The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-11-25
LOCAL NEWS.

III thanksgiving uay.
The season for catching pike and ba
will close next Sunday.
Business will be generally suspende
Thursday, Thanksgiving day.
The Delaware and Raritan canal wi
be closed to navigation on Saturda.
December 10Th.
Believing that peach growing is a pay
ing venture, Joseph w. Jones, farmt
near Newbold's corner, has set out l5C
peach trees.
There is unclaimed mail at the DOS
Office for the following persons: Mis-
Helen Dayton, Charles Mason and Mis-
Flora Demarsis.
The Mount Holly drug stores will b
closed from one to five o'clock in tn
afternoons of Thanksgiving, Christina
and New Years days.
All business houses and residence
along the route of parade are earnestl
requested to be illuminated and decorat
ed on Wednesday night.
AS the result of securing an appoint
ment in the Mount Holly post office
Harry Stricken, of Lumberton, is now
permanent resident here.
The dance to be held in the Levi
building tomorrow night will not begin
until nine o'clock, because of the parade
to be held in Mount Holly.
Word has been received from Prince
ton of the serious condition of Jesse V
Bickford, formerly of Mount Holly, who
is suffering with cancer of the liver.
County Auditor John b. Tilton, Of
Wrightstown, will remove to Mount
Holly to morrow. He will occupy the
furnished residence at 2l1 Garden street
The annual supper to be given in the
Masonic Temple by the Sacred Heart
Church will occur tonight. Other dates
announced for this affair were not cor
rect.
Mount Holly Forest No. 3, Tall Cedars
of Lebanon, will hold meeting in the
Masonic Temple on Tuesday evening,
next. Officers will be elected and num-
Der of candidates initiated.
Because of the illness of John Forbes.
of Water street, who is suffering severely
from rheumatism, the fire whistle at the
electric light works has not been blown
in the evening at O'Clock for some time.
Danny" Green, so well-known in
base ball circles, VINO came from Cam
den and joined the Mount Holly team
several years ago, has become mentally
defective and his case is said to be hope
less.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows met
at Trenton on Wednesday and continu-
ed John r. Deacon, of Bordentown, as
Treasurer. The next annual session will
also be held at Trenton, as the propo-
sition to hold the same at Jersey City
was defeated.
John A. Cook, of Beverly, represent
ing the officials of the Keystone Watch
Case Company, of Riverside, came to
Mount Holly on Thursday and placed
beautiful floral piece on the grave of T.
Zurbrugg, late president of the company,
it being the anniversary of his death.
1t was shown that good work was ac-
complished during the past by reports
that were submitted at the annual con-
vention of the Women's Home Mission
airy Society of the New Jersey Confer
hot halA ind IDIl
Methodist Church on Wednesday and
Thursday.
Budd Witcraft, Ridgway Rossell and
Edward Burroughs are reported to be
candidates for the position of janitor of
the court house, job which is now in
charge of John Shinn. The latter was
appointed by the Board of Freeholders
to succeed his father, Wilbur F. Shinn,
deceased
For having recovered some property
that was stolen from the home of Elwood
Bennett, of Mount Holly avenue, year
ago, State Detective Dalton has been
doing some good work. 1t was not quite
two weeks ago that he recovered most
all the property, when he located piece
of iewelry at Pemberton.
At the office of DIR. c. E. Lord on
Washington street, this afternoon, will
be held the annual Thanksgiving bak-
cry by the ladies of the PRESBYTERIAN
church, and it is safe to predict that
there are many buyers to take advan-
tage of this opportunity to secure a sup
ply of bread, pies, cakes, etc., for Thurs
day.
John F. Kiner and six friends have
made their record of Workmanship
Catching rabbit in pile of railroad ties
at the Medford junction, they agreed to
act squarely with the animal and liber-
ate it in open field. All hands were
ready at a given signal, and when the
guns were fired, the rabbit turned tail,
extended its thanks and ran safely to
the woods.
Running to the road on Mill street
Thursday night TO escape a drunken
man, Violet, aged eight years, daughter
of Samuel Leeds, was knocked down by
a horse and her legs badly bruised by
the carriage wheels passing over them.
Her upper lips were badly lacerated and
she was otherwise bruised, but sustained
no broken bones. DR.. Parsons treated
the child at Dubell's drug STORE 10 which
place she was taken.
By decision of the Court of Errors
and Appeals of this state, three former
officials of Atlantic county will have tC
serve term in the state prison. One o
the number is Estel ID. Rightmire, who
held the office of county engineer, thu
Others being members of the Board o
Freeholders. The charge on which they
were convicted was conspiracy in eX
tortion of money from road contracto
who was doing county work. The cas-
has been fought through the highe
courts of the state and decision render
ed last week is final so far as New
Jersey is concerned An appeal can b
taken to the United States courts blu
that is not likely to happen as there ha
been decision by that body that tn
Federal courts do not have jurisdiction
in such cases and the opinion of tn
state body must stand. Ten DAYS ar