The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-05

10 laying concrete floor and installing
machine for baling waste paper.
While attempting to pick up the fam
lily cat at his home on Washington
street ON Friday, the feline bit Eugene
L. Engle on the right hand. He had
the wound cauterized Immediately.
The stork was busy in Mount Holly
last week, leaving two sets of twins, one
set of boys at the home of Charles Swain
on Pine street, and the other pair were
girls at the home of Garfield Bozarth, on
Monroe street.
Weather report for the month of july.
as kept by Charles H. Estill, of Church
street: Clear days. IS; clear and cloudy.
3; rainy days with lightning and thun-
der, A; rainy days, 2; clear in the morn
ing with rain, hail, thunder and light
ming in the afternoon, 2.
William Harold Rogers, who has a
great reputation as vocal soloist and
vocal lmltatOr of musical instruments,
ETC., has been engaged to appear in the
Keith circuit of vaudeville theatres He
will be at the Philadelphia Keith house
during the week beginning August 18th.
Following is the list of unclaimed
mail remaining in the post Office for
the week ending August 2: Letters.
Mrs. hartman, Edward c. Foley, Miss
Florence Kline, (2), Joe Salmore; postals,
Jessie Klein, Miss Jennie Grimes, Miss
Minnie Rubie, Mrs. Kate Smith, Benie
Haines, Frank Sutton.
A. A. Anderson, real estate dealer, re-
ports the following sales: Mrs. Carrie n.
Denness to Henry Rosenfeld, property at
AZ Mill street; William II. Dobbins to
Frank L. Morton, three houses, 227, 229,
23l Washington street; William c. Sui
| Ivan To hr (Nloxronnror
wood street; George S. Maxwell to Sam
uel s. Bower, two houses, 80 and 35
Water street.
| There was fire shortly before noon
on Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Mary
Worthington on Miffiin street. Buckets
of water applied by neighbors settled
the trouble after a mattress had been
destroyed in one of the bed rooms. The
fire department was called out but did
| not get into service, as the blaze was ex-
| tinguished before the various companies
reached the scene. The origin of the
fire is not known.
large threshing barn on the farm of
John Meany at Jobstown, was DESTROYED
by fire on Saturday evening, causing a |
loss OF about $4,000, on which there was
no insurance. 1t is thought that the |
names started from spontaneous COM |
Dusuon All the rye, machinery, har-
ness and other contents were consumed. 1
the horses alone being saved. The sea-
sons crops were in the new barn which |
did not catch fire.
While in Burlington on Friday even |
ing, Assemblyman Robert Peacock had !
his life threatened because of the allega- |
ton that on the previous night his auto
mobile had run over and killed a valua-
bic dog that was being cared for by DIR. |
William A. Fitzpatrick, formerly of |
Mount Holly. The latter drew a revolt
yer and tried to kill the lawyer, but by
ISLANDERS disarmed the Infatuated man,
who was arrested ON charge of assault |
and battery with intent to kill and for
carrying concealed weapons.
w. S. Gale has begun work on the
new concrete walk to be laid at the High
School building. The county will CON
crete the sidewalk of the Buttonwood
street bridge, and it is probable that
other property owners in the neighbor-
hood will lay concrete walks. These
cost little at first but they are "a thing
of beauty and a Joy forever" and the
satisfaction of having nice surrounding
to property and the benefit conferred
on these who have occasion to use the
walk amply compensate for the small
outlay that is necessary to first cost.
Somebody should be getting busy and
inspect the condition of the poles sup
porting lighting and telephone wires in
Mount Holly. Yesterday afternoon,
without any warning, two poles on
Church street fell. Opposite one of them
three children were playing and the pole
fell just sufficiently to the side of them
to prevent a possible fatal accident. The
team of George Wills, of Columbus, was
standing along the street, and this also
narrowly escaped being hit by one of the
poles. The wires fell on the horse and
made the animal somewhat FESTIVE for a
time. There is no doubt there are other
poles in town which are rotten or weak
at the base and general inspection
should be made.
At the Court House. on Tuesday. JUS
tice Slack heard testimony in the suit of
Joseph A. Devlin, of Moorestown, vssl
Abraham Saltzman, of Mount Holly.
The action was to recover damages as
the result of an automobile collision
which occurred several weeks ago at the
corner of Mill and Pine streets. The
evidence showed that Deylin was driv-
ing on the wrong side of the street and
he lost his case, the jury rendering a
verdict of no cause of action. This case
was started with jury of twelve men.
During the trial there was an alarm of
fire, and upon his request to be excused,
Lorenzo l., Sapp, chief of the depart
ment, was relieved from further service
by agreement of counsel.
The merchants on High street petit
toned the township committee to wash
the street pavement three nights each
week, one Of the nights to be Saturday
1t is impossible to accede to this request
for two reasons, one being the lack of
funds to pay for the water and the second
being that the water company will not
allow the plugs to be used for flushing
on Saturday nights, as that would ne
cessitate Sunday pumping. The town.
ship committee, however, has ordered
that the flushing be done Thursday
nights and every Saturday after mid
night sweeper will gather up the rub
bish that accumulates. To aid in this
work it is requested that the owner of
every property on High street between
Garden and Mill sweep the sidewalk off
after the stores close. This will make
clean sidewalks as well as street pave
ment.
The Federation of Catholic Societies of
Burlington county had most delight
full picnic at Rancocas Park on Thurs
day, which attracted over two thousand
people to that resort. A pleasant feature
of the occasion was the presence of Bish-
OPP McFaul, of Trenton, who made
speech in the afternoon that command
ed the attention of interested listeners.
The afternoon attractions opened with a
series of athletic sports. A boys run
ming race was won by James McFadden,
of Burlington; girls running race by
Minnie Missmann, of Lenola sack race
by Paul Fairbrother, of Riverside; three
legged race bV Paul Fairbrother and
William Grady, of Riverside; ladies race
by Mary Flynn, of Mount Holly; mems
running race by Michael Martin, of Bur-
lington; fat mems race by Patrick Me
Hugh, of b arlington. William T. Grit
fin, of Mount Holly, was awarded the
prize offered in the jig dancing contest,
for which music was furnished by some |
bagpipers from Philadelphia. There was
also holly contested base ball game |
between teams composed of Riverfront |
and Backwoods players, won by the
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