The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-12-29
Miss Reba Griscom, Of Grant street, is

Mount Holly Forest of Tall Cedars Of
Lebanon meets in Masonic Temple to-
night.
= THE NEWS wishes its readers and ad.
vertisers a happy and prosperous New
Year.
Don't forget the cake sale at the Y. M.
c. A. office, AZ Main street, ON Saturday,
January 2.
Charles HI. Engle, Jr., has sold the
former Wisham farm, near Mount Holly,
to HI. Carlton Jones.
Samuel Evans, who was recently in.
|jured by falling from a load of hay, is
much better and is able to sit up.
James Mullen, a well-known character
around town, has been taken to the Bur
lington County Hospital, suffering with
pneumonia.
Joseph c. Kingdom, I'd, who has been
quite i'll with pneumonia, has recovered
SO that he was able to go down to his
Christmas dinner.
Charlotte Louisa, widow of Charles
Kempte, died on Sunday at her home on
Buttonwood street. She was 80 years
and 8 months of age.
Arthur Pryor and his famous band
have again secured the contract to fur
nish the music on the beach at Asbury
Park during July and August, 1915.
Rev. p. J. Hart. formerly of Mount
Holly, presented DR.. John +. Flynn,
with a beautiful diamond stick pin for
a Christmas gift.
Tonight the Suwanee River Male
Quartette will appear at the Methodist
church as the fourth number OF the
Lyceum course. This is the best negro
quartette in America, and you will miss
a rare treat if you fail to hear them.
Frank w. Ford. one of B~ordentown's
prominent citizens, died suddenly Satur-
day evening. He had been subject to
weakness of the heart for some time and
this was the cause of death. He leave a
widow, sister Of Harry t. Warner, of
Mount Holly, and a son.
Master Stanley and Miss Dorothy
Bayersdorfer, son and daughter of Mar
tin B~ayersdorfer, and Miss Henrietta,
sister OF Martin, was visiting Abraham
Saltzman, yesterday. and called on their
many friends. Miss Henrietta had not
been here for five years and she saw
many changes which pleased her very
much.
Crosswicks Grange has elected the fol-
lowing officers: Master, Howard M.
Rogers; overseer, William Hannold;
steward, Joseph Johnson; assistant
steward, Alvan Vanhise; lecturer, Carrie !
Bowers; chaplain, Frank Bowers; secre- |
tary, Emma Margerum; treasurer, Will
liam Rogers; gatekeeper, Clarence Mar
garum; pomona, Mrs. Mayo; ceres, |
Belle Conover: flora, Emma Klein; lady |
assistant steward, Anna Taylor.
The Burlington County Young Mems
Christian Association will remove their
office, Thursday, from the building now
occupied On High street to the rooms of
the Burlington County Republican
Committee, over the post Office. The
appointment of a Farm Demonstration
has made this change necessary as that
official will combine his Office with the
Y. M. G. A., and the present quarters
are not large enough for the two.
John B. Miller. of Medford, had a
number of entries at the field trials of
the Delaware Pointer and Setter Club at
Laurel, Delaware, last week, and of the
six prizes offered Mr.. Miller captured
half of them. His Jersey Liz was first
in the Derby; Eugene Ms Nike
finished third in the derby and Jersey
Sue" finished second in the allage class. |
Mr.. Miller says that the method of con-
Quoting a trial in Delaware is decidedly |
different from that used here.
Richard Thomas, a sculptor, of Bor-
dentown, has been awarded a contract
for a bronze memorial tablet, to be
placed in Girard college, Philadelphia. |
in honor of the memory of Miss Hessy
r. Miller, a former instructor at the in
stitution. Miss Miller, who spent practi-
cally all her life as a teacher in Girard
college, established a scholarship in the
University of Pennsylvania, for the
benefit of Girard college boys, at her
death. The tablet is to be erected by her
former pupils in the college in remem-
brance of her devotion and kindness.
Christmas exercises were held in the I
various churches by the Sunday schools
during the past week, in which the pro-
grammes were Interestingly. presented.
The churches were beautifully decorated
for the occasions. The Baptist Sunday
school entertainment was held Wednes-
day night, the Methodist and st.
Andrews IN Thursday night. and the
Presbyterian last night. On Sunday |
Christmas messages were delivered from
the pulpits and the choirs rendered
special music. At the Baptist church
Sunday evening the choir rendered a
Christmas cantata.
Lindley NJ. Garrison, formerly a New
Jersey vice chancellor, now secretary OF
war, denied ~emphatically yesterday the
report that he is a candidate for senator
from New Jersey. The report as it came
from Washington was that Secretary
Garrison had made up his mind to take
the toga from Senator MARITIME when the
latter's term expires. "You can say for
me-" the war secretary said yesterday
afternoon, that / am going to conduct
the War Department to the utmost of
my ability for the time for which Presi-
dent Wilson selected me, and that when
that time expires l am going to return
to New Jersey and practice law. That
ought to be sufficiently explicit"
The Department of Agriculture has
issued a warning to farmers of New Jer-
sey, and the Middle Atlantic and South
ern States, against buying seed potatoes
from Maine, unless they bear the depart
ment's certificate showing the potatoes
to be free from powdery scab. The far
mers are also warned against the use of
table potatoes for planting purposes, as
those, according to the department, even
though they do not show the disease,
may have been exposed to it. Some
dealers, the statement says, have been
buying table stock and selling it for seed.
These men are not violating any law but
they are exposing their customers to the
risk of a dangerous disease and q quaran-
tine should the pOWdery seal be in