The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-02-01

e, 1t is reported that local undertake
conducted eighteen funerals in fourte'
a. days recently.
he William H. Loveland died at
home on Mount Holly avenue, Saturds
), night, of tuberculosis. He was Az yea
:. of age.
q w. B. Crozier will conduct shop I,
the sale of motorcycles and accessorie
/. and automobile supplies, in the stol
room adjoining his cigar store on Mai
! street.
Caleb S. Ridgway, of Lumberton, VIII
= has been i'll with pneumonia in tn
hospital at st. Petersburg, Florlds
where he is spending the winter, has re
covered sufficiently to leave the institu
ton and return to his hotel.
John M. Hnff's class of the Methods
Sunday school will go to Trenton OF
Friday afternoon and attend the servic
at the ''Billy" Sunday tabernacle. l
is expected that about twenty-five per
sons will make up the party.
Rev. Joseph l.. Surtees, pastor OF tht
Methodist church, had very busy time
last week. He preached every night al
the revival services that are in progress
in that church, and officiated at five
funerals, making total of twelve ser
mons he delivered last week.
A district meeting of the P. o. S. OF
A., was held at Bordentown last night
under the direction of Rev. w. E. Zim-
norman, district president. A big
patriotic parade took place before the
meeting. Several members of Mount
Holly Camp were in attendance.
Rev. Peter J. Durnisfi, who has been
in charge of st. Joseph's church at
Beverly for fifteen years. will retire after
the lenten season. Father Durnisfi is
70 years old, and has served as priest
for forty-fve years. Six weeks ago the
parishioners Of the church rendered him
banquet on the occasion of his birth
day.
Charles E. Hansbury went to Wills
Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, yesterday,
in an effort to discover the cause of the
continual headache and severe pains in
one of his eyes, which he has endured
for some time. Local doctors diagnosed
the trouble to be caused by growth at
the back of the eye. Should this be
found correct, Mr.. Hansbury will be
compelled to undergo serious operation.
The Mount Holly Cemetery Company
has made two additions to its property
which will be of value in conducting
funerals. A lowering device for hand
ling caskets has been purchased which
will do away with the old style of using
straps. The purchase of this affair has
been delayed until the latest improved
pattern could be secured. A canopy has
also been purchased to be used in in
clement weather.
Camden is preparing for the greatest
Civic and Industrial Exhibition not Only
in the history of that city, but expects it
to equal if not surpass any event of the
kind ever held in New Jersey. Ten
days-May 18th to 9th inclusive, have
been set apart for the event and about
300 of Camden's busiest men in all walks
of life are already at work on arranging
the details for it. The city of Camden
has appropriated $4,000 toward the ex-
pense of the exhibition and committee
of which w. L. Hurley is chairman, ex-
poets to raise $50, 900 in addition, fund
that will make possible the exhibit on a
strictly high-class basis.
Enormous losses to farmers through
the failure of crops because of poor seed
will be eliminated by enactment of the
bill introduced before the legislature by
Assemblyman Emmor Roberts, of Bur
lington county, at the behest of state
agricultural authorities, according to
prominent south Jersey farmers who
have studied the bill and who are pre-
pared to make fight for the measure,
should there appear any opposition to
its passage. Assemblyman Roberts says
the proposed law will drive the seed
faker out Of business, and will give the
farmer what he bargains for in the seed
market. The Roberts bill is especially
directed against the practice of mis-
branding seed, whereby INSCRIPTIONS
dealers will sell cheap seed at a fancy
price under false name.
Alfred b. Woolston, who died at St.
Joe, Missouri, on the oath ult., was
Missouri pioneer. Eighty-five years of
age when he died, he had lived near
Sugar Lake, Missouri, from childhood
until year and a half ago, when he
and his wife went to St. Joe to live with
their only daughter, Mrs. Barnes. Two
weeks ago Mr.. Woolston was stricken
with grip, and that, complicated with
kidney trouble, caused his death. His
wife has been critically i'll with paraly-
sis for some time. 1t was his earnest de-
sire to live as long as she did, to be able
to assist in caring for her. ZAP Wool
ston, as nearly everyone in Platte coun
ty called him, was born in Vincentown,
from where he moved with his parents
to Platte county, Missouri. In 1852 he
enlisted in the regular army and crossed
the plains with Sidney Johnson in a
campaign against the Mormons. Be-
sides his daughter and wife, Mr.. Wool
ston is survived by three sons, George
Noah and John, of Platte county.