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

ri A camp Of the Sons of Veterans was
organized at Burlington last night.
;. A branch of the Knights Of Columbus
n was organized at Riverside on Sunday.
The state reunion of the Foresters of
It America will be held at Riverside on Au-
o gust7.
The Y. w. G. T. o. will meet at the
+ home of Miss Ruth Branin, Washington
!. street, this evening.
Rev. Fred Harris will have charge of
r the prayer meeting on Wednesday even
e ing, at the M. E. church.
Herman A. Stees, County Superintend-
+ ent of Schools, is spending his summer
' vacation at Capitol Island, Maine.
Miss Bertha Kirby, of Medford, spent a
q few days in Mount Holly, last week, as a
, guest of the Misses White, on Union
7 street.
Robert s. Gaskill received his new au-
3 tomobile last week. 1t is Locomobile
; runabout, 40 horse power, and is very
fine machine.
The s-months' -old son of Mr. and Mrs.
} John ]. Baskin, of Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, died Wednesday morning. Mrs. Bas-
/ kin Is the daughter of Nathan F. Smith,
of Burlington.
] After being out of the institution for
| two weeks, Richard Malone, Of Borden
town, filed up with liquor and created
disturbance. Mayor Gsbel sent him back
to the county jail to serve 100 days.
: While playing with several of his little
playmates at New Egypt, on Wednesday,
little Lester Chafey wrenched his side
severely, and when examined by physi-
can, it was found that he had sustained
serious internal rupture.
| Harry Martin vansciyer and Miss Fran
ces CLEVELAND Jordan, of Willingboro,
are to be married at o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. The event will take place at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Jordan,
parents of the bride-elect.
Not many boys Of his age can boast of
such a fine canoe of his own con-
struction as the one turned out by
Richard, son of Ernest D. Holeman. The
young man has reason to feel proud OF
his boat, which Is now In commission on
the upper creek.
Announcement was made in the Su-
preme court at Trenton, on Tuesday, Of
the result of the recent bar examinations.
Among the new attorneys for South Jer-
sey are to be found the names of Percival
W. Willis, Beverly; James Stroops, Riv-
erside, and David A. Veeder, Toms River.
Two government engineers inspected
the Mount Holly branch of the Rancocas
creek on Wednesday, as to the advisable
| ity of dredging the stream to make 1t nav
igable. The engineers, of course. ex-
pressed no opinion as to what their report
would be, but it is believed 1t will be
| favorable.
| Under direction of the United States |
Fish Commissioners the Delaware River |
is to be restocked with the fry of va
riety of sturgeon, known as the Danube |
sturgeon. In the Delaware is also to be
placed thousands of fry of the sterlet, an
European fish that is said to be more
toothsome than shad.
The Fletcher Grove Camp Meeting As
ISOLATION will open its twelfth annual
camp at Delanco next Friday and con-
tinue It's meetings until Monday evening. |
July g. This is the only camp meeting in
the Trenton District Of the New Jersey I
Conference. Rev. G. W. Ridout, pastor
of the Wesley M. E. Church at Delanco,
is president of the association.
Clarence Morrell, employed at Moores-
town, attempted to take dose of medi-
cine Tuesday evening. By mistake he
secured bottle containing mixture of
oil and carbolic acid which had been used
In treating wounds on COWS. 1t was for
tunate that the acid was diluted with the
oil. The young man was hurried to the
Cooper Hospital at Camden.
A fire was averted on the farm of Sam
uel Carter. near Chesterfield, at o'clock
Tuesday morning, when Edward Garter,
boy, discovered the threshing barn to
be on fire. He gave an alarm and the
blaze, which was eating into the stills,
was smothered with old sacks and milk.
The fire is of mysterious origin, as no
one had been In the barn for the past six
months.
The petition or agreement to the State
Board of Health, relative to private sew
ers in Mount Holly emptying into the
creek. will be forwarded to Trenton the
latter part of this week. Those property
owners who are not sufficiently interested
to call at this Office and sign the paper.
cannot complain IL suit is brought against
them next month by the State Board. In
difference and neglect may later on prove
to be an expensive experiment.
John White, who formerly lived at
Cambridge, was found dead Sunday
morning In his small candy store at Fair
view, near Riverside, by Mary and Anna
Murphy, two children, who had gone to
the store to buy candy. Coroner Bisbing,
of Riverside, was notified. Death was
due to paralysis of heart. Wright was 70
years old and lived alone. Nothing can
be learned of any relatives. Coroner
Bisbing in looking over the dead mans
effects found a saving bank book aggre-
eating five hundred dollars. Twenty
dollars was found In the store. The
coroner has taken charge of the body and
will hold it for few days in the hopes of
locating relatives of the dead man.
Governor Fort, on Thursday, named his
military detail for the Sea Girt encamp-
ment. beginning July 10, and ending
August IA. as follows: Brigadisr Gen
eral Wilbur F. Sadler, Jr., adju-
tant general; Brigadier General c.
Edward Murray, quartermaster general;
Colonel Frederick Gilkyson, assistant adj
jutant general; Colonel Austin Colgate,
military aide, aud aides de camp, Lieu
tenant Colonel William C. Schlauffier,
medical inspector; Lieutenant Colonel
Austin II. Condit, assistant inspector gen.
eral and First Lieutenant Nelson B. Gas
kill, Third Infantry. Another order de-
tails the officers for the Quartermsster
lnacarolc noportnant folloUo. Gol-