The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-08-22

Raffasle Volgarino has purchased
house on Pine street from Melvina r
as Nippins.
Circuit court Judge Howard Carroy
lg has announced his fall schedule, and h'
will be in Mount Holly from October 81
Or to November 9.
st E. Earl johnson was taken to thu
Presbyterian hospital, Philadelphia, las
r. week, where he was operated upon fol
D. an abdominal trouble.
Charles E. Lynch and Marion E. Bush
1t both of Pemberton township, were mar
re ried at Lumberton on Saturday by Rev
y Johnson Oatman, Jr.
Mayhem Howard Williams, of the
= Herald force, and Miss Helen Marie
It Glass were united in marriage on Satur.
day by Rev. Z. NJ Ogden.
The annual lake carnival at New
Q Egypt has been abandoned for this year.
Last Thursday old home day was cele-
4 brated in that village, and it was sue
cessful affair
: Rev. L. M. Bicknell will preach in the
Freehold Presbyterian church on Sum
day. Rev. Arthur Phillips, Of Beverly,
will occupy the pulpit of the Mount
: Holly church.
Helen, the 19-months-old daughter of
/ John Pine, q Polander residing at
/ Hainesport, died on Sunday from infan-
tile paralysis. There are no other cases
Of the disease in that village.
Since the quarantine against children
under 16 went into effect, there has been
La great falling off in the number of
bathers at the milldam. On Saturday
afternoon there were only about twenty
persons in the water.
i The Burlington Enterprise asks:
why is it we can't have first-class
base ball club in this city," That is
pretty tough on managers Mcfarland
and Conroy, who think they have some
thing of the gilt-edged order
The peach crop in the vicinity of
Moorestown is greater than at any time
in the last twenty-five years. The large
orchards, some numbering 10000 trees
set out five years ago, are bending to the
ground under their weight of the fruit.
The funeral of Benjamin C. Mathews
took place from his late residence on
Monroe street yesterday afternoon. The
services were conducted by Rev. T. s.
Hammond. Deceased was 40 wears old.
His remains were inferred in Brother
hood cemetery.
Warren Apologize, a farmer near
Cookstown, had an arm broken and was
painfully bruised, on Sunday, by being
dragged by q runaway COW. The rope
by which Apologize was leading the
COW got twisted around his leg when the
animal became fractions, and he was
dragged a considerable distance.
There has been no change in the situa- |
ton at the Royle-P ilkington mill relative
to the lockout of the weavers, resulting
from the recent penalizing of few en-
ployes who refused to work on the night
of the merchants picnic and the sub
sequent organization of a labor union by |
some of the employees. The weaving
department is still closed.
William Powell. aged So years, who
died at his home near Mocrestown on
Thursday, was buried in the Brotherhood |
cemetery Sunday afternoon. He was a
son of the late Budd Powell and former
ly lived here. The funeral services were /
held from the residence of his brother,
Frank Powell, on Water street, being
conducted by Rev. t. s. Hammond. Il
Charles Mathews, colored, was arrested /
on Saturday for burglarizing the house
of Margaret Scepanski, at East Riverton,
and placed in the Jail at Mount Holly.
He stole victrola, records, clothes and |
other articles, some of which have been
recovered. He confessed that he COM
mitted the crime. Mathews has been |
convicted twice before in other counties |
on charges Of burglary.
Walter A. Barrows, Jr, of Brainerd,
Mimi, has been elected president of the |
| Catasauqua, Pa, Iron Company, by the |
board of directors and will take charge |
August 81. Mr.. Barrows, Jr., formerly |
of Mount Holly, was graduated from
Rutgers College in 1886 and 4 for 10 years |
was chemist for the Sharpsville, Claire |
and Leetonia furnaces. Until 1908 he |
was superintendent of furnaces of the
Shenango Furnace Company at Sharps-
vile. Since 1908 Mr.. Barrows has been |
engaged in developing iron ore proper
ties and in metallurgical practice.
Lumberton, Mansfield, Southampton
and Pemberton are among the town |
ships that have officers patrolling their |
roads to prevent children from entering |
or passing through their precincts unless
accompanied by certificate showing a |
clean bill of health relative to infantile |
paralysis. Throughout the county |
children are being prohibited from gath |
ering in public places, and many parents |
are keeping the youngsters at home
These precautions are producing good |
results; at any rate, the disease is not
spreading in this county Northamp-
ton township has not had a case thus
far.
OA~ANSAAy 6AOWOAS oAO WOAA0CA1uS NlCIt
| they are to get their pickers this year. 1t |
looks as if they would be forced to en-
ploy native pickers so far as possible,
and as many scoopers as they can get !
1t is evident that the Italians, under the |
present quarantine, could not come from |
the cities to the bogs as in years gone by |
1t is not that the Italian children are so |
valuable as pickers, but the entire |
families come out into the country, and |
the children must be brought along, or
the parents and older boys and girls can
not come, as they have no place to leave |
the little folks in the city. This will be |
serious matter for the cranberry men
if the crop turns out as big as it now
looks, and will probably mean that cold |
weather will find much of the crop un-
harvested
The assessment against the home of
the Masonic Association of Camden has
been set aside by the State Board OF
Taxes and Assessment. This case was
carried to the State Board by the Masons