The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-23
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Harvey A. Worrell is now employees
at Bridgeton.
Franklin Gauntt, of Burlington, wa
calling on Mount Holly friends on Thurs
day.
Rancocas Grange will hold its annua
meeting for the election Of officers to-
morrow afternoon.
The Junior Chautauqua winter clui
will meet thfs afternoon in the higt
school auditorium.
Rev. s. Harper Leeper, a former pas
tor, occupied the pulpit of the Presby
terrain church on Sunday.
A supper was held in the Masonic
Temple on Friday and Saturday nights
for the benefit Of the Unionville Sunday
school.
Local druggists have agreed to close
their stores from one to five o'clock on
the afternoons of Thanksgiving, Christ
mas and New Years days.
James M. Mecray, of Maple, Shade.
has 6led q petition in bankruptcy at
Trenton. The liabilities are placed at
IS, 105.4 as. with assets Of $183.
James Dolan. formerly connected with
the Interstate Telephone Company.
has secured work id the electrical de-
partment Of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The monthly meetingo of the Woman s
League was held on Tuesday. The visit
ing nurse reported having made fifty
i've visits, forty-eight of which were free.
The unoccupied tenant house on the
James Lippincott farm on the north
Pemberton road was destroyed by fire of
unknown origin about midnight on
Tuesday.
Earl Page. Of the Lakanoo Canoe
Club, Burlington, probably holds the
record for distance canoeing, having
padded q total Of l ,455 miles since jan
uary. first.
Next Sunday will be observed as
American Mechanics day all over the
state. The members OF Washington
Council will attend services at the Bap-
tist church.
A small blaze at Alfred Wolfrom' 3
barn on West Washington street called
out the fire department on Wednesday,
but the FIRE was ext;nguished before the
arrival of the firemen.
The senior class Of the Mount Holly
high school will give Thanksgiving
dance in the Masonic Temple to-mor-
row night. The high school teachers
will act as patronesses of the affair.
The International Poultry Sales Com
pany at Browns Mills, received an order
last week for one thousand White Leg
horn hens from the president of Cuba.
The price is said to have been $2.25 per
hen.
Camp No. SO, P. O. of A., will hold a
masquerade party in the Kelsey & Killie
building tomorrow night. An admis-
sion fee Of ten cents will be charged.
and prizes will be awarded for the most
comical and best dressed persons.
Under the new law all motor vehicle
licenses must be changed on the first
day Of January. 1916. Walter T. Stewart
gives notice that he, with all other
agents. will be prepared on the first day
of December, to issue the 1916 licenses.
At . congregational meeting of the
Methodist church held on Wednesday
night, Nathan Miller was elected lay
delegate, and Morris X. Perinchief, alter
nate, to attend the annual Laymen's
Electoral Conference to be held at
Asbury Park in March.
In order to raise funds for the payment
of the expense Of improving the interior
Of the M. Z. church, the societies con-
nected with the church are using various
methods. Recently Mrs. Reeve Stewart
gave'a supper at her home on Washing
ton street, at which over 500 was cleared.
Herbert R. Smith has been elected re-
cording secretary of Washington Coun-
Gil No. 5, Jr. o. U. A. M, succeeding
Harvey A. Worrell. resigned. Charles
T. Shreve was elected his assistant in
place OF ]. Harold Worrell. who expects
to move to Collingswood in the near
future.
The frame and concrete house Of the
Masonville Fire Company was destroyed
by fire early Wednesday morning. The
fire apparatus was saved. The America
auto chemical was sent down, but ar
rived too late to be Of much assistance.
1t Is not known how the fire started. A
meeting Of the company was held in the
building the night before.
A dance was to have been given in the
hall at Jobstown. Thursday night, but
the managers called it off owing to 1.-THE
inability to get satisfactory music. .
Either all Of the numerous musicians in
the county and out of it must have had
extensive engagements for that evening,
or else the management'sideals of 'satis-
factory music" must be quite exalted.
Considerable business has been trans
acted at the Surrogate's Office recently.
Among the wills probated the following
are OF local interest: Will of Susan Nc.
Sorley. Mount Holly, executor, Harry
Hawkins. Jr.. personal property $1,000;
will OF Adeline E. Palmer. Mount
Holly, executrix, Laura J. ID. Urling
will Of Joseph Darby, Mount Holly, exc
cutor, James w. Cardwell. Letters OF
administration have been issued to Levi,
G.. Schumacher in the estate of Mary
Greenwald. Mount Holly, personal prop
erty. $4,000.
Representatives from twenty-four o
the thirty-five fire companies in Bur
lington county met on Wednesday nigh
at the home OF Relief Fire Company al
Moorestown, and organized the Burling-
ton County Firemen's Association. Th'
following officers were elected President
Evan F. Benners, Moorestown; secretary
William 8. Ginglen, Bordentown; treas
urer, Albert NG. Mayer, Mount Holly
Another meeting will be held on Decem
Der ID, in Mount Holly. The object o
the organization is to combine will
similar organizations in other south Jer
sew counties in all matters of interest Il
the firemen OF this section at the stat
conventions. The presidents of the Cam
den and Gloucester county association
were present and made addresses.
The beginning of the winter Lyceun
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