The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-04-13
Michael McKenna. Of Risdon street. is

- Ill at MS nome there.
Mrs. Harry Garon, Of Bispham street
died on Sunday of pneumonia.
The Junior Mechanics. Of Burlington
will give the Oriental degree at tina
place on April 21st.
o. Marion Circle No. 9, Brotherhood O
America, will celebate it's 41st anniver
T. sary on Wednesday night. April 81.
q, The annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of New Jersey Free and Accepted
l. Masons, will be held at Trenton on April
IS q and o.
The tabernacle at Burlington is about
: completed and the evangelistic meet.
; ings will begin there on Sunday. Rev.
David Hughes is the evangelist.
ell Richard B. Wilson and family, Of
t Eayrestown, desire to thank their friends
!, and neighbors for their kindness and
help in their recent bereavement.
s Quite a contrast was noticed In the
, weather on Saturday, when the Their
: mometer registered around 80 degrees
and the previous Saturday, when the
blizzard was in progress.
u The following unclaimed mail remains
in the post Office for the week ending
April 10: I'll. M. hartman, Walter Bush,
II. A. Rhyme, Mrs. Leila Harner, DIR. r.
r. Morton. Mrs. Mary. Rendleman, r.
E. Morton.
AT the meeting of the township COM
mittee, on Tuesday night, Howard E.
Alcott, one Of the members, presented
his resignation, which was accepted.
The committee appointed Herbert S.
Kiliie to I'LL the vacancy.
Governor Fielder, United States Sena-
tor Hughes and other prominent party
leaders will deliver addresses at the an
nual dinner of the Burlington County
Democratic club, to be held at Riverside
Wednesday evening, April %.
Oscar Gillespie, who was taken to the
asylum at New Lisbon few weeks ago,
ran away from that institution on SUM-
day morning and came to his home on |
Church street. Word was sent to Mount
L
noon policeman Myers took him into
custody and Oscar was returned TO New
Lisbon.
On account of long continued Ill
health, Lambert Pierson, aged 70 years,
an inmate of the Masonic Home, near
Burlington, committed suicide, on We'd
nesday. by cutting cash in his wrist.
from which he bled to death. He had
been suffering from cancer Of the stom-
ach for some time. Mr.. Pierson was for
merly a resident of Conshohocken, Pa.
Amos BOUCHER paid THE NEWS Office
visit Saturday. He had come TO Mount
Holly to attend the funeral of his
mother. He lives about so miles east of
Winnipeg, at Brunhild, Manitoba, where
he is engaged in telegraphing. He was
resident of BOUCHER, in this county.
many years ago.I where he held the
Office of Justice of the Peace and post
master.
A meeting of some of the managers of
the baseball clubs composing the Gen.
trail League was held at the court house
on Tuesday night. With the exception 3
of Riverside, the same teams will be in {
the league this season. That clubs I
players will probably go to Burlington. {
The vacancy caused by the withdrawal
Of Riverside has not yet been filed. Bor- +
den, first baseman of Delanco, has signed ,
with Roebling for this year.
At the Methodist church on Sunday i
morning eight young men and women
were received into membership on pro- S
baton and two by letter. The previous
Sunday seven young people were re-
ceived. AT the service on Sunday even i
ing George w. Tweedy, singing evan s
gelist of Camden, stirred the hearts of
those present with his singing. Rev. II
j. l.. Surtees announced that he would i
have Mr.. Tweedy return some Sunday G
in the near future. IL
Building inspector Lorenzo l.. Sapp, S
after making an examination of the /
Slack building on Main street, on We'd
nesday, posted notice on the door lead c
ing to the second and third floors, con-
demning that part of the building as un- i
safe. The front wall, in particular, is re- Q
ported to be in bad condition. The up q
per floors were being made ready for oc-
cupancy by Mount Holly Lodge of s
Moose. The owners have decided to '
tear down and rebuild the front wall. Ii
At the annual meeting of the board OF .
directors of the local Y. M. c. A., held
last Tuesday night, the following officers
and directors were elected for the ensuing Q
year: President, Herbert L. Crippen;
vice president, Robert A. Semple, Jr.;
secretary William G. Thorn; treasurer,
Edward B. Jones; directors, DIR. Charles
Harker, s. Lawrence Bullock, Fred Q
A. Tracey, DR.. A. r. w. Atwood, George 9
w. Heyer, Merritt Smith, Nelson Dew.
Pumyea. George Moore, Richard B.
Eckman, John d. Johnson, Jr. II
Henry Reeves, formerly toll-gate keep
er on the Mount Holly and Lumberton
road, attempted suicide at his boarding
house ON Buttonwood street, on Thurs
day night, by shooting two bullets into
his head, neither OF which proved seri-
Gus. They entered the flesh back of the
ear and did not penetrate the skull. He is
recovering at the Burlington county
hospital. Grief over the death of his
wife and respondent because he had to
leave his associations in Mount Holly, L
having arranged to go to the soldiers
home at Kearny, are supposed to have
been the causes of the act.
An opinion was fled by the Supreme
Court, on Friday, by Justice Parker, up
holding an assessment against the prop
erty of Washington Camp No. %, P. o.
s. of A., of Palmyra. The lodge APP
pealed first to the state board of taxa
ton, which refused to exempt the prop
erty, and thon carried the case to the Su-
preme court, with the same result The |
organization owns a three story brick |
building and claimed that it was used |
for charitable and beneficial purposes
and for that reason should be exempt
from taxation under tht tax law of 1918.
The court held that as part of the build
ing is rented, the case does not come
under the provisions of the exemption
act.