The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-08-28

picnic at Rancocas Park on Thursday
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The Methodist Sunday school will hole
its sessions in the afternoon, beginning
> next Sunday
The reed bird season will open on Satur.
day next. Already the birds have become
numerous ON the marshes.
Jacob Claypoole, who is employed al
Scranton, Pa. enjoyed his annual vacation
in Mount Holly last week.
under way the Improvements which are to
be made at the post Office
4 The Junior Mechanics, of Jacobstown,
will give a harvest home on Thursday.
Winkler's band will furnish the music
This is the week for tramps and Italians
to flock to the cranberry Dogs, as the pick
ing will begin next Monday on some of
the boys.
, The following unclaimed letters remain
In the Mount Holly post Office for the week
ending August 81: Mrs Sara Malks and
Mrs. Rosa Leary.
A cow valued at nearly 800, belonging
to Stewart Mcfarland, on the Jobstown
pike, was choked to death, on Sunday,
while eating potato.
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The condition of conductor Byron Grigg
has again become alarming. He is suffer
ing from Bright's disease, and there is
little hope of saving his life
The members of the Methodist church,
of Masonville. will hold a peach festival
brotherhood hall, at that place, on Satur-
day, September 1, for the benefit of the
church.
A peach festival, under the auspices of
the Columbus Grange. No. SO, Patrons of
Husbandry, will be given in the town hall,
at that place, on Tuesday evening, Sep
| TENDER A.
John d. Rock is the owner of the cow
that was last week impounded by Richard
L. Kennedy. The animal has been re
leased and was at once given the attention
that it needed.
Herbert G. Fowler, of Marlton, has two
fractured ribs and some very bad bruises.
As the result of his horses becoming
| frightened at steam thresher, he was
thrown to the ground and badly injured
A clambake will take place at the Lo-
Gust grove club house ON the Mount Holly |
road between here and Burlington on
Wednesday,. A shooting match at clay
pigeons and aquoit match will take place. |
The eighteenth annual harvest home of
the Tabernacle Methodist Church will be
held In Fox Chase Grove on Thursday. |
There will be speaking by Rev. John W.
Goorlsy, Rev. George T. Harris, and Others
The peach crop that was so promising
IN the spring has turned out badly, much
of the fruit having been spoiled by rot.
The best of peaches are being sent to the
Philadelphia market, where good prices
are prevailing for the fruit.
Chester L. Appleton of Boston,
Mass, who spent last week with his par
ents in Mount Holly has recently been
promoted to assistant engineer on the
Taunton Division of the New York, New
Haven, and Hartford Railroad, and bears
the distinction of being the youngest man
of his rank on the road
1t is not often that company appears
in the Mount Holly Opera House with
thirty performers. but this will be the
case on Thursday evening, and they will
be artists too. They are known as Wat
sons Oriental Burlesquers, and may be
depended upon to give a pleasant even
ing's entertainment. Tickets are on sale
at Jamison's.
Motor parties crossing rivers on ferry
boats in the future will be requested to
hide their lights, the department of COM
merce and labor having taken this matter
in hand because 1t is claimed that the
lights of the auto cars are often conflict
ing to the pilots of other ferries and boats
on the river, and that for this reason pre-
caution must be made to hide them during
the transportation across the river.
There were three private picnics at Ran
cocas Park on Thursday. In one instance
when dinner was ready, the guests would
not sit down because of their being just
thirteen plates spread on the table. Be
fore they would touch any of the good
things prepared for the occasion, the ladies
hustled around for another person % come
and eat with them In order to break the
hoodoo number.
The township committee will be asked
to have an appropriation placed on the
election tickets next fall of sufficient size
to properly improve the condition of Union
street. which has long been neglected.
The matter of making repairs to that
thoroughfare will be left entirely to the
| judgment of the committee In this con
nection the signature of property owners
are now being secured.
While on Murrell street, Wednesday
morning, Harry Hawkins. ST.. got tangled |
up with his milk cans, the result of a |
wheel coming off his wagon. The axle
had been given coat of grease, and fail
ure to properly tighten a nut caused the
accident As no milk was spilled, Harry
will probably haYe no occasion to cry I'M
til the opening of the September term of
court, when duty requires him to do that
act.
| Patrick Kelley, of Riverside, has COM
menced suit against the Camden and
Trenton Railway Company to recover
So, 900 damages for injuries received at
Florence on August II, when trolley car
jumped the track and fell over the en-
bankment. Kelley claimed that his left
leg was severely hurt and he has since
been in Cooper Hospital. The case will
be tried at the September term of Court
at Mount Holly.
For the second time within six months
the postoffice at Bridgeboro was broken
into and robbed early Wednesday morning
The office is in the same building in which
, Postmaster Newkirk lives and the thieves
gained entrance by prying open window
: in the dwelling part. After once in the
. office the thieves wired the door leading
into the house and blew open the safe, a
portion of which was driven through the
| door. The rest was reduced to scrapiron
The shock awoke the family as well as
! nearby neighbors who were up in time to