The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-30
LOCAL NEWS.

Christmas and New Year fall Q
Saturday.
A six-room bungalow is being erecte
on Shreve street.
Company E will attend a review an
dance in the Camden armory on Frida
night.
John w. Archer has purchased prof.
erty on Water street from Mary
Easton.
The petit jury has been summoned I
be at the court house next Monday
try criminal cases.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Clark, who hav
been farming near Medford. have re
moved to Mount Holly.
There will be initiation at the meetin,
Of Washington Camp No. II, P. o. 8. O
A., on Thursday night.
The interior OF the Mount Holly Ma
tional Bank is being re-decorated and
the vault is to be re-equipped.
About $50 was realized from the bazaa
held by the Queen Esther Circle of thu
NJ. E. church, in the Union fire hsus'
on Saturday.
The annual meeting of the Burlington
County Farmers Exchange will b
held st the court house ON Saturday
December IL.
Farm demenstrator George T. Reid
has rented the residence on Union
street about to be vacated by the family
of Harvey Burtis.
Miss Ethel M. Burr, Of Moorestown. a
former teacher in the local high school,
is q member Of the chorus OF the Phila-
delphia Orchestra this season.
The forty-first annual meeting OF the
New Jersey State horticultural Society
opened at Freehold to-day, and will con-
tinue tomorrow and Thursday.
A meeting OF the Burlington County
Firemen's Association, recently organ
lied at Moorestown. will be held in
Mount Holly on Wednesday evening,
December Is.
Sioux City, Iowa, where she will make
her home with her son. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred M. Anderson have rented the
Union street property she vacated.
William B. ~Kumpf has accepted a
position as travelling salesman with the
Simmons Hardware Company, OF Phila-
delphia. His brother. Fred B. Kumpf,
will enter the Kumpf hardware store.
On Saturday evening of this week at
o'clock, an illustrated lecture on 1.-THE
History Of the English Bible" will be
delivered in st. Andrews Sunday school
under the auspices of the Mems Bible
class.
The matter Of forming Burlington
County Game Protective Association is
under confederation, and Henry /.
Worrell will be glad to hear from sports
men who would like to become menu
bers.
While playing at the public school
one day last week Thomas Alcott, son
Of tax collector Howard Alcott, jumped
from . window on the first floor OF the
building and quite painfully sprained
an ankle.
The estate Of Paulina Dreas has sold
two properties on Madison avenue to
residents OF Hainesport. Theodore H.
Vansciver bought one for 81 300, and the
other was purchased by William L. Ell
singer for 81, 200.
The Court OF Pardons met at Trenton
for organization, last week, and an
nounced that the list OF applicants for
clemency contained the names Of 1923
convicts. In 80 cases the applicants are
In prison for murder.
Petty thieves are again operating in
Medford. Two more houses have again
been entered. Mrs. Beulah K Haines
had quantity of eatables stolen and
the residence of the late Sarah b. Engle
was also broken into but nothing stolen.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety OF the Methodist church has elect
ed these officers: President, Mrs. Charles
H. Crammer; vice president, Mrs. Henry
/. Budd; treasurer. Miss Emma Zelley;
recording and corresponding secretary,
Miss Myrtle E. Smith.
During the bazaar held in the Union
fire house, Saturday afternoon. Miss
Amy Lippfncott fell from chair on
which she was standing to reach an OBJ
ject, and painfully injured her left side,
causing her to be confined to her bed a
few days. Fortunately no bones were
broken.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage OF w. Victor Long, of Mount
Holly. and Mrs. Addie Pine, of Lumber
ton, which took place at Burlington on
November II. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. I. J. J. Wrights Mr..
and Mrs. Long will reside at Lumberton
at present.
Lewis Curtis, whose home is near Ar.
ney's Mount, was taken to the Burling-
ton County Hospital, Sunday. suffering
nth paralysis, which affected him from
the waist down, he having no control
whatever of his legs. The trouble is the
result of Mr.. Curtis falling from his
wagon, which was loaded with stalks,
the wheels of the vehicle passing over
him. The accident occurred on Satur-
day.
The local Shade Tree Commission has
decided to act in the cases of property
owners on High and Washington streets
who have paid no attention to the notice
sent out some time ago by the Commits
sion that they set out trees. In all such
cases the work will be done by the Com
mission and charged to the property
owner, the ordinance under which the
commission acts giving them that
power.
On application made by Reese v,
Hicks, receiver of the international
Poultry Sales Company, OF Browns
Mills, the Hover Incubator Manufac.
turing Company. operated in connection
with the poultry business, has beer
thrown into receivership. Chancellor
Walker has numed William A. W'iffsog
of Mount Holly, as temporary recei
The rule is returnable at Trenton to-dss
and it is expected that the. feceivershiI
will be made permanent.
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