The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-07-25

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Judge William D. Lippincott h
gone to Eagle Bay, n. Y, for his SUI
d. mer vacation.
The summer meeting of the New Je
I'd sey Bee-keepers' Association will be he
" at the home of Harold Hornor, nei
Mount Holly, on Monday next.
t, The officers of Washington Camp N
lie II. P. O. S. of A., were installed by di
trict president Rev. w. E. Zimmerma
e at the meeting of the order on Thursda
e evening.
Harold G. Hurff and Sarah d. Evan,
J. and Joseph c. Shivers and Ruth F
Warrington were married at Elkton, Md
. on Saturday. Both couples live a
Marlton.
Fl Joseph S. Shreve has entered the en-
ploy of the Chalmers-Sutter Compan
on Union street. 1t is reported tn
Crew-Levick Company will rent MI
, Shreve's Mill street property for case
line and oil station.
The Mount Holly Glee Clubs rehears
ing for concerts to be given at Beacl
Haven. The first will be on Saturday
evening, August 5, and on Sunday ther'
will be sacred concert. Both will be al
the Baldwin hotel.
Ludwig P. Vollers, of Philadelphia
who recently sold his attractive cabin
on the upper creek to George b. Hates
has removed to Chicago. His canoe
which had been kept at Hacks wharf
was shipped to relatives at German
town.
Ferman Throckmorton, of Church
street, was awarded the gold signet ring
for selling the largest number of tickets
for the benefit given in the opera house
last week to raise funds to pay the de-
ficiency on the bath house recently
erected at the mill dam.
Adam Carey, nineteen years old, OF
Philadelphia, was drowned in the Ran
cocas creek at Delanco, Sunday after
noon. He was wading from shore with
two other companions when he stepped
into hole ten feet deep, and, unable to
swim, disappeared. His body was re-
covered.
A carload ofscrap steel from the govern
msnt proving ground at Sandy Hook,
consigned to the Roebling Company, at
Roebling, passed through Mount Holly
yesterday. Itcontainsd lot of exploded
shells, from 8 to IA inches in diameter,
that were viewed with interest by num-
Der of pessons who never before had seen
these death-dealing missiles.
One case of infantile paralysis was re-
ported to the board of health of Burling-
ton yesterday. Strict quarantine was
Immediately established at the home of
the victim, on Federal street, and the
authorities ordered that children be bar
red from moving picture shows. A cam
paign for thorough sanitation Will be
Immediately instituted.
Mrs. Percy Perinchief will entertain
the members of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of the Mount Holly
NJ. E. church at her summer cottage at
Brielle on Thursday. Mrs. Perinchief
is president of this organization and ar
rangements were made for this outing
before she left here and the members are
Expecting to spend very enjoyable day.
William D. T. Travis died at his home
near Burlington, yesterday, after an i'll
ness of several months from Bright's
disease. Mr.. Travis was an artist of con-
siderable repute and had painted many
pictures. His masterpiece was THE
March of Mortality to- which he de-
voted thirty years and, when completed,
he refused to sell although offered large
prices for it. He was II years of age.
In reporting the accident that occurred
to the America chemical last week THE
News erred in the statement that the
gears were stripped by the sudden APP
plication of the brakes. 1t should have
stated that the main driving shaft was
broken. The mechanics said that there
had been defect in the shaft and the
recent heavy strains had caused it to
weaken and the affair last Saturday
week finished it. A new shaft was re-
placed and the chemical was ready for
service again in short time.
At the meeting of the Board of Ed
ucation, Thursday evening, bids were
opened for furnishing supplies for the
manual training school and the de-
partment of domestic science. The
hardware for the manual training school
will be furnished by the Creedon Hard
ware Company, and Philip S. Irons was
given the contract for the domestic
science furnishings There is some dis
satisfaction over the awards as some
dealers claim they were not given fair
show. Goods were specified, but the
kind was not mentioned and bidders
were left in the dark. Aa an instance,
"stools" were named, but the size and
kind were not specified. Gas stoves were
also bid upon but there was nothing in
the specifications to show whether one,
two, three or more burner stoves were
wanted. In the matter of the hardware
the successful bidder guaranteed his
wares, while others say there was not
anything in the specifications showing
that guarantee was desired.
Found attacking little 6-year-old
Teresa Himmill in thicket by the side
of a lonely road not far from Florence,
Joe Cooper, of New York, was caught by
Andrew Durham, who took him to
! Florence at the muzzle of a double-bar-
relied shotgun. Cooper was turned over
to Special Officer Higgins and later
brought to the county Jail at Mount
Holly yesterday. Durham says. he was
walking along the country road when he
saw, some distance ahead, the man drag.
ging the child. He saw the two leave
the road and enter the thicket. Then
he hastened to his brothers. farmhouse,
nearby, and got shotgun. When Dur
ham found the pair in the thicket the
little girls dress was torn from her body
and she was severely scratched about the
face. He took charge of the child ant
made Cooper march to the Durham
house with him. The child said tina
Cooper had offered her nickel to show
him the road to Florence. Then he KEEP