The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-06-20
LOCAL NEWS.

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A party of twenty-five boy scouts fror
Mount Holly and Vincentown are plar
ming to camp at Seaside Park for tie
days early in August.
Artimus B. Cash, employed at John
sons barber shop on Main street, wa
one OF the graduates of the Philadelphia
College Of Pharmacy last week.
Word has been received here of th
birth of a daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Oti
B. Read. formerly of Mount Holly, bu
now OF Santa Paula, CAL. on June 2.
The Burlington County Medical So
ciety met at Moorestown on Wednesday
DR.. III. E. Longsdorf, of Mount Holly
read an interesting paper on "Tonsils.
1t is expected that the erection of Com
pany Els new armory on Grant street
will begin about November l, when the
state appropriation of $500 will be
come available.
Miss Mildred Perinchief, of Mount
Holly, graduated on Wednesday from
the Centenary Collegiate Institute al
Hackettstown. receiving diploma in
domestic science.
The township committee is advertising
for sealed bids for drilling an artesian
test well, as authorized at the recent
town meeting. Bids will be received up
10 D. m. of June twenty-ninth.
Miss Edna E. Cole, state superinten-
dent of elementary work, will be present
ct Sunday school in1titute to be held
this evening in the Presbyterian church.
All Sunday school workers are urged to
be present.
Members of the Union Fire Company
have started movement to secure a
automobile hose wagon, and are making
arrangements to hold festival in their
fire house on September IA, 15 and 16,
to raise funds for the purpose.
The funeral Of Hope, wife of John
Fenimore, who died at Ewanville on
Thursday. took place from the residence
of her grandson. Harry E. Fenimore on
Pine street, Mount Holly, Sunday after
noon, interment being at Pemberton.
Mount Holly Lodge No. IA. F. and A.
M, accompanied by the quartette choir
of the Baptist church. will conduct re-
ligious services at the Masonic home
near Burlington. on Sunday afternoon.
Rev. James H. Terry will make the adj
dress.
1t is reported that about sixty
five Mount Holly young men left town
last week to take positions in the Eddy
stone plant of the Remington Arms
Company. An agent OF the company
spent several days here recently signing
employees.
George Price. of Burlington, employed
by the Bell Telephone Company, was
painfully but. not seriously injured
Thursday afternoon when he fell from a
forty-foot telephone pole near Bristol, Pa
He was brought to the Burlington
county hospital at Mount Holly.
The meanest thief ever sought in Bur-
lington county, according to detective
Parker,is former employee of the coun-
" asylum at New Lisbon. Shortly
after coming to the institution the fellow
who gave the name of Harry Mcdonald,
of Philadelphia, discovered that one of
the inmates of the institution had a
small sum of money in his possession,
and he is alleged to have taken advan-
tage Of the mans unfortunate condition
to stesl the cash.
There is a chance for boys from this
county to get an appointment to the
naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
There will be an examination of pupils
OF high schools ior this purpose. 1t will
be held in the high school, Haddon and
Newton avenues, Camden, on:Thursday,
June 20, ct $50 a. M. The subjects APP
plicants will be examined in will be
mathematics. including geometry, alge-
bra and arithmetic, English, U. s. his
tory and geography. Professor James
E. Bryan, city superintendent. of Cam
den, will be pleased to answer any in
quiries that may be made on this exami-
nation.
1t is reported that numerous fruit trees
about town are dying from blight. In
The NEWS last week, appeared two ar
ticles, Save fruit trees by bridge graft
ing" by the United States Department
of Agriculture and "How to kill cherry
slug by C. P. Gillette, Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colorado. Look
up your paper and cut out the articles.
Tell your friend who has trees dying from
blight, sun scalds, disease, etc., that THE
NEWS prints articles that not only bsne-
at the farmer but contain all the latest
news and advertisements of interest.
One dollar in, advance will bring it to
your door for one year.
Several little girls held an entertain.
ment and mock wedding on the lawn Of
John D.. johnson, Jr. s residence, Tues
day afternoon. for the benefit of the
Ckildren's Home. Two cents admission
was charged, and the children were very
much pleased at netting LOS from theil
efforts. The program was as follows
Song. Gladys Royle; scarf dance, Wini
fred Jutten; song. Katherine Johnson
Spanish dance, Elizabeth Gaskill. Mrs
Elizabeth II. Gaslxill acted as clergy
man at the mock wedding of Elizabeth
Gaskit, bride; and William Warrick.
groom. Katherine Johnson was maid
: of honor, and Winifred Jutten and Alice
Clarke, bridesmaids. The flower girl
was Elizabeth Johnson.
Arbitration settled matters when Mrs.
II. Norman Thorn, well known social
ly, OF Edgewood road, Ardmore, Pa,
had Miss Sophie Trasel, equally vel
known socially, of Hagefford, hailed be
fore q magistrate Tuesday night, alleg
ing that Miss Trasel's bulldog, Mike
was vicious and had bitten her. Mr.
Thorn had statement from DR.. MAJ
Leod, OF Ardmore, who treated Mrs
Thorn for the injury. E. q. Hamersly
lawyer who usually shines only in thu
biggest cases, appeared for Miss Trasel
He said Mike was good dog, and sug
gested that the case be settled by Mis-
Trasel's paying the costs and the bill O
DIR. Macleod and agreeing to keep Mix
in restraint. Mr.. ThorR said he woul
attend to DIR. MacLeod's bill if Mis-
Trasel would do the other two things
So the magistrate dismissed the case.
'Shades of Shakespeare's Celebrate