The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-12

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Jonathan H. Kelsey has been appoint
e ed trustee of the voluntary bankrupt
2 affairs of Samuel N. Lamb, of Medford
Miss Helen Thorn, daughter of Henry
| P. Thorn, is in Howard hospital, Phila'
delphia, where she was operated on, last
week for appendicitis.
BILLY Sunday, the man of the hour
will be the subject of a sermon Rev. T
J. J. Wright will preach next Sunday
evening at the Methodist church.
Mrs. Mary A. Comegys has bought
from Walter Allen and Henry B. Wright
one of the double houses on Garden
street, recently remodeled by them.
An audience that filled the Methodist
church on Sunday evening heard the
choir of that church render the sacred
cantata 1.-THE Prince of Peace" in a very
acceptable and delightful manner.
The Ladies Aid of the Baptist Church
will hold a homemade bread, pie, and
cake sale in Gaskill's office, corner Main
and Murrell Streets, on Saturday after
noon, January 10th. for the benefit of
the Parsonage Fund.
The engagement of Miss Helen Mac
Quiod, of Roselle, N. j., to Edward
Burd Grubb, son of the late Gen. E. Burd
Grubb. is announced. The engagement
ring was one with three sapphires sur
rounded by twenty diamonds, an heir
loom watch has come down from three
generations of the family.
At a regular meeting of the Burling-
ton County Traction Company, yester-
/ day, Edwin C. Davis was elected mana
| ger to succeed Louis Richards, whose
contract with the road expired on the
3lst Of December. No action was taken
towards installing express service be-
tween Mount Holly and Philadelphia.
John T. Sproull, Of New York, de-
livered a very interesting address at the
mems mass meeting in the opera house
Sunday afternoon, under the auspices of
the Y. M. G. A. The association has
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month and they have secured some very
good speakers. These meetings should
be well attended.
The unclaimed letters that emain in |
the post Office for the week ending Jam
uary 8, are as follows: John Bensel, Jr.. |
Frank Fox, Clyde Gerhart, John E.
MADDEN, Mrs. Moore, Chas. Page, Chas. |
Stricken, letters; Miss E. d. Burnham,
Mrs. Fannie Brock, Mrs. Laura Buggy,
Alfred J. Green, Robert A. Goulding,
Hirst Hayes, Sergeant s. l.. Phillips,
cards.
The Mount Laurel Pursuing and De-
tective Company held it's annual meet
ing Thursday and elected the following
officers: President, John E. Darnell;
secretary and treasurer, A. Engle Haines;
directors, Joseph H. Haines, William
Jones. William H. Zelley, Bowman S.
Lippincott, Robert T. Evans, J. Harvey
Daruell, Horace Roberts, Allen Jones,
Ezra Evans, Edward Rogers.
The first meeting of the home Making
Department Of the Burlington County
Boys Agricultural Contest was held in
Prof. Stees' Office on Saturday, and
plans for the fifth annual contest were
discussed. This years contest is to be
increased by the addition of several COM
petitions, such as the making of MILDLY
blouses, knitting with two needles and
special contest in baking powder bis
cults.
On New Years day, Mahlon w. New
ton, Of Green's hotel, Philadelphia, took
possession Of the Inn at Browns Mills,
after James R. Reilly had moved out.
Mr.. Newton hopes to put new life into
the hostelry, and make it a paying
proposition, both for winter and summer
patronage. When Reilly left, he failed
to shut off the water supply in the
house. the result being a big lot of burst
ed and frozen pipes, which has taken q
force of plumbers two weeks to repair.
Rancocas Grange, No. 131, p. of H.,
had their installation of officers January
9Th. The following were elected: Mas
ter, Charles e. Shinn, Jr.; overseer,
Ezra c. Engle; lecturer, Laura E. Lundy;
steward, Maurice Lundy; assistant stew
ard, Reyland Thomas; chaplin, Eliza
beth Buzby; treasurer. Oscar Pew; Sec
rotary, Nancy M. Leeds; gate keeper,
John w. Matson; ceres, Ada r. Shinn;
pomona, Elizabeth Hansell; flora, Glenn
Haines; lady assistant steward, Elsie
t. Pew. The following trustees were
elected: Alex. Thomson, Sarah A. Pew
Tylee B. Engle.
Miss Annie Wells, aged p years, was
found dead in bed on Thursday morn
ing at the home of Winfield s. Cameron,
on kPaxson street, where she had lived
for q number Of years. She was q suf-
ferer from paralysis and had been unable
to leave her room for some time. She
was an untiring church worker in her
younger days, heing a member of the
Methodist church. Deceased was a
daughter of the late John and Grace
Wells. She was laid to rest in st. An
drew's burying ground yesterday after
noon.
A meeting of the managers of base
ball clubs in the Central League was
held at the court house on Saturday
night. All the clubs were represented.
An assessment was made to purchase q
pennant for Riverside, winner of the
trophy last season. There was talk of
enlarging the league to eight clubs, as
| Palmyra and Burlington are DESTROYS of
| becoming members. A meeting will be
held in February to decide all questions
| relative to the coming season. Judging
by strike-outs and bases on balls, the
most effective pitchers, last season, were
Seybold, Berner and Cook in the order
named. Jack Gillian was the star field
er, with 140 put-outs and no errors.
Detective Parker was a tired man Sun
day morning when he arrived at Mount
Holly with William Volmer, who he had
arrested at Cape Charles, Virginia.
Parker brought his man up to Philadel-
phia on a sleeper, but the officer did not
get much time to close his eyes. Volmer
was indicated by the present grand jury
on the charge of stealing money and q
gold watch from a boat at Hainesport
The property was valued at $3.50. Par