The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-07-06

Miss Lillian wall, OF Fnliauelpnla, l
visi ting Mrs. Harry W. Phares, on Pin
street.
DIR. J. Hume Carter has bought thu
store and house property, on High street
belonging to the estate ofHezekiah Evan
Blanchard H. White, of Pemberton
announces his candidacy for the Assembly
subject to the rules of the Republican
party.
Lost, pair of nose glasses in front O.
Bidwell's shoe store or thereabout. Liberia
reward to finder If returned to "a Mali
street.
Frank Scholfield, former resident O.
Mount Holly, was buried in St. Andrew
burying ground, on Saturday. He died IL
Philadelphia, on Thursday.
BENJAMIN s. Shreve, veteran of thu
civil war, member of Gen. A. E. Shiral
Post, died at the Nippins house on Mil
street this morning. He was SO years Of
age.
The scholars of the Mount Holly First
day school held their annual picnic on the
lawn adjoining the Friends meeting
house, corner of High and Garden streets
on Wednesday.
Miss Claudine Mann, recent graduate
of the Mount Holly High School, hal
been engaged by the Medford Board Of
Education to teach in the school at Kirby
during the coming term.
Struck by a train of cars at Riverside
Saturday night, Charles Patton, OF Phila
delphia, sustained fracture of the collar
bone and body bruises. He was taken tC
Cooper Hospital. Camden.
Razors took the place of fireworks In
celebrating Independence day at Roose
welt Park last night. About 10 O'Clock
one colored man returned to Mount Holly
on a trolley car pretty well cut up.
At Delanco, on Tuesday, while remov
ing a cake of ice from wagon, the
tongs slipped and one of the sharp points
entered the stomach of William Reeves
to considerable depth. The intestines
were not punctured.
For committing an atrocious assault and
battery on his wife, on Sunday, George
Poole, of Water street, was committed to
jail in default of $500 bail. The woman's
face presented shocking appearance
when she appeared at the office Of Justice
Risdon.
The unclaimed letters that remain in
the post Office for the week ending, July
8, are: W. A. Engard, Mrs. Mary Doyle,
Henry Gilbert. William King, John Jones,
George Ransom, w. F. Volker, Mrs. JOS
iah Atkinson, postal, Mrs. W. F. Robin
son, postal.
The young Friends Association held
its monthly meeting at the home of Caleb
Dudley, at Medford, on Wednesday even
ing. A large number were present and
the exercises were interesting. The day
and date of the next meeting will be an
nounced later.
At the home of the bride ON Grant
street Saturday afternoon, occurred the
marriage of Miss Ada A. johnson and
Edward G. Carson. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Richard 81. Baker. In
the evening the bride and groom were
serenaded by party of friends. i.
Percy Bintliff, aged 10 years, living at
Beverly, dropped piece of lighted punk
into a can of gunpowder yesterday. The
explosion threw him a considerable dis
lance, rendered him unconscious, set fire
to his clothes, and so badly injured his
eyes that he will probably lose his sight.
The will of Frank W. Thompson, de-
ceased, of Mount Holly, has been admit
ted to probate The sum of $40 is left to
his son, Charles H. Thompson, and all
the residue of the estate goes to the
widow, who is appointed sole executrix.
The personal property is valued at 3d.
600.
Ferdinand, son of Wellington Bozarth,
of RidgwaY street, aged about 10 years,
employed the usual method yesterday to
find out why large cannon cracker did
not go off. The explosion that followed
filed his face and eyes with powder,
causing severe burns. His eyesight was
not injured.
A new schedule for the steamboats, be-
tween Burlington and Philadelphia went
into effect on Saturday, and 1t will be
found on the first page. The last boat
from the city leaves Chestnut street wharf
at O'Clock, p NJ. On Saturday even
ings boat leaves Burlington for Phila-
delphia at $50.
Hallucinations which led her to be-
lieve that people were trying to waylay
her and do her bodily harm, was the con-
dition of mind which Rachel Anderson,
colored, of Burlington, had been labor
ing under, and on Thursday it became
necessary to take her to the county asy-
lum at New Lisbon.
Presenting every evidence of being a
hold-up victim, George Maldvern, col
lector for a Camden bother, is nursing
his wounds in the county Jail because his
employer, Morris Polivnick, suspects
that he deliberately faxed" hold-up
and made off with the money himself.
His clothes torn and blood-stained, Maid
vern stumbled into the police station at
Bordentown on Wednesday and told of
having been beaten and robbed of $112.5O
at trolley station near Roeblings.
The fire department had a run early
last evening to the residence of Frank l..
Garbarino on Broad street. In the yard
close to the house had been placed table
filled with fireworks, but they were set off
ahead of schedule time. A spark drop
ping on the table caused the pyrotechnics
to 90 of all at once. The racket attracted
many people and for time the house was
threatened. When the firemen arrived
several hundred people were present, but
there was nothing doing, as the fire was
extinguished with garden hose. The
grape arbor only was damaged.
The Postoff1ce Department at Washing
ton, is preparing to issue new post card.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has called
in the expert chemists of the Department
of Agriculture and has instructed them to
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