The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-12-01
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


Jervis S. Zelley is nursing a bad ca
buncle on the back of his neck.
John E. Elbertson has purchased til
Ellen Haines property on Pearl street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tyler, of Burlinl
ton, spent Thanksgiving day in Noun
Holly.
Francis H. Reed has purchased
building lot on Broad street from Harr
V. Kester.
Lorenzo w. Leis, of Merchantville, an
Elsie Davis, of Browns Mills, were maj
ried at Elkton, Md, on Friday.
The dance given at Smithville hall OF
Saturday evening for the benefit of tn
Red Cross fund Melted about $13O.
The Burlington County Farmers Elk
change will hold its annual meeting a
the court house on Saturday, Decembe
II.
Robert c. Rue, highly respected resi-
dent of Cream Ridge, was found dead il
his bed on Monday of last week. He
was So years of age.
Thomas Harrington, farmer living
on the outskirts of Merchantville, is
suffering from lockjaw as the result of q
scratch received from cat.
Rev. Howard Crammer and wife, Of
Beach Haven, spent few days last week
in Mount Holly with the formers, par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles HI. Crammer
The New Jersey State Horticultural
Society will hold its fortieth annual
meeting at the experiment station in
New Brunswick ON December 8, Sand 10.
While installing steam heating plant
in the Bridgeboro hotel, last week,
Charles Hettmannsperger was severly
injured when the heavy boiler rolled
from its stays.
Clifford r. Powell, student in ".
Claude Palmers office, has been notified
that he has successfully passed his ex-
animation and has been admitted as an
attorney at law.
Without expense to Mansfield town
ship, Walter Kirby, farmer near Col
umbus, has constructed a mile of i'm
improved gravel road in front of his own
and adjoining farms.
Stephen Hoffman, seventy-fve years
old, of Ewanville, while on his way to
Camden with his wife, on Tuesday, was
stricken with heart trouble on the train,
and died before reaching Merchantville.
About IT'S members of the Junior
Mechanics attend service at the Method
list church on Sunday evening. Rev. #.
j. }. Wright preached special Thanks
giving sermon, the subject being, LEST
We Forget" A large audience filed
the church.
Rev. Charles III. Barnes, who was for
merly pastor of the Nj. E. church, River
side, and well-known in Mount Holly,
having preached here in the Methodist
church on several different occasions,
while out in Pennsylvania contracted
pneumonia and died last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Macdonald of
Bispham street, had been married fifty
years on Tuesday, and the anniversary
was celebrated by dinner party at
their home on Thanksgiving day. Their
family consists of two sons, one daugh-
ter and six grandchildren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Danz, who live
on the road from Jacksonville to Han
cocks corner, on Friday celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of their marriage
That evening they entertained large
number of relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel HI. Ellis enter
tanned about 140 guests, including many
from Burlington county, at house
party at the Wiltshire, Atlantic City,
from Friday to Monday last. The affair
was in observance of the wedding anni-
versary of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis.
James Mcfarland, miller at Florence,
had his automobile wrecked at the North
Pemberton railroad crossing Wednesday
night and he and man named Dugan
were thrown from the machine and
slightly hurt when it was sideswiped by
a Union Transportation locomotive.
Charles S. Gaskill. son of former Judge
and Mrs. Joseph H. Gaskill, has been
promoted to the position of master me-
chanic of the Pennsylvania railroad
shops at Baltimore. He has been assist
ant engineer of motive power with
headquarters at Wilmington, Delaware.
Marjorie Allen, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold B. Allen, won the doll that
has been exhibited at Wetherill's store
and was offered as prize by the Gordon
Hosiery Company to the person present
ing the largest number of the round
tickets that are attached to the hosiery
made by that firm.
Citizens of Marlton and Medford,
through local Philadelphia commuters,
organized to fight the proposed increase
in Pennsylvania railroad fares, are plan
ming to finance and operate an automo-
bile stage service between that section of
Burlington county and the metropolis,
beginning December Is.
Beginning early this month the State
Board of Fish and Game Commissioners
will place rainbow trout in the following
streams: Rancocas creek, Kirby's pond,
Pemberton pond, New Lisbon pond,
Cold Water run, Friendship run, Jones'
mill pond, Chatsworth lake and stream,
branch of Assiscunk at Burlington, and
Sylvan lake.
William Mackintach, of Pine street,
who had been suffering from liver and
stomach trouble for some time, died early
Thursday morning. He was 40 years of
age. He had been section boss on the
Pennsylvania railroad for number of
years. The funeral took place Sunday
afternoon, interment being in Baptist
cemetery, Pemberton.
Fred Stockton, who lives on Pine
street, went to his stable Thursday morn
ing and as he was gone rather longer
than was his usual custom some of the
family went to look for him and found
that his horse had kicked him and he
was lying on the floor and the horse was
trampling on him. Mr.. Stockton is in
quite a serious condition, his left leg was
broken just above the knee cap and the
same bone in the upper part of the Les
was cracked, and he was badly cut ano
bruised.