The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-11-14
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER IA 1916
LOCAL NEWS.

A-SNo1 oOdoy-
Armour Union will hold a meetir
Friday evening at the residence of Mr.
Buzby, 1874 Buttonwood street.
Mount Holly Lodge of Elks will no
a social session at The Elks' Home Q
Thursday night, November 10Th.
Caleb S. Ridgway, of Lumbertol
has on display at Dubell's drug store
sweet potato weighing 4 Id. ounces.
The prize of S. won by TIM Ceresot
Girls in the Halloween parade ha
been donated to the children's home.
Charles A. Rigg, Surrogate-elect, vii
take charge of the Office on Thursday
He has not yet decided upon hi
deputy.
Harry G. Claypoole has given up hi
position at the Mill street hotel anC
entered the employ of the Victor Talk
ing Machine Company, at Camden.
The first of the series of lectures tt
be given by DIR. George E. Raiguel will
be given tomorrow afternoon at Z
o'clock at the Friends meeting hous,
on Buttonwood street.
The annual meeting OF the Burling
ton County Board of Education will bs
held in the High school auditorium
Mount Holly, on Saturday, December
8, at $50 o'clock in the morning.
Edmund d. Fryer, son of Samuel
Fryer, of Grant street, sailed for France,
on Saturday. He has enlisted as a
member of the American ambulance
corps for Red Cross work, and will be
gone about six months.
Word was received in Mount Holly,
last week, of the death of Albert l..
Tasker, of Philadelphia, who will be
remembered as the fine tenor soloist at
the concert given by the Mount Holly
Glee Club last winter. Mr.. Tasker had
many friends here.
At the meeting Of the board of di-
rectors of the Union National Bank,
yesterday, Walter l. Dill was elected a
director in place of Edward H. Lewis,
resigned. In consequence of the pass
age of the Clayton Act by Congress,
relating to interlocking directories,
Mr.. Lewis was made ineligible to serve
as director.
At meeting of ministers of the New
Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference
at Trenton, on Thursday, steps were
taken for the opening of movement
to raise 100000 to be used for the
founding of home for retired clergy
men or their widows. Special collec-
tons will be taken in the churches
and committees will solicit subscrip
tions outside of the churches.
The township committee has been
conducting postal card inquiry to
learn what the taxpayers think about
purchasing the water plant and in
stalling artesian wells. The answers
are quite diversified and somewhat
difficult to classify. About 30per cent.
of the replies oppose municipal owner
ship without equivocation. AS this is
quite large percentage of opposition,
the committee has about concluded to
drop the CUES ton.
A jury in Philadelphia rendered a
verdict of $1,000 against the PhiladeI-
phia Rapid Transit Company for in
juries to a child whose leg had to be |
amputated because one of the cars of
the company ran over it. The child's
lawyer put up the novel plea that
stop, look and listen," applied to
motormen, automobile drivers and the
operators of other machines as much
as it does to pedestrians, and the court
ruled that the lawyer had the right
idea.
A cunning party Of seven, composed
Of five men from Buddtown, and John
Throckmorton, ST., and Nathan Miller,
Of Mount Holly, went cunning near
Buddtown, Friday, and the game they
captured consisted of AS rabbits, 4 hare
and quails. Throckmorton, who is 76
years old, probably the Oldest gun
ner in Burlington county, killed OF
the rabbits and 2 quails. During the
deer season he went to the pines every
Wednesday OF the season but was I'M
able to get shot, although he
was a member of a party that got
deer.
A mass meeting of citizens is called
for Thursday evening at o'clock in
the court house, by the Chautauqua
Welfare Movement committee. The
committees that have been making an
inventory of the town will report and
make some recommendations for con-
sideration. Everyone is urged to come
out and manifest public spirit and in
terest in the uplift of the town. 1t is
hoped DR.. Pearson, of the Chautauqua
Association, will be present. Advertise
this meeting and see that your friends
are out. Prof. Dunaway, who has
been helping in this inventory, will
also be present.
Thanksgiving Day comes it's latest
this year, November 80. An effort
was made to bring it forward a week,
in order to lengthen the space between
the November and December holidays,
the time when most people do their
Christmas shopping. The effort failed,
but the thoughtful shopper need not
be the slave of the calendar. Remem-
Der how your habit of putting off puts
more labor on the saleswomen and the
delivery service of the week before
Christmas, and turns the most lovable
holiday into the most miserable. Be
gin your Christmas shopping early,
when the stocks are larger. the crowds
smaller. and the shop-people have
time to wait on you.
There were only two unclaimed let
ters in the Mount Holly post Office
Saturday. They were addressed to the
following persons: Harry Bailey and
Michael Yoffiedo. People frequently
put letters in without having the
proper address on them. There 10 a
letter in the Office with this address
''Master Freddie Kelly, care of Mrs
Annie Marshall, 10l7 Bergen avenue.
The named of the city is omitted There
is also postal card addressed to "Dea
children" signed Mama" but there
is not any address on it. OF course thu
postmaster does not know where t,
send these two missives, and the failur