The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-06-17

coat when ne lett In the locker room OF
the hoorestown Field Club.
The Royle-Pilkington factory shut down
at noon yesterday for the balance of the
day, owing to the extreme heat, after two
girls tainted.
A subscription dance will be given at
Rancocas Park, on June 26, by members
of the Phi Delta Quava fraternity, of
Mount Holly.
There will be no services In the Baptist,
Methodist and Presbyterian churches on
Sunday evening, as they will join in the
union service under the Chautuaqua tent.
The Young Friends Association will be
entertained at the meeting house on
Thursday evening, June 90, by Wilmot
Hansell and wife, and Mrs Sue Croshaw
John J. Cardwell has been carrying bis
left arm In sling. While picking cherries
one night last week limb broke and he
fell to the ground. receiving bad sprain.
The annual outing of the Burlington
County Liquor Dealers Association will
be held at Browns Mills on August 8. A
program of sports will make the event a
pleasant one.
Jerome Grigg Harris, member of the
Mount Holly High school graduating
class. will study law, and entered the
office of Judge John G. Horner yesterday
morning as a student.
The State Fish and Game Commissioners
have decided they have no authority to
grant permission to kill starlings, but
that blackbirds are not protected In this
state and may be killed at any time.
DIR. R. H. Parsons left on Sunday for
Minneapolis, to attend the annual meet
ing of the American Medical Society. He
Is accompanied by his wife and daughter,
Miss Elizabeth j. Parsons. They will be
away about three weeks.
On Wednesday and Thursday Sheriff
Jordan took some Of the prisoners from
the jail and had them clean High
street along the county property. Similar
treatment was given to Grant street, and
quantity of dirt removed.
While some children were trying to
operate an old magic lantern 10 tent
near barn In the yard of Wesley j. Dun
can, on Shreve street. Sunday afternoon,
the tent caught fire and was entirely con-
sumed, and the neigbors formed bucket
brigade and saved the barn from distruc-
ton.
A charter arrived from Tren ton, on
Thursday, for the Burlington County Pro-
duce Sales Company, of Mount Holly,
which has an authorized capital of $50. 900
The incorporators are: ]. Aquila Jones,
N. Eckard Austin, Elwood Hart, Charles
A. King. Howard w. Haines and Edwin
B. Fraser. The last named is general
manager.
At the home of the groom's parents Oh
Mount Holly avenue, Wednesday evening,
occurred the marriage Of William R. Ros-
sell and Miss Mary Boyer. Rev. r. q.
Baker, pastor of the Baptist Church. per-
formed the ceremony. The happy couple
were serenaded by the clerks of the Acme
store, the groom being employed there.
In the suit of Charles Smith against
william Clevenger, of Tabernacle. to re-
cover the value of ten trees alleged to
have been cut unlawfully. the jury. stand
ing eleven to one, could not agree and were
discharged. The matter was tried at the
Court House on Tuesday before Justice
Slack. Inability to agree on the boundary
lines was the cause of no verdict being
rendered.
While attending a picnic supper on
the upper creek one evening last week, q
Mount Holly young lady stepped into an
unseen muskrat hole on the bank and fell,
badly spraining her ankle. She was car
ried from Hacks wharf to her home by
the young men of the party, and the in
jury treated. She was able to be about
again In couple of days.
]. q. Quicker. of Union street. super
visor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's office at Mount Holly, has resigned
his position and he will retire from the
service on July 1st. Mr.. Quicker will re-
move his family to Chestnut Hill, Pa,
where he has a brother in the coal and
stone business. They will become part
ners and add lumber to their line of trade.
The maid at home of Prosecutor Sam
uel A. Atkinson on Thursday morning
nd al At ha
became suspicious of burglars when she
heard men moving about us stairs. Dep
uty Sheriff Joseph B. Fleetwood ans
wered the telephone call which the woman
sent to jail and found that the alarm was
caused by men who were electric meter
inspectors connected with the Public Ser
vice Corporation, and who had gone into
the house without giving any notification
of their presence. While they were legit
imately engaged, the officer reproved the
strangers for entering the place without
applying In the proper manner for ad
mission.
The University of Pittsburgh, at its one
hundred and twenty sixth commencement
tomorrow, will confer some three hun
dred degrees, among graduates of its elev
en- schools. Honorary degrees are to bt
conferred on Rev. Charles r. D'Aubigne
of Paris, son of the distinguished author
of the s'History of the Reformation; anC
on Rev. James Stoddard, NJ. A., of Noun
Holly. On the latter the University will
bestow the degree of doctor of Divinity"
The chancellor announced that the Uni
versity at present enrolls some 2, 400 stud
ents the faculty numbers more than 800
and during the year the aggregate of gift
and appropriations was upwards of $3.50
600.
That there has not been an accident OF
High street on account of the rapid driv
ing of automobiles is a matter of con
graduation. Attention has been NOR
than once called to this condition, but be
yond stationing an officer at the corner o
Mill and White streets to see that auto
come aroung that spot carefully nothin,
has been done. On Saturday evening
within an hour eight machines went VI
and down High street at rate that wa
perceptibly beyond the speed limit. Tn
argument has been used that it will cos
too much to have an officer stationed alony