The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-03-13

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of age.
II The speaker. at St. Andrews church
for Friday evening will be Rev. Jno
w. Obi, of Holy Trinity church, Col
lingswood.
Alfred Norcross has resigned his po-
sition with George B. Mcclellan and
5 entered the plumbing business for
himself.
] The Victor gospel team, of the Victor
Talking Machine Co., of Camden, had
charge Of all the services in the Penn
] berton Methodist church on Sunday.
The taxpayers of Pemberton town
ship will hold meeting at Birming-
/ ham next Monday evening, at 100, to
discuss the subject of building new
school house.
i Elsie NJ, daughter of the late David
and Lillian Early, of Bordentown, died
at the Burlington County Hospital
last Tuesday. She was in the oath
year Of her age.
The Parent Teachers Association
will hold delicatessen sale in the Car
ter building, next to America hose
house. from one until five O'Clock next
Saturday afternoon.
Letters for Mrs. Samuel Thorn, Mrs.
Wesley Thomas, Mrs. E. Sellance,
Mrs. Henry Reeve. Mrs. Mary Nc
Cardle and H. s. Faunce, remain un-
claimed in the post Office.
The next in the series of novelty
dances that are being conducted by
Quigley and Wollner is St. Patrick's
dance, which will be given the Masonic
Temple on Saturday night
A consignment Of English ring-neck
pheasants from the game farm at
Forked River was left with Game
Warden Morton, Saturday, by Howard
Mathis, for distribution in this county.
| The new motor pumpof the Mitchell
fire company. Of Burlington. was given
a run to Mount Holly Saturday after
noon. 1t stopped in front Of the
America hose house and attracted con-
siderable attention.
| About fifteen members of the America
fire company went to Masonville. Sat-
lurday evening, in their auto chemical
truck and attended the oyster supper
given by the 6remen at that place.
The boys had good time and greatly
Ienioyed the supper served.
The Northampton township COM
mittee has passed an ordinance which
prohibits parades on the streets Of
Mount Holly without permit being
issued for that purpose, and under no
circumstances will parades of any kind,
with music, be allowed on Sunday.
The Farmers Trust Company has
made a decided improvement in its
banking house. A column which cut
of view of the handsome safe deposit
vault, has been removed, and iron
girders put in to support the ceiling.
Contractor Thomas w. Feeney did the
work.
Harold w. Robbins, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. HI. Robbins, of Camden, who
spent nine months in Alaska, last
year, working for Uncle Sam as q
radio electrician. but at the present
time is in San Francisco, was married,
on March /. to Miss Viola Bryan, at
Oakland, California.
F. E. Embree. manager Of the Farm
ers' Exchange, has returned from
three weeks trip to Maine to arrange
for the shipment Of seed potatoes that
were purchased last fall by the ex-
change. Owing to the increased prices
OF potatoes this winter, there was some
difficulty in getting the seed. but that
difficulty was overcome and the pota-
toes are en- route.
The barns and outbuildings on the
farm Of Clifford Budd, between Med
ford and Masonville, were destroyed by
fire of unknown origin on last Tuesday I
morning. Two horses, lot Of corn,
hay, machinery. ETC., we're destroyed.
One of the horses, with the halter strap
burned off, staggered from the build
ing, walked few feet, and then drop
ped dead from the burns it had receiv-
ed.
The Dramatization of Silas Mar
ner, is the title Of play to be given
in the high school auditorium, Friday
evening. This is the production OF the
pupils in Miss Beatrice Barrington's
room. They have prepared the play
without assistance from any source
and will stage it, provide the scenery, |
and arrange all the details by their
own efforts. The proceeds will be
given to the Parent Teachers Associa-
ton.
Next Sunday afternoon the last of
series of mems meetings carried on
under the auspices of the local
churches, and Mount Holly Y.M. C.
A. will be held in the opera house at
400 p. m. Rev. James Fl. Terry is to
be the speaker, and will address the
men on the subject, THE SIN that
Kills. The interest and response
shown by the men Of Mount Holly to
these meetings is most encouraging.
1t shows that the citizens appreciate
the efforts and service exerted by the
local pastors in no uncertain manner,
and testifies to the high valuation of
the pastors.
The musical department OF the |
Manual Training and Industrial school |
OF Bordentown will give star concert |
in the court house on Monday even
ing, March 18th, for the benefit of St. |
Paul's M. e. Church of Mount Holly.
The programme will consist OF full
orchestra music, choruses, jubilee
songs and plantation melodies. AID |
mission % cents. Prof. w. r. Valen-
tine, principal Of the school, will ex-
plain to the audience the work &C
complished by the school, and its
needs, and the reasons for asking the
legislature for an appropriation OF
$4,000. The students will parade and
the band give short concert before
the programme begins.
The body of an unknown man was
found in Pensauken creek, near West
PALMYRA Friday nnorninr r. -
viewed by Coroner Gasxill, of Mount