The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-05-04
LOCAL NEWS.

on Ridgway street and one on Wat
street.
Edward Hack has purchased three o
Town canoes which will be added to b
livery list.
Daniel Sutter, Jr., has sold Chalme
automobiles to DIR. r. Fl. Parsons ar
Mrs. Amos Gibbs.
Mount Holly Lodge of Moose will no
an important meeting tonight, and
large attendance il desired.
Bishop Paul Mathews will administ
the rite of confirmation at st. Andrew
church next Sunday morning.
The Moorestown Orthodox Friend
have contributed "a, 800 to the fund Il
the relief Of the European war sufferer
The next regular meeting of the w.
T. U. will be held at the g. A. r. Pos
rooms, Tuesday afternoon, May IL, at
o'clock.
Mount Holly Forest of Tall Cedars @
Lebanon will hold ceremonial session
in the Masonic Temple on Tuesda,
night. May IL.
The Great Council OF Red Men con
venes at Paterson this week. Poca
hontas Tribe, Of Mount Holly, is bein,
represented by John Throckmorton. Sr.
During the thunder storm on Thurs
day night. one Of the large trees in thu
Friends meeting house yard at Higt
and Garden streets was struck by light
ming.
John A. Carr, the oldest citizen o.
Bordentown. celebrated his Goth birth
day on Tuesday. Mr.. Carr has foul
children living, one being Mrs. Joseph
r. Gillian, of Mount Holly.
The Mount Holly grammar school
pupils will repeat the little play. "Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs," in the
high school auditorium on May IA. 1t
was successfully given a few months
ago.
Three tennis courts have been laid out
In the rear of the court house grounds,
for the use of the grammar school pupils
Much of the work was done by the
children uuder the direction OF Miss
Anna Harris and Miss Eleanor Kahn.
William g. Morgan, engineer on the
Pennsylvania railroad. who has been in
the house for some time with rheuma-
tism and other ailments, paid his first
visit up town on Thursday, and he hopes
to soon be able to again take charge of
his engine.
George A. Linton is organizing base
ball team to be known as the Brown
Park team. Grounds on Brown street,
in the neighborhood of King and Water
streets, are being put in shape, and it is
hoped the first game may be played on
the 22d Of this month.
Burlington county people who regis
tered at the New Jersey building at the
Panama Exposition during the week OF
April 10. were Spencer Shook and Rich
ard Satterthwaite, of Edgewater Park;
Mrs. d. 8. Garwood and ]. Smith Hen
Erickson, Of Mount Holly.
The township committee has appoint
ed Constable Harry Eddleman as deputy
collector to collect unpaid taxes on per.
sonal property for the year 1913 There
are about one hundred unpaid bills, and
the committee has decided to enforce
the law to its utmost in order to collect
this money.
Announcement was m ade Saturday of
another change of ownership of the Bur
lington Enterprise. The journal was
taken over last fall by company Of At
lantic City men, composed of Tuttle C.
Walker. Arthur G. Walker, William C.
Little and William f. Jennings, who
relinquished ownership May LIST, and the
title reverts to 1. Snowden Haines, the
former owner.
The New Jersey Tribune, Toms River
10 now edited and published by Nathan
Everline. formerly of Mount Holly, who
during recent years has been employed
In the Office Of the Newark Nesos. Mr.. |
Everline served his apprenticeship in
THE News Office, Mount Holly, and was
. competent and industrious printer.
We hope and believe he will succeed in
his new field Of work.
In the high school auditorium on Fri
day evening, Professor Enoch Perrine,
of Buckneil University, Lewisburg, Pa,
will deliver lecture on John Woolman.
Professor Perrine has made considerable
research into the life of John Woolman,
who was one of the early settlers in
Mount Holly. The lecture will be free,
and it is hoped there will be large au-
dience present to listen to what may be
told about John Woolman.
Good Intent Fire Company, of Mount
Holly, is making efforts to raise money
for the purchase of automobile pump
ing engine, which is the latest and best
type of fire-fighting apparatus. The
pump has capacity of 500 gallons of
water minute, and the machine will
have q compartment for carrying 1000
feet Of hose and will be fitted with 90
gallon chemical tank, ladders, etc. The
cost of the outfit is about $1,000.
Important changes affecting the use of
Communication tickets in New Jersey have
been announced by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, under advice of the
Public Utility Commission. Hereafter
conductors will honor any uncanceled
square or block on a Communication tick
ct though such square or block is sur
rounded by cancellations. Heretofore,
If the ferry collectors skipped block it
was void, under the rule of the company,
that required conductors to punch the
next block after the last ferry or con-
ductor's cancellation. Thousands of
rides have thus been forfeited and the
company quickly saw the injustice of
the rule.
At the meeting of the Court of Par
dons, last week. the following Burling-
ton county prisoners were released on
parole: Frank Horner, Delanco, assault
ing wife, sentenced March 5. 1914, to one
to three years; Edward Wilbur, Spring
field, assault with intent to kill, sen
fenced May 8. 1912, to three to twelve
years; Harry Bowker, Juliustown, as
sault and battery, sentenced January 5,
1914, to one and half to seven years
Thomas Cawley, Cookstown, stealing
chickens from Storey Harker, sentenced
Nav 8, 1911, to three to six years; Viii