The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-15

moorestoWn, celebrated his 74th birthds
> on Thursday.
Robert Sweeney. of Florence, pickle
: some ripe strawberries from his father
garden ON Thursday.
A number of Mount Holly people a
: tended the Yale-Princeton foot ball gan
at Princeton on Saturday.
A district meeting. of the Patriotic o.
I der Sons of America will be held at Roel
ling on Thanksgiving night.
, The usual Republican Publications
Mount Holly, on Tuesday night, wei
omitted by force of circumstances.
The engagement has been announced
William w. Young, of Burlington, I
Miss Irene Wunder, of Philadelphia.
The fourth annual farmers picnic, b
the Sheperds of Bethlehem, will be hel
In their lodge room next Monday night.
County Solicitor Budd NJ Rigg was III
able to leave his home at Florence, O
Thursday, owing to an attack Of indigei
ton.
The ladies of the Methodist Church wi
hold their annual supper In the Masoni
Temple on Friday and Saturday evening
of this week.
The commandery of Merchantvill
Camp, P. o. 8. of A., will make a frater
nal visit to the camp in Mount Holly OF
Thursday evening.
Edward Quigg, of Burlington, who is
patient at the county insane asylum, ha
fallen heir to about $4,000 by the dealt
of an uncle In Philadelphia.
A very interesting address on the sub
| ject of temperance was delivered in the
Presbyterian Church, on Friday night, BY
Mrs. Addie Parsells. of Philadelphia.
| The old clock that went on a strike al
the post Office has been put out of com
mission. 1t has been supplanted by new
timepiece ON which more dependence can
be placed.
| ing heavily upon Thomas Elbertson, cor
ner of Union street and Mount Holly
avenue. 1t Is only at times now that he
can recognize members of his family.
The Lumberton Fire Company will hold
a fair and festival for three nights, be.
ginning on February 10. The money
thus derived will be used toward furnish
ing the meeting room in their own build
ing.
The home of Mrs. Edward Godfrey, of
Moorestown, was turned into a hospital
as the result of runaway accident while
out driving. The mother had a shoulder
blade fractured and her children were cut
and bruised.
The next meeting of the Young Friends
Association will be held tomorrow even
ing at the meeting house, corner of High
and Garden streets. The Association will
be entertained by Carrie Engle and
Josephine Scattergood.
Members in this vicinity will attend a
session of Rancscas Grange to be held to-
morrow night. A box social will be a
feature of the programme, and the boxes
to be filled with good things to eat by the
ladies are to be sold to the highest bidder.
The custody of their child, aged FIVE
years, and So per week alimoNy are the
conditions accompanying a divorce which
has been granted by Vice Chancellor
Leaning. of Camden. to Julia G. Rapp,
of Bridgeboro, from her husband, Clar-
ence v. Rapp.
A great many men In the state, on Tues
day, voted the Democratic ticket with the
idea that If 1t was elected the prices of
what they have to buy will be reduced
almost Immediately, and they will be
greatly disappointed If this is not the
result
Money has been offered to any person
who will beat the record established by
Joseph Hopkins, employed on the Bruere
farm near New Egypt. He husked 90
stacks of corn and bound and stacked the
stalks in less than ten hours. The corn
was of good quality and cut SO hills to
the stack.
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Assay, on Bispham street, at T. 80 o'clock
Thursday evening, occurred the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Elsie L. Assay,
and Lindley H. Fillins, formerly of Cam
den. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. George T. Harris, pastor of the NJ
E. Church. Miss Emma M. Assay, sis
ter, was the bridesmaid, and Frank ].
Whalen, of Camden, best man.
John G. r. Rodgers died at his home at
Hainesport, yesterday, after few days
illness with pneumonia. Mr.. Rodgers for
many years was in the hardware business
In West Philadelphia. About fifteen years
ago he erected home in Hainesport and
took up his residence there. A few years
ago he retired from active business. Mr..
Rodgers was Past Exalted Ruler of
Mount Holly Lodge of Elks, and was a
very active and energetic member of the
lodge. He was born In Philadelphia on
March 2, 1S49, and will be buried there on
Friday.
Feeling Ill on Thursday evening, John
L. Severns, a member of the local police
force. entered Dubell's drug store and
asked for some medicine. Going out by
the rear door he fell unconscious at the
corner of High and Washington streets
from vertigo. He soon revived after being
carried back into the store. Under the
belief that be had been attacked by some
person, the officer wanted to protect him
self from an imaginary foe, but he was
restrained until the return of conscious
ness and then he went home. His head
was painfully cut by the fall Recently
Mr.. Severns was attacked with pleurisy
and threatened with pneumonia. He left
the house before he was strong enough to
resume duty.
Hainesport people have been interested
in news coming from st. Louis, Mo-,
since Joseph E. Engle and wife went
there to visit their son. The first trouble
came to Mrs. Engle, who was paid 800
for injuries which she received in troll
ley accident. Her husband had the next
unpleasant experience. having been robbed
by pickpocket. who got $50 cash and a
check signed in blank. The thief made
use of the latter, filing 1t in for $500.
AS payment had been stopped, however.
there was nothing doing when the check
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