The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-05-07
LOCAL NEWS.
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Visit your home store-Boyce's.
The Epworth League service next Sun
day evening, at 6.45, will be led by F. Il
Jacket
Miss Dorothy Williams, Of Atlanta
City. lie spending the week with relative
In Mount Holly.
A special meeting of the Ankokas Cano'
club will be held In the Kelsey & Killi'
building tomorrow night.
County engineer James Logan has pur
chased Mitchell automobile. The sale
was made by George F. Ried.
Jesse Wells has thought two houses on
Church street from Wilbur II. FISHER. The
sale was made by A. A. Anderson.
The official season for wearing straw
hats entered on Saturday, when few
of them made their appearance in Mount
Holly.
A second attack Of appendicitis has
afflicted Miss Anna Gauntt. of Masonville,
who ID employed In the county hospital at
New Lisbon.
G. Henry Warner and family desire
to express their thanks to all those who
assisted in any way during their recent
bereavement.
An interesting program has been pre-
pared for the spring institute of the Bur-
Hngton county Women's. Christian Tenn
perance Union to be held at Medford to-
morrow.
Game warden Charles G. Morton made q
visit to Florence, last week. and called on
q number of milliners to see If they were
complying with the law concerning the
use of plumage on head gear.
An illustrated lecture under the auspices
of the Epworth League by Norman W.
Harker, entitled Japan, will be given in
the Methodist church on Thursday even
Ing. Admission ten cents.
Weather report for the month of April
as submitted by G. II. Estill: Clear days,
s; clear and cloudy. 5; rainy days, 9; high
wind, clear and cloudy, 8; frost, /; rain,
with lightning and thunder, 4.
Harley G. Brown, after a long illness
died at his home on Bispham street, on
Sunday, at the age of So years. The re-
mains will be inferred In the Mount Holly
Cemetery tomorrow afternoon.
An organ recital is being planned to be
given in the Baptist church by the organ
list. Miss Elizabeth B. Eckman, assisted
by Miss Mary R. Hewitt, violinist, on
Thursday evening. May IS. at O'Clock.
DR.. 81. Benton Young. of Mount Holly,
who will take an automobile trip to Cali
fornia and return, says he will make the
start from Trenton on Monday, June 8.
He may be accompanied by William B.
Kumpf.
Samuel Greenwald, aged SO years. who
died Friday after long illness, will be
buried from his late residence Oh Garden
street this afternoon. Services will be
held at the Lutheran church, near Haines-
port. where the interment will be made.
In the Mount Holly Cemetery, ON Fri
day. was inferred the remains of Louise,
one of the twin children of Mr.. and Mrs
William Sherman, corner of Ridgwsy and
Buttonwood streets Deceased was about
nine months old.
Late on Saturday night a fox terrier dog
got into the hen roost of NJ E. Matlack
and killed 20 young and 5 old chickens,
besides destroying lot of Matching eggs. |
From there the canine went to Frank |
Pratt's. on Water street, and killed Q old |
chickens.
The deal contaminated last week In
which Frank Mullen purchased the en-
closed hack belonging to Samuel Matthias
and started in business for himself, was
reversed two days later. when Matthias
bought the hack back again and Mullen
went with 1t.
A shot gun is kept on hand to shoot any
dog that might chance to disturb rabbit
and its young ones, quartered In the rear
of Archer's carriage factory on Washing
ton street. These cottontails are fed quite
regularly by the employees and have be-
come very tame.
Charles Hollis, of Moorestown. was an
interested spectator In court on Wednes-
day. He came to the county seat to hear
sentence passed on Clinton Barrett, who
shot Hollis three times but failed to kill
him. Hollis wore the clothes he had on
when shot, and the bullet holes were seen |
in his coat.
Word has been received that Mrs. |
Emma Folwell died on April 80 at her
home In Scranton, Kansas. Mrs. Folwell
was the oldest daughter of the late John |
and Mary Rue. lwho lived most of their
lives on the Reeves homestead, Wood lane,
near Mount Holly. She leaves three
children to mourn her loss
Isaac 81. Wainwright, after serving the |
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as super
visor in Mount Holly for 90 years, has
been transferred to the division engineers |
Office at Camden. Mr.. Wainwright has |
been succeeded by ]. e. Quicker, of Pitts
burg, Pa. The transfer took effect on
May /. L. E. Wilt, who was assistant
supervisor, will remain In that capacity, |
and there will be no change In the clerk,
James Fl. Anderson.
The Pennsylvania Railroad station at
Pensauken was robbed Saturday night for
the fourth time In as many months,
but the thieves got but 50 81, which the
station agent on duty at night had hidden
In the bottom of the clock. The thieves
had evidently seen him place the money
there before going home. Entrance to
the station was Effected by jimmying
open rear shutter and then panel was
cut out OF the door leading to the agents
room.
During quarrel on Washington street,
Saturday night, policeman Henry g. Hall
found two colored men scufiiug on the
ground The men are strangers. TIE
officer grabbed them both, when Diamond
Brown, residence unknown, broke away
and "beat it." True to his word, Harry
Norman, of West Chester, Pa, said he
would wait while Hall captured the fugi-
tive. and In doing this the officer had q
piece bitten off the end of one finger Oh
the left hand. When he returned Norman
was still waiting. Recorder Herbert gave
Brown 90 days and Norman 10 days in