The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-12-07

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quite sick, is slowly improving.
Diphtheris has appeared in the famili
Of Evans Shinn, ON Woolman stree
: and Samuel Leeds. on Mill street.
Richard, son of Maurice Holland,
Moorestown, has undergone an operatio
D. at the Burlington County hospital.
The next regular meeting of the W
j. C. T. U. will be held in G. A. X. hal
U Tuesday, December IA, at 3 o'clock.
A letter from Germany. received by
q citizen of Mount Holly, last week, state
u that butter is selling there at 1920 {
pound and eggs at 20 cents each.
81 The Ladies' Aid OF the Baptist church
q will give a supper in February, time ant
place to be announced later. 1t will b.
It for the benefitof the parsonage fund.
a John Keesey has resigned as manager
of the Keesey Hosiery Company. The
a position will be filled temporarily by
!, Charles Coles, treasurer of the company
The annual Christmas dinner fol
children, under the auspices of Mount
Holly Lodge of Ellxs, will be held in the
Masonic Temple at noon on Christmas
Iday.
Miss Pearl Austin. a teacher at Bir-
mingham, who has many friends in
Mount Holly, and William scroggy. Of
Magnolia, were married on Thanksgiv-
ing day.
| The monthly meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association will be held in the
Mount Holly High schoolIauditorium on
Thursday afternoon at $50. A full at
tendance is desired.
Two Ford automobiles, driven by Bert
Matthias and Charles Grover, collided on
Sunday evening, on Mill street. near the
fountain. No one was injured, but both
cars were somewhat damaged.
The Ladies' Aid of the Presbyterian
church of Columbus, will have an oyster
supper and bazaar in the lecture room of
the church, on Thursday, December Is.
Supper will be ready at o'clock.
Representatives to the Firemen's Re-
1 lief Fund were elected last evening, as
follows: Relief, John M. Huff, Richard
P. Brown, Barclay w. Shinn; America.
s. Earl Assay, Eugene Engle, Maurice
Rowan.
| New Jersey Lodge No. l. Knights of
IPythias, will celebrate it's 4Sth anniyer-
sary on Friday night. An interesting
program has been arranged, including q
roll call. The state officers are expected
to be present.
Unclaimed mail for the following per-
sons remains in the post Office for lthe
week ending December 4: DR.. Edward
w. Allison, Mrs. Mary Andrews. Mrs.
Kate Wainwright, H. F. Drunk, Joseph
Carpenter. Edgar Allott.
Rev. Wesley l.. Hemphill, of Orange,
will preach in the Presbyterian church
next Sunday, both morning and even
ing. Church prayer meeting tomorrow
night, led by the clerk of session. The
theme is "The Brethren of Christ
A tract of about $500 acres of land near
Lakehurst, recently leased by the Eddy
stone Ammunition Co., Of Eddystone,
Pa, is being cleared by force of 200
men, and will be used as a proving
ground for ordnance. The tract is about
four miles long and one mile wide.
The second number of the winter
Lyceum course being conducted in the
Methodist church will be a lecture by
DR.. w. Quay Rosselle, who comes high
ly recommended asan orator who always
makes good, on Thursday evening, De-
cember 16. Course tickets for the re-
naming high-class attractions may be
secured from the committee, at Boyce's,
or at the door on the night of the lecture.
Single admission, 35c.
The annual meeting of the Burlington
County Farmers Exchange, to be held
at the court house next Saturday, is ex-
pected to prove very interesting. The
business session will be held in the
morning. During the afternoon farm
demonstrators Reid will deliver an adj
dress on potatoes. Professor Blake, of
the state experiment station, will talk
about peaches, and it is expected that
the results of the potato spraying expert
ment on the farm OF John Black and
the growing experiment on the farm of
William J. MacFarland. will be an
nounced.
Frank M. Brown, aged SO years, a
resident of Mount Holly, was instantly
killed near Hoffman's station, on Satur-
day. He was working with gang of
carpenters on a railroad bridge on the
Pennsylvania railroad, in the vicinity
of Jamesburg. An express train. partly
obscured by curve, bore down on the
men. All fed when the warning whistle
sounded, but Brown was struck before
he reached the end of the bridge and
ost his life. He leaves widow and
two children. A coroner's inquest will
be held to determine why the men did
not have sufficient warning of the trains
approach.
DIR. Robert B. Glasgow, editor of the
Burlington Gazette, and member of
the Board of Freeholders, was badly
hurt Sunday evening by being struck
by the engine of passenger train that
was drawing up to the station at Bur
lington. The story of those who saw
the accident is that DR.. Glasgow evil
IDENTIFY thought the train was going to
stop several feet further down the track
than it did, and that he would have
time to cross. In this he made mis-
calculation. A doctor, who was imme-
diately in attendance, decided that the
injured man should be removed to a
hospital, and DIR. Glasgow was taken to
Cooper hospital, Camden. 1t was found
that his arm was broken in-two places.
but it was impossible to determine what
internal injuries had been sustained.
| Postmaster Reed has received a cir
cular letter from the Postal Department
relative to sending Christmas gifts by
parcel post. 1t is desired that senders
do not delay putting their packages out
until the last moment but that they
send as soon as convenient The De
partment has ruled that there may b.
Iplaced on any package the inscription
mot to be opened until Christmas.
This will not infringe any of the posta