The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-03-05

evening by the members of Nonpare
Lodge, No. %, 1. o. M.
Successful revival meetings in the N
E. Church, at Vincentown, are being cor
: Quoted by Rev. G. R. Smith.
On Thursday Sheriff Norcross sold tn
, Charles R. Gauntt property, on Mi
street, to Mary s. Ireton for 81 500.
Harry Fl. Leeds, of Rancocas, has bee
shipping six tons of poultry to New Yor
every week for the past eleven weeks.
Easter Cards, Booklets and Post Cards
Our assortment is large. Our prices ar
right. L. s. Boyce. stationer, IS Garde
Street.
: ]. J. Fenstermacher has sold the farm
stock and implements. owned by Georg
Endress, at Ewanville, to NJ. Harris. 0
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Fred B. Shreve, of Mill street
will enter DIR. Prices hospital, at Phil
adelphia, this week. to receive treatmen
for appendicitis.
Mrs. Mary E. White. of Union street
: will submit to an operation for the re
: moval of cataracts in private hospital
at Philadelphia, next month.
A farm of "a acres on the road from
Vincentown to Red Lion, has been SOLE
by Charles s. Howe, of Philadelphia, tt
Mrs Martha E. Howey, of Vincentown.
There is said to be some expectancy a
Pemberton over the promise of an early
divorce suit between two well known par
ties, who are reported to be in the fight te
the finish.
Rosenfeld Bros, of Mill street, have q
well selected stock of leftover goods from
the winter season. and now is the time tc
buy for the future, as the firm proposes to
turn this stuff into cash.
A social time prevailed in the lodge
room of the Shepherds of Bethlehem at
the conclusion of the business meeting,
last night, when the members gave a
baked bean supper.
Edward McCloskey, of Beverly, and
Harry Clair, of Burlington. have been
matched to skate three miles on roller
skates in the rink at the latter place In
about two weeks.
The Women's League will hold meet
ing this afternoon in the meeting house
on Buttonwood street, at o'clock. An
address will be delivered by Mrs. Martha
P. Falconer, of Philadelphia.
After their loss by fire. Fenimore Broth
ers are prepared to do more business than
ever. The erection of their new build
ings gives increased facilities, and their
feed mill and hay press are again the
scene of busy operations.
Merchantville Borough Council has dis
posed of the bond issue of $40, 1000 for the
purpose of building sewerage system, to
Kuntz & Company. of New York. The
bonds will bear A per cent The contract
for the sewer has been signed and work
will commence in week or two.
A public hearing on the proposed mod
ification of the Limited Franchise act,
which bill was introduced by Senator
Robbins, will be given before the Senate
Corporations Committee at the State
House, Trenton, this afternoon at o'clock.
Those interested in an extension of the
trolley system to the rural districts should
be present
Burlington county milk shippers are in.
terested in the efforts of the Pomona
Grange to secure legislation to regulate
milk cans to hold forty quarts, liquid
measure, the same as the retail dealers
sell by. As it goes now, farmers have to
give outright six quarts over in every
can, the dealers insisting upon buying by
dry measure.
Good news. interesting and up-to-date,
of the State National Guard appears in
''The Press" every Sunday. A special
feature is made of this news and the arti-
Gle is written by commissioned officer
who is recognized as an authority in the
matter. Every Pennsylvania ought to
be posted on what the National Guard
has done and is doing.
Alfred Gaskill, who for eight years was
an attache of the Federal Bureau of For
estry. has been employed by the New Jer-
sey State Board of Forestry. He will SUI
pervise the States operations In forest
preservation and cultivation and will act
as adviser to private woodland owners.
Mr. Gaskill will begin work shortly on the
%, 600 acre tract which the State has &C
quired near Tuckerton.
William Fox, of Indian Mills, while
going from that place to Medford with a
load of straw on Friday attempted to light
his pipe and in so doing set fire to the
straw, which was soon mass of flames. |
Mr.. Fox made a hasty retreat from his |
perch on top of the load and with the as
of bystanders, succeeded in dump.
ing the burning straw in the road, thus
saving the wagon and shelving.
Mrs. Amos Branin, who bought the
Karg property of about twenty acres
that formerly belonged to John D. Rock,
has decided to give portion of it to
Northampton township for the purpose of
making new outlet on Andersonville. |
This will connect Rutland and Clifton
avenues on the north. giving an outlet at
the railroad opposite to the driveway on
the railroad lot leading to High street.
The bridge committee of the board of
freeholders of Mercer county met with
similar committee from Burlington county
on Tuesday and discussed the advisability
of erecting a new bridge over the Cross
wicks creek at Crosswicks. After the con-
ference, both committees looked over the
bridge and decided to recommend a new
bridge to their respective boards. The
bridge is an old one. 1t was built in 1888
and is of the old, covered style. 1t has
outworn its usefulness. 1t crosses the
creek just between North and South
Crosswicks, on the dividing line between
the two counties.
On Wednesday night about II o'clock,
William p. Griffin, night Waterman, saw
three young men enter the waiting room
of the railroad station through window.
Believing them to be burglars he went to
the baggage room and sent in call to
police headquarters over the telephone.
Officers Branson and Severns responded,
and arriving at the scene were told that
the men had left the building. They were
arrested in the round house, and gave
the names of Joseph Kearney, Benjamin
Silverthorn and Zachary Koon, of Phil