The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-02-25
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

The annual financial report Of North
ampton township appears in THE News
to day.
Floyd Scattergood has accepted q
position in the Office Of the Public Service
Gas Company.
William o. Thornton, of Salisbury.
Md, has purchased house at oakdaie
from A. A. Anderson.
A masquerade dance will be given In
the Masonic Temple next Saturday even
ing by Mrs Clothier.
Irving Gaskill. clerk at Holeman's
store. was a sufferer last week from an
attack of tonsilitis.
J. Fred Shaw was Ill with pneumonia
at Brooklyn last week. He formerly re-
sided in Mount Holly.
The Junior Mechanics will confer the
Oriental degree on class OF candidates
In Red Mems hall tonight.
The services of the Presbyterian church
will be In charge of the Rev. w. B. She'd
dan. of Princeton, on Sunday.
J.R. Gillian, of High street. is now a
contracting mason for himself. He served
his apprenticeship with w. s. Gale.
Restore B. Lamb, of Union street. was
the recipient of post card shower, on
Friday, in honor of his SD birthday.
1.-The Crucifxion" will be rendered by
the choir of St. Andrews church at
special service on Wednesday, March 10.
The Board of Trade of Florence will
soon hold meeting for the purpose OF
discussing the advisability of having that
town Incorporated.
Francis II. Reed will be one Of the
Democrats from this section to go to
Washington to witness the Inauguration
of President Wilson.
Miss Elsie E. Eckman is unable to pur-
sue her musical studies at present because
of fall at her home on Mill street, which
affected the nerves of her right arm.
Proceedings were taking in court on
Thursday. for the formal commitment OF
Miss Rebecca Gaskill, of Pine street. to
the county hospital at New Lisbon.
The report of County Auditor John B.
Tilton for 1912 ordered published In TIE
News by the Board of Freeholders, ap-
pears on the first page of this ISSUE
Charles r. Scott, state Y. NJ. G. A. sec
rotary, of Newark, addressed over two
hundred high school students In Medford
and Moorestown on Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Some new slate was placed on the steeple
of the Methodist church on Wednesday
afternoon by Louis A. and Archie Tom
linson. Their perilous work was watched
by many people.
Prof. William F. Overman, of Moores-
town Friends Academy, will give an Illus
trated lecture under the auspices OF the
local Y. M. G. A., at Hainesport, on FRI
day evening. March Z.
Rev. A. F. A. Neudoerffer, who went
to India to engage In missionary work,
has mastered the native language and lie
now In charge of the Lutheran missions
in Rajahmundrie district.
A group of young men of Florence will
organize on Thursday night, making the
second Y. M. G. A. group for Florence.
Arthur Spencer and John Camp are the
leaders Of the junior group.
Government employees who have been
employed on the Deeper Delaware"
have received word that work on the
Trenton channel above Bordentown will
be resumed on the first of March.
Heart trouble caused the sudden death
OF Sarah RidgwaY, on Wednesday after
noon. She died at the residence of
Samuel A. Borden, on Broad street, with
whom she had lived for long time
Claude B. Bullock, of Washington
street, is to receive prize of 80 Stetson
hat for being the winner of the bowling
tournament which has been feature at
the alleys of August Kropp for several
weeks.
Maurice E. Reeve, of Medford, Is
member of firm conducting real estate
and insurance business in Camden. For
this purpose he resigned his clerkship In
the office of Harry Hawkins, Jr., who
conducts a similar business In Mount
Holly.
The vacant store property at No. 80
High street, belonging to DIR. John j.
Flynn. will be occupied by the ladies of
the Presbyterian church next Saturday
afternoon, where they will hold a cake
sale.for the benefit of the Foreign Mis-
sionary Society
Samuel A. Dobbins, of Camden, chan
cellor commander of the grand lodge
knights of Pythias, has appointed Harry
Hawkins, Jr., deputy for district No. l.
The members of the local lodge will en-
joy an entertainment to be given In Red
Mems hall next Friday night.
Miss Mary T. Kingdom. of Burlington,
Is quite Ill. She was taken sick the day
prior to the death of her mother, and was
threatened with pneumonia and compli-
cation OF other diseases. At present she
is improved and It is hoped that her per-
manent recovery will soon be announced.
While Mrs. Harry Mattson, living near
the Sylvan Lakes. was returning from a
lodge meeting at Burlington on Tuesday
night, she was thrown from the step of a
trolley car at the mill road. and severely
gashed on the head. The injured wor q
was taken to Burlington and given medi
cal attention.
Mrs. Gussie K. Rigg, of Philadelphia
aged Al years, died from cancer Of the
stomach on Thursday evening at the resi-
dence of her uncle, George W. Hand
Union street. Mount Holly, where she hat
been visiting. The remains were inferred
In the Odd Fellows cemetery, Burlington
yesterday morning.
George Seward, who had been a resi-
dent of Bordentown and who some tim,
ago lost the sight of his eyes, died a
Pemberton, on Thursday, aged 80 years
He was brother of James P. Seward, o
Fieldsboro. He leaves a widow and on
child. His funeral took place from tn
home OF his brother at Fieldsboro, yester
day afternoon.