The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-03
LOCAL NEWS.

uOifOW.
The Baptist Sunday school will he
rally day services on Sunday, Octot
Is, at 2.l5 P. NJ.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. III. Polhemus lea
to-day on a two weeks trip to La
Mohonk, N. Y.
Philip S. Irons, Jr., has resigned /
position with the Burroughs Addil
Machine Company.
Miss Mary NJ. Champion is visitir
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Wills, at Be
lab villa, Seaside Heights.
Rey. t. S. Hammond has returne
from his vacation and occupied tt
pulpit of the M. E. church on Sunda,
Letters for Henry r. Lippincot
Miss Adelaide Kaufman and Henri
Dues remain in the post Office III
claimed.
The wholesale price of milk for Octe
Der has been fixed at five cents a quar-
by the Interstate Milk Producers Al
ISOLATION.
Mrs. James Stoddard and family wi
remove this week from the Episcops
rectory, Mount Holly, to st. Martins
near Chestnut Hill, Pa.
Owing to two cases of infantile par
alysis being in Mount Holly, st. An
drew's Sunday school will not be re
opened until further notice.
Mr.. and Mrs. George j. Stead cele
brated the twelfth anniversary of thei
marriage on Wednesday evening, al
their home on Bispham street.
Chester A. Appleton and family are
occupying one of DIR. John J. Flynn's
apartments at his drug store property
having moved from Union street.
Howard Collins has been quite ill al
his home on Shreve street, being
threatened with typhoid fever. He is
somewhat improved, the disease having
been warded off.
John q. Morgan, former chief OF
the Mount Holly FIRE department, who
has been connected with shoemaking
at the state prison for number of
years, was buried here on Wednesday.
The Burlington County Farm Bur
eau will have an interesting exhibit at
the Mount Holly Fair. 1t will be in
charge of Farm Demonstration Reid. All
persons interested inagriculture should
see it and get some new ideas.
The Armor Union will hold it's regu-
lar meeting at the home of Miss
Bertha Tracey, Pine street, on Friday
evening. All please attend as an I'M
usually attractive program has been
arranged with pleasant social features.
Housekeepers are warned to closely
guard their houses this week and to be
careful to see that windows and doors
are carefully locked. In case OF any
thing happening that needs police at
tention inform detective Parker at
once.
A second case of infantile paralysis
has developed in Mount Holly the four
year-old child of Morris Easlick, on
Church street. The other case, pre-
viously reported, is a colored child
named Elizabeth Lowry, out Wash
ington street.
Z A trolley car ran off the track, near
the Washington street bridge. on
Saturday morning, and collided with
Childs' delivery wagon that happened
70 be passing the car. The driver of
the wagon, Eastlick, was somewhat
bruised. and the wagon slightly dam
aged.
The woodwork of the trolley bridge
across the railroad tracks, near the fair
ground, caught on fire, on Thursday
night, from an unknown cause.
America chemical engine was sent to
the bridge, but the fire had been extin-
guished by some Of the trolley en-
ployes.
DIR. James K. Stoddard. son of the
late Rev. James Stoddard, d. D., has
returned from France, where he has
been working in army hospitals. He
graduated, last spring, from Johns
Hopkins university, Baltimore. He
returned from France to accept posi-
ton as inferno in Boston hospital, an
engagement he had made before going
abroad.
When Joseph Simpkins, of WASH
ington street, returned from church
Sunday evening, he found that some
one had entered his home by breaking
into the house through back window.
Forty dollars which were in the custody
of Mrs. Simpkins' sister for the church,
were stolen, Joseph's gold watch was
lifted and Mrs. Simpkins' wedding
ring went with the burglars.
The general conference of the Church
of the United Brethren in Christ,
which convened in Philadelphia last
week, decided it to be best that the
United Brethren mission church in
Mount Holly be disbanded, and urged
its members to attend other churches
in the town. The last service in the
building on Washington street was
held Sunday evening. The pastor,
Rev. l.. d. Gottschall, has been as
signed to the church at Allentown, Pa
A woman who is wellkaown is being
watched by the police. She has been
in the habit of taking early walks
around the streets and helping herself
to the contents of milk bottles placed
on the steps of residences. One morn
ing last week she was on Brainard
street, and picked up milk bottle
which she soon emptied. Several bot.
ties have disappeared in various part
of the town lately. If the woman il
'eally in need of something to eat sh
ian easily be relieved, but she mus
stop stealing.
When Miss Miriam Archer enterel
ner store Saturday morning she wa
surprised at finding all Of her goods il
confusion. Part of the store is occu
pied by man named Mcfarland an
he was not in the place from early il
the evening until IL o'clock. Whe
Miss Archer looked over her propert
she found several of her dresses ha
been cut and slashed, ink bein
smeared on coat. She had stock
ribbons and other goods on sale an
these had heen cut in strips.