The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-21

street.
6palding's base ball supplies for 1911
now await you here. L. s. Boyce. spor,
ing goods.
George n. Sleeper, of Grant street, ha
to quit work on Thursday as the result G
an attack Of grippe.
The three children Of Mary Stockton
of Mount Holly, have been adopted b
the State Children's Home.
/ The W. G. T. o. will meet at the hom
of Mrs Samuel Elberson. Garden street
on Tuesday afternoon. March %. at tire
O'Clock.
Having decided to change their plac
of meeting, the Junior Mechanics will re
move to Red Mems hall. Mill street, OF
Saturday, April LIST.
After receiving treatment at the Glel
Gardner sanatorium, Harry Lutte has re
turned to his home at Hainesport consid
erably improved In health.
Miss Hannah Griffith, of New Egypt
has been suffering from badly mashed
finger, which she injured while operating
sewing machine In the shirt factory a
that place.
i David s. Jones, of West Washington
street, was buried In the Brotherhood
cemetery, on Thursday afternoon. De
ceased was 81 years old and veteran o
the Civil War.
i After serving ten years as superintend
ent of Trinity Methodist Sunday schoo
at Bordentown, John s. Snyder, resigned
has been succeeded to that position by
Harold B. Wells.
Safe deposit protection is recognized al
very important. Safe deposit boxes tc
rent in the fire and burglar prosf vault Of
the Mount Holly Safe Deposit and Trus
Company for 81 and up per year.
Having been succeeded as baggage mas
ter at the Moorestown railroad station by
Fl. M. Lukens, who has returned from an
extended stay at Galveston. Texas, Fl. l.
Smith has been transferred to Mount
Holly.
Fred Harris was admitted as an elder Of
the M. E. Church by the Ocean City con
ference Sunday. Rev. George T. Harris
of Mount Holly. father of the young man
was one of the ministers who took part
in the exercises.
Struck by an express train and serious
ly injured while crossing the railroad
track at Palmyra on Wednesday, Mrs
Louisa Braker, of that place, died at the
Cooper Hospital, Camden, shortly after
her arrival at that institution.
At her home on High street. Saturday,
occurred the death of Mrs. Hannah A.
Eames, aged rs years. Deceased lived
with her daughter, Mrs. Wilmer s. Chance.
The remains will be inferred In the Mount
Holly cemetery this afternoon.
There will be something Democratic
doing every minute In Burlington April
9th. Friends from remote points should
avail themselves of this chance to call at
the G0setts Office, next to the City Hall,
and leave subscription to the paper. ct
Following is the list of unclaimed mail
remaining in the post Office for the week
ending March IS: William Burtis, Miss
NJ. Conover, Mrs. Lydie Jones, Mrs. E.
Johnston, Miss Anna Osbourne; postals.
Wslter Bowers. Edward Cubberly.
The Building and Loan Association, Of
Mount Holly, at its 49th annual meeting,
last week, elected the following officers:
President. DIR. r. q. Parsons; vice presi-
dent, Philip Karg; secretary, Franklin
B. Lewis; treasurer. Edward B. Jones'
Having returned from an extended visit
to dealers in Maine, E. B. Fraser, mana
ger, reports that the seed potato business
OF the Burlington County Farmers Ex-
change this season calls for orders that
will I'LL about forty carloads of tubers.
As the result Of an order by the
committee on court house and grounds.
substantial metal cots and mattresses have
been placed In the court house In order to
furnish comfortable beds for the use of
jurymen when compelled to remain out
all night.
Four candidates were admitted to men,
bership In the Knights of Pythias at
meeting held Friday night. and three
propositions were received. The second
and third degrees were conferred in the
presence of large attendance. Visitors
were present from Medford.
The Riverside Press publishes the fol
lowing: tom Shinn, of the county seat,
who rode Washburn's big elephant
through the streets of Mount Holly in
woman's attire during political parade
nearly twenty years ago to the delight of
thousands of spectators, was visiting
friends in Riverside last week"
At Philadelphia on March 8, by Rev.
William B. Chslfonte, at the parsonage
of the North Thirteenth Street Metho-
dist Church, occurred the marriage of
Miss Lavinia G. Cox, of Oxford, Pa, and
Harry K Hand, of Mount Holly. The
happy pair will take possession Of their
newly furnished house in Philadelphia
on April LIST.
Surprised at their hardness after she
had placed some sausage on the breakfast
table, Mrs. Samuel T. Workman, of
Moorestown, on making an examination,
found that some of the links had been
filled with pieces of pigs tail. The re-
suit was joke played on her husband,
for whom the castings had been filed by
another butcher, after his stufing machine
had broken down.
Effort is being made to consolidate the
New Jersey Cranberry Sales Compvny
and the Cranberry Growers Association
for the mutual benefit of the members Of
the two organizations. A meeting was
to have been held at Camden on Saturday
but on account of the illness of promi-
nent member of the Growers Association,
1t was postponed. 1t is said that the two
sales agencies bucking one another has
kept the market all in furry and un-
settled In the past two winters.
The United States government Thurs.
day began dredging the Delaware river
short distance above Bordentown, pre-
liminary to the construction of the dyke
which is to throw the water from behind
the islands into the rivers main channel.
In Bordentown the location of the pro-
posed dyke is regarded as an indication
that the improvement is the forerunner OF