from pier at
Oakford Lake, New Egypt, on Saturday
Russell, good swimmer and an expert
diver, was taking an early dip. 1t is be-
lieved that boys threw pieces OF iron In
the lake and that his head must have
struck one of them. He will recover.
On Tuesday night there was trouble in
town between May Comac, wife of George
Comac, and Charles Powell. While en-
gagged in fight, newspaper man from
Philadelphia, named Price, stepped In to
protect the woman from further assault,
and then the mill was carried on between
the two men, who tried to put 1t all over
each other. After the hostilities had
ceased 1t was found that Price had a
wound on the bridge of his nose and one
over his right eye, where, # is alleged, he
was bitten by Powell.
Canoeists and boat owners along the
upper creek are complaining of the care
lessness or ignorance of many OF the
OCOo1AOAoAAJ
boats at Hacks wharf. If the rule OF
keeping to the right was understood and
observed navigation would be improved
for all parties concerned. 1t is not I'M
common to see boat steered directly
across the path of an approaching craft
in the endeavor to get out of the way,
and but little care is exercised In rounding
curves.
With the object of destroying the Eng
lish sparrows an Anti-Sparrow Civic
League has been formed at Moorestown.
Though the sparrow is such a general
pest in all parts of the United States. the
Moorestown folks think that If they make
an earnest effort to rid the town of the
birds other towns may follow suit Traps
with which to catch the birds are to be
imported from England, and the assistance
of the youth of the town is being enlisted.
Prizes will be given for tearing down
nests, destroying the young and breaking
the eggs
While participating In their Monday
evening open air drill, last week, the
members of Company E were annoyed by
the action of several boys about IA
years of age. Calling the National guards
men ''tin soldiers" and performing in
other ways of an Objectionable nature soon
became tiresome. To put summary end
to the matter Capt j. F. r. Long had the
boys rounded up, and squad of soldiers
marched them to. the Office of Justice
Slack, who administered severe repri-
mand, and made it plain that repetition
of the offence would land them in jail.
While working on tree some hundred
feet distant from Bell telephone pole at
Moorestown, Saturday morning, Amos
Trueman heard heavy object fall. and
turned to see his companion, William
Wilde, lying on the ground. Fastening
to Wilde he found him unconscious from
his drop of thirty feet. Trueman tele-
phoned for physician and an automo-
bile, and Wilde was hurried to the Home
opathic Hospital, Camden, where he is in
serious condition from internal and other
injuries. 1t is thought he touched live
electric light wire.
Tuesday afternoon, William Maddocks.
of Stanford, Conn.,, passed through Bur-
lington en-route to Los Angeles. Mad
docks is trying to cross the continent In
1876 days. He started on his long journey
from the Advocate office at Stanford, on
the seventeenth of July. Maddocks is
carrying suit case with him that weighs
As pounds. He crossed the continent once
before, but did not carry anything. 1t Is
said that Maddocks will receive 81 900 If
he reaches Los Angeles within the pre-
scribed time. When he left Stanford he
did not have cent; all the way down he
has begged his living and since starting
on the journey has not slept in bed, but
on the ground or In barn along the way
side. Maddock's claims that he can make
the journey by walking eighteen miles
day. He Is now 81 miles ahead of the
schedule.
Mount Holly, like other places. on hot
nights especially, is visited by little white
moths which f1utter about the arc lights,
giving to them much the same appearance
as during blizzard in winter. While
the moth invasion is annual it arouses
certain amount of curiosity. Among the
thousands of white ones there appear
some beautifully colored brown moths.
They seem like giant bats as they futter
occasionally through the myriads of their