The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-09-14
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER IA, 1915
LOCAL NEWS.

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township are making their honse-t
house canvass to-day.
The Saturday evening dances at Rar
cocas Park will continue as long as favo
able weather permits.
The state convention of the Sr. o. [
A. M. will be held at Glassboro on Wee
nesday, September %.
DIR. M. b. Austin returned from Al
lantic City yesterday, and will be at he
Main street Office daily.
William Compton and Miss Ella Dan
ley, both of Mount Holly, were maryie
at Elkton, Md. ON Thursday.
The next regular meeting of the w
c. I. U. will be held in G. A. r. hall
September 81, at three o'clock.
Harry II. Bowen and family have
removed to Trenton, where he will en-
gage in the restaurant business.
The Mount Holly grammar school has
organized football team. Kenneth Per-
inchief has been elected manager, with
John Whitman captain.
Patrick Dolan has decided to give up
his pool room business, and will enlarge
his restaurant by taking in the entire
first floor Of the building.
Miss Maize DuBolt, the visiting nurse
has returned from her vacation, and can
be found at the residence Of Frank M.
Spencer, 49 Grant street.
While visiting at the home of some
friends on Mill street. Tuesday evening,
Miss Ethel Carly slipped from the porch
and sprained her ankle.
The employees of Rancocas Park and
members of the orchestra were given
trip to Beach Haven on Saturday, by
the Rancocas Park Company.
Announcement is made Of the en-
gagement OF Miss Laura Dolan, daugh-
ter of Patrick Dolan, of Mount H6fy,
and John Wigmore, Of Riverton.
Thomas MacFarIand's horse, Abe
Mack, won the free-for-all race at the
Stroudsburg, Pa, fair. on Friday. Each
OF the three heats was made in 2134.
Prof. and Mrs. George Parker, OF
Jamaica, N. Y, are receiving congratu
lations on the arrival OF little boy in /
their home last week. Mrs. Parker is /
sister of DR.. A. r. w. Atwood.
Captain Goddard, connected with the
Salvation Army at Burlington, will
have charge OF the evening services at
the Mount Holly Baptist church next
Sunday. and will present his cause to
the people.
The field meeting Of the New Jersey
Bee Keepers Association will be held
next Thursday at the apiary of r. d.
Barclay at Riverton. A number OF
prominent speakers will address the
meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Bozarth, of
Monroe street, celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary OF their wedding on Friday. /.
Mr.. Bozarth is p years of age. and his
wife is 49, They have seven children
and twenty-one grandchildren.
The Kelly-McFee Company, which
is doing work on the streets of Mount II
Holly, has received the contract to place
underground all the electric light wires
in the city Of Camden. The contract is
said to amount to $685. 900 year for ten
years.
Nellie f.. wife OF Henry s. GasIxill,
formerly Of Mount Holly, died at Me-
johannesburg, Pa. on Friday. Of tuber-
culosis. Funeral services will be held in
Camden tonight. and at the chapel al
the Mount Holly cemetery tomorrow ,
afternoon, where interment will be
made /,
A new steamboat service has been Oh II
ganized TO ply between Philadelphia and :
Trenton, and contracts have been closed {
for the building of two steamers. The 4
new vessels will be ready for work next I
year, and will be thoroughly equipped .
with everything for the safetV and com- .
fort Of passengers. RI
Della Leafy, of Washington street, |
ran in front of an automobile from the f
Gum garage at Burlington, on Thurs c
day afternoon, while crossing Main t
street ON her way home from school,
and was struck by the car and knocked
down. The little girl was uninjured ex-
cept by shock. The driver of the car
was in no way responsible for the acci-
dent.
Unclaimed mail for the following per-
sons remains in the post Office for the ;
week ending September IL: Letters
Mrs. Jennie III. Martin, John Rawlins,
VIM. d. Troth, ]. f. Tomlinson, Mr..
Thomas, w. s. Sword. Arthur l.. Pease,
Howard Loveman, Foster C. Cox, ESQ.,,
Mrs. Marion Dugan. Cards-Mrs. Jane
j. Lippincott, >Geo. Gotz, Miss Elsie
Carson. Dan Wilher& Rev. r. J. Nixon.
A ''block social" will be held on Thurs
day evening by the Ladies' Aid Society
of the Methodist church. The affair will
be held ON Mill street. between Green
street and Mount Holly avenue. Ice /,
cream, cakes, pies, homemade candies /
and fancy articles will be ON sale at the
different residences. There will be a
fruit and vegetable market. A 25-cent
supper will be served at the home of
David K. Sooy. There will be automo-
bile rides and other amusements. The
residences in the block will be decorated
and illuminated.
The township committee is gradually
awakening to the necessity of some
kind of traffic regulations. Signs will
be placed at different corners, request
ing automobile drivers to slow down and |
requiring them to turn to the right. |
The request to slow down will probably |
be respected if the officers see that speed |
laws are taken notice of. Signs will be |
put up warning that schoolhouses are
near by and cautioning drivers to go |
carefully. 1t is all right to put up signs
of warning but they will not be of any
account unless somebody is given in
structions to see that the automobile
laws are enforced.
A change will take place in the man.
agement of the boarding house on Mill
street, which has been conducted by
Mrs. Mary Bozarth for long time, who
has decided 10 discontinue the business.
MIR. and Mrs. Neunbury, who have a
notion store next to the boarding house.
have rented the entire building to be
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