The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-09-07
School supplies. L.. Boyce. stationer.

street.
I The engagement has been announced o
Everette Horner and Miss Alice Gaskill
both of Bridgeboro.
The firemen's parade, held at Reading
Pa, yesterday, was witnessed by quite
few people from this section.
The rattle for the benefit lof the North
ampton Fire Police has been postponed
until Tuesday evening, September 18th.
The sessions of st. Andrews Sunday
school will be resumed on Sunday, be
ginning at half past two in the afternoon
s. Ii. Mount, of Vincentown, will re-
move to Moorestown, where he has pur'
chased the William A. Warrick property.
| The Christian Endeavor Society OF
Bridgeboro will give chicken and reed
bird pot pie on Saturday evening. Septem-
Der 10.
Frank Mcgowan, a railway mail clerk,
formerly of Bordentown, is under arrest
at Pittsburg charged with robbing the
mails.
The annual meeting of the fire depart
ment of Northampton township will be
held in the house of Relief company on
Friday evening. September II.
John Kiner lost a gold watch fob, on
Saturday night. between Karg's store.
King street, and the opera house. He
will pay reward for its return.
A week ago William Gardiner, local
dealer, shipped fourteen barrels of squads
from Moorestown. This is thought to be
the largest shipment on record.
W. Harry Mason and John F. Saturday,
Republican members of the election board
in the first district, have resigned. Her
bert s. Kille and Nelson Pumyea may
succeed them.
Herbert R. Smith, employed at the
Herald Office, had the index finger OF his
left hand painfully injured, on Friday, by
getting 1t caught in the cogs OF type
setting machine
See Rodman W. Bowker, real estate and
insurance agent, and get free excursion
ticket to Sea Side Park Heights. Special
trains. Ocean front lots at ground floor
prices. Easy terms.
Men are engaged moving and carting
away the high grass in Isaac Shinn's first
cove on the upper creek, getting things In
shape for crop of ice next winter, should
there happen to be any.
Miss Louisa Vanuxem, teacher In the
Mount Holly schools, is sick with gastritis,
and will not be able to take her position
for a couple of weeks. Miss Helen Hughes
will act as substitute.
At the home of the groom's parents. Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Parker, near Herners-
town, on Tuesday evening, August 81,
occurred the marriage of their son, Harry
Parker, and Miss Minnie Halpin.
On Thursday the Mount Holly Water
Company will post notices warning people
against throwing trash or offal into the
upper creek. or polluting the water In any
manner under penalty of the law.
DR.. q. Eugenia Whitehead, of Mount
Holly, is now a member Of the Burlington
County Medical Society, the Medical
Society of New Jersey, and the American
Medical Association, having been recently
elected to the latter.
Having made their arrangements six
weeks in advance, party of Moorestown
people came to Mount Holly yesterday,
and in the feet of pleasure boats owned
by Edward Hack, spent Labor Day on
the Rancocas creek.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E.
Hendrickson, Jr., of Jersey City, whose
birth was recently announced In The
News, died on Thursday. He had appear
ed to be doing finely but was suddenly
seized with spinal-meningitis.
Weather report for the month Of August
as kept by Charles II. Estill, of Church
street: Clear days, IA; clear and cloudy
days, 4; rain all day, 2; rain in the after
noon, 8; clear in the morning and clear In
the afternoon, A; clear and cloudy with
thunder In aILernOOus 1.
Following is the list of unclaimed letters
and postals remaining in the post office
for last week: Charles Bee, Minnie
Beslick, Miss L. F. Fry. Fred Gauze.
Edward Gauze. Mrs. Jerry Haines, Mrs.
Maggie Keeler; postals: Mrs. Ellen A.
Bragg, Miss Helen Galley, Marie johnson
2. Mrs. Lucy Lukens, Miss Sara Rouse
and Mrs. Rumsport.
Il. L. Sands, of Mount Holly, is In the
class of fifty to win In the base ball con-
test being conducted by the Philadelphia
inquirer. II the people in this county
would clip the coupons from the paper
and get them to him he would keep In the
winning column and enjoy witnessing the
series of games for the worlds champion
ship wherever they may be played, with
out any expense to himself. Help him
win.
An irreparable loss was sustained by
the Friends Society, on Thursday. by the
destruction of their meeting house, erected
at Upper Springfield In 1877, and which
was used by both branches of the society.
Frederick Sharp, William Apologize and
two other men were cleaning up the yard
at the time. Burning brush set fire to the
wagon sheds and the flames. famed by
high wind, communicated to the building,
which figured in Revolutionary history,
and In short time one of the Oldest land
marks In state was obliterated.
The exciting scenes In the Auditorium
which signalized the closing hours of the
great ten-day camp meeting, were marred
on Sunday evening, by the death of Miss
Anna Hughes, one of the founders Of the
Ocean Grove Camp-meeting Association.
Miss Hughes who had just begun an ad-
dress, following particularly fervid ex-
hortation, was seized with fainting spell
and fell from the platform to the floor,
striking her head against the altar railing
in her fall. She was dead when picked
up. The lady was balf-sister of Rev.
George NJ Hughes, who was stationed at
Mount Holly, last year.
Turnkey Samuel K. Gaskill went to
Asbury Park, Sunday morning, after
William Read, who was arrested by Chief
OF Police Smith in connection with the
robbery of the residence of John Kerlin, at