The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-05-26
LOCAL NEWS.

buried in the Mount Holly cemeteries.
The Wet. U. will meet at the HON
of Mrs. Charles H. Warner, II Paxso
street, Tuesday afternoon, June 2.
The Young Friends Association wi
meet at the home of Tylee b. Englt
near Rancocas, on Thursday evening.
Oriental Court No. 10, side degree {
the Junior Mechanics, will hold bar
quet in the Masonic Temple on Thurs
day night.
DIR. w. S. Bovard, of New York, wi
deliver an address in the Methods
church on Thursday night, to which a
are invited.
A meeting of Armour Union will b
held at the home of the secretary, Eulali
Chafey, PIG Pine street, on Tuesda,
evening, June 2.
The stone roads on High and Wash
ington streets are to be repaired AM
covered with oil or some other dust lay
ing composition.
E~W. Esham has been awarded tn
corislact to build house for James Lo
gan on High street, above the mount
Work will be begun this week.
Victor Hoelbringer, of Philadelphia
has succeeded James Simpson as mana
ger of the Acme grocery store. The lat
ter has been transferred to Trenton.
Charles fl. Moore wishes to publicly
thank the many persons who assisted
him during the troubles he had on ac
count of the sudden death of his wife.
Harry l.. Burroughs will erect house
on his recently purchased. lot on Madi
son avenue near the hospital. E. w
Esham has the contract to do the work
The Lumberton township COMMITTEES
has established fire district of the
village of Lumberton, and an election
will be held soon to choose fire commits
sioners.
The Moorestown branch of the New
Jersey Association Opposed to Woman's
Suffrage has increased so rapidly in
membership that it now outnumbers
the society favoring woman's suffrage.
A new feature at the Wetherill store
once each month will be "Holly Day,
when special inducements in merchan-
disc will be offered to the public at this
popular store. The first of these days
will be next Friday.
The application of Harvey E. Lippin-
colt for license for hotel at Port Nor
ris was heard at Bridgeton last week. A
large number of witnesses appeared to
protest against granting the license. De-
cision was reserved until next Friday.
Game Wardens Morton and Loveless
arrested Charles and William Zabriskie'
of Fieldsboro, last week, for illegal net
fishing in the Delaware river. The men
were given hearing, at which they
pleaded guilty, and were fined $22.S0 each.
America Fire Company will celebrate
it's fifty-sixth anniversary on Thurs
day evening, June A, by holding ban
quet and mortgage burning, which
will mark the cancellation of the COM
pany's entire Indebtedness on it's real
estate.
Ex-Judge b. P. Wills. president and
secretary of the Mount Holly Fair, has
been elected member of the Board of
Review of the National Trotting Asso-
citation. He has charge of the Atlantic
district, comprising states bordering on
the Atlantic ocean.
Measles are interfering with the atten-
dance at the public schools in this town
and it is just as well that the close of
the school year is near. Sickness is
causing the absence of about IS children,
of which number at least SO are afflicted
with the measles.
Miss Amanda r. Dobbins died at her
home on Paxson street, yesterday morn
ing at five o'clock. She had been i'll for
some time, first being attacked with
pneumonia, then with paralysis. Miss
Dobbins was at one time teacher in the
Mount Holly schools, but retired several
years since.
Next Friday the Burlington County
Children's Home will celebrate it's fiftieth
anniversary. The building will be open
all day for inspection. The present
building, the "Mary A. Dobbins Memoir
ial House, will be dedicated at three
o'clock in the afternoon. The public is
invited to attend.
The Central Base Ball League will
open it's schedule of games next Satur-
day afternoon. The contest in Mount
Holly will be with Hainesport. The
teams in this League are composed al
most entirely of home players, and it is
hoped they will be encouraged by large
attendance at the series of games.
Harry Hughes came on from Wash
ington Friday on a ten days leave of
absence from the Government printing
Office, where he is employed. Hughes
handled every page of the speech recently
delivered by Senator La Toilette, which
was made part of the Congressional
Record and which cost the United States
$4,000 to print.
A. Lincoln Sailer died on Tuesday
night, at the home of his mother, Mrs.
Rachel B. Sailer, from complication OF
diseases. He had been in i'll health fol
q long time but was confined to the
house only about two weeks. He was
So years of age. The funeral took place
on Saturday. Interment was made in
Mount Holly cemetery
Samuel Manheimer has bought new
automobile, an Overland, and w. Har
old Rogers has purchased a new Max
we'll. Mr.. Rogers has just completed 9
very successful season on the Keith vau
deville circuit, which began last August
He has been as far west as the Pacific
coast. He will spend his summer vaca
ton in this neighborhood.
There was a great decrease in tn,
amount of forest fires in New Jersey dur
ing the past year, due to the effective
work of the 260 fire wardens in the state
The annual report of the State Board o
Forestry states that the woodland de
stroyed amounted to only 5000 acres
Railroad locomotives and AUTOMOBILE
picnic parties are blamed for most of tn
fires.
Some time ago Walter Dubell sold
horse to g. w. Heisserman & Bro
which died a few days after the sale ha