The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-02-13

TO the house last week by an attack
quinsy.
The plate glass door in the store
Abram r. Gerber was cracked by tn
cold on Saturday morning.
The Delaware and Raritan canal vii
lopen for navigation, weather permit
ting, ON Wednesday, March l.
George B. West is at Occoquar
| Virginia, engaged in rebuilding til
water wheels Of an old mill there.
Il Mrs. Richard n. Parsons has bee
elected member of the board OF mar
layers Of the Burlington County Hosp
tai.
i The skeleton of baby was found il
a carload Of oyster shells recently d.
livered at Medford for road buildin
purposes.
DIR. III. Eugenia Whitehead will &C
dress the Parent. Teachers Association
OF Medtord, at meeting in the schoo
house at that place this afternoon.
Burlington quarterly meeting {
Friends will be held at the meetin
house, corner High and Garden streets
next Tuesday. 10th inst, at 10.30a. N
Clayton Hancock will have publ
sale of stock. crops, farm implements
and household goods, at his farm nea
columbus, on Thursday, February q
Burr C. Wright, Of Mount Holly. OF
Saturday received the contract to pain
the interior and exterior of the new
tuberculosis hospital to the erected a
New Lisbon.
Edward H. Coffin, OF 3439 Lafayette
avenue. st. Louis, announces the en-
gagement OF his daughter, Sarah
Frances, to former Judge Joseph H
Gaskill, Of Moorestown.
Andrew J. Jordan has been reappoint
| ed jury commissioner for Burlington
county for the term Of one year, begin
ming to-day. The appointment wal
made by Chancellor Walker.
On Thursday evening, February %
| the Sons Of Veterans will have its an
nual anniversary celebration. Tn,
program being arranged by the com
mittee will be in fitting observance o
Washington's birthday.
Miss Musa Stanton and brother
Pierre H. Stanton. OF Mount Holly
were among the guests at the celebra
ton OF the 25th anniversary of The
wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. N. Stokes
Evans, of Moorestown, last week.
A barn belonging to Allen Horner, 9
farmer living at Chester View, neal
Bordentown, with fifteen tons Of straw
and some wheat, was destroyed by fire
on Friday, causing a loss Of 81, 400
partly covered by insurance. The
origin Of the FIRE is not known.
Rsy. A. w. Bostwick, rector Of the
Episcopal church at Vincentown, who
has achieved considerable newspaper
fame through bis lurid descriptions Of
the Ignorance and wickedness OF the
New Jersey ''pineys," has presented
his resignation, to take effect May /.
William A. Mccormick, of Burling-
ton. who. has been huckstering fruit
and vegetables in Mount Holly for
about twenty nine years, made his
last trip on Saturday, to the regret Of
his many customers. Mccormick has
been appointed to the Burlington POI
lice force.
The Methodist Sunday school will
hold a social in the lecture room of the
church on Friday evening, February
%, which will be similar to the one
held in December, which was very
enjoyable affair and it is being planned
to make the one on the 28d more in
teresting. A program Of interest is
being arranged.
1t has been many seasons since devo-
tees Of skating have had such an OPP
portunity to enjoy the sport as they
have this winter. The coves along the
upper creek have been safe for some
time and skaters are going several
miles up the main stream. A number
Of Mount Holly people went to Smith
vile pond on Saturday.
The present junior group of the local
Y. M. c. A. has grown so large that 1T
has been found advisable to separate it
into senior and Junior group. Floyd
P. Karg will continue as leader OF the
senior group. and Walter II. Scott,
manual training teacher in the Mount
Holly High school, will look after the
Juniors. Mr.. Scott is especially quali-
fed for this work from his experience
with the Boys Club of Kensington.
Owing to break in the pumps at
the filtration plant Of the Burlington
waterworl<s, the State Board OF Health,
after a hurried investigation Saturday.
issued orders to residents to boil all
drinking wafer until further notice
The break comes at the most serious
season. health authorities saw. owing
to the river being closed with ice and
the raw water laden with disease
germs. Workmen are rushing repairs
on the pumps.
John Woolstown Haines we'll
known resident Of this county died Al
his home in Vincentown Friday Mr.
Haines had not been in good health
for a long time but he was. in he'd inst
abont q week nrevions r. his daatb