The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-02-29


March 4, beginning at two o'clock.
A. F. Bradley has bought the bus
l. ness and real estate of the New Jerse
Fence Company. belonging to the estat
IF of William B. Wills.
It A recruiting station has been opene'
in Arcade hall, Mount Holly, by officer
n of the U. s. navy. Young men between
n the ages of II and 80 years are wanted
to enlist in the navy.
: Wire thieves made raid, last week
on the Bell telephone trunk line nea
Mount Laurel. Considerable wire wal
lclipped from the poles. This was thu
third robbery in that vicinity recently.
A Kings Herald Band was organized
at Riverside, last week, with 81 mem
bers. Mrs. J. M. Hunt is the local super
intendent, and Miss Grace w. Relyea
of Pemberton, is the Trenton district
superintendent of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society.
The Woman's League of Mount Holly,
will hold pure food and parcel post
sale in the house of Union Fire Com
tpany, Washington street, next Saturday
afternoon, beginning at one O'Clock.
There will be for sale brown bread and
white bread, pies, cakes and lots Of good
things.
| Howard Gilbert, of Church street. is
ireceiving treatment at the Burlington
County Hospital for an injury to his
foot, caused when he slipped on the ice
recently. A few years ago he had his
foot injured while playing base ball and
it was necessary to remove bone from
that member. When he slipped on the
ice it irritated the old wound which had
healed up, and he is in the hospital
to undergo another operation.
While chopping wood at his home on
Ridgway street on Thursday afternoon,
Anthony Taylor cut off the fore finger
OF his left hand at the second joint when
his Ratchet slipped. After this was done
he picked the severed finger from the
ground and placed it on the ckopping
block. He was taken to the Burlington
County Hospital where it was necessary
to remove small portion more of the
finger.
Colonel James B. Roney, veteran of
the civil war and a member of the Phil
adelphia bar, died on Tuesday at his
home in Delanco. He was rs years old.
He was graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania, and from 1866 to 1872
served as colonel in the Sixth Regiment
Pennsylvania National Guard. He was
a member OF the Masonic fraternity and !
Odd Fellows. In the days of county
conventions to form a ticket, Col. |
Roney was a familiar figure representing
Beverly township.
At a meeting of the Palm yra town
ship committee last week, the contract |
for making an assessors map, as re-
quired by the State Board OF Assessors,
was awarded to Haines & Sherman,
whose bid was $845. The other bids |
were: Furman Wood, Palmyra, $500;
James Logan. of Mount Holly, $1,000. |
Mr. Wood did not conform with all the |
requirements in submitting his bid, and
the contest narrowed down to Hainss & |
Sherman and Logan, the former win
ming out by s245.
Robert s. Goldy was arrested, on We'd
nesdaY, for violating the traffic regula-
tions relating to teamsters and automo-
biiists. He was carting bricks from the
railroad freight station to the Mount |
Holly garage, and repeatedly turned to
the left Of the traffic sign at the corner
of Madison avenue and Washington |
street. Recorder Herbert imposed fine
of one dollar and costs. Goldy refused |
to pay the fine and was taken to jail. |
He claimed that it was unhandy to turn
to the right with p heavy load at that
corner. After few hours in Jail he con-
cluded to pay the fine and was released.
He says he will appeal the case.
All New Egypt is up in arms over the i
fact that Kimball hospital, Lakewood,
refused to accept as patient Harvey
Grant, of New Egypt, who was taken /
there by DIR. Allen for treatment. 1t is
ALLEGED that the man was not allowed tn /
come inside the hospital, but was kept |
sitting out on the porch until he was |
taken away. The Egyptians, through |
the Press, want to know if they are not |
entitled to some of the care that the |
county pays for. 1t is claimed for the |
hospital that patients are only admitted |
when recommended by one of the hos
pital staff of physicians, and that DR..
Allen is not on that staff, hence under |
fha lou If ho hncx,ffaI he
could not be admitted. 1t is also said (
that the man had the measles, and they |
could not accept contagious cases. These |
explanations the people of New Egypt |
refuse to accept as excuses.
Government contractors will begin at |
once to prepare for the erection of light
house at the mouth of Tuckerton Creek. |
Ground for the building has been coded |
to the Federal Government by special |
act of the New Jersey Legislature. The
new range light is made necessary by |
the growing Importance of Tuckerton as |
an inland waterway port anu fishing and |
oystering centre. Another government
pletion last week of the dredging of
new channel in the bay. A new basin,
four and half feet deep at low water and |
210 feet wide, extending from .Gauntt's |
Point to the wireless station, has been |
opened adjacent to the new channel for |
the use of boats trading in Great Bay.
George w. Heyer died at his home, |
corner of High and Ridgway streets, |
yesterday morning. He had not been
well for some time. but his last illness
dated from the first week in January. |
An attack of pleurisy gained such hold
on him that it was necessary to perform
an operation, which occurred ON Thurs
day, but Mr.. Heyer did not possess suf- |
ficient vitality to recover from the shock
and his heart failed. He had lived here
IA years, coming from Germantown,
Pa, and purchased the business of the
Weaver Manufacturing Company, which
he conducted in very successful man.
ner. The funeral will take place Thurs
day afternoon at two o'clock from his
late residence.
Their automobile struck by the Gen.
trial Railroads New York express as it
was passing through Chatsworth at a
mile minute Saturday, Joseph r.
Lennon, aged S8 years, and Elmer In
man, Jr., aged Is, were instantly killed
and their bodies hurled sixty feet from
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