The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-05-18
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Miss Emily Greenwald is i'll at h
home on Garden street.
Mount Holly Lodge of Moose will no
snapper supper tonight.
Miss Halycon Mann has accepted
position with the Bell telephone con
pany.
Company E went to Camden, ON Fl
day night, to participate in battalio
drill.
Three candidates were initiated at til
meeting of the Tall Cedars of Leblanc
last week.
Harry Heck, a Mount Holly barber.
now employed in William Browns sho
at Allentown.
Rudolph Kumpf was operated upo
at the hospital last week for the remova
OF tonsils and adenoids.
Bertram Orcutt has announced hi
candidacy for the Republican nomina
ton for collector of Northampton town
ship.
V. Claude Palmer underwent an oper
alton at the Samaritan hospital, Phila
delphia, on Tuesday, and is recovering
nicely.
Emma j., widow of Amos Austin, O
Burlington. who died on Thursday, was
buried in Mount Holly cemetery yester
day afternoon.
The firemen's carnival at Burlington
opened yesterday to continue the week.
High class vaudeville and amusements
are the features to be enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. George R. Abrams, o.
vincentown, announce the engagement
OF their daughter, Cordelia, to Ralph
Waldo Haines, Of Vincentown.
Miss Anna Gilbert, who underwent
an operation for appendicitis at the Bur-
iington county hospital some weeks ago,
is greatly improved and will return to
her home on Church street this week.
John B. Bozarth, who holds position
as an operator on the Grand Central
Railroad at New York, returned to that
city yesterday after spending few days
vacation with his mother on Mill street.
A district meeting of P. o. s.. of A.
Camps from all over Burlington county
will be held in the high school auditor
ium on Thursday evening. June 8, when
over one hundred candidates will be
initiated.
At the recent annual meeting of the
Burlington County Association for In
surance the following were elected Off
GERS: President, John e. Darnell; secre-
tary. Henry P. Thorn; assistant secre-
tary, Harry L. Knight; treasurer, VIM
H. Zelley.
Through an invitation from the ladies
OF the Thimble Bee OF Pemberton, Mrs.
MacCumber will give an interesting talk
about the work at the colony at -Four
Mile. The Changers have kindly loaned
their hall for Thursday, May q, at 8
p. M. All ladies are invited.
The Spring Institute of the Burling-
ton County w. c. T. U. will be held at
Wrightstown on Thursday, May 10th. |
An interesting and instructive part of |
the program will be chalk talk to the |
children of the Loyal Temperance
Legion by Mrs. David r. Lippincott.
Rev. Joseph L. surtees and wife will
attend the ceremonies incident to the |
opening of the new Methodist building
at 18th and Arch streets, Philadelphia, |
on Thursday. Mr.. Surtees will attend |
the Knights of Luther League in Cam
den, and deliver an address to that body,
on the evening OF Thursday.
The Burlington High school team de-
feated the Mount Holly High school |
nine in game of base ball at the former
place Thursday afternoon by the score of |
to 0. Gaskill, pitcher of the local nine,
held Burlington to hits, while the
Mount Holly boys secured hits, but
not at the time when they were most
needed.
Joseph Campbell and Elwood Cham
pion, both of Florence. had an accident
while passing through Mount Holly on
motor cycle ON Wednesday. When near
the fountain the machine skidded and
the riders were thrown to the ground.
Campbell had leg broken near the
ankle. He was taken to the hospital
Champion escaped injury.
On Thursday night, at 7.45 o'clock,
reception will be held I'm the chapel of
the Presbyterian church under the |
auspices of the Woman's Guild in honor
of all the new members recently receiv-I
ed. A delightful program is being pre-
pared which will include vocal and in
strumental music and which will doubt
less be greatly enjoyed. 1t is very
earnestly hoped that every one of those
recently received into the fellowship of |
this church will be present upon this !
happy occasion.
General satisfaction is expressed by
merchants and landlords throughout
the state at the passage of the "Garn-
ishee" law by the Legislature. 1t pro-
vides for the attachment of money due
any individual and by order of the dis |
trict court stipulated sum may be de-
Quoted each week from the salary or
wages of the debtors to finally bring a
settlement. Not only merchants but all
classes of business suffer by extending
credit to dead beats and others who
think they have the right to get what
they can out of those who are willing to
trust them.
At its meeting on Tuesday night the
township committee received bids on the
street Improvements to be made this
year. All of the work is to be Of mac
adam construction and alternate bids ON
Tarvia and Amiesite were asked on
King, the upper section of Water and
Brainard streets. The committee met
again on Thursday night, considered all
the bids, decided on Tarvia construction
on the three streets mentioned and
awarded the contract to Kelly-McFe eley
company, Of Camden, on bid Of ST.
1881 The other bidders on the same
work were: ]. F. Stanley Co., Philadel-
phia, ST., S54.54; Field, Baker & Under
wood. Philadelphia, $lS.590.12; Charles
A. Ried & Co., Trenton, $40, 1880;
Burke & Bonaham, Plainfield, $40, 012. 40;
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