The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-23
Boil your drinking water.

Thursday, the annual donation day.
Miss Ollie Robinson, of Union street, |
a typhoid fever patient at the Burlington
County Hospital.
William j. Lowell, editor of the Moores
town Chronicle, was caller at this offlc
on Thursday morning.
The Epworth League Service In tn
Methodist church next Sunday evening, a
6.45, will be led by Mrs F. H. jacket.
While In store on High street Satur
day afternoon. Joshua Willitts was taker
Ill and had to be assisted to his home.
Richard B. Eckman has been elect
ed treasurer of st. Andrews church tt
succeed Charles Evan Merritt. deceased
William Cline, of Pemberton, is suffer
ing from q fractured collar bone. He re-
ceived the injury by fall while cutting
ice.
A number of Mount Holly young peo-
pie attended dance at Burlington, on
Saturday night, given by the Fortnightly
Club. of that city.
Local ice men report that 1t has been
seven years since they have been able to
lay in as large crop of natural ice as
during the present season.
j. Harvey Borton, of Moorestown, will
sail early In February for an extended
trip abroad, portion of which will be
spent in Syria and other parts of Asia.
Frozen pipes attached to the kitchen
range at the home of Harvey Butter
worth, of Jobstown, caused the boiler to
burst and the stove was blown to pseces
Rafael Cipuletta, of Riverside, has been
committed to the county Jail. The pris-
oner is charged with an attempt to kill
his friend, Thomas Comesi, with a dag
ger.
Joseph Leconey, formerly of Riverside,
was manager and part owner of the Aus
tin Knitting Mills that were burned to
the ground at South Bethlehem, Pa, last
week.
The illustrated lecture that was to have
been given at Eayrestown by ]. Harvey
Borton, January 5, was postponed owing
to bad weather until Friday evening,
January &C.
A painful wound was received ON Tues
day by Roscoe Masterson. employed In
factory at Riverside. He was mailing the
lid on box and mashed his thumb with
hammer
Mr.. and Mrs. George Livingston, of
the Rancocas stock farm at Jobstown,
have closed their residence and gone to
Lacey, Geoigia, where they expect to re-
main until April.
There has been change made in the
date of the minstrel performance to be
given 10 the opera house by the members
Of the Ankokas Canoe Club 1t will take
place on Tuesday, February co.
George g. Dennis, who lived at the cor
ner of Pine and Church streets, has taken
up his residence In the Jamison house
which he recently had moved to his lot
on the north side of the Relief engine
house.
E. Lewis Schuyler and Willard H. Rog-
ers have purchased the clothing business
formerly conducted by Ernest d. Hole
man, deceased. They will continue I'M
der the name of Holeman store for short
period.
Lester Collins, of Moorestown, is to be
married to-day to Miss Anna M. Albert
son, of Magnolia. Another marriage for
to-day will be that of Miss Edith Town
send, of Moorestown, and Charles Hover,
of Merchantville
Louis Rushton. of Germantown, one of
the most enthusiastic canoe owners of this
section, who has three canoes on storage at
Hacks wharf, has purchased a 20-foot
Canadian sailing canoe, which he will
keep at Delanco.
The funeral of Miss Amy Whitehouse,
of Murrell street. occurred Saturday af-
ternoon. The lady was seized with
heart failure and dropped dead on We'd
nesday while at the home of Miss Stock
ton, on Paxson street.
The issue of $40, 900 bonds to be used In
building and furnishing a new school
house at Mount Holly, were sold, on
Thursday evening, to Bioren & Co., of
Philadelphia, for $40, 1913. 80 and interest
that will accrue to the date of delivery.
Eastampton township may be called
upon to pay a claim of $S6, which is the
amount of an appraisement made on six
shotes that were killed on Wednesday
night by a dog which got into the hog
pens In the rear of the rendering estab-
lishment ON the farm of Lewis II. Cham.
bers, the dead animal undertaken, at
Unionville.
In order that he might devote his time
to the business of auctioneering, A. F.
Bradley has sold his farm of sixty acres
adjoining the fair grounds to Mrs Samuel
W. Evans for $4,000 After making i'm
provements to the Myers property north
of the mount, which he has purchased,
Mr.. Bradley will rent it and take up his
residence in Mount Holly.
Rev. George T. Harris and wife spent
Sunday in Trenton. The Greenwood ave-
nue. M. E. Church, of which Mr.. Harris
son, Rev. Frederick B. Harris, is pastor,
was consecrated. Former Governor Stokes
spoke In the church In the evening. Rev.
Fred Harris received many congratula-
tions for the energy he has shown In get
ting this beautiful place of worship built
The Board of Education of the town
ship Eof Northampton has awarded the
contract for the new school building to
Daniel II. Sharp, OF Camden, for
$32, 992 %. The building is to be heated
with steam, the contract for this portion Of
the work being awarded to Harry Knecht,
of Collingswood. for 1896. The build
ing is to be completed by the first day of
September.
Not having received from the state au-
thorities the official weights and measures
which are to be used in connection with
his duties as county sealer of weights and
measures, Edward T. Haines, of Mount
Holly, is now devoting his attention to
the sale Of oleomArgarine and other prod
ucts which the law requires shall be de-
livered In certain kinds of wrappers to
mark their identity.