The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-04-13

u The Good Intent steamer was given
trial last evening at the corner of Gard
:, and Risdon streets.
In order to end the litigation in refs
!, ence to the Florence Iron Works, Il
It plant will be sold next Thursday.
William Milligan, of Mount Hol
Il avenue, will soon remove his family
: the Greenwald property on Garde
street.
James Cauley, of Bordentown, W,
painfully injured yesterday as the r
! suit of being hit by an iron bucket viii
unloading car of coal in scow.
The river and harbor bill, passed b
congress, included appropriations as 70
. lows: Absecon inlet, $4,000; Raccoo
creek, 5000; Tuckerton creek, $1,000.
James Mercer Davis, corner of Garde
and Buttonwood streets, has had a pc
ton Of the front porch of his propert
rebuilt and the foundations strengthen
ed.
: Rev. Joseph L. Surtees will be one {
the speakers at the 5Oth anniyersar
J celebration of the Central Methods
Episcopal church, Trenton, next Mon
day evening.
/ The announcement is made of tn
marriage of Harley Shemeley, Jr., an,
Miss Frances Glazier, both of Noun
Holly. The ceremony was performed a
New Egypt on Friday.
Revival services are being held in tht
Eayrestown school house every nigh
this week, to conclude next Sunday
night. The services are being conduct
ed by Mrs. Annie Cassidy, Philadel
phia evangelist.
The Toms River Board of Education
has decided by unanimous vote to elimi-
nate flowers at the high school COM
mencement, to discontinue the reading
Of essays by graduates, and to introduce
the use Of caps and gowns.
County superintendent Stees was in
his Office yesterday for the first time in
a week, having been ill with the grip.
He was to have been one of the speakers
at the dedication of the Moorestown
high school building, but was sick in
bed at that time.
Picking pimple, which became in
fected and caused blood poisoning, John
johnson, 46 years old, died yesterday in
terrible agony at his home on Mill road,
near Burlington. Infection is thought
to have come from an old pair of gloves
which Johnson had worn while cleaning
his horse.
The Vineland training school brass
band gave remarkably fine concert in
the high school auditorium, Mount
Holly. on Friday night. The selections
were of good character and the rendi-
ton was surprisingly excellent. Some
of the musicians are artists of great
ability. All who attended were highly
graitified and much pleased with the en-
tire programme.
Assembly bill 321 has been signed by
the Governor. 1t is an amendment to
the Chancellor-Sheriff Jury law, and
provides for the drawing of thirty-five
names for the grand jury, and permitting
the Supreme Court Justice to strike from
the list those who are unable to serve,
and that the first twenty-three names
drawn shall act as grand jurors. 1t also
provides that the mmissioner's term of
office shall expire with the sheriff.
There will be an illustrated lecture in
the auditorium of the high school on
Friday evening at eight o'clock, which
will be free and to which the public is
invited. The speaker will be Professor
of New Brunswick, and his
subject will be safety First" Professor
VanBrunt is very pleasing talker and
his lecture will be worth hearing and the
that will be thrown on the
screen will be worth seeing.
The Prudential Insurance Company
has just closed two weeks special effort
in New Jersey in which all previous re-
cords were broken with total writing
Of over five million dollars ordinary in
Out of about $50 assistant SUI
in the state, Charles E.
Hansbury, with his Mount Holly staff,
captured first place with total of
s128, 900, and out of about 1000 agents
in the state agent johnson Oatman, Jr.,
IF Mount Holly, took second place with
4 personal writing of $45,50O.
c. 8. Beckwith, connected with the
state sntomologist's staff of New Bruins
wick, has been spending few days at
Point Pleasant inspecting conditions
along the coast for the purpose of plan
ming his work of mosquito extermina-
ton in Ocean county. Mr.. Bechwith has
at his disposal appropriations from the
state and county amounting to $1,000,
which he is to spend between Point
Pleasant and Manahawkin. Mr.. Beck
with is confident that the mosquito nuis-
ance in that vicinity can readily be
abated through little systematic trench
ing of the marsh lands.
Philadelphia detectives, Thursday
night, arrested two men who are thought
to have been connected with the murder
Of three persons in New York, recently.
The murder was committed with a
butchers cleaver, and in the room where
the two men were captured were two of
those implements, together with other
articles which seemed to connect them
with the murder. One of the men gave
the name of William Cummings, SO
years Of age, residence Mount Holly.
The newspaper which recorded the arrest
states that the Mount Holly police were
communicated with to ascertain whether
the man had given the correct name,
but none of the police seem to have
heard anything about the matter. De-
tective Parker thinks Cumming is a
man who has been here on several
charges under di fferent name.
Rev. DIR. Moffett Dead.
The Rev. DIR. William w. Moffett,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church