The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-09-27

Q. Obergfull, both Of Riverside, are TO
I married tomorrow evening.
: II is rumored that the Public ServiC
Corporation will shortly take over tn
Riverside Traction Company.
Leslie Southgate, employed at Dubell
drug store, Is now student at the Phi
adelphia College of Pharmacy.
George Parker, of Lumberton, was take
to the Burlington County Hospital o.
Sunday, suffering with typhoid fever.
Saltzman's Fall opening of miliiner7
and ready-made garments takes place Oh
Friday and Saturday. Sept. 80 and Oct. 1.
FoR SALE irst-class cedar siding
shingles; also single and plastering lath
Apply to George w. A. French, Noun
Holly. At
The children will be given day at the
great Mount Holly Fair on Tuesday, DC
tober d, 1910. Let them go and enjoy
themselves.
By the will of the late Richard P. Hole
man, of Mount Holly, the Moorestowr
Safe Deposit and Trust Company named
as executor of the estate.
The fifth and sixth degrees will be con
ferred at special meeting of the county
grangers to be held at Burlington on Sat
urday evening, October 1.
| The candidates for Governor will be al
the fair grounds on Thursday of next
week. There will be other prominent
people present on that day.
The Circulating Library of the Burling-
ton County Lyceum will open in the
afternoon from two O'Clock until five,
beginning Monday. October Sd.
Mrs. William G. Wetherill, of Union
street, was taken by surprise Wednesday
evening, when friends called and rendered
reception In honor of her birthday.
Conclusion of the brain followed an In
jury received by Edgar, son Of Thomas
Buzby, of Rancocas, who was kicked by a
colt. The boy is coming around all right.
The entries in the speed department at
the Mount Holly Fair are larger than ever
this year, and there have been some
pretty long strings of horses here in for
mer years.,
Jacob Tribolet, of Chicago, who was re-
Gently struck and killed by an automobile.
left an estate valued at $15, 900. Deceased
has brothers living at Hainesport and
WOODLAND.
Joe Seymour, In Curtiss biplane, will
positively be at the Mount Holly fair next
week. He will not fly on Tuesday, but
will give exhibitions on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
George Bishop and Miss Cora Miller,
both of Florence, were married at the
latter place, on Thursday evening, by
Rev. G. V. D. Conover. Miss Pearl Miller
and Frank Petit were the attendants.
Mrs. Anna M. Reeves, who has lived In
one house ON Mt Vernon street, Phila-
delphia, for nearly fifty years. removed to
Mount Holly, last week, where she will
make her home in the future.
On Wednesday train crew reported
that dead man was lying along the rail-
road track at Long Crossing. near Hart
ford. When track walker was despatched
to the scene, he found that the man was
not dead, but drunk.
Road overseer John Powell and force
of men have cleaned the surface dirt from
that portion Of Union street lying east of
Cherry street. Wagon ruts which were
cut In the centre of the road have been
filled with crushed stone and covered with
dirt.
A Book of Record.-A Checking Ac-
count systematizes business transactions.
Your check book contains the record of
deposits and payments to which you may
often need to refer. The Mount Holly
Safe Deposit & Trust Company cordially
invites your account, subject to check.
A civil service examination will be held
a. Moorestown, on Saturday, October 8,
for an eligible person to fill the position
of postmaster at Hartford, which pays
about $137 per year. A vacancy in this
Office was created by the recent defalca-
tion and subsequent death of William T
Briggs.
John T. Evans, of Moorestown, cele-
brated the 58th anniversary of his birth on
Tuesday evening. On October Gath he
will have rounded out % years as Super
intendent of the Methodist Sunday school
at that place. an event to which appropriate
recognition will be given. Mr.. Evans has
been secretary of the Chester township
Board of Education for ten years.
Mrs. Naomi T. Kingdom received many
congratulations on Tuesday, at her home
in Burlington, it being her 92d birthday.
Among those who called on her were her
great grandchildren. ranging in age from
one year to six years. Mrs. Kingdom Is
In fine health and carries her weight of
years very gracefully. Her many friends
expressed the wish that she may live to
celebrate many more such occasions.
Members of the Epworth League of the
Methodist church expect good time at
their meeting next Friday evening. One
of the features will be the enlarging of
post cards on a screen by a machine
specially adopted for that purpose. Every
body is invited to come and bring their
post cards that they desire to see enlarged.
Next Sunday evening the League service
will be In charge of Miss Sue Buckley.
Report comes from Columbus, where
they are visiting relatives, that the young
est child of Mrs. and Mrs. Reading Poin-
sett, of Mount Holly, is victim of In
fantile paralysis. In this connection 1t
might be interesting, as noting the spread
of this disease, to refer to the fact that
the department of Public Health at Har-
risburg states that 700 cases have been re-
ported since the first of July. The returns
show that practically every county in
Pennsylvania has reported the disease.
There was a good attendance at the
rally day service held by the Presbyterian
Sunday school on Sunday afternoon.
Some of the scholars were transferred from
the infant department to the main school
by reason of their age. Robert A. Semple,
Jr, and Jesse G. Strauss, superintendent
and assistant, respectively, are working