The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-08-20
Cranberry picking will commence or

new planKlng Is 10 De lald on the draF
bridge at Hainesport.
L. H. Alloway and family, of Moul
Holly, have removed to vincentown.
$4,000 colored post cards of Mour
Holly. IS new views. Buy 1t at Boyce's :
Pure, clear ice from six to eight incht
> thick, no snow, for sale by wholesale. I
: Lacey Atkins, Mount Holly.
The harvest home of the Methods
church, at Vincentown, will be held in tn
camp woods on Thursday, September 5.
The death of Theodosia Phillison, @
West Washington street, occurred at tn
Burlington County Insane Asylum, las
week.
While fishing In the creek above Centre
ton, on Thursday, Fred Curtis, of Noun
Holly, caught a rock fish that weighe'
nearly five pounds.
There is some improvement in the con
dition of George Longstreet, of Jacobs
town, who was unconscious for some time
last week, as the result of sunstroke.
James Lamb is acting as temporary bar
tender for his brother, Richard Lamb
proprietor of the Washington House
because of the resignation of John Mul
raney.
The unclaimed letters that remain il
the post Office for the week ending Au
gust nth, are for Miss Hazel d. Chandler
Harris H. Gilman, Frank Y. Morse, 2
P. F. McCanna and Miss Clorisse Palmer
A rockfish, weighing 17t pounds, wal
captured by some men who were making
repairs to the dam at Rancocas Park lake
on Friday. After being exhibited In
Mount Holly, Allen Eastlake, of White
street, took it home.
1t is said that Coroner Enoch DeWorth,
of Bordentown, whose term of Office will
expire this year, will enter the employ OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
September 1. For several years he was a
boss mason on the Amboy division.
Summer coughs and colds yield at once
to Bees Laxative Cough Syrup, contains
honey and tar but no opiates. Children
like it. Its laxative qualities recommend
it to mothers. Hoarseness, coughs, Group
yield quickly. Keep it on hand. Sold at
II. B. Aliens drug store, Mount Holly.
A large limb fell from sycamore tree
in front of the Jail, Sunday afternoon,
and fortunately at a time when no one
was passing. 1t landed on the sidewalk
and brought down one or two electric
wires The limb was In perfectly healthy
condition. 1t is supposed to have been
weakened by recent storms.
Washington l. Brown, aged IA years,
son of Robert M. Brown, charged with
assault and battery on Hume Bryan at the
railroad station. on Monday, was arrested
the following day and taken before JUS
tice Slack. The defendant admitted strik-
ing Bryan, who had black eye as an ev-
idence of that fact. Brown was placed
under $50 bail to keep the peace and to
appear at the next term of court.
The home of Harry E. Bradley, at Penn
berton, is now lighted by electricity as
a result of the genius of his son Charles,
who has developed great liking for cleo
trical work. Power for lights is furnished
by small motor in a machine shop ad
joining the house, operated by gasoline
engine. Every Monday morning the fam
lily washing is done by electric power ap-
piled to the washing machine.
Technical grounds resulted in non
suit being granted by Justice William A
Slaughter. on Tuesday, in the action of
the State Board of Health against Dr. r.
Howard Faringer, of Mount Holly, who
reported case of typhoid fever at Eayres-
town to Assessor Martin H. Giryen, of
Mount Holly, instead of notifying the
proper authorities of Lumberton town
ship. Samuel W. Shinn, counsel for the
defendant, discovered an irregularity in
the summons.
Past Grand Master Josiah w. Evan, of
Mount Holly, and other officers of the
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons of New Jersey, assisted by Penns
Grove Lodge, No. 1862, on Saturday laid
the corner stone of the new building being
erected for the congregation of the First
Baptist church of Penns Grove. The
Masonic ceremony was used, and addresses
were made by Rev. Charles Bowden, of
Camden, Grand Chaplain, Rev. James M.
Davis. of Vincentown, and others. Sew
eral members of Mount Holly Lodge, No.
IA, F. and A. M, attended the exercises.
Certificates of Incorporation have been
filed with County Clerk Sooy as follows:
The Cranmer Saw Mill and Land Improve
ment Co., of Bordentown. Capital, ST.
500. Incorporators: Jacob Holzbaur, of
Bordentown; Walter A. Cranmer, How
ard ]. Cranmer, of Writings. The Bur-
lington Chair Co., of Burlington. Capt.
tai $685. Incorporators: Olof L. Pc
terson, Ray A. Peterson, of Burlington;
Pussy w. Jackson. Philadelphia. The
New Idea Hot Water Heating Company,
of Pennsylvania, with headquarters at
Moorestown. Capital 800, 900. Incorpo-
rators: Edward D. Cronin, of Brooklyn;
Fred Knowlton, Edgar H. Monfort, W. 1.
Barney, of New York city.
At the Court House, on Saturday, be-
fore Justice Jamison, the cases against
three men were heard They were arrest
ed on the complaint of member of the
committee representing the Law and Or
der Society. Louis Garbarino, charged
with selling peanuts and candy on Sun
day, was fined So and costs, the total
amounting to $3.50. The case against Ar
thur Damask, for selling soda water on
Sunday, was postponed to accommodate
his counsel, Samuel w. Shinn. Decision
was reserved In the case of Walter G..
Shinn, who did not deny selling ice cream
on Sunday. His defence was that as pro-
prietor of an eating saloon he had right
to serve ice cream, which he claimed was
an article of food.
A large crowd attended the annual pic
mic of Columbus Grange, No. So. held a.
Rancocas Park, on Thursday. Farmers
and their families from all sections of thu
county were present, and all the attrac
lions were kept on the move until late il
the evening. About fifty members at
tended a reunion of the Joyce family
many of them coming from around Vim
centown. There was also reunion o
= the Fisher family, the seven sisters beinl