The Mount Holly news., 1916-11-28
Irving Heppard is i'll at his homa ON

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to the house last week by a severe at
tack of boils.
Letters for Miss Gladys Cooper and
Samuel Conklin remain unclaimed in
the post Office.
Louis A. Mcfarland has bought a
house and lot, No. 1893 Washington
street, from Charles Coles.
George M. Parker and family have
removed from Budd street to the resi-
dence on Brainard streetadioining that
of George T. Durand.
The annual communication of Mount
Holly Lodge of Masons for the election
of officers for the coming year, will be
held on Monday night.
May J. Kirby, of Mount Holly, has
been granted an absolute divorce from
her husband, John N. Kirby, of Med
ford, on the ground of desertion.
An illustrated lecture "By Canoe
aud Caravan through the Heart of
Africa" will be given on Friday even
ing in the Presbyterian church. Ad-
mission ten cents.
The recently-formed Mount Holly
Choral Society has been compelled to
disband because Of the inability to Sc
cure enough male voices to make q
satisfactory chorus.
| J. Adds Herr, farm adviser on foods
and markets of Pennsylvania, will ad-
dress a meeting of the Burlington
County Dairymen's League, to be held
in grange hall, Columbus, tonight.
The annual supper and bazaar for
the Burlington County Hospital will
be held in st. Andrews parish house
on Thursday, December Z. All the
delicacies OF the season will be on sale,
and there will be the usual booths for
fancy articles.
County superintendent of schools
Louis J. Kayser will shortly begin the
erection of residence on his recently
purchased lot on upper High street.
The building will be placed on the side
of the lot, as Mr.. Kayser contemplates
erecting second house later.
Sheriff Stecher had several sales on
Thursday. Charles Coles bought the
property of William G.. Shinn, at
Lumberton. Six properties Of Ivans
Petit, at Burlington, were purchased
by the Farmers and Mechanics Build
ing Association, the complainant.
Putting large steel range too close
to the wall, nearly cost Mr.. and Mrs.
Rosha Thompson their home at
Wrightstown, on Tuesday. The par
tition between the kitchen and dining
room was burned ont and it was only
through hard work that the large farm
house was saved.
The many friends OF Mrs. Charles
LaTour were pleased to learn, last
week, that she had recovered from a
siege Of typhoid fever, followed by an
operation for gall stones, to such an
extent that she was removed from the
Burlington county hospital to her
home on Union street.
Frank Howard, colored, is in Jail on
a charge of assaulting Palmer Stills, a
trolley car conductor. On Tuesday
night the negro attempted to get on
board a car at Moorestown, but the
conductor objected on account of the
mans intoxicated condition. Howard
then struck Stills with his fist, render
ing the conductor unconscious, and
the arrest followed.
DR.. Clifton E. Lord and John Worth,
of Mount Holly, haYe purchased the
hotel property at Ortley, between Sea-
side Heights and Lavalette, together
with.a large tract OF ocean front land
adjoining the hotel. The building is
furnished, contains forty bedrooms,
and needs only slight repairs. 1t is ex-
pected the new owners will conduct the
place themselves next summer.
B. c. Mayo, OF New York city, a
real estate promoter, has taken over
the Browns Mills tract, purchased
from Mahlon w. Newton, and will de-
velop it by selling lots in connection
with subscriptions to a Philadelphia
newspaper. Considerable work is being
done on the tract, consisting of repair
ing dams, cleaning old and cutting
new roads through the woods, laying
out lots, etc.
Congressman Bacharach wishes to
announce that he has for free distri-
button a limited number of two i'm
portant publications recently issued by
the Federal Trade Commission as fol-
lows: IA system of Accounts for Re-
tail Merchants" and fundamentals
Of Cost System for Manufacturers.
These booklets will be gladly sent to
those who make application for the
same, first come, first served.
A meeting Of the County Superin-
tendsnts of Schools of Atlantic, Bur
lington, Cape May and Cumberland
counties, was held in the high school
at Vineland, on Friday, for the pur-
pose Of considering the details of the
competitive examination, to be held in
December, at the request of Congress
man Bachsrach, for the purpose OF Sc
lecting six young men to be named by
him as the principals and alternates
for the entrance examinations for West
Point and Annapolis, which examina-
tions will be held during the spring of
1917. for appointment in the summer
of that year.
David Bell, general passenger agent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, has notified James Folk. secre-
tary of the South Jersey Commuters
Association, that his request that the
theatre train on the Mount Holly di-
vision be made earlier than at present
had been acted on favorably, and that
it will arrive at Market street wharf
fifteen minutes earlier. This train was
scheduled to arrive in Philadelphia at
100 p. M, but was seldom on time,
and passengers arrived at play houses
late. The time table was changed on
Sunday and the train mentioned leaves
Mount Holly at 6.4S instead of 6.55.
During rain storm on Thursday
night, high wind sprang up, reach
ing almost the proportions Of hurri-
cane, doing considerable damage in
some of the country districts. A COW
barn ON the farm Of Clinton Worrell,
naar Vincanfnwn WAS blown down