The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-19
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1909
LOCAL NEWS.
Buy it at Boyce's.

Buy 1t at Boyce's.
DR.. and Mrs. W. P. Melcher have gon
on q western trip.
First class Estey organ for sale. Appl!
113 Shreve street.
Charles q. Atkinson, of Pointville, Il
Ill from stroke of paralysis.
The days are getting longer at boil
ends, which is q sign Of approaching
spring.
Friday, January 20, will be Mckinley
day, an occasion for the wearing of pinl
carnations.
A dance will be given by the local fire
men at Lumberton on Saturday evening
January 90
]. G. Allen, G. L. Hazard and james
B. Dilks are the incorporators of the Bev'
erly Free Library.
With the present price of eggs hens had
better bring their vacation to close and
get down to business.
Former Assemblyman George Wildes,
living near Arneytown, has been serious
ly III with pneumonia.
DR.. Alexander NJ. Mecray, of Moores-
town, was buried yesterday. His death
was due to pneumonia.
Frank B. Stockton has returned to MS
home at Georgetown, Del, after visiting
his PARENTS In Mount Holly.
Miss Hance, of Birmingham, is now
teaching in the public school there
Miss Mary B. Buzbee having resigned.
Some land on Branch street. near the
Jobstown road, owned by Judson Gas
kill, has been sold to Albert 81. Lear for
$500.
Fifteen fine horses, to be used In rail-
road construction, were shipped to Kos
lyn, Pa, on Tuesday. by DR.. J. Hume
Garter.
The law Office building on High street,
which Benjamin W. Zelley recently pur-
chased of Capt. Walter A. Barrows. has
been sold to Blanchard FL. White.
Mrs. Isaac Powell, of Moorestown, for
merly of Mount Holly, who had been Ill
for long time as the result OF apoplexy,
died at her home Yesterday morning.
E. Lewis Schuyler was somewhat out of
season, Thursday morning. when he ap-
peared on High street wearing straw
hat when the ground covered with snow.
Several building lots with meadows
back of them, located on Brown street,
Mount Holly, are offered for sale. Apply
to Frank L. 8 herman, 118 Gardentreet
The Eagle Real Estate Company has
been organized at Camden with capital
of 500 The incorporators are Clar-
ence H. Polhemus, Joshua E. Borton ana
David 8. English.
At Vincentown, on December 70, oc-
CURED the marriage of Andrew Mullen
of West Creek, and Nellie Moore, OF Red
Lion. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. J. Mercer Davis.
At the court house, this evening,
lecture will be delivered under the aus
pices of the Y. NJ @. A. The speaker
will be J. Stogdell Stokes, of Moorestown.
Subject: Cup the Nippigon."
Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb R. Wilkins, living
near Fostertown, celebrated the fortieth
anniversary of their wedding on Satur
day afternoon. Guests from Mount Holly |
and other places to the number OF about
AS the result of his clothes igniting |
while standing near stove to get warm,
Zachariah Jones, of Moorestown, had his
hands severely burned while trying to ex-
tinguish flames which threatened to burn
of all his clothing.
On Friday Sheriff Worrell and County
Detective Parker took three prisoners to
Trenton, who will serve terms In the pen
itentiary. One of them was Cornelius
w. Booker, formerly Of Mount Holly,
who will be guest of the state for fifteen
years.
Rev. Richard a. Jackson, colored, of
Va, charged with serious
offence by Lucy James. .colored, of De-
lance, was arrested on Thursday and COM
mitted to the county jail. The accused
says he Is a divine healer and hypnotist.
He claims to have been in a for
year.
Mrs. william v. Dennis. Of Moores-
town, Is suffering from the effects of
fall from a motor cycle, and sustained
such serious injuries that her knee had TO
be put In plaster cast. Mrs. Dennis was
visiting in Washington, and while there
was entertained by trip In one Of those
motor cycles equipped with chair ar
An accident occurred and
she was thrown out
Caught and crushed between two trains
passing on adjacent tracks. william
Thorn, of Bordentown, brakeman, was
killed near his home town We'd
nesday morning. Thorn was riding on
the step of an engine on an east-bouRd
freight An express passed by on the
west bound track, and before Thorn dis
covered his danger his body was caught
between the moving trains and horribly
mangled.
At the home of the bride on High street,
A. L. Gordon, M. D., and Miss Lizzie E
Grub, both of Burlington, were married
Wednesday evening by the Rev. @. B.
Wiley, of Trenton, an uncle Of the bride.
Owing to the recent death of the mother
of the bride. the wedding was aquiet one.
The groom, prominent member of the
local medical profession, has lived In
Burlington for a number of years, and
has built up an extensive practice. The
bride 10 the daughter of the late Mary E.
and Isaac r. Grubb.
, Miss Alfredo Lewis, young colored
woman, residing at Burlington. was taken
suddenly Ill Wednesday afternoon while
sitting in the kitchen of her home. The
young woman was near the fire and in
telling struck against the stove and lay |
there for some time unconscious before |
she was discovered by her sIster-in-law,
who had gone from the room only few
moments before the accident happened.
Miss Lewis arm and face were dreadfuliy |
burned. DR.. Cassidy was hastily sum-
moned and dressed the wounds.