Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1917 — SHE HAD PLENTY TO WEAR [ARTICLE]

SHE HAD PLENTY TO WEAR

Aged Woman of Mount Holly, N. J., - j thing Else. Mount Holly, N, J. —Rarely Is it revealed that a woman, with no apparent desire to be anything more than ordinary in her tastes, had accumulated so much wearing apparel as was found to belong to Miss Eliza McHenry, an aged woman of this place, when it was decided this week that someone would have to take charge of her affairs. Walter I. Dill of the Union National bank was given power of disposing of her personal effects at public sale for the purpose of raising funds for her maintenance. The sale, still in progress has been the leading attractton for Mount Holly women. For 2a years Miss -McHenry has had an uncontrolled mania for buying wearing apparel and storing it away. Seventeen trunks, some mammoth chests, grips, boxes, and closets were pound packed with wearing apparel. There was enough to -start, a storemore than 200 pairs of shoes and 50 odd ones, more than 200 dresses, 50 hats, eight fur coats, 12 sets of furs, 100 pockethooks. jewelry of the cheap variety-by the gripful. and so on.A