The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-03-02

+. h. EmDree, manager OF the Farm
/, ers' Exchange, is on trip to Maine OF
seed potato business.
a Henry H. Cross left on Thursday TO
, California, where he has secured ar
Engineering position at Angel Camp
= near Hoslxins.
= Beverly City Commissioners have de
cided on special election for March 2;
L to decide whether or not to buy the Della
8 ware River Water Company plant.
The Young Friends Association will
e be entertained this evening by DIR. and
, Mrs. Elmer d. Prickitt at the Friends
meeting house. corner of High and Gar.
den streets.
Bishop Matthews, of the Episcopal
diocese of New Jersey, will visit st. An
drew's church, Sunday, May 8, for the
purpose of administering the rite of
confirmation.
The Baraca class of the First Baptist
Sunday school had a banner day on
Sunday. There were 100 men present.
This class has been steadily growing and
the end is not yet.
Edward b. Hulse, manager of the
Mount Holly Theatre, has removed his
residence from Washington street to the
house recently occupied by Howard E.
Alcott, on Brainard street.
Detective Parker went to Cleveland.
Ohio, on Sunday. to get Joseph Sczus'
arrested and held in that city on a
charge of robbery at Roebling recently.
The man is now in jail here.
C. L. Kuen has purchased the property
adjoining the Mount Holly cemetery,
formerly used as a poultry farm. 1t has
not been in active use for some time,
and Mr.. Kuen expects to engage in rails
ing poultry.
At the Opera House, at 3.45 Sunday
afternoon, March 14th. under the
auspices of the local Y. M. c. A. George
Long, of the Inasmuch Mission, will
speak to the men OF Mount Holly on
Twice Born Men,"
William B. Crozier has rented a large
room in the Auditorium theatre build
ing, Burlington. and is conducting a
pool room there. 1t is being managed
by Thomas C. Alcott, of Mount Holly,
who will remove to Burlington.
Harvey 8. Lewis is moving to-day
from the George Haines farm between
Mount Holly and Burlington to the d.
Budd Coles farm near Lumberton, va
Gated by N. Eckard Austin, who will
hereafter live on his own farm near
Eayrestown.
The seventy-ninth session of the New |
Jersey annual Conference of the Method |
list Episcopal church will convene at
st. Paul's M. E. church, Atlantic City, |
tomorrow morning for week. The
opening sermon will be preached tonight |
by Bishop Henderson.
Davis were in New Orleans, last week,
taking dispositions to be used in the |
case of William s. Fryer against the
Mount Holly Water Company. The
men whose testimony was wanted were
connected with the New Jersey Board
of Health when the water was analy zed.
The Rev. DR.. ]. III. Payran, pastor OF
the Bridgeboro Methodist Church and
Oldest clergyman in New Jersey Confer
ence, was unable because of illness to
occupy his pulpit on Sunday at the
last service prior to his retirement from
the active ministry. He has been in
poor health for several months.
On Wednesday the dead body of
man found two days before along the
road from Goose Pond to Tabernacle,
was identified as being J. Barry, young
man who escaped from the Blackwood
asylum, Camden county. He evidently (
had frozen to death. Coroner Worrell,
who made the investigation in the case,
found relatives in Camden who took
charge of the body. X
A horrible example of the results of /.
children to have air rifles was
exemplified last week, when the four I
year-old son of Edward E. Holeman, of I
Wilmington, DEL, formerly of Mount
Holly, lost an eye by being struck by q {
bullet from one of the rifles. He was on ]
the piazza of his home when boy
across the street shot at him, with the
above result.
When postmaster Cowperthwait retires
from Office, which will be about the first
Of April, he will become bookkeeper and
assistant cashier of the Mount Holly &
National Bank, taking the position now
held by John HI. Dobbins, who will be
retired on a pension. The Office of vice
president will be abolished, and Albert {
N. Dobbins, who now holds that Office,
will be advanced to the presidency,
which has been occupied by George M.
Hillman, and who will relinquish in favor 4
of Mr.. Dobbins.
Bids for resurfacing roads were opened
by the committees of the Board of Free
holders yesterday. There were several
bidders, but the lowest was Paul ]. Sny-j i:
der, of Philadelphia, whose figures were
as follows: Burlington to Bowne's cor
ner, $40, 909.13; Columbus to Borden
town, $18, 1854; Bordentown to Cross
wicks, 81, 1926; Masonville to Moores-
town, $14, so; Medford to Coates cor
ner, 81, 867.13. Two firms bid on the
entire work. J. L. LeCompte, Lake
wood, bid $S2, 630. %, and Paul ]. Snyder
bid $40, 9SS.17. These bids will be pre-
scented to the board tomorrow.
The publication of the actions of men
supposed to be hanging around Mount
Holly for mysterious purposes appears
to have had the effect of getting the
fellows out of town, as they have not
been seen here since the middle of last
week. Chief of Police Prickitt got busy
on the job, and besides giving his officers
instructions in the matter he made it q
personal affair and did some investigat-
ing on his own account. There have
been two other men who have been act
ing in way to cause people to WON
der what their business has been, and it
is said this will probably be made clear
when the next grand jury meets.
William Thorn, of Browns Mills, |
who is said to be the owner of the auto |
mobile that exceeded the speed limit in |
Mount Holly recently, has been sum-