The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-10
New Advertisements.
LOCAL NEWS.

MISS MARY NdltHcI, Oilc vi oiiC UcaSi
ers in the Mount Holly schools, is on tt
sick list.
Edward b. Jones has bought fror
Ellis H. Parker the house and lot No.
Brainard street.
The w. c. T. U. will meet at the HON
of Mrs. Frank Armstrong, 108 Watt
street, Tuesday afternoon, February II.
About twenty candidates will be give
the Oriental degree on Thursday nigh
by members of Washington Council NJ
5, Jr. o. U. A. NJ.
Miss Charlotte Oliphant, of Broa
street, was taken to the Howard hospita
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, sufferin
from nervous breakdown.
Asa Roberts has sold to the Standar
Oil Company six horses for $1,000. TIL
animals will be used for delivering oil il
this district of the company.
The township committee has appointe'
Alfred J. Delete as constable, to fill tn
place of John Throckmorton, Jr., VIII
failed to qualify for the Office.
The Philip Haines property on Gardel
street is to be occupied by Maurice w
Haines about March %. His farm nea
Eayrestown has been leased to Harry
Leary.
James G. West, of Vincentown, who
has been in the employ of the Pennsyl
vania railroad for 81 years, has beer
placed on the pension list. He has beer
locomotive engineer for 80 years.
The following is the list of unclaimed
mail remaining at the post Office: Miss
Lillian Apologize, Miss Rosanna Horner
Miss Anna Horner, Messrs. Lukens &
Yerkes, Robert E. Rhyme, Albert Wills,
Mrs. F. F. Germond and David Petit.
The township committee of Lumber
ton on Thursday awarded a contract to
Thomas j. McGovern, of Trenton, to
build an oyster shell road from Foster
town to Darnell's mills, a distance of
three miles, for $S,651.23. The road will
be nine feet wide.
An officer detailed by the war depart
ment will inspect Company E on Mon
day night next, when Clifford r. Powell
will have an opportunity to show his
ability in his new position of second
lieutenant, to which he was appointed
at the last meeting.
Charles Wollner has rented the store
property of DIR. ]. Fl. Carter, adjoining
America Fire Company's building on
Main street, and will open delicatassen
store and butcher shop there. Mr.. Wolf
ner has been engaged in the same bust
ness in Burlington, but sold out recently.
A. A. Anderson, real estate dealer, re-
ports the sale of lot, 100 foot frontage.
on Madison avenue, from A. T. Erdell
to Willard f. Tomlinson; also house and
lot on Paxson street, from A. Elwell
Gaskill to Samuel A. Atkinson, and
brick house and lot on Pine street from
Samuel A. Atkinson to A. Elwell Gas
kill
1t is reported that the famous Stafford
vile gravel pits will not yield many
more carloads of gravel. The hills back
of the pit have been explored but fail to
disclose any veins of good gravel. These
pits have supplied material for road
building for number of years, and the
gravel has been of a superior quality for
that purpose.
Coroner Worrell was called to Roebling,
on Sunday, to view the body of Henry
Smith, who had died from exposure.
The man had been intoxicated the night
before and had wandered along marsh
near Roebling, where his body was
found. His coat was lying on the ground
near the body, and there was evidence
that he had tried to make fire.
Argument was heard on Tuesday at
Trenton before Vice Chancellor Backes
Josiah B. Pew, of Mount Holly and de-
cision was reserved. V. Claude Palmer
represented the Farmers Trust Com
pany, and the interests of other defend
ants were looked after by William A.
Slaughter and William H. Heisler, Jr.
At meeting of the State Board of
Education in Trenton Saturday, the
rule relative to holding Teachers Insti-
tutes was changed. Heretofore those
gathering have been mandatory, but
now they are to be held on recommen.
do of hn Sfafo se,e,sf,r <Nl
Education. This rule was adopted owing
to the fact that there is decided oppo.
sition to the Institutes in many counties
There was large crowd at the sale o.
Charles Pew, near Jobstown, on Tues
day. Everything brought big prices
The cows averaged over S73. The high
est price paid was sl32.5O; another s131
Hogs brought from $40 to S45 each
Shreve Lippincott has rented the farm
for this year. and Samuel Pew will farm
the farm on the Columbus Burlington
by Charles A. Bovine.
The basket ball games that have beer
played in the gymnasium of st. An
crews church, came to an abrupt enc
last week, when the Mount Holly team
awaiting the arrival of Moorestowl
players, were summarily dismissed from
the building. The home team is mad
up principally of young men not con
nected with st. Andrews church, but a
that organization does not seem to hav
sufficient available timber to compose
basket ball team outside talent had
be engaged and that probably is tn
milk in the cocoanut.
The Philadelphia, Mount Holly an
Rancocas Transportation Company pu
an auto truck on the road Friday, to eS
pertinent in the matter of quick deliver
of freight. The machine was one of tw
tons capacity. 1t left Bridgeboro at tw
O'Clock, going to Moorestown first, the
TO Hainesport, Mount Holly and Met
ford, completing the route before fiN
O'Clock. The trial was SO satisfactor
that the company will, within coup
of weeks, place an auto truck on pc
manently. 1t will be used exclusivel
for delivering perishable goods, Il
wagons being retained for freigl
that will not suffer by slow transport
ton.
Efforts are being made to form ba
ball league composed of six clubs in th
section. The idea is to have the clu
made up of home talent and not of !
of axnenSiva rlavarc from, o;t;oc mo,