The Mount Holly news., 1919-12-02


phia, is visiting relatives here,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin H Ogburr
have been visiting their former home
here.
Mrs. w. P. Melcher will sell hel
household goods at public sale, on Jan
uary 8, at As Garden street
The Burlington County Supply and
Produce Company has declared an an
nual dividend of seven per cent.
Mrs. Burr C. Wright and daughter,
Ruth, of Perth Amboy, have been
spending few days in Mount Holly.
F. Wallis Armstrong, of Meadow
view farm, near Moorestown, is in a
hospital at Media, Pa, suffering from
badly broken arm, the result If being
thrown from horse during fox hunt
Rev. A. H. Bishop, professor of a
college in Kentucky, who has been
visiting his brother, Samuel W. Bish-
hop, on Pine street. preached in the
Methodist church on Sunday morning.
Norman F. Gibbs, of Mount Holly,
who has been connected with the army
remount station, Camp Dix, has been
transferred to Camp Funston, Kansas.
He and 30 others of his company left
last week for their new post.
For the convenience of persons who
wish to pay their taxes collector Ed
ward P. Hullings will sit in the town
ship room, on White street. on Tues.
day, Thursday and Saturday evenings
of this week, between the hours of
seven and ten o'clock.
The annual agricultural competitive
exhibits for boys and igirls, under the
direction of the Y. NJ. C. A., took
place in the high school building on
Saturday. The boys exhibited field
products, the girls showed baking,
needlework, etc. The affair was a sue
cess.
Horace c. Pease, of New York city,
came to Mount Holly for his annual
cunning trip. He had good luck until
Saturday, when he stepped in hole
and sprained his ankle so that he will
be kept in bed about week. He is
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ed
gar A. Alcott, on Madison avenue.
The rope works at Beverly has made
the largest cable ever turned out. The
great rope, needed for towing an ocean
liner across the Atlantic, measured
1900 feet in length and weighed five
tons. Because OF the difficulty that
would have been encountered in ship |
ping it by express, it was coiled on
big motor truck in the plant and car
ried to New York pier.
A man giving the name OF Lewis |
Walter Sinclair was arrested in River
ton, Sunday, charged with forging
checks. Chief of police Miller got
word of the operations of the fellow
and soon had him in his charge. The
persons who were victimized were
Lewis Levin, Burlington; Charles Fos-
ser and Solomon Pollack, Riverside;
Simon Levin. Beverly. The man
would visit the stores of the parties
named, and after making purchases
would offer the checks which were ac-
,epted in payment. He is now in Jail.
There was happy gathering in
New York, on Friday, when DIR. Eu-
,enia Whitehead, of Mount Holly,
greeted her niece, and Mrs. II. M. Lip
,incott also joined in welcoming home
Ter sister, Miss Edith NJ. Moore, who
eturned after service of two and
lalf years lover there" Miss Moore
erved for two years as a Red Cross
Nurse in France, and during the last
tx months she had charge of Ger
nan hospital. After leaving Coblenz,
Germany, the young lady decided to
ee some of the country and she had
trip through Asia, Rome,
Naples, Pompeii, Vesuvius, Florence,
yenice, Milan, through the Italian
Alps TO Paris, then to Brest, from
which port she sailed for home. While
l. o.oughly enjoying her splendid trip,
he was delighted to see the statue of
liberty and to be able to set foot on
american soil once more.