The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-04-19
Harry Randall is confined to his home

t Harry Randall Is confined to his home
with chicken-pox.
f Spalding's base ball supplies at theiI
: lowest retail prices. L. s. Boyce, sporting
goods.
Ezekias W. Esham has contracts to
| build three cottages and bungalow al
Seaside Park.
, Rev. John Haines, Of Pennington Sem
/ mary, preached In the NJ. E. church last
Sunday evening.
The monthly business meeting of the
/ Epworth League will be held in the M.
] E. church on Friday evening.
Charles H. Straugh has sold his cigar
store to Joseph R. Sisom. who took pos
session of the business yesterday.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union will
have charge of the Epworth League SER
vice next Sunday evening at 6.45, in the
Methodist church. All are welcome.
In the cemetery near Kresson, on Fri
day, occurred the burial of SiEeon Guam,
colored. respected resident of Ewes
ham township, who died at the county
almshouse ON Tuesday.
Owing to the fact that Bishop Scar
borough will visit Mount Holly tomorrow
evening, st. Elizabeth's Guild of st.
ANDREWS church will postpone Its supper
until Wednesday evening of next week.
George s. Dobbins is prepared to do
gardening, trimming hedges. cleaning
lawns. withdrawing cellars, cleaning
carpets, etc. A postal card addressed to
179 West Washington street, will reach
him.
The Industry Building and Loan Asso-
citation, of Mount Holly, will hold its an
nual meeting In the Office of the secre-
tary, George M. Hillman, Gaskill build
ing, on Monday evening, April %. Off,
GERS will be elected and new series of
stock issued.
Through her counsel, Albert s. Wood
ruff, Reba L. johnson, formerly of Mount
Holly, has filed petition in the Court Of
her husband, Joseph Fl. johnson, who Is
employed as a driver by the Adams Ex-
press Company in Philadelphia. The
woman alleges desertion.
Everybody knows that the finish is
largely governed by the start. If you
start right you stand good opportunity
of right finish. Make the right start to-
day by opening an account with the Mount
Holly Safe Deposit and Trust Company,
where your money will work for you
steadily at compound interest. Three per
cent interest paid on time deposits.
Had there not been an absence of mois-
ture, frost on Thursday morning |
would have done an incalculable |
amount of damage to vegetation. For
tunately the conditions were favorable |
and the budding trees did not suffer. |
Farmers were glad to report that fruit |
was not injured. and that vegetables just |
shooting from the ground were not affect |
ed.
The large net operated by Captain |
Charles Lowden at the Dutch Neck fish |
cry, above Burlington, was cast for the |
first time this year on Thursday. The
initial dip was for the purpose of remov-
ing snags and debris from the river at that |
point. Only few shad were caught. but
they are expected to be taken In large |
numbers beginning with this week. Capt. |
Lowden, who always finds ime to enter
tain visitors. Is expecting profitable sea- |
son.
Declaring that efforts are being made |
to put Burlington's crack volunteer fire |
department at the mercy of politicians, |
firemen have appealed to Mayor Farmer to |
veto an ordnance railroaded through the |
last session of City Council. The ordin-
ance would give Council the power to
elect chief OF the department and take
away from the firemen the privilege of
choosing their own leader. Firemen de-
clare the act is inspired by the desire of
certain political leaders to make political
machine out of the department, which has
owed its high standard of service to its
freedom of partisanship.
With a retention of their civic pride,
and not to be outdone in the recent hustle
for cleaner city, an unusual sight was
witnessed at the corner of High and
Broad streets, Burlington. Wednesday
afternoon, about a score of ne wsboys
washing their faces and hands in the
watering trough in front of Williams
drug store. The boys. many of whom
were badly in need of the cleaning pro-
cess, all gathered about the trough and
passed cake of soap from one to another.
A crowd gathered about the boys and
watched them do the cleanup act, which
they claimed to be their annual Spring
practice.
While repairing the chimney on the
roof of dwelling on York street, Bur-
lington. Wednesday afternoon, Joseph R
Haley, mason residing at Penn and st.
Mary streets, fell distance of twenty
FIVE feet to the pavement, escaping death
by what almost seemed to be miracle.
His thigh was broken and several
minor injuries inflicted. DR.. j. M. Davis
was called and sent the injured man to
the hospital at Mount Holly, having the
broken bone set soon after his arrival
How Haley slipped or what caused him
to slip will probably meyer be known
His helper. George Shay, was about
to carry up hod Of mortar when he
glanced up and saw the mason coming
head downwards.
More interesting from the fact that her
granddaughter, the youngest member of
the Mecray family, was welded Tuesday
night was the marriage Wednesday after
noon of Mrs. Alexander Mecray, of Maple
Shade, to DIR. William B. Sticker, of Cape
May. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Harold Moore at the rectory of Grace
Church, Merchantville. The bride and
groom and two witnesses comprised the
party. DR.. and Mrs. Sticker will reside
in Cape May. Mrs. Sticker was the
widow of the late Alexander Mecray, one
of Camden's best-known physicians. He
practiced from his home at Fourth and