The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-05-14
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at Hartford station, was destroyed by fr'
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. John Straube, of Mount Holly.
was buried this morning In the Baptist
cemetery at Pemberton.
Miss Edna Willitts, of Smithville, has
been given position as stenographer al
the Farmers Trust Company In Mount
Holly.
On Tuesday, the Burlington City Loan
and Trust Company was appointed re-
ceiver for the Risdon-Alcott Turbine
Company, of Mount Holly.
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Eckman will give an
organ recital at the Baptist church on
Thursday evening, May 16. She will be
assisted by Miss Mary R. Hewitt. violinist.
At meeting of the township committee
on Wednesday night, contract to i'm
prove five streets In Mount Holly was
awarded to Field, Barker & Underwood,
Of Philadelphia, on their bid of $40, S72 90.
Mrs Bernadetta Fenton Assay, of Mount
Holly, is Ill with scarlet fever at Toronto.
Canada Her husband, Pariel Assay, is
temporarily located there In the interest
of the Neidich Process Company, of Bur-
lington.
Joseph Grooms, flagman at the Wash
ington street railroad crossing, while sit
ting on the porch at his home on King
street, Sunday, became i'll from vertigo.
He was attacked as he arose from chair
and fell to the sidewalk.
Unable to give bond for the support
of his family, Andrew Dennis, of Mount
Holly, was committed to jail. He was
arrested up In the pines, on Saturday, by
Constables Gaskiil and Gilberton war
rant charging him with desertion.
There will be 10000 more graves of
deceased soldiers to decorate on Memorial
Day than eyer before, that number having
died during the past year. The ranks of
the aged grand army men are fast becom-
ing decimated, and it will not be long
when the work of continuance will fall on
the Sons of Veterans,
The sixteenth annual convention of the
Knights of Columbus of New Jersey Is
being held In the court house, Mount
Holly. The principal speaker on the pro-
gramme is Hon. James H. Flaherty, of
Philadelphia. Five delegates will be elect
ed to the supreme national convention to
be held in Colorado in August
Mrs. Hannah A. Phares, of Bispham
street, died at DR.. Prices hospital, Phila
delphia, yesterday evening, following an
operation performed on Sunday for the
relief of an internal trouble. Mrs. Phares
became i'll on Thursday, and was taken to
Philadelphia in an automobile. She leaves
two children, Harry W. Phares, of the
Union bank, and Miss Ethel Phares, who
has charge of the local Public Service
Office.
As DIR. Darlington was driving along
the Jacksonville road Friday afternoon he
noticed a lady leaning against fence.
blood running down her face. Stopping
to ascertain If he could be of any assistance
the doctor found the lady to be Mrs. Har-
den. A slamming door had caused a
piece of crockery to fall and 1t struck Mrs.
Harden on the head, infiicting a nasty
wound which DR.. Darlington soon dressed.
George W. Southwick, residence I'M
known, has been made prisoner inthe
county jail through the efforts of Detec-
tive Parker. When notified that the resi-
dence of Joseph T. Evans, of Palmyra,
had been robbed, Parker suspected South
wick, and knowing that he was at Nor
risville, Pa, requested Detective Edward
Mason of that place to make the arrest.
The man made confession to Parker and |
the latter recovered some of the booty. |
So uthwick is wanted at Vineland for
burglary.
The wife of Lawrence G. Mingin, De- |
putty County CLERK, living on Ridgway |
street, is recovering from an operation |
performed at the Howard Hospital, for
trouble Of long standing, which required |
four incisions to reach. She gave the sur
geons a surprise when they found an ap- |
pendix six inches long, the largest they |
had ever seen. 1t was removed because |
Of trouble which 1t developed about
year ago After visiting her mother at
Medford for some time, Mrs Mingin de-
cided to go to Philadelphia to seek the re-
lief which was necessary in her case.
When a crash of thunder drowned the
sound of train whistle, William ]. Col
Inns, of Camden, line foreman of the Penn
,ylvania Railroad, was instantly killed as
be started across the tracks In front of an
express train near Roebling, Thursday
evening. Struck by the pilot, Collins was
tossed against fence post with such force
hat his skull was shattered and he was
lead when the train crew reach him.
Collins had been inspecting signal wires
Roebling and Kinkora. Several
showers had interfered with his work and
ne had been hurrying to complete the job
before another threatening storm broke.
The accident occurred as he ran across the
racks toward shelter. e was a resident
If Camden, where wife and two small
children live.