The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-26
Sam Matthias new automobile bus ar.

AHe MOUNT molly schools will open OF
Monday, September s.
Rev. John H. Magee, of Beverly, oc
cupled the pulpit of the Mount Holly NJ
+. church on Sunday.
The Burlington county convention Of
the Brotherhood of America will be held
in Mount Holly tomorrow night.
Harry Powell, of Water street, who
was removed to the Cooper hospital,
Camden, died at that institution yester-
day morning.
Supervising Principal William c. Sui
Ivan will be at the High school build
ing all day Thursday of next week to
conduct examinations of eighth grade
conditioned pupils.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Leona Force and DIR. John S. Conrov. of
Burlington. Miss Force is well known
here, having played the piano at the
opera house for some time.
The Charles f. Woodward farm of 256
acres at Ellisdale has been sold to Her
man Conrow, of Moorestown. The farm
has been in the possession of the Wood
ward family since colonial days.
Edward Gibbs stole a razor, shoes,
clothing, watch, ETC., from @. A. Brodix,
near Jobstown, on Saturday night and
then disappeared. Gibbs has served
time before on charge of larceny.
On Sunday night Constables Myers
and Throckmorton arrested James Laf-
ferty, of Mount Holly, who is charged
with being deserter from the battleship
Kansas, which is stationed at Newport,
r. /.
Announcement is made of the marriage
of Wayne McVey Stiles, of Vincentown,
and Miss Jeanette Gillespie, of Mount
Holly. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Howard l.. Quigg, at Elkton, Md,
on July %.
George Wedell, of Wall street, whose
mind has been affected for several years
as the result of falling from tree, went
wrong last week, and after making it
unpleasant for his family was arrested
by constable Robert Myers.
David Long Feather, an Indian from
Southern California, was arrested near
Riverside last week by Warden Morton
and deputy Stevens for shooting reed
birds ON the marshes. The defendant
was fined $23.75 by Justice ZeigIer
Mrs. Dewitt Jacobus, of Riverton, ended
her life by inhaling Illuminating gas in
the bathroom last Thursday afternoon.
Coroner Leconey, of Delanco, viewed the
body and issued burial permit. For
several months she had been suffering
from nervous prostration.
The following mail remains unclaim-
ed at the post Office: Joseph Deveney,
Miss Isabelle English, H. F. Fox, Mrs.
Mary g. Turner, Bessie Browne, Will
liam M. Calhorn, Miss Railway Cole,
Mrs. Robert Dansbury, Grover Fox,
James Cater, j. H. Hemmons, Miss
Helen Reed
While taking a woman to the asylum
in an automobile on Friday, Constable
Mccormick, of Burlington,
thought that he could pass through
Mount Holly without the fact being
noticed that there was no license on his
car, but he was held up by Constable |
Robert Myers who had matters properly
adjusted.
While fishing last week with Jed
Sprague, at Beach Haven, DIR. j. w. |
Branin, of Mount Holly, caught big lot
Of weak fish and Jed hooked monster
shark, which looked when exposed on
its side to be about 10 feet long. The
shark got away with hook, line and
tackle. A shark hook will be tried next
time to capture it.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H. Quay, of Pine |
street, Mount Holly, have been exercised |
their son, Louis, who disap-
peared from the home of relatives in |
Philadelphia on Sunday, together with
Olga Melchoir. Both children are only |
three years old and were visiting relatives
next door to each other. They have
been found and were locked in vacant |
house by mistake where they remained
Tor twenty-seven hours.
Anna E. Atkinson, who lived alone
in house ON Murrell street, was found |
to be seriously i'll on Saturday night by |
Mrs. George Parker, who called to tran
sact some business. Miss Atkinson was
removed to the Burlington County Hos
pital, where she died on Sunday. The
cause of death was a tumor in the |
She was daughter of the late |
Atkinson and was AZ years
Of age.
While intoxicated on the mount Sun
day, an argument is thought to have
ensued between Benjamin Fenton and
Lewis Lynch. As neither could come to |
any definite understanding, they sought |
to fight it out like their primitive ances-
tors would. Armed with pieces of iron
piping, Lynch soon had his opponent on
the ground. A gentleman who had
seen the battle from distance, rushed
upon the scene and disarmed Lynch. |
The two braves were arrested and CON
fined to Jail.
The State Inland Waterways depart
ment, at an expense of $25, 900, has just
dredging a cutoff channel
from Broad thorofare, an arm of Great
Egg HarbOr bay, and Risley's channel,
which flows out to sea past Longport. |
The new canal, half mile or more long,
is link in the state inland waterway,
which is to extend eventually from Cape
May City to Bayhead.
Charles NJ. Sharp is recovering from
injuries received by a fall of about 80
feet at his barn in Mount Laurel town.
ship. While unloading hay from a |
wagon the carrier got caught, so Mr.. |
Sharp placed ladder on top the load of
hay and assembled to fix the carrier.
When he was near the top the horses
started, throwing the man 1.-THE ground. |
He was badly bruised but did not have
any bones broken.
The Sunday excursion train to Long
Branch carried a large crowd Many
persons having regular season excursion
tickets wait to come home on this train.
On Sunday evening a train of IL cars
carried over 500 passengers, and on the
previous Sunday evening there were 946
passengers on a train of 16 cars. The
train Sunday left Mount Holly a half
hour late and left Long Branch about
the same time behind, but it made up
fifteen minutes before reaching Mount
Holly.