The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-05-13

ported to be hopelessly i'll with Bright
disease.
At Moorestown, on Tuesday last, SUI
posed mad dog bit four children. 1t Wa
killed later.
Armour Union will meet at the home c
Miss Bertha Tracey, Mill street, nez
Tuesday evening.
Robert W. Rogers and Miss Violet 3
| o. Tantum, both of New Egypt, are to b
married on June 8.
The Grand Army Post has engaged tn
Pocahontas fife and drum corps to furnis
music for that body on Memorial day.
Jonathan Il. Kelsey, who has Law
Office In Mount Holly, is having an ad
dition built to his home at Pemberton.
i Members of the Good Intent Compan'
are considering the proposition of pun
chasing combination automobile FIRE en-
CINE and hose carriage.
Leon B. Patterson, of Spring Lake, ha
leased DR.. ]. Hume Carter's lot, corner o
Murrell and Paxson streets, where he will
erect tent for photo plays.
After lingering illness, Mrs. Sarah
Clark, for many years matron Of the Stat
Hospital for the Insane at Trenton, dieC
recently at her home in Bridgeboro.
The Jamison property on Garden street
recently vacated by ]. Carr Gillian, 1
now occupied by Harvey E. Lippincott
who has removed his family from Smith
vile to Mount Holly.
The firm of Ronalds & johnson, who
operate an iron foundry at Hainesport
are soon to award a contract for thu
erection Of large four story brick ant
concrete building at Camden.
An entertainment for the benefit of St
James Baptist church, at Beverly, will
be given on Thursday evening. 1t will
consist of pig roast, and will be giver
under the auspices of the trustees.
Every day this week there will be 6
demonstration of the deliciousness of the
Holly coffee at the store of G. W. Durand
6 Son. The public is INVITED to go to the
store, see the operation of making, anc
get taste of this coffee.
A notice In THE News last week for In.
formation about crowbar that was recent.
ly lost from the carriage Of the Americs
Hose Company. was all that was necessary
to locate the missing implement. Adver.
Using In these columns bring results.
Attention is called to an advertisement
of the Public Service Gas Company,
which announces that the price of gas at
80 cents per Thousand feet is now in effect.
The new rate will make a reduction In
future bills for the use of that service.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Russell Maui, of De-
lance, have issued cards for the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Mabel Florence
Reed. and Albert Louis Flower, of River
side, Conn. The wedding will take place
In the Presbyterian church on Wednesday
evening. May 21st.
The small Board of Freeholders will
have a meeting at the office of County
Collector Pine on Wednesday, May %, at
eleven O'Clock. when sealed proposals
will be opened for the building of radial
or reinforced concrete chimney at the
county insane asylum.
After having been taken to the Burling-
ton county hospital at New Lisbon, for
treatment, Mrs. Sarah Horner, aged "a
years. died there last week The funeral
took place on Wednesday afternoon from
the residence of her daughter Mrs. Daniel
Harris, on Ridgway street.
James Mercer Davis, of Mount Holly,
and Harold B. Wells, of Bordentown, re.
turned home on Friday after an extended
western trip. These lawyers are interest
ed In the settlement of $500, 900 estate in
Oklahoma. After transacting business
at that place. they found it necessary to
continue their trip to California.
The first of a two nights entertainment
for the benefit of the infirmary fund of
the Burlington county Children's Home,
entitled ''The Passing Show of 1918" and
I'm Japanese Tea House" will begin in
the Opera House this evening. 1t lis learn
ed from the advanced sale of tickets that
the event will be successful one.
The Lumberton township Board of Edu-
cation has decided to appeal from recent
decision by Assistant State Commissioner
of Education ]. Brognard Belts, who
ordered the reinstatement of Miss Ella
Conrow after she had been discharged on
the ground of deafness. The teacher is
now using an ACQUISITION and can hear bet
ter.
The appearance of potato bugs during
the past week caused farmers to get busy,
and many were of the opinion that their
crops would be ruined before the sprouts
had become fairly started. The warm
weather brought the pests out of the
ground and threatened great destruction
before growers could take advantage Of
the situation.
Many people were attracted by the
operations of a diver, on Wednesday after
noon, while leak was being repaired in
the submerged pipe that runs across the
bottom of the creek under the King street
bridge, belonging to the Public Service
Gas Company. Air was constantly pump
ed into the casing worn by the diver who
remained under water for long periods.
In organizing a relief and beneficial
association In order to care for their EN-
ploYees during cases of sickness, injury
and death, the Victor Talking Machine
Company, of Camden, who employ several
thousand persons, took this step Of their
volition, and there is no compulsion on
the part of employees to join, the matter
being optional with them. Although the
plan IL costing the firm thousands of
dollars, there was no intention on their
part to avoid the Employers Liability
Act, which would be an impossibIlity.
There was mad dog scare In Mount
Holly on Wednesday afternoon. A cur
was seen swimming down the creek, and
after passing under the Washington street
bridge 1t entered hole In the wall In the
rear OF the residence of William B. Pear
son and began to bite at the loose stones
there. Passing down stream little
further 1t caught the landing Of a wharf
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