The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-08-01
The annual lake carnival at New

who cannot go swimming uuiAne VI
day.
1t At some of the barber shops in tow
the price of hair cutting has been il
lie creased to 20 cents. The high cost
n living. increased wages, ETC., are give
as the cause.
al William Rossell, former resident {
5. Mount Holly, died in Camden, Sunday
at the advanced age of 81 years. H
was the grandfather of Mrs. William q
= Thorn, of Garden street.
Cleveland Brewer, of Mount Holly
4 and Miss Fannie A. Fols, of Camden
. were united in marriage at the Method
list parsonage last Wednesday evening
by Rev. 7. S. Hammond.
, Real estate dealer A. A. Anderson ha
purchased the Lippincott farm at thu
end of West Washington street and viii
tdevelop it as building site proposition
The tract has frontage of 100 feet or
the stone road.
! The Maple Shade Congregational
church, which had planned the erection
of new edifice this fall, has decided to
postpone this until money is secured Ior
a more elaborate structure than it was
first proposed to erect.
The contest which has been going on
by which piano was to be awarded to
the child receiving the most votes was
concluded last evening. The ballots
cast were as follows: Harry c. Paul, 1850;
Marie Carly, 647; Evelyn Ridgway, 54s.
The explosion of powder and other war
munitions near Jersey City, early on
Sunday morning, was distinctly felt in
Mount Holly. There were two Shocks
about half an hour apart, that shook
buildings and ratified doors and windows
awakening many people from sound
sleep.
The great sporting event of the year
the Elks and County Officials base ball
game-will take place on Thursday,
August "a, on the High street ground.
The entire receipts of the game will be
given to the Burlington county hospital.
All expenses will be paid by the two
clubs.
Irving s. Warner, fellowship secretary
of the Burlington county Y. NJ. CsA.,
left on Thursday for his vacation. Mr..
Warner will be married on August 9 to
Miss Irene c. Tutthill, OF Calyerton,
Long Island, and after attending the
summer school at Silver Bay on Lake
George. will return September first.
At the civil service examinations held
in Mount Holly last week for the posi-
ton of postmasters at Smithville and
Vineentown, no one appeared to take
the examination for .Smithyille, and
Harry t. Allen, the present postmaster,
was the only applicant for Vincentown.
There does not seem to be much demand
for these offices since they have been
placed in the fourth class.
| Robert Foreman, of Marlton, was run
down by motor car driven by Thomas
IO'Toole, of West Berlin, in West Berlin
early Friday morning, sustaining con-
cussion of the brain and other injuries.
He was removed to the Cooper Hospital,
Camden, where he is in serious condi-
ton. O'Toole was arrested, and later re-
leased in his OWE recognizance to await
the result of the mans injuries.
Many improvements are being made
at Eayrestown, which, since it's purchase
by DR.. Nathan Thorne, Armitt H.
Coate and William G.. Leconey, of
Moorestown, is known as Cedars Lake.
The mansion house has been repaired
and improved and converted into an inn,
the turbine water wheels will soon fur
nish power for electric lights, the second
story of the old mill is to be fitted up
for dancing, and an artistic rustic bath
house has been built.
Richard Caldwell, Michael Cain and
Joseph Downs, all residents OF Borden
town, were arrested, on Saturday, by
railroad detectives Lloyd and Hamilton
and county detective Parker, for break
ing into and stealing cut glass from a
freight car at Bordentown on June 5.
The men admitted their guilt. The
glass was recovered by the officers.
Downs and Caldwell were released under
$500 bail, and Cain was committed to
Jail in default of bail.
Tuesday was the date of the quarterly
injecting of Pomona Grange, and not
withstanding the weather was bad
about 400 members attended. The
main business of the meeting was to get
subordinate oranges to pass resolutions
lfaYoring uniform wholesale price for
milk shipped to the cities. There was
also some action taken towards secur-
ing legislation that would be of more
benefit to the farmers. 1t had been
planned to have lunch served on the
lawn attached to the hall, but the
weather prevented that and the tables
were spread in the hall.
i A bright red glow in the sky. on Sun
day night, lasting about twenty minutes,
J led to the belief that there was big fire
in Philadelphia or in that direction
The Philadelphia weather bureaus ex.
PLANTATION of the phenomenon is that o
!. hazy atmosphere and unusually low
} clouds reflected the red light Of
blast furnaces in towns along the
Schuylkill river. Prof. Eric Doolittle
, in charge of the Flower observatory O
, the University of Pennsylvania, CAV,
I a similar explanation. While the GLOW
was brightest, about P. NJ, tn,
humidity was SO, showing a particularly
+ moist atmosphere.
n BY a decision of Justice of the Peac
Smith. of Burlington, given in the small
: cause court last week. dredging compan
7 les which remove sand from the Della
: ware river under authority Of the Wa
4 Department, without the sanction of tn
j state OF New Jersey, are held to be vic
d lating the riparian laws. In the pro
v ceedings, which were instituted for
n test case, suit was brought in the nam
e of Henry ]. Sherman. with the Haines
IS port Mining and Transportation Com
e ipany as the defendant. The compan
a lpresented no witnesses, and announce
q that the case would be carried to a highe
Il court.
IS Paralyzed from his waist down, No
|. man Fenimore, young athlete, is in
Il serious condition at his home in Blu