The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-07-27

High school, has resigned to take a pc
sition In the Philadelphia schools.
Licenses are being taken out by gun
ners In order to be ready for the plover
season, which will open on August 1.
A property Of four acres on the road
/ from Moorestown to Centreton has been
sold by Elizabeth Taylor to George N.
Truesdale.
The Vincentown NJ. e. Church will
hold It's annual harvest home In the camp
woods, on the outskirts Of that place, on
August 10.
Edwin c. Davis, Assessor of Lumberton
township, was operated on for sppendi-
citis, in the Burlington County Hospital.
on Sunday.
The family of Mrs. DIR. Richard E.
Brown desire to thank all who rendered
them sympathy and assistance in their
recent bereavement.
A company has been organized to de-
velop large plot of ground near Orange.
Assistant Attorney General Nelson Burr
Gaskill is spoken of as the president of
the new corporation.
Washington Camp, No. II, P. o. 8. of
A., will hold union meeting on Thurs
day evening, July 30, on which occasion
the various Camps of the district will be
present. The state officers are also ex-
pected.
Sixteen thousand cabbage plants, 1t is
said, were dug up by some Italians on the
farm of Jesse Cramer, at Birmingham.
during his absence on business, because
they failed to understand the instructions
given them.
The following are the unclaimed letters
remaining in the post Office for the week
ending July "a: Mrs. VIM. Garner, Miss
Dora Jones, Miss Elizabeth Parsonage.
Mrs. Rosie DeJuan. and postals for Adam
Rothliem and Miss B. Deacon.
A fine hound dog belonging to Land
lord Braddock, of Medford. came home
with its tail cut of close to its body. No
one is able to account for the accident.
The animals appendage may have been
severed by moving machine.
The County Board of Taxation met on
Wednesday afternoon and took up several
questions presented by assessors for con-
sideration. Fred W. Taylor. Of Borden
town, and John B. Tilton. of Springfield,
will do the extra clerical work for the
Board this year.
Although he has not served two years
of fifteen year sentence for committing
an assault on white woman at Burling-
ton, Cornelius Booker. colored, of Mount
Holly, wants to get out Of state prison,
and with the hope of securing his liberty
he has applied for pardon.
One of the most enjoyable events of the
season will be the Lawn Social to be held
at William Walther's, at Hsinesport,
on Thursday evening. The affair is
in charge of the ladies of Lutheran church
and that guarantees that those who attend
will be repaid for their effort.
Henry Stewart, a demented negro, was
found completely disrobed near Burling
ton on Sunday. He was arrested and
committed to the county jail. 1t is likely
that he will be sent to the county insane
asylum, from which institution he was re-
Gently discharged
Walter Hester, of Jobstown, has had
hard luck with his sheep, thirty of which
have been killed or wounded by dogs
within two weeks, the last attack being
on Wednesday when II sheep were
wounded. This time a member of the
family got on the scene with a gun and
killed two dogs.
Company E. of Mount Holly. win join
the Third Regiment at Burlington next
Saturday and proceed to the state camp
at Sea Girt, where the soldier boys an
ticipate a week of pleasure. 1t will be
quite an attraction at Burlington on that
day, when eleven companies of the ma
tional guards will pass through that city.
Charles L. Taylor and Miss Lilliin Gil
bert, both of Burlington, were married in
Mount Holly on Saturday night. The
ceremony was performed at the Metho- |
dist parsonage by Rev. George T. Harris,
after which the happy couple were given
a reception at the home of the groom's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Howard Taylor,
on White street.
Death has again visited the home of ].
w. tanning. proprietor of the Audito-
rum at Burlington. His eldest son, VIM.
Staiger tanning, living at Newark, died
Saturday after suffering from appendicitis.
He leaves wife and three children. The
deceased was associated with his father
as the active member of the firm of ]. W.
tanning & Son, contractors.
In order to give additional protection
to his cranberry boys near HANOVER. JOS
eph ]. White, of New Lisbon, is having
the underbrush cleared away and making |
a fire line all around his boys 1t is be-
lieved that the adoption of this plan will
prevent further destruction of boys In
case fire should again sweep through that
section of the pine district.
New Egypt had two fires within twenty
four hours last week. Children playing |
with matches set FIRE to lace curtains at
the house on the Shady Grove farm on |
Tuesday. The flames were promptly ex-
tinguished by some of the men boarders.
At O'Clock on Wednesday morning Miss
Anna Carr discovered that the pool room
of John Reed was ON fire. The flames
were extinguished after damage to the
extent of $3.50 had been done.
The training given in the Mount Holly
High school has been quite advantageous
to the graduates. Two who entered col
lege were enabled to complete four-years'
course In three years. one year being al
lowed for the proficiency attained in GER
tain subjects. At one of the colleges the
student was told that, judging from the
standing of the latter, the training at the
Mount Holly school was high above that
of others which had sent students to that
college.
Knights of Columbus from all parts of
South Jersey to the number of fully 600
gathered at Riverside on Sunday to partic-
In