The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-06-03

property w nAOuuJ aOllY avenue is unQe
way. Three houses will be built on tn
site and the remainder of the tract laid on
In building lots.
Gen. A. E. Shias Post No. 90, G. A. r..
desire to extend their thanks and appre
citation to those who participated anG
assisted in any way in the exercises held
on Memorial day.
Charles Fl. Fitzgerald has severed hi,
relations with Doughty & Co., and &C
cepted a position with lumber firm al
Sea Isle City, where he entered upon lii
duties yesterday.
Rancocas Grange No. 131. Patrons Of
Husbandry. will celebrate childreu's day
on Friday, June 6. at two o'clock at Ran.
cocas hall. All members and their fami-
lies are cordially invited.
At session of court on Thursday, ap-
plication will be made by Frederick G.
Hauber for transfer of the hotel license
at Red Lion, as Douglass t. Abrams
wishes to retire from the business,
Ground has been broken in Burlington
by the Public Service Corporation for the
erection of new power station. A day
current will be given to Mount Holly CON
sumers on completion of the new plant.
Memorial day was appropriately OBJ
served in Mount Holly The programme
which had been prepared for the occasion
was carried out In detail. The exercises
attracted the attention of many people.
Daniel E. Lorentz occupied the pulpit
OF the Methodist church on Sunday even
ing. Mr.. Lorentz will leave Mount Holly
this week to accept position as county
secretary of the Y M. G. A. of Morris
county.
Any person who has Victor or Graphic
phone records they are tired of and do
not want to use any more, can give much
pleasure to the little inmates of the Child
ren's Home by sending the records to that
institution.
The Mount Holly ball team defeated
Hainesport twice on Memorial days to A
and to On Saturday the club won
from Virtue A. A., of Philadelphia to
3. They were all interesting and we'll
played games.
A severe attack of epilepsy caused the
death of Porter Naylor, of Burlington, on
Wednesday. The attack came while the
boy was playing in a bungalow of his own
construction. His mother heard scream,
and Fastening to the building found that
her son was dead.
The Epworth League will hold its
regular monthly business meeting In the
Methodist church ON Friday evening at
2. As o'clock. The annual election of Of
ficers will take place at that time. A
social will conclude the program. All
are requested to be present.
Abrsm R. Gerber made good deal on
Wednesday afternoon by buying twelve
shares of the capital stock of the Union
National Bank. which were sold at the
court house by the Farmers Trust Com
pany as trustee for 1876 share Mr..
Gerber resold 1t for good advance In
price
On Friday afternoon Miss Fullmer, the
Advertising agent of the Chautauqua AS
ISOLATION, headed an automobile tour of
The surrounding country, distributing
literature and other advertising matter.
Four automobiles were in the party and
stops were made at Smithville, Pember-
-on, Vincentown, Medford, Moorestown,
Nashville. Lumberton, Hartford and
The slumn4 of the Priscilla Braislin |
school, of Burlington. at their reunion on
Saturday, decided to establish a scholar |
hip at Vassar College as a memorial to
Prof. Priscilla Braislin, the first woman /
professor In the United States, for whom |
he school was named. Professor Brais. |
In, afterward Mrs. MerTick, wife of a |
cotton manufacturer, held the |
hair of mathematics at Vassar so years
.go.
A wedding ceremony was performed In |
Burlington on Saturday morning when |
Benjamin Alyan Sleeper and Anna E. |
Dugan Page were married by Rev. T. M.
Eastwood, d. D. Elwood Fl. Russell and |
Miss Nellie Woolston were the witnesses.
After this wedding Mr.. and Mrs Sleeper
became witnesses to another ceremony, |
when Elwood Hoffman Russell was mar
led to Miss Nellie Tichenor Woolston by |
he same minister.
Considerable alterations are being made |
20 the Hendrickson property on High |
street, recently purchased by Dr. Elmer
D. Prickitt. An Office Is being added with |
other changes DIR. Prickitt will retire
rom the drug business and occupy his
new home as soon as the alterations are
which will include a we'll
equipped laboratory. He has leased his
store property for ten years to the Wool
worth Company, who will lower the floors,
install new front, and conduct an extern
sive and 10 cent store.
Grant Holmes, son of Capt. Edward L.
Holmes. of Farked River, has successfully
passed the entrance examinations at the
U. s. Military Academy, West Point, an
honor that never before, it is said, came
to an Ocean county boy. He has been
ordered to report at West Point academy
on June IA. He passed both in his studies
and his physical examination. Young
Holmes is graduate of Toms River high
school, and Of Pennington Seminary, and
since then has spent his time at Oberlin,
Ohio. College. and Lafayette College,
Easton. Pa. He took the highest honors
at Pennington. His father is a we'll
known vessel owner and master.
In a game of base ball on Memorial Day
afternoon between the married and single
men of Shreye street. two players and one
spectator were hurt. Charles Swain,
while playing third base for the married
men, had the ligaments of his left leg
torn loose by one of the opposing players
sliding for that base. Harvey F. Muir
dock had his right foot sprained by a slide
to first base, and John Madden, who was
witnessing the game, was his on the head
with bat that slipped from the hands of
batter who struck at ball and missed
1t. The single men succeeded in captur-
ing the afternoon game, but the morning
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