The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-23
LOCAL NEWS.
Valentines at Boyce's.


Emerald and white are the colors whic
have been adopted by the Ankokas Cano
Club.
Norval Bacon, of Riverside. is suffer
ing with a sprained ankle, the result c
falling on ice.
Mrs. Edward II. Lewis has received
new limousine automobile from the Loco
mobile Company.
A special session of the Board of Free
holders will be held at the Court House
Mount Holly. tomorrow.
James NJ. Davis has bought the propert,
of Ella Emley, deceased. corner Gardel
and Buttonwood streets. A. A. Anderson
made the sale.
Owing to the resignation of Mrs. Waite
Harker, the public school at New Lisbol
is now in charge of Miss Mary Lippincott
of Mount Holly.
A trolley car became derailed at Madi
son avenue on Saturday morning. Tn
trouble was caused by the flanges of tn
wheels being worn on the forward truck.
81. Mary's Brotherhood. of Burling
ton, will hold its annual banquet OF
Thursday evening. One of the speaker
will be Judge John g. Horner, of Noun
Holly.
Willard H. Rogers has bought the store
and dwelling formerly owned by Ernes
d. Holeman, corner of High and Murrel
streets. E. Lewis Schuyler will occupy
the house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac 81. Wainwright wish
to express their sincere thanks to those
who were so kind during the illness and
at the time of the death of Mr.. Vain.
wrights mother.
Members of the board of directors have
been soliciting in the interest of the Bur-
lington County Children's Home. which
institution will have its annual donation
day on Thursday.
Monday next, January Goth, will be
Mckinley day, when admirers of the
martYred President should wear pink car
nations in honor of his memory and dis
play the national flag.
Beginning at 10 o'clock, noon, on Thurs
day, at the late home of Ellsworth Hole
man, deceased, corner of High and Murren
streets, Mrs. Martha Dill will have pub
lie sale of househld goods.
The carnival of opera By the pupils of
Mrs. Clothier's dancing class, in aid Of the
Women's League, will be held at the
Mount Holly theatre on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings. February 9th and
7th.
A union service at the Baptist church on
Sunday evening marked discontinuance
of the union revival services which had
been planned to run for three weeks.
This change was brought about by the Ill
ness of Rev. R. III. Baker
The new office which the law firm of
Kelsey & Killie have fitted up for use on
the first floor of their building on High
street, has been inspected by many visit
ors since the improvements were complet-
ed and furniture installed.
Rev James H. Durham preached in
the Baptist church on Sunday owing to
the illness of the pastor, Rev. r. Fl. Bak-
er. The Presbyterian congregation, which
was to have met at the court house, Joined
In the worship by invitation.
At the meeting of the Burlington Coun-
ty Fair Association on Saturday, WINS j.
Davis, of New Egypt, was elected d.
rector to succeed the late Charles Evan
Merritt, and Miss Ellen q. Curtis was
chosen treasurer to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr.. Merritt.
The letters that remain unclaimed in the
post Office for the week ending Saturday,
January Goth. are as follows: Eugene
Andrews, Jameson & Metler, Mr.. and Mrs
Lloyd E. johnson, Madison g. Hawke,
Elmer Wilson. Standard Shoe Co., Mrs.
Forrine, Gelands Ishdon. Bdrt Pro-
thert, foreign.
Mrs. Margaret D. Manwarniug. of De-
troit, Michigan, will erect house for her
own use at the corner of Ridgway and
Buttonwood streets. For this purpose
the lot was purchased by her brother. for
mer Governor ]. Franklin Fort, from E.
W. Esham and G. d. Worrell, who have
done much to improve that neighborhood.
County Auditor Robert Peacock signed
his name to check Thursday for eighty
three thousand dollars. This, of course,
was not an individual check, but county
check, calling for that amount of money
to be paid to the State Treasurer as Bur-
lington county's share of taxes due the
state, He made a trip to Trenton Thurs
day afternoon and handed the check over
G. Monroe Brannan, of Broad street,
received painful injuries while doing
some plumbing work in the cellar at the
residence of George e. Pancoast, Ridg-
way street, on Thursday morning. By
the explosion of gasoline soldering pot
blazing oil was thrown on his body.
The young man had his hair considerably
singed, his face was badly burned, and
flesh was hanging from his arms when
taken home. His eyesight had a narrow
escape.
Through the death of David H. Martin,
of Roebling, on Wednesday, race for
life which covered the wide expanse of
the Atlantic. proved futile. Martin had
been i'll for several months, although un-
til recently his condition was not alarm
ing. Two weeks ago, however, his moth
er. who was travelling in Europe, was no.
titled that he had become worse. She i'm
mediately started homeward but failed to
reach his side until few hours after her
sons death. Martin was foreman of the
Roebling wire works, and Mason. Dur
ing the summer he contracted q heavy
cold from which he never recovered.
The annual meeting of the Browns
Mills Cranberry Company was held In
Mount Holly on Wednesday. A part OF
the bushes transacted included election
of officers as follows: President, DR.. j.
G. Brown, VincentUwn; vice president,
William H. Reeves. New Lisbon; secretary,
NJ Warner Hargrove, Browns Mills; treas.
urer, C. Clarence Deacon, New Lisbon
Directors, w. Roland Warrick, E. W.
Esham, A. A. Anderson. DIR. r. N. Kelly
M. Warner Hargrove, DR.. E. C. Haines
81. II. Loughead. and the Messrs Reeves
Rrown and Deacon On the same dax