The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-09-19
LOCAL NEWS.

OlaIelCt . OuEdu0, VI Il a.
has removed his family to Mount Holly.
Four full days of enjoyment at tn
Mount Holly Fair-October 8. 4, and 8
Neil Suffer left for Princeton yester
day, having entered the University a
that place.
The tax rate for Northampton town
ship will remain the same as last year
$40 on the 800
Announcement is made of the engage
ment of Thomas B. Harvey and Eugenia
daughter of Mrs. Caleb Newbold, of Col
umbus.
Constable John Throckmorton went tc
Newark, ON Saturday, as delegate to
the grand session of the Brotherhood OF
the Union.
Unclaimed letters remain in the post
Office for Miss Alice Collins, Mrs. John
Reed, Mrs Agnes Seery, Mark Valentine,
Richard White.
Philip Karg has purchased the William
Schafer property, on Madison avenue. for
81. 500 The sale was made before the
death of Mr.. Schafer.
The twentieth annual convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union OF
Burlington county will assemble for an
all day session at Delanco to-day.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Floyd Rogers and Lillian
Ebert, of Vincentown. The event will
take place on Wednesday. September ~.
A fishing and cunning party that went
to Barnegat bay, on Thursday, was COM
posed of Ellis H. Parker, Frank Wright,
w. Roland Warrick and Samuel Brown.
All the weeds and other Instructions
have been removed from along the several
railroad tracks in front of the fair grounds,
which gives a very neat appearance tC
that locality.
The frost last week did considerable
damage in the cranberry district. Warn
ing signals were sent out from the sub
weather station recently established on
the bog of Joseph j. White at Hanover
Most of the machinists from this sec
ton who accepted employment In th'
steel works at South Bethlehem, Pa
were not permitted to continue in theil
new field of labor because they were moi
members of the union.
The Changers met in Red Mems hall
Mount Holly, on Friday night. and con
ferred the sixth degree on 1875 candidates
This degree will enable them to attend
the national convention to be held at At
lantic City next menth.
While transacting business at the Unior
National Bank, Saturday morning, Georgs
Rendell was stricken with acute indiges
ton and removed to his home on Unior
street He has been very i'll, but his con
dition is somewhat improved.
Because of settlement having been
made, there was no sale, on Thursday, by
Sheriff Bower. of the property of Henry
F. Smith in Washington township, which
had been advertised at the suit of the
Riverside Game Association.
William P. Younker, supervisor, says
that as soon as Contractor Stanley flush
es some operations in the upper part OF
the state, which will be Ia very shorl
time, he will begin the construction Of
the stone road from Mount Holly te
Eayrestown.
A meeting of the Burlington county
Past Councillors Association. Jr. 0. U. A
M, was held In Mount Holly Thursday
night. The object of the meeting was to
arrange for the first annual banquet. 1t
was decided to hold in Burlington on thu
night of Thursday, November o.
The Moorestown Chronicle has issued I
number of very attractive post cards o
places of interest in Moorestown. Thu
cards are printed from half tones with
suitable shade of brown ink, and are wei
executed. The pictures are of historical
places aud are accompanied by brief des
cription.
Edward Severns, of Bridgeboro. me
with painful accident. Thursday, Will
cunning on the meadow near the railroad
bridge at Riverside, with Richard Wells
Severns was pushing the boat through tn
reeds In the effort to stir up some
birds. when his pushing pole broke,
throwing him so that his leg was caugh
under the seat, breaking his ankle.
Incorporation papers have been filed a
the Secretary of States Office. Trenton, TO
the Sooy Oyster Company; registered
office, Green Bank. Burlington county
agent in charge, Watson T. Sooy; capita
stock. 1925, 900, Iucorporators. Ephrain
G. Sooy, Joel II. Sooy and Watson I
Sooy. The company is to deal in. plan
and propagate oysters and CLANS.
Frederick B. Johnson. who is an assist
ant at the Pennsylvania Railroad station
at Edgewater Park, is the youngest statio
agent and telegraph operation on the road
For the last twenty-five years Edgewate
has furnished many men who have attaine'
to positions of eminence. At this tim
young johnson is getting his share of re
cognition for unusual precocity. At tn
age of 10 he could send and receive tele
grams, and earned for himself the title 0
sBoy Wonder" He has not turned 10 an
he has been working on the road durin
the last five years. He has thoroug
knowledge of all the details of his wor
and takes great interest in it.
A mysterious fire, on Thursday morr
ing, completely destroyed the barns an
crops and some rolling stock on the Lew
Lippincott farm, two miles from Mour
Holly on the Jacksonville road. Mr.. Lii
pincott was working In field near
wood some distance from his barns an
didn't see the fire right away. He smell
ed smoke. however, and looking towar
his barn saw it wrapped In flames. TIL
mysterious part of the blaze was that M
Lippincott keeps no hired man. does NJ
smoke or carry matches. His childre
were away at school and his wife was
the house. There is only insurance
about $3.50, which fails to cover the los
Mir. Lippincott also reports the loss
$3.50 in cash, which he had hidden in Il
barn.
After nightfall an apparently headle
man has been in the habit of crossing Il
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks In front
trains between Pensauken and Map
Shade. By the rays of the headlight Il
engineers and fremen would see him f
an instant, and then he would pass out