The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-03-06


10. of the Baptist church.
9 A marriage license was issued Ii
Philadelphia, Saturday, to Charles G
i Russell. of Mount Holly, and Mary
t w. Meyer, of Philadelphia.
The West Indies Importing Com
0 'pany has leased the vacant Alcot1
= foundry building for term of five
years, to be used as tomato cannery
:. Mrs. Richard H. Rogers has removed
( to Pennsgrove. where her husband
has charge of drug store that is moi
i connected with the Dupont works, az
/ first reported.
The personal property Of Eliza G.
} McHenry, deceased, will be sold al
public sale, in the banquet room of the
Masonic Temple, on Wednesday after
noon, March IA.
The Philadelphia Philharmonic and
Mandolin Club. will give a star concert
at the court house. Thursday, March
Sth, $50 p. m. sharp, for the benefit OF
Mount Moriah A. M. e. church. The
public is invited.
| Stricken with acute indigestion,
| Charles Lewis, aged 81 years, died on
Wednesday at the home OF his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mahlon WINS. at Camden.
He was native of Pemberton, and a
retired engineer.
| At a meeting Of New Jersey Lodge
No. /, Knights of Pythias, on Friday
might, plans were set forth in antisi-
lpation of celebrating the 5Oth anniver-
sary of the local lodge. The event will
take place in the near future.
Rev. T. s. Hammond will leave TO-
day for Atlantic City to attend the
annual New Jersey Methodist Episco-
pal conference which convenes to-mor-
row morning. He expects to be re-
turned to Mount Holly for another
year.
| Howard L. Weeden, of Brainard
street, one Of the local agents of the
Prudential Insurance Company, has
been promoted to an assistant superin-
tendency, with headquarters at Bur
Ilington. He will assume his new duties
in about two weeks.
Suit was begun in Camden, Satur-
Iday. by Benjamin Funk, of Bridges
boro. to recover SIC, 900 from the Public
Service Railway Company as a result
lof being struck by trolley car at
Riverside on June 10, last, while he
was in an auto truck.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the barn and outbuildings on the farm
owned by DR.. A. III. Patterson, at
Georgetown. Tuesday morning. The
loss is estimated at 81 500. The live
stock was saved but the contents, in
Guiding feed and grain. were consumed.
Fire apparatus from Columbus and
Bordentown responded to the alarm.
The Parent Teachers Association
will hold its regular monthly meeting |
on Thursday evening in the school au-
ditorium, and the public is cordially |
invited to attend. The speaker will be |
Louis ]. KayseE, county superinten-
dent. The music will be by the high |
school orchestra, and the pupils Of the
Samuel Aaron school will have num-
bers on the programme.
The Bell Telephone Company has an |
advertisement in another column ask
ing that patrons refrain from asking
operators the location Of fires. The /
company claims that SO many calls
Of inquiry are made when fire alarm
is sounded, that the regular service is
as the operators are unable
to distinguish between important BUSH
ness calls and those Of curiosity only.
The sophomore class Of the Mount
Holly High school will give drama
tization Of Silas Mariner on Friday
evening, March is. This entertain
ment will be given in the high school
auditorium, and will be for the benefit |
Of the Parent Teachers Association.
The high school orchestra will furnish
the music and there will be other must
cal numbers. The tickets will be ten
cents.
Governor Edge has appointed an
auxiliary committee to work with
the State Department Of Conservation
and Development. 1t is estimated
that millions Of dollars can be added
to the state ratables by making the
waste lands in South Jersey fertile.
Among those who have been appoint
ed to the auxiliary committee" are
Thomas R. Finley. Smithvills; C. M.
Biddle. Walter H. Lippincott, A. C.
Wood, Riverton; Charles Evans, Gin
naminson; S. s. Dennis, Moorestown.
There are 30 membersof the additional
committee. which will act with the
other body, none of whom will receive
pay for their services.
Despite the severe storm of Sunday
one hundred and fifty men attended
the meeting at the opera house in the
afternoon. The address was delivered |
by Rev. Thomas S. Hammond on the
subject 1.-THE White Man. Mr.. Ham
mond's address was forcefully delivered
and his plea for cleaner and better
living was strong and positive. MANY
favorable comments were made and
those who heard Mr.. Hammond felt |
well repaid for their coming. Presi-
dent Crippen, of the local Y. M. C. A.. |
in closing invited the men to come to
the last meeting Of the series on March
is, when Rev. James H. Terry, pastor
of the Baptist church, will deliver an /
address on The Sin that Kills"
Clad only in pink silk pajamas,
Harry Kenney, of Riverside. who has
something Of record as somnambu-
list, walked barefooted through the
snow three blocks from his home TO
the railroad station. ON Saturday, |
where his appearance startled passen-
gers waiting for an evening train. Ken
ney rubbed his eyes, yawned and
stretched his arms when a man in the
crowd accidentally stepped on his bare |
toes. Policeman Voshell appeared a |
moment. later and aided the young
man to cover his confusion and also
his paiamas and took him to his home.
The sleepwalker told the policeman
that he had been conscious of no SEN
sation Of the chilly weather until he
awakened at the station.