The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-21

Gale is DONG Jne mason Work ana y.
Appleton the carpenter work.
ny Joseph J. White has driven an artesis
well, 700 feet deep, on his cranberry DO
4 near New Lisbon station, from which
o supply of good water is obtained.
w The funeral of Howard E. Briggs toe
s place on Friday afternoon, from his la
residence on Mount Holly avenue. Il
terment was made in the Brotherhoc
= cemetery.
Burlington and Mount Holly hig
school base ball clubs played game
= Mount Holly on Tuesday afternoon
" The visitors won by the score of 6 to
in an exciting contest.
: Harley Shemeley, the auctionee
: whose place of business is situated o
Washington street, will open movin
picture show which he will run in cor
o nection with his auction business.
An entertainment will be given in tn
Presbyterian church on Friday evening
: The program will consist of music an
two humorous farces. An admission
of twenty-five cents will be charged.
A mems mass meeting was held in tn
Methodist church on Sunday afternoon
q and was largely attended. Robert Nc
: Kenty, warden of the Eastern Peniten
! tiary, delivered very interesting ad
dress.
The South Jersey Tobacco Company
. has established new hours for closing it
place of business, as follows: 8 p. m. OF
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays;
p. m. on Thursdays and Fridays; moor
on Saturdays.
Il Mrs. Jane Pratt, aged 81 years, who
formerly lived ON Pine street, Noun
Holly, died at New Lisbon on Wednes
day. Her remains were inferred in St
Andrews burying grounds, Mount
Holly, Friday afternoon.
i The new road from Browns Mills t6
Lakehurst has been completed. The
bridge across the canal at Whites bog
was finished last week, and the road is
now open to travel. The distance from
Mount Holly to Toms River by this
road is Sc miles.
/ The Burlington County Shoe Com
Ipany whose factory is located on Water
street, has suspended work until new
boiler has been installed. The Lum-
berton Shoe Company is so rushed with
unlimited orders they have employed
many of the shoemakers that were out
of work here.
The ninth annual convention and
dinner of the Young Mems Christian
Associations of Burlington county will
be held in the Baptist church, Burling-
ton, on Friday evening, May 9Th. An
address will be delivered by Albert E.
Roberts, of New York. Brief reports of
the years work will be illustrated with
stereopticon.
Mount Holly and Burlington ball
clubs will play game on the High
street ground next Saturday afternoon
at three o'clock. Two new players have
been secured for the home team-Gibbs
and Donaghy. The league games will
begin on Decoration day. Mount Holly
will play at home that day against
Hainesport.
On Thursday, May IA, there will be an
interesting ceremony at Bordentown
when fountain will be unveiled. 1t is
the gift of the Bordentown Female Col
lege Association, which is composed of
former members of that institution.
The secretary of the association is Mrs.
Thomas c. Shreve, who takes an active
interest in the affair and who has worked
hard to get this memorial fountain
erected.
Among the eighteen thousand sailors
and marines ready for duty in Mexico,
Mount Holly is represented in the per-
sons of George X. Stoddard, lieutenant
ON board the U. S. S. New Hampshire,
Robert Fryer, captain of marines on the
ship Prairie; Ralph Whitman, Frank
Wells and Francis Carroll. AS George
Reimer has been seriously ill and con-
fined to the naval hospital at Norfolk,
Va, for several weeks, he was not allow
ed to report for duty.
The Philanthropic Committee of the
Chesterfield Friends Meeting cleared $3.50
at its recent supper and fair for the bene-
fit of State charities. The Burlington
County Children's Home at Mount
Holly, the Florence Crittenton Home
and the Mckinley Hospital, at Trenton,
will be benefited by the proceeds. The
society elected the following new officers:
President, Mrs. Laura N. Rogers; vice
president, Mrs. Virginia N. Middleton;
secretary, Miss Helen r. Robbins; treas
urer, Miss Namoi Ellis.
| The Ankokas Canoe Club is consider
ing the purchase of the old Durand ice
house, on Green street. together with a
tract of land at the Mill street end of
Durand's cove, as site for their pro-
posed club house. 1t is thought there is
enough good timber in the ice house to
go long way toward putting up the
new structure. Should the purchase be
made, the club house will face on the
cove and entrance to the main creek be
gained through channel at the upper
end. This is an ideal site, being con-
venient to the town, and altogether de-
sirable.
At the meeting OF the Board of Educa
ton, Thursday evening, the following
elections took place: William H. Mason,
district clerk; Frands H. Reed, custodian
of funds; John N Carly and Samuel
Thomas, janitors. All of these were re-
elections, the terms expiring on the Both
T day of June. Teachers will be elected at
the May meeting, A set of rules was
adopted, one of which fixes qualifications
for teachers in the grades, who must
, be either high school or normal school
, graduates and in either case must have
had at least two years experience in
, teaching.
The trolley company, Sunday, revoked
the ''pay-as-you-enter" order and fares
i. will be collected in the usual way here
after. The main reason for this act was
that too much time was lost when there
was crowd waiting to enter the cars
The rails to repair the switches neal
: Garden street areon the spot, but 1t has
e been suggested by many citizens that il
h would be benefit to all concerned if tht