The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-07-14

! Mrs. Dallis Worrell is seriously i'll suf
fering from internal trouble at her home
on Mount Holly avenue.
On Thursday application will be made
to Judge Lippincott to transfer the
wholesale license of Enoch Lockett, at
Roebling, to Samuel Bier.
Mrs. Wright, wife of Rev. T. J. J.
Wright, pastor of the M. E. church, yes
terday received the sad news of the
death of her sister. Mr.. Wnght's sister
died two weeks ago.
The prospects are good for banner
peach crop in New Jersey, according to
reports that have been received from
the southern section OF the State by
Franklin Dye, secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture.
Rev. John III. Magee, of Beverly, oc-
cupied the pulpit of the Mount Holly M.
E. church on Sunday. Rev. t. ]. ].
Wright preached at the State Street M.
f. church, Trenton, by request of Dis
trict Superintendent Perinchief.
The house of Samuel Fishman, at
Evesboro, was struck by lightning yes
terday afternoon and almost entirely
destroyed by fire. No one was at home
at the time. Members of the Marlton
fire department saved adjacent property.
The house was insured.
The Rt. Rev. Charles s. Burch, Bishop
Gt1f fro - fIa0 -
is said to be the most favored candidate
to succeed the late Bishop Scarborough.
Bishop Burch is SO years old. The
Diocesan Convention will be held at
New Jersey.
The letters and postals that remain
unclaimed in the post Office for the week
ending Saturday, July IL, are as follows:
Miss Flora Demaris, Richard Birch, Mrs
Thos. Morris, VIM. Miles, Annie Parks,
Miss Mary Powell, letters; Miss Ida Kill
vitz, 2; j. X. Patter, John Stiles, Miss
Bertha Kelvy, postals.
The Burlington county branch of the
National Horse Shoers' Association was
organized at Red Mems hall, Mount
Holly, on Wednesday night, with Harry
b. Ivins, of Medford, as president.
Thirty-two of the 49 shops in the county
were represented. The next meeting
will be held on August 5th.
The 18th of September is the latest
date set for hearing applications for
widows pensions and for investigation
of some of the cases that have been
brought to the court. This matter has
hung fire for long time, and it is
said that enough material has accumu-
lated to take at least week to consider. |
The former Riverside residence of the |
late Theophilus Zurbrugg, together with
a block of lots adjoining, has been
bought from the widow for $4,000 and |
will be used as nucleus for the estab-
lishment of hospital as provided in
Mr.. Zurbrugg's will. Alterations are
being made and the hospital will be
ready for occupancy in short time.
Additions will be erected when neces
sary. The Riverside Musical and Liter
airy Society has donated $1,000 toward
equipping the operating room.
A number of Improvements in electric
lighting affairs in Mount Holly are
promised when the current is furnished
from the new power station at Burling-
ton, erected by the Public Service Cor
poration. The date for turning on the
new current has been fixed so often and
not yet materialized that many people
believe this to be another of those
affairs that we have been
hearing about lately. Among the i'm
that are promised is an over
hauling of the entire system of the street
lighting, the substitution of tungsten
for carbon lamps, and sufficient current
to supply full lighting power to each
lamp, something that has not been had
for long time.
Basing its action on the ground that
Mount Holly Lodge No. 848, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, is not
exclusively for the mental and
moral developement of men and women,
and that the facts do not show that the
order is of exclusive benevolent charac-
ter, the state board for the equalization
of taxes last week dismissed an appeal
Of the lodge against an assessment on its
in Northampton township and
decreed that the assessment be affirm
ed. Saying, however, that the order
may be benevolent in some of it's pur-
poses, the board decided that it is not suf-
exclusive in that respect SO as
to enable it to come within the meaning
of the legislature in exempting property
devoted entirely to charitable aims.