The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-08-27
Rancocas Park will be in full operation

Out door stations for public use hay
been placed at certain points about tow
by the Bell Telephone Company.
Richard T. Kennedy, who has been
Mount Holly for several months, returne
ls yesterday to the Soldiers Home at Kearn,
The voters of Seaside Park decided, O
e Tuesday, to bond the borough to buy th
k light. water and sewer plants. The vol
It was 90 to 4.
1t A. A. Rogers. of Moorestown, sustain
ed broken leg and other injuries in
n runaway accident at Mt. Pocono, Pa, o
i Wednesday.
The Star Glass Works. of Medford
d will start up on September 8, If the i'm
n provements now under way are complete
by that time.
e Mrs. Sarah Wilkins, widow of the lat
: John Wilkins, of Mount Holly, is very II
at the home of Harry Murphy, on Noun
e Holly avenue.
Tomorrow is the last of the weekda,
special excursions to Long Branch. TIL
special Sunday trains will run until ant
! including September Is.
A watermelon weighing one hundred
pounds. belonging to George Kumple, O
Delanco, may be one of the exhibits a
the coming Mount Holly Fair.
Agents from the commission houses arr
negotiating for the Keifer pear crop ii
this county. They are buying whole
orchards, paying Is to 20 cents per bas
ket.
The recent illness of Alfred s. Wills and
daughter of Rancocas, after their return
home from Rancocas Park, is attributed to
some prepared ham which they purchased
at store.
Plans have been prepared for the new
schoolhouse to be built on West Washing
ton street. The specifications will be
ready in few days and bids will then be
asked for.
The annual convention of the New
Jersey State Firemen's Association will be
held at Wildwood, on Thursday and
Friday, September IL and 10, at the
Ocean Pier.
| George Taylor, of Indian Mills, says
that a strange animal attacked and near
ly killed his dog Wednesday night. 1t is
believed to have been the work of the
panther said to be providing in that
neig hborhood.
Game wardens would do we'll to keep
an eye on the marshes down the Rancocas
creek. 1t has been noticed that the shoot
| ing of blackbirds is also reducing the
number of reedbirds in that section.
Capt. Walter A. Barrows, of Mount
Holly, and Mrs. James Bramall, of River
side, were married at the latter place. on
Thursday afternoon. The cermony was
performed by Rev. James Fl. Durham,
son-in-law of the groom. The happy
couple will reside at Riverside.
Telling friends that she was off on a
shopping trip, Miss Elizabeth King,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis King. of
Florence, went to Burlington Thursday
morning and was married to William H.
Patterson, also of Florence. at the Metho-
dist parsonage by Rev. John w. Lynch.
Freebooter Joseph W. Ballinger, of
Medford, had a narrow escape. on Tues
day, by the runaway horses of Henry
Schonts striking his wagon and upsetting
it. Ballinger was thrown with great force
to the stone road in Medford. He
struck directly on his cheek. which was
badly lacerated, and the side of his face
was terribly bruised. He also sustained
injuries on his arm and other parts of his
body.
Miss Maize Brown, a young lady who
will soon graduate as trained nurse from
St. Mary's Hospital, at Passaic, was the
guest of Amos L. Poinsett, last week |
The girls father and Mr.. Poinsett were
stationed at Jefferson barracks, st. Louis,
while both were members of the Seventh |
cavalry during the civil war. Sergeant
Poinsett knew Maize when she was a
child five years old. She greatly enjoyed
her visit to Mount Holly.
Mrs. Sarah A. Rogers of Pemberton,
celebrated her ninetieth birthday ON Thurs
day by having family reunion at her home,
where gathered the children, grand-child-
dren and great grandchildren in celebra.
ton of the anniversary. A remarkable
woman for her age. Mrs. Rogers still is
hale and vigorous. She still manifests a
close interest in the doings of the world of
today, and reads her daily paper with as
much interest as any of the younger mem
bers of her family.
Miss Flossie Cooper will resign her po-
sition at the exchange of the Interstate
Telephone Company on September 1.
She will be succeeded at the exchange
by Miss Mabel Davis, of Madison ave-
nue. Miss Edna Herbert will leave
the Office of Superintendent Wagner
on September 1, and her place will be
filled by Miss Mary Grigg, stenographer.
Charles Shreve, who is connected with the
Interstate Company, will quit on Sep
TENDER /, and on the Goth of that month
he will enter Drexel Institute, Philadel-
phia.
While the cranberry crop is very pro-
missing, there are sections where the yield
will not be up to the average. An I'M
usually large number of pickers will be
employed, as there is fear that the cool
summer predicts an early frost. B. H.
Porter, of Chicago, one of the heavy buy
ers from the west, arrived In Mount Holly,
last week, and Immediately proceeded to
make an inspection of the boys. He says
the new sales company is meeting with
favor among the growers. There is every
assurance that the cranberry industry
this year will be attended with success If
conditions remain favorable.
There was a very pleasant gathering at
the home of Restore Lippincott, on
Washington street, on Thursday evening,
at which there were several guests from a
distance. Among those present were Mr..
and Mrs. John B. Lippincott, of New
Haven, Conn; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Austin,
Misses Pearl Austin, Lizzie Austin, Annie
Austin, Phoebe Austin. Frankfort, Ken
lucky; Mrs. W. H. Fielding and Master
Arthur and John Fielding, Camden; Mrs.
j. Dobbins and Elizabeth Dobbins, Phila-
delphia; Miss Mildred Lippincott and
Master Melchor Lippincott, Mount Holly.
Among the entertainment furnished the
guests was some piano selections by Mas