The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-09-12
LOCAL NEWS.
The infant child of Norman Gaskill,
Of Monroe street. died on Sunday.


home of John c. Garrett early Frids
morning.
Roy Green, of Medford, is going
open the barber shop at the Ne
Washington house.
Mrs. George w. Durand, Jr., is
the Burlington County Hospital,
with typhoid fever.
Harry, the 11-months-old son of Nj
and Mrs. Harry w. Phares, OF Pin
street, died on Friday.
Election officers of Northampton
township are making their house t
house canvass of voters to-day.
John Blacks field of Giant potatoes
which were dug last week, produced |
crop of 300 bushels to the acre.
The three year old son of Richard B
Winner, near Rancocas, died Of infan
tile paralysis on Saturday night.
The Crew-Levick Co., have placed {
large flagstaff on top of their building
on Mill street, which floats the Ameri
can flag.
A petition has been presented to the
Beverly city commissioners, signed by
365 voters, requesting the appointment
Of an excise board.
J. Wesley Duncan, who formerly
lived on Shreve street, and recently
moved to Paulsboro, is seriously ill
with typhoid fever.
The annual meeting of the North
ampton Fire Department will be held
at America CompaiR's house on Fri
day evening at eight o'clock.
The general committee that is MAX
ing preparations for the Halloween
celebration in Mount Holly will meet
at America hose house this evening.
The Mount Holly Glee Club gave a
concert at DIR. Newcomb's sanitarium,
Browns Mills, on Friday night, that
was greatly appreciated by the patients.
There are two cases of infantile
paralysis in Willingboro township
Albert Johnson's six-year-old son in
Rancocas, John Jacoby' son, aged two
years.
Walter Fl. Oliphant and family, of
Broad street, will remove to Trenton
about October l. They will occupy a
residence there owned by former Gov
ernor Fort.
Mrs. Benjamin White had bone in
her hand broken, on Thursday, the re-
suit of fall. The accident happened
at the resinence of her son, Blanchard
H. White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Graft, of
Brooklyn, are being congratulated on
the birth of son, last week. Mrs. |
Graft was formerly Miss Mabel Kelley,
of Mount Holly.
The apartments of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Alexander r. Gallenkamp, of Newark,
formerly Of Mount Holly, were entered |
by thieves, last week, and robbed of !
iewelry and clothing.
William Borden, who lives at the
home of Andrew Taylor, on Mount
Holly avenue, had his head severely
injured on Wednesday afternoon when
he fell through decayed step.
Miss Ada r. Glover and Maurice M.
Holland, of Moorestown, were married
Mt the brides home. Mill street, on
Wednesday evening, by Rev. Daniel
b. Green, Of Camden. After a we'd
ding tour the couple will reside at
Moorestown.
The funeral of Caroline, wife of Will
liam B. McCully, of Newark, took
place in Mount Holly on Saturday
morning, interment being made in ST.
Andrews. graveyard. Mrs. McCully
was daughter Of the late Austin r.
Haines, of Mount Holly.
A meeting of Burlington county
members of the Teachers Retirement
Fund will be held next Saturday morn
ing, at 1890 o'clock, in the High school
auditorium, Mount Holly, for the pur-
pose of electing four delegates to the
annual convention at Trenton.
Pasquale Sandone, of Philadelphia,
an alien, was caught with a gun in his
possession on Sunday in Pemberton
township by game warden Morton and
justice of the peace John Throckmorton.
Sandone, who is employed on the
cranberry boys, was fined $40 and costs,
which he promptly paid.
Under the new State law effective
September LIST, only persons licensed
by the State Experiment Station will
be permitted to conduct milk tests in
diaries. Several are seeking permits
to continue their jobs in this section.
The law will not only assure efficiency
but will eliminate any persons who
might be disease carriers.
James H. Anderson and wife were
married 66 years ago last Saturday.
They received congratulations from a
number of relatives and friends, at |
their home on Washington street. |
Without doubt Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson
are the Oldest married couple in Mount |
Holly, perhaps in the county. They |
are both active, mentally Ind physic-
ally, and are in comparatively good
health.
ut was the cat.'' A red-light call, |
Friday morning at three o'clock, called |
the police to the residence of Edward
b. Jones where there was noise enougai
down stairs to convey the idea that a
whole army of burglars was at work.
When the officers got to the place thew
found screen on back window torn
and lot Of fur attached to the wire.
The Cat had evidently been locked in
the shed and In its efforts to escape had
knocked over milk bottles and pans,
creating great uproar.
Benjamin I'll. Deacon, of Broad street,
and his son, Joseph, met with q pain
full accident Friday morning. They
were coming to Mount Holly in an
automobile and m making the turn
from the Smithville road into the road
leading to Mill street, the machine
upset into ditch and threw the ocsu-
pants out. They got from under the
wreck and were starting to walk to
Smithvilie when they were met by DIR.
Darlington who took charge of them
and brought them to Mount Holly.
Both men were cut about the head and
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