The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-09-23
New Advertisements.
LOCAL NEWS.

social at the home of Fred Tracey, Mil
street, tonight.
DIR. George w. VanDerveer, of GardeI
street, has had new side porch erected
to his residence there.
A clerkship at Aliens drug store il
now engaging the attention of Mauric'
Emerson, who was formerly at Prickitt'
pharmacy.
Mrs. Maria Burns, mother of Edward
F. Burns, died at the latter's summe
residence, near Morton, n. Y, on Sep
TENDER 18th
The sale of tickets for the grand stanC
for the Mount Holly Fair opens to-day
The tickets may be secured at the drug
store of Alex. DubelI.
A prayer meeting was held at the res
idence of Miss Ida Manners, on Mount
Holly avenue, Friday evening, by the
Baptist young people.
Lovers of flowers have been viewing
le beautiful night-blooming cereus on
the porch of Mrs. Frank Morton, ON Gar
den street, the past week.
William & Company are now in pos
session of the boot black stand, formerly
conducted at Crozier's cigar store by AL
bert j. Donnelly, the latter having sold
his business to the new firm.
State Detective F. C. Dalton, of Mount
Holly, was one of the officers to accom-
pany Governor Fielder from Camden to
Absecon on his special car on Saturday,
while enroute to the OK roast held on the
farm of Judge French.
The unclaimed mail remaining at the
post Office follows: Chas. S. Adams, Mrs
Alfred N. Andrews, Mrs. Lena Andrews,
F. Z. Colder, Daniel Oliver, Miss Blanche
Anderson, John Allen, Miss Elizabeth
Cline, Miss Florence Let's, Miss Mary
Morelock
When she left her home on Monday
September 18th, Miss Nettie Shemeiey,
of Pine street, it is said, did not confide
her intention to her parents, who later
in the day learned that she became the
wife of Charles Hangover, of Riverside,
where the happy couple are residing.
Joseph Michigan has had another
attack of paralysis and is reported to be
in dangerous condition again; John
Forbes, foreman of the Union Company
is also i'll, and under the head of dis
abled firemen, assistance was given
them last week by the Firemen's Relief
Association.
Richard Lambs horse, Kelly, con-
tinued his winning streak last week,
when he won $500 in the 81, 900 race, at
White Plains, n. Y. Kelly took the
last three heats, his time being 2.16t,
2.164, 2.17t. In the last heat Kelly's
driver pulled the horse and did not
let him go his full speed under the wire.
After having been compelled to stop
work for a, week suffering from blood
poisoning which developed from a wound
which he received by being hit with
shovel, just above the ankle of his right
leg, and in which it is thought piece
of soft coal found it's way causing the
trouble, Shreve Robbins. of Garden
street, employed by coal dealer Elwood
Stokes, on Water street, is able to resume
his duties again.
Some pretty plain talk was indulgedIin
at meeting of the township committee
held on Tuesday evening when COM
plant was made by two women against
dog owned by Frank Mullen which
was killing their chickens. A strenuous
repartee opened and an alleged scandal
was revealed after the defendant had
been sent for. Frank made it known
that he was willing for his dog to kill all
chickens coming on his property.
The w. c. I. U. held its annual meet
ing for the election of officers last Tues
day afternoon, and the result follows:
President, Mrs. Henry l. Budd; secre-
tary, Mrs. F. H. Jacket; corresponding
secretary, Miss Ollie Robinson; treasurer,
Mrs. w. p. Eddy. Very good reports
from superintendent. The flower mis-
Der of bouquets, jellies, preserves and
other delicacies tc the sick and needy
during the year.
Learning of his whereabouts, as dis
covered by Detective Parker and Deputy
Sheriff Fleetwood, Sheriff Jordan and
Constable Samuel K. Gaskill went in
the neighborhood of Beverly on Tuesday
and arrested Joseph Thomas, of Water
street, Mount Holly, who is charged
with misconduct toward Mary Volgarino,
a five year old girl. The defendant who
had run away after the crime, was re-
leased Thursday morning under $500
bail
Accused by Alfred g. Bennett, of the
Volney G. Bennett Lumber Company,
with false pretenses, c. Edgar Shreve, a
Camden lawyer, was Saturday held un-
der $500 bail by Justice Huyett in Cam
den. Shreve was taken into custody at
his office at Third and Market streets,
Camden, following his indictment by
the grand jury. Mr.. Bennett stated that
check for 1881 given by Shreve for
merchandise was returned with the in
formation that the lawyer had no funds
in the bank on which it was drawn.
Harry l.. Knight and other growers
report that recent frosts hit some of the
boys pretty hard, destroying thousands
of dollars worth of cranberries. 1t was
found by conditions that existed in the
early spring that the crop was injured,
and that the yield will not be over rs
per cent. of former years. Necessity is
the mother of invention, as the old say.
ing goes, and such was the case of west,
ern farmer when he took all his chickens
from the hen house and placed them on
limbs of the fruit trees in his orchard
The following morning, other farmers
in his neighborhood reported a big los:
of fruit by frost. The wise farmer tolC
them what he had done, and much t.
their surprise they discovered that thu
warmth produced by the bodies of tiv'
chickens in each tree had prevented thu
frost from destroying the fruit. Ii sound
funny, but it's true.
An accidental shooting occurred a
Hainesport on Saturday afternoon, thu
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