The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-10-03

next Sunday evening at 6 49,
| The w. G. T. q. viii meet at the hom.
Of Mrs. q. q. Earnest. on Garden street
next Monday afternoon at three o'clock.
4 Rev. James II. Durham Of the Presby
terrain church will speak at the youns
peoples meeting to be held In the Baptis
church on Friday evening. All are In
vited to attend.
The ladies of the Indian Mills M. e
church will give an oyster supper on Sat
urday evening, October IA 1.-THE weather
proves stormy it will be held on the fol
lowing clear weekday evening.
A squad of ten special officers wer,
conferred with police authority by tn,
township committee last night. severa
of them are stationed on the streets t,
regulate the speed OF automobiles.
Madam Victoria, the fat woman at tn,
fair, is an exhibit worth seeing. Sh,
weighs $40 pounds and will be 81 year
old tomorrow. She tipped the scales a
20a pounds at the time of her birth.
B. Frank 81. Shreve is confined to the
house with bruises on his leg, caused BY
being caught by the steps on railroad
car while on trip to the Adirondacks
He feels pretty sore but will soon be out
Miss Edith Burr, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Howard Burr, of Pemberton, q
graduate from the Pembertou Borough
High School. successfully passed the re.
quired examination for entrance into
Smith College, and took up her studies al
that place last week.
In game OF foot ball on Saturday af.
ternoon. the Mount holly high school team
defeated the strong Bordentown high school
by score of Q to 0. Mount Holly scored
in the last five minutes Their goal was
never threatened once. Lippincott. Fryer,
Abbey and Payne starred in back field.
DIR. J. Hume Carter has given up hope
OF recovering the double team and wagon
that was stolen week ago. While at
police headquarters In Philadelphia he
was Informed that a regular organized
gang Ia stealing horses by the dozen,
taking them from one territory and put
ting them In another.
Miss Minnie Lynn met with loss few
days ago. While 10 the railroad station
at Boston some one stole her handbag In
which was gold watch some change and
several articles Of value to herself mainly
on account of their associations. Miss
Lynn thinks the thief was man who had
been keeping an envious eye on the bag
for some time.
George Jarvis Thompson paid Mount
Holly flying visit last week. The young
man is graduate from the Mount Holly
high school and is member OF the Senior
Glass Of Harvard University Law School.
His brother, also a-graduate from Mount
Holly. has entered the Law School of the
University Of Pennsylvania. Both are sons
of Vinton N. Thompson. OF Medford.
The library contest that has been going
on In Mount Holly for the past three
|
ing. A. o johnson, OF New York, who
has been conducting the contest. will be
here this week, and with committee of
Mount Holly citizens. will canvass the
votes and announce the winner. The re-
suit win be published In our next issue.
Oliver B. LippIncott, former Mount
Holly boy, has just been elected Mayor Of
the town Of Gage. Oklahoma. Oliver
went West some years ago and became
very successful In business. He Is q
brother Of Mrs. Z. III. Ogden. of Garden
street. and Of DR.. Thomas 8 Lippincott,
of Philadelphia. The latter has been
spending his summer vacation in Mount
Holly.
There will be another public meeting to
arrange for building the new schoolhouse.
The proceedings of the former meetings
were presented to the Attorney General
for his approval and he took exceptions to
the parts which provided for raising
money for the purchase OF land by issuing
notes to be paid out Of the proceeds OF the
bonds when issued and sold. He says the
two Items should not have been connect
ed. The next meeting. which will be
held on Wednesday evening of next week.
will be to adopt resolutions that will
straighten this matter.
As the result Of dissatisfaction unknown
to the management, aud which manifest
ed itself In ct of anger at the fair
grounds last night. A. w. Marsh, mana
ger of the New England Balloon Com
pany, after receiving an extra sum of
money and the agreement to pay his
express bill. positively refused to fulfil
his contract, which had been signed and
declared satisfactory. The balloon was
shipped back to West Hoboken. Judge
Wills say that Marsh, who made ascen-
sions here last year. became quite demon
strative. saying he would get William
Wright before the end of the week. Ne
gotiations were Immediately started to
secure another aeronaut to fill this fair
attraction.
The second of the series Of base ball
games between Florence and Riverside,
for the championship of the county, was
played at Riverside on Saturday. 1t was
one Of those contests where all kinds of
playing were on tap-good, bad and indif
ferent. principally bad. 1t was noticed
In the first inning that Mathers, River
sides pitcher, would not be the terror he
had been the Saturday previous. as Flor
ence Tailed two earned runs in the first
half of that inning. In the second chapter
the visitors repeated the two run act by
good hitting, assisted by misplays. Flor
ence had new pitcher named Hallahan,
who blew up In the sixth, when Riverside
got six men across the pan, SO Rhubart
was sent In and finished the game. In the
next inning Florence knocked out Math-
ers. who was succeeded by Bodine. of the
Delair team. but he would not do to finish
the half, so Morgan was called aud finally
the round was concluded. Florence scored
eight in that inning, four of which were
forced by bases on balls. After eight and
a half innings had been played the game
was called on account OF darkness, with
the score IA to In favor of Florence.
As two of the runs had been made In the
eighth, the score reverted to the seventh,