The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-29
LOCAL NEWS.

i. lied at Crosswicks with twenty-nin
members.
Augustus Powell, of Water street, i
typhoid fever patient at the Burling
ton County Hospital.
A flag pole has been erected at tn,
factory of the Burlington County Sho'
Company on Water street.
Miss Camilla A. Bullock, of Union
and Buttonwood streets, died suddenly
OF apoplexy, early Tuesday evening.
Blanchard II. White has been ap-
pointed deputy great sachem of dis
trict No. Is of the Red Men of New
Jersey.
The next regular meeting of the w.
c. T. U. will be held at G. A. r. hall,
Tuesday afternoon, June 5, at 3o'clock.
Important meeting.
A freight train jumped the track
near Lenola, on Tuesday. and held up
railroad traffic between Mount Holly
and Philadelphia for several hours.
The annual reunion of the Alumni
Association Of the Mount Holly high
school, will be held in the Masonic
Temple on Friday evening, June s.
The Mount Holly Thimble Bee cele-
brated its tenth anniversary last week
by giving dinner to the husbands of
its members, at the home of DR.. and
Mrs. ]. Hume Carter
Rev. William Muir Aud, pastor of
Calvary Presbyterian church, Phila-
delphia, will be the speaker at the
commencement exercises OF the Mount
Holly high school, on June Z.
Edward Hack shipped % canoes to
New Lisbon, Browns Mills, and other
points up the creek, on Friday. They
were ordered by parties who padded
down the stream on Sunday.
Mr.. DeHaven and wv. Hutchinson,
connected with the auditing depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, came to Mount Holly, last
week, to visit conductor George w.
Stimm.
Workmen employed by John r.
Allen, of Lumberton, raised a new
barn on Robert s. Gaskill's farm ON
the South Pemberton road, Thursday
afternoon, in three hours. The barn is
92x25 feet.
Announcement is made Of the en-
gagement of Wesley Johnson, of Ran
cocas, who is employed at the super
visor's Office of the Pennsylvania rail
road in Mount Holly. and Miss Myrtle
Powell, of Buddtown.
At the Methodist parsonage ON Sun
day evening occurred the marriage of
Miss Lillian May Earling and George
Herbert Bridge, both of Hainesport. |
The ceremony was performed by Rev |
Thomas s. Hammond.
A barn at Jobstown adjoining the |
home OF Collins Stevens, was struck |
by lightning early Wednesday morn
ing and destroyed by fire. A bucket |
brigade kept the flames away from the |
house. A horse and some chickens |
were burned to death.
Edward Gunsche has been appointed |
superintendent of the children's play
ground. The apparatus that was pur-
chased last year but which could moi
be used owing to the outbreak of in
fantile paralysis, will be put up the
week following the Chautauqua SEES
sions.
Every one is cordially invited to at
tend the graduation exercises of the
teacher training class of the Presbyter-
ian Sunday school, on Sunday even.
ing, June 3, at 7.30 o'clock. Prof.
Isaac B. Burgess, general secretary of
the New Jersey State Sunday School
Association, will make an address on
1.-THE Mission of the Teacher"
Gerald c. Branin has been trans
ferred from the Acme store on Main
street, Mount Holly, to the Childs'
store at Moorestown. jeremiah Fl
Deacon has left the same store and is
now employed by Henry Rosenfeld
The vacancies thus left in the Acme
store force were filled by the employ
ment of Charles Smith and F. Shreve
Armstrong.
Oscar Gillespie, of Mount Holly, who
escaped from the county hospital for
the insane, at New Lisbon, on Mon
day of last week, was recaptured at
West Chester, Pa, on Wednesday.
Albert j. Clark, another Mount Holly ]
man, who escaped from the institution
about the time Gillespie left, was
caught at Moorestown a few hours
after he got away.
At the regular monthly meeting of
the Burlington County Board of Agri-
culture held in the Office of the Farm |
Bureau, J.. A. Jones, Ii. B. Wright
and E. E. Logan were appointed a |
committee to request the Northampton |
board of education to place the domes-
tic science rooms of the high school al
the disposal of the Mount Holly Wo-
mems Community Committee for use |
in teaching canning throughout the |
summer to women and girls of the |
vicinity.
George Foster, colorsd, former resi-
dent of Moorestown, who moved to
Mount Holly about two weeks ago,
tried to commit suicide on Wednesday
night by jumping into the creek from
the Bispham street bridge. He saved
himself after the shock of the cold
water brought him to his senses. Fos-
ter was arrested and sent to Jail for an
examination of his mental condition
His wife stated that he was worried
about money, having been recently &C
Quilted of chicken stealing, and pay
ing his lawyer had exhausted his
funds.
Union chemical engine was sum-
moned to Wrightstown, Friday, to aid
in extinguishing fire that started in
the barn on the property of Mrs. Ella
Harker, near the railroad station. The
interior of the barn and it's contents
were burned and the flames got to the
roof, which was also burned. A por-
ton of the mill adjoining the barn
took fire, but nothing much was hurt.
There was no insurance on the build
ings. Chemical engines were on hand
from Columbus, Bordentown and