The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-02-02
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1916
LOCAL NEWS.

Edward B. Jones and wife left ON Fri
day on a trip to Florida.
Look out for the grounding which i
expected to make his appearance today
A. Perkins Davis has purchased the
farm of William M. Winner. ON the road
from Rancocas to Beverly.
Sheriff Stecher has had q chance dur
ing the last week to NOV what value Q
deputy is, as Joseph Fleetwood has been
sick in bed.
The residence portion of the property
recently purchased by William G. Weth'
erill from Joseph c. Cowgirl is now &C,
cupied by Charles Elbertson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis F. Klein, of Cross
wicks. the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Theodosia Lottie
Klein to Frank r. Burtis, Of Columbus.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Methodist church will be held Friday
evening in the church. Rev. Percy
Perinchief, district superintendent, will
preside.
The Convocation of Burlington will
meet in st. Andrews church Mount
Holly next Tuesday. Bishop Matthews,
who wa consecrated last week, will
preach the sermon
The Baraca class of the First Baptist
church had "A young men present on
Sunday. The members Of the class are
nrnrlrf.o had ~ coorro q cfs1I Io~-o~
number for e Sunday.
The Queen Esther Circle of the M. E.
church held a rally at the home of Miss
Lucille Perinchief last evening, at which
Mrs. Northrop, conference secretary of
young peoples work, delivered an adj
dress.
Forty members of the Mount Holly
Business Mems Association attended a Il
banquet at the Arcade hotel Thursday /
evening. Edward d. Stokes acted as
POSTMASTER and acquitted himself in the
manner that always pleases those who
are privileged to hear him.
The Board of Education Of Ceilings /
wood has made arrangements to hold
the high school commencement exercises
in the Chautauqua tent this summer J
The event will take place on the opening |
night of Chautauqua week and be pre- /
coded by the usual band concert.
John C. Price, of Tuckerton, has the
distinction and honor Of being q Sunday /
school superintendent for thirty-eight
years. Mr.. Price started acting in that
capacity in 1877 at the West Creek Bap
fist church, and has ever since been its
superintendent, and today is the honor
airy superintendent.
After leaving a house on Union street
to occupy n belonging to Harry v.
Kester. on Broad street, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Anderson have been informed that
the house they now occupy has been
sold to Mrs. George Haines, who recent
ly sold a farm on the Burlington road.
Mrs. Haines will not move into the prop
erty until some time in the fall.
Miss Musa Stanton, who has been at
Wetherill's store. has resigned her posi-
ton there n is now chief clerk in the |
Office of the manager of the Inter State
Telephone company. Miss Annie Grigg
who was in this position, is now steno
grapher for Probation officer Slaughter.
Miss Edith r. Citizens, Of Smithville.
has taken a position at Wetherill's store
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's application to merger several
lines in New Jersey will be considered in
conference by the Board of Public Utility
Commissioners after additional inform
alton and statements of a financial ma
ture are presented. The roads it is pro-
posed to merger are the Philadelphia &
Long Branch Railway, the Pemberton
& Hightstown Railway, and the Kinkora
& New Lisbon Railway.
According to a rumor current at the |
State House, the committee of the Legis-
lature that is looking into finances has
discovered that there is an actual short
age of nearly 8 1000, 900 in the states
revenues, and some method will have to
be devised to increase the income or o
state tax will have to be resorted to. An
early report is anticipated from the in
v~estigators when a complete statement
of he actual situation will be made
known.
Alexander r. Gallenkamp has so sue
cessfully conducted the Woolworth store
in Mount Holly since it was opened that
he has gained promotion and on Friday
evening left for Orange where he will be
in charge of one of the larger stores of
the company. The people of Mount
Holly are glad to know that Mr.. Gallen-
kamp has been given deserved recogni-
ton, but they did not like to see him
leave the town. He has been succeeded
here by Charles Jacobs.
Rev. ]. Leander Socy, a minister of
the Methodist church, and a former resi-
dent of this county, died at Rochester,
N. Y, on Wednesday,. The death was /
sudden and sad. Mr.. Sooy's wife was
in a hospital at Rochester, where she
had gone through a surgical operation. |
Her husband had been to see her and |
was hurrying to catch a car or train,
when he burst a blood vessel. He was
at once taken to q hospital which proved
to be that in which his wife was lying, |
and by q singular coincidence he was
put in the room adjoining hers and there
died. The remains were inferred in
Mount Holly cemetery Saturday, the
funeral being attended by many minis
tiers of the NJ. E. church, among them
Bishop Berry, of Philadelphia.
The only well in central New Jersey
SO far as is known, in which the water
was Ssot lowered by the long drought last
fall, is on M Vain property in Horners-
toYs+.z dug over a century ago
sS that has long since
~ syis fed by a spring that
$HW3(nor lessened its supply.
I'D out during the dry
glasses accurate, year convinced the
$ fitted, which takewould be worth saw
ing, ana acuornnngly he had it cleaned
out last week. A motley collection of
articles was taken out by workmen, in
Guiding a score of old buckets that one
at a time in former years ''hung in the
WELL" A clock. a lamp and some old
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