The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-02-27

" One DAY last week hudOlpn thompson,
J. of New Egypt. killed chicken hawk
with pitchfork.
The regular monthly business meeting
/ of the Epworth League will be held on
Friday evening, March LIST, at 7.45 o'clock.
The Riverside Mannerchor are prepar-
+ ing for good time on st. Patrick's day.
when the Ladies' Aid Society will give a
. Kaffee Klatch.
Q While visiting her daughter at Trenton,
! last week, Mrs. Ella Mccoy, of New
Egypt, fell down a flight of steps and
broke her left arm.
c At the regular meeting of the America
B Hose Company. to be held on Monday,
March 4, there will be nominations of
officers for the ensuing year. The election
will take place in April.
T In the report of township affairs
published last week the name of Thomas
Cavanaugh appeared as having worked on
. the streets. This was a mistake, the
name should have been Frank Cavanaugh.
The little bird that frequently visits THE
News office with interesting items, is re-
sponsible for the report that brother and
sister, living In the lower end of the town,
are soon to take active parts in double
wedding.
DR.. ]. Hume Carter has purchased the
dwelling and Office ON High street belong
ing to the estate of Charles Evan Merritt.
The doctor has not yet decided what he
will do with the place. but will probably
make large store of the lower floor.
Falling head first into small ditch on
South High street, Burlington, John
Wallace, ten years old, was smothering to
death with his head and hands deep In the
sticky mud when discovered and rescued
by his brother Nelson, two years his
senior.
At the annual meeting of the grand
lodge Knights of Pythias, held at Trenton
last week, Samuel A. Dobbins, of Cam
lden, formerly Of Mount Holly, was ad-
vanced to the Office of grand vice chancel-
Tor. He will be elevated to the position
of chancellor commander year hence.
Strapped with adhesive tape. Mrs.
Maggie Horner is improving slowly from
a recent injury. After suffering for two
weeks from a fall over a bucket In her
Iyard, physician who was sent for found
two fractured ribs and severe bruises
around the shoulder blade.
Disputing claims made by creditors, the |
Phoenix Pottery Company, of White Hill, |
will fight their suit for bankruptcy, an
order of reference having been received |
by Referee OFT 10 Camden yesterday from |
United States District Judge Cross. The |
pottery company claims it is not bankrupt |
and testimony will be heard on Thursday |
Miss Rebecca NJ Wright, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. C.. Wright. of Camden
formerly OF Mount Holly, surprised many
friends last week by announcing her mar
riage to Milton Oertel, of Perth Amboy.
The. ceremony was performed by Rev.
Holmes Gravatt, pastor of the First NJ
e. Church, the latter part of December.
Frightened off while trying to break
open slot gas meter in the blacksmith
shop of George Potter at Riverside, rob
bers failed to secure its accumulation of
quarters, which amounted to 81. When
notified. the gas company was surprised
to find that it had no record of the meter,
which had been in use for year.
The conservative directors of the Farm
ers' Trust Company, of Mount Holly, are
still using at their board meetings the
STRAIGHTFORWARD, rush-bottomed chairs
and pine table that were installed when
the institution was organized 81 years
ago. This furniture is highly priced be-
cause of Its associations and antiquity.
An enjoyable time prevailed at the home
of Miss Blanche Travis, Garden street,
last Thursday evening. when Washing
ton birthday social was held by Armour
W. G. T. U. An interesting programme
was presented, which consisted of recita-
lions, readings, dialogues. vocal and In
strumental music, and at the conclusion
refreshments were served.
In the Mercer circuit court the jury In
case of Joseph Bussom against the Thomas
J. McGovern Construction company and
the Pennsylvania Railroad company re-
turned verdict of $4,000 damages, as
against both defendants. The plaintiff
was injured at Yardville by a railroad
train which backed into wagon from
which he was unloading potatoes.
Ma-Ioo O;-olo NJ O p,otho.hood of
America, is making extensive arrange
ments for one of the greatest membership
crusades ever attempted In Mount Holly.
The affair will be held soon in Red Mems
hall on Mill street. with the object of
making the membership proportionately
as strong as the circles finances. which
are In satisfactory condition.
Florence Jamison, residing with her pa
rents on Buttonwood street, DeIanco, is
i'll with bad case of scarlet fever, and
the house is quarantined under direction
of DR.. II. S. Adams, township physician.
DR.. Weller, who recently resigned from
that capacity, gives as his opinion that
the house in which the Jamjsons live,
WHICH ls One VI Inc OlutsJ III bnhL LOWU
and very dilapidated, is thoroughly disease
ridden, and that the authorities should
buy and destroy it.
A double wedding at which two sisters
became brides took place at Bordentown,
on Saturday, at the home of their mother,
Mrs. William Warehouse. Miss Rather
Inc Hannum was united in marriage toll
Clarence Eldridge Mccoy, of Bordentown,
and her sister, Miss Lucinda Hannum,
married Bsyard Steven Allen, of Mount
Holly. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Frederick L. Jewett. pastor of
Trinity Methodist church. Both couples
acted in turn as bridegroom and bridesl
maid for the other.
Several Burlington county people went
co Bordentown last Tuesday evening to
attend complimentary dinner rendered
Col. E. A. Stevens, Commissioner of
Public Roads, which was given at the
Bordentown House. The menu was one
that could not be improved upon. After
dinner speeches we're made. Harold B.
Wells was the POSTMASTER and 1t Is need
less to say that he ably filed the position.
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