The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-12-03

The Epworth League service next Sun
day evening In the Methodist church will
be led by Miss Clara Maulsbury.
Armour Union will hold g meeting at
the home of the Misses Margaret and Amy
Eeeler, Garden street, next Tuesday
evening.
A marriage of much social interest at
Riverside on Friday, was that of Miss
Emma L. Wilkinson and John s. Roberts.
Jr., of Camden
Percy Eckman, aged IS years, employed
as brakeman on shifting engine at the
Roebling works, at Roebling. had his
right hand mashed and his arm broken by
having 1t caught by coupling cars at the
plant, on Wednesday.
The Friends Flrst-day schools of the
Burlington quarterly meeting, will hold
a gathering at the meeting house. corner
of High and Garden streets. Mount Hol-
ly, on Saturday, December IA. There will
be morning and afternoon session.
George Maxwell, formerly of Medford,
who has been receiving treatment at
Cooper hospital, Camden, will leave for
his home In Pennsylvania this week. He
made desperate attempt to commit sui
eide by cutting his throat with razor.
Mount Holly Forest. No. 8. Tall Cedars
of Lebanon, will elect officers at meet
ing to be held at the Masonic Temple on
Tuesday evening, December 10th. In
addition to the planting of some sap
plings, there will be profusion of eats
and smokes.
Among the two hundred convicts who
will seek parole at a meeting of the Board
of Pardons to be held this month, will be
Francis Lingo. who has served Is years of
q 2O-year sentence on charge of abduc-
ton. He is considered model prisoner.
Unclaimed letters remain in the post
Office for the week ending November 3d.
Samuel Crump. Samuel Gauntt, Master
Irwin Hepperd. L. T. Johnson. T. B.
Moran, G. T. Taylor, Mrs. Waterfeld;
postals, John Estadt, Thomas Fleming,
Stanford Haines.
At a meeting of the America Hose Com
pany. last night, George W. A. French,
8. Earl Assay and Eugene L. Haines were
elected delegates to the Firemen's Relief
Association. Relief Company elected
Richard Brown. George Linton, and M. L.
Throckmorton.
On Tuesday afternoon a mad dog
entered the farm of Charles Stiles, on the
South Pemberton road, near Smithville.
After biting dog there the rabid animal
escaped and passed down the road. Word
was telephoned to Mount Holly and some
Pine street residents got out their guns,
but the dog did not make its appearance,
and there was nothing doing. Several
farmers on the outskirts were notified to
be on the lookout.
Detective Parker received word last
week that the fellow who secured money
from Mount Holly merchants by means of
forged certified checks, had been picked
up at West Chester, Pa. This fellow has
q new name for every day in the year and
his record of crimes similar to that for
which he was arrested will fill many
pages of the records. After the man did
bis trick here Detective Parker had circu-
lars printed and sent them all over the
The swindler had varied pro-
gram of travel and made long jumps, He
had worked In the neighborhood of West
Chester, but had never been in the city,
When he did try his game there the mer-
chants were awake and notified the police
who grabbed the man He will be held to
answer his attempt at swindlfng In West
Chester and then he will begin march
over different sections of the country that
are awaiting to receive him.