The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-02-23

ed street, entertained a number of younI
friends last evening at a s~almagund
ii party.
8. Announcement Is made of the en-
gagement of John w. Price, son of Mr.
re and Mrs. Thomas w. Price, of the Bur
lie lington County Hospital, and Miss Mus,
Burtis.
ri AS a result of the cake sale held by
d the Woman's League, last week, q pair,
of overshoes were provided for the pupils
of a school in one of the country dis
= tricts and S. were handed to the shoe
fund of the Mount Holly school.
The boys of the Mount Holly Gram
n mar school had a game of basket bal
o with the Medford Grammar school team,
in the gymnasium of the High school
here, Saturday afternoon. Mount Holly
was victorious by the score Of 10 to 13.
Edward B. Hulse has secured the film
Iof "The Christian" which was shown
q here recently, and which has been on
the stage in Philadelphia since that
time. and he will exhibit it in the Mount
Holly theatre on Thursday evening OF
next week.
Robert s. Gaskill is at Atlantic City.
He reports that the number of visitors
there on Saturday and Sunday exceeded
/, all previous February records. All the
beach front hotels were 70 crowded that
applicants for accommodations had to be
turned away.
Detective Parker was called to Florence
Sunday morning to look into a robbery.
About half-past four there was a loud
explosion at the Acme store and it was
found the safe had been blown open and
SIG stolen. The burglars took a lot Of
trading stamps, but they threw them
away between Florence and Roebling.
None of the goods in the store were dis
turbed.
After an illness of just a week Ella
g. Rogers, wife of Willard II. Rogers.
died yesterday morning at her home
near Mount Holly. Mrs. Rogers came
home from Philadelphia on Monday of
last week suffering with q severe cold
which developed into pneumonia. On
the day previous she sang In the Baptist
choir and appeared to be In excellent
health.
Petitions to have the full crew law re-
pealed are being circulated and are being
signed by a large number of citizens.
The petitions are to be presented to the
Legislature, to show that the public
favors the repeal of the law. Isaac H.
Wainwright, of the engineering depart
ment OF the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
in town on Friday. securing many
signatures.
The moon this month, is to be strictly
temperance, and will not be full once.
This has been the case every Febt lry
since 1847. To make up for it, however,
it was full twice in January and will be
in the same condition twice in March.
A peculiar coincidence in connection
with the two months named is that the
moon was full on the first and last days
of January, and will be full on the same
days in March.
The funeral of Joshua M. Reeves took
place from the residence of his brother.
Morgan Reeves, on Pine street, Tuesday
afternoon. Deceased was one of the
members of the military company here
during its early life and he was given a
funeral with military honors. He was
also a great lover of children and the
little folks showed their appreciation Of
many kind acts he did for them by at
tending his funeral in large numbers.
Instead of publishing the annual re-
port of receipts and expenditures in the
newspapers, the Township Committee Of
Northampton has decided to avail them
selves OF the law which allows the pub
fishing to be done in pamphlet FORM
The committee feels that as much pub
licity can be obtained by this method as
by the other and the expense will be re-
duced considerably. Bids were asked
for the work and the contract was
awarded to the Herald. /,
The Pennsylvania and Atlantic Rail
road Company will nave its principal
Offices at Seaside Park. This company /
is the recently formed to take over
and consolidate the Philadelphia and
Long Branch railroad, Pembertcn and
Hightstown road, and the Kinkora
branch line. 1t is generally understand !
that it wa through the persuasive ,
|~eloquence of former Judge Joseph H..
Gaskill, of counsel for the Pennsylvania 1
Railroad. and a staunch Seaside Park {
boomer. that that town was selected as
the chief office of the company, over the
many other places that might have
wanted the honor.
The tickets for the coming recital by
Miss Ethelynde Smith. of Portland, |,
Maine, at the First Presbyterian church,
are going well. Miss Smith and her &C
companist are both artists of rare merit
and they will undoubtedly furnish an
evening of great pleasure to all who are
fortunate enough to hear them. They
will enjoy as a distinct advantage the
use of q magnificent new Schumacher
piano, which has just been purchased
for the church through the generosity of
the Bible school and the Woman's Guild.
This recital will occur in the church
auditorium on Thursday evening next
at eight o'clock.
There were ten persons received into
full membership of the Methodist
church on Sunday morning, two persons
baptised and one received on probation.
At the evening service two young men
were received on probation. Large
audiences were present at both services,
| especially in the evening. when Rev. 7.
j. ]. Wright preached a mastery sermon
on the subject 1.-THE man without an
excuse" 1t was estimated that the con-
gregation present at the latter service
would have more than filed any other
building in town, but in the large audi
torium of the church they were comfort
ably seated. The attendance at the
Sunday school was a trifie larger than
usual. there being nearly 300 present, |
the exact figures being 29O, with several
new scholars. Six new members were
added to the mems Bible class. Next
Sunday being the last Sunday before