The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-09-20
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

At your own price. See Boyce's win
dow.
Thanksgiving will be the next legs
holiday.
The family of Harvey A. Worrell now
consists of two boys instead Of one.
Miss Gwendolin Merritt is at Clifton
where she is engaged teaching school.
After an illness from typhoid fever, ]
Richardson Gillian Is able to be out again
A handsome monument now marks tn
grave OF the late George F. Harbert 1,
the Mount Holly cemetery.
Mrs. Joseph Haines, of Pine street.
victim of typhoid fever, Is being treated
at the Burlington Comfy Hospital
L. s. Boyce. 81 Main street, is reducins
handsome cut glass dish twenty-hv,
cents each day until sold. Watch you
opportunity.
Winfield b. Templeton and Miss Delors
shinn. both of Burlington, were married
on Wednesday evening, September IA, BY
Rev. ]. H. Payran.
The engagement is announced of Nor
decai 8. Haines, of Mount Holly, and
Gertrude May, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Allen Jones. of Moorestown.
Having rented a house of Mrs. G. s.
Suffer. Edward B. Hulse, manager of the
Opera House. is now living with his fam.
lily on Mount Holly avenue.
Sensational Smith. The name is sug-
gestiye. The act he performs is wonder
full. Blindfolded, he leaps a gap on a
bicycle, at the Mount Holly Fair.
Members of Pemberton Grange served
a hot chicken supper In /. o. M. hall
there Saturday night The event was
largely patronized and the receipts very
gratifying.
The remains of Samuel 8. Trick, of
Vincentown, were inferred in the Mount
Holly cemetery ON Friday afternoon.
Deceased was brother of Henry ]. and
John B. Trick.
James B. Mcfarland. of Camden, and
Miss Laura Catherine Murphy, of Moores-
town, are to be married at the latter place
on Wednesday morning, September %,
In the Church Of Our Lady of Good Coun-
sci.
DIR. Richard II. Parsons has succeeded
Samuel P. Cline as member of the town.
ship committee, the latter having resigned
and left town. The vacancy was filled az
meeting of the committee held Tuesday
evening.
In order to take part in the parade of
civil war veterans, whose national en-
campment will assemble this week, the
members of Company E, of Mount Hol-
ly, attached to the Third Regiment, will
go to Atlantic City tomorrow.
A check account with the Mount Holly
Safe Deposit and Trust Company provides
the safest and most convenient method of
paying all bills. 1t saves time, lessons
expense and Is most satisfactory In every
way. Accounts subject to check solicited .
F. H. Bentley. assistant in Supervisor
Wainwright's Office at the railroad station,
has been transferred to Camden. The
new assistant is L. e. Wilt, of Sudbury,
Pa. who was transferred from Philadel-
phia. The latter and his family are now
living in Mount Holly.
The following unclaimed letters remain
In the post Office for the week ending
September II: Mrs. Horner, Minnie Her
rimar, Daniel Steward, Mrs. Jennie
Sparks. Mrs. Louisa Smith Postals for
Mrs. Isaac Iszard, Mrs. Emily English,
Miss Helen Lucas. ]. W. Scudder, Mrs.
Lou NJ. Wright, Miss Fannie White.
The following officers have been elected
by the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety Of the Methodist Church: President,
Miss Myrtle Smith; vice presidents, Mrs.
Henry I. Budd and Miss Anna r. Burr;
corresponding secretary. Mrs. M. v
Sparks; treasurer. Miss Emma Zelley;
secretary of literature. Miss Anna M.
Sleeper; mite box secretary, Miss Amanda
Cheeks.
An Improvement is reported in the con-
dition of Mrs. Cecile Foster, of Jacobs
town. While visiting her parents at Roch-
ester, N. Y, she was stricken with ap-
pendicitis and removed to hospital for
an operation. A second operation became
necessary when an examination revealed
the presence of full grown cancer. At
one time the physicians had little hope
for her recovery.
Rising at O'Clock and taking care of
pair of horses, Samuel Powell, the Oldest
citizen of Pemberton, ON Friday observed
his 92d birthday by following his usual
routine of work, which is rather siren
nous for man of his age. He has work
ed on farm all his life and declares that
the reason people do not live longer is be-
cruise they do not do enough hard work.
Mr.. Powell has voted at eighteen Presi-
Dental elections.
The property Of William r. Gilpin
situate on Broad street, Burlington, was
offered at public sale ON Thursday at
Mount Holly by Budd M. Rigg, trustee In
bankruptcy. 1t was bought by Charles
Fl. Hitler. for $2.95O. The sale is subject
to the approval of the United States Dis
trict Court. The sale of the property of
Joseph p. Fem, ON Locust avenue,
which was advertised to be sold at the
same place and time. was postponed for
one week.
David Roberts, farmer near Moores
town, who owns one of the finest herds In
this part of the country, recently lost a
COW that he would not have parted with
for $500. Someone neglected to close
door In the COW barn and one of the ami
mails got out and wandered to nearby
shed where she found pail of Paris Green.
She smelled 1t and the handle Of the buck
ct caught on the top of her head As she
raised her head part of the contents Of the
bucket entered her mouth and she swal-
lowed 1t.
Timber In the pine district In this state
is being endangered by the appearance of
a new plague that threatens loss in the
destruction of birch trees, which are the
prey of greenish-yellow worm about
quarter of an inch long and as fine as or
binary cotton. These insects hatch on
the under side of the leaves. They can