The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-08
Ross w. Quicksall has opened his
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will meet at Marlton on July Is.
DIR. Raymond S. Clarke and family
have opened their cottage at Lavalette
The fair association will hold a trot
ting matinee on Saturday of mex
week.
Harold E. Austin and family have
rented a cottage at Lavalette for thu
summer.
Mrs. Anna B. Pumyea announces
the engagement of her daughter, Miss
Helen Curtis, to Thomas s. A. Fair
BARN, of Buffalo N. Y.
While wading in the creek at Bur
lington, on the fourth of July, Walter
Grossett, aged twelve years, stepped
into hole and drowned in compare.
lively shallow water.
A fire on the roof of the house at the
corner of Rose and Chestnut streets
called out the fire department, on Fri
day, but the flames were extinguished
ny Uucket DTlRdue.
All of the local hotels have their bar
rooms open for the sale of soft drinks
and "near beer" No intoxicants are
procurable and the proprietors are COM
plying with the dry law.
While bathing at the mill dam yes
terday, Mrs. William c. Wetherill be-
came exhausted while in deep water
and was in danger of drowning. Sam
uel r. Gaskill went to her rescue, and
with the aid of John Lavery succeed
ed in getting her to shore.
Miss Jane Pidgeon, of Washington,
d. C.-has been appointed secretary to
C. P. Wellman, local director of War
Camp Community Service. 1t is ex-
pected that she will be valuable as
sistant in the work here as she has had
considerable experience in this line.
Keep your baby well. There will
be free clinics for babies at the town.
ship building on White street, every
Wednesday Afternoon from 2 to A
o'clock under the direction of the Di-
vision of Child Hygiene, State Depart
ment of Health. Come and bring the
babies.
Two alarms of fire at Hainesport
called for assistance from the Mount
Holly department on Friday. One
was fire in the grass and underbrush
in Parry's woods, which was extin-
guished. The other was more serious,
resulting in the destruction of the barn
on the property of George Vansciver.
Captain M. A. Loveland, one of the
last of the old mariners who sailed
ships from Jersey ports, died yesterday
at his home in New Gretna. He was
70 years old and was master of vessel
for nearly 40 years. On retiring he
became interested in Burlington county
politics and served for a time on the
Board of Freeholders.
Owing to prohibition going into
effect Judge Wells deemed it advisable
to send letter to the liquor dealers of
the county, warning them against
the law and telling them
that any disregarding of the act of
Congress on the liquor subject would
be sufficient evidence for the Judge to
revoke any license he may have
granted. He also called attention to |
the fact that any holder of license is
privileged to surrender it and get re-
fund of portion of the license fee.
While turning his car on Washing
ton street on Wednesday, George d.
Worrell lost control by the failure of
the brakes to stop the automobile, and |
the machine went over the sidewalk,
through the railing and landed in the |
creek, opposite the West End hotel. |
The occupants, Mr.. Worrell and two
children, George Worrell, Jr, and |
daughter of Fred M. Ander-
son, all escaped injury. The. car, the
Sedan type, was very slightly dam
aged. 1t was not overturned, but |
landed in the creek on it's wheels. 1t
was towed out in the afternoon.
John Van Hove, a clerk in the
Mount Holly post Office, while in Cree
don's hardware store, on Wednesday,
purchasing blank cartridges for his re-
volver, pulled the trigger after he sup
posed he had removed all the loaded |
An explosion followed,
and the bullet from an unremoved car
fridge passed between two small child |
rem who were standing a few inches |
apart and watching the unloading
operation. The missile landed in the |
window glass department of the store,
$40 worth of that brittle
Mr.. Van Hove, frightened
nearly to death for fear he had shot
some one, gladly paid for the broken
glass after he learned that no one had
been injured.