The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-05-16
Mrs. B. Frank Deacon, of Union street,
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: is having her house painted.
J. T. Lacey Atkins lost valuable gra
8 horse, which died suddenly on Friday.
e A number of flowers have been place
on the balcony of the Washington Hous
8 Mrs. Emma Gaskill, of Union stree
e has been critically Ill during the past fe'
days.
e The Spring convention of the W. G. 7
! U. will be held at Bridgeboro next Tue
day, May %.
Boiled water for drinking purposes ha
been furnished to the scholars of tn
public schools.
A very novel window display, ADVERT,
, ing certain kind of pen, can be seen i
Boyce's stationery store.
/ Joseph Huff, of Mount Holly, state,
, yesterday that he was candidate for tn
Democratic nomination for Surrogate
Orders have been issued to the police t.
: arrest all persons who play base ball OF
Sunday on the lots at Andersonville.
Scholars and teachers will soon be abb
to enjoy their annual vacation, as few
} more weeks will terminate the schoo
term.
Rev. George T. Harris. of the Noun
Holly M. E. church, will exchange pulpit
with Rev. G. c. Reynolds, of Smithville
on Sunday.
While fishing with a net between tn,
King and Water street bridges one day
last week. some young men caught &
herring In one haul.
Charles Bakley and Merritt Lore, two
young men charged with breaking into
the store Of George Mitchendorf. at Ewes
boro, when given a hearing at Moores
town, said they did 1t for fun.
In the report of the Freeholders' meet
Ing, one item stated that bill for $3.50
for work done In Freebooter Ireland's
term, was presented for payment. The
amount of the bill was $3.50 and not $3.50.
The fact that Prosecutor Samuel A. At
kinson is to deliyer lecture in the Bap-
fist church, on Thursday evening, has
caused the postponement of the lecture to
be given by Norman W. Harker to Thurs
day evening, May %.
What member of the township COM
mittee has charge of the sidewalks: If he
would take walk on the south side of
Washington street just over the railroad
he would find condition that has existed
for long time and which ought to be
corrected.
On Friday night, Harvey Still, colored,
was brought to the county Jail by Con-
stable Beatty, of Moorestown. The de-
PENDANT is charged with beating his wife.
Still is one of the men who was cut badly
about the head, during razor-slashing
soiree that recently took place at the
home of Mrs johnson at Mt. Laurel.
Walter Gaskill. of Philadelphia, having
served sixty days In the Camden Jail for
larceny, was brought to the county jail by
Detective Parker yesterday, retainer
having been lodged against the prisoner.
Gaskill. who formerly resided in Mount
Holly, Is charged with breaking into the
residence of Amanda Barnes. of River
side.
Thomas Kennedy, an inmate at the
Soldiers Home at Kearny. is visiting In
Mount Holly, his former home. tom"
reports that the soldiers there like Gen. E.
Burd Grubb, the new superintendent, who
says the veterans at that institution
must have just as good food to eat as he
does. One of the first things the General
did was to make radical change in the
culinary department.
Robert M. Snyder has set out a row of
evergreen trees In front of his stables on
Washington street. Mr.. Snyder's improve
ments to the hotel and surrounding
grounds has added much to the appear
ance Of that part of the town. He has
done this at his own expense and it would
seem as If the township committee might
do little towards getting the sidewalks
and curbs in good shape.
The stockholders of the Camden and
Burlington County Railroad met on Sat- |
urday and elected the following directors:
Samuel Rea, Richard Ashhurst, Joseph |
FL. Gaski1l, John P. Hutchinson, d. S. |
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler, Henry |
Tatnall, John D. johnson, W. A. Patton,
Lewis Nelson, George Wood, W. H. |
Barnes, Edward H. Lewis, W. W. Attic |
bury, Eckard P. Budd Samuel Rea was
elected president
Mrs. William T. Harding, of Union |
street, who has tender spot for all dumb
animals, was taken completely by sur
prise last week. Among the members of
her feline family was white cat that had
q habit of sitting at the front window. A |
gentleman who took a fancy TO pussy be- |
came her owner through the kindness of |
Mrs. Harding, who was satisfied the cat
would have good home. But after liv-
Ing at Hainesport for nine months, pussy
came back last Thursday, entered the |
house, and assumed its accustomed place |
at the window before Mrs Harding knew
Of its return. Greetings would have been
mutual were the cat able to talk, but she |
was only able to purr her delight.
Arrested by Detective Ellis II. Parker.
on Sunday. Army Volmer, day fireman at
the power house of the Burlington County
Transit Company, was committed to the |
county jail and held for the grand jury at |
q hearing given last night before Justice |
Risdon. The young man was captured in |
Hainesport at the residence of Walter |
Hullings, where he boarded. The de- |
PENDANT is charged with an attempt to rob |
the safe in the ,company's Office, in which |
conductors on their last trip place their
receipts for the day. In order that they
might do this there is an opening In the |
top of the safe for the cash bags to pass
through The iron hood that covers this
slot was partly broken off. The crime
was committed about II o'clock Saturday
night. Previous to that time John Smith,
superintendent, drove Volmer away from
the premises on account of the latter be-
ing intoxicated. 1t appears that Volmer
secured an iron bar about three feet long
from tool house, and while he was trying
to batter open the safe, his actions were
seen by three employees of the company,
who looked through an Office window and
saw the man at work. These witnesses
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