The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-17
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1914
LOCAL NEWS.

Ice from to inches in thickness
being gathered in this neighborhood.
Harry A. Kobold, of Wilmington
Del, visited friends in this section o
Sunday.
Patrick Dolan will open restauran
at his present place of business No.
Main street.
A meeting of persons interested il
forming base ball league OF clubs IL
this vicinity will be held at the Cour
House tonight.
There will be a public sale of house
hold goods of the late John l.. Severn
at his late residence on Shreye street OF
Thursday afternoon.
Unclaimed mail remains at the pos
Office for the following persons: Mis-
Jane White, John Jinnings, Miss Han
nah Webster and Mr.. Brown.
The all-night dance, given by Mrs
Clothier in Mantel's hall, Jobstown
next Monday evening, February %, will
start at $50, closing at A o'clock.
Special musical services will be rem
dered at St. Andrews church, Sunday
evening, by the choir, which will sing
the cantata, ''Penitence, Pardon anC
Peace"
Samuel p. Richmond, who had beer
seriously ill for some time, died at the
Burlington county hospital on Thurs
day. Early last week he was operated
on for the removal of a fistula.
An automatic bell has been placed al
the Pine street crossing of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, which, with the fiagman
will be used to warn travellers of ap-
preaching trains. The material for safety
gates and a watchman's tower are on the
spot and may be used later.
Mrs. John Fields, aged 50 years, died
at the Soldiers. Home, Vineland, on
Wednesday. The funeral took place on
Sunday from the residence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Joseph Britton, of Church street,
Mount Holly. Interment was made
at Penn berton.
The patriotic secret societies of Mount
Holly will observed Washington's birth
day by attending service at the Methodist
church next Sunday night. Rev. T. i.
j. Wright will preach an appropriate
sermon for the occasion. The public is
cordially invited to attend
AT meeting of the congregation of
the First Baptist church of Mount Holly,
held last Wednesday night, it was de-
cided to extend call to Rev. James III.
Terry to become pastor of the church.
Mr.. Terry, who has preached here several
times very acceptably, is student at
Grocer Theological Seminary and will
graduate next June.
The Mount Holly Shade Tree Com
mission, composed of DIR. Charles Har-
ker, Edward ID. Stokes, Wilmer S.
Chance, DIR. Raymond S. Clarke and
Ross w. Quicksall, is preparing an
ordinance that will give it power to ex-
ercise jurisdiction over all trees and tree
planting along the public highways of
the town, as provided by law.
The Children's Summer Home at
Cinnaminson is to enlarge it's field of
usefulness, and will be used for women
and children who have been operated
upon or have been seriously i'll and need
place to recuperate. The home will
open earlier in the spring and remain
open later in the fall, and after time it
is hoped to keep it open all the year. A
heating plant has been donated and
about $1,000 in cash is needed to make
other alterations.
The motion to have the licenses of two
MoOrestOwn hotels revoked will be heard
before Judge Homer Thursday and there
will no doubt be large audience present
ceedings has created much interest. For
the applicants former Senator John
Boyd Avis and Charles +. Sheppard will
appear, while the interests of the hotel
keepers will be looked after by Attorney
General John w. Wescott and Senator
b. H. White.
Frank W. Bowen died at his home in
Camden Monday of last week after an
trSnc e 4
which had kept him in his bed for sew
eral weeks. Mr.. Bowen was well known
in this county. He was connected with
the book firm of ID. C. Heath & Co.,
and was a regular attender at the
Teachers Institutes held here. He was
also well known in Masonic circles. He
was the organizer of the Tall Cedars of
Lebanon and was often in Mount Holly
on business connected with that organ
ization.
A large and most attentive and appre-
ciative audience greeted Miss Ethel De
Long, of Pine Mountain, Kentucky, who
spoke in the First Presbyterian church
last Wednesday evening, on the subject
1.-The betterment of the mountain
whites" The address was most admir-
able and appealed to the sympa thies of
all who listened and revealed that the
gifted speaker had most intelligent
grasp of her subject through years of
actual experience. During the hour a
very charming and appropriate duet en-
titled go home and tell' was rendered
by Mrs. Trowbridge and the minister of
he church.
The road committee of the Board of
Freeholders has been over the county
and has notified the finance committee
that it will require $13S,000 of state aid
money to put the main thoroughfares in
proper shape. The branch roads such as
Burlington to Mount Holly, Eayrestown
to Mount Holly, and roads of that charac-
ter are not included in the estimate. The
county apportioned $23, 900 for stone road
repairs, so that, adding the amount ask
ed from the state it will take about $16l,
900 to repair the roads this year. This
leads one to ask what has been done with
all the money appropriated heretofore
Ii has been spent perhaps mot wisely,
but too we'll"
Thursday evening will be an import
ant time for members of New Jersey
Lodge No. l, Knights of Pythias, when
the semi-centennial of the birth of the
order will be celebrated. The exercises
will be held in Red Mems Hall, on Mill
street, and an invitation is extended to
the public to be present. There will be
very interesting programme. On the
following Sunday evening-Washing
tons birthday-the lodge will attend
the services in the Methodist
church. On the following Thursday
the 26th-the degree team will go to
Palmyra to confer degrees. The Knights
of Pythias lodge in this town is one of
the organizations in which interest has
always been maintained and the mem
bers are quite anxious to have the general
public know what has been and is being
done by the lodge. 1t is hoped there
will be large audience present Thurs
day evening
Next Wednesday evening will be
young mems night at the First Presby-
terrain church. We are greatly interested
in our youth young men and women.
To evince this interest we propose to give
them their rightful place in our church
and its work-to place upon their shout
derS their share of the responsibility for
the successful issue of the work which is
committed to our hands. The meeting
on Wednesday night will be in charge of
assistant county secretary of the Y. NJ
c. A., Norman S. Grubbs, who will be
ably assisted by other young men of the
church. The topic will be 1.-The new life
for our young men, based upon the
marvellous miracle of our Lord in raising
the poor widows son from the dead.
While this meeting is announced as es-
pecially devoted to the interests of our
young men every one is cordially invited,
especially are the members of our church
urged to reveal their interest in young