The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-26

a regular meeting at the home OF Mis-
v Cora Stokes, on Buttonwood street, Tues
day evening, February 2.
RI Miss Tillie NJ. Russ and Chester A
'e Denning were in the list of Delanct
1t graduates from Pierce Business College
of Philadelphia, Wednesday evening.
r What the farmers of Burlington county
" think about the farm demonstration prop
~osition, will be told at a meeting in
Moorestown today by Burlington County
Pomona Grange.
A meeting for men only will be con.
e Quoted at the opera house on next Sun,
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. Subject,
1.-THE Sins that KILL" Speaker, Rev.
$ James H. Terry. Special music. All
. men are invited.
Rev. R. H. Baker, of Brooklyn, for
, mel pastor Of the Baptist church, was
) the guest of his niece. Mrs. George Adye,
Tuesday remaining until Thursday
, morning. While here he went to Phila-
delphia to hear Billy Sunday.
DR.. /. N. Keim has taken the Office of
the late DR.. w. p. Melcher, on Garden
street, and will practice medicine there.
DR.. Keim is lately of Glassboro. He was
on the staff at the Presbyterian hospital,
Philadelphia. for several years.
Mount Holly has been well represented
during the past week at the Tabernacle
meetings being held in Philadelphia by
Rev. William A. Sunday. Alarge num-
Der went down on Sunday to hear
BILLY" preach his famous sermon on
"Hot cakes right off the griddle."
Word has been received here of the
marriage of Rev. August F. A. Neudoerf-
Ter, former pastor of the Lutheran church
at Hainesport, who several years ago
gave up his pastorate there to engage in
missionary work in India. The bride is
Miss Amy B. Rohrer, of Lancaster, Pa.
DR.. o. Bell Close, representative of the
Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey, will
deliver an address at the First Baptist
church next Sunday, at 7.8O p. m. DIR.
Close is recognized as one of the best
Anti-Saloon League speakers, and al
good message is promised to all who
come.
Do not forget that Thursday will be
the date of the annual donation day at
the Mary A. Dobbins' Memorial Home.
This institution and it's labors are
well known throughout the county and
there ought to be a generous response to
the request for aid to carry on the good
work.
Some time since the Public Service
Electric Company erected poles along
the street in front of the base ball
grounds and put up a light. This was
without any warrant from the township
committee and when the company dis
covered this fact it ordered the wires cut
down and the light went out.
John Kale, 81 years old, one of the
Oldest residents of Florence, died there
Thursday at the home of his nephew,
Harry Kale, with whom he lived. He
had been ill about a year, prior to which
time he had been in excellent health.
Mr.. Kale was township assessor for a
number of years, and was prominent in
several fraternal orders.
Creditors and stockholders of Linwood
Haines, Limited, of America, have de-
posted with Trustee Davis in Camden
$4,000 as an evidence of good faith in
their offer to purchase the assets of the
bankrupt concern. They have offered
81, 500 for the assets, which are estimat-
ed to be SIG, 141. A petition has been
filed with referee OFT for the right to ac-
cept this offer, and a meeting of the
creditors has been called for February 8
to consider it.
Elizabeth, daughter of MI. and Mrs.
Ross w. Quicksall, died at the Burling-
ton County Hospital, Sunday evening.
She had been feeling badly for q few
days, having been at Sunday school the
previous Sunday. On Friday her con-
dition was such as to show symptoms of
appendicitis and she was taken to the
hospital, where she was operated upon,
but it was too late to save the little girls
life. She would have been twelve years
of age next week.
The annual meetings of the stock
holders of the Hainesport Mining and
Transportation Co. and the DeFrain
Sand Co., held January Goth, showed
both organizations to be in a fourishing
condition. The Mining Company elect
ed as directors Ct. ID. Vansciver, J. b.
Vansciver, C. B. Ballinger, Walter Mid
dleton and C. Z~iegenfuss. The DeFrain
Company selected as its directors g. d.
Vansciver, Edward B. Jones, David Jes-
ter and Earl Vansciver.
Saloons in Beverly hereafter will be
limited to one for ever 1000 inhabitants,
under an ordinance adopted by the City
Commission, as the sequel to the bitter
fight conducted by church members and
the present license holders against an
application for a new license. None of
the present three saloons is affected by
the ordinance, although the population
of the city is less than $500, but it shuts
out the danger of competitions and the
liquor dealers believe it will lessen the
antagonism of the dry faction among
the city's voters.
1t is said delays are dangerous, but
| Francis Tracy Tobin evidently thinks
| otherwise. He was arrested on a capias
to answer a suit for damages arising out
of his connection with the Murphy
murder case. Under the law he was en-
titled to 20 days in which to file his an
swer. When that period expired he was
granted an extension of 10 days, and
when that time was up he was given
five days more. This would have
brought the matter up to Saturday last
but instead of the answer being filed
Mr.. Tobin craved further extension and
he was given ten days, which will bring
the limit to the second of February.
Murphy was sentenced to be e~lectrocuted
during the week of February g..
The fast express between Mount Holly
and Medford met with an accident
Tuesday. The train was probably run
ming at its usual speed of about six miles
in about an hour, when engin-
eer Morgan found something had gone
wrong. The signals on the rear cara