The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-26
LOCAL NEWS.

Rev. r. H. Baker will preach in tn
Methodist church next Sunday.
Z. w. Esham has rented his Mil
street property to Samuel c. Stanton.
The season for reed and rail birds
marsh or mud hens and English snip
opens on September LIST.
Lightning killed a fine white stallion
on the Rancocas stock farm, Jobstown
on Monday night of last week
Chicken thieves made big haul, las
week, when they took 400 fowls from tn
farm of James Potts, near Columbus
A. Smidth, Jr., candy dealer, ha
bought the property Of Harvey Burtis a
the corner of Mill and Paxson streets.
The annual harvest home given by
the members of the Tabernacle Metho
dist church will be held at Fox Chas'
next Thursday.
A Mount Holly lawyer has instituted
thirteen suits for divorce within tive
weeks. The parties interested do not al
live here, however.
The Johnson farm, on the road from
Rancocas to Burlington, has been sole
by Josephine A. Smith to Emily c
Thomas, of Bloomfield, who will take
possession in October.
The annual meeting OF the Armour
w. c. T. U. will be held at the home
of Miss Julia Lippincott, corner Mount
Holly avenue and Union street, this
evening, when officers will be elected fol
the ensuing year.
Walter Gaskill, farm hand, robbed
his employer, j. Harvey Darnell, near
Masonville, on Sunday night, of $40 in
money, gold watch and chain, new
suit Of clothes, etc. He disappeared and
and has not yet been arrested.
At the Presbyterian Manse, Mount
Holly, last Wednesday, occurred the
marriage of William H. Eckert, OF
Florence, and Mary H. Bolton, of Bur-
lington. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Frank Willcock.
A. A. Anderson reports the sale of a
farm of 46 acres, near Pemberton, from
Frank Picton to Mary l. Ash, of Wen
die, Mimi; also the old Anderson can
ming factory on Water street, from Mrs.
William Stokes, of Rancocas, to Walter
Allen.
Harry l.. Wyman, of Moorestown, and
G. Allen Sulzer, of Philadelphia, were
drowned at Centreton on Thursday.
Both were in bathing when Sulzer sud
denly went down and Wyman went to
his assistance, resulting in both being
drowned.
The condition of Mrs. Harry n. Wood
ington, who was knocked down and
trampled by COW, several weeks ago,
while attempting to rescue her daughter,
Nellie, whom she found in a perilous
position near the enraged beast, is
much improved. Although still suffer-
ing from bruises she is able to be about
again.
Addison b. Perrine, of Hightstown,
was sentenced to Is months in the Mer-
Ger county workhouse on Friday for
manslaughter. Perrine, while alleged to
have been in an intoxicated condition,
drove his automobile into heavy auto
mobile truck, causing the death of Joseph
b. Wishart, who was seated in the rear
of Perrine's car.
1t is reported that J. S. Collins & Son,
of Moorestown, have contracts to build
sixty houses at Riverside and vicinity.
Within the past month the firm has UNI
loaded seventy carloads of building
material and 5000 feet of lumber is
now on the way. About one million
plaster lath will soon arrive from Nova
Scotia. 1t is the busiest season the firm
has had in fifteen years.
A rule has just been established by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company which
provides that if ticket wholly unused
is presented by the original purchaser at
the ticket Office at which it was pur-
chased, it may be redeemed for the fare
at which it was sold. Heretofore to re-
deem tickets it has been necessary to
forward them to the official of the general
passenger agent at Philadelphia, with
the attendant delay.
While thinning a roof on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad station at Lumberton, on
Thursday morning, the unexpected
happened to Samuel Haines, of Mount
Holly, a tinsmith in the employ of
George d. Worrell. While working near
the edge of the roof, it is thought that
MIR. Haines was seized with sudden
dizzy spell, which is well known among
tinsmiths, and in an attempt to secure
better foothold until after the spell had
passed, he slipped and fell nearly twenty
feet to the ground, landing on his back
and rendered unconscious. After his
fellow-tinsmiths had restored him to
consciousness, they hustled him into an
automobile and brought him to his home
here, where medical assistance was sum-
moned After thorough examination,
no fracture of any bones could be found.
The outbuildings on the farm owned
by Lawrence DUR, and occupied by
Charles Schriver, his sOn-in-law, situated
on the road leading from Rising Sun
Square to Wrightstown, with four cows,
calf, one horse. $50 bushels of wheat,
twelve tons of rye straw, seven tons OF
hay and farming machinery were burned
on Wednesday. The fire seems to be
somewhat of mystery. A foreigner
from Roebling was at the farm that
morning and had purchased two pigs OF
Schriver. He singed them short dis
lance from the farm and it was claimed
that the fire originated from sparks.
Others say the fire started in the middle
of the barn. The buyer of the pigs was
detained at the farm for some time. He
claimed that he was not responsible FOL
the fire. The loss was 81, 500 with no in
surance.
On Thursday, by actual count, there
were fifty-three regular trains that passed
the Pine street railroad crossing. Tha
is quite number of trains to be operated
over single track in one day, and OF
Saturdays and Sundays there are extrs
trains put on. The fiagman at the Pin,
street crossing goes ON duty at 6.30in thu
morning and does not get through unit
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