The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-10-05
Sea Side Park Heights.

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lie brass band at Florence.
u Miss Margaret B. Parsons is one of thu
scholars at Bishopthorpe Seminary, Soutf
Bethlehem, Pa. She left Mount Holly or
a Friday.
Samuel Harrison, of Moorestown, Is 6
patient at the German Hospital, Philadel
phia, recoveringi from an operation fol
appendicitis.
The base ball clubs of the Relief and
Good Intent fire companies will play q
game on the High street grounds next
Saturday afternoon.
Farmers day at the Mount Holly Fair
may have some effect on the meeting of
the Board of Freeholders, which will be
held at the Court House tomorrow.
Charles II. Estill, ST., presents the fol-
lowing as the weather report for August:
Clear days, o; clear and cloudy, 10; clear,
cloudy and rain, 8; rain all day and night,
; II.
James Mullen, who has been an inmate
returned to Mount Holly last week. He
has trouble with his feet and is compelled
to use crutches.
There was collision Of bicycles at Riv-
erside on Friday morning between Joseph
Swartz and Edward Fortnum, In which
the latter was badly cut and bruised. The
Injured man remained unconscious for
nearly an hour.
The Trust Department of The BURLINe-
TON COUNTY SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST
COMPANY. Moorestown, N. j., is fully
equipped to handle nduciary business of
every kind, and seeks appointment as
executor, administrator. and guardian,
assignee and receiver, registrar, transfer
and fiscal agent. and as trustee for individ-
uals and corporations.
The canning factory of Jones & Co.. on
King street, has been very busy during
the past three weeks putting up tomatoes.
At times the receipts were more than
could be conveniently handled. as a con-
sequence hundreds of baskets were stack
ed in the yard, and strings of wagons
formed long line waiting on the streets
to be unloeded.
The committee selected from among the
creditors to examine the books Of the
Standard Shoe Company, which concern
recently announced its inability to pay its
debts, have included in their report a re-
commentator, which has been approved
by many creditors, that the company be
granted an extension of six months. If at
the end of that time the conditions are
found to be favorable, another extension
will be granted. The continuance of
business will be conducted under trustee |
ship, providing the signatures of all the
creditors can be secured.
At the Grange Hall in Burlington
Thursday evening, Burlington Den No. 2,
Fraternal Order of American Lions, was
instituted by the Supreme Officers of the
Order. About thirty strangers entered
the portals of the Den, and were made
Kings of the Forest. The officers elected
to fill the respective positions in the new
Den were duly installed by Supreme Com |
mander Hon. Charles Fl. Ellis, Mayor of
the City Of Camden, assisted by Supreme
Commander DIR. R. s. Molin, William B.
Knight and uniform rank of twenty five |
members, after which banquet was SER
we'd by Captain Stone Next meeting will
be held Wednesday evening, October 10,
when about sixty strangers will be made
Kings of the Forest Great interest was
manifested, and the new lodge promises to
become leader in this county. Clifford
s. Price was appointed Supreme deputy.
The Methodist Episcopal church of Bev-
erly was the scene of very quiet and very
pretty wedding on Thursday afternoon.
when Miss Lydia Ella Nicholson was
united in marriage to Ralph 9. Fish. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. T. ]. ].
Wright, pastor of the M. E. Church, sand
was witnessed by only the immediate
members of both families. Immediately
after the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Fish left
on an extended wedding trip to the west,
and on their return will reside In Beverly.
The bride wore beautiful gray riding
suit. Mrs Fish Is a well known member
of Beverly society; Is graduate OF the
State Normal school and has for several
years been teacher in the Farnum Pre-
paratory school in Beverly. Mr.. Fish is
prominently connected with the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, holding an important
position In the Broad street station, Phila-
delphia.
When William Fowler, of Burlington,
goes travelling again he will be very care
full whom he picks up on the way. On
Thursday Fowler went to the Trenton fair
and on the trolley he made the acquaint-
ance of a man who represented himself to
be Thomas Jackson, of the Prudential
Life Insurance Company, of New York
city. Jackson was apparently all right,
and the two young men spent very
pleasant day together. In the evening
they engaged room in house on Bank
street, Trenton, and spent the night to-
gether there. When Fowler awoke the
next morning he found his friend" had
disappeared and also a silver watch,
gold watch and chain and locket be
longing to him. Fowler at once notified
the police of the Central Police station
and an effort is being made tolocate Jack
son, but so far nothing has been ascertain
ed as to his whereabouts.
Claiming that unknown spirit hands had
repeatedly filed his chicken coop with
fowls from neighbors' flocks, John Wish
noskey, of East Burlington, arrested for
wholesale chicken stealing on complaint
of Sylvester Wiley, farmer who had lost
over 100 broilers and capons, sought to
explain how he came TO be selling other
chickens throughout the Polish colony.
The prisoners unique defence did not
convince the court, and Wishnoskey was
held under heavy bail for the grand Jury
by Magistrate Smith. Wishnoskey, when
arrested, denied all knowledge of the thefts
which have aroused farmers in the vicinity.
He wanted the disputed chickens liberated
between his yard and farms of his &C
cusers, but the court refused to test the
proverb that chickens will come home to
roost," after hearing expert poultrymen
assert that fowls confined for a week In