The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-03-14


Harley Shemeley property on Pi
street.
Letters for William Layton and Mi
Thelma Daley remain unclaimed in Il
as post Office.
Miss Helen Hughes, Of Garden stree
Ill has taken a position in the busine
Office of the Herald.
RS The stork left daughter at the hon
ut of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred M. Anderson, c
Union street, Saturday.
O. William Phillips. Jr., of Vincentowl
g. is now employed at the engraving scho'
at Garden and Buttonwood streets.
IS Mrs. Joseph L. Surtees will attend a
n anniversary celebration of the Paren
Teacher Association at Camden TIL
l. evening.
The new lease for the Mount Holl
post Office has not yet been signed, bu
!. tits probable that the Office will remai
9 in its present location.
An entertainment will be given at tn
: opera house by Manager Hulse on Marcel
5 Both, for the benefit of the uniform ranl
of the Relief Fire Company.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Wilbur Van Note, O
! Mount Holly, announce the engagement
} of their niece, Emma V. Dougherty. tt
! Charles A. Rose, of Philadelphia.
Miss Rena M. Haines, Of the public
school teaching staff, was painfully in.
jured last week by falling down the eel
lar stairs at her home on Broad street.
| A meeting of the Mems Literary So
ciety will be held at the court house
next Friday night, at o'clock. George
7. Reid, farm demonstrators, will be the
speaker.
The interior of the Farmers Trust
banking house has been improved by
the laying OF an Italian marble mosaic
floor, with the name of the company
worked in the marble at the front door.
Miss Elyira Armstrong, formerly a
clerk in the Mount Holly post Office,
died yesterday afternoon at the resi-
dence of her sister, Mrs. Harry Nipple,
at Riverside, after an illness Of over two
years with tuberculosis.
The teachers training class OF the Bap-
fist Sunday school will hold its grad
uation exercises next Sunday evening,
March 18th. The speaker OF the even
ing will be DIR. w. E. Chalmers, Baptist
Educational Secretary for Sunday
school and young people.
Bertram Sellers, who was badly in
II ured in the recent accident at the
mount, and who had a part of one leg
Manipulated to save him from blood
poison, is getting along nicely at the
Burlington county hospital and it is
thought he will soon be able to leave the
institution.
A woman at Manahawkin sent her
son to the post Office last week with an
/ egg to get two post cards. The clerk was
highly indignant at the reflection upon
the Democratic administration and seat
the lad back with the information that
Uncle Sam sells for cash, and will not
honor trades.
William Dilts, who has been wanted
for some time in Beverly township for
larceny, was located by detective Parker
last week, below Blackwoodeand the de-
tective and constable Vansciver, of
Beverly, brought the man to Mount
Holly on Sunday and lodged him in
jail.
On Friday evening, at her home on
Broad street, occurred the death of Mrs.
Phoebe A. P. Brannan, wife of the late
William ]. Brannan, in her S3rd year.
She is survived by a son, three
daughters and seven grandchildren. In
terment at the Mount Holly cemetery
yesterday afternoon.
| A pistol bullet; fiattened by its. pas
sage through his head, has been made
into a watch charm by a jeweler for
Thomas G. Dunn, who is recovering at
the Zurbrugg hospital. Riverside, from
the shot fred by William Prickett in
the dining room Of Riverside hotel
several weeks ago. Prickett is in the
county Jail awaiting trial.
While removing logs at Browns Mills,
on Tuesday afternoon, James McFar-
land, of Mount Holly, slipped and fell
heavily on the ice, iniuring himself so
badly that he was forced to take to bed
at that place. A physician was called
and an examination revealed two ribs
broken and internal injuries. He is re-
ported to be improving slowly.
| Tomorrow evening in the opera house
the entertainment by Margaret McClain
Williams and her talented assistants
will be given. This will be we'll worth
ATTENDING. The entertainers have APP
peared before large audiences in many
places, and are engaged for dates far
ahead. If you have not occurred your
ticket you should 60 to Dubell's drug
store at once and get one or more.
At the annual business meeting of the
Ladies' Aid Society of the First Baptist
church, the following officers were elect
ed: President, Miss Hettie Gasl1ill; first
vice president, Mrs. w. 8. Gale; second
vice president, Mrs. ]. H. Terry; secre-
tary, Mrs. George Moore; assistant secre-
tary, Mrs. G. S. Suffer; treasurer, Mrs
L. L. Sapp; collectors, Mrs. William
Holt. Mrs. B. W. Zelley, and Miss Ollie
Robinson.
Abraham Saltzman has found his
business increasing SO rapidly that he
has been compelled to put up new
shelves and cases to accommodate his
large stock of goods. He really needs a
larger store, but he has found the stand
SO good that he does not feel like NOV
| ing. The time was, not many years ago.
when Mill street was as important a
business centre as the main street, and
it seems to be getting to that point now.
Washington Camp No. II, P. o. S. of
A., had very enjoyable time at its
meeting on Thursday evening. State
vice president Joseph w. HILBERT, OF
Trenton, and state inspector H. T.
Jarrett, of Bordentown, paid the local
camp a visit and made interesting re-
marks. At the close of the meeting
national representative Samuel E. Col.
der, by direction of the State Camp, pre-.
scented to Philip S. Irons, Rev. William
E. Zimmerman, William ]. Haines anG
William H. Stillwell, certificates Of
merit, in recognition of their having
proposed and initiated more than ter