The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-10
LOCAL NEWS.

sleeper, is Ill with bronchial pneumonia
The Young Friends Association will
meet at the home of Walter Shinn OIL
Tuesday, November "a.
Miss Emma Steelman is slowly inn
proving from a recent operation at tn,
Burlington county hospital.
There was only one rain storm during
October-on the 18th, 10Th and 18th
The rainfall was LIS inches.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Abbott, O
Pointville, celebrated the tenth ami
versary of their wedding ON Tuesday
last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Britton, of Pine
street, announce the engagement of theii
daughter Miss Verna Britton, to Floyd
Lewis.
Charles III. Lott has been placed on the
pension list of the Pennsylvania railroad
after serving as bridge builder for forty
nine years.
Francis A. Matthias, better known
about town as Dandy died at the
home of his son Albert, on Monroe
street, Thursday morning.
Mrs. Mary Mccoy, of Ridgway street,
fell on Main street as she was about to
step up on the sidewalk last week and
fractured two fingers of her left hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Tice are now
occupying the property vacated by AL
bert S. II. Johnson, who recently pur-
chased the Lydia Shreve property out
Garden street.
The Grand Army Post held social at
their post room on Friday night to which
their wives and families were invited A
very enjoyable evening was spent and a
supper was served.
The tenant house on the Alfred /.
Bovine farm, near Smalley's corner, oc-
cupied by Alfred Felter, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire on Monday night of last
week. The house was insured.
Mrs. Granville Frake, an elderly lady
of East Mill street, fell down the cellar
steps at her home, Saturday morning,
and was considerably bruised about the
body, but no bones we're broken.
quorum was not present at the meet
ing of the Ankokas Canoe Club for the
election of officers last week, but nomin-
ations were made and it was decided to
conduct the election by postal card
vote, which is now under way.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society of Trenton dis
trint nf ha NJ ohx hall -,
Paul's church, Trenton, ON Thursday.
Several members of the Mount Holly
Society were in attendance.
Arrangements have been made to re-
move the fire alarm whistle from the
electric power house on Water street to
the plant of the Hollyford Ice Company.
The Burlington County Shoe Company
has also granted the nse of its whistle |
for fire purposes.
Township committeeman Howard E. |
Alcott is working on plan for q COM
munity Christmas celebration in Mount |
Holly similar to the public celebrations |
that are annually held in many other
towns and cities. A town Christmas |
tree would be one of the features.
Washington Council No. S, Jr. o. u. |
A. NJ, will celebrate 'old members |
night" at their meeting tonight. State |
Council Chaplain, Rev. Samuel A. Har-
ker, will be the principal speaker. Rev.
Il. J. j. Wright will also make an ad- |
dress. There will be an interesting pro-
gram presented.
Mrs. Esther Streaker celebrated her |
seventy-first birthday anniversary on
Monday night of last week. The sum-
mer residents of the Mount Holly colony |
at Seaside Heights assembled at her |
home on Pine street in response to an |
invitation from Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Pierce, and assisted in the celebration. |
1t was masquerade and very enjoy
able evening was spent
Invitations have been issued for the
Friday Evening Assemblies, series |
of fifteen dances to be given in Masonic |
Temple during the winter under the
management of Edward Matlack, of |
Grant street, who is receiving subscrip- |
tions for the series. Several formal |
dances will also be given for ticket |
holders during the season. The Peerless |
Orchestra has been engaged for the series |
and private instruction in the new dances |
will be given each Friday evening.
John Throckmorton, ST., was quite |
painfully injured on Friday afternoon
when struck and knocked down by a
riA Isca LOT
was torn and it was quite shock to the
veteran. He had just come out Of
Carty's bakery with both arms full of
bread for the G.. A. II. social, and went
to cross the street when the boy came
along riding at rapid rate and struck
him. The bread went in one direction
and John went in another, his head
striking the curb. For couple of days
he was feeling quite stiff and sore, but is
getting around in good shape again.
Evangelistic services began in the
Methodist church on Sunday and will
continue two weeks. Interesting speakers
will be present each night. You should
not fail to hear Rev. Joseph Nankivel
play his violin and sing. He will be
present each night. Next Sunday will
be a big day. AT the morning service Rev.
Edmund Hewitt, former pastor, will
preach, and in the evening the following
Billy Sundays Trail Hitters" from
Scranton, Pa, will conduct the service:
f. b. Walton, travelling salesman; S. s.
Mcintyre, clerk; William Templeton,
merchant; S. A. Cole, photographer;
and Henry Wood, engineer.
Building lots on the Tomlinson tract
out Madison avenue, recently placed in
the hands of the Hayward Realty Co.
for disposal, are being rapidly sold, and
many of the purchasers expect to build
in short time. Twenty-Five lots were
sold within two days, many Of
them being cash sales. Quite number
of purchasers have bought lots on Lex
ington Avenue, the new street laid out
parallel with Madison avenue in the
rear of the tract. Most of the buyers
are residents of Mount Holly and Lum-
berton. 1t is probable that Mr.. Keith,
the representative of the realty company
in charge of the development, will have
several more tracts of land to handle be-
fore he leaves town 1t looks as if MOunt