The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-07-31
Next Saturday will be pension day.

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" scenes. Boyce's of course.
Because Of the rain Sunday evening
~ there was no sacred concert at Rancoca
Park.
If Unionville Sunday school will hold it
It annual picnic at Rancocas Park Angus
10.
J, New postals of special interest to mem
l. bers of the Holy Catholic Church. L. s
Boyce, stationer.
IS Fishermen who went to Barnegat bay
|. ON Sunday, report the water very rough
and fish scarce.
Y Mr. and Mrs. John Wright, of Mer
: chantville, are receiving congratulations
on the birth of son.
e The Red Lion Sunday school will hold
4 peach festival on Friday and Saturday
. evenings of this week.
i John Hamilton, of Cookstown, who has
a been i'll for several weeks, is receiving
e treatment at the Burlington County Hos
pital. ,
y
! lawn social, will be held in the church at
s Pointville, on Thursday evening. DIR.
Cowan, of Newark, will deliver an ad-
dress.
A letter from Frank A. Wright. OF
Mount Holly, who is now in Europe. was
received last week. 1t was posted from
Brussels, and states that the writer is hav.
: ing the time of his life.
. Charles A. Braddock, whose barns were
recently destroyed by fire at Indian Mills,
has received insurance amounting to
$780, This leaves net loss to Mr.. Brad
dock Of nearly $1,000.
Elaborate preparations have been made
for the first annual outing of the Trenton
Forest, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, at Bur-
lington Island Park, to-day. Prominent
Masons from New Jersey and neighboring
States have been invited.
The following are the unclaimed letters
remaining in the post Office for week end
ing July %: Miss Emma Evan, A. E.
Bancroft d. d. s., Raymond Jones, AL
bert Klose, 2; Rev. G. F. Smith, Harry
Smith, Howard s. Smith.
An old-fashion blue and white plate,
about IS inches square. and in good state
of preservation, is the property of Mrs.
Emily Chamberlain, of New Egypt. The
plate was once the property of her grand
mother, and is 1875 years old.
| Mrc El{1oho+b uo-x1AA IT, D.. Il
Hewitt, died at Bridgeton yesterday. She
had pneumonia in the spring, from which
she never recovered. Interment will be
made in Harleigh cemetery. Camden,
Thursday morning at II O'Clock.
| James N. Smith. the well-known bag.
gage master, exhibited daguerreotype
of himself yesterday that was taken on
the Bowery in New York 46 years ago,
when Mr.. Smith was II years of age. 1t
bears no resemblance to him now.
As summer resort Lake Kenilworth,
near Marion, is growing. Already this
season there have been nearly four hun
dred visitors. Campers from all sections
are renting tents there, and one party of
seventy has engaged for next season. The
resort is private one and the property of
Freebooter Clayton II. Brick.
Ex-Sheriff Joseph G. Bower, of Mount
Holly, and William P. Bryan, of vincen-
town, Joined party of members of "The
Gourmet Colony" of Philadelphia, who
were entertained at Harrisburg, Pa,
one day last week, as guests of Wei. B,
Krick, of Cafe Bessinger. 1t was a day
filled with diversified pleasure.
The expected visit of gang of pick |
pockets did not materialize at Rancocas
Park, last week, when two large picnics
were held there, drawing together thou
sands of people Had these light-fngered |
artists entered the ground they would
have been picked up and sent to the coun-
ty jail. as their plans for working the
crowd were known to the officers.
Becoming excited while stepping in
boat on Oakford Lake, at New Egypt,
Miss Selma, who is spending season at
that resort, plunged headlong into the
water. She would have drowned had it
not been for John New, an expert swim
mer, of New Rochelle, N Y, who effected
rescue. Hard work on the part of a
physician restored the lady to conscious
ness
Much Inundated were the sum-
mer boarders and servants at the Pine
View farm, near New Egypt, when all of
them were searched under a warrant by
Constable William Thompson, to recover
q valuable gold watch and chain which
Mrs. William Robbins, the proprietress,
reported as having been stolen from
bureau drawer in her bedroom while she
was about attending the funeral of her
mother. No trace of the missing watch
was found.
On Saturday afternoon Jesse Streaker,
of Wall street, was committed to jail in
default of 5000 bail. He was arrested on |
the complaint of Joseph Hooper, who
charged that on Saturday, July 81. while
sleeping In Lumberton, the defendant |
took 1896 from his pocket, all the money
he had, and which Hooper had just re-
ceived from his boss, Harry Bowman. |
The evidence of guilt was quite strong, |
although there were no eye witnesses |
Hooper said this was not the first time he |
had lost money by Streaker, and it was
because of the latter's little children that
complaint bad not been made before.
The hotel recently built by the John A. |
Roebling's Sons company at Kinkora was
formally opened Thursday afternoon. It
was inspected by large number of Tren-
tonians and officers of the Roebling com.
pany. The guests were served with lun-
cheon by Thomas ]. Barrett. manager.
The Roebling hotel is part of the Roeb-
ling city at Kinkora. 1t is amodern brick
structure. On the first floor there is the
dining room, offices, parlors, bar and kitch-
ems. Iu the basement there is bowling
| alley. The sleeping rooms are on the
second floor. The hotel was built for con.
venience of travelling men and other Roeb-
ling employees who may be compelled to
be at Kinkora on business.
General E. Burd Grub, U. 8. Marshal
Thomas j. Alcott and Captain Elwood Fl.
Kirkbride, committee to erect monument
on the battlefield at Spottsylvsnia, Va, In
honor of the Twenty third regiment of
New Jersey Volunteers, went to Freder-
icksburg, on Wednesday, and selected q
site near the old Salem church, and within
sight OF the spot where the horse of
o.. fl II