The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-06-20
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Gaskill.
| Druggist H. B. Allen has installed al
electric mixer for milk and egg drinks a
his soda fountain.
Lewis Lippincott has had a concret,
walk laid in front of his residence or
Mount Holly avenue.
A 40 per cent dividend was declared or
Wednesday in the Fenn-Gilpin bankrupt
estate, making 60 per cent. to date.
DR.. Elmer D. Prickitt will probably BIZ
a candidate for the nomination for the
office of township committeeman Of
Northampton.
| The Loyal Temperance Legion. Of
Mount Holly, will hold a picnic at the
Burlington County Children's Home, on
Thursday, June 30.
The annual picnic of Winona Lodge,
No. 81. Daughters of Rebeka, of Moores
town, will be held at Rancocas Park on
Wednesday. June %.
| After being confined In Philadelphia
with severe attack of rheumatism, John
Lowden. Jr., has been removed to his
home in Moorestown unable to walk.
Armour Union will hold meeting at
the home of Mrs. Rebecca Prickett, Gar
den street, on Tuesday evening, June 81.
All members are requested to be present.
The Friends meeting house at vincen-
town Is to be purchased by the Patrons OF
Husbandry, of that place. who will re-
model the place for business purposes of
their own.
There will be change In the railroad
timetable on Friday. Call at THE News
office, the Farmers bank. or the principal
stores and get time cards. then you will
not get left.
Services were held In the Moravian
church at Riverside on Sunday for the last
time. A more commodious structure is
to supplant the old building, which is to
be torn down.
Getting his right hand caught in cir
cular saw at the Hinchman mill, Ray
mond Dorm. of Medford, had his little
finger cut of and part of the hand was
badly lacersted.
In the new change of time on the rail-
road Mount Holly will be sidetracked so
far as some of the trains are concerned.
There will be half-dozen trains that will
not stop at Mount Holly.
Large heaps of dead seventeen-year-
locusts have been found on the farms of
G. G. Stafford and Richard Cooper, near
Marlton. The insects were killed by the
frequent rains of last week.
Miss Nixon, formerly of Pemberton, a
professional nurse employed at the Bur-
lington County Hospital, was operated on
at that institution on Friday. Her con-
dition is reported to be improving.
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs Augustus
Kluge. of Riverside. on Wednesday even
Ing, occurred the marriage of their daugh-
ter. Wilhelmina. and Oswald Heinrich, of
Philadelphia. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. D. A. Jud.
There Is considerable doubt about the
annual picnic of the Brotherhood of
America being held at Rancocas Park
this year, as the committee having the
event in charge report their inability to
make satisfactory terms with those who
would be benefited thereby.
At the parsonage of the Presbyterian
church. at Birmingham, Ala, on Sunday.
occurred the marriage of M. w. Black, of
New York, a well known travelling sales
man, and Miss L. Ella Harris, of Pine
street, Mount Holly, at whose home the
couple will reside on returning north.
Robert Curry, paymaster for company
operating a silver mine 10 Mexico, was
killed by stray bullet on May /. The
young man. whose home was at Moores
burg, Pa, was formerly bookkeeper in
the employ of Collins 8 Sons, at Moores-
town, and Is well known In this section.
On Wednesday night thief entered
side window and robbed the residence of
George g. Heisler. on Grant street. The
job Melted the intruder 81 so in cash. The
residences of John Z. 6cattergood and
Mrs. M. j. Davis were entered, eatables
only being taken. The burglars seem to
try houses where they think windows are
not fastened.
Thieves broke into the station at Stan
wick, last week, stealing pair of new
shoes and taking down the pay telephone
off the wall which they carried along the
track for about hundred yards and then
broke it open and took what money the
box contained They next went to Hart
ford, where the pay telephone was also
robbed after they forced an entrance to
the depot.
Work is progressing on the new union
church at Hartford. Although that town
is at least sixty years old, it has never had
church before, and citizen who has re-
sided there throughout that period states
that the town is no larger now than then.
1t is thought that the absence of place
of worship is responsible for this condi-
ton OF affairs. A real estate boom Is
now quite probable In that vicinity.
An opportunity to assist worthy cause
will present itself to-day by taking part
in the plan that has been arranged for
holding an old-fashioned basket picnic at
Rancocas Park. where there will be dane
ing In the afternoon and evening, with
various other attractions. The event is
for the benefit of the Burlington County
Hospital, to which institution will be given
a large share of the receipts of the day.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
Of Charles K. Mervine, of Edgewater
Park. well known Philadelphia business
man, to Miss Katherine Mary Mervine,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs James Mervine,
of Milton. Pa. The wedding took place
at the rectory of st. Stephens church, at
Beverly. June IA. Rev. Charles Cook
performed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs.
Mervine will be at home after September
/, at Edgewater Park.
In this years graduating class at the
state normal school at Trenton, the COM
mencement exercises of which will be held
next Wednesday, are the following from
Burlington county: Fannie Herbert Dur.
and. Mount Holly; 81. Eloise Bryan. Annie
Holland, Ethel Martha Horner, Beverly;
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