The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-06-01
LOCAL NEWS.

LOSAL NE W0s
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas c. Aicott hav
removed to Burlington.
F. Carlton Dalton is now employed b,
the Philadelphia Record.
Chautauqua tickets will be placed OF
sale in Mount Holly next Friday.
A fresh coat of paint has been apple.
to the Bussom store property on Mail
street.
Miss Frances Glasgow, of Burlington
is now employed at the local Bell tele
phone exchange
A special meeting of Good Intent Fir,
Company will be held in the engine
house tonight. All members are re.
quested to be present.
The Ankokas Canoe Club is making
an active canvass for members, the com
pletion of its new building giving much
additional space for canoe storage
Ex-Governor Stokes will be the speaker
next Sunday afternoon at memorial
service to be held by the Burlington fire
department in honor of dead firemen.
Miss Capitola Loehner; Deaconess
from Columbus, Ohio. will address a
meeting at the Methodist church on
Friday evening. The public is invited.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
ran the first car over its experimental
electric road from Mount Holly to Bur-
hngton, on June 8, 1s95-twenty years
ago.
Union Fire Company has had its
chemical engine placed ON an automo-
bile chassis, and is now prepared to make
quick time in responding to alarms Of
fire.
The commencement exercises of the
graduating class of the Mount Holly
high school will take place on Thursday
evening, June 10, in the school auditor
ium.
Under the auspices of New Jersey
Lodge No. l, Knights of Pythias, the
elaborate moving picture, Damon and
Pythias." win be shown at the opera
house tonight.
A class of candidates was initiated in
Gen. Joseph Hooker Camp No. As. Sons
Of Veterans, ON Wednesday night The
degree team from the Camp at Camden
did the initiatory work.
At the recent annual show held by the
Devon Dog Show Association, Frank
Reilly, of Medford, won first in the puppy
class. and DIR. Haines, of Medford, took
FIRST in the field trial classes.
The following mail remains unclaimed
in the post Office for the week ending
May %: Howard Peak, y. Joe Gulep,
Mrs. Grace Emmons. Merzzrela Harrison,
w. f. Armstrong, John Brick.
Mrs. Sarah s. Kemble, widow of for
mer sheriff Charles s. Kemble. died at
Easton, Pa, on Tuesday, and was buried
in the Baptist cemetery, Mount Holly,
on Thursday. She was 95 years of age
At the meeting OF Washington Camp
No. II, P. o. s. of A., on Thursday
evening. SO propositions for membership |
were received, making the total number
of ~ received during the past four
weeks.
Edith Farley, 8 years old, is in the
Burlington county hospital, suffering
from severe burns caused by her clothing
catching fire while playing about wood |
stove, on Thursday, at her home in |
Beverly.
Charles M. Atkinson, who for several |
years has been living in Florida, has re-
turned to New Jersey and has entered
the law offices of Davis & Davis, Cam
den. Mr.. Atkinson was deputy under
County Clerk Sooy during the latter's
term of Office.
About 300 members of the Mount Holly |
lodges and the Burlington County
Federation of Patriotic Societies, at
tended the Sunday evening service at
the Methodist church. The pastor, Rev. |
Joseph L. Surtees, preached an interest |
ing patriotic sermon, taking for his sub
iect Preserving the Foundations,
An interesting lecture ON social con-
ditions in Mexico will be given in the
Presbyterian church tomorrow night, /
by Miss Blanche B. Boline. a mission
airy who spent several years in that
country, returning on account of the un-
settled conditions there. No admission
will be charged and the publicis invited. |
The Prudential Insurance Company's |
Weekly Record. in it's last issue, re-
ported the Mount Holly agency, of
which C. E. ,Hansbury is assistant super
intendent, as thirteenth in the United |
States and Canada and first in New Jer- |
sey for volume of paid up business done
this year.
The board of directors of the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts announced,
on Thursday, the award of "a travelling
scholarships for study in Europe toI
students in the academy schools. The
students each received 5000 for four
months of European travel. One of
these students is Frank Phares, of Mount
Holly.
William s. Hancock, former State
Comptroller, died at Browns Mills, on
Tuesday, after lingering illness. He
was in his sixty-first year. Mr.. Han
cock was one of Trenton's leading bust
ness men and was the principal owner
of the Trent Theatre and Taylor Opera
House. He was elected State Comptrol-
Ter in 1894 for eight years, and during
that time was prominently identified
with the Republican party.
When Surrogate Huff went to his resi-
dence on Brainard street shortly after
noon, on Thursday, he discovered that
Mrs. Harriet Fisher, his sister-in-law,
who had been living there for some
years, was dead, sitting in a rocking
chair. Heart trouble was the cause of
death. She had been in poor health for
some time, but was not considered to be
in q serious condition. That morning
she had attended to household duties as
usual and had begun cooking dinner.
Mrs. Fisher was the widow of Samuel S.
Fisher and sister Of Samuel s. Bower.
The Burlington County Federation of
Patriotic Societies and Churches is plan
ming for an interesting time at their next
regular meeting. which will be held in
Dill's hail. Mount Holly, on Monday
evening June IA, flag day. Mr.. McFar-
land, of Trenton, who is connected with