The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-05-02

| There will be meeting Of the loci
Y. M. C. A. directors this evening.
Mail remains at the post Office fl
Joseph Gaskill, Mrs. LIN. Coleman an
Rev. George Johnson.
Miss Bertha Tracey will entertain th
i Amour Union at her home on Pin
street on Friday evening.
The next regular meeting of the W
c. T. U. will be held at g. A. K. hal
on Tuesday afternoon, May 8, at thre
o'clock.
Henry Rosenfeld is keeping up witt
the times and has put an auto truck OIL
the road. Henry hated to get rid of hi
faithful old horse, but business is bust
ness and he intends to serve his Gus
toners promptly.
Mrs. Walter Bowker, of Church street
had her left hand painfully burned Sat
urday morning when hot pie which
she was removing from an oven slipped
from her right hand, the contents OF the
pie falling on her left hand.
An inspector from the State Vehicle
Department was in town last week look.
ing over various machines and he is said
to have taken the numbers of some
driven by women for the purpose of dis
covering whether the drivers carry the
legal papers. He was here on Sunday,
but left town before the collision occurred
on High street.
Last weeks issue of THE NEWS con-
tanned an article referring to Manx cats,
a variety of feline that has no tail and
other distinguishing characteristics.
These cats came ashore near Barnegat
from ship that was wrecked on that
coast during the civil war. Edward E.
Baugh, resident of Bispham street,
has one of these cats that is descend
ant of the shipwrecksd felines.
A collision between two automobiles
attention on High street about
our o'clock, Sunday afternoon. One of
,he machines came from Merchantville.
1t was turning around on High street
md at the same time the other auto,
Mailing from Palmyra, was coming down
,he street. With the idea that the ma
thine that was being turned would stop
he other kept right on going and the
'esult was that the two came together,
,he Merchantville auto backing into the
Palmyra machine and damaging it so it
lad to be taken to a garage. The man
who did the damage gave his name and
numbers to policeman Myers, but the
Palmyra man is said to have been with
,ut license or registration papers.
What might have been sorrowful
tragedy was happily averted by the
prompt action of Coroner Gaskill, We'd
1esday afternoon. Harry Cerlin, boy
,welve years of age,.went home from
school and passed through his fathers
store with detected look on his face
which, while it was noticed, did not at
tract especial attention. AS the boy
was longer in making his appearance at
me QlQner CaDl6 IMAM was uSual search
was made for him and it was found he
mad locked himself in his room. Not
being able to gain entrance the father
AN to the street and saw officer Gaskill
who went to the room and broke through
he door. He was met by the fumes of
gas, but he managed to
irag the boy out and found him almost
,uffocated. DIR, Flynn was called and
vigorous work saved the boys life. The
ad is pupil in the Mount Holly
school. He is of foreign birth and be-
ng unable to speak the English Ian
yuage correctly he is frequently jsered
oy his schoolmates and the boy became
70 sensitive on this point that he keen
y felt every criticism and when he was
'eproved by his teacher for errors in his
studies he thought it was on account
If his foreign birth. His sister gained
,he same idea some time ago and was
seized with hysterical spell. There are
other pupils who parents are of foreign
birth and they, too, have been the sub
ect of criticism by pupils who have pro-
badly acted without thought of the
wrong they were doing.