The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-03

ult., baby girl was born to Mr.. ant
). Mrs. Earl Ralph-Buzby.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris K. Perinchief, o
Broad street, entertained few friends
on Wednesday evening, the occasion
being their fifth wedding anniversary.
William NJ. Reeves, for many years {
e carpenter in Mount Holly, was taken Il
the county insane hospital on Wednes
| day, suffering with softening of ths
brain.
s Some of the finest chrysanthemums
that have been seen in Mount Holly
this season came from the nursery o.
Fred. Owen, on the Lumberton road
He has fine, healthy plants for sale.
Mrs. Pauline Stecher, mother of Viii
liam t. Stecher, died at her home in
Riverside, on Friday afternoon. Mrs
Stecher was SO years of age and had
been in poor health for long time.
|, DIR. William P. Melcher has returned
from the Medico-C hirurgical hospital,
Philadelphia, where he had been for
several days to undergo an examination
for some ailment that has made his con-
dition quite serious for few weeks past.
He appears to be somewhat improved.
Mrs. May H. Tomlinson has placed
her tract of land on Madison Avenue in
the hands of the Hayward Realty Com
pany, of Pittsburg, to be laid out in
building lots and sold at private sale.
There are IA lots, averaging so x $50 feet,
and they will be sold on installments,
free of taxes for two years.
| The following unclaimed mail remains
at the post Office: Docktor Harker,
Edward Duffy, Alfred Jones, Mrs. T.
Willis Martin, Miss Eva Stiles, Miss
Alustra Turner, Mrs. C. d. Wagner,
Mrs. Petrie, Miss Petrie. Mrs. Pearla
Mersse, Rev. Shelton, Joshua Bucklin,
Lilly M. Haley, Nathan Perrine.
Professor Lewis Carris, assistant COM
missioner OF education Of New Jersey,
will deliver an interesting and instruc-
tive lecture on Modern Education in
the Methodist church on Thursday night
at eight o'clock, under the auspices of
the Brotherhood Bible class. All our
citizens should be present and hear this
lecture on a theme so vital to our home
and community life. An interesting
feature will be chorus of Mount Holly
High school pupils, who will render
some selections. Admission free. All
are invited.
Durand's large ice house, on. Green
street, which has not been in use for
some time except as a rendezvous for
tramps and loafers, was destroyed by
fire on Sunday night. The reflection of
the fire could be seen a great distance,
which attracted large crowd of specta- |
tors. The flames spread rapidly and the
entire building collapsed before the fire. |
men could get to work. The pumping
station of the Water Company, brick
building a short distance away, had itsi
caves, window sash and frames consid-
ably damaged.
The women of st. Andrews Church |
most cordially invite the women of
Mount Holly to meet with them to sew
and work for the war sufferers in Europe, |
especially the homeless Belgians. 1t is
proposed to hold meetings on Wednes-
days in st. Andrews Parish House. The |
rooms will be open both morning and |
afternoon, and the first meeting will be |
held this Wednesday, November 4th, at
10 a. m. An invitation is hereby extend |
ed to the women of the other churches |
of the town and to those who are
not members of any church but are will |
ing to join in an effort to help suffering
humanity.
Charles HI. Hargrove, farm hand |
employed by John Giberson, on the
Jobstown road, decided to 60 to the |
Halloween celebration at Medford on
Saturday night, and thereby lost his |
life. He got on the front seat of an auto |
truck belonging to N. c. w. Horton, of
Burlington, which was carrying passen-
gers that night for VIM. A. Jones, who |
did not have sufficient cars to accommo- |
date the public ON this occasion. When |
the car reached the cross roads near Med |
ford and while turning out to pass a |!
vehicle coming in the other direction, |
Hargrove fell from the seat, struck the |
ground with his head and was dragged
short distance by becoming caught in
one of the tenders. He was killed in
stantly, the supposition being that he
broke his neck. 1t is thought that he
fell asleep and in consequence lost his
balance and dropped out of the machine.
The officers who have been elected
for the coming year in the four organic
ed Bible classes in the Sunday school
of the First Presbyterian church are as
follows: Glass for men, president, c. r.
Pierce; vice president, Frank HI. Alloway;
secretary and treasurer, C. HI. Hansbury.
Young mems class, president, Floyd p.
Karg; vice president, John Mingin; secre-
tary, Reuben Hinchman; treasurer, w.
Irving Brown. Women's class, presi-
dent, Mrs. j. Greifzu; vice president,
Mrs. w. r. Hall; secretary and treasurer,
2'Alco Eva ioACA. iOuh6 "OAhCh Oiaooi
president, Mrs. Roscoe Gale; secretary,
Miss Susie Brown; treasurer, Miss Julia
Becker. Persons not identified with any
other school or class are cordially invited
to join one or the otherof these. Scholars
have a chance to talk back and thus
make things interesting and helpful.
A large and highly entertained audi
ence which completely filled the chapel
of the First Presbyterian church on
Tuesday evening last accompanied Miss
Mary w. Budd in tour through
part of Ireland, Wales, snd.England with
the assistance of the new instrument
the radioptican. The views which were
many and varied covered those sections
of the countries visited by Miss Budd
last summer. Miss Budd proved herself
to be by no means an uninteresting or
incapable lecturer, interspersing through
lout the tour bits of wit and humor
CLEANED from the fields visited with the
beauties of the scenes. This entertain
ment was given under the auspices of
the Westminster Guild of the First Pres
byterian Church, an organization OF
young people which is doing most
praiseworthy work.
The first deer to come to Mount Holly
, this season was brought in yesterday by
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