The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-12-05
There are only II more shopping
DAYS before Christmas

A fine little girl arrived in the family
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Watson, on Pine
street, Saturday night.
] The Shepherds of Bethlehem will
give an oyster supper in Masonic lem
pie Saturday evening.
There was no session of lodge OF the
local P. o. s. of A. last Thursday night
owing to it being Thanksgiving day.
Mount Holly Lodge of Elks will give
it's annual free dinner to children on
Christmas day, in the Masonic Temple.
New Jersey Lodge No. /, Knights Of
Pythias, will celebrate its 49th ami
versary with roll call on Friday even.
ing.
The death of Charles II. Engle, Of
Garden street, occurred Friday night
from paralysis. He was 76 years OF
age.
Mrs. Edgar Armstrong desires to
thank all those who so kindly rendered
assistance during her recent bsreave-
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward d. Stokes left
on Saturday for Georgia. They will
spend the winter in that state and
Florida.
Margaret Shopp Kline, mother OF
Mrs. William H. Mason, OF Union
street, died on Saturday, at the age OF
IS years.
The funeral of Martha A. Norcross
took place from the residence OF her
son, Richard Norcross, Ridgway street,
Saturday afternoon. She was 81 years
of age.
The next meeting of the w. G. t. U.
will be held in G.. A. r. hall, next
Tuesday afternoon, at 8 o'clock. A
full attendance is desired. Business OF
Importance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stacy Shinn enter
tanned their children and grandchildren
at their home on Buttonwood street on
Thanksgiving day. The party num-
bered twenty-five.
Leonard Fisher has bought the fish
and oyster business on Mill street from
J. Leon Messick. He took charge on
Friday. Mr.. Messick and family con-
template going South in the near
future.
A birthday surprise was rendered
Mrs. Charles H. Crammer by members
OF. her class of the Methodist Sunday
school on Friday evening. About
thirty were present and very enjoy
able evening was spent.
Mary, widow of John A. Bozarth, of
Mount Holly, died at Trenton on Tues
Hor roroainC mara infArrpd at
Vincentown on Sunday, services being
held at the residence OF Mrs. Mary E..
Evans, Mill street, Mount Holly.
Miss.Eliza Cox McHenry, well known
to all of the citizens of Mount Holly
died on Saturday. She had been in
poor health for several weeks and was
boarding at house on Pine street.
Miss McHenry was the last of her FAM
lily, her nearest relative being cousin.
On Sunday, st. sPaul's Lutheran
church, which has been remodeled and
renovated, will be reopened withspecial
services at 1870 a. m. and 7.3O p. m.
Both services will be in English and
German. Rev. Otto Kleine, of Phila-
delphia, Rev. DR.. f. E. Oberlander, of
New York, and Rev. DIR. w. Jentsch,
of Riverside, will be,among the speak
ers.
George Scott, who recently robbed
his grandmother, Mrs. Scott, at Bor-
dentown, of $3.50 in money and an
overcoat valued at $35, by entering the
residence after she had retired at night.
was captured in Atlantic City last
week. He was brought to Mount Holly
Wednesday night and Squire Throck-
morton committed him to Jail without
bail.
The thirtieth anniversary service Of
st. Pauls M. K. Church will conclude
this (Tuesday) evening. The program
consists of the Epworth League De-
partment of Culture exercises in charge
of Miss Matte Green and an auction
sale of the articles of the bazaar. The
pastor, officers and members take this
method to thank all who have in some
way contributed to the expenses.
The will of Mary L. Reimer, deceas-
ed, of Mount Holly, has been admitted
to probate and the executors are three
sons, Edward d.. Benjamin H. and
George E. Willitts. She bequeathed
$50 to each of the children of her de-
ceased daughter, Mary Ann Gilman,
$50 to Josephine Boston, daughter of
Rebecca Grover, a deceased daughter.
The residue goes to the children in
equal shares, or their heirs.
There was considerable disturbance
Sunday morning about five o'clock
when number of young men and
women went around the streets, MAX
ing a lot of noise and destroying proper
ty. They are said to have been from
Burlington and missed the first car to
that city. They took milk from bot
ties and then broke the latter and
threw them into the street. At Woll-
ner's store, coroner of Washington and
Madison avenue, they broke the win
dow, but all that was missed was a lot
of onions.
Mount Holly Lodge of Masons elect
ed the following officers last evening:
Worshipful master, Leonidas s. Boyce;
senior warden, Benjamin E. Colkitt;
Junior warden, Herbert S. Killie; treas
urer, Walter l. Dill: secretary, James
S. Hulms; chaplain, Joseph w. Col
kilt; senior deacon, S. Lawrence Bull
lock; junior deacon, b. Frank Clay
berger, Jr,; senior master of ceremon-
les, Raymond Z. Thomson; Junior
master of ceremonies, Floyd B. Karg;
senior steward, George w. Dading;
Junior steward, Charles s. Colby; mar
shall, George M. Hillman; tyler, Robert
F. Storey.
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post No. 26, G. A.
r., elected the following officers on
Friday evening: Commander, Jesse
Stackhouse; senior vice Commander.
Ridgway Assay; junior vice commander.
Nathaniel Bickford; adjutant, Theo.
dore Nicely; quartermaster, Robert M.
Brown; chaplain, Franklin Armstrong:
officer of day, David E. Sooy; officer of
guard, John Throckmorton, ST.; coun-
Gil of administration, Franklin Arm
strong, Robert M. Brown, David E.
Sooy; representatives, John Throck-
morton, Ridgway Assay; alternatss,
Robert Brown, David Sooy; auditors,
John K. Scattergood, Ridgway Assay,
Franklin Armstrong.
Recently we alluded to the increased
cost of newspaper. In looking at our
bills for July and comparing them
with those of the last month it is seen
that newspaper has gone from four and
a half cents pound to seven cents q
pound with the warning that it will
probably advance to eight cents on the
first of January. This makes the
white paper cost seven-eighths of a cent
before it is put on the press. Then
comes the cost of setting the type, the
ink, the power to run the press and the
labor and postage connected with the
output. The NEWS is sold for one dol.
lar year, and you can easily figure
what it costs just for the white paper
alone-nearly one-half the price of a
subscription.
At a meeting of the Burlington
County Lyceum of Natural History az
Friday evening, James s. Hulme wa: