The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-09-12


City on Thursday.
George E. Thomson, one OF the me
i, who killed keeper OF the Camden lal
was captured in Boston yesterday.
lie Master Earl Filler, of Paxson street
Y entertained a number of his youn
friends Saturday afternoon at birth
20 day party at his home.
W Miss Margaret Doyle has resigned a
nurse at the Burlington county hosp
n tai. She has Keen succeeded by Mrs
Il Joseph Miller, Of Burlington.
There will be an examination 70
. eighth grade conditioned pupils, in tn
e High school building, Mount Holly, Oh
Friday, beginning at nine o'clock.
/ The Mission Circle of the Baptis
} Church will hold pie and cake sal
at the court house next Saturday after
noon from one to five o'clock.
The ladies' aid of the SmithyilIe NJ
E. church will hold an ice cream anC
cake sale in the church grove tomorrow
evening, to which all are invited
Unclaimed mail remains at the post
office for the following persons: Mrs.
Anna Thomas, Mrs. c.. A. Fottwell.
Ezial Bowker, Miss Elsie M. Carson,
| At the quarterly conference of the
Mount Holly M. E. church held last
evening it was asked that Rev. t. s..
Hammond be returned for another
year.
Miss Majorie L. Cyples and John
Wood, both of Florence, were married
at the Mount Holly M. E. parsonage
on Wednesday by Rev. Thomas s.
Hammond.
The daughter of Floyd E. Embree is
sick, and it is feared she is threatened
with typhoid fever. 1t has been err
roneously reported that the child was
suffering from infantile paralysis.
AT the recent meeting of the nationals
council of the Order of United Ameri-
can Mechanics, at Atlantic City, it was
decided to change the name of the
order to United American Men.
William B. Trowbridge and family,
of Union street, will shortly remove to
the residence on Broad street recently
vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Jutten,
who have removed from Mount Holly.
]. B. Stelton, manager of the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, in
Mount Holly, has resigned his position
and will take charge of the new auto
delivery truck OF the Moorestown |
laundry.
DIR. Edward l.. Duer, distinguished
as gynecologist and obstetrician, and
well known in Crosswicks, where he |
was born, died at his home in Odessa,
Delaware, Tuesday. He was so years
old. DR.. Duer practiced for some time
in Crosswicks, and then removed to
Philadelphia, where he established a
wide reputation in his profession.
Miss Emma Thompson, of Julius
town, stopped at the fountain, Satur-
day, to give her horse drink. Taking
up the lines before she got into the
wagon seemed to be a signal for the
horse to start, and Miss Thompson was
thrown to the stone road, her face
was scratched and her eyeglasses
broken. The horse ran up Mill street
a few yards and was stopped.
A crowd was drawn to the office of
Herbert, Sunday evening,
when Samuel Fenimore was brought
N on the charge of taking an automo-
bile belonging to William Grover and
keeping it without the consent of the
owner. When the facts were set forth
t was shown that Grover had loaned
she auto to Fenimore and the latter
Kept it little longer than he was ex-
pected to, so Grover had him arrested.
The man was released.
Next Monday is the time set for the
schools to open in this town. Every
hing will depend, however, upon the
health conditions. 1t has been sug-
sested that the rooms in which pupils
over 16 are taught should be opened,
out that seems to be one of the worst
that can be advocated.
Many Of those rooms receive children
rom out of town and up to date all the
eases of infantile paralysis have been
outside of this township.
The many friends of Horace B.
of Riverton, will regret to
earn of his death last Wednesday after
4 weeks illness. On Wednesday of
5he previous week he visited friends
and on his way home bought plate
Of ice cream. In the night he was
taken violently ill, and two doctors
him to be suffering with
ptomaine poisoning. He grew steadily
worse, became unconscious on Satur-
day, and did not rally.
Armor Union held its annual meet
ing for the election of officers at the
home of Mrs. Buzby, on Friday. Off
GERS were elected as follows: President,
Mrs. Leon M. Buzby; vice presidents,
Misses Virginia Crammer, Rebecca
Hunter, Cora Stokes and Eulalia Chat
fey; corresponding secretary, Mrs. AL
fred K. Boyer; recording secretary,
Miss Birdie Hunter; treasurer, Miss
Susie Brown; flower mission, Miss
Bertha Tracey; pianists, Misses Rsbec-
ca Hunter and Bertha Tracey; social |
committee, Mrs. Alfred X. Boyer, Mrs. |
Carter and Misses Birdie Hunter and
Bertha Tracey.
An open meeting of the Burlington
County Federation of Patriotic and
Religious Fraternities was held in
Md ~-r-T-71tfYening with large
attendance of members and others
from various parts of the county. The
candidates for Governor and county
offices were invited to be present. The
candidates for the former were unable
to be present owing 70 previous en-
gagements, but sent letters that were
read. Senator Walter E. Edge, Re-
publican candidate Tor Governor, sent
communication in which he stated
very plainly and definitely the princi-
pies on which he stood and would stand
if elected Governor that would be in
the interest of the Federation and for
good American government, this being
very interesting information for the
delegates. Senator Austen Colgate, also