The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-08-18
Horace 8 Rrock Of Brainard street

Horace S. Brock, of Brainard street
died on Thursday.
John Worth is having concrete side
walk and driveway laid at his butche
shop on Mill street.
Miss Ethel Garwood, cashier at the
Acme store, is enjoying a two-weeks
vacation. Her place is being filled by
Miss Gertrude Wilkinson.
Robert s. GaskiIl arrived home on Fri
day from three weeks trip to Atlantic
City. Since then he has been confined
to the house by any abscess on the leg,
below the knee.
Two little boys came to town last
week, one of them stopping at. the home
of Henry HI. Savage, on Buttonwood
street, and the other making his home
with Harry G. Paul, on Pine street
The letters that remain in the post
office unclaimed for the week ending
Saturday, August Is, are as follows: Mrs.
Corny, Mrs. Hannah Collins, Miss Liz
zie M. Doro, Joseph ]. Godoil, Miss Flora
Watson, Frank Robbins.
Jerome q. Harris, member of Com
pany Z, of Mount Holly, has been
chosen as one of the team that will rep
resent New Jersey in the rifle contest
at Sea Girt between teams from the
militia of fourteen eastern states.
nj of
Yearly Meeting of Friends, will attend
the pilgrimage meeting of Friends in the
meeting house, Mount Holly, tomorrow
Wednesday, night, at eight o'clock, and
tell of their religious work in the mis-
sionary fields of Syria.
John Weber, the boy who has been
giving the authorities much trouble in
endeavoring to find out where he was for
the last month, was discovered yester-
day in the woods near his home in the
neighborhood of Green Bank. A farm
hand disclosed the boys hiding place.
Johns father gave him severe spank
ing.
The ministers of Elkton, Maryland,
were away on vacation on Saturday,
leaving but one home. There we're thir-
teen couples who wanted to get married
and they hurried the Rev. DIR. Quigg to
get them all out of the way before night. |
He made them stand in line and take |
their turns. Among those mentioned |
as being united by the lone minister |
were w. ]. Burroughs and Miss Clara |
NJ. Eckert, Of Mount Holly.
Rev. Thaddeus Hogan, OF Trenton, is
for mass meeting in Trenton |
to protest against the poor quality Of gas |
by the Public Service Corpora
ton. Notwithstanding the church |
over which Father Hogan presides has
electric lighting facilities put in in 1908,
and much less gas has been used than
before that time, the cost of the gas now
exceeds that Of former years. The mat
ter will probably be taken before the Pub
lie Utility Commission. The complaint
Of poor gas is not confined to Trenton,
by any means.
The Board of Public Utilities has APP
proved of the application of the River
side Traction Company to issue five per
cent mortgage bonds to the amount of
S132, 900 on the statement by the COM
1any that the proceeds are to be used
or the construction of a power plant at
'r near the city of Burlington. The
BOARD has also given its approval of the
ease of the Cinnaminson Electric Light,
power & Heating Company to the Public
service Electric Company for term of
orty-six years, and the lease of the
Electric Company to the
public Service Electric Company for the
anne Deriod