The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-03-23

William J. Haines, of Bispham street,
was confined to the house last week by
) an attack Of grip.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Anderson, OF
1 Broad street, gave dinner party to a
number Of friends on Wednesday night.
The voters of Beverly viii decide at a
, special election to-day whether or not
intoxicating liquors shall be sold in that
city.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram H. Earnest will
entertain the Young Friends Associa-
ton at the meeting house on Thursday
night.
Francis H. Reed has received his COM
mission as postmaster of Mount Holly,
, and will take charge of the Office on
April l.
The regular meeting of the W. C. T..
U. will be held at the G. A. R. post
room, Tuesday afternoon, March S0th,
at three o'clock.
The annual encampment of the New
Jersey Y. M. c. A. boys will be held at
Brindle lake, near New Egypt. The
camp will open June 80.
| Canoeists report that large tree has
fallen completely across the upper creek
near Beef island, and that it is extreme
ly difficult to get through.
An Armour Union social will he held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Buzby, on
Brainard street, on Tuesday evening,
March 80. All are welcome.
George Branin, wealthy farmer, died
at his home at Wyncote. Pa, ON Thurs
day, aged 81 years. He was the father
Of DR.. John w. Branin, of Mount Holly.
At the Baptist church on Sunday
evening the pastor baptised seven candi- |
dates before large congregation. There
were also thirteen professions of faith at
this service.
On Tuesday argument was heard by
the Court of Errors and Appeals on the
application for new trial in the Edgar
C. Murphy murder case. Decision was
reserved.
J. Frank Scattergood has been quite
ill with appendicitis during the past
week, but is now somewhat improved
and it is thought an operation will not
be necessary.
Lemuel Johnson, OF Shreve street, who
had been suffering for some time with
complication Of diseases. died on FRI
day. The funeral took place yester-
day afternoon.
A mems meeting will be held in the
opera house next Sunday afternoon at
o'clock. Rev. James HI. Terry will speak
on the subject "The Greatest Question.
All men invited.
Unclaimed mail remaining in the post
office for the week ending March 20: Let
tiers, Clora Cannon, Emalin Challenger,
Raymond Prickett, John M. Rawlins.
Cards, Thomas Blensinger, DR.. q. g. r.
vim. Miss Ida Lippincott. Mr.. Lofiand.
William III. Taylor has gone into the
electrical business on his own account.
He gained much experience and know
ledge while in the employ of the Public
Service Electric Company. to whose
lines he gave much personal attention.
Rev. Frank Wilcox, pastor OF the
church, was taken i'll Tues ,
day, with laryngitis, and was confined
to his bed until Sunday. Services at the
church, Sunday, were con-
Quoted by Rev. w. P. Finney, Of Lin
coin University, Oxford, Pa.
Mrs. Isaac H. Wainwright, wife Of a
former supervisor Of the Mount Holly ,
railroad division, died at her home in ,
Camden, on Sunday, of pleuro-pneu-I /.
monia, after an illness of four days. .
Mrs. Wainwright visited friends in .
Mount Holly about ten days ago. |,
George Stearns and George Hates have /
fitted up Photographic studio on Mill 1
street and have gone into the business {
with vim. They have purchased from ]
J. e. Whitman the photograph appara- {
tus owned by that gentlemen, who will {
devote his entire attention TO his optical
business. He has rented the room form !.
erly occupied by the Y. M. C. A., No. AZ
High street.
There will be a band concert in the
High School Auditorium, Mount Holly, | !
on Friday evening, April 9th, by the
band of the Vineland Training School s
for Predetermined Children. This band ,
is composed only OF the children Of the I
school, and will demonstrate to the pub :
lie their ability to execute programme /
OF merit. The proceeds will go to the ;
Burlington County Colony. Tickets So
cents, on sale in Mount Holly at Dubell's ,
drug store; Pemberton. at Green's drug
store; Moorestown, at Stiles drug store;
Burlington, at Williams drug store.
Harry E. Cudney, the Warren county II
fish and game warden, with assistant
fish and game protector Howard Mathis,
of New Gretna, started last week to visit
every county in the state and stock them
with pheasants and quail raised on the
state preserve at Forked River. The
birds will be distributed by means OF the
large motor truck owned by the state
which Cudney used during the fall and
part of the winter in stocking the
streams with fish raised at the hatchery
at Hackettstown.
There was offered for cancellation at
the clerks Office. Thursday, mortgage
that created considerable merriment.
All papers of this kind, when executed,
contain an acknowledgment on the part
of the wife that she signed without
threats from or fear of her husband. But
the mortgage referred to was exactly OPP
posite, as it recited that the husband,
who had signed the acknowledgment,
said he did it of his own free will and |
was not influenced by threats on the
part of his wife or from any fear of her.
John d. Clevenger, now living at |
Washington, d. c., sends an item to the |
effect that the United States Census de-
partment is sending hundreds of its
clerks as special agents to take the man.
ufacturers' census in the several states.
Among the last number sent out was
Clarence S. Durand, of Mount Holly,
who has been in the Census Department
for six years. He has gone to New York
state, opening in Sullivan and Delaware
counties, and expects to be gone five or
six months. Mrs. Durand will remain in
| Washington for time but NAV come to