The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-04-05
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

The fifteen farmers who ship milk iron
Marlton haYe the care of 1872 cows.
Louis Troutman. of Mount Holly, spen
few days with his son at Riverside, las
week.
Spalding's base ball supplies at thei
lowest retail prices. L. s. Boyce, sportin,
goods.
Clifford L. Engle, living near Matacop
any bridge, Jacksonville. has removed t,
Mount Holly.
Ezra G. Engle has taken back his farm
stock, ETC., which he recently sold to Jess
Jones, near Masonville.
A two-seated surrey, buggy, set o.
single harness and blankets for sale. In
quire at THE NEWS office.
A number of Mount Holly young peopl,
attended dance in the Masonic Temple
Burlington, on Saturday evening.
Mrs. W. R. Hendrickson has been ap
pointed teacher at the Cream Ridge public
school, in place of William Sexton, who
resigned.
Rev. = Harper Leeper, of Media, Pa, 6
former pastor of the Presbyterian Church
attended the funeral OF Miss jamie Jamisor
on Tuesday.
At the Methodist Church, on Thursday
evening, ]. Harry Halt gave very pleas
ing Victrola concert under the auspices Of
the Ushers' Union.
Mary Haines, of Medford. fell In front
of the post Office at that place with such
force as to break both bones In her right
just above the wrist.
Rev. St. Clair Hathaway, rector OF
Christ Episcopal church, Bordentown, has
received call from St. Johns Episcopal
church, Norristown, Pa.
Some hard practice is being done by the
boys of the Y. NJ. G. A., who will give a
minstrel performance in the Opera House
on Thursday evening, May 5.
Having passed his examination with
credit, the honor of being Supreme
Court Commissioner has been conferred
upon Richard B. Eckman, of Mount
Holly.
Falling on the steps of his home at
Riverside, last week, Charles Orfe, three
years old, son of Mrs. Orfe, nearly severed
his tongue, requiring it to be stitched by
a physician.
The letters remaining unclaimed In the
post Office for the week ending April 2
are as follows: Foster Seed Co.. Mrs. 1. II.
Herbert, A. Love, Mrs. Amanda Hacker
Mrs. Catherine O'Brien.
Hannah w., widow of Solomon s. Mid
dleton, of Moorestown. aged SO years, was
buried on Thursday from the residence
of her niece, Mrs. Annie NJ. Stiles. In
terment was made In the Mount Holly
cemetery.
The stockholders of the New Egypt
Heat, Light, Power and Water Company
have elected these officers: President,
George L. Shinn; vice president, William
Chambers; secretary, John Meirs; treas
urer. William @. Jones.
The month of March just closed, &C.
cording to government weather reports
for this district, was peculiar in some
respects, there being no other March in
forty-six years with so little rain and
none 30 clear and with SO little wind. The
month came in like lamb and departed
In the same manner.
Burlington Lodge No. 80, F. and A. M,
held its annual reunion and ladies' night
on Thursday evening. A banquet was
served. and Rev. Henry R. Rose, of
Newark, who was one of the speakers at
the banquet recently held by Mount Holly
Lodge, delivered an illustrated lecture on
s'The Wisest and Wittiest American. Ben
jamin Franklin" Several guests were
present from Mount Holly.
at the annual meeting Tuesday even
ing the Moorestown Improvement Asso-
citation elected the following officers and
directors for the ensuing year: President,
B. W. Cooper; vice president, j. j. Hunt,
secretary, T. Lee Haines; treasurer, 81. G.
knight; executive committee, II. B.
Coles. ]. B. Buzby, James Hunt, Clement
Lippincott. T. q. D. Perkins, Mrs Gilbert
Aitken and Mrs. Joseph T. Bacon.
Josiah Rogers, an elderly citizen living
at Medford, has three pieces of paper
money in his possession that he prizes
highly. He got them from his father
about fifty years ago. One is for two
shillings, one for two shillings and six
pence and one is for eighteen pence. They
were issued under, an act of the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania and under the
authority of King George, III. of England.
They bear the British seal. Two of them
bear dates of 1776 and one 1772. They
are In good condition.
The Allentown Messenger says: "Our
friend M. Warner Hargrove, of Browns
Mills, has lately returned from a trip to
Cuba. Mr.. Hargrove does not seem inn
pressed with the land so long dominated
by Weyler, and, to be briefly descriptive,
he says it is godfersaken country. But
then he may have found their telephone
system out of order. or the land not
adapted to raising cranberries; or, again,
Cuba may have appeared to him as dan
gerous rival of Browns Mills as a winter
resort. Again 1t may have been godfor-
saken only temporarily"
William Morland, farmer, living on
the Rancocas road, two miles from Bever-
ly, while driving home one night last
week, ayers that he saw ghost coming
out of a nearby woods; that it stood in the
middle of the rood, causing his horse to
take fright and run a mile before he was
able to subdue 1t. Morland has a good
reputation for veracity. He says he was
wide awake when he saw the ghost. He
declares it was headless. When his horse
had galloped by the spectre Morland
glanced back and 1t still remained. Old
residents tell story of how 90 or rs
years ago young man took his life In the
same woods by blowing off his head with
a gun.
At meeting of the Friends Philanthro-
phic Society of Crosswicks, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year
President. Mrs. Laura N. Rogers; vice
president, Mrs. Virginia N. Middleton;
secretary, Miss Helen R. Robbins; treas.
urer, Miss Naomi w. Ellis; purchasing
committee, Miss Hannah De Cou and Miss
Della Dey. The net proceeds from q