The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-06-08
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1909
LOCAL NEWS.

A steam vacuum cleaner was success
fully operated in the Methodist Church,
last week.
Social engraving, calling cards, wedding
invitations. announcements, etc. L. s.
Boyce, stationer.
The augmented choir of the Baptist
Church rendered fine musical service on
Sunday evening.
Roscoe F. Hendrickson, of Union Hill,
spent several days at his home In Mount
Holly last week.
The Office building erected on High
street by Benjamin w. Zelley is now
ready for occupancy.
Edward B. Jones has sold property
on Mill street to the present occupant,
Fred Schmidt, baker.
Whitall Monroe has been compelled to
give up his position with the railroad
bridge gang because of Ill health.
W. Russell Chance, student at Ran
dolph- Macon Academy, Va, has returned
At Miss Van Kinks school in Philadel-
phia, last week. Miss Elizabeth Cox, OF
Mount Holly, graduated In kindergarten
teaching.
At the end of the present month Joshua
Willitts, mail carrier between Bordentown
and Wrightstown, will retire after twelve
years service.
A supper for the benefit of the Metho-
dist Church at Indian Mills, will be given
at that place on Friday and Saturday
evenings of this week.
The fruit store of Harry Bowen, ON
High street, has been fitted up in very
attractive manner. A soda water foun-
tain has been installed.
Rosbachs, at Pemberton, have fine lot
of hardy plants. such as peonies, phlox,
roses, and many others, ready for imme-
diate planting, and an extra fine lot OF
bedding plants for later planting. .
Warden Howard Mathis, of New Gret-
ma, and Constable John Throckmorton, of
Mount Holly, haye been doing some ef-
fective work in arresting persons who
were caught fishing illegally on the Del
aware river.
Peter Corbett, car inspector, who was
recently crushed in the Pennsylvania
Railroad yard at Bordentown, while work
ing under car, died from his injuries in
st. Francis Hospital. Trenton. Wednes-
day night.
1t is probable that Danube sturgeon
will soon be placed In the Delaware river.
This fish grows to enormous size and
weight, and 900 to 800-pound fish are fire.
quently caught. An 600-pound fish will
give about 100 pounds of caviare, and
fresh caviare sells from 81 10 $40 pound.
Favorable action has been taken by the
township committee on the application of
r. P. Sword to have siding installed
from the railroad to his factory at the
foot of Holeman street, providing he ia
willing to pay all necessary expenses to
be incurred to attain that end.
New Lisbon is coming to the front as
a good place for catching pike and other
fish. The best reports heard this season
come from that place, from which pond
some large pike and catfish have been
taken. For quite while anglers In this
section found 1t useless to spend time
there, but now it is being patronized with
good success by fishermen from Burling-
ton, Florence and Bordentown.
A special election was held at New
Egypt on Tuesday night for the purpose
of raising funds necessary to secure fire
protection and water service for the town,
and to elect three water commissioners to
look after the disbursements of these
funds. The election resulted In an ap-
preparation of $40 for fire plug service,
and William Burtis, William T. Nash and
William Chambers, three of the towns
most prominent citizens, were elected
water commissioners.
Quartermaster General Murray has sent
out notice to the National Guard that
commencing this year at Sea Girt the sol
diers will be compelled to put up the
tents and take them down. This is in line
with the war department regulations, so
that the militia will know how to care
for themselves In the field. Heretofore
state camp employees have put up the
tents at the commencement of camp and
addition to being their own cooks, will
make the duties of guardsman more on
erous.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
New Jersey Bar Association will be held
In the Marlborough-Blen at Atlantic
City on June II and 10. The principal
address of the meeting will be delivered
by Associate Justice David j. Brewer of
the United States Supreme Court. Gov
ernor Fort and five ex-Governors have
been invited. The Chief Justice and all
the Judges of the Supreme Court have
also been invited, as well as the United
States Senators and congressman from
this state. The committee Of arrange
ments expects large attendance.
Sympathy seems to have been wasted
In efforts to provide home for Pauline
Moyd, of Philadelphia. who was taken In
by L. L. Plannett, Mount Holly grocer,
living on Monroe street. His attention
was attracted to the case by story pub
lished in daily newspaper. Pauline sold
shoe strings on Chestnut street, and of
those who passed by some one became in
terested, believing that good home In
the country would be better protection
for the girls future. After remaining at
the home of Mr.. Plannett for two days,
Pauline became dissatisfied at the loss of
the gaieties of city life, and she could not
be shaken in her determination to return
to Philadelphia.
Burlington Quarterly Meeting of
Friends held its summer session In the
historic old house of worship at Cross
wicks on Tuesday, with a large number
of Friends in attendance from Trenton,
Mount Holly, Burlington, Rancocas,
Columbus and other places. Well-known
visiting Friends present were Henry w.
Wilbur, secretary of the General Confer
ence Advancement Committee, and Sarah
T. Linwill, q minister Of Green Street
Monthly Meeting In Philadelphia, who