The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28


DR.. R. Il. Parsons has bought new
Ford automobile.
Lost on Sunday afternoon, hat pin.
Reward If returned to TEE News Office.
spalding's base ball supplies for 1911
now await you here. L. s. Boyce. sport
ing goods.
Benjamin Deacon's new Pierce Arrow
automobile was brought to Mount Holly
on Saturday.
The Sunday school of the Baptist church
is preparing an interesting exercise for
Palm Sunday evening. entitled Growing
Jesus King"
The services of the Epworth League at
the M. E. church next Sunday evening,
will be led by Norman W. Harker, whose
subject will be "Our talent of health"
AS fishing has begun In the Delaware
river, early morning shad solos will soon
be heard from men who have voices that
are well adapted to that sort of business
After having been inspected and re-
painted. the ferryboat William E. Doron,
plying between Burlington and Bristol,
has again been placed In commission, and
regular trips are being made.
! At the Methodist church ON Friday
evening, March 81, at 745 o'clock, talk
will be given by Norman W. Harker, on
Westminster Abbey and the English
Cathedrals. Special music. All well
come. Admission free
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the post Office for the week ending
March 25: M. ]. Brennan, Mr.. Jackson,
Mrs. j. o. Holt, Harry thomas, Mary j.
Thomas, Chas. Pengore, Miss Mary Payne,
VIM. Owens, Chas. Fetter.
William Hubbard, of Moorestown, is
suffering from fractured arm and two
broken bones in his hand. He was en-
ployed in Camden, and the injury was re-
celved in an accident Thursday afternoon
while working on the battleship Arkan-
sas.
The annual meeting of the local Y. M.
c. A. will be held Thursday evening for
the election of directors and other bushes.
An interesting program has been prepared.
All members are requested to be present.
Meeting will be in the gymnasium, on
Mount Holly Avenue.
William Gunther, of Riverside, who
was accidentally shot in ambush several |
weeks ago, has had the bullet located by
an K ray examination made at st. Agnus'
Hospital. Philadelphia The surgeons
have decided not to extract the bullet I'M
less under absolute necessity.
Furnishing the seed at actual cost and |
offering to pay 81 so per ton for the fruit,
the McMechen Preserving Company, of |
Wheeling, West Virginia, have agreed to
erect canning factory at New Egypt. if |
the farmers in that section will grow
tomatoes on an extensive scale.
| Carleton Haines, of Tabernacle, came to |
Mount Holly, on Saturday, for the first
time in several weeks. Carleton and four |
children have had the measles. Mrs |
Haines was sick for two weeks. and last
Wednesday, dog bit Mr.. Haines'
daughter, three years old. on the cheek.
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With facilities that assure the prompt |
unloading of wagons, and having added |
an extension to their already large plant |
ON King street, the firm of R. @. Chances |
Sons are now urging farmers to grow to-
matoes for them. 1t is quite likely that |
there will be an extensive response to this |
invitation.
A man secured at an employment agency |
at Trenton, Wednesday, by George Emery, |
farmer residing at Chesterfield, and taken |
to the farm to work for him, got up late |
the same night and stole $208 in cash and |
checks and made good his escape. The
checks were on the Bordentown and New |
Egypt banks.
Howard Eldridge. manager of the |
liquor business conducted by his faith
er-in-law, George L. Garwood, on Mil |
street, has removed his family here from
Burlington. Mr.. Garwood, of the latter
city, having given up the Exchange hotel
there. is also removing his family to
Mount Holly.
The ten men required to fill the full
complement of the organization, will be in
line to enjoy the annual camp of a week
at Sea Girt, next summer. If they enlist as
members of Company E before the ex-
piration of the present month. Captain
Long wants his company to number sixty
men by the S1st inst.
Mrs. Jeanette Martin, of Mount Holly,
has been notified by the Court of Chaucery
that Chancellor Pitney has granted her
divorce. Mrs. Martin charged her hus-
band, Thomas Martin, with statutory
offense. The Martins were married by
the Rev. DR.. Eckersley, of Columbus
The petitioners maiden name was Miss
Jeanette Gillespie.
The boys of the newly organized Y. M.
G. A., of Bridgeboro, are preparing to
give mock trial, when two of their num-
Der will be charged with stealing chickens
To show the guilt or innocence of the
prisoners will be a matter of contest be
tween Raymond Wells. as prosecutor, and
Louis Anderson, who will be the lawyer
for the defendants.
A wind and rain storm visited this Sec
ton between six and seven o'clock last
evening and considerable damage was
done. Burlington aud neighborhood re-
ceived the worst effects of the wind.
Eleven houses in that city were unroofed,
and several building on Burlington island
were blown over. Trees were uprooted,
telephone and other wires were blown
down and many fences in the country dis
trict were leveled to the ground.
The law requiring lights on all vehicles
at night ought to need no constable but
common sense to enforce it. We recon-
mend to those careless persons who drive
around at night with dark vehicles to beg
| or borrow ride In some careful friends |
auto at night. He will be convinced of |
the sense of the law at once. Do the best
you can, an auto is apt to have some mar
row shaves. The kerosene burned in the
buggy lamp can be charged up to life
insurance.
At Florence, on Thursday, officers Nc
Cune. Lynch and Higgins, armed with |
warrants, made a descent on the house |
owned by Caroline Richmond, and arrested |
the inmates, Caroline Richmond, Mary |
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