The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-10-19
Sea Side Park Heights.

Holly on Saturday morning.
Halloween goods, masks, etc. Our as
sortment is large, our prices right. L. s
Boyce, stationer.
Services will be held in Grace P. E
church, Pemberton, at three O'Clock, com
mencing Sunday, October "A.
I Edward Rouse, who recently died a
the county insane asylum, was buried II
the cemetery at Mount Holly.
William ]. Martin, of Philadelphia
has purchased property at LumbertoI
from Henry Conrow for 81, 100.
As the result of a spider biting him, ]
L. P. Eckman suffered considerable pair
from the swelling of his arm and hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Hoffman. Of
Easton, Pa, were visiting their daughter
Mrs. George Brotzman, in Mount Holly
last week.
A property on Monroe street and an
other on Fairview street, belonging to A.
Elwell Gaskill, have been sold to Thomas
W. Nippins.
Wednesday, November Sd. will be do
nation day at the Burlington County Hos
pital. Contributions of any kind will be
appreciated.
| A leak in the water main on Union
street. opposite the residence of Samuel
Manheimer, has caused the new roadway
at that point to be torn up.
Thomas Dubois. of Paulsboro, and Miss
Viola Richmond, of Moorestown. were
married at the latter place on Tuesday
evening by Rev. G. Humason.
John L. Shower and Lillian Dickson,
both of Medford, were married at that
place on September 1S, at the Baptist par
sonage by Rev. F. w. Randall.
E. Lewis Schuyler, who has rented the
John B. Herbert property on Brainard
street, to which many improvements have
been made, has moved into the same.
John Hinkle Franz, of Philadelphia,
and Miss Elsie G., daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John B. Davis, of Mount Holly, are
to be married to-day at the home of the
bride on Broad street.
Protect your deeds, wills, mortgages,
bonds or other valuables by renting safe
deposit box In our new fire and burglar
proof vault. 81 per year secures one.
The Farmers National Bank, Mount Hol-
ly, N. ].
Mrs. Ida M. Harness was married to
William ]. Dennis on Friday evening.
Rev. George G. Reynolds, of New Lis
bon, oficiated. The ceremony took place
at the home of the brides parents. Mr..
and Mrs. David Earlin, at Browns Mills.
The silver jubilee of the ordination to
the priesthood of Rev. John W. Murphy.
rector of the Church of Our Lady of
Good Counsel at Moorestown, will be eel
ebrated to day. Rev. Peter ]. Hart. of
Mount Holly, will take part In the exer-
cises.
The Women's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Church has elect
ed the following officers: President, Miss
Myrtle Smith; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. M. v. Sparks; recording secretary,
Miss Annie M. Sleeper; treasurer, Miss
Emma ZelleY.
After operations on both his legs at
Collegeville. Pa, where he spent the
summer, John L. Semple. who has been a
terrible sufferer from rheumatism for sew
eral years, has returned to his home in
Camden greatly improved in health. On
regaining his strength he will resume his
law practice.
A very successful fair and festival was
given by the Union Fire Company last
week. In the future there will be no
more events of this kind given BY the fire
companies in Mount Holly, as the in
creased appropriations which these or
ganizations are to receive will enable
them to pay running expenses without
further appeals to the people of the
town.
The University Extension Committee Of
the High School Alumni Association for
this year consists of Henry ]. Sherman,
Mrs. Rebecca B. Prickitt, Mrs. Thomas
r. Finley, Misses Marion Risdon. Elsie
E. Hughes and Mary B. Grigg and Rich
ard B. Eckman. This committee has ar
ranged for course of lectures to be de-
livered in the Court House beginning on
Thursday evening, November 18th, by
Edgar J. Banks, Phi. D., of the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
A man giving his name as Leon Andrews,
an employee of trolley section crew, while
riding home from work Tuesday night,
and standing on the rear platform, fell off
car between Beverly and Burlington
while rounding curve. A young woman
who saw the man fall notified the motor
man, who backed his car, and after a long
search In the darkness found Andrews in
ditch, badly bruised and his shoulder
blade broken. He was taken to Riverside
and placed under the care of physician.
The corner stone of the first public
school building erected in Crosswicks was
laid Thursday afternoon with imposing
ceremonies. There was singing by the
school children, under the leadership of
Miss Helen Dey, and an address by Joseph
s. Middleton, on the early history of the
village. Francis B. Lee, of Trenton, gave
an account of the rise and progress of the
public school system. Addresses were
also made by both the State and county
school superintendent. 1t is to be a
building of brick, of modern type. and
will cost $1,000.
Mrs. Leslie Foulks, who lives near New
Egypt, had the fingers of her right hand
severed while helping her husband at his
work in his saw mill on Saturday morn
ing. Recently Mr.. Foulks has been rushed
with orders for sawed lumber and lath,
and IS it is almost impossible to get good
help, his plucky wife has been taking
charge of the mill while her husband ate
his meals. Saturday morning while hel
husband was at breakfast, Mrs. Foulks
as usual, was keeping the mill going, anC
in cutting lath she placed her hand too
near the saw. In an instant every finger
was clipped from her right hand, leaving
part of the thumb only. She stopped thu
mill. walked to the house and calmly
asked her daughter to bandage the hand
Instead of complying the young woman
ran to her father, who in the meantime