The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-05-30
LOCAL NEWS.


The Tall Cedars of Lebanon initiate
eleven candidates on Thursday evening
Columbus Hawthorne is again in til
employ OF the Adams Express Con
pany.
Miss Laura Smith, of Church stree
is now employed by the Bell Telephon
Company.
Mechanics will hold dance at Rance
cas- Park on June IL.
Mrs. Harry E. Lynn has purchased I
Hudson cabriolet automobile from agen
Joseph B. FLEETWOOD.
The stork left girl at the home OF Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond E. Broom on Church
street Saturday night.
The family of squirrels in the court
house yard is growing quite large. Fiji
teen were seen in one tree last week.
Mrs. Allen A. Engle has purchased
the Theodore Campbell property on
Brainard street, and will reside there.
The remains of Henry Stills, aged 70
years, of Burlington, were inferred in
Brotherhood cemetery, Mount Holly,
Saturday afternoon. n
J. Holmes Longstreet, of Bordentown,
has been elected president of the Bur
lington, Monmouth and Ocean Pursuing
and Detective Society.
The remains of Helen Parry, daughter
Of William /. and Sarah l.. Parry. of
: Pittsburgh, Pa, were brought to Mount
Holly for interment on Saturday.
While handling revolver at his home
on Shreye street, Tuesday night, John
Bailey accidentally fred the weapon,
sending bullet through finger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel T. Coles, Of
Moorestown, have announced the en-
eagement Of their daughter. Marion,
and Assemblyman Emmor Roberts.
The Public Utility Commission has
approved request made by the Bur
lington County Railway company for
permission to sell some lots it owns on
Andersonville.
The house-to-house canvass conducted
by members of the Woman's League,
on Wednesday, for the benefit OF the
visiting nurse fund, netted about $500.
Much more than this is needed.
George w. Slimm, conductor on the
Pennsylvania railroad, who has been i'll
for some time, went to the Germantown
hospital, Tuesday, and had the Mastoid
operation performed. He is doing very
well.
Subscribers for Chautauqua tickets
may get them at Wetherill's store up to
the first Of June 1t is hoped these tick
cts will be called for and save the COM
mittee the troable Of seeking the sub
scribers.
A barn at the residence Of Mrs. Eliza
beth Wisham, out Pine street, was
struck by lightning during the storm OF.
Thursday afternoon and destroyed. The
fremen prevented the flames spreading
to the adjoining buildings.
The statement in THE NEWS, last
week, that there would be half hour ser
vice on the trolley between Moorestown
and Mount Holly daily, was mistake.
The service will be on Saturdays and
Sundays only.
The American steamship Ventura
which has just arrived at Sydney, New
South Wales, from San Francisco, re-
ports that she picked up wireless mes
sage from the station at Tuckerton,
when nine thousand miles distant from
that point. This is said to be worlds
record.
The boy scouts of Burlington are in
high glee over the report that the United
States Navy Department has assigned
racing cutter for their use. AS soon as
some repairs have been made to the boat
1t will be sent to Burlington and will be
fioated in the Delaware river, where the
members of the scouts will have access
to it and will cruise to different points.
Members of the New Jersey Friends
Historical Society are arranging for a
big demonstration in Mount Holly next
month, when the home of John Wool
man, recently purchased by the society
for preservation, will be dedicated as the
property of the organization. The date
for the dedication has not been definitely
fixed, but it will come in connection
with the Yearly Meeting of Friends in
June.
A large tract of land overlooking
Knickerbocker Pond, at Roebling, has
been sold by the owner, Albert Carly, of
Mansfield township, to Julius Mezanko,
OF Roebling. The tract is ideally situa-
ted on the Burlington road, and is one
of the highest points in that locality,
commanding an excellent view of the
Rosbling plant and village. 1t is stated
that the purchaser, Mr.. Mezanko, in
tends to incorporate realty company,
which will undertake the development
of the tract and the sale of building lots
therein.
At meeting of the Board of Educa
ton, on Thursday evening, Walter HI.
Scott, of Philadelphia, was elected to
the new position of teacher of manual
training. Mr.. Scott is graduate Of the
South Philadelphia High and Manual
Training School, and the School Of In
dustrial Art. He has had experience in
teaching at the Pennsylvania Training
School, at Elwyn, and is now with the
John Wanamaker Commercial Institute.
Miss Maze r. Callahan, Of the High
school staff, presented her resignation.
A cloud burst occurred Thursday af-
ternoon. about two o'clock, between
Rivsrton and Riverside and the down
pour was such that train enroute east
ward had its floors covered to depth OF
an inch with water that entered from be.
tween the window and door frames. The
rain came down in solid sheet and if an
obstruction of the track had occurred the
train would have been derailed, for the
engineers view was totally obscured anC
he could not have seen it in time to bring
the train to a halt. At Riverton the
storm uprooted trees. Roofs were crush
ed at the residences OF Samuel MacMul
lin and Michael Faunce. A powe
yacht belonging to ]. Lawrence Lippin
colt dragged its anchor and was blown
ashore Int suffered no damape Tn