The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-02-11
The Board Of FreeboIders will meet IN

The Board of Freeholders will meet ii
the County Collectors Office tomorrow.
William S Renden, of High street, anC
Miss Helen Hulme, of Mil street, are il
with diphtheria.
Herman Kempte, of Mill street, has &C
cepted position at the Lumberton Sho,
Company, at Lumberton.
County and Rural Y. M. c. A. Score
taries Otis B. Read and Daniel E. Lorents
will attend the State Young Mems Chris
tian Association Convention, at Plainfeld
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
]. Berg Eisenwein, editor of Lsppincott'
Magazine, and the master of Franklin
Lodge, No. ~, of Philadelphia, will b.
one of the speakers at the ladies' night Of
Mount Holly Lodge of Masons next Tues
day evening.
A Lupin Dramagraph, machine fol
initiating the noise made by animals. etc.,
has been installed In the opera house. II
will be heard to good advantage on Thurs
day night, when pictures of the Boer wal
will be shown.
The Burlington quarterly meeting OF
the Society of Friends will hold session
in the meeting house. corner of High and
Garden streets, Mount Holly, on Tuesday,
February IS. All are welcome, Good
speakers will be present.
s. Thackera Haines, Wilt D. Shinn
and Frances o. Durand will erect an ice
manufacturing plant In Mount Holly.
They have bought lot of ground from
Fenimore Bros, along the Burlington
railroad, upon which to erect the plant.
The Burlington County Farmers Sales
Company has been organized by Edwin
B. Fraser, ]. Aquila Jones and N Eckard
Austin, with Mr.. Fraser as manager.
The concern will occupy an Office and
warehouse to be erected by Robert nj
Snyder on Washington street, next to the
Mount Holly Garage.
The annual meeting of the grand lodge
Knights of Pythias will convene at Tren-
ton next week. Quite a representation
from this place will be present because of
the fact that Samuel A. Dobbins, former
ly of Mount Holly, and who is member
of New Jersey Lodge, No /, is be elect
ed Grand Chancellor of the state.
That. old favorite, always welcome in
Mount Holly, Lyman Howe, will appear
in the opera house this evening, with an
entirely new program of fine moving
pictures. Howe's pictures are always of
the best and never fail to interest and
instruct His subjects are well chosen
and admirably presented.
On Sunday morning at 10 o'clock the
residence of Joseph liver, of Moores-
town, was destroyed by fire that resulted
from an overheated fiue. The loss is es-
timated at $1,000. While going to the
fire the hose carriage of Company No.
l, was upset and badly damaged. After
the excitement had subsidized a subscrip-
tion was taken and $3.50 was presented to
the deserving family.
The Burlington County Boys AgricuI-
ture Contest committee will meet in the
Office of County Superintendent Herman
A. Stees tomorrow afternoon. The officers
are: Chairman, Walter Black, Chester
field; vice chairman, A. Engle Haines,
Medford; secretary; Otis B. Read. Mount
Holly; treasurer, Walter B. Winner, MARI
ton. Executive committee, Henry II
Albertson, Burlington; Edward A Mech
ling, Moorestown; Herman A. Stees,
Mount Holly; Walter Kirby. Columbus;
L. L. Gratz, Pemberton; Herman Croshaw,
Pemberton.
A very fine exhibition of paintings is on
at the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadel-
phia. Miss Alice Kent Stoddard, of Mount
Holly, received prize of 800 for her con-
tribution. Miss Stoddard's subject is
Paper Dolls" and the picture will delight
many visitors to the show because of its
human interest as we'll as for the artistic
successful treatment of the subject. A
little girl in a white frock, and with blue
sash and hair ribbon, is seated on ID table
absorbed in the childish pastime of cutting
out paper dolls. She is partly sitting on
one foot of her bent leg; the other bangles
unseen toward the floor. The compost
ton, color and drawing are admir- able
The picture is one of great charm. The
model for this picture was one of the
daughters of the late Eckard P. Budd.
Marion Circle, No 8, Brotherhood of
America, initiated several candinates at
its meeting on Wednesday night. There
was good attendance and those present
became interested in the speeches made
by John Throckmerton, ST., William B.
Pearson and others. Members who
fail to attend reglarly have discovered
that by such absence they are missing
features which a committee has been pre-
pairing to make the sessions more attrac-
tive. Since the first of the year this lodge
has conferred the degrees on twelve can
didates, and another class of applicants
who desire to become acquainted with the
mysteries of the order aud share in its
benefits has applied for admission. The
lodge is in a healthy financial condition
and is growing.
Valentines and valentine post cards.
Our assortment is large, unique, refined
and will appeal to your taste. L. s.
Boyce, stationer. adv
Columbus.
T. N. Stevens and Augustus Townsend
were Trenton visitors last Tuesday even
ing.
Miss Emma B. Moore, of Hartford, was
the guest over Sunday of Miss Ada P.
Hill.
Miss Edna G. Ely, teacher In the Bur
lington high school, was the guest over
Saturday and Sunday of Miss Mary A,
Harvey.
A chicken supper will be given by the
ladies of the M. E. church on Friday even.
ing, in Grange hall Everybody will be
there and partske of the best meal that
was eyer served on an occasion Of thi:
kind The celebrated Peerless orchestra
will enliven the occasion with choice
selections of the latest music and an en-
| iovahla time will he had hv everv ono