The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-03-16

Walter II. Mason and family hav
moved into their recently purchase
home on Union street.
| A baby boy arrived in the family
d Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Eddleman, {
Brainard street, last week.
| Baker Sharp left last week for Chicago
where he will join his brother William
who is in business in that city.
i J. J. Fenstermacher has sold the prof.
erty No. % Budd street, owned by San
uel Matthias, to Mary Hoffman.
i Isaac Wilson delivered very fine SCI
mon to q good-sized audience at th
Friends meeting house on Thursda
night.
/ Court No. 2, Improved Order of Fo
esters, initiated fourteen candidates O
Tuesday night. The work was in charg
of q degree team from Camden.
The religious wave that seems to
sweeping over the country has reache
Marlton. Forty persons, chiefly youn
men, have recently joined the Methods
church there.
E. w. Esham has begun the erection
of one-story frame addition to the An
kokas Canoe Club building ON Mil
street. The new structure will be use'
for canoe storage.
There will be cake and bread sale Oh
Saturday afternoon, March 20, begin
ming at 2.8O. by the Women's Guild o
the Presbytern Church, at No. AZ Mair
street, formerly occupied by the Y. M
C. A.
A novelty shower and party was giver
to Miss Ethel Throckmorton, of Church
street, and Roy Watson of Riverside
by their friends on Friday evening. The
affair took place on the first floor Of
Red Mems building.
Sam Lee, the Mill street laundryman,
has decided to take trip to China, and
will leave in about two weeks. He has
transferred his business to his cousin. -
Sam says he may be gone year, but be
is going toIcome back again.
Unclaimed mail remaining In the post
office for the week ending March 13 is
as follows: Letters-Miss Isabella Perry,
Miss A. Powell. Ira Bowker, A. r. Bow
ker. Cards--H. r. Baker, DIR. B. E.
Gamble, G. C. Hess, Miss Mary Martin.
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post No. 26, @. A.
r., of Mount Holly, was visited by a
large delegation from the Burlington
Grand Army Post on Friday evening.
The affair was an enjoyable one. Re-
freshments were served at the close of
the meeting.
George Long, of the Inasmuch mis-
sion, Philadelphia, delivered an interest
ing address to large gathering of men
In the opera house Sunday afternoon.
The meeting was held under the auspices
of the local Y. M. c. A. Sc men arose
and expressed their desire to live
Christian lives.
Rev. T. J. J. Wright, who was trans
ferred to the Broad street M. E. church,
Burlington, from Mount Holly, by the
annual Conference, last week, occupied
that pulpit on Sunday and capacity
turned out to greet him,
and they are greatly pleased with their
new pastor.
Robert Street is erecting on Washing
ton street what he terms q bungalow
lunch counter" Hewill have it arrang.
ed for the sale of quick lunches, ice
cream, soda water and the like, and it
will also be large enough to hold some Of
the meetings that occasionally are held
in that locality. If the present inten-
tons are not carried ont the bungalow is
SO arranged that it can quickly be trans
formed into a six-room dwelling.
Musicians well known here will par
ticipate in the concert at the High School
auditorium on Thursday evening of next
week. They are Miss Elizabeth M. Eek
man, pianist and accompanies; Miss
Mary r. Hewitt, violinist; Stephen A..
Hewitt, 'cellist, and Miss E. Dorothy
Hynson, a soprano soloist in the choir Of
the Church of the Holy Communion.
Philadelphia. Trios and piano, violin,
cello and vocal solos are included in the
excellent program to be presented. Buy
tickets at Boyce's.
Large audiences greeted Rev. Joseph
L. Surtees, the newly appointed pastor
of the Mount Holly M. E. church, on
Sunday, and he impressed his hearers
very favorably, and there is every indi-
cation that the members of the congre-
cation will come to regard him with the
same deep feeling of friendship that has
characterized their feeling toward Rev.
T. ]. J. Wright. Mr.. Surtees will move
to Mount Holly tomorrow. Rev. T. J.
J. Wright will move to Burlington to-
morrow morning.
At his own request, and In accordance
with his desire expressed year ago, Rev.
DR.. w. w. Moffett was relieved of the
responsibility of the pastorate of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Prince
ton. after very faithful service of eleven
years. At the meeting of the New Jer-
sey Conference in Atlantic City, DR.
Moffett was appointed to the pastorate
of the Methodist church at Kingston,
and will move with his family to begin
his work at the old town on the Kings
highway, the founding Of which, by the
way, antedates that of Princeton.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
disputing the right of the Public Utility
Commission of New Jersey to refuse Il
sanction an increase in passenger fares
has announced tsintention of appealing
to the courts. Commuters, on the othe
hand, are encouraged by the decision o
the State authorities, and are aiming t,
force still futher concessions from tn
railroads by demanding reduction G
fares across State lines. To this end
commuters of New Jersey, Pennsylva
mia, Maryland and the District Of Colum
bia. will file joint complaint with tn
Interstate Commerce Commission.
At q dinner at the Elks' Home, OF
"Wednesday evening, Postmaster Cowpel
thwait entertained some postal Official
and friends. The out-of-town guesi
were: Chief inspector J. 7. Cortelyo
land inspector James HI. Wardle, {
Philadelphia; inspector w. P. Brigham
of Trenton; Harry Bacharach. of Altar
tic City; Maurice B. Comfort, of Moore
town; w. Herbert Willis, of Smithvill
Harry 7. Allen, of Vincentown; JOSEF
s.. Swain, of Bordentown, and Ea