The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-05-20
LOCAL NEWS.

having his house painted.
John L. Elberson and family. of Uniol
street. have removed to Burlington.
Elwood II. Kirby will manage the hote
business of Mrs Fred B. Parker, on Mil
street.
Mrs. Clothier will give moonligh
dance in the Masonic Temple on Saturday
night,
Walter Allen has sold the Mary B. Tay
lor property on Pearl street, to Mrs. Eller
Haines.
William g. Lippincott, of Union street
has one of the prettiest lawns to be seer
In Mount Holly.
A. Ashby Lippincott, of Buttonwood
street, was confined to his home with
quinsy last week.
Announcement is made of the approach
ing marriage of Albert Brettell and Misi
Emma Jobes, both of Fieldsboro.
The teams employed by Northampton
township carted S16 loads of refuse dur
ing the recent cleanup period
The W. G. T. U. will meet at the home
of Mrs. Samuel Elbertson, 222 Garden
street. next Tuesday afternoon.
Daniel E. Lorentz, assistant county
secretary of the Y. M. C. A., has accepted
the position of secretary of the Morris
county association.
The matter of transferring the hotel
license of George W. Russ. of Delanco,
to William Donovan, will be considered
by Judge Horner on Thursday, June 5th.
Earl w. LippIncott, who had Gran.
berry house and garage burned recently
at South Pemberton, will rebuild as soon
as possible The loss is about $500 above
the insurance
Clarence L. Price, of the Victor Talk
ing Machine Co., has returned from a
business trip to Michigan. He will soon
leave for Portland, Maine, in the interests
of that company.
Six little school companions were pail
bearers at the funeral of Ada the ten.
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Kerlin, Of Columbus, who was buried on
Wednesday afternoon.
Stewart Names, of Moorestown, has
been awarded the contract to erect house
at the corner of Broad street and Mount
Holly avenue for Daniel Suffer, Jr The
structure will cost about s., 900.
Rev. Edward Haines Kistler has tender
ed his resignation as pastor of the Presby-
terrain church at Moorestown, to take
effect on June 1st. He has accepted a
.rcall from church at Baltimore.
The State Board of Health having de.
termined that the dog which bit four
children at Moorestown had rabies, all un-
muzzled dogs found on the streets OF that
town unil September are to be killed
William A. Slaughter reports settle
ment of the affairs of Benjamin F. Hirsch-
blond, bankrupt, on Wednesday. Prior
claims and expenses of the administration
consumed all the assets, and there was
nothing left for the creditors.
Albert, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Smith, of Burlington, who was drowned,
was buried on Thursday afternoon. The
first theory in regard to the boys dissr-
pearance was that he had been kidnapped.
He was in the seventh year of his age.
A pair of shoes was taken to A. r. Bed
wells shop to be repaired on Friday. The
package was received by John Greenwald,
clerk, who found that the shoes were
wrapped In copy of THE MOUNT HOLLY
News that was printed on December "a.
1889.
Matthias Chapman and Albert Furth, of
Fieldsboro, have notified Justice Magee,
of Bordentown. that they will appeal
their case to the higher court. Tha men
were arrested by Game Wardens Morton
and Loveless for illegal shad fishing and
fined $50 each.
The death of Mrs. Catherine Myers
which occurred at the home of Walter
French, of Moorestown, resulted from a
stroke of apoplexy. She was a practical
nurse at Moorestown for a number of
years. The remains were inferred at the
Colestown cemetery on Friday afternoon.
The managers of the Aged Women's
Home at Burlington, which contains four
teen inmates, realizing the immediate
necessity of charging the home, in which
fourteen more persons are seeking admis-
sion, have advised the purchase of the
Friends school property at the corner of
York and Penn streets, which site is
well adapted for the purpose.
On returning from her recent European
trip, Mrs. William A. Slaughter brought
a souvenir of a fac-simile reproduction
of brass door-knob which has been In
use for century or more on Durham
Cathedral, England, and which Is still In
place with the handle greatly worn by
the hands of tugitives who grasped 1t in
times of distress and peril in order to OBJ
tain the sanctuary of the church. Mr.
Slaughter will have this curiosity placed
on the door of his own home.
The ringing of burglar alarm at the
store of Abram R. Gerber, on High street,
shortly after nine O'Clock on Tuesday
night. gave the impression that robbers
were after summer wearing apparel. The
police were summoned and they were
Joined by citizens in making search of
the premises, but nothing was found to
indicate that undesirable visitors had been
operating. 1t is probable that the alarm
was sounded from some unknown cause
which has been the case at other High
street stores.
There was quite an explosion at the
blacksmith shop of George ]. Cooney. at
Lumberton, on Saturday evening, which
blew out one end of the building and
hurled heavy planks and large iron bolts
for distance of five hundred yards. 1t
is said that the improper working of an
acetyline gas plant bursted boiler that
was used TO operate welding machine.
Mr.. Cooney had a narrow escape from
death. His scalp was badly Iacerated and
he was stunned. Thomas Sharp received
decorations and a compound fracture of
the left arm. Both men were taken to the
Burlington County Hospital. Job Post
was also lacerated and otherwise injured.