The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-06-15

anu presbyterian sunday SCHOOLS arr
being held in the mornings.
p Mrs. Bloor, of Dayton, Ohio, delivered
ha an address at the fountain, Thursday
noon, in the interest of woman suffrage
on w. D. Brown. of Washington, D. c.,
or delivered an address at meeting Of the
Burlington County Rural Carriers Asso-
n citation, held in Mount Holly on We'd
at nesday evening.
The largest crowd in its history was
ed present at Rancocas Park on Saturday
Is afternoon and evening, it being the clos
ing day of the carnival for the benefit of
In Good Intent fire company.
in Two large rhododendron plants in the
H. yard of Joseph s. Hume, on Washing
ton street, are in full bloom, and present
st a very beautiful sight There are over
2 300 fine blooms on the plants.
lie The residence of William Schwartz at
Palmyra, was entered, on Saturday
,e night, by burglar, who sneaked into
e Mr.. Schwartz's bedroom, carried off
d pair OF trousers containing $125, and
made good his escape.
d The Court of Errors and Appeals yes
e terday, by unanimous vote, sustained
: the verdict of murder of the first degree
found by the Burlington county jury
against Edgar Murphy, who killed Her
man Fisher. Judge Kalisch will now
issue an order fixing new date for the
. electrocution of Murphy.
On the 9th of this month man CIV
ing the name of Thomas Nelson, went
to the barber shop at the New Washing
ton House and secured employment.
On Sunday he left town and took with
him about SIS worth of barber supplies.
Detective Parker is on the trail of the
; fellow and hopes to soon land him.
G. Shed Holland, a barber who oc-
cupied residence and shop on Mill
street next to the Farmers Trust Com
pany for number of years, died Friday |
evening, after an illness that affected |
him for long time. Shed. was a mas
ter in his profession and he had large
line of custom from all parts of this
neighborhood.
Nelson Dew. Pumyea and William
B. Trowbridge padded a canoe from
Lumberton to Mount Holly on Sunday.
The young men drove to Lumberton,
leaving that place about nine o'clock.
A stop was made at Centreton while
the tide changed, and Hacks wharf was
reached about five o'clock. They report
a delightful trip.
| A large attendance was present at the
meeting OF the Burlington County Fed
Grafton of Patriotic Fraternities held in
Mount Holly last evening. The princi-
pal speakers were: State president An
drews, of Camden; Rev. Joseph L. /
Surtees, of the Mount Holly Methodist
church, and Rev. Mr.. Jones, of the Vim
centown Baptist church.
Chautauqua opened yesterday afte r
noon and the program promises to be
one of the best ever presented to
Mount Holly audience. The committee
in charge do not feel very much en-
couraged over the financial prospects. I
More than 60 persons who pledged them 3
selves to take one or more tickets have :
failed to keep the promise. This will .
naturally put a large financial respon- 7
sibility upon the committee. Those =
who made promises to aid this project y
should live up to their pledges.
The census enumerators are being G
bothered by the actions of some persons /
who are going around and asking t
nearly the same questions that the Of /
ficials are. The idea is to get directory a
for business purposes in order to discover {
who is entitled to credit. The census
enumerators suggest that householders Q
use their discretion in answering the
questions put to them by any but those ,
who display the official enumerator
badge.
A big crop of huckleberries this sum- S
mer is indicated by the condition of the n
bushes, which are full Of the small green II
fruit. This is equally true Of swamp c
berries and the low blues or upland | e
berries. 1t is, of course, possible that a t
drought may catch them before picking |.
time, but just now it looks as if there p
would be plenty of these sweet blue e
berries for all who wish them in July v
and August. A big huckleberry crop +
means many thousands of dollars to the s
residents of the pine districts and the
shore villages. II
The Children's day exercises at the
First Presbyterian church on Sunday a
were happily combined with the gradua- \
fling exercise of the teacher training class. | i
Seven young men and women received i
their graduation diplomas. The exer- s
cises were of high order and enjoyed t
by the large audience that filled every {
available space and the chapel had to be |
opened to accommodate those who ar t
rived late. The church was beautifully 4
decorated. The ordinance of baptism was ,
also administered. 1t was truly great i
day in the history of that church.
Some thieves were quite active, last
week, at Jobstown, Columbus, and
Lewistown. On Monday night they
broke into the Jobstown railroad station
and stole quarter barrel of beer The
store of Orrie H. Atkinson, Jobstown,
was entered and robbed of a kit of
plumbers tools. William c. Matthews
store, Jobstown, was broken into, but
nothing stolen. On Wednesday night
the blacksmith shop of Henry Oliver,
Columbus, was robbed of a lot of TOOLS
The same night the Columbus railroad
station was entered and case of beer
and six cases of condensed milk stolen.
On Thursday night the Lewistown
station was broken open but nothing
was taken.
Supervisor Mcfarland is contemplate
ling putting some oil on the streets of
Mount Holly, but he hesitates about
using the substance on High l
street. Last year he gave the street a
dressing of oil and soon afterwards the
trolley people tore up their tracks, put
Igravel on the road and in little time
the Oil was of no account. The trolley /
company should be compelled to repair
their tracks before the oil is put on this
. year, in fact it would not do any harm
If the tracks and the pavement between |
the rails were given attention regardless