The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-17

hospital for serious affection of one o
her eyes.
Theodore Budd, Jr, of Pemberton
and Miss Helen Brewer, of Boston, wer,
married in the latter city on February
4th. After wedding tour to Cuba thu
, couple will reside at Pemberton.
Attacked by three brothers in a stree
row, at Riverside, on Wednesday, Franz
Kane, a professional boxer, was badly
beaten. John Herbert and Benjamin
Freck were arrested as the alleged assail
ants.
At the annual convention of the Tai
Cedars of Lebanon, at Atlantic City
Thursday, Mayor Flagg, Jr., of River
ton, was elected Supreme Tall Cedar
Mayor Flagg is an enthusiastic member
of the order and has taken great interest
in all of it's workings.
j Harry Bowen, who has been conduct.
ing a restaurant on High street, has sold
his fixtures to ]. Rosenfeld, of Burling,
ton. Mr.. Bowen will give up the restaur.
ant business and will soon open a NOV
ing picture show in the building he now
occupies.
Burlington county lodges of the
knights of Columbus will hold a meet
ing in st. Mary's hall, Mount Holly,
next Saturday night. to celebrate Lin
coins and Washington's birthdays.
| Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty, of
Philadelphia, will be one of the speakers.
Residents of Pemberton are urging the
borough council to pass an ordinance
giving franchise to company that
has been organized to install an up-to-
date electric lighting system at that
place. The question will come up for
action at meeting to be held next
Monday night.
Chancellor Walker on Wednesday
made the appointment of one jury COM
missioner for each county to act in con-
junction with the sheriff in drawing
grand and petit jurors, as now required
by law. Benjamin ID. Shedaker was
named for Burlington county, and Will
liam E. Nowlan for Ocean county.
Morris III. Keller will make extensive
alterations and additions to his under
taking establishment ON Main street. A
new front will be placed in the building,
and the entire first floor, with an adj
dition in the rear, will be used for his
business. The top floors will be made
into apartments.
1t has been decided to install an electric
light plant in the Burlington County
Hospital for the Insane at New Lisbon,
and Joseph S. Shreve, of Mount Holly,
has received the contract to do the work.
The present gasoline plant, like the one
furnishing light at the county buildings
in Mount Holly, is expensive to main
tain.
Thomas l.. Quigley will give an enter
tainment in the Opera House Friday
evening, with : programme that is sure
to please. There will be up-to-date
dances, musical and vaudeville num-
bers. Professor Eckman will play a
euphonium solo and Mr.. Quigley will
have his trained horse and dogs on the
stage.
The committee having in charge the
movement for a Burlington county
colony for detectives held a meeting at
Burlington last week and adopted plans
for the necessary buildings. About
$4,000 has thus far been subscribed for
the work. The amount required is
$4,000. The Mount Holly collection
amounted to $3.50.
Arrangements for the building of the
Zurbrugg Memorial Hospital at River
side have been given considerable atten-
ton by the executors of the Zurbrugg
estate, the erection of which was pro-
vided for in the will of the testator. 1t
has been decided to build on the lot
next to the old residence of the Zurbruggs
in Riverside and to use the present house
as an administration building and
nurses residence. No architect has vet
been selected to prepare plans for the
hospital.
Edmund Braddock, well-known resi-
dent of Burlington county, died or Tues
Aoxr of he. in, I,
year of his age. tuberculosis was the
cause of death. He was one of the
prominent Changers of the state, and was
president of the Farmers Reliance In
surance Company. The funeral took
place on Friday. Interment was made
in the Friends burying ground, Med
ford. He leaves a widow, two sons,
Howard and Job, and a daughter, Mrs.
Wilmer Collins, of Moorestown.
Eugene Emley, former Prosecutor of
the Pleas of Passaic county, died at his
home in Paterson, Sunday. Mr.. Emley
was the son of the late former Sheriff
Edward Emley and was born at Jacobs
town So years ago. After being admitted
to the bar he removed to Paterson and
was Prosecutor for Is years. He also
served one year in the Assembly. Mr..
Emley had been in poor health for a
number of years. He leaves a sister,
Miss Martha Emley, the only surviving
member of the family. His wife died
less than two years ago.
A fire station for the guarding of a
section of so square miles in the Burling-
ton county pine belt is being established
by the State Forestry Preservation Com
mission at Applepie Hill, four miles
from Chatsworth. On the crest of the
hill, which is the highest point in that
section, lookout tower has been erected
and a guard, armed with a powerful
telescope for sweeping the surrounding
country for signs of forest fires, will be
on duty day and night. A telephone
line is being constructed between the
station on the hill and Chatsworth that
fire wardens and deputies may be in
stantly dispatched to the scene at the
outbreak of fire.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Willitts, of Smith
vile, celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary on Wednesday. There were
over hundred guests present. The af-
fair was held in the town hall, as the
Willitts residence was too small to ac-
commodate the people who gathered to
honor the aged couple. Mr.. and Mrs.
Willitts have lived in Smithville for
over Al years. He has been in the en-
ploy of the II. b. Smith Machine Com
pany during all that time, either in the
shops or on the farm. Mr.. Willitts is a
native of Burlington county. His wife
was formerly Miss RoXanna Bowker, of
Barnegat, Ocean county. Mr.. Willitts
enlisted in the army during the civil war
and was a member of Gen. f. b. Grubb's
23d regiment. He is member of Gen.
A. +. ShiraS Post of Mount Holly,