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


on Thursday Thanksgiving morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jervis s. Zelley cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary Of their
wedding on November 10.
Henry d. Culin left last week for
visit to the San Francisco fair and other
places on the Pacific coast.
E. w. Esham, the contractor, has be-
gun the work of erecting residence on
Madison avenue for Eckford N. Watson.
The Mount Holly schools will close for
the Christmas vacation on Wednesday,
December %, and reopen on Monday,
January 8.
| Charles r. Morrison & Son have sold
to Harry M. Stricken bungalow stu
ated on the Kester tract, No. 319 Mount
Holly avenue.
"A bazaar will be held in the Union
fire house next Saturday afternoon and
evening by the Queen Esther Circle of
the M. E. church.
I A Keller pear Weighing over two
pounds and measuring fourteen inches
in circumference, was recently picked on
the farm of Clarence Coate. near Med
ford.
Some friends of the Mount Holly
base ball club gave dinner at the Elks'
Home, on Wednesday night, to the
players and others connected with the
team.
There will be matinee at the Mount
Holly Theatre Thanksgiving afternoon.
The inmates of the Children's Home
will be present as guests of manager
Hulse.
This case against John Dolan, Clifford
Powell and Charles G.. Jones, charged in
the Philadelphia courts with assault
and battery on Francis Tracey Tobin,
has been postponed until January.
While assisting in placing new boiler
in the plant of the Burlington county
shoe company on Friday, George King.
who is employed as shoemaker there,
had one of feet mashed when heavy
iron bar fell on it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Brick, of Cross
wieks. were given reception last week
at the home of their son, Josiah E.
Brick, in honor of the fiftieth anniver-
sary of their wedding. About one hum
bred guests were present.
Raccoons have been placed in the
game animal class in New Jersey by
law becoming effective this year. which
limits the open season for catching or
shooting the animals to the period be-
tween October and December Is, in
elusive.
Riverton, Delanco and Moorestown
will compose this seasons circuit in the
West Jersey Trapshooters' League. The
champion season will start the second
Saturday in December, and there will
be six shoots, one on the second Satur-
day Of each month.
The FL. B. Smith Machine Company
last week received another order for
$50, 900 of iron working machinery. The
previous orders for milling machines
and lathes are being completed on
schedule time and are reported to be very
satisfactory to the purchasers.
Miss Minerva Baer, teacher at Cross
wicxs, while attending the teachers in
stitute in Mount Holly last week, was
taken suddenly ill at her boarding house
Tuesday night. A physician was sum-
moned, and Miss Baer recovered suffi-
GENTLY to be taken to her home ON We'd
nesday.
Announcement has been made by
Miss Louise Blydenburg Murphy, of
Bordentown. of the marriage of her sis
| ter, Annie Woodward, and Edwin Rich
mond Semple, formerly of Mount Holly,
and now practicing law in Newark. The
ceremony took place Thursday at the
home of the bride in Bordentown.
The formal decision to adopt the New
Jersey ship canal as state project, was
reached by the new Board Of Commerce
and Navigation at meeting atTrenton
Tuesday. It was decided to appropriate
81, 500 from the funds Of the department
to complete the survey and erect monu-
ments marking the course. The canal
will run from the Delaware at Borden
town to point near South Amboy on
the Raritan river.
Well known as an employee of the
Pennsylvania railroad for many years,
GLAND Kershaw died Friday at his home
| in Riverside, following an illness of
pleuro-pneumonia Regarded as the
largest man in the employ Of the South
Jersey division OF the railroad. Mr.. Ker-
shaw was veritable giant and of tre-
mendous strength. For years he was
employed as blacksmith by the rail-
road. Mr.. Kershaw was member Of
number of societies. He is survived by
wife and son.
A very pleasant birthday party was
given to Masters Carlton and Harry
Claypoole at their home, "a Pine street,
from two until five o'clock on Saturday
afternoon. Those present were: Mary
Vera, Philadelphia; Mrs. Anna Ebert
son and children, Marie and Lester,
Camden; Mary Christy and Gladys
Read, Florence; Helen Parker, Helen
Claypoole, Helen Reeves. Leona Kinsler,
Emma Armstrong, Bertha Woolston.
Marie Hoffman, Catharine Hoffman,
Isabelle Eldridge, Christine Ridgway,
Catharine Mulraney, Walter Reid, Her
bert Shinn, Francis Woolston, Stanley
Stewart, Thomas Mulraney, Franklin
Hates, William Stevenson, Carlton
Claypoole and Harry Claypoole,s of
Mount Holly. The grand march was
led by Helen Parker and Carlton Clay
poole.
The Office of the county Farm Bureau
is located temporarily in the Y. M. C. A.
rooms above the post office in Mount
Holly. Bulletins. books and periodicals
treating on all phases of farm and home
making are being collected and placed
on file for reference. There has been re-
ceived from leading lime manufacturers
analyses of their different kinds of lime
and prices of same with freight rates to
different points in Burlington county.
The Farm Demonstration will be in his
office every Saturday, and most morn
ings during the week. Anyone inter-
ested in any subject pertaining to farm
or home is invited to come in and talk
lover any matters of mutual interest. III