The Mount Holly news., 1914-10-06
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1914
LOCAL NEWS.

There will be good music at the Bur
lington County Fair each day.
The circulating library is now opel
from two to five o'clock every afternoon
The public schools of Mount Holly
will be closed all day to-day and in thu
afternoon of Thursday.
Stidfole & Son are placing hot watel
heating system in the house of Thoma!
b. Thorn, Al Brainard street.
William c. Wetherill will close hi
store at one o'clock Thursday afternoon
and reopen at four o'clock.
New Egypt is to have three days O
Chautauqua entertainments in the NJ
E. Church there on October %, % anC
"a.
The speed entries for the Mount Holly
Fair, this week, number 2S9 and include
some very fast horses. All the classes
are well filed
Christian Temperance Union will be
held at Moorestown beginning Octobe Ia
and will continue in session three days.
Two fingers on the right hand of John
W.Reeve, employed at Worth's market,
were badly lacerated. on Tuesday, by
becoming caught in a meat cutting
machine.
The thirty-seventh annual convention
of the Burlington County Sunday School
Association will be held in the Methodist
church at Pemberton, on Thursday,
October 20.
The hardware and farm implement
business of Charles A. King, on Button
wood street, is being conducted by his
nephew, Franklin King. Mr.. King re-
tired on October 1st.
Several young men of Mount Holly
have organized glee club and are re-
hearsing weekly. A. r. Gallenkamp
and Beverley c. Kingdom are at the head
of the organization.
Commencing October IA, w. A. Jones
will run regular hack service daily from
Mount Holly to Smithville and Vincen
town. This is in addition to his service
to Medford and Lumberton.
A site has been selected for the erection
of Congregational church at Maple
Shade. Rev. d. McAllister, the pastor,
has quite an amount of unsolicited SUBJ
scriptions for the new edifice.
Armitt H. Coate, secretary of the Bur-
lington County Safe Deposit and Trust
Company, is delegate from the Phila-
delphia Chapter of Banking to conven-
ton being held in Dellas, Taxas.
Edward Longstreet and Miss Anna
Antrim, both of Mount Holly, were
married on Friday by Rev. Thomas j. J. .
Wright. The couple left Immediately
after the ceremony on wedding trip to
Niagara Falls.
The following unclaimed mail remains
in the post Office for the week ending
October 3: Mrs. Anna Collins, Foster
Seed Co., Mrs. Hannah Brenan, Mystic
Co., Milin Shinn, ]. R. Chapel, Mrs.
Clara Collins.
A large barn on the Alfonso Fusco
farm at Elmwood Road station, formerly
occupied by George Denny, was destroy
ed by fire early on Tuesday morning,
together with all it's contents, including
four horses, lot of hay, harness,
wagons, etc.
The members of Mount Holly Lodge
OF Moose at a meeting on Tuesday night,
decided not to remove their headquarters
from here to Burlington. Tonight it
will be decided if the present home is to
be retained at some other location in
Mount Holly.
Before the price of mileage books was
advanced by the Pennsylvania railroad,
last week, one man at Moorestown
bought $500 worth and another man
$500 worth. Other stations also did a
large business in this line.
Airships are an important part of the
equipment of the armies now at war on
the other side of the ocean. Ruth Law
will fly over the fair grounds each day
and give an idea of what she might do
if she wanted to drop some bombs in the
crowd that will watch her.
Despite the fact that there are defend
ants before the court at every weekly ses-
sion and sentences are imposed, there is
much business to be transacted by the
grand jury. There will be two murder
cases to be investigated and at least one
charge of incendiarism.
Joseph c.. Cowgirl retired from the
grocery business at No. As High street
ON Thursday, owing to ill health. The
closing out of his stock and fixtures was
concluded that day. Mr.. and Mrs. Cow
gill are now residing with b. c. Jutten,
son-in-law, on Broad street.
King Kelly. one of the most noted
aeronauts in the world, will be at the
Mount Holly Fair and will make daily
ascensions. He will be accompanied by
young woman and they will use two
balloons, dropping at the same time,
using six parachutes in the descent.
The meeting of Mount Holly and
Unity Lodge of Odd Fellows, on Wed
nesday night, was called 'home-com
ing celebration" Rev. b. c. Lippincott
grand chaplain, delivered an interesting
address. Music was rendered by Anko
kas quartette, Peerless orchestra ant
Oriental quartette. There was yer,
large attendance Of members.
Rev. P. ]. Kelley, who is to suecee'
Rev. P. ]. Hart as rector of the Churcl
of the Sacred Heart, arrived in Noun
Holly Tuesday. He was accompanie
by Rev. Father Whalen, who, at on
time, was connected with the Jobstow
church. Father Kelley comes fror
Oxford, New Jersey, and not Pennsy
vania, as at first stated. Father Whale
will go to Oxford.
Moving pictures are always interestin
and more especially SO when those in tn
audience are able to see themselves o
the canvass. There will be a photo
graphic operator at the Mount Holl
Fair and he will take views from differeI
points. These will be exhibited later
the moving picture shows in warrior
towns, SO you will have chance to ST
yourself as you were at the Fair of l91
In the poultry department at the Fa
there will be exhibited curiosity in Il
shape of a bird half chicken and hs