The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-04-01
The season for catching trout in New

t Memorial day will be the next legal
; holiday to be generally observed.
The remains of Edward Danley, civil
r war veteran, were inferred in the Brother
: hood cemetery yesterday.
Unclaimed mail remains in the post
: Office for the following persons: Mrs.
Catherine Branin, Chas. Haskins; Gordon
J Garbarino, postal.
Miss Stella 6hinn, who has been critic
, ally Ill at her home in Moorestown, has
been removed to the Burlington county
| hospital for treatment
A wedding license has been issued In
/ Philadelphia for the marriage of Daniel
N. Suffer, of Mount Holly, and Miss
Grace A. Shinn, of Bordentown.
There will be vaudeville and moving
pictures at the opera house tonight.
Every night next week there will be
! featured pictures of two and three reels
The directors of the Burlington County
Farmers Exchange have elected F. e.
Embree, of New York, as manager. JUS
tice 2. Deacon is the only one Of the old
Office force remaining.
: Attacked on Saturday by a foreigner
whom he had warned against trespassing
on his property, Benjamin Farmer, of Bur-
lington, special officer, had f1nger-end
bitten off by his antagonist.
A chimney at the home of Albert
Eagley. on Monroe street, caught fire on
Saturday. Members of the Union Fire
Company took two of their chemical ex-
tinguishers and put the fire out before any
damage had been done.
Beginning in April, Rancocas Grange
No. 1871, P. of H., will hold their meet
ings the first Wednesday In each month
at $50 in the afternoon, and the third
Wednesday of each month at 7.S0 In the
evening, until December.
The bridge gang of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. left Mount Holly yesterday
morning for Ohio, where they will assist
in the work of repairing the railroad
tracks and other damage to the road that
was done by the flood and tornado last
week.
The weather report kept by Charles II.
Estill of Church street, makes the fol-
lowing showing for the month of March:
Clear days, IA; clear and cloudy. 1; rainy
days, 10; high winds, heavy showers,
lightning and thunder, 1; rain and snow,2.
Miss Bessie Haas, of Palmyra. has sur
prised her friends by the announcement
that she was married to Alphonsus Jordan
in January of last year. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Father Kenny.
rector of All Saints Catholic church, at
Baltimore, Md
The engagement has been announced of
Helen, daughter of Rev. and Mrs Calvin
A. Hare, of Lewisburg, Pa, to J. Cur
ney Sholl, Jr., of Pitman, formerly Of
Burlington. Miss Hare and Mr.. Sholl
were members of the class of 1910 of
Bucknell university.
Several boxes of clothing and food sup
plies contributed to the aid of western
flood and cyclone victims In response to
INC appear Va MaTOA e. II. AAouuts VI huA
lington, have been forwarded to their des-
tination, and cash contributions have been
sent to the national relief committee.
Frank r. Stecher and Mrs. Anna L.
Ming, both of Riverside. we're married on
Wednesday evening by Rev. Father Goth.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank F. Stecher stood az
best man and matron of honor. The
happy couple will reside at Merchantyille,
where the groom recently bought hotel.
An effort to reopen st. Peters Episco-
pal church at Medford. closed for three
years because of poor attendance, is being
made by Bishop John Scarborough. Ser
vices were conducted in the edifice on
Sunday by the Rev. Mr.. Kelley, of Phila-
delphia, who administered Holy COM
munion.
Mount Holly Lodge No. 10. Ancient
Order of Good Fellows elected these Of
ficers on Friday night: Worthy grand,
Winfield s. Cameron; vice grand, Alvan
Staley; chaplain. Morgan Reeves; guide,
Jervis s. Zelley; warden, Ellsworth Reeves;
junior tyler, Nathan Barber; tyler, Will
liam Hinkle; trustee, Morgan Reeve.
Elizabeth, the 4.Year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Malseed, of Madison
avenue, was taken Ill while playing in the
yard on Wednesday afternoon. Running
to the house the little one complained of
being cold and she was put to bed There
was a consultation of physicians on Thurs
day, and 1t was found the child was suf-
fering from measles which had failed to
develop outwardly.
The Mount Holly A. c. has organized
for the season with E. Branin as manager.
Last season this club had a strong team
and they won many games. AT the pres
ent time they have no ground but the
manager says he expects to have an avail
able place when the season opens. The
lineup consists of the following players
whose positions have not been decided
as yet. Hendrickson, Shinn, Oatman,
Fenimore, Pitman, Garon, Brown, Ebert
son, Irons and Quigley.
A. Kropp is getting the base ball grounds
In shape for the opening Of the season
I; and he will make some Improvements that
will add to the looks of the place. A
fence, ten feet high, will be built around
the front of the grounds and on this will
be neatly painted signs. The grand stand
will be strengthened and the diamond
will be leveled and scrsped so that it will
be in good shape when the first game
takes place. Men are already at work on
the fence, which will be finished this eek
Gypsy Smith made fine beginning on
Sunday of his weeks series of meetings
at the Baptist church. Splendid congrega-
lions greeted him and deep impression
was made. He speaks and sings every
night this week. Friday night will be
special young peoples night, when his
subject will be "Shipwrecked Lives"
Monday night, April z, he will give his
famous lecture "From Gypsy Tent to
Pulpit" at which a silver offering will be
taken.
Mount Holly citizens who were early In
the field to assist In the havoc caused by
the Johnstown food of many years ago,
are now urged in the work of extending
aid to the western sufferers who have met
with the greatest calamity Of the age by
the recent cyclone and food, which dis.