The Mount Holly news., 1914-08-11
LOCAL NEWS.

last week.
The annual picnic of Mount Holl
merchants will take place at Rancoca
Park on Thursday.
Rev. Mr.. Murphy, of Pearsonvills
occupied the pulpit of the M. K. church
Sunday, Rev. Mr.. Wright being ava
for a vacation.
A. Pusey-Keith, of Philadelphia, ha
been selected. as organist and choirmas
ter of St. Andrews Church. to success
Edwin r. Smythe. resigned.
Mrs. Arthur Nightingale, of Philadel
phia, sister of Mrs. Edgar Armstrong, O
Shreve street, was buried in the Brother
hood cemetery on Thursday.
The property of Joseph Conover, a
Bridgeboro, was sold at sheriff's sale, oil
Thursday, under a suit brought by Roy
Ayres. 1t was bought by Joseph r. OIL
for 81, 200.
There will be a dance at Rancoca
Park tonight by the Ankokas Cano,
Club, to raise money to defray the de
ficiency in the Fourth of July carniva
expense account.
James Mercer Davis has begun sui
against the Mount Holly Water Com
pany, ON behalf of William S. Fryer, t,
recover damages caused by the illness o
his children from typhoid fever.
George B. Mcclellan has bought thu
plumbing and tinware business o
Elwood Stead, No. IL Mill street, ano
has taken possession of the place. Mr.
Stead and wife have removed to Moores
town.
Announcement is made of the mar
riage of Miss Carrie Assay, of Mount
Holly, and William Worrell, of Moores-
town. The ceremony was performed at
the latter place ON July II by Rev. G
H. Humason.
The Burlington County Board of Elec-
tions, composed of William I'll. Reeves,
Henry HI. Savage, Newton Morton and
John j. Mcdonald, met at the Court
House on Tuesday and organized by
electing Mr.. Reeves as chairman and
Mr.. Savage as secretary.
The State Board of Fish and Game
Commissioners will stock the steams OF
New Jersey with 900 brook and rain
bow trout. United States Fish Com
missioner IL. Nj. Smith has advised the
board that the Federal bureau is con-
tinuing it's efforts to increase the supply
of lobster along the New Jersey coast.
The Trenton and Mercer County Trac-
ton Company will extend its trolley
tracks from Yardville to Crosswicks,
work to begin very shortly. The new
line will be about two and half miles
long, and it is expected that it will be
the means of increasing the population
of Crosswicks and the adjacent territory.
The mills at Roebling, Florence, Bur
lington and Bristol have been visited by
consular agents serving notices on many
of the Austrians and Hungarians en-
ployed there, requiring their immediate
return to their native land for war service.
Fear is expressed that the working force
of several of the big plants will be
seriously shortened if the men leave.
Dorothy c., the three-year-old daugh-
ter of Earl s. Nagle, was struck by a
trolley car on Washington street, on
Wednesday, sustaining broken leg and
rib and being considerably cut and
bruised. The child ran from the side
walk directly in front of the car and
was struck before the motorman had a
chance to stop the car. The fender pre-
vented the child from being thrown un-
der the wheels.
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Lip
pincott on Wednesday revoked the auto
mobile license of William j. Rudy, ol
Palmyra, for collision which resulted ir
the death of 10 year old Horace Haines
Sunday, July is, when the boy was rur
over near Fairview, and later died from
the effect of the accident. Haines wal
run down while riding bicycle. Th
Rudy machine was being driven at tn,
time of the fatality by the owners wife
J. b. Belts, assistant commissioner {
education, gave an opinion, on Thurs
day, relative to an appeal of Mauric
Lippincott and J. ii. Stevenson, VIII
live in Springfield township, near Jobs
town. They have been sending thei
children TO the high school at Pember
ton and have been compelled to pay tn
transportation charges, which later wer
collected from the Board of Education
The commissioner decided that tn
board should furnish and pay for th
transportation in advance.
The Burlington County Board of Tan
alton met on Tuesday under the statut
requiring a meeting to be held that da
to receive the duplicates from the sever
assessors. A number of the Office
handed in their books and some othe
were granted further time to compile
their work. Walter T. Stewart, memb
of the board, was not able to be presen
owing to having gone on three week
trip as Chauffeur to an automobile part
There will be other meetings this mont
under the law, but the Democratic m
iority will be compelled to attend to ;
the business, unless Mr.. Stewart retur
sooner than anticipated.
Among the visitors to Mount Ho
last week was +. ;. Weaver, now hvi
at Pittsburgh, Pa. He will be RENE
bered as the proprietor of the Wea'
Manufacturing Company, which
then located on Garden street.
Weaver is now connected with co
pany that manufactures brass bed
tings. He has been looking around
a site in the east and he wrote to Moi
Holly people to ascertain if the Board
Trade could furnish him buildi
which would house from 100 to $50 e
ployes. Walter Allen heard of the qu
and he at once wrote to Mr.. Weaver Il
the company could have the buildin
boilers, and other property on the
Anderson canning factory site, rent
for five wears. Mr.. Weaver came OF
look at the place and see what wo
have to be done in the way OF gett
the buildings into shape. He found t
it would not require the expenditure
much money to make the place rea
The company he represents is un
many that have wanted to settle n
1t does not want our citizens to go d'
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