The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-06-18
LOCAL NEWS.

The Methodist church at Indian MIL
will hold Its annual harvest home on Aul
ust 20.
A carload Of peas, recently shipped b
a Beverly farmer, sold in New York cit
for g. 800.
About fifty carloads of strawberri'
have been shipped this season from tn
West Moorestown station.
A sermon was preached in the Bsptil
church On Sunday morning by hel
Arthur d. Hilton. of Moorestown.
Ten candidates were confirmed ON Tuei
day night when Bishop scarborough mao
hts annual visit to St. Andrews parish.
Earl Dunphey, working on the farm o
Mrs. Maggie Oft. near Marion, In on
day last week picked $50 boxes of straw
berries.
The next meeting of Armour Union vii
be held at the home Of Miss Cora Stokes
Broad street, on Tuesday evening, Jun
%, at 7.45.
Mason work on bungalow along tn
creek near New Lisbon, engaged the at
tention of Charles NJ. Gale, Of Noun
Holly, last week.
Willitt D. Shinn, living near Haines
port, who drives an Ice wagon In Noun
Holly for his father, Isaac Shinn, Is II
with typhoid fever.
There were frosts last week tina
damaged the upland huckleberries. TIL
swamp berries escaped, and of these, 1t i
said, there will be large crop.
The Sunday excursion trains to the sea
shore will begin their trips from Noun
Holly on June %. This service will con
tinue throughout the summer.
A large crowd enjoyed the programme
that was presented at the children's day
exercises, held by the Grange In its hal
at Rancocss ON Saturday afternoon.
In order to secure higher education
Charles q. Folwell, Jr., one Of this years
graduates of the Mount Holly High School
will enter Princeton University In the fall
A freight car partly filed with rags,
standing on siding at the Beverly rope
works Friday night, was set on fire by
tramps who were using 1t for sleeping
berth.
Thomas ]. Barrett. of Bordentown, has
been awarded contract by the Burling-
ton County Transit Company for relaying
tracks and repaving streets along theil
route through Mount Holly.
A count was made of the number OF
automobiles and wagons that passed a
certain point on Pine street last Sunday
from 7.S0 a. m. to 7.30 p. m. There were
100 automobiles and 1874 wagons.
The potato crop promises to be unus.
ually large this year. and it is said they
will be ready two weeks earlier than last
season. Manager Fraser says that the
Farmers Exchange expects to make ship
ments of new potatoes about July l.
Miss Leons Woodington, of Bridgeboro,
while visiting her parents in Trenton, was
taken with so much pain that she was re-
moved to Mckinley hospital and operated
on. 1t was first thought that her trouble
was appendicitis. but 1t proved to be an
abscess ON the intestines.
A pleasant event occurred on Tuesday
evening at the home of Mrs. Gottlieb
Everline, on Green street. when her son,
Earl L Eyerline, was married TO Miss
Mabel NJ. Hippsrd, of Paulsboro. The
ceremony was performed at six O'Clock
by Rev. James Stoddsrd, rector of st.
Andrews church. In the presence of few
friends and relatives. The groom is su-
perintendent of the works Of the Mount
Holly Water Company.
Some of the stone roads In this county
are to be treated with oil in order to lay
the dust Joseph L. Hilton. county road
supervisor, who is engineering the matter,
announces that oil In carload lots will be
shipped to Moorestown, Riverside and
Mount Holly. which will be the distribut-
Ing points for nearby roads which are to
receive attention. The Standard OIL Com
psny will apply the oil with an automatic
sprinkler. Operations will soon begin.
As the first train out from Burlington,
on Tuesday morning. was nearing Grant
street. engineer William G. Morgan saw
John Ellison, q drunken man, walking
close to the railroad track. Fearing that
9 fatal accident might happen, the train
was stopped and Charles Mincer and other
members of the crew gave the foolish
man toboggan slide down the embark
ment to get him out of the way. Mrs.
Job Collins telephoned for policeman
Severns, who took Ellison to jail.
James Stone. of Medford. employed at
the Star Glass works. is confined In the
county jail for an attack which he made
on Wilmer Watson, whom he suspected of
having interfered with his domestic hap
piness. In bis search for revenge he Sc
cured large butcher knife, but was I'M
able to use it on Watson because the lat
ter was too feet of foot. The assault &C.
CURED In the glass factory, where Stone
was captured and disarmed. but not be-
fore he had badly cut his own hand and
inflicted similar injury ON Edward Willis.
William j.. son of William g. Morgan,
of Bispham street, an ordained Baptist
minister, graduated at Crozier Theologi-
cal Seminary this month. which carried
with 1t the degree of Bachelor of Divin.
ity. The young mao is now seeking the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. For this
purpose he will continue his studies dur
ing the summer In the graduate depart
ment of the University of Pennsylvania,
and In the fall will enter Columbia Uni
versity and the Union Theological Semi
nary In New York city.
John Dolan, the boss male clerk EN-
ployed at Wetherill's dry goods store, has
been wearing a look of determination
since learning of the arrival of the hand
some automobiles to be given away ir
connection with the prize contest con
Quoted by the Burlington Enterprise
This fact has spurred the young contestant
to work as though he was starting anew
notwithstanding be is high man 10 tbs
third district of the contest, which includes
Mount Holly. John feels grateful tor thu
assistance which he is receiving from bill
friends With a continuation of this sup
port aud renewed personal zeal, John ex