The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-08-10
Mount Holly and miscellaneous souvenir

on a farm or elsewhere, for sale a
Chances factory, King street.
A young lady with knowledge of stem
ography, typewriting and bookkeeping
may learn Of position by addressing
"Bookkeeper, News Office.
Miss Vera Fenton. daughter of sher
man Fenton, of Broad street, is patient
at the Burlington County Hospital, where
she was operated on for appendicitis or
Sunday
A beautiful crane. standing about five
feet high. which remained about the va
rious coves on the upper creek on Thurs.
day, was an object of interest to parties
boating up that stream.
!. If Miss Lavinia Watkinson lives until
August %, she will be 90 years old. Her
CONDITION is critical however She ia
suffering with a fractured hip and gan
creme has appeared In both her feet.
If you have friend visiting you, call
up THE News (either 'phone) and tell us
about it. If you have no phone. let us
know by letter or otherwise. Ifyou know
of any other kind of item please do the
same,
Daniel Suffer, of Garden street, cele-
brated his twenty-frst birthday on Sat-
urday. He was rendered a stag dinner
by his mother In honor of the event. A
number of young men greatly enjoyed
the occasion.
Rev. George T. Harris, of Mount Holly,
and Rev. A. D. Ward will be the speak
ers at the annual harvest home of the
Methodist church at Vincentown, to be
held in the camp woods ON Thursday,
August 10.
Falling q distance of 2S feet from
q water tank on which he was working
near Evesboro, on Tuesday, Harry C.
Allen. contractor and builder, of Med
ford, was badly bruised and Jared and
had an ankle injured.
Disseminating their headquarters at
New Lisbon, the Farmers Telephone Com
pany of New Jersey has purchased from
George L. Shinn, of New Egypt. large
building on Railroad avenue, which 1t
purposes to convert into central tele-
phone station, with private offices for the
headquarters of the company.
The 1S-foot gasoline motor boat Fan
Fan, owned by Abel r. Taylor and George
Kunzi, of Bordentown. while being pre-
pared to leave Blacks creek to go out on
the Delaware river Tuesday afternoon
took fire from leak in the gasoline pipe.
partly damaging the boat. 1t had to be
tipped to receive water to keep 1t from
being burned.
William G. Binney, of Burlington, died
Tuesday morning. following a brief ILL
ness. He was an author on natural
history subjects, was vice president of the
Burlington Library Association and
member of the Society of the Mayfower
and the Society of Colonial Wars. He is
survived by two daughters. Mrs. Frank
Earl, of Burlington, and the Princess de
Camporeali, Of Rome.
Word was received at Bordentown, on
Tuesday, that William Mitchell, son of
Rev. William Mitchell, D. D., pastor of
Trinity M. E. church, who was employed
as clerk In the foundry of the General
Electric Company, at Pittsfeld, Mass,
was caught in the fall of heavy weight,
which broke one of his legs and injured
him internally. 1t is feared he is fatally
hurt. Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell left for
Pittsfeld at once.
Learning that gambling game was in
progress near Centreton. on Sunday, De-
tective Parker laid plans to raid the crap
shooters The scouts which they had
watching. however, noticed the approach
of the officers and gave an alarm. Hastily
gathering up their stake money and dice,
the players started on a run for cover,
some of them being surprised that they
could go so fast. Those who were engaged
In thus breaking of the law managed to
get away without being recognized.
A dog belonging to Walter Denning, of
Bridgeboro, frustrated the plans of rob-
bers one night last week. The barking of
the animal awoke Mrs. Denning, who
heard a carriage stop in front of the
house. One man slipped quietly out and
she heard him remark; This is the
house." Mrs. Denning awoke her hus-
band, and with a revolver he stood on
guard, expecting to furnish business for
the coroner. The dog successfully de-
Tended his masters home and drove the
visitors away before they could begin
operations.
The pleasures of camp life among the
soldiers at Sea Girt, last week, were some
what marred In the case of Charles
Beakeley, of Mount Holly, a member of
Company E, who landed ON his back and
strained himself while turning hand
spring A young man belonging to one
of the companies of the Third Battalion,
while making human pyramid. fell to
the ground and broke his neck. Ezra
Budd Stevenson, Company G, of Beverly,
while wrestling with Gus Higgins, was
thrown to the ground with considerable
force. In falling he struck tent peg and
had two ribs fractured.
A war is on between the Farmers Tele-
phone Company, with headquarters at
Browns Mills, and the Interstate Tele-
phone Co., the latter attempting to stop
work of the former in its efforts to ex-
tend its service to Columbus. Having Sc
cured permission to erect its poles on
road running through Mansfield town
ship. a representative of the Bell people
became active and got next to some of
the property owners, with the result that
poles which had been planted were either
dug up or cut down, and in some cases
permission given to set poles was with
drawn. The Farmers Company, 1t is said,
has the situation we'll In hand.
Tanned by their exposure at the sea
shore, the members of Company E. ma
tionsl guards, returned to Mount Holly,
on Saturday, after enjoying camp life at
Sea Girt for q week. From their ruddy
appearance indications pointed to the fact
that the health of the men had been ben
Gifted by the outing as most of then took
on additional flesh. Notwithstanding the
rigid military discipline to which the SOL
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