The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-10-13
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

Miss Marguerite McClaln, OF BlSpha
street, is i'll with typhoid fever.
Mrs. John W. Peak, of Paxson stree
is quite i'll with an internal trouble.
DIR. J. Hume Carter and wife are on
two weeks trip to Lexington, KY.
Washington Camp No. II, p. o. s.
A., will initiate several candidates |
their meeting on Thursday night.
Rancocas Grange will hold speci'
meeting tomorrow night, at which tim
they will initiate a class of candidates.
Captain John S. fash, a veteran of th
civil war, was SS years of age on Wedne
day. He celebrated the event by attend
ing the fair.
Maggie Flenard, aged 81 years, wife {
Walter Flenard, of Pine street, died o
Friday after suffering for five years wit
complication of diseases.
The water in the upper creek will b
drawn off one day this week to admi
of alterations and repairs being made +
the flood gates at the foot of the rae
way.
Next Tuesday, October 20, is the las
registry day for voters living in Noun
Holly, Burlington and Moorestown
Election boards sit that day from to
Pm.
Three unclaimed letters remain in thu
post office for the week ending Octobe
10. They are for Mrs. Beatrice Atkin
son, VIM. Brennan, and Mrs. Matte
Ballard.
Hon. Edward C. Stokes, Ex-Governor
of New Jersey, will deliver the address
at the annual memorial service of Mount
Holly Lodge of Elks on Sunday, Dec
ember 9Th.
Hannah Engle and Martha Clark will
entertain the Young Friends Associa-
ton at a meeting to be held in the meet.
ing house, corner High and Garden
streets, next Friday night.
DIR. +. Ridgway Haines and Bradford
Herbert, while fishing on the upper
creek last week, caught two black bass
and a pike. The total weight OF the
three fish was over seven pounds.
There are several automobile drivers
who seem to think it is their duty to
open their exhausts wide and put on all
sorts of speed when going through
Mount Holly, especially up High street.
Complaint has been entered against two
of these offenders and it is quite likely
arrests will follow.
At the Lumberton M. E. church next
Sunday night Rev. w. E. Zimmerman
will preach special patriotic sermon to
the Patriotic Order Sons of America.
The lodges from Medford, Lumberton,
Hainesport and Mount Holly have been
invited. Members of the local order will
go over in automobiles.
The Burlington County Sunday School
Superintendent Association was organ
lied at Burlington last week with the
following officers: President, J. A. Ryck-
man, Palmyra; vice president, Harold
b. Wells, Bordentown; secretary, Joseph
HI. Johnson, Burlington; treasurer, David
III. Rigg, Columbus.
On Saturday in Philadelphia the fol-
lowing marriage licenses were among
those issued: Norman w. Harker, of
Monnt Holly, and Miriam mcfarland,
of Philadelphia; Richard Burnley, of
Burlington, and Katherine X. Hall, of
Philadelphia; Thomas J. Dugan, of
Moorestown, and Margaret E. Ansel, of
Philadelphia.
Edmund S. Eddy, Of Mount Holly,
has received letter from Henry A.
Dreer, the Riverton seed grower, stating
that at the Dahlia show at the Dreer
stores, on October 6, Mr. Eddy was
awarded two first prizes of SIS each for
his dahlias Nibelungenhart and Rhein-
fischer Frohsian. The letter contained a
check for $40.
The final annual meeting of stock
holders of the Moorestown and Camden
Turnpike Company, to elect nine direc-
tors and close the affairs of the company,
was held in Moorestown last week.
With the money now in bank and what
will be realized from the sale of some
real estate held by the company it is
thought the stockholders will receive
about from SO to $l2 per share.
Rev. DIR. Paul r. Matthews, dean of
the Episcopal cathedral at Fairbault,
Mimi, was elected Bishop of New Jer-
sey at special convention held in Tren-
ton, last week, to fill the vacancy Great
ed by the death of Bishop Scarborough.
He has not yet signified his acceptance
of the position. DR.. Matthews is a ma
tive of Ohio and a graduate of Prince
ton University.
The stable of c. B. Coles, on Water
street, was destroyed by fire, thought to
have been of incendiary origin, early on
Friday morning. A horse belonging to
Thomas F. Cavanaugh persisted in the
flames. Two horses belonging to Mr..
Coles escaped death. One of them had
its back scorched before getting out. 1t
OAO>S eAAiOuSh oiuC vi JHC StdDlc,
plunged into the creek, and swan near
ly to King street. The wagons were
rescued.
Rev. Edgar Blake, ID. d., secretary of
the Sunday School Board of the Method
list Episcopal church, will hold a con-
ference for Sunday school workers in the
Mount Holly Nj. E. church on Saturday
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. All who are
interested in the work of the Sunday
schools are invited to attend Dr. Blake
will also preach in the same church on
Sunday morning next. DR.. Blake is 9
man of national reputation, and man
of rare ability. This conference is one o.
series being held in different sections
of the country. and Mount Holly
and vicinity Sunday school workers ar,
among the favored.
The will of Benajah P. Wills, deceased
gives to the widow, Mary Won Fosser
Wills, his share of ownership in tn,
Mount Holly opera house, a diamond
ring, the household goods and residenc
in Mount Holly during her widowhood
and $50 month to be paid from the be
quests made to the son, Richard w
Wills. The latter gets the farm nea
Marlton and the testator's share @
personal property thereon; IA shares @
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