The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-02-15
LOCAL NEWS.

Jonn Plckard. OF Madison avenue,
improving his property by grading tn
hill to the creek.
Letters for Mrs. Julia Frake. Tor
Peak and John A. Crane remain in th
post office unclaimed.
Contracts have been let for twenty
two new houses at Maple Shade, to b
built the coming spring.
The Young Friends Association vii
meet at the meeting house in Mount
Holly on Thursday night.
The Ladies' Aid OF the NJ. f. church
will serve supper in the Masonic Tenn.
pie on Thursday. February "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. KinsIer, Of
Pine street. announce the engagement
Of their daughter. Miss Grace Kinsler,
to Thomas C. Hunt, of Burlington.
Isaac Wilson. the noted speaker, will
visit the meeting house at Arney's
Mount on Tuesday, February %, at 7.8O
P. M. A good attendance is desired
William A. Slaughter delivered an adj
dress On the work of the county proba-
ton officer, before the Current Events
Club Of Moorestown, on Wednesday
afternoon.
Court Mount Holly No. 2, Improved
Order OF Foresters, celebrated its eigh-
teenth anniversary on Tuesday night.
A number Of visitors were present and
banquet was served.
A meeting OF the Mount Holly Mems
Literary Society will be held in the high
school building next Friday night at
eight o'clock. Interesting addresses will
be made. All men are invited to attend.
On Monday. January 81, at Alex
andria, Virginia, Miss Laura Marie Bran
nan, Of Washington, d. c., formerly of
Mount Holly, and Powhatan Stephens, OF
the same city. were united in marriage.
The Burlington County Trust Com
pany. executor Of the William b. Wills
estate, is offering for sale the Mount
Holly Herald printing and newspaper
establishment and the plant of the New
Jersey Fence Company.
George B. Hates delivered lecture on
snakes, methods OF handling and kill
ing them and the treatment of bites,
at tho Boy Scout meeting in the armory
OF Company E. on Wednesday night
His talk will be continued at tomorrow
nights meeting.
William X. Haines, OF Vincentown,
who was well known throughout the
county, died on Thursday. For many
years Mr.. Haines was prominent in edu-
cational circles. He conducted private
school at Vincentown for long time,
and was remarkable as mathematician
The twenty-fifth anniversary OF tn
Baptist Young Peoples Union of the
Mount Holly Baptist church will be
celebrated tonight. A program of vocal
and instrumental music has been ar
ranged, and Unions from many other
churches in the county will be guests of
the local society.
Following 9 brief illness. David HI.
Rogers, OF Crosswicks, one of the oldest
residents of that section, died on Tues
day, ut the home OF his son William H.
Rogers. He was 80 years old. Death
was due to apoplexy. with which he was
stricken q few days before His wife
died about II years ago, and his son,
William. Is the only survivor.
Many Of the corporations whose char
tiers were recently declared void for fail
ure to pay their taxes to the state, have
applied for reinstatement. The applica-
ton Of the Delaware River Transporta-
ton Company was granted upon the
payment Of $458.50 arrearages. Another
corporation, Browns Mills in the Pines,
was also reinstated after taxes amount
ing to $956.50 were paid.
Ethel, wife Of James SOHO, OF Bur
lington, who eloped some time ago with
Joseph Coskaro, Mount Holly cobbIer
and q married man, was arrested at
Trenton, on Friday, and placed under
$500 bail at Burlington for appearance
at court. Cosbaro has not yet been |
found. When the couple eloped they
took with them nearly $500 in money,
jewelry. ETC., belonging to persons in the |
boarding house in which they lived.
Reports received from Philadelphia |
state that Miss Verna knight, daughter
CT County Clerk Harry L. knight, OF
Medford, recently appeared with success
In q concert given in the auditorium OF
the Combs Conservatory of Music, Phil |
adelphia. Miss knight played noe
turne by Helmund in very creditable |
manner, and was warmly applauded by |
the large audience which crowded the
auditorium. She is expected to appear
In other concerts during the season.
Robert Allison, an iron manufacturer
as PottsvilIe, Pa, died recently at the
age of SO. Mr.. Allison was conceded
to have been the purchaser of the first
Ameriean-built gasoline propelled auto
mobile. He paid $1,000 for single cylin-
der Winton on April /, 1898. The ma
chine was a great curiosity. Many local
citizens will remember when the late
Captain James Comfy purchased the
first automobile owned in Mount Holly,
and the trouble it caused drivers of
horses.
Bertram Sellers, who had his leg broken
in two places in the terrible accident on
the mount about three weeks ago, in
which two other boys lost their lives by
being crushed under a caye-in OF rock
and sand, was operated upon at the Bur
lington County Hospital on Thursday
afternoon and about one-third of the in
jured leg amputated. At the time OF the
accident physicians hoped that the leg
could be saved, but the broken bones
refused to knit, and the boys condition
was made more serious by The develop
ment Of blood poisoning. Incorporation
was re5orted TO as the only means of
saving his life.
At recent meeting Of the Young
Peoples Society of the Baptist church,
the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Raymond H. Broom; vice presi-
dent, George T. Durand; recording secre-
tary, Esther Haines; financial secretary,
Rachel Bowen; corresponding secretary.
Mrs. William A. Johnson: treasurer
Mrs. Howard Moore; devotional, Holmes
N. Hurley; membership, Mrs. Ruth
Gaslill; social. Floyd Stockton; floral,
nal Il