The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-03-21

A bull dog belonging to Allen NJ. Fs
imore was run over and killed by
e automobile on Madison avenue
Sunday
ID The next regular meeting OF the
t. C. T. u. will be held in @. A. r. ha
Tuesday afternoon, March %, at
is o'clock.
81 A delegation of past Sachems of Poe
hontas Tribe No. Is, Improved Order
= Red Men, paid visit to the Tribe
IT Camden last evening.
II Camp P. O.. OF A. will hold q bake
: bean supper at the Union fire house, c
] March 81. Tickets Is cents. Supp'
will be served from to 10.
The members of Mrs. Micajah !
; Matlack's music class were entertaine
! by Miss Mary Sleeper, at her home o
: Paxson street on Saturday evening.
William Bayersdorfer, well known
! many Of the citizens of this county
died at his home in Philadelphia yestel
, day morning. He was in business il
Mount Holly fora number of years.
1 Mrs. Ella H. Scheetz, of Union street
librarian of the Mount Holly library
was taken sick last week and removed
to the Burlington County Hospital OF
Sunday. Her condition is not regardet
as serious.
\ Anna, wife of James Warner, died a
her home on Shreve street on Sunday
night. She was rs years old. The fun
eral will take place from the residences
Of her son-in-law, William Clapper, or
Pine street, Thursday afternoon. Inter
ment at Brotherhood cemetery.
State Commissioner of Roads Stevens
made tour of inspection of the Sim
proved road from Mount Holly tc
Chambers Corner on Saturday. What
the result will be is not known, but hs
learned that the many complaints about
the bad road have not been fiction Oh
fairy tales.
Thieves cut quantity of the copper
wire of the Bell telephone line on the
south Pemberton road on Sunday night
A lady living near the scene of the rob-
berry saw the men load the wire into q
wagon, but could not recognize any Of
them. She said they drove towards
Mount Holly.
There will be business meeting Of
q L. D. Tao OF in
high school Thursday afternoon at $50.
This will possibly be the last meeting
to be presided over by Mrs. ]. L. Sur
tees, who, if plans of the M. E. confer
ence are carried to completion. will re-
move from Mount Holly. A full attend
ance OF the members is requested.
Miss Alice Kent Stoddard, of Mount
Holly, won the Fellowship prize Of
500, as the result of her good work on a
picture of child, entitled "Liela.' The
subject was child Miss StoddaId saw
when on trip to the New England
coast. The canvas attracted much at
tention from the many people who
viewed the exhibition in Philadelphia.
Mount Holly Moose Lodge elected
officers Tuesday night as follows: Dicta-
tor, James Mercer Davis; vice dictator.
John C. Garrett; prelate, George B. Nc
Clellan; secretary. George w. Dadine;
treasurer, Walter H. Mason; inside
guard, H. M. Simons; outside guard,
George Mack; trustees, John Keesey,
Abraham Saltzman and Charles Woll-
ner,
Save your old newspapers, they are
worth money. The dearth of material
fol. making paper has caused the manu-
facturers to buy anything that may be
converted into stock. Old papers and
rags have q good marketable value.
The United States government has issued
circular, calling attention to this mat
ter and ADVISES everybody to save their
papers.
A very interesting meeting of the
Mount Holly Literary Society was held
at the court house on Friday night.
George T. Reid, the farm demonstration,
was the speaker. He gave demonstra-
ton of testing soil for acidity, after
which he delivered an address on alfalfa,
it's history, habits, culture, etc. He also
told Of the many diseases of apples, the
remedies therefor, when to spray. etc.,
and explained the methods of grating
and budding fruit trees. The next meet
ing will be held at the court house on
March 81.
When he was held up by an unidenti-
fed man while on his way home on
Tuesday night, Martin Frederick, of
Coopertown, kicked the highWayman in
the stomach, sending him backward in
to little ravine. The attack from his
would-be victim was so sudden that the
bandit had no chance to recover his
wits or his balance. Frederick put his
trust in flight after he had played foot
ball with the holdup mans ahatomy.
He notified the police, and now an effort
is being made to find the man who was
outwitted and outkicked.
Without coming to definite under
standing members of the Camden and
Burlington Boards of Freeholders on
Friday conferred in Camden on plans
for the new bridge over Pensauken creek
where it crosses the Moorestown pike.
The plans have been prepared by the
Camden board, and provide for a 65 foot
wide bridge, with IL foot walks for pedes-
TRANS on either side and provision for
carrying the tracks Of the Public Service
Railway Company. The Burlington
county committee thought some of the
plans were too elaborate, and wanted tc
know what share of the expense the
Public Service Railway would pay. The
bridge is to cost s12. 500.
The Presbyterian church has adopted
the every member plan in support of the
budget system for the financing of the
church work in its local and world wide
service. AS elimination to the ser
vices of Sunday, March IL, and the con
ference of that day led by Mr.. Macon
augh, of New York, the get-togethel
luncheon of Friday uight to the canvass
committee, and the service of Sunday
morning, the canvass committee, con
sisting lof nine officers of the church
and assistants, made complete canvass
of the congregation Sunday afternoon
A budget of $4,000 was set as tn,
amount to be raised for current expense,
of the church for the new year, and i
was more than subscribed. A splendid
spirit of interest and cooperation wa
manifested nv all which indicates a ver,