The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31

Iord, were visiting relatives In Mount
Holly last week.
At his boat house on Mill street, Ed
ward Hack has added canoe for the &C.
g commodation of his patrons.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Holt, of Cherry
street, returned from Washington last
: week where they have been visiting their
g son.
Cooper Hospital, Camden, N. j., de-
sires limited number of pupil nurses
must have 1rst-class recommendations.
= Apply to Superintendent of Nurses.
By the accidental discharge of revolt
yer which he was handling on Tuesday,
Daniel Warner, Jr., of Bordentown, in
fiicted severe wound in his right leg.
The Mount Holly Water Company has
placed two electric lights on the new pit
containing the water wheels. They are
much appreciated by those canoeing at
night.
Captain Lowden closed his fishing sea-
/ son at the Dutch Neck fishery on Satur-
day. The catch of shad has been up to |
the average, but the herring has been |
taken in smaller numbers than usual.
There will be a strawberry festival at
the home of l. Fl. Lippincott, No. II Gar
den street, on Thursday evening, for the
benefit of the Methodist church. Home
made ice cream and cake will be served.
Charles R. Ellis, of Bordentown, has
been granted an absolute divorce from his
wife. Clara Marie Ellis on the grounds of
desertion. Mr.. Ellis was represented by !
Attorney s. F. Garrison. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellis were married at Dansville, N. Y, In
1873.
In honor of his birthday Rev. George
L. Harris, rector of the Methodist church,
Invited all the HfflQ hove nd nr;rl Of ho
primary department to attend his party
which was held on Tuesday afternoon in
the parsonage. They all had very enjoy
able time.
The following unclaimed letters remain
In the post office for week ending May %:
Miss Ida Barnett, Mrs. John Britton, A.
]. Biddle. Foster Seed Co., Comestraire
Girolano, Mrs. Mary Smath. Postals for
Mrs. A. G. McGonigale, Mrs. Bella Ross,
Harry E. Jones.
| The element of financial security ap-
peals more and more to thoughtful tests-
tors and it will be to your advantage to
appoint the Burlington County Safe De-
post and Trust Company, Moorestown,
as your executor, trustee or guardian
They are giving to the public every safe
guard possible to devise.
Quite a number of people In Mount ]
Holly saw the comet on Thursday evening
1t has been a sort of one-ring circus, and ,
circus In hard luck at that. The biggest ,
part Of the comet was the advance ad-
vertising which 1t received. Anybody :
who would get scared and lose sleep over :
such comet deserved all the fright they !
got.
Harry E. Dubell, director of the Board
of Freeholders, Earl Thomson, county en-
gineer, and the advisory bridge committee, :
met In the County Collectors office on :
Friday, and after bids had been opened q /
contract was awarded to B. F., Sweeten d ;
Son, OF Camden, to put in pile tenders at
the Hainesport draw bridge. The contract
price is $2,09S. 40.
Mrs. Mary Forker, of Trenton, aged SO :
years, was buried last week. The deceased.
devoted member of the Baptist faith, =
was the widow of the late John Forker, a 2
Mount Holly carpenter, at which place
she was married to him when seventeen
years of age and after she had completed I
her education here. Deceased was a
native of Philadelphia. c
Miss Ethel May Marter, daughter of !
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Marter, of Wood =
land avenue, Edgewater Park, was mar '
ried to Herbert ]. Reeves, of New Lisbon,
at the parsonage of NJ E. church, at Bur-
lington, on Saturday. Rev. @. s. Lawrence q
|
mother was matron of honor. The we'd :
ding was very quiet affair. The couple )
will reside In Pemberton.
Exorbitant rates and their refusal to in l
stal free fire alarm system are among
the faults which the common council of
Beverly seek to correct in the application q
of the Delaware and AtIantice Telephone '
Company for a perpetual franchise and e
exclusive right to Warren street for its ;
transit line. In the latter proposition the /
city sees scheme to keep any rival COM I
pany from doing business In that place.
Drivers of wagons along the public
highways should bear In mind that the law !,
provides that they shall turn the to right I
In letting automobiles pass by. 1t is often )
difficult for driver of car to know to
which side of the road the horse and =
wagon is going. An accident to a wagon :
that had turned from the road the wrong !.
way would lose to the owner any chance
of getting damages. Always keep to the
right and you are very apt to keep out of
trouble.
Ellis 81. Parker, W. Roland Warrick =
and Walter T. Stewart, with the latter as /,
manager, are the incorporators of the '
Mount Holly Garage company, which has !
an authorized capital of 100000. The +
concern Is now engaged In the erection of | :
brick garage, 110x50 it., at the corner
of King and West Washington streets ,
One of the features is modern machine
shop which will be included in the build y
ing. All the appointments will be COM
plete, and line of automobile supplies
will be carried.
Evan F. Benners, of Moorestown, sup II
ervisor of the census for the Second Con- (
gressional district, states that he expects
to haYe his whole territory cleaned up j
completely by June 10. 'sIt is all hot air." '
said the supervisor, "as to the population e
of the various townships which is being t
given out, for no one has the authority 8
to tell any figures, and have so instruct
ed the enumerators. will say, however,
that both Chester township and Moores 1
town both show an increase over 1900 and {
1905, and shall shortly ask the depart d
ment for permission to give the figures /
out" '
Drs. Marcy, of Riverton, and Parry, of y
Hainesport, representing the Burlington t
County Medical Society, met the Finance a
and Asylum committees of the Board of t
Freeholders Wednesday, at the Office of }
DR.. j. B. Cassidy, in Burlington. The t
physicians ask that their fee for commit q
ting persons to the Insane Hospital be c
increased, now being So They also want C
the county to pay the rs cents the Justices O
charge for taking their sff1davits. The
medical men would like to have S. for c
each case but giving various reasons why !
an increase would be made. The Free :
holders committees promised to bring the :
matter before the Board at their next !
meeting.
A bill introduced In Congress provides I
for general increase of all existing pen I
sions to soldiers, on the ground that t
ground that the prices of commodities i
have risen so rapidly that the purchasing !
power of pension money is far less than {
when the rates were fixed. The bill pro- !
vides that pensions up to $12 a month !
shall be increased by one-third, up to $16 2
a month by one-fourth and so on In pro- I
portion. The organization which is back :
ing the bill asserts that the inmates of
poorhouses now live better than pension
er who is getting only $12 month. 1t is I
estimated that the bill, If enacted into c
law, would increase the annual cost of
pensions $40, 100000 1t isn't expected
that this bill be advanced very far toward l
passage this session.
The speed programme of the Mount I
Holly Fair, to be held on October 4, 8, BIZ
and z, will include sixteen fine trotting !