The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-21

Smithville, have shut down for tw
It weeks.
n H. B. Earnest, of Burlington, VII
open a branch undertaking Office il
y Mount Holly in the near future.
d The Burlington County Federation o
Patriotic orders will hold meeting il
t Dill's hall, Mount Holly, tomorrow
e night.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
I Union will hold bread, cake and pie
sale in the court house on Saturday
afternoon from to o'clock.
| Professor carp, of Drew Theological
' Seminary, will speak at the service in
} the Methodist church tomorrow night
The public is invited to attend.
Horace Brock, of Brainard street, was
stricken with paralysis ON Main street
on Saturday. He was removed to his
home, and is somewhat improved.
Relief Fire Company's fife and drum
corps visited Hope Fire Company, at
Burlington, on Friday night, and were
entertained at banquet. A short parade
was made after the festivities.
Isaac w. Coles, aged SO years, former
Assemblyman from Camden county and
who served one term as Register OF
Deeds of Camden county, died sudden
ly yesterday at his home in Colestown,
after an illness of two days from acute
indigestion.
There was much excitement in the
opera house Saturday evening, when
two young men had disagreement as
to who was the better man, and fight
took place. Joe Taylor, special police
man there, took the two before Recorder
Herbert where they were severely lectur-
ed and fined.
The old paper mill and two large
houses, including the store property, at
Huntsville, were totally destroyedlby fire
on Sunday. The cause is not known,
unless picnic party in two automobiles
that visited the property might have
been responsible. The houses and mill
have been vacant for number of years.
Mount Holly Lodge of Moose held a
service in the auditorium, Burlington,
on Sunday night, in memory of deceased
members, the first public service of this
kind held by the lodge. The memorial
address was delivered by Charles E.
Schober, of North Carolina, and is re-
ported to have been a mastery effort
Some excellent vocal music was rendered.
Many acres of pine woods were de-
stroyed by fire Sunday afternoon and
yesterday. The fire started near COW
bridge, on the road to Tuckerton, and
spread in the direction of Christophers
and ELEPHANTS mills and Cross Keys. 1t
brush fire or from charcoal pit that
had been left unattended. About 300
men were engaged in fighting the fire,
which was extinguished yesterday, prin-
cipally by the rain.
Samuel c. Matthias lost good horse
Sunday. A man named Fenimore, liv-
ing on White street, went to Matthias
stables Saturday evening and engaged a |
horse for the next day. About six
O'Clock Sunday morning he went after |
the animal and drove away. That was
the last seen of the horse until yester-
day morning when one of the men on
the train between Mount Holly and |
Medford reported to Matthias that his
horse was lying dead near Lumberton.
The fire department was called out
about nine o'clock this morning 10
answer an alarm of fire that was based
on considerable smoke. The alarm came
from the railroad station where some
persons waiting to take train saw a lot
Of smoke coming from chimney on
house on Monroe street. The smoke
spread over the roof and at the distance
it was viewed the affair gave every APP
pearance of fire, although those in the
had not noticed anything
out of the way.
The Public Service Corporation ex-
poets to have day current on by the first
Of June. They are erecting heavy poles
here and Burlington and are
getting ready to put up large feed wires.
It has been suggested that this is good
lime for the township committee to
make arrangements to get rid of some of
he overhead wires in our streets.
should this be insisted upon
IN the main street. 1t would not be
much trouble to run the wires in the
ear of the buildings, the majority of
which use the electric lights.
A number of Mount Holly men were
to Camden yesterday to
testify before Conrad OFT, referee in
in an examination of the
affairs of the Ottomobile Company, of
Mount Holly, a corporation that failed
before it got started in business. The
witnesses were chiefly persons who had
agreed to take preferred stock in the
company. A clause in the stock sub
scription blanks, which most of the
stockholders signed, promised a half
share of common stock as bonus for
each share of preferred. 1t appears now
that an effort will be made to compel the
subscribers not only to pay in full for
the preferred but also for the common
stock. The shares are all 800 each. 1t
mas not been learned how much the in
iebtedness of the concern is, but it is
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