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

Rancocas Grange will hold its thil
and last birthday treat tomorrow.
large attendance is locke for.
Mrs. William B. Tomlinson, of Ga
den street, who has been seriously i'll,
reported to be slowly improving.
Six saplings were initiated at th
meeting of the Tall Cedars OF Leblanc
in the Masonic Temple on Tuesda
night.
The Farmers Trust Company will d.
part from the custom of former year
and will not distribute any calendars 70
1916.
Herbert J. Koehler, of Burlington, ha
filed his intention of applying for ad
mission to the New Jersey Bar at tn
February term of the Supreme Court.
Professor James M. Gregory. f6Fme
principal of the Manual Training Uhd
Industrial school for colored youth, a.
Bordentown, died in Baltimore, or
Saturday.
paper correspondent, has been selected
as secretary Of the State Board of Taxes
and Assessment, succeeding the late Ir
vine E. Mcguire.
An overturned lamp set fire to window
curtains in the house occupied by Harry
Shoop, on Water street, near Main,
on Saturday night. The flames were
extinguished before the firemen arrived
Motor commissioner Dill has revoked
the automobile license of William
Banks, of Freehold who drove his car
in Mount Holly while intoxicated. The
complaint was made by B. o. Herbert.
A large audience attended the second
number of the Lyceum course in the
Methodist church on Thursday night.
The entertainment was lecture by DIR.
w. Quay Roseiie, and it was greatly en-
joyed.
Officers were elected on Friday even
ing by the Tiger A. C. at meeting held
at its club house on Green street, as
follows: President, Caleb Shinn; treas
nrer, George McKelvey; secretary, Elvin
Linton.
1t has been decided that the local Par
ent-Teacher Association will meet in the
evening in the future, it being thought
that larger attendance of parents may
be secured than at present, when the
meetings are held in the afternoon.
Charles E. Hansbury entertained a
number of the members of the local
staff of the Prudential Insurance Com
pany, with their wives. at dinner on
Thursday evening, in honor of Superin-
tendent Edward Pearson, Of Camden.
A schedule of the classes of the Christ
mas club of the Mount Holly Safe De-
post & Trust Company, appears on the
first page of this issue. Three per cent.
interest will be paid to depositors who
make their payments regularly or in
advance
Leon A. Claypoole, of Mount Holly, a
lineman for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. was painfully injured al
Beverly ON Tuesday, when 45-foo
pole on which he was working toppled
over. carrying him with it. No bones
were broken.
Mrs. Ann Eliza futile, of Ridgway
street, who split bone in her leg when
she was knocked down by bicycle rider
at Ocean Grove last summer, was oper-
ated upon at the Samaritan hospital,
Philadelphia, last week. Her condition
is satisfactory, and she will shortly re-
turn home.
A rural life conference viii be held at
the state agricultural college at New
Brunswick for four days beginning De-
cember 81. The conference will be OF
great interest. Country churches, COM
munity betterment, marketing prob
lens and boys and girls club work will
be discussed.
Word was received here on Wednes-
day that there was fire at Hartford
and assistance was needed. America
chemical engine was sent down, but re-
ceived word at Masonville that the fire
had been extinguished, SO it was run
back to Mount Holly. A report in cir
culation that the engine became stalled
in snow bank is incorrect.
The national board of underwriters
has offered reward of $500 for the de-
lection of the party or parties guilty oil
firing the four dwellings destroyed in
Knickerbocker row, Roebling, on No
vember "a. The Roebling fires have
been so numerous lately that the under
writer's will stop them with criminal
proceedings if the. evidence can be Sc
cured.
According to reports, Burlington
comfy farmers are organizing move
ment for the better protection of bird
life in the rural districts. Every Grange
will be urged to form committees to pro-
mote interest in the building of nesting
boxes for the birds around farm houses
to encourage mauy valuable varieties OF
feathered warriors upon insects to rear
their young in those localities.
The recent marriage of Miss Pearl
Austin, Birmingham school teacher,
was reported slightly incorrectly. Miss
Austin was married at Camden, on
Thanksgiving night, to Joseph Scroggy
q shipping clerk at the Camden railroad
Office. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Mr.. Johnson, of the Methodist
church. Mr.. and Mrs. Scroggy went on
short wedding trip, and will begin
housekeeping in Camden about the frs
Of the year. Mrs. Scroggy will continu,
teaching until the end of the term.
In the new Legislature, 81 of the 81
members will be lawyers, thus main
tanning the large proportion of member
of the legal profession that has marke'
ALI Legislatures for many years. Tn
new session will include eight farmers
eight merchants, two newspaper pub
fishers, two bankers, two manufactures
two undertakers, one physician, on
clergyman, two automobile dealers, fiv
real estate dealers, three insurance mer
two statesmen, and one each of the TO
lowing: Warehouse man, trucker, sig
painter, veterinary surgeon, painter an
decorator, carpenter, florist, bath hous
proprietor, and head of a co-operatiy
building and saving concern.
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