The Mount Holly news., 1916-09-19
LOCAL NEWS.

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County engineer Logan is havini
garage erected on his property on upl
Main street.
James III. Anderson, of Brains
street, is suffering with an abscess
his right eye.
Letters for Mrs Elizabeth Woolm
and E. B. Tiffany remain unclaim
in the post Office.
A skating bear is novelty. The
will be one at the Mount Holly Fair
the Sd, 4th, 5th and 9th of October.
The September meeting of the Blu
lington County Firemen's Associatio
will be held at Beverly tomorrow nigh
The illness of Doris, the little daugl
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd E. Embre
has been pronounced to be typhoi
fever.
Benjamin F. Hirschblond, of Tom
River, has rented one of the Branso
properties on Church street, and wi
shortly occupy it.
The Metropolitan band, of Burline
ton, gave its annual concert at tn
county institutions at New Lisbon O.
Thursday evening.
The remains of Miss Charlotte Heiss
aged 81 years, of Riverside, were in
tered in the Mount Holly cemetery
Sunday afternoon.
Amos Greenwood and Frank John
son, colored men from Cookstown
were committed to the county Jail last
week for disorderly conduct.
Lydia J. Foulks, of Browns Mills
has been granted an absolute divorc'
from her husband, Charles HI. Foulks,
on the ground Of desertion.
Elizabeth j., daughter of DIR. r. H
Parsons, is in Children's hospital, Bos
ton, receiving treatmentfrom a special
ist for curvature of the spine.
Rev. L. S. Hammond is on trip to
Mt. Pocono. The pulpit of the M. E.
church next Sunday will be occupied
by Rev. John H. Magee, of Beverly.
Formal transfer of the Florence iron
works, recently sold at public sale, has
been made to Walter Wood, the pur-
chaser, by Harold B. Wells, receiver.
The concern went under the new man
agement yesterday.
A new candy, ice cream and soda
water store, known as the Boston store,
was opened on Saturday in the former
Borton wall paper building on Main
street. The place is handsomely fur
nished with modern fixtures and ap-
pliances.
Albert Buttersweet was arrested in
Riverton, on Thursday, as suspicious
character, and committed to the Jail
here pending an investigation. When
searched large number of pawn
tickets and many keys were found in
his pockets.
The fairs of the Burlington County
Association have been growing stead
lily in favor every year. This years
event will not be allowed to go back
wards in any particular. On the con-
trary it will be made record breaker
in improvement on former occasions.
B. C. Mayo, a real estate dealer, the
promoter of Beachwood, in Ocean
county, has bought from Mahlon w.
Newton the Browns Mills tract, in
Guiding the inn, the1ake and surround
ing land. The tract is being laid off
in lots, which soon will be offered for
sale.
The thirty-first annual convention of
the Burlington County Woman's
Christian Union will be held in the
Mount Holly Methodist church on
Thursday, September %. : An address
by Livingston Barbour, of Rutgers
college, will be the feature of the even
ing session.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union held its annual meeting at G.
A. r. hall on Tuesday and elected the
following officers: President, Mrs.
Henry 1. Budd; recording secretary,
Mrs. F. H. jacket; corresponding secre-
tary, Miss Olive Robinson; treasurer,
Mrs. William P.'Eddy.
The member of the September U. S.
grand jury. from this neighborhood, is
Richard P. Hughes, of Florence. On
The petit jury are John H. Davis, New
Egypt; Howard C. Keeler, Pemberton;
George T. Lippincott, Medford; Ed
ward Middleton, Marlton; James M.
Molyneux, Thomas E. Newbold, Bor-
dentown; Howard Sever, Browns Mills.
Eugene F. Haines, of Mount Holly,
and Miss Anna Lee Tovey, of Camden,
were married on Monday afternoon of
last week, at Grace Baptist church,
Camden. The pastor, Rev. Robert P.
Zebley, performed the ceremony. Mr..
and Mrs. Haines are spending their
honeymoon in the Adirondacks, and
wifi reside in Merchantville upon their
eturn.
Samuel Emmo, of Philadelphia was
arrested by constable Edgar Armstrong
on Sunday, on complaint made by
game warden Charles C. Morton,
charging Emmo, an alien, with illegal
ly having gun in his possession. The
arrest took place at Moore's meadows,
Shamong township. Emmo was given
hearing before Justice of the Peace
John Throckmorton, and was fined $40
ard costs, which he paid.
T. Paul English, of Mount Holly
was arrested at Hightstown, last week
on charge of obtaining money under
false pretense, and lodged in Jail in de
fault of bail. The charge was made by
Joseph B. Davidson, of Hightstown
who claimed that English represented
himself as an agent of Newark insur
ance company, and collected $24 from
him for reinsurance. Later it was dis
covered that English was not connected
with the company, and his arrest TO
lowed.
The public schools of Mount Holl
will open on the ninth of October III
less something not now in sight hal
pens. The teachers meetings whic
have been held daily in order ths
teachers might be thoroughly in touc
with their duties, have been discontini
ed and leave of absence has bee
granted until the second of ne,
month. When the schools open it ma
be necessary to prolong the daily Sc
sions in order to regain some of Il