The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-12-08
LOCAL NEWS.
Miss Mabel E. Harvey. of Columbus,

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student.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Alcott expec
to occupy their new home on Broad
street next week.
Ralph w. E. Haines, of Vincentown
has successfully passed his examination
as attorney at law.
The engagement has been announced
of Miss Irene f. Mount, of Medford
and Harry E. F. Hawkins, of Bridgeton
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert H. Engle viii
entertain the Young Friends Associa
ton on Thursday evening. December 10
The house formerly the property of the
estate of Owen l.. Shinn, on Cherry
street, has been sold to Shreve Robbins
for 81, 200
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Burlington County Farmers Elk
change will be held at the court house
Saturday afternoon.
William H. Heisler, Jr., has been elect
ed treasurer of the Pemberton Building
and Loan Association, succeeding Will
liam H. Bishop, who resigned.
Mrs. Mackintash and family wish to
express their thanks to one and all
who kindly helped them in their loss OF
good husband and kind father.
Miss Almeda G.. Davis, of Mount
Holly, and Royden K. Lippincott, of
Stratford, N. j., were married on We'd
nesday. They will live at Stratford.
Convicts from the state prison at
Trenton who are to work on the state
farm in Cumberland county, passed
through Mount Holly on Thursday in
an automobile truck
The annual Christmas dinner to child
rem, given by Mount Holly Lodge of
Elks, will take place as usual this year.
Preparations are being made to serve a
large number of juveniles.
A number of relatives called on Mrs.
John Throckmorton, ST., on Thursday
evening and assisted her in celebrating
her 10th birthday. The gathering was
in the form of a surprise.
The forty-seventh anniversary of the
local Knights of Pythias will be cele
brated on Friday night. Samuel B.
Gale, of Mount Holly, is the only living
charter member of the order.
The pupils of the Mount Holly gram
mar school will give an entertainment
in the auditorium on Friday evening of
next week, the 18th, entitled 1.-The
Christmas Plum Pudding"
William l.. Wilkinson, who recently
removed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y, has
purchased from the estate of Horace
Brock The former Samuel j. Smith house
on Church street, and will return to
Mount Holly.
Unclaimed mail remains in the post
Office for the week ending December as
follows: De Pasquate Signor Virtorio, 2;
Laura B. Jones, Mrs. May Shinn, Mrs.
Shaw. Cards for Mrs. H. G. S. Shaw,
Cloide HI. Cannon.
Commissioner Lippincott has revoked
the automobile license of Joseph B.
Thomas, of Mount Holly. The Penn
sylvania railroad company complained
that Mr.. Thomas drove his car into the
safety gates at the Pine street crossing.
Mount Holly Masonic Lodge elected
officers last week as follows: Worshipful
master, Elwood H. Stokes; senior war
den, Oliver G. Billings; Junior warden,
Leonidas s. Boyce; treasurer, Walter l.
Dill; secretary, James s. Hulme; proxy
to grand lodge, Samuel l.. Tomlinson.
Appointiye positions will be filled and
officers installed at a meeting to be held
on December Is.
The annual meeting of the Burlington
County Board of Education will be held
in Masonic Hall, Burlington, Friday,
beginning at 10 o'clock, a. m. The
speaker will be Dr. Faulkner, of Vine
land, who will give many interestin g
facts relative to the importance of hav-
ing medical attendants at the public
schools. The annual banquet will be
served at Irons hotel.
Considerable dissatisfac ton is express
sed by the public generally about the
winter schedule of trains on the Penn
sylvania railroad. The advance in the
time of the last train from Philadelphia,
to Mount Holly-from 11.5O to 1920
making it almost impossible for residents
along the line to attend theatre or
other function and catch their train
without cutting some of the perform
ance, is the subject of much complaint.
1t is reported that several prominent
Philadelphia Friends are negotiating for
the purchase of the John Woolman house
on Branch street, now occupied by John
Grady. The authenticity of this build
ing as the home of Woolman has always
been in doubt, and while it is now claim
ed that evidence to that effect has been
found in Woolman's own journal, many
persons familiar with that work and with
Woolman's life fail to find such evidence.
David Warren, of Mount Holly, was
given hearing before Justice Herbert
Wednesday on the charge of larceny as
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mobile house. AS stated in The News
the suit was first brought in Philadel-
phia, and at the hearing in that city the
matter was dismissed. The complainant
then secured New Jersey warrant.
Squire Herbert could not see that the
charge had been confirmed, and also
dismissed the case.
The funeral of DR.. W. p. Melcher took
place Wednesday afternoon, services
being held at his late home on Garden
street. Rev. j. H. Terry, of the Bap-
fist church, paid high tribute. to the
memory of the dead man. The MEM
bers of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks attended the funeral in a
body and held their services at the
house. Interment was made in Mount
Holly cemetery. The pallbearers were:
DIR. Richard C. Darlington, DR.. Elmer
d. Prickitt. Mount Holly; DIR. Alexander
III. Small Riverside; DR.. Joseph Stokes,
Moorestown; DIR. Enoch Hollingshead,
Pemberton; DR.. j. b. Cassidy, Burling-
ton.
Constable Riley, of Vincentown, while
at Camden ferry, on Thursday, arrested
William ]. Harris, formerly of Vincen.
town, whoit is alleged recently escaped
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