The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-07-20
LOCAL NEWS.

The store you have confidence in
BoYce's.
Louis Southland, of Cookstown, recently
caught a snapper that weighed thirty
pounds.
Citizens of New Egypt will hold lake
carnival at that place on Tuesday, Au
gust II.
The Vincentown Grange will hold itl
annual picnic in Ridgway's Grove OF
Thursday.
Clifford Reamer. of Church street, has
been having trouble with frog in hii
right hand.
A ten days camp meeting is In progress
at Rancocas. The first service was held
on Friday evening.
The Epworth League will hold Its
monthly business meeting in the Methodist
church on Friday evening.
The date of Rancocas Grange picnic al
Rancocas Park has been changed to
Thursday, August 18th.
Joshua T. Dickerson, of Smithville, will
sell his household goods at public sale on
Thursday afternoon, July 80.
The Columbus Snapper Soup Club will
hold its annual outing in Townsend's
woods, near Columbus, on August 8.
Jesse Stackhouse, of Vincentown, has
been suffering for two weeks from injuries
which he received in runaway accident.
Business was good in the s'drunk" line
ON Friday afternoon. Within aquarter of
an hour two policemen had landed three
of that class In jail.
The wife of Rev. George Powell, of
Bridgeboro, was very Iii during the past
week. Her condition has somewhat i'm
proved since Sunday.
William Phares, of Shreve street, is
suffering from blood poisoning. The
trouble was caused. 1t is said, by having
some teeth extracted in Philadelphia.
Members of the p. o. s. of A., of
Moorestown. will hold peach festival on
the public school grounds on Thursday
evening. A band from Camden will fur
nish music.
Letters for Mrs. Mary Murphy and
Mount Holly Sanatorium, and postals for
W. 8. Gusts and Mrs. Sallie Hurst, re-
main in the post Office for the week
ending July II.
The Presbyterian Sunday school enjoyed
q delightful day at Rancocas Park on
Thursday. Threatening clouds greeted
the scholars on their arrival home, after
which there was slight fall of rain.
John Keeley. of Moorestown, was re-
moved to his home in an unconscious con-
dition on Tuesday. While trying to pull
a large cake of ice from wagon 1t slipped
and fell on his head, knocking him in
sensible.
Announc ement Is made of the marriage
of Barzillai Ross and Miss Nellie Lippin-
colt, both of Pemberton. The ceremony
was performed at the home of Mrs Price
on Sunday evening, June 30, by Rev. E.
G. Conover.
A request on the part of Its employees
for an increase of three cents per hour In
their wages, has been denied by the Bur-
lington County Railway company. The
matter was pr esented In a petition
signed by the trolley men.
Another large consignment of Jersey
shingles, shingle lath and plaster lath has
just been received, and those who con-
template building or making repairs will
do well to examine the stock and get
prices. Apply to George W. A. French,
Mount Holly.
Going down stairs one night recently,
Hills z. Colkitt. of Vincentown, was
armed for prospective fight with burg
lar. His mind was relieved, however,
when he found that the noise was created
in a contest for supremacy between the
family cat and sheet of fly paper.
A rattlesnake skin cured In Mount Holly
has been sent to Arthur Newbold. of
Moorestown, who captured the reptile in
Florida 1t measures seven feet long and
eleven and one quarter inches across.
Before the head and rattles were cut off
the snake measured over eight feet long.
The next visit of Stiles & Co. eye
spesialist, to Mount Holly. will be We'd
nesday, July %. when a representative
will be at the Masonic Temple and ex-
anime your eyes free of charge. If you
suffer from headache, neuralgia or other
pains in the head, correctly fitted eye
glasses or spectacles may remove the
trouble Stiles & Co. will frankly give
you an opinion ON the subject.
In the suit for divorce against her hus-
band, Clinton Bullock, Of Bispham street,
the application of Mrs. Bullock for ali
mony pending settlement of the case
has been denied by Vice Chancellor
Walker, on the ground that she has sufi-
Client property to maintain herself. The
case came up at Trenton on Tuesday.
Bullock was represented by V. Claude
Palmer, and Samuel A. Atkinson appear
ed for the petitioner.
Instead of being crushed to death, as
hundreds of Mortified spectators expected,
Harry J. Dunlap. 18 years old, of River
ton. was only badly pinched Thursday
evening when crowded trolley car was
derailed here and he was wedged between
the car and post. The accident occurred
directly opposite the Pennsylvania Rail
road station, just the hour when the
streets were thronged with workpeople on
their way home. Women screamed and
men paled when westbound trolley car
suddenly jumped the tracks and careened
through the crowd The rear platform
collided with the railroad spite fence"
and Dunlap, who was about to board the
car, was wedged between the fender and
fence Instead of being dead the youth
was yelling Justify to be let loose. DR..
Lambert took 50 stitches in decorations
where his leg was crushed.
While not occurring on the Fourth OF
July there was an ccident at Moorestown
on Friday, which may be set down to the
list of casualties of that day as it is said
to have resulted from the explosion of q
frecracker. Walter Holmes, resident
of the vicinity of Moorestown, drove into
town and left his son. William, aged ten
years, in pony cart while his father went
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