The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-05-28

francis y. Durand, who has been Il
with typhoid fever, is reported to be o.
the road to recovery.
The W. @. T. q. will meet at the hom
+ of Mrs. Eliza Claypole, 20 Brainard street
Tuesday afternoon, June 4.
q During the summer months new anC
0 up-to.date dance floor will be laid In thu
banquet room of the Masonic Temple.
a The wholesale price of milk for JUNE
e has been fixed at A cents per quart by th'
Inter State Milk Producers Association.
The Ushers' Union of the Methodist
church will hold business meeting al
the home of Harry II. Bayles, Garder
street, this evening:
The fair and festival given for three
nights last week by Company E, proved
to be one of the most pleasant events ever
held by that organization.
| By mutual consent Lewis Lippincoti
and the Mount Holly Cemetery Associa'
ton have dissolved partnership, and the
former Is no longer caretaker at the
cemetery.
i Edwin R. Smythe will give an organ
recital In st. Andrews church on Wed
nesdaY evening, June 8. He will be as.
sisted by Miss Miriam Gilbert, soprano,
of Philadelphia.
Frederick M. Shemeley, of Madison
avenue, who for number of years was
connected with the Risdon- Alcott Tur-
bine Co., has entered the employ of the
Neidich Process Company, of Burlington.
An innovation to be adopted through
out the country this year will be the toll.
ing of church bells for five minutes, be-
ginning at 10 o'clock on Thursday noon.
as mark of respect to deceased soldiers.
There was some spirited bidding at a
sale conducted at the court house Thurs
day afternoon, when Sheriff Jordan dis
posed Of two properties in Burlington to
Inez F. Baker, the complainant. for 3d.
675.
George W. LundY, of Arney's Mount,
is with his daughter Ella H., who has
opened the Calvert, 1913 South Virginia
avenue, Atlantic City. Miss Lundy Is
ready to receive guests by the week or
month.
At the Baptist parsonage In Moores-
town on Sunday, May 10th. occurred the
marriage Of Job srgrove and Miss Eliza
Haines, both of Pemberton. The cere-
monY was performed by Rev. Arthur
Hilton.
At the Office of Herman A. Stees, coun-
ty school superintendent, in the Kelsey &
Killie building. Mount Holly. on Friday
and Saturday. June and 8. an examina-
ton will be held for scholarships in the
New Jersey State College.
Having been arrested and committed to
the county jail for abusing his wife and
destroying stock In his bakery, Julius
Grass, of Bordentown. has been released
by order OF Judge Horner. The man is
now receiving treatment for bis liquor
habit In private sanatorium In Philadel-
phia.
The Ohautauqus lecture and entertain
ment course, to be held in Mount Holly
from June IS to 90, will be well support
ed, the committee reports, as large num-
Der of tickets have been sold for the
event. A varied programme of interest
will be presented In a tent that will be
pitched ON the Grant street lot In the rear
of the jail.
The managers, lnatrons, teacher and
children of the Burlington County Chill
dreD's Home will hold a memorial service
at the Dobbins Memorial chapel on Wed
nesdsy morning, May 30, at ten O'Clock,
In honor of the birthday of Edward T.
Dobbins. This has been the custom since
Mr.. Dobbins' death. Any one wishing to
attend will be most welcome.
During the severe electrical shower
which passed over Mount Holly Friday
night, Eugene L. Engle was slightly
stunned by bolt of lightning which APP
peared In the vicinity of Washington and
Bispham streets. The electric fluid split
large tree at the Pine street bridge. The
lights In some parts of the town were ex
tInguished and a number of fuses were
burned out. The accompanying rain came
mostly In large drops.
The county Y. n. G. A. boys camp
will open its sixth annual season on June
%, at Point Pleasant, Pa. The camp will
be conducted under auspices of the county
work department of the New Jersey Y.
M. C. A., and will continue for a month
instead of fortnight as heretofore. The
camp this year will include boys from
four counties instead of three Otis B.
Read, of Mount Holly, has been selected
as camp director.
The Riverside Traction company desire
| further discussion ON the problem of
erecting a new bridge at Pearl street and
the Assiscunk creek, Burlington, concern
ing which matter that corporation has
been procrastinating for long time. This
has been communicated to the bridge COM
mittee of the Board of Freeholders having
charge of that matter by Solicitor Budd
NJ. Rigg, and was received In response to
the latter's official notice that the trolley
company get busy within ten days. or the
county would proceed to act independent
ly. The bridge committee is practically
in favor of replacing the Broad street
bridge In that city with a concrete
structure.
Owing to the scarcity of flowers because
of the backward spring. pot flowers have
been purchased for decorating the graves
of deceased soldiers this year. Any such
contributions for use on Memorial day
should be delivered at the rooms Of
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post, High street, by
8. 80 O'Clock ON Thursday morning. The
. parade will move at o'clock sharp. The
| line will form on High street, right rest
Ing on Garden street. and proceed ovel
the following route: Out High to Ridgwa,
to cemetery; Mount Holly avenue to Gar
den, to. Cherry, to Mil, to Pine street Gem
etery; thence on Pine to Mill, to Higl
, to the Moose Home, where there will b.
? flag raising with appropriate ceremo
MES.
[ 8. Conrad OFT. referee in bankruptcy, o
: Camden, on Tuesday received an order o
9 reference from Judge Cross, of the Unite'
o States District Court, In the case of Ellis
. worth 8. Adams, Beverly physician an,