The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-25

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ton of the good feeling entertained b
the congregation for their minister
Among the guests were Rev. Walter Vel
and wife, of Riverside.
Burlington.
On Sunday evening the o'clock cas-
bound car of the Camden and Trenton
line had one of its axle boxes on fire as
passed through town. The flames were
yard long when the car was In motion
The conductor was made aware of tn,
condition of his car as he passed dowI
High street by some people who wer,
standing on Bowen's corner. Water wal
thrown on the fire when the car wa.
brought to standstill below Union street
extinguishing the flames.
ST. Paul's Church was the scene of &
pretty wedding Wednesday when Miss
Sarah Heraty, of 346 East Peal street, be
came the wife of Thomas Leyden, popu
lar young gas filter employed by the Pub
lie Service Corporation. The wedding
was solemnized at 2 P. M. by Rev. Henry
Russi in the presence of large Assem-
blage of relatives and friends, the bride
being attended by her sister, Miss Kate
Heraty, and the groom by his brother,
James Leyden. Immediately after the
wedding reception and dinner was held
at the home of the bride, the happy couple
leaving In the afternoon for tripin which
they will visit relatives and friends in Mt.
Carmel and other cities in the coal regions
of Pennsylvania.
Fire eff alleged incendiary origin destroy
ed the grain and feed store house of Amos
K. Ashby along the creek front at Pearl
street bridge in East Burlington at 1
o'clock Wednesday morning. The blaze
was discovered by passengers ON a late
trolley car from Trenton to this city and
had already gained considerable Roadway
when the alarm was sent in. The build
ing was mass of flames when the firemen
arrived on the scene, and they turned
their attention to saving the office at the
coal yards of W G. Jones' A freight car
which stood on the siding next to the grain
storage was partly burned before it was
pulled away from the fire by drill engine.
Seventy-fve barrels of flour and twenty
bales of hay, with other stock, were de-
stroyed and the building itself was burned
almost to the ground before the streams
from the fire engines extinguished the
famoo An invootir q tion Ohoms chat Az.
fire started on the creek side and there is a
strong belief that the building was set on
fire. The LOGS has not yet been estimated,
but will probably reach $4,000. OF this
amount there is insurance on the building
of $1,000 and $500 ON the stock.
The annual picnic of the FIRST Baptist
Sunday School was held in the Fountain
Woods Tuesday and was marked by the
sociability land royal good times that are
of the Baptist outings.
Many little folks went out in the wagons
which left the Baptist Church at $50
o'clock Tuesday morning and had full
days fun In the woods. A big dinner
was served under the trees at the noon
hour and the children did justice to the
piles of sandwiches and the many picnic
delicacies with which the tables were
laden. There were many visitors at the
picnic grounds during the afternoon when
the children played at drop the handker-
chief and the older folks made the merry
round of the bingo circle or Joined in the
many other oldfashioned picnic games
flowed In rivers and many bas-
kets piled high with cake were distributed
am ong the crowds of children and grown
folks during the late afternoon. Tired
but happy from their days fun the picnic
ers returned to the city soon after Z
o'clock. There were twelve wagon loads
of them and they made the streets ring
with their songs and merry shouts as they
passed through town to the church where
they disbanded.
Colonel P. Kearns and A. G. Faust re-
tired Wednesday from the Stuart & Peter
son Company. having sold out to syndi-
cate headed by George E. Shaw, president
of the Western National Bank, of Phila-
delphia, that will continue the business at
the old stand and it is expected greatly en-
large it. The capital stock of this COM
pany is 800, 900 with a bond issue of $780,
600, and their output is shipped to all
parts of the United States. The present
payroll of the Stuart & Peterson Company
is almost thousand dollars per week,
totaling about $50. 900 per year, SO that the
people of Burlington can form an estimate
of the large value this concern has been
to the city since they moved here-the
cost of their removal to Burlington, which
was paid by contributions from the people
having long since been buried in profit to
the town. These gentlemen, Messrs
Kearns and Faust, who have been identi
fed with Burlington social and business
life since they moved the business here
fifteen to twenty years ago, have made no
plans for the future, and being fond of
the city, expect to continue their homes
here