The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-07-18

at his trade Of textile weaver.
The July meeting OF the Burlington
. County Firemens Association will b
held at Medford tomorrow night.
The annual picnic of the Burlington
county knights of Columbus will b
held at Rancocas Park tomorrow.
A civil service examination for the pc
% lsition of postmaster at Vincentown will
be held in Mount Holly on Saturday.
6. Miss Elsie E. Hughes has resigned az
. pianist of the Baptist Sunday school
e and Miss Inez Mayer has been chosen az
her successor.
! Mrs. Virginia B. Reynolds, of Vincen.
] town, has taken apartments at the Ar
cade hotel, and will make her home In
Mount Holly in the future.
/ w. o. Thornton, Walter Leonard,
Ernest Bateman, John Griefsu and J.
b. Mccullough have been elected trus-
tees of the church of the United Breth-
rem.
A. Ashby Lippincott haspurchased an
Overland automobile, and rented pant of
Harvey E. Lippincott's new garage in
the rear of his residence on Garden
street.
A demonstration of aluminium cook
ing utensils will be held this evening iE
the Y. M. c. A. building on Button
wood street, under the auspices Of the
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The annual meeting of the Mount
Holly Business Mems Association will
be held onsAugust 20. The association
has been in existence two years and has
a membership Of nearly fifty local bust
ness houses.
An auto truck belonging to the Fret
hofer Baking Company caught fire near
Rancocas Park on Wednesday and was
totally destroyed. The Masonville fire.
men were summoned, but arrived too
late to save the machine.
Kelsey & Killie have placed an order
for fire escapes to be erected on the Ma
sonic Temple building, the removal of
the Brainard street stairway making
such means Of exit from the upper floors
OF the building necessity.
Among those released from the state
lprison by the court Of pardons, last
week. was Joseph Rogers, who was sem
fenced from this county November 49,
1913. to not less than three years nor
more than fifteen years, for arson, in fir
ingsthe Lumberton hotel.
Samuel Heller, of Church street, has
been sent to the county Jail for 80 days,
on charge preferred by residents of
Church street for cursing and using in
decent and vulgar language on that
street while in a drunken condition.
The hearing took place before Justice OF
the Peace john Throckmorton last Tues
day.
Run over by his own team, Harry
Walls, farmer, of Beverly, died shortly
after his admission to Cooper Hospital,
Camden, on Saturday. Walls, who was
80 years old, was on his way to Philadel-
phia to sell garden truck. AT Fortieth
and Federal streets, Camden, he was
iostled from his seat and in falling went
directly beneath the wheels.
The Ladies Aid of the G. A. r. elected
the following officers on Tuesday even
ing: President. Mrs. Charles M. Gale;
vice president, Mrs. Charles Emerson;
Junior vice president, Mrs. Walter n
Bowker; chaplain, Mrs. Hattie Tracey;
conductress, Mrs. Ridgway S. Asay;
guard, Mrs. Mary lice; secretary, Miss
Lorena Bates; treasurer, Mrs. Charles H.
Warner.
Wednesday evening was the 25th> an |
niversary of T. Clifford Keeler's occu-
pancy of the Office of treasurer of the
lodge of Odd Fellows, and after the
meeting he took the members to an ice
cream parlor and gave them treat In
cidentally Mr.. Keller celebrated his 10th
birthday on Tuesday. Hesucceeded his
father as treasurer Of the lodge. the lat
ter having served 40 years.
William A. Wilson, OF Grant street,
who has been connected with the poul-
try plant at Browns Mills for the last
four years, has secured q position as
manager Of one Of the departments of
the Columbia Phonograph Company,
with headquarters in the WooIworth
building, New Yc-k Mr.. Wilson will
take up his new work in August, and
remove his family from Mount Holly in
the fall.
The honeymoon of Adolph Dokas, of
East Thompson street, Philadelphia,
was interrupted on Friday, when he was
arrested by Detectives Coogan and
Brown, charged with the theft of $500
from his brother-in-law, Stanislaus MOI
sikey, OF Roebling, Burlington county,
three years ago. Dokas was married on
July 8, and was spending his honey
moon with his wife at the Thompson
street address. The prisoner was held to
await requisition papers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac ]. Murdoch, of
Ocean Springs, Miss. are visiting at the
home of his nephew, Harvey F. Muir
dock, on Shreve street. Mr.. Murdoch
has been away from Mount Holly for
over twenty years and he is observing
with delight the many Improvements
that had taken place here during that
time. Mr.. Murdoch served on the police
force at Chicago for twenty years, and
he is now on the retired list. Heintends
visiting his many friends and relatives
in this section before returning to his
home.
The annual picnic of the Loyal Sisters
Bible class of the M. E. Sunday school
was held on the farm of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles H. Crammer on Thursday. The
ladies spent very enjoyable day picnic
ing with their teacher, Mrs. Crammer,
and they invited their husbands to
take supper with them, which they had
deliberately prepared. The evening was
spent in social way, various games and
other amusements were INDUCED in,
after which, at late hour, refreshments
were served. They say it was the great
est day in the history of the class.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert C. Chance, Sd.
and a party of friends, camped along
the upper creek over July A, pitching
their tent on the meadows near Smith
ville When they returned home they
left the tent and some camping utensils,
intending to return week-ends and even