The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-03-26
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY. MARCH as, 1912
LOCAL NEWS.

Scarlet IeFeT u6S 1PPCoACA a. eA~ --SAA~~
of A. F. Bradley and Harry Aaronson.
The Emley property, corner Of Garde
and Buttonwood streets, is now occupies
by James Mercer Davis. the new owner.
DIR. J. Hume Carter, of Union street
owner Of the Merritt property on Hig
street, will remove his family there sbou
May LIST.
Falling In the yard at her home Oh
Wednesday. Mrs. Harry Bartlett, of Dor
dentown, fractured one Of her legs abov'
the knee.
John n Elfreth, fsgmsn at the Wash
ington street railroad crossing, has pur
chased the property of Mrs. H. R. Farm
ger, 154 Mill street.
Thomas A. Stricken has removed from
Lumberton to Mount Holly. He il living
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ashby
Lippincott, on Buttonwood street.
Richard B. Eckman. of Mount Holly,
has arranged with Soney & Sage, Of
Newark, for the publication of work he
has witten, entitled New Jersey Town.
ship Law"
The Jamison property on the south side
Of Garden street, near Cottonwood street.
has been rented by John Carr Gillian for
housekeeping after his marriage to Miss
Edna Tomlinson.
William D. Lippincott, of Moorestown.
has succeeded the late Charles EVAN Mer-
rift, of Mount Holly. as director and So
lcitor of the Burlington County Safe De-
posit and Trust Company.
On Thursday morning, Mrs. II. W..
Hsviland. of New Egypt, was surprised
when fremen rushed into her home and
extinguised blaze which started by the
burning of chimney.
The business end of an educational
newspaper published in this state has
been placed under the management OF
Otis B. Read, of Mount Holly. county
secretary of the Y. NJ. @. A.
Rev. G. 81. Dubois, the new Methodist
minister at Lumberton, was given re-
ception Saturday night at the home of B.
f. Clayberger, where he was greeted by
many members of the congregation.
Announcement is made of the marriage
Of John Fl. Sager and Elizabeth B. Gra-
waite, both of Jacobstown. The cere-
mony was performed on Tuesday, March
10, by Rev. r. II. Baker, of Mount Holly.
John B Lippincott, formerly of Mount
Holly. telegraph operator living at New
l. aven, Conn, accompanied by his wife,
has been visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Restore Lippincott, on Washington
street.
The Scattergood property on Union
street, to be vacated by Thomas B. Thorn,
has been rented by Mrs. Samuel E. Rog
ers and Mrs. George 81. Pancoast, who
have been boarding with Mrs. Margaret
Risdon.
On Tuesday Samuel Brown was SEN
fenced to serve twenty days in Jail by
Justice Slack, who also gave ten days to
Elmer Hawkins for being disorderly on
late trolley car the night previous. Both
men are colored. and accepted imprison-
ment rather than pay fines.
Returning from Cleveland, Ohio, to visit
his parents In Mount Holly, and having
been transferred from that city by his en-
ployers to the Pacific coast. John w. C.
Price, representing the Welsbach Light
Company, left yesterday for San Fran
cisco, California.
At the annual meeting of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Mount
Holly, to be held on Thursday night at
2. 45 O'Clock, In the Y. NJ. @. A. building.
a board of directors will be elected for the
ensuing year. Reports and speeches are
included in the programme which is being
arranged.
The shower which passed over this Sec
ton Tuesday night was severe one. The
thunder sounded like artillery, and the
vibrations caused houses to shake and
telephone bells to jingle. A bolt of light
ming struck barn on the farm of Aaron
Harker, near vincentown, killing horse
valued at $3.50. Had the building caught
fire, 1t would have interf cred with pub
lie sale held by Mr.. Harker on the follow
ing day.
After being absent for ten days, collie
dog belonging to Frank n. Spencer. of
Grant street, acted in suspicious man
ner after returning home on Tuesday. The
family became uneasy and summoned Po-
liceman Curtis, who responded with his
shot gun. His investigation led TO the
conclusion that the dog was suffering
from toothache or rabies. As there was
no desire to take chances the animal was
killed.
The Alumni Association of the high
school has made an early start to perfect
the arrangements which will be necessary
in connection with its ninth annual re-
union and banquet to be held In the
Masonic Temple next June. The COM
mittee of arrangements which has been
appointed for that occasion consists of the
Misses May B. Boyce, Elizabeth G. Moffett,
Lille B. Colkitt and Messrs. Richard B.
Eckman and James 81. Anderson. The
reception committee is composed of Mrs.
Thomas r. Finley, Mrs. Tilden Fl. Bed
well, Mrs. Harry c. Wagner and Mrs.
Harry N. Warner.
If each officer in the state hustles with
the same degree of interest which has
marked the work of Charles G. Morton, of
Mount Holly, since he was appointed fish
and game warden of the county, the fields
and woods will afford rare sport for gun
ners and anglers during the open seasons
The state commission and the govern
ment authorities have promised to fiji
several orders sent In by him for fish and
game. and the prospects are that this ter
ritory will soon be pretty well restocked.
On Wednesday Mr.. Morton received 148
English pheasants. Some of them were
released that day, and the remainder will
soon be given their liberty in desirable
sections of the county.
As new grades are to be established on
the several streets which are to be i'm
proved In Mount Holly. some concrete
sidewalks will no doubt be laid, In which
event the owners would be wise to arrange
with the mason in charge to fill up the
joints In the curbing with the same mate