The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-01-27
New Advertisements.
LOCAL NEWS.

carnatlOn.
The Junior Mechanics conferred thu
Oriental degree on sixteen candidates OF
Thursday night.
Washington Camp No. II, Patriotic
Order Sons of America, will hold ladies
night on Thursday.
A thunder shower with vivid flashes
of lightning passed over this section or
Tuesday evening.
William H. Hargrove, of Bordentown,
retired carpenter, is now living in
Mount Holly with his sister.
J. ]. Fenstermacher has sold the
property owned by Maurice T. Holland
at Hainesport, to Charles Cooley.
The Methodist ladies of Indian Mills,
will hold an oyster supper at that place
on Saturday evening, February 7th.
The w. C. T. U. will meet at the res
idence of Mrs. Nelson Carly, III Pearl
street. Tuesday afternoon, February Sd.
Richard Wills, of YOUNGSTOWN, is
prepared for a second visitation of rob-
bers, who recently stole a dozen of his
best fowls.
Jonathan Lippincott, of Buttonwood
street, is making good recovery from the
illness which recently Frustrated him at
the Camden ferry.
Senator B. H. White introduced bill
in the Legislature last night for the
purpose of exempting travelling sales
men from jury duty.
An iron post, on which High and Gar
den streets are designated, has been
erected at the corner of the Friends
meeting house property.
The le-Pilkington Company, of
Mount Holly, has given employment to
Charles II. Stermer, of Lumberton, who
is acting as their stenographer.
The 4lst annual meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture will be held in the
State House, Trenton, on Thursday and
Friday, January 18th and Both.
Special music, under direction of Or
ganist and cho' master Smythe, was a
feature of the service held in st. An
drew's church on Sunday evening.
Having recovered from his recent in
disposition, William Y. Gennett has re-
turned to Mount Holly after visiting at
the home of his father at Mercerville.
Harry A. Weitzel, giving Mount Holly
as his residence, recently convicted of
bigamy at Wilmington, Del, was SEN
fenced to eighteen months in prison.
The annual meeting of Mount Holly
Camp, No. IS, Woodmen of the World,
will be held this evening, when bust
ness of importance will be transacted.
The mid-winter institute of the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union of
Burlington county will be held in the
Methodist church at Palmyra on Febru-
airy 5th.
The state federation Boards of Educa-
ton will hold meeting at Trenton on
February 9TH, at which time the local
board will be represented by Richard B
Eckman.
A large representation is expected at
Red Mems hall this evening, when the
Burlington County Federation of Patrio-
tic Fraternities will be formally in
stituted.
Mr.. and Mrs. William S. Kelley, of
High street, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Mabel Ernest
Kelley, to Louis Willard Jared, of
Cleveland, Ohio.
On Saturday afternoon there will be a
cake sale in the vacant office of Morris
III. Keller, on High street, by the
Womans Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist church.
The home of William B. Crozier, on
Washington street, was quarantined last
week, because of the illness of his
daughter, Sara, aged years, who was
suffering with diphtheria.
List of unclaimed mail remaining in
the post office for the week ending JAN
uary "a: American Add Bureau, Mrs.
Media Butterworth, Joseph H. Tyler,
Miss Grace Williams, Miss Charlotte
Spensen, Aleksander Sgegdor, Ambros
Gennel, foreign; postal, Miss Lulu
Feninore.
A large herd of Moose and their lady
friends enjoyed an excellent social that
was given in Mount Holly on Thursday
night. The entertainment of local tai
ent took place in the auditorium of the
home, corner High and Broad streets,
and all the guests enjoyed an unusually
delightful thine. Other features were
the music, dancing and refreshments.
There will be attractive motion pictures
at the opera house tonight. The feature
tomorrow night will be Uncle Toms
Cabin, and on Friday night the Guy
Brothers Ministries will give perform
ance, and on this occasion Bart Dennis,
formerly of Mount Holly, will appear
He is leading contortionist in the
country, and first found that he possess
ed talent in this direction while working
at the printing trade in THE NEWS
Office.
Donation day at the Burlington Coun
ty Children's Home will occur on next
Thursday. A new wing is being added
to the home as the present building be-
came crowded. Through the efforts OF
Mrs. McIlvain, the matron, the State
Board of Education has approved the
school department and furnishes a
teacher. The school is graded and chill
dren leaving there can enter the gram.
mar schools of the state the same as
from any other school. The institution
is in need and liberal contributions are
hoped for.
Thomas McGovern, a Trenton con.
tractor, has written to the members OF
the Senate protesting against the reap
pointment of Colonel Edward A. Stevens
as State Road Commissioner. He asks
that they withhold action on the nomi
nation until the Economy and Efficiency
Commission reports on the investigation
of the charges made some time age
against the official or refuse point blanl
to confirm the nomination. He furthe
suggests that committee from tn,
Senate investigate the charges.
Samuel Doughty, the aged chief en-
gineer at the plant of the Riverton Ic
and Cold Storage Companv at Eas