The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
st. Andrews Sunday school picnic will

81 st. Andrews Sunday school picnic will
: be held at Rancocas Park on Thursday.
Mrs. Samuel Lamb, of Wrightstown, is
, recovering from severe attack of measles.
Miss Anna Rockhill, of Columbus
; visited Mount Holly relatives on Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mr.. 81. C. Wagner, who spent
last week at Atlantic City, returned home
yesterday.
For sale-four mortgages, 81 900, 81, 500.
5000, $3.50. paying five per cent net. A.
A. Anderson.
The former James Logan property, on
Pine street, has been purchased by DR.. ].
Ridgway Haines
Plants for the flower and vegetable
: garden in all desirable varieties, at Ros-
bach's, Pemberton.
Albert Shultz of Philadelphia has
bought of ]. ]. Fenstermacher the Ryan
property at Lumberton.
Mrs. Sarah B. Smith. of New Bruins
wick, formerly of Mount Holly, is i'll
from stroke of paralysis.
William Anderson, of Taunton, aged is
years, has broken arm, the result of
falling out of hay NOW.
On wednesday, at the Burlington Coun-
ty Hospital. Miss Emma Assay was ope-
rated on for appendicitis.
| la IS - hon
purchased by William p Lippincott from
the heirs of Enoch Hollingshead, de-
ceased.
The annual picnic of the Pomona
Grange will be held at Rancocas Park on
Thursday, July 80 This event will prob
ably draw to the park It's largest crowd of
the season.
F. s. Weaver and family. of Pittsburg,
have rented the Theodore B. Gaskill farm
near Birmingham for the summer, and are
already there. Mr. Weaver was formerly
proprietor of the Weaver Manufacturing
Company, of Mount Holly.
| August G. Stecher, for a number of
years postmaster of Riverside. died last
evening from enlargement of the liver,
Mr. Stecher represented Burlington county
in the House of Assembly in the year
1894 He was AZ years of age and is sur
vived by widow, four sons and three
daughters.
Mrs William Austin, of Madison ave-
nue., was taken i'll on Saturday afternoon,
| and in her haste to take medicine she got |
hold of the wrong bottle and took some |
poisonous tablets On discovering her |
mistake she summoned medical aid and |
after heroic treatment she was pronounced !
out of danger.
From an Inventory fled in the Surro-
gates Office, 1t is shown that in the estate |
of Charles M. Sloan, deceased, of Mount
Holly, the personal estate is valued at
81, 056 &c. and in the estate of Mary |
Josephine Sims deceased, of Mount Holly, |
$15, 0OO All of the estate is to be equally |
divided between the surviving sons.
Charles A. Rudolph, proprietor of q
beer wagon, and Robert Watson, his
driver, were brought before Justice Slack,
at Mount Holly, last evening, by Con
stable Peak, of Medford, who charged
the defendants with carrying on illegal
sales of liquor in the neighborhood of the
their appearance at court, bail being fixed
at $500 each.
After being Is days on the road from
Norwich, Conn, the launch purchased by
A Lincoln Sailer arrived in Mount Holly
yesterday. 1t was shipped in eleven sec
tions and will not be put together In time
for service this year. 1t weighs 2,4OO
pounds, is 30 feet long and feet beam.
The boat will be equipped with 20-horse
power four cylinder gasoline engine, and
will have a speed of about 16 miles an
hour. The stern is to be fitted with COM
Portable chairs. When completed the boat
will cost about 81, 500.
There is to be reorganization of the
Mount Holly Boat Club, and in few
days Commodore James Comfy will send
out notices to this effect. On the roster
of the new organization will be included
not only the names of many citizens but
all owners of launches. Most of these
boats are moored to new wharves built
along Charles street. When the new dam
is built canoe club will be organized.
and the canoes kept in Hacks boat house.
This will revive interest in aquatic sports
on the upper Rancocas creek.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Mount Holly Water Company, last night,
a contract was awarded to j. Frank Bar
Der. of Philadelphia, for the erection of
a concrete dam, with gates, to take the
place of the wooden structure that was
washed away several years ago. The
work will start at once and Is to be fin
ished by the last of September. When
the job is done there will be the same
head of water In the upper creek as be-
fore, which will flush the raceway run.
ming between Mill and Church streets.
Philip Garvan, of Philadelphia, and
Maria Teddy, of Mount Holly. were mar
ried at the rectory of the Sacred Heart
Church, Wednesday evening, by Rev. P.
j. Hart. The happy pair Immediately
proceeded to occupy their new home in
the city. There was quite romance con
nected with this marriage While attend
ing school In Ireland the pair fell in love.
Later in life they drifted to this country
and renewed their friendship, resulting in
a marriage engagement. The bride had
worked fer Mrs John r. Howell for a
dozen years. On Wednesday morning
she left the house, and note found on
table gave the reason for absence. as
Maria said she was going to get married.
A tree is causing much discussion. 1t
is situated on the corner of Broad and
Button wood streets and is in such posi-
ton that 1t is exactly in the path of those
who use the sidewalk on Broad street.
The township committee has voted the
tree an encroachment and ordered that
1t be cut down. Mrs Evans X
Tomlinson, who owns the property on
which the tree Is located, says 1t will stay
right where it is. Those owning property
on the north SIDE OF Broad SCreeJ say Inelf
deeds give title to the present curb line
and that the township has never had side
walk or curb lines established, the side
walk being put down at the pleasure of
the property owners. They say If such |
lines were laid by the committee the side
walk would be beyond the present curb
lines. and then this tree would not be In
the way of any one.
The Fourth of July.
Saturday will be the day when there |
will be general holiday and lots of noise. |
There is considerable sickness in Mount |
Holly and the township committee will |
make an effort to have the previous night |
as quiet as possible. proclamation |
against the sale of crackers and other ex |
plosives has been issued and extra police |
will be put on duty Friday evening and |
all day Saturday
THE News does not desire to curtail the