The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-30
The wife of Dr.. Il. R. FarIuger is ii

{ Lyman Howe's moving pictures will
appear at the opera house tonight
E Allen Applegate, of Jobstown, has en-
6 tered the Soldiers Home at Kearny.
3 The second son of B. Henry Jones, Of
Mill street, aged about six years, is III
with typhoid fever.
Samuel Nutter, Jr., who has an sffec-
ton Of the spine, is being treated at tht
Burlington County Hospital.
John B. Townsend, of Columbus, aged
rs years, is In serious condition from 6
stroke of paralysis received on Friday.
Next Sunday evening in the Methodist
church Rey. George T. Harris will preach
on the subject of "John Wesley, Oul
Founder"
The Brotherhood of the Methodist
church will hold social at the home Of
A. Holmes Howe, 1853 Mill street, or
Thursday evening.
The monthly business meeting of the
Usher's Union of the M. e. church will
be held this evening at the home of Philip
s. Irons, on Mill street.
Owing to the Shreve farm, near Chair.
vile, having been sold to Wilbert Engle,
the Wright family will vacate after occu.
plying the place for fifty years.
A. Lincoln Sailer and wife last evening
celebrated the twenty-eighth anniversary
of their marriage by giving dinner and
card party to number of friends.
Daniel B. Smith, of Pine street, who
has been i'll with bladder trouble, will
submit to an operation this week at the
Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia.
John Quinn, superintendent of the To-
cal Office of the Prudential Insurance Co.,
is patient at the Burlington County
Hospital, suffering with typhoid fever.
Captain Ellis Anderson, of near Bridge
boro, was buried In the Methodist ceme-
terry at that place on Friday afternoon.
He was stricken with paralysis while
chopping wood and died before medical
aid could reach him.
/ At the meeting of the directors of the
Farmers Trust Company, Wednesday,
Joseph ]. White was elected president to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Charles Evan Merritt, and John E. OAR
nell was elected vice president.
Getting caught In the gears of a ma
chine at the works of the Fl. B. Smith
Machine Co., of Smithville. on Wednes-
day, Job Shinn. of Mill street, Mount
Holly, had two fingers on his right hand
80 badly injured that they were amputat-
ed at the Burlington County Hospital.
During hog killing on Wednesday at
the farm of Robert Grower, near Med
ford, there was lively time putting six
hogs to death. Five men failed to &C.
complish this work after discharging the
contents of their revolvers, and it became
necessary to make a trip to Medford to
secure more cartridges.
Miss Helen V. Devine. daughter of Ed
ward Devine. and George Johnson, both
of Bordentown. were married in St. Mary's
church, that city. on Wednesday. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. D. ].
Duggan. Miss Elizabeth Bankhaltz was
bridesmaid, and Leonard Devine, brother
of the bride, was best man.
The engagement of Miss Nora Hoban to
Dennis P. McHenry. of Beverly, has just
been announced. The wedding will take
place early next month. Miss Hoban is
well known in this section and one of the
most popular of the younger set. At
recent "town fete" held at Beverly Miss
Hoban was picked as the Queen, having
the largest number of votes at the close of
the contest.
Attempting to cross the railroad in front
of the Nellie Bly,. at Riverside, on Tues
day, fully one thousand persons on their
way home from work saw James Fame,
of Philadelphia. ground to pieces. He
was employed as moulder at the River
side Metal Works. Fame attempted to
cross in front Of the express after stoop-
ing beneath the safety gates against which
there were hundreds of workmen awaiting
the passing of the train.
The Emley property, corner of Garden
and Buttonwood streets, was sold last
week to James Mercer Davis, who paid
800 on the option. Yesterday was the time
to make final payment. When Mr.. Davis
went to the office of George M. Hillman
to settle, he learned that deed had al
ready been recorded showing that the
place had been sold to Joel Wainwright,
Of Jacobstown. Mr.. Davis says he will
sue for damages and bring action to have
the property transferred to him.
The choir of st. Andrews church was
given supper on Wednesday evening and
the affair was enjoyed by all, especially
the small boys who are the major part of
the choir. although one gentleman Of ma
ture age who sat at one end of the
table is reported to have said that he got
as much fun out of it as the boys did.
The new choirmaster, Mr.. Smythe, has
done much to improve the singing at the
church and In due time will have a boy
choir that will be equal to many Of longer
standing.
Many families in this vicinity, who are
iiprddently boiling their drinking water,
icomplain of Its fat. insipid taste after
going through that process. This is by no
means necessary. The act of boiling not
only destroys all bacilli that may be found
In the water, but also drives out sll the
oxygen, the absence of which causes the
fat, unpleasant taste To re-oxygenize
the water 1t is only necessary to pour 1t
from one vessel to another several times,
the water again becoming bright and
sparkling. Drinking water treated in
this manner is not only tasteless, but safe.
Game warden Howard Mathis is in
Oklahoma, where he was sent by the
State Fish and Game Commission to pro-
cure quail, with which to restock the
woods and fields of New Jersey. Mathis
writes that he has rounded up 300 dozen
quail, which will be In New jersey ready
to be set free by March /. 1t has been
several years since New Jersey has been
able to secure any quail. The last time 1t
bought any in what was then Oklahoma
. ltofritory, the birds were seized by a
United States Marshal under the Lacey
act, forbidding the transportation of wild
game birds.
: Life saving work he had learned as q
boy scout enabled Chester Buckley, if
: teen years old, to save the life of Samuel
, Probasco. school-mate, who skated into