The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-02-01
LOCAL NEWS.

A meeting OF the Mems Literary Gil
will be held Thursday evening at t
high school auditorium.
The Ladies' Aid of the G.. A. r. wi
hold baked bean supper in the Unio
fire honse on Lincoln's birthday, Febrl
ary IL. -
The wholesale price of milk for Febrl
airy has been fixed at five cents per qua
by the Interstate Milk Producers Al
sociation.
Harry Fenimore has resigned his pc
sition at Rogers feed mill, and entere
the employ of the H. B. Smith Machin
Company.
Maurice Haines has rented his farm
near Lumberton to Joseph Sheppard
who now lives on the Burr farm on tn
road to Clevenger's hill.
Oriental Court No. 10, side degree O
the Junior Mechanics, will have a cere
monial session in the former Levi
building on Thursday night.
Lizzie w. Worrell will have a public
sale OF stock, farm implements, ETC., a
the Ridgway Deacon farm, on the Jobs
town pike, on Monday, February 81.
Z. Howard Gibbs, of Washington
street, broke several bones in his foot
on Tuesday, when an iron bar fell upon
: it at the Smithville shops, where he is
employed.
A baked bean supper will be served fol
chiefs this evening from 5 to o'clock,
by the Women's Home Missionary
Society Of the M. E. church.
Mrs. George R. Abrams died at hel
home in Vincentown on Wednesday
after long illness with kidney trouble.
She was sister of Garwood Reynolds
and MRS ]. Frank Scattergood OF
Moupt Holly.
Practically every reserved seat for the
concert to be given in the Mount Holly
theatre tomorrow night by the Mount
Holly Glee Club, was sold twenty-four
hours after the sale opened last Wednes-
day morning.
Rev. William E. Zimmerman, pastor
Of the Lumberton Methodist church,
has announced the engagement of his
sister, Della b. Zimmerman, and Charles
HI. Stermer. Mr.. Stermer celebrated his
twsnty-first birthday on January 20.
The funeral of Hannah, widow OF
franklin Cook, who died in Camden,
took place from the Mount Holly Meth
odist church Friday afternoon. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cook formerly resided here. For
so years Mrs. Cook had been a member
of the Mount Holly Methodist church.
Another meeting of the newly-formed
Burlington County Game Protective
League will be held at the court house
on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock
1t is expected that q representative OF
the state league will be present to out
line the workings of county organiza-
ton.
As the result OF agitation that has
been stirred up along the Jersey coast,
sea gulls now protected from gunners by
law may soon offer target for sports
men. A bill now being framed asks the
legislature to repeal the law which for
six years has maintained closed season
for the gulls.
Bright Star Lodge No. Is, Shepherds
of Bethlehem, has elected the following
officers: Past commander, Julia Gale;
commander, Martha Carpenter; vice
commander, Maggie Phares; chaplain,
Marietta Clevenger; marshall, Sarah
Mackintash; treasurer. Ida Eddleman;
accountant. Sue Austin; outside guard,
Alveretta Reeves; inside guard, Eva
Mackintash; mistress of ceremonies,
Ella Stallcup; scribe, Anna M. Rossell;
trustees, Cordelia Claypoole, Annie EN-
mons, b. o. Herbert.
There was an attendance of nearly
six hundred at the meeting of Pomona
grange at Moorestown on Tuesday. The
following officers were installed: Master,
David Ballinger; overseer, Herman Gro
shaw; lecturer, Eliza B. Deacon; steward,
Frank Hargrove; assistant steward, Eek
ard Ballinger; chaplain, Joseph Miller;
treasurer, Leon Collins; secretary, A. j.
,Gauntt; gate keeper, Thomas Henry;
pomona, Elizabeth Ballinger; fora,
Marianne Croshaw; ceres, Priscilla Tall
man; lady assistant steward, Ethel Col
lins.
Miss Ep,;I;a NJ U;Ils e;stor If William,
ID. Wills, late owner and editor of the
Mount Holly Herald, died on Thursday
afternoon at the home of her cousin,
Miss Blanche r. Black, at Vincentown,
where she had lived for nearly twenty
five years. Hardening Of the arteries
was the cause of death. Miss Wills
would have been sixty-five years of age
this week. The funeral took place yes
terday from the residence of Miss Black,
interment being at Upper Springfield
Miss Wills was the last of the family OF
Charles and Mary Grey Black Wills.
The store property at the railroad
crossing on Main street, Juliustown, was
destroyed by fire last Tuesday morning
No one was in the property at the time
and the flames had made such headway
before being discovered that it was i'm
possible to save anything. The propert,
Is held by Mrs. Reba Debow. Her los.
is about $500, with no insurance, repre-
senting the savings of ten years. Tn
Columbus chemical engine responed t
q telephone call for help, but it was i'm
possible for the firemen to do anything
owing to the rapid spread of the flames
SO much has been said about havin
an audit of the accounts of the count
Offices that the Board of Freeholdel
adopted q resolution, Wednesday,
employ an expert accountant at an e,
pense not to exceed $3.50, to go over IL
books and vouchers Of the county offic
and give some definite idea of VIII,
sort of business is being done. The i'd
may be all right, but the result is n
likely to prove very satisfactory, as
will be o hard matter to get much sat
factory work done for the amount me
toned. Some of the members suggest
that the investigation go back tN
: years, while others said that five yes
would be better. Expert accountar
come high. and it will be quite remaE
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