The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-12-21

Il w. Irving Brown, of Water stree
. left for Florida on Saturday, where
: will seek employment.
Carlton, the eight-year-old son {
Harry Claypoole, of Pine street, died Q
Is Tuesday from pneumonia.
Farm demonstrators George t. RE
4 broke his right arm on Tuesday viii
e cranking his automobile.
Letters for May HashiIl, Fred Warne
d and s. C. Berges remain in the pos
A Office for the week ending December Il
James f., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jane
Z Nixon, of White street, died early Satul
S day morning. He was seven years G
|age.
e A number of Mount Holly people wi
n attend Christmas dance at Burlington
on Monday night, given by the Fort
nightly Club.
An indirect electric light has beer
5 placed in the Methodist Sunday schoo
r room over the pedestal, which great,
improves the lighting facilities.
The Loyal Sisters Bible class of thu
Methodist Sunday school met at tn,
home of Mrs. Lemuel Johnson, OF
Shreve street, Thursday afternoon.
i A private dancing class has been or
gained at Smithville, and dances are
being held in the hall at that place fort
nightly, with Philadelphia instructor
The Christmas dinner for children
given by Mount Holly Lodge of Elks
Twill take place at noon on Christmas
day, next Saturday, in the Masonic
Temple.
| Special services were held in st. An
ldrew's church on Friday, when at the
request of Bishop Matthews, Episcopal
|churches all over the diocese prayed for
lpeace in Europe.
Conard Hall, who was badly injured
lon Thursday week when his wagon was
struck by train at Folwell's station, is
frapidly improving at the Burlington
county hospital.
A musical tea is given at the home of
Mrs. Suffer. 219 Garden street, Tuesday,
December 81, from three to five o'clock.
2Come and bring friend, 25c. Benefit
of Mission Circle. Everybody invited
I Mrs. Ella F. Burns, wife of Edward F.
Burns, formerly of Mount Holly, died
at her home, Overlook, Pa, on Monday
of last week, of typhoid fever. The fun
eral took place on Friday. Interment
was made in Mount Holly cemetery.
| Members of the Loyal Sisters Bible
class of the M. E. Sunday school will
go to Burlington this afternoon to visit
Miss Amanda Cheeks. who is in the
Aged Woman's Home at that place, she
being a former member of that class.
They will take with them sunshine
basket" viii CHI they will give her as a
Christmas present.
| 1t is reported that members of a
Mount Holly family whose home has
recently been quarantined because of
the presence of diphtheria, are now sell
ing Christmas green's to the public. If
these green's were kept in the house dur
| ing the period of quarantine, as it is al
legged they were, the matter would seem
to call for action by theboard of health.
The Christmas entertainment of the
Methodist Sunday school will be held on
Friday evening. The Christmas service
Joy to the World, will be rendered by
the school. The room will be appro-
Ipriately decorated for the occasion.
Arrangements have been made to have
la Christmas tree and have Santa Claus
to be present. a delightful time is
looked for.
| A meeting OF a recently-formed liter
AIRY society was held in the high school
building on Friday night. Interesting
and instructive talks were given by DR..
G. E. Lord on Pyemia in relation to its
affecting the gums of teeth, and a re-
Gently discovered remedy therefor; and
| by Prof. w. G. Sullivan ON Water. The
| next meeting will be held on Friday
might, January 7, to which the public is
invited
A community evening is being plan
ned by the officers of Y. M. c. A. senior
group of Delanco, and special program
| is being arranged by their president,
Paul r.. Hawn, for their meeting on
Thursday. 1t is expected that several
prominent speakers will be secured. The
baseball cup won by the group will be
presented at this time. The members of
the Young Women's Temperance Union
are planning to attend.
George Cutitta, aged 16 years, of Riv-
erside, was committed to the Mount
Holly Jail on Tuesday, by magistrate
Ziegler, to await the action Of the grand
Jury. Cutitta is charged with assaulting
the three year old daughter of Joseph
Marino during the absence of her par
ents. When the father learned~of the
deed, he sought for Cutittia, and meet
ing him on the street, dragged him before
the magistrate. He was committed
without bail.
The Improvements are nearly COM
pleted to the auditorium of the Method
list church. The formal re-opening will
take place the first Sunday in January
On that day special services will be held.
Rev. George l.. Dobbins, of Ocean City,
bother of John HI. Dobbins, of Mount
Holly, will preach the morning sermon.
The Sunday school will hold special
service in the afternoon. In the evening
there will be union service of the
Baptist. Presbyterian and Methodist
churches, at which time the choir of the
NJ. f. church will sing, and the Mount
Holly Glee Club will be present and
render several selections.
One of the bulletins recently issued
by the New Jersey Agricultural Expert
ment Station is entitled, 1.-THE Mos
lquitoes of New Jersey and Their Con
troll" 1t was prepared by DR.. Thomas
J. Headlee, entomologist of the expert
ment station, who is directing the mos
Iquito determination work in the state
1t is concise surrey of the life, history
habits and structure of the mosquito,
; description of the species common t.
New Jersey and the means of identify
; ling them. Methods of control are out
lined, and an account of what has beer
accomplished in mosquito exterminatio
L a.