The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-09-03
The public schools of many of the town

Corporation on Water street has beef
painted.
Miss Marion Evans, of Moorestown, ha
accepted an appointment as teacher IL
the Marion primary school.
/, Mrs. Christian Single, Medford, aget
SO years, was buried In the Odd Fellows
cemetery at that place on Sunday after
noon.
Charles A. King has purchased a prop
erty on Church street from Mrs. Anns
Edwards. The sale was made by Rodmar
w. Bowker.
Warren Hamilton and Miss Helen
Sexton, of Chesterfield, were married BY
Rev. F. L. Jewett on Saturday evening,
September "A.
The school for children, so successfully
conducted at her home on Garden street
last year, by Miss Theodore Melcher, will
reopen this month.
Armour Union will hold 8 business
meeting at the home of Mrs. Charles 81
Engle. Garden street, next Tuesday even.
ing, September 10.
Earl R. Lippincott, of Pemberton, re.
ports that grasshoppers are doing damage
to the cranberry crop. The work of pick
ing the berries will commence this week.
The engagement has been announced of
Howard G. Taylor, Jr., of Riverton, to
Miss May 8. Roberts, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Joseph Fl. Roberts, of Moores-
town.
The township committee is giving at
tention to those persons who have been
depositiug rubbish on the street. Several
defending have been notified to cease the
practice.
Notwithstanding present rumors COM
ing from the department at Washington,
lock-box patrons at the Mount Holly post
Office will be able to get Sunday morning
mali as usual.
A new residence is to be erected on
Ridgway street by A. G. Mayer. 1t will
be erected on bis lot east of the house In
which he now lives, which property be-
longs to William Sherman.
At its meeting on Tuesday night the
township committee paid for the White
lOrpington chickens belonging to W.
Roland Wsrrlck. They were killed by
dogs in the rear of the Elks' property.
After spending the summer with her
parents at Frankfort. KY. Miss Pearl
Austin, who will have charge of the Bir-
mingham school this year, has returned to
her home In Mount Holly.
| Typhoid pneumonia caused the death of
Charles H. Pullen, of Juliustown, who
expired at the Burlington County Hos
pital on Tuesday. He was employed ON
the farm of George W. Lundy at Arney's
Mount.
For entering the home of Frank Gaskill.
at Rancocas, on two different occasions
and securing nearly $S5 10 cash, Mary
Herto and Hettie Haines. of Lumberton.
and Helen Hagsman aud Helen Carpen-
ter. Of Westampton township, have been
committed to jail for court.
There was a lively scene at the recent
harvest home at Fox Chase, as the result
of which Recorder Herbert, Of Mount
Holly, held Clifford and Albert Prickitt
under $500 ball each for their appearance
at court on q charge of assaulting Victor
Grover and Annie Beebe.
Mrs. ]. C. Fremont, William Budd and
Mrs. Horace johnson are In charge of an
ensertainment to be given In the 1. o. NJ.
hall. at Pemberton, on Thursday evening.
for the benefit of the Burlington County
Hospital. There will be musical and
literary features, the sale of refreshments
and dancing.
Robert s. Gaskill, president of the fire
department, is being assisted In efforts to
have restored the fire traps for use of
engines that were covered up when new
planking was placed on the Pine and Bis
pham street bridges. These traps were
for the purpose of dropping the suction
hose in case of fire, and they saved valu-
able time.
While driving along the Burlington
Columbus road on Wednesday, the Stod
dard- Dayton roadster belonging to j.
Aquils Jones, of Mount Holly. was con-
siderably damaged when he ran into a
blind ditch while giving wagon the right
of way. A number of minor parts of the
car were broken and the front axle twisted
out of shape.
A double wedding occurred at the par
sonage of the Moorestown Baptist church,
on Wednesday afternoon, when Herbert
R. Engle, of Masonville, and Miss Ethel
P. Stiles, aud Elgar L. Buzby, of Rance
cas-. and Miss Nellie d. Stiles were mar
ried by Rev. Arthur d. Hilton. The
brides are daughters of Mr.. and Mrs
Aaron B. Stiles, who reside on the South
Pemberton road near Smithvile The
wedding was private.
Three accidents at New Egypt on
Thursday kept the doctors busy. The
first was James Minnie, who had finger
torn entirely off his left hand while un-
loading iron pipe. Robert Montgomery,
painter, fell from the roof of house
near New Egypt. where he was working
and broke his arm. 1t Is feared he may
also have suffered from internal injuries.
Jack Stillwell, an employe of the Pember-
ton and Hightstown railroad, was struck
by railroad tie aud sustained a badly
wrenched leg.
The fiftieth anniversary, of the battle Of
Champions Pass will be celebrated at the
annual reunion of Kearny's First New
Jersey Brigade, which Ia to be held In
Camden ON Saturday, September IA. 1t
Is to be hoped that every comrade will be
present. and report at the Camden termi-
nal at 10 o'clock In the morning. John
w. Bodine, former resident of Mount
Holly, Ia president Of the Kearney associ-
alton, and he urges his old associates,
whether they receive an official notice OF
. not, to line up with the boys at the
appointed time. The occasion will be
made pleasant one.
The Mount Holly Water Company has
taken notice of the suggestion made in q
recent issue Of THE News and removed the
dilspidated wooden bridge which spanned
the upper creek aboye the dam. This
action ia much appreciated by all who use