The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-12-07
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUE sDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1909
LOCAL NEWS.
Boyce's, of course.


oero,s,v III at her home In Trenton.
Charles Evan Merritt, of Mount Holly
has sold house and lot in Juliustown t.
Wilmer Fennell for $3.50.
Christmas and New Year post cards ant
booklets. Our assortment Is large ant
beautiful. L S. Boyce. stationer.
The State Fish and Game Commission
has appointed George johnson, Of Ches
terrified township, deputy warden.
Amos l.. Poinsett is enjoying his an
nual visit to Washington. He was pres
emit at the opening of Congress yesterday
The Rancocas Grange will hold Its an
nual supper in the Masonic Temple, Noun
Holly, on the evenings of December Il
and is.
The remains of baby ten months ole
that died with gypsies camping neal
Cookstown. were taken to Elizabeth fol
burial.
The prize of s., 900 for the best piece Of
automobile road between New York anc
Atlanta, Ca. was awarded to Mercer
county, N. J.
George r. A. Brown has been elected
trustee, and Walter N. Kester and Gilbert
Longstreet deacons of the Baptist Church
at Jacobstown.
Through the influence of Mayor GaDei'
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, mas
contributed one hundred books to the new
public library at Bordentown.
The first meeting of the creditors of the
Standard Shoe Company will be held at
the Office of the Receiver, sO1 Market
street. Camden, to. morrow morning at IL
o'clock.
A bazaar and handkerchief sale for the
benefit of the Burlington County Hospi-
tai will be held to-day at 80 High street.
Suitable articles for Christmas gifts will
be offered for sale.
Because about one thousand houses
will have to be fitted up with sewer con.
nections from curb to building. at Bor-
dentown. a number of outside plumbers
are talking of locating in that city.
John Garrett is about again, having re-
covered from the bruises and Commissions
he received by falling from the roof OF
the Newbold property on Garden street, a
distance of thirty feet. His fall was
broken by striking grape arbor.
County Auditor Robert Peacock, OF
Florence, and Herbert 8. Killie. OF the
firm of Kelsey & Killie, real estate agents.
of Mount Holly, have given notice that
they will apply for admission to the Bar
at the next session of the Supreme Court
In February.
The most vital and essential factor in
the investment of your money is Safety.
An account with the Mount Holly Safe
Deposit g Trust Company means positive
security for your funds. as well as q liberal
rate of interest. Three per cent. interest
paid on time deposits.
With an authorized capital of $500, 900.
the International Poultry Sales Company,
organized at Browns Mills, has filed ar
ticles of incorporation in the County
Clerks office. The ineorporators are Joel
NJ. Foster, John j. Joline and Jonathan
II. Kelsey.
The Moore Brothers Foundry and Ma
chine Company, of Riverside, has filed ar
ticles of incorporation with the County
Clerk. The capital stock is $25, 900. The
incorporators are Lorenzo 81. Moore, ST.,
and Lorenzo H. Moore, Jr., of Riverside.
and Alfred Smith and Alfred W. Smith,
of Riverton.
Pontiac, famous race horse Of gen.
Grafton ago and winner of the Suburban
Handicap in 1885. died at the Rancocas
stock farm, Jobstown, last Monday. The
horse was foaled In 1881, was by Pere
Gomey, out of Agenoria, and was one of
the thoroughbreds that made the colors
of the late Pierre Lorilard famous.
Miss Ella Armstrong, q clerk at the
Mount Holly post Office, is highest can
didate in the contest for free trip to Ber-
muda now being conducted by the Burling-
ton Enterprise. On Friday her vote stood
SO, $50 against 36,623 secured by Miss
Katie Heisler, of Burlington township.
The next in order was Miss Lillian Page,
of Florence, with 81, 291 votes. The vote
announced yesterday was as follows: Miss
Armstrong, 44,S31; Miss Heisler, A, 1888;
Miss Page, 81, 1S1. For the five handsome
special prizes to be awarded the contest
ants, the vote stands: Miss Armstrong,
81, 1855; Miss Page, 27,0O5; Miss Heisler,
1850. The contest will close tomorrow.
Representatives of the town of River
side appeared last week before Vice Chan
cellor Leaning at Camden and asked for
an order compelling the Camden and
Trenton Railway Company to pay $40
delinquent franchise taxes. The COM
pany. which is in the hands of a receiver,
is behind on all its tax payments, and
Riverside is only one of a score of towns
which have entered claims. On the ground
that if the claim of Riverside was grant
ed all the other towns would at once,
with this as precedent. get orders on the
insolvent corporation, thus wrecking Its
involved assets, the Receiver pleaded
that Riverside be made to wait until the
affairs of the company are In better
condition. Decision was reserved.
A suspicion that not all of the whistle
shrieks from Pennsylvania Railroad en-
gines which pass through Edgewatel
Park are intended for danger signals, bu
that some of them have fiirtatious signif
canoe, has been aroused by an investiga
ton. The inquiry was started because Of
numerous complaints that the whistles
were unnecessarily loud and frequent
and had become such a nuisance as to re
ouire abatement. 1t was found that M
less than 800 toots day were on tn
program for regular trains that pass boil
ways, with few dozen extra agonies TO
some trains Then, it is alleged, it was foun'
that some toots were of such nature as t.
attract certain maidens to watch tn
trains, as though some member Of the creV
was carrying through the village hear
that yearned to stop off for mile or two
The improvement association will en-
deavor to suppress the nuisance on tn
ground that the unnecessary blowing G
the whistles damages the health and prop
erty of the people of the town.
A man said to be George Grant entere
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