The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1915
LOCAL NEWS.
he Mount Holly Fair opens TO-DAY

LOCAL NEWS.
The Mount Holly Fair opens to-day
Miss Elizabeth Burtis of Union stree
has been appointed teacher at the Bur
ker Hill school,
Hon. f. A. Higbee, of Atlantic City
VIII be the orator at the memorial SCI
vice of Mount Holly Lodge of Elks OIL
Sunday, December s.
A lodge OF instruction for the 1871
Masonic district, WINS held in the Masoni
Temple last night by grand instructo
Henry 8. Haines, Of Burlington.
Harvey F. Murdoch has secured {
position with the Victor Talking
Maching Company. of Camden, and en-
tered upon his new duties yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Wilcox was presented
with handsome diamond ring on Tues
day night by the members Of her Bible
class Of the Presbyterian Sunday school.
The circulating library of the Burling-
ton County Lyceum win change its
hours on Monday next, and viii be open
in the afternoons from two until five
o'clock.
st. Andrews Church has bought from
the Benjamin w. Zelly estate, the frame
building and lot of ground adjoining the
church and in the rear of the zelley Office
building.
Tsoao cx,xa<1Iax1 xrl,o Vvorirc for Tont,,x,
Bros, at Cream Ridge, has right to
think himself the champion straw baler
of this vicinity. He baled in one week,
working So hours, SIS bales Of straw
Loring 8. Borton, who has conducted
astationery and wall paper business in
Burlington for several years. has out
grown his present quarters, and will
shortly remove to the building In that
city recently occupied by the post Office
Rev. Lewis b. Hart will have charge
of the Presbyterian church Sunday
next. The Woman's Home Missionary
Society will resume it's work tomorrow
at 3 p. m. Prayer meeting tomorrow
evening at 7.45, to be in charge of r. A.
Semple, Jr.
The list OF unclaimed mail remaining
at the post Office is as follows: Mrs. Mary
Carney, Miss Sarah Haas, Mrs. Maud |
Hortsman, William Fisher, Mrs. Harry |
Danley, Josie Anderson, Henry Reeves
Walter Griffee, Mrs. William Hewitt.
Maurice Roberts and family, OF near
Columbus. will remove to Mount Holly |
about November /, and occupy the e. /
bertson property at the corner of Broad |
street and Mount Holly avenue, soon TO
be vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. David |
Gross, who will live in Philadelphia.
Word was received on Saturday by
Rev. Joseph L. Surtees that his Oldest
son, Robert E., who is member of the /
18th Canadian Rife Regiment, would
leave Calgary, Western Canada, this
morning for unknown parts in the war
zone in Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford E. Budd, of
Pemberton, haYe issued invitations for
the wedding OF their daughter, Miss
Ethel C. Budd, and William H. Heisler.
Jf., at the Methodist church, Pemberton,
ON Wednesday evening, October 20. at
six o'clock. A reception at the home of
the brides parents will follow the cere-
mony.
During the political campaign which
closed with the primary election of Tues
day the trees and telephone poles about
town became veritable picture galleries
of candidates announcements and por-
traits, and the result was far from pleas
ing. The handsome trees in front OF
the county buildings were especially dis
figured in this manner.
The copt house was used Sunday
morning for Sunday school session in
charge of w. A. Thornton. This is one
OF the results OF the late unpleasantness
in the Presbyterian church which result
ed in Rev. Frank WiIlcock relinquishing
active duties in the church. Those who
attended the new Sunday school are
said to be adherents of Rev. Mr.. Will
cock.
driven by Charles Sanderson and an
other car occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Stevenson Saturday night, the
former auto was badly wrecked. Sander
son and Clarence Nixon, riding with
him at the time, escaped with minor
INJURIES. The accident occurred on the
Jacksonville road, near the Masonic
Home, as the car endeavored to pass on
q narrow road.
When coming from the Trenton fair
grounds Saturday, George Dennis had
mishap. He had a sack of oysters in the
car and it was pressing against little
boy and in attempting to arrange mat
tiers Dennis lost control of his car and it
turned turtle, breaking the top and cut
ting the boys wrist. There were two
colored women in the car and the report
is that one of them had her eye
5lacked."
Ralph Whitman left yesterday for
Davenport, Iowa, where he will attend
the Palmer College of Chiropratic. Mr..
Whitman expects to be away for year4
The length of the course is eighteen
months, but as he has been studying
under his father, John E. Whitman, and
brother, William U. Whitman, the latter
being established at Newark, his know
ledge of the profession requires him to
attend only year.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Naylor, who since
July 1st have grieved over the myster-
ious disappearance Of their son, Ralph,
aged IS years, have asked the police and
public to give them assistance in their
efforts to locate him, having exhausted
every means known to them. He was
employed by the Lumberton Shoe Com
pany, and on the day of his disappear
ance he went to work at the usual time
and worked until noon, when he left
Lumberton in the direction of Eayres-
town and since has concealed himself