The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-14

. brought out many canoeists on the upper
creek.
Charles Mincer is making some notice
!. able improvements to his residence on
Pine street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur D. Cross are re-
ceiving congratulations upon the birth
of son, last week.
The w. c. T. U. will meet at the home
of Mrs. Rachel Evans, 104 Broad street,
Tuesday afternoon, April 81.
Howard Briggs, a mason by trade,
died yesterday at his home on Mount
Holly avenue from cancer of the stomach.
Grille, Florida. He writes that the fish
ing is excellent and sends photographs
that prove it.
The Junior class of the high school
will have cake sale in the new school
building next Saturday afternoon, be-
ginning at o'clock.
The cemeteries were beautifully
decorated with Easter flowers on Sunday,
and large number of people. were at
tracted to view the display.
Joseph Britton, who occupied farm
in Lumberton township, died on Thurs
day. He had been ill long time with
kidney trouble, which affected his heart
Thomas j. Prickitt, well-known Demo-
cratic politician, fell down the cellar
stairs at his home in Palmyra, last week,
and is quite critically ill, suffering from
conclusion of the brain.
Thomas S. Clevenger and Miss Hope
F. Glover, both of Mount Holly, were
married at Burlington, on Sunday, by
Rev. T. M. Eastwood. Mary A. Wright
and Ella w. Eastwood witnessed the
ceremony.
| A class of candidates was initiated
into the mysteries of Oriental Court No.
10, side degree of the Junior Mechanics,
on Thursday night. A class of twenty
will receive the degree at a meeting to
be held tomorrow night, which will be |
the last meeting to be held this season. |
A case of smallpox has developed at
Pemberton. The man afflicted is Charles |
Haines. No idea has been evolved as to |
when or how he contracted the disease |
Naturally the town is considerably |
alarmed, and the physicians there have |
been kept quite busy vaccinating resi-
dents.
The Philadelphia Watch Case factory,
at Riverside, shut down last week,
throwing l5OOhands outof employment
Business depression is given as the
cause. 1t is said the plant may resume
work soon, but on shortened time. I'm
til recently it was running day and
night.
Mrs. William Walton, widow, and |
Walter Black, daughter and son of the
late Franklin Black, have returned to
their home on farm in Chesterfield
township from the Mckinley hospital,
Trenton. Mrs. Walton had undergone
a successful operation, and her brother
had been there for hood poisoning in
one of his hands.
Officers of st. Andrews church, elected
yesterday: Senior WARDEN, b. F. Hay
wood Shreve; junior warden, Clarence
HI. Polhemus; vestTmen, George A.
Lippincott, William A. Slaughter,
Joseph Cross, Richlrd b. Eckman,
George w. Heyer, Edward H. Lewis,
Richard H. Parsons, Harry w. Phares;
deputies to Diocesan convention, b. F.
Haywood Shreve, Edward HI. Lewis,
William A. Slaughter; alternates to
Diocesan convention Richard b. Eek
man, Richard H. Parsons, Clarence H.
Polhemus.
An east-bound trolley of the Public
Service company raninto an auto-truck
west of Moorestown, Saturday afternoon.
The auto, which was going the same
direction, skidded in it's effort to make
way for the trolley witch struck it from
the rear, thus causing the truck to crash
through fence ard plunge down an
embankment. The machine was put
out of commission and the contents
strewn over the rod. The chauffeur
was injured about ihe arms and legs.
Beyond the breaking of few windows
the trolley was unhlrt
Overseer of the pOr Dolan wants to
warn the people of 1ount Holly against
a woman who is gong around town rep
resenting herself as icing in destitute
condition, with sewn children and a
sick husband. Theoverseer has inves-
tigated the case AM he says the hus-
band is perfectly abe to work. Instead
of seven children tlere are but four in
the house and the woman's father also
lives with the fanny and gets pension
of $25 per month. Mr.. Dolan says he
does not want to interfere with any
worthy people getting aid, but in this
case he feels that imposition is being
practiced and he Mnts to warn the citi-
zens of the town an surrounding CONN.,