The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-08-10
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Shoe dealer frank 8. Davis makes al
interesting announcement in anothe
column.
Ellis H. Parker has bought the Hup
mobile runabout belonging to the estate
OF DIR. John w. Branin.
Miss Miriam T. Archer has opened 9
dry goods store in the Mill street proper
ty recently vacated by Daniel B. Smith
Jr.
The Midvale Steel Company is hav-
ing steel billets rolled at Roebling, fol
use in the manufacture of war mum.
tions.
Jimmy Driscoll has bought and is
now in charge Of the grocery store Of
Martha Jones. corner OF Branch and Mill
streets.
Eight shares Of stock of the Farmers
Trust Company, OF Mount Holly, were
sold at public sale at the Bourse, Phila-
delphia, on Wednesday. for s120 a
share.
Harry Heck, who has been working in
barber shopat Allentown, has returned
to Greenwaid's shop. his former place of
employment.
M. Anna Hauser. of the New Jersey
Agriculture Department, will give
canning demonstration in the grove at
the Mt. Laurel school on Wednesday
August 18th. at p. m.
The Mount Holly Library will close
on Saturday. the 2lst instant. and will
reopen on the It'll OF September. The
time for remaining open after that date
will be from until o'clock in the
afternoon.
Sealer of weights and measures Ed
ward T. Haines reminds the farmers
that the new standard weight OF bushel
OF oats is 80 pounds instead of 80, and a
bushei Of wheat is to be 40 pounds in
stead OF So
The will of James w. Hazelhurst, of
Philadelphia, who died at Clover Hill,
Mount Holly, on July 7. devises his es-
tate OF 81. 800 to the Home of the Merci-
full Saviour for Crippled Children, at
Philadelphia.
The Northampton Firemen's Relief
Association, at meeting on Tuesday
night, elected Richard p. Brown, Loren
20 L. Sapp, s. Earl Assay and Harvey
E. Rossell as delegates to the state con-
vention to be held at Atlantic Citv on
September %.
The good results of calling policemen
by turning on red lights in different
parts Of the town was shown Friday
morning. when policeman Curtis, MOTTO
ing the call for help. responded, and in
very short time had firemen on their
way to aid in extinguishing fire out OF
town.
Rev. and Mrs. 7. ]. ]. Wright, of the
Broad street M. Z. church. Burlington,
celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary
OF their wedding on Friday. The con-
gregation OF that church presented them
. purse Of silver amounting to 5000.
Numerous other presents were also re-
ceived, in value amounting to about SIS.
An appeal has been sent out by the
management Of the Keswick Colony,
near Writings, for mems secondhand
clothing. This institution for the
making over Of men who have the
drinking habit has at present the largest
summer population OF any time in its
history, and is one of the most crafty
ing In its results Of any institutions of
similar work.
When Charles e. Applegate commit
ted suicide recently near Jacobstown
and Coroner Worrell was called to make
an investigation, that official got charge
OF 1924 belonging to the dead man.
The coroner was relieved of the response
bility for the money, last week. when
letters Of administration were issued to
Lasinia A. South, the mother of Apple
gate, who was then legally entitled to
receive the money.
The receipts Of the base ball game be-
tween members Of Mount Holly Lodge
of Elks and County Officials will be
given to the Burlington County Hospi-
tai without deducting any expenses,
which will be betrayed by the two teams.
Every person paying admission to the
game. therefore, will be contributing
the entire amount to that institution
The contest will take place August 18th
ON the High street ground. Mount Holly.
Admission 25 cents.
Ephraim T. Gill, proprietor of the
Haddon Farms, whose entire herd of
Guernsey cattle were killed by state in
spectors last fall, after they had CON
tracted the hoof and mouth disease, is
restocking his entire farm with pedigreed
Guernseys. For several months he has
been experimenting with ordinary cattle
to see whether or not the disease made
its reappearance. and has found that it
has not. Many fine cattle have been
shipped to Mr.. ellis farm from Della
ware, Pennsylvania, New York. and
other states.
Lightning struck the barn on the Will
kins farm between Mount Holly and
- taA1SSoWn noout Ouc clOck Il It0dy
morning. A telephone message was
sent to Mount Holly and policeman
Curtis routed some of the members of
America Fire Company from their beds
and in short time the chemical appar-
atus OF that company was on the
ground. The barn was beyond being
saved but good work was done in saving
several adjoining buildings. The farm
is owned and occupied by Monroe Smith
The barn was filed with hay and grain,
but no live stock was killed.
The beautiful Dukes Park, at Somer-
Vile, has been closed to visitors by it's
owner, ]. b. Duke, the tobacco magnate,
because Of the violations of the privi-
leges extended visiting automobilists by
Pennsylvania club of motorists on a
recent run. Reports agree that the
Pennsylvanians parked their machines
in front of Dukes house contrary to
rule, and scattered broadcast about the
park lunch boxes and other refuse For
this boorish conduct of the Pennsyl
vania motorists all other decent and re-
spectacle lovers of the beautiful are de-
barred from visiting the Duke Park.
The culprits ought to be ashamed of
their conduct if there is any shame ever
felt bv them,