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

ueucOWn tomorrow evening.
The next regular meeting OF the v
G. T. U. will be held in the q. A.
hall on Tuesday afternoon, February 2
at three o'clock.
The wedding Of William ). Kelle.
} Jr., and Miss Elsie M. Thomas too
place at the home of the brides mothe
Mrs. Howard Thomas, at Moorestowr
|, on Saturday. The couple will be 9
home after April LIST at IL Clinton av,
nue., Merchantville.
j The three young men who have bee
awaiting trial for some time on tn
charge of assault and battery on Franci
Tracy Tobin, in Philadelphia, went t
that place ON Friday to learn that tn
case had been postponed until the tent
Of next month.
On behalf of the Catholic Diocese O
Newark, Bishop John ]. O'Connor ha
donated fifteen thousand dollar plot il
the Holy Name cemetery at Arlington
to the Board of Managers OF the New
Jersey Soldiers Home, to be used as 9
burial place for the deceased Catholic
inmates Of the home.
Rev. Charles E. Betticher, aged 81
years, Of Beverly, preached in Old
Swedes church, Philadelphia, on Sun
day. Soon after leaving the church he
fell on an icy pavement, and had to be
taken to the Pennsylvania hospital. II
is thought his skull was fractured and
his death is looked for. He suffered q
stroke of apoplexy.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Clifford r. Powell, OF
Lumberton, and Miss Ii. Irene Emery,
of West Chester, Pa. Mr.. Powell is q
member of the Burlington county bar.
Miss Emery is graduate OF the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Art School,
class of 1914, and at present is engaged
as supervisor of art instruction in the
Haddon Heights school.
Burlington Quarterly Meeting OF
Friends will be held at Mount Holly,
corner Main and Garden streets, on Sd
day Tuesday the 22d inst, at 1920 a.
m. There will also be held a social, fol-
lowed by religious meeting, at the
same place, on 4th day Wednesday,
evening, 23d inst, at 7.30 o'clock. Isaac
Wilson, the eminent Quaker evangelist,
is expected to be present at these meet
ings. Everybody welcome at both
meetings.
A sleet storm, accompanied by some
snow, that began on Saturday and con-
tinued ON Sunday, caused considerable
trouble by breaking telephone and light
wires. The Bell Telephone Company's
force of wiremen was kept busy repair
ing wires in this vicinity. The slippery
ice made walking very dangerous. Boys
and girls enjoyed skating and coasting
on all the streets. Yesterday was clear
and cold. Sunday night was the coolest
of the winter, the thermometer reaching
the zero mark.
The next attraction Of the Lyceum
course at the Methodist church will be
the Cadman Concert Company, who will
be here ON Tuesday evening, February
20. This company is composed Of FIVE
artists whose individual successes are
unquestioned. They render vocal nd
music and are accompanied
by reader Of unusual ability. This
promises to be the big attraction of the
course. Don't fail to secure tickets, 35
cents, from those having them for sale
or at Boyce's store.
The Florence post Office seems to have
been having troubles of its own lately.
First it seemed advisable to remove the
postmaster and place an assistant from
Roebling in charge. Last week the post
Office was entered and few dollars were
stolen. The safe was not disturbed.
The burglar placed wire and other fast
enings over all the windows on the in
side and then went out OF the front door.
detectives inspected the
place and gave the opinion that the
work was that of professionals.
"Save the birds to save the crops has
become sloganof South Jersey farmers,
who. with the Audubon societies, are
urging the placing of bird boxes through
out the State prior to the immigration
Of the feathered tribe from the South.
Boy Scouts are being encouraged to aid
IN the movement by putting up bird
boxes. For years the farmers made
little effort to save the birds, which were
killed for their plumage. The birds are
iestroyers of moth worms and insects
and consequently protectors of crops.
On Friday and Saturday Of next week
The county seat will welcome the boys
and young men who will be in attend
.lce at the Burlington county older
boys conference. The conference will
begin Friday afternoon at o'clock, and
1T $50 banquet will be served. Inter
esting speakers will be at the banquet.
Entertainment will be furnished by the
citizens of Mount Holly to regularly &C
credited delegates who have sent in
credential cards on time. For Saturday
many things of interest are on the pro-
gram.
Claiming that signers of applications
for hotel licenses are partners, whose
names should be linked in business with
the hotelkeepers. the Palmyra w. C.
I. U. has published the list of all sigma
lures attached to applications under
which licenses were granted for three
Palmyra taverns and one in east River
ton. The previous announcement of
the women that they would publish the
names is said to have made it difficult
for saloonmen to get the required dozen
who would act as their
indorsers before the court. Every local
union throughout the county will follow
the example of the Palmyra women
during the next month, it is announced.
Suit has been started in the United
States court at Trenton by Bridgeman
Brothers Company, of Philadelphia,
against J. s. Rogers & Co.. of Moores-
town, and the Fidelity Deposit Com
pany, of Baltimore, to recover 1881,
alleged to be due on contract for the con-
struction of the new post Office at Bur-
lington. The Rogers company had the
contract and sublet the heating and
plumbing to E. A. Rogers, of Riverside.
Bridgeman Brothers Company allege
that the sCb-contractor purchased ma.