The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16

home Of his parents in Salisbury Mar
land.
The building of the Order of Moose
draped in memory of William T. Joyc
Iof Vincentown, who died on Thursda.
The Samuel III. Chambers farm,
: Chambers corner. was sold at publ
sale, Saturday. to Elmer J. Fort,
Buddtown. The price was s57 per acr'
The membership of Washington Cam
/, No. II, P. o. S. of A.. is still increasing
lat the meeting last Thursday nigh
t, three candidates were initiated and on
. proposition for membership received.
The Juniors of the Mount Holly hig
I school will give cake and bread sale o.
/ Saturday afternoon and evening in tn
high school building. Fancy work an
Homemade candy will also be on sale.
Gen. Joseph Hooker Camp No. As
Sons of Veterans, entertained the mem
bers of the local grand army post. tn
state commander, and delegation from
Trenton, on Wednesday night. Re
lfreshments were served.
William HI. Heisler, president of thu
Manufacturers National Bank. OF Phil
adelphia, and treasurer and director o
several other corporations, is confined
to his bed at his home in Pemberton
suffering from complication Of nervous
disorders.
Restore B. Lamb, of Mount Holly,
who had been in poor health for long
time, died on Sunday. His funeral will
take place tomorrow at 1.50 p. M, from
the Friends meeting house, corner of
Garden and High streets. Interment
will be made at Arney's Mount.
DIR. Joseph Stokes. of Moorestown,
with Edward H. Cutler, of Maple Shade,
and William f. Morgan, of Palmyra,
have been suggested to Governor Fielder
to be appointed as commissioners for
the building of the new Penn Memorial
Bridge from Camden to Philadelphia,
to represent Burlington county.
The funeral of William B. Wills, edi-
tor of the Mount Holly Herald, took
place from his late residence, corner of
Garden and Buttonwood streets, Thurs
day afternoon. The services were in
charge of Rev. DIR. James Stoddard, of
the Episcopal church. The remains
were inferred at Upper Springfield.
While county supervisor Of weights
and measures Edward T. Haines and
state superintendent Waldron were re-
Gently going about the county testing
the weighing devices used by druggists,
they found it necessary to condemn four
scales out of thirty-eight examined and
confiscate 27S weights out of 1874 in
spected.
The Royle & Pilkington Company
has arranged to erect new buildings to
take the place of those destroyed by fire
last summer. A large warehouse and
shipping room will be erected on the site
of the old factory, and two-story ad-
dition, 60 feet long. will be made to the
present concrete building. Walter Allen
will have charge OF the work.
Col. Thomas III. Birch, American
Minister to Portugal, one of the passen-
gers on the Fabre line ship Patria,
which arrived in New York on Friday,
has returned fora vacation until Janu-
airy at his home in Burlington. Col.
Birch said that there was a great de-
mand in Portugal for American goods.
The country, he added, had not been at
fected by the war.
The Council of Federated Churches
has announced that it will continue the
battle to make Burlington ''saloonless
city," undiscouraged by the victory Of
the swets' in maintaining majority
LOT Common Council at the recent cleo.
ton. Rev. T. J. J. Wright, pastor Of
the Broad Street M. e. Chnrch, was
elected president, succeeding Rev.
Frank Lukens. of the Presbyterian
church, and Edgar r. Sparks was re-
elected secretary.
Missing late trolley car at Beverly
and compelled to wait an hour for the
next, James Wall. of Woodbury., sat
down beside the tracks Saturday night
and fell asleep. An alert motorman saw
him as his car was nearing Perkins
lane, and applying the air brakes, stop
ped the car as the fender struck the
sleeping man. Wall was badly cut and
bruised, but escaped the wheels. He
was taken on the car to the emergency
hospital at Burlington.
There are number of cases of hog
cholera in different parts of Burlington
county. Hogs that are not already sick
can be invariably saved by injecting
them with hog cholera serum. Pork in
tended for market. which is not affected,
had better be sold if in market con-
dition. If the hogs to be kept are in
jected with the serum and the yards
kept in sanitary condition there is no
danger OF their catching the disease.
The Office of the Burlington County
Farm Bureau will be in position to Sc
cure the serum for any one at cost. The
cost of serum for each hog will be about
75 cents. Application may be made to
George 7. Reid, farm demonstrators.
The Union National Bank has an adj
vertisement in another column an
nouncing an innovation that will prove
q great convenience TO its depositors.
The institution has recently purchased
a Burroughs ledger posting machine and
by its use the old method of having
depositors turn in their pass books once
q month to be balanced, with the re-
sultant delay, will be discontinued. In
the future depositors will receive their
cancelled checks and neatly printed
statement of their account at the first OF
the month, without bringing in the pass
book. Every account is kept up-to-date
and an exact statement can be given the
customer at any time in a few minutes.
At the annual meeting of the Peoples
Building and Loan Association, held OF
Thursday evening, November IL, tn,
following officers were elected: President
William Sherman; vice president. Wal
ter /. Dill; treasurer. Edward b. Jones
secretary and solicitor, V. Claude Pal
mer. The following directors wer
chosen: Charles Coles, William c.
Wetherill, John J. Flynn, George F
Ried. Albert A. Johnson, Harry Haw
kins, IT., DIR. r. S. Clarke. V. Claude