The Mount Holly news., 1917-01-09


avenue, is confined to the house by al
attack of bronchitis.
Miss Mary E. Thorn, of Brainar,
street, is now teaching in the school a
Springside, near Burlington.
Tylee B. Engle. L., will shortly re
move to Frederick, Md, where hi
will engage in the cattle business.
The annual meeting of the Burling
ton County Medical Society will b.
held at the Arcade hotel tomorrow.
The Interstate Milk Producers AS
sociation has fixed the wholesale prict
of milk for January at 81 cents aquart
Rehearsals have begun for the an
nual minstrel show of the Holly Club
which will be given some time nex'
month.
Company E went to Camden, on
Friday evening, and participated in
an inspection of the third regiment by
Major j. F. Brady.
The Burlington County Game Pro
tective League will hold its annua
meeting at the court house next Satur
day afternoon at two o'clock.
The third annual banquet of the
Mount Holly Business Mems Associa
ton will be held at the Arcade hotel
on the evening of January 25th.
Policeman G.. Howard Curtis reports
that there were 1925 applications for
lodging at the town lookup during 1916.
This is q slight decrease from the pre-
vious year.
A daughter recently arrived in the
family of DIR. Harold 8. White, oI
Rutherford. Mrs. White was formerly
Miss Bessie V. Durand, of Mount
Holly.
The Bloomfield B. Pew farm, on the
Woodlane road, near Mount Holly, was
sold at public sale on Thursday after
noon, to Harry Fort, of Columbus. for
$104 an acre. The farm contains 121. .37
acres.
The annual euchre for the benefit OF
the Burlington County Hospital will
be held in the Mount Holly high school
auditorium on January %. Tickets
for the event will be placed on sale
this week.
Frank L. Garbarino and William B.
Crozier have leased the Isaac l.. Shinn
ice house and cove along the upper
creek and plan to engage in the ice bust
ness the coming summer. They have
already harvested about 300 tons of ice
Miss Caroline Robinson, Of Mount
Holly, sdied at the Home for Aged
Women, at Burlington, on Tuesday.
She was eighty years old. Funeral
services were held in the Mount Holly
M. E. church Friday afternoon. Her
remains were inferred in st. Andrews
burying ground.
A Parent-Teacher Association to
affiliate with the Samuel Aaron school
was formed recently at a meeting held
in the Mt. Moriah church. The follow
ing officers were chosen: President,
Rev. w. r. A. Palmer; vice president,
Rev Adolphus Willis; secretary, Mrs.
Eliza Jackson; treasurer, Mrs. c. w.
Jackson.
Four eclipses of the sun and three of
the moon, the greatestnumber possible
in single year, will occur in 1917.
The last year in which seven eclipses
came was early in the last century,
and the next win be 1885. Yesterday
there was total eclipse of the moon,
visible in the United States. 1t began
at 1880 q. M, and the eclipse was total
between a. M. and 1923 a. m.
Oliver G.. Billings, the retiring mas
ter Of Mount Holly Lodge No. IA, f.
and A. NJ, gave dinner at the Ar
cade hotel on Thursday night to the
officers who served under him during
the year and a few other Masonic
friends. Twenty-eight covers were
laid. Charles A. Rigg acted as toast
master. Mr.. Billings officers presented
him with handsome loving cup.
The Ushsrs' Union of the Methodist
church held meeting at the home of
Willard F. Lippincott last Tuesday
evening, at which time the following
officers were elected: President,
Willard F. Lippincott; vice president,
Floyd E. Scattergood; secretary, Ma
than Miller; treasurer, ]. Frank Scat
tergood; executive committee, Ashby
A. Lippincott and William I'll. Dob
bins.
Thomas w. Hulme, real estate agent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, WAS last week appointed vice
chairman of the presidents conference
committee of all railroadsin the United
States. This committee is engaged in
making q federal valuation of all rail-
road property in the United States, an
enormous undertaking. Mr.. Hume
will have direct supervision of this en-
tire work.
On Christmas day, or within two
days before or after, nature lovers all
over the United States take census
Of the birds to be found in their re-
spsctivs localities, and each person'sre-
port is published in a bird magazine
during January. Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
ID. w. Pumyea made their census on
December "a, and they report having
observed thirty different varieties of
birds in this neighborhood, in spite of
the extreme cold weather which pre-
vailed on that date.
On New Years day Mrs. Mary H.
Jones, who resides in Mount Holly
with her daughter. Mrs. Rachel H.
Deacon, had thirty-five of her children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren
with her at the home of her SON, Allen
Jones, at MoSrestown. All the family
were present except five grandchildren
and one great-grandchild. These re-
unions have been held every year since
1882, with one exception. Barclay and
Mary H. Jones were married January
/, 1857, and lived on farm at Fellow.
ship until their son Charles married
and took the farm. After that they
lived in Philadelphia and Moorestown,
celebrating their 50th wedding ami.
versary at the latter place in 1907. Mr.
Jones died in 1909, aged IS years.
According to ruling of the Stat'
Board of Education, on Wednesday
pupils cannot be compelled to apollo