The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-12-30

Il Bright Star Lodge No. Is, Shepherd
of Bethlehem, will hold a new yea
social next Monday night.
C.Lawrence Abbott, the impersonatol
and entertainer, was present at the
Methodist church last night as the third
number of the Lyceum course, and gave
most delightful evenings entertain
menf.
The name of one of the songs compos-
ed by Mrs Clois w. Snyder, of Palmyra,
and which will be ON sale at Miss Nora
MAYORS soon, was given incorrectly last
week. The correct title of the song IS
''The funny cloud of fate"
Joseph Hoffman, a small boy, got an
idea, Saturday afternoon, that he would
| like to take an automobile ride, so he
jumped on the side of an automobile bus
and was thrown to the ground, sustain
ing some very painful cuts. The driver
of the auto did not know that the boy
was on the machine.
On Sunday evening evangelistlc meet
ings will begin in the Methodist church
and continue every evening, except sat
urday, until further notice. The hrst
week will be observed as the worlds
week of prayer. The pastor, Rev. L. j..
J. Wright, will have charge OF the ser
vices and has some interesting subjects
upon which to speak.
All the Mount Holly merchants eX-
press themselves as being well pleased
with the share of holiday business
that fell to their lot While in some in
stances the receipts for the days Just be-
fore Christmas were less than last year,
the deficiency was more than made up
by the increased patronage during the
first weeks of December, caused by the
rapid growth of the early shopping
movement.
Court Mckinley No. A, Order of the
Golden Sceptre, elected the following
officers Saturday night: w. r., Eliza
Atkinson; w. V. r., Annie Haines; 5.
B., Jennie Armstrong; H. P, Elizabeth
Murdick; instructor, b. o. Herbert; X.
attendant, Elizabeth Reeves; l.. attend
ant, Sallie Gibbs; outside page, Lydia
Borden; inside page, Elizabeth Bennett;
pianist, Josephine Pool; recorder, b. ..
Herbert; custodian, Annie Cobb;
treasurer, Mary Johnson; trustee, Eliza
Atkinson; representative, b. .. Herbert;
oil Lli1ahafh Murdiak
The horse and wagon of the Adams
Express Company has been laid up for
repairs. The team was standing in front
of residence on Washington street one
evening last week when the automobile
of John ID. Johnson, Jr., came along and
ran into it, throwing the horse
and giving it several scratches. The
wagon was badly damaged. 1t is said
the wagon was on the left side of the
road and was not displaying lights.
While the wreck was on the ground |
another automobile came along and
there was second collision but no fur
ther damage was inflicted.
The parcel post systems was given
severe test during the Christmas holt
days and the packages carried under the
system almost swamped the mails. In
Philadelphia it was impossible to de-
liver all the mail matter that reached
the office until several days after it
arrived, and then it was in very poor
condition. While Mount Holly is not as
arge distributing centre as Philadel-
Dhia yet it had it's full share of the work,
out Postmaster Cowperthwait was equal
% the occasion and there has been little
any complaint about the lack of ser
ice here. A single instance of the work
lone at Mount Holly may be mention
ID in the fact that in two hours of one
morning over 1000 one-cent stamps were
old, and the packages to which they
ttached were promptly shipped.