The Mount Holly news., 1919-12-30
LOCAL NEWS.

mas taken position In the office {
George NJ. Hillman.
An elaborate Christmas musical prt
gram was rendered by the choir of th
Baptist church on Sunday evening.
After January taxpayers can max
payment of taxes to George w. Dad
ing at the Mount Holly Nationa
Bank.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Martha I'll. Quigley
of Mount Holly. to Aaron b. johnson
of Pemberton.
Mount Holly Forest of Tall Cedars
of Lebanon will hold its winter meet
ing in the Masonic Temple next Tues
day evening.
The 35th series of the Industr,
Building and Loan Association ma
tured last week, after running clever
years and nine months.
Letters for Miss Mary Davis, Mrs
Bessie Roe, H. C. Wagner, Mrs. Grace
Horner and Samuel DubelI remain un
claimed in the post Office.
Rev. C. B. Fisher has bought th,
Murrell Dobbins farm at Arney',
Mount. 1t will be occupied by his son
George e. Fisher, of Clayton.
The two games of basket ball be
tween the Holly Club and Delanco OF
Christmas night, resulted in a defea
for the local boys in both contests.
The wedding of Hudson Harris anc
Mrs. Sarah n. Stockton took place al
the home of the bride on Mill street on
Tuesday evening, Rev. Oscar w. Hen
derson performing the ceremony.
Real estate dealer Lippincott reports
the sale of the Ogburn property, IL
Mill street, to Herman Schwarts, OF
Riverside, and the dwelling at l7S Mill
street from Alfred Norcross to Samuel
Fryer.
Alexander Dubell, proprietor OF
Jones drug store, offers the public the
use of his store as waiting room for
trolleys, iitneys, etc., after the Arcade
hotel, now used for that purpose, is
closed next week.
Postmaster Reed and his assistant S
handled the unusually heavy Christ
mas mail in an expeditions manner to
the great satisfaction of the patrons of
the Office. The parcels branch of the
service is increasing rap idly.
Charles L. Chandler, manager of the
foreign-trade department of the Corn
Exchange National Bank of PhiIadel-
phia, will deliver an address in refer
ence to world affairs at the Elks'
Home next Monday evening.
The remains of Mrs. Mercy Ann
Haines, who died at st. Louis, were in
tered in Mount Holly on Wednesday.
Deceased was the widow of Theodore
b. Haines, who was, at one time, the
editor of the old Mount Holly Dis
patch.
The Burlington County Transit Com
pany pleasantly surprised six of its
conductors last week, when it present.
ed them with Christmas checks for $50
each. The men receiving the gifts
were old and efficient employees with
clean records.
Examination of the mental condi-
ton of William Coles is to be made by
physicians at the request of court Off
cials. lie was arrested and committed
to Jail last week for stealing jewelry
from the home of Mrs. Sadie Cronk,
on Water street. There is considerable
doubt as to his sanity.
llThe double house on Madison ave-
nue. belonging to John C. Garrett was
sold at masters sale on Friday, at the
suit of William III. Heisler, Jr., trustee
in bankruptcy. The north end was
bought by Ezekias W. Esham for
$1,000; the south end by James Kins-
Ter for S3,230. Both properties were
subject to some arrears of taxes.
Two valuable hound dogs that were
running deer contrary to law were cap
tured in the southern part of the
county by game warden Morton dur
ing the recent deer hunting season,
and are being held by the warden. If
the owner appears, he will be compell
ed to pay fine of 800. If uncalled
for tho Iun praSor ;hac fbst tho H..
be sold and the proceeds placed in the
treasury of the state game commits
sion.
The Court of Chancery has granted
DEGREES of divorce in the following
cases: George Strick, of Florence, from
Sue Ella Strick. of Burlington; Amy
Simon, Medford, from Harvey Simons,
Medford; Leverett D'Orsay, of Delan-
CO, from Edna D'Orsay, of Philadel-
phia; John III. jackson, of Mount
Holly, from Stella jackson, of Allan.
tic City; and Celia Pope, of Riverside
from Jesse Pope, of Pennsgrove
Robert Peacock, Of Mount Holly, was
the counsel in all these cases.
Rev. Oscar w. Henderson was pre-
sented with a Christmas present o
1904 by the congregation of the Bap
tist church last week and novel way
of making the presentation was chosen
Three ladies from the church called OF
the clergyman and presented him Will
book. There did not appear to b
anything especially valuable about tn
volume, but upon opening it Mr.. Hen
derson found 81 bill at the first page
Other banknotes of gradually increas
ing denominations were found in sue
ceeding pages, one for $50 being tn
last.
The annual turkey dinner given b
Mount Holly Elks furnished mue
pleasure and satisfaction to 1879 thur
gry children on Christmas day. Th
affair was held in the Masonic Temple
The room was beautifully decorated
and on each table was pretiily trim
med evergreen tree. Rev. C. b. Fisht
made brief remarks and offered a sho
prayer, after which fine menu WI
served. During the dinner music W:
furnished by the Peerless orchestr
After receiving box of candy and
big red apple each, the children WEI
to the movies as the guests of Man
ger Hulse at the Mount Holly theatr
For the purpose of starting a fur
for obtaining new fire apparatus Reli