The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-10-27
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

Jerome G. Harris has been electe
sergeant of Company E.
Mrs. George w. Savage has gone I
Los Angeles, Cal, for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ayres will n
move to Lakewood, where Mr.. Ayres
engaged in business
Joseph X, Foy and wife and Mrs. Bat
ten, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday wit
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Riley, on Pine street
Miss Elvira Armstrong, one of tn
post Office clerks, who has been ill fo
some time, has gone to Jersey City to re
cuperate.
The regular meeting of the w. C. I
U. will be held at the home of Mrs. Mar,
Armstrong, Water street, next Tuesda,
afternoon at three o'clock.
Floyd S. Stockton had planned t,
have masquerade dance at Lumber
ton Saturday evening, but he was com
PEELED to change the date until Novem
ber7
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of William HI. Heisler, Jr.
and Miss Ethel c. Budd, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford E. Budd, of Penn
berton.
The first of the course of entertain.
ments at the M. E. church was given
Thursday evening, and the concert OF
the Old Folks was generally enjoyed by
large audience.
Wednesday November 4th, will be do
nation day at the Burlington County
Hospital. The institution has had a
very busy year, and is in need of contri-
buttons of all kinds.
In the hall in Rancocas, Saturday
evening, November Z, Rancocas Grange
will hold a masquerade dance at which
prizes will be offered for the most fancy
and the most ludicrous costume.
Game warden Morton and an assistant
went to Budd's bog last week and secured
a number of catfish, sunfish and pike.
about lob of the latter being taken
They were placed in the creek here.
The season for killing deer will open
next Monday and there is evidence that
there is plenty of game around. The
difficulty will be to get in touch with it
on the days that shooting is allowed.
The house and lot belonging to the es-
tate of the late Prof. William COLON
Cook, on Garden street, opposite the
Baptist Church, will be sold at public
sale on Thursday afternoon, October %,
on the premises.
The following mail remains unclaim-
ed in the post Office for the week ending
October %: Letters, Amy Albertson, d.
Orline, Nodie Williams. Cards, David
Archer, Mrs. H. MacCall, Isaac Rugan,
John Rhoads, p. c. Rogers.
The Nearer and Farther Light society
of the Baptist church will hold sale of
homemade cakes, bread and pies on
Saturday, November Z, beginning at 2
r NJ, in the former Lewis build ing,
corner Main and Murrell streets.
John Grady is improving the double
dwelling house on Church street, which
was formerly owned by Charles H. Estill.
deceased. The improvements consist
of raising the front rooms level with the
back part of the house and the erection
of front porches.
A number of telephone and electric
light poles in Mount Holly are in an I'M
safe condition, One on Brainard street
leaned out of position to such an extent
that hurry call was made to have it
braced up. 1t was replaced by a new
pole Thursday, and the latter is certainly
good and strong if it is not handsome.
The store conducted by George Wal
Their, at HainespOrt, was entered by bur-
glars on Saturday night. The place was
rified of cigars, tobacco, candies, cakes,
etc., and number of letters in the post
office were opened, apparently with a
view OF obtaining money. No postage
stamps are kept in 1.-THE store at night
door, 1t is supposed the burglars came
up the creek in boat
The halloween celebration and
parade at Mediord, next Saturday night
promises to eclipse other similar events
held heretofore in that thriving town.
A larger number than usual of fraternal
and other organizations have agreed to
participate, and competition in other
features of the parade will be more gen.
eral on account of the great amount of
prizes, which this year number 38, con-
siderably more than heretofore
OnfCi lopciO, lOTIutT T6SluenI Oh
this section, is now starting on sentence
in the state prison for bigamy. His first
wife is living on farm in Springfield
township. Wispert was arrested at the
home of his mother in Moorestown. He
left his first wife and child and went to
MlllVille and married a girl from that
place. Her brother discovered that Wis
pert was already married man and he
got after the fellow with the result above
stated.
Clinton Brugler has heen sent to the
Pennsylvania penitentiary for three
years for extorting money from a woman
The fellow has been arrested in this
county and was indicted several years
ago and Detective Parker wanted to get
hold of the record in order that the man
might have something else on which to
act, but search failed to show the need
ed record. This failure is not due to any
act during county clerk Knights term.
Records of indictments in his time are
easily secured and some of them are not
relished.
At the last meeting of the Burlington
County Boys Agricultural contest COM
mittee, Robert G. Shoemaker of Mount
Holly was elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the departure of Mr.. Norman
S. Grubbs. Plans for a successful ex-
hibition and show, to be held in the Mt.
Holly High School on Nov. 2Sth were
discussed, and it is expected that this
years show will be at least so per cent
greater than last years event. Several
important committees relative to the
judging, exhibiting, program registra-
ton packing etc, will he announced by
chairman Edward A. Mechling OF
Moorestown, in few days.
Mrs. Maria III. Lewis, corner Wash
ington and Bispham streets, was one
hundred years of age on Friday. In the
afternoon there was an informal recep-
ton in honor of the great event, when
a number of relatives and friends called
to congratulate Mrs. Lewis. She was
the recipient of a large quantity of flow
ers and also other remembrances, in
Guiding two bride cakes, one of which
was studded with a hundred candles.
Seated in chair and holding large
bunch of bride roses, she received the
callers with the grace and brightness of
a young woman. Barring slight deaf
ness and somewhat impaired eyesight,
she is as active and alert as she was %
years ago.
Some time ago young man who is
building house entered into contract
with an agent of the Public Service Com
pany to lay gas mains on his lot. The
price was agreed upon and after awhile
the man was called upon by workman,
not the one who made the contract, and
was asked to sign paper showing that
certain number of feet of pipe had
been laid. Looking it over the young
man found that the most essential pOr-