The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-05-28
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, MAY %. 1912
LOCAL NEWS.

Visit your home store-Boyce's. .
William Fowler. of Msrlton, picked rir
tomatoes from his garden last week.
Harry Hawkins. Jr., has taken posses
sion of his new home on Ridgway street.
Business will be generally suspended !
Mount Holly on Memorial Day after !
o'clock.
Israel Roberts, of Moorestown. has bee
elected president of the National Stat
Bank In Camden.
A delegation of Mount Holly Tai
Cedsrs paid visit to New Egypt Fores
on Tuesday last.
There are 269 graves of deceased soldier
of the civil war to be decorated In Noun
Holly on Thursday.
Workmen are preparing to sod the GROUND
on the south side of the track In front O.
the railroad station.
Henry Rosenfeld has been awarded thu
contract to furnish the club house of tn,
Stone Harbor Yacht Club.
Mrs. Stanton, of Jobstown, having re
moved to Mount Holly, Is now occupying
her new home on Pine street.
Clarence Fl. Polhemus. of Mount Holly,
has been elected treasurer of the New
Jersey Sons Of the Revolution.
Miss Anna Ross, of Lumberton, suffer
ing with pneumonia, was removed to the
Burlington County Hospital last week.
Following his attack of acute indiges
ton last week, 1. 81. Lippincott, of Gar
den street, is now Ill with gastric fever.
The work of improving five streets In
Mount Holly started last week, the first
operations beginning on Madison avenue.
The moving picture show to be given in
the opera house tonight will be for the
benefit of the high school paper. "The
Acorn"
While tearing down shanty at Roeb-
ling, on Wednesday, Charles Miller had
two rusty nails to enter the palm of bis
right hand.
The unclaimed letters remaining In the
post Office are for L. Demond & Sons and
Miss Kitty F. O'Brien, and a postal for
Mrs. May Hiltz.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company is
about ready to begin the erection Of a
concrete bridge over the Rancocas creek
at Lumberton.
Charles Fl. Crammer. of the Smithville
road, made his first strawberry trip to
Mount Holly last week, bringing In
some nice fresh berries.
James B. Bowler. formerly of Mount
Holly, has opened the Tivoli theatre on
the boardwalk at Wildwood, which he
has leased for the season.
Some service pipes have been installed
and attention given to other pipes and the
gas main on Garden street, as that tho.
roughfare IL to be macadamized.
On Monday night last Thomas Brown
returned to his home In Burlington after
completing three months jail sentence.
He was convicted for the illegal sale of
liquor.
Armour W. C. T. u will hold business
meeting at the home of Fred Tracy, 10
Mill street, this evening, at Z As. Subject
"Anti Narcotics" All members are re-
quested to be present.
Eighty Hungarians at Roebling and
Florence haye organized q sick and death
benefit society with Julius Klsh as one of
the prime movers. Articles of incorpors-
tion are to be filed in the county clerks
Office.
Incident to Memorial Day members of
Gen. A. e. Shiras Post, No. 26, G. A. r..
Sons of Veterans and Washington Camp,
No. 90, P. o. g. of A., listened to an
appropriate sermon In the Baptist church
on Sunday evening.
Misfortune came to Harry III. Ireland,
living near Cream Ridge. when he climbed
an apple tree In order to kill some cater
pillars. In falling to the ground his head
came In contract with large limb. One
ear was nearly torn off and his nose frac-
tured
After filling the tank of an automobile
with gasoline, Uriah Bowker, chauffeur
for NJ Warner Hargrove. Of Browns
Mills, wiped off his trousers with rag.
Later on he lit his pipe, from which ope-
ration his clothing took fire. One of bis
legs was severely burned.
The cars of the Burlington County
Transit Company have been painted by
Stephen Dunn, of Moorestown. The COM
pany proposes to make some extensive
improvements to Its track running through
Mount holly, and will install more feed
wire to get additional power at the Bur-
lington end.
Base ball Is at such low ebb in Mount
Holly that Messrs. Worrell, Wetherill and
Cowperthwait have abandoned the idea
of taking charge of club which was to
have been composed of local players ex-
cept the battery. 1t lie likely, however,
that team of home players will repre-
sent the town.
The ordinance concerning the sale and
discharge of fireworks on July 4 will be
enforced in Mount Holly this year, giving
the community another safe and SANE
celebration of the day. The center Of
interest on that occasion will probably b
the upper creek, where the usual regstts
and carnival will be held.
There has been an appeal to the Com
mon Pleas Court of the corn stalk case be
tween Mrs. Richard e. Lippincott an(
Mrs. George 8. Knight, of Southampton
township, which has attracted consider
able attention. A decision of NO cause o
action was rendered when the matter wa
tried In Mount Holly before Justice Ben
nett Risdon.
David Meeks, of Mount Holly, Will
driving to Burlington about two o'clocl
on Tuesday morning to purchase SOM
shad, was run into by Charles NJ. Ian
ming, whose automobile struck the wsgol
and broke it considerably. Meeks wa
thrown out, bruised and had an arm pain
fully injured. The automobile was ais
damaged. Mr.. tanning agreed to pa
for all loss which Meeks sustained.
An exciting experience in the career o
Floyd Lewis, aged 10 years. came Thurs
dsy morning about : so O'Clock as he wa
returning home from Mount Holly, whe
he was made the victim of a hold-uI