The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-31
LOCAL NEWS,

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ing of Washington Camp No. II, p.
8. of A., on Thursday evening.
Richard f. Glover has removed fro
Buttonwood street TOT bungalow whit
he recently purchased at Oakdale.
Letters for Henry I. Walder, Mi
May Cameron, Miss Rachel B6we
and +. ]. Blurton, Eemain unclaime
in the post office.
Mrs. Mary Powell has removed froI
Buddtown to the property on Pin
street, Mount Holly, which she fo
merly occupied.
Isaac Wilson will be present at
meeting to be held in the Friends
meeting house at Arney's Mount, o.
Sunday. at 2 p. m. All are INVITED,
Arrangements are being made for tn
organization of choral society il
Mount Holly. Miss Ethel M. Burr, o
Moorestown, will be the leader, an,
rehearsals will probably be held in tn
high school auditorium.
Mrs. George t. Durand, who hal
been ill with typhoid fever at the Bur
lington county hospital, has recovered
sufficiently to leave that institution
and is convalescing at the home o.
Mrs. George Haines, on Broad street.
On Thursday evening the Methodist
Sunday school will hold a social in the
lecture room of the church, to which
all members and friends of the school
and church are cordially invited. An
interesting program has been ar
ranged for the occasion.
A masquerade surprise party was
tendered Winfield s. Cameron at his
home on Paxson street Friday even
ing. 1t was very complete surprise,
and an enjoyable evening was spent.
After a general social time refresh
ments were served.
At a meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton on Friday evening, Medical In
spector Richard H. Parsons was grant
ed leave of absence on account of i'll
health, and DIR. Harold E. Longsdorf
was chosen to fill the position during
DIR. Parsons absence.
Wednesday, November s, will be the
annual donation day for the Burling-
ton County Hospital. The great num-
Der OF cases treated at this institution
during the past year has made the ex-
penses unusually high, and cash con-
tributions are urgently needed to keep
the hospital going in an efficient man.
ner.
The first meeting of the winter Jun
ior Chautauqua was held in the high
school auditorium on Friday afternoon.
Miss Dorothy Powell, of Chautauqua
headquarters. was present, and out
lined the activities of the coming sea
son. The work this winter will be in
charge of the Misses Mary Flynn,
Mildred Tuttle, Rena Haines, Eliza
beth Tillinghast and Beatrice Barring
ton.
The managers of the Burlington
County Hospital have decided to buy
the residence property adjoining on the
south, belonging to Willard F. Tomlin-
son, in order to increase the facilities
of the institution. The building now
used as living quarters for nurses, will
be utilized for hospital purposes, and
he nurses will be transferred to the
Tomlinson house. During the past
year the hospital has been at times SO
crowded that patients had to be refused
admittance.
On November the fiftieth annivcr-
sary of the founding of the Interna-
donal Committee of the Y. M. c.. A.
will be celebrated in New York CITY at
the Waldorf-Astoria. The international
Committee, which has general super
vision Of Y. M. G. A. work throughout
the world, has accomplished splendid
things since its organization in 1866.
The work of the Burlington county Y.
M. c. A. comes within the scope of the
international Committee, and number
OF men interested in the work in this
county will attend.
Thomas Farquhar, aged 10 years, O
6mithville, died on Thursday in Cooper
hospital, Camden, from tetanus. A
few days before he stepped on nail anC
treated the wound with home remedies
until his foot began to swell and hi
jaws stiffen. A physician was con
suited and as the result Farquhar wa
taken to the Camden hospital, wher,
several thousands units of anti-tetani
serum was injected into his system
but with all the efforts the disease wa
not warded off and death ensued. III
was a member of Company f, Sd Regi
ment, National Guard OF New JERSEY
Deceased was also a member of WASH
ington Camp No. II, p. o. S. of A., {
Mount Holly.
Anxious to discover how far importe
game birds will travel from the terri
tory on which they are liberated, Cha
l. Wooster, in charge of Mexican qua
used in the field trials near Medford
the English Setter Club of Americ
asst spring, has issued an appeal f
the cooperation of New Jersey sport
men in studying the subsequent NOV
ments Of these birds. Wooster saws !
believes the birds have mated ar
reared several covies of young. Eat
adult bird, when liberated, wore a /,
band with the initials &C. l. W." al
Wooster asks gunners killing any
the tagged birds during the comir
season to seud him the band with
note as to where and when the biz
were killed.
The dates and subjects of the ser
of lectures to be given this season
Dr.. George Earl Raiguel, OF Philad
phia, under the auspices of the v
mans League, have been announce
Six lectures will be given on Wedn
day afternoons at four o'clock in |
Friends meeting house on Butt,
wood street, as follows: November
Events Just Past; December l3, I
Caribbean Sea; January "a, Alaska a
the Pacific Coast; February 81, Haw
and Philippines; March 81, Inter-
Problems of the United States; Al
IL, Summary of happenings OF
Year. The evening lectures will
given in the court house, on Tuest
evenings. as follows: November
Hl1, W.. "a.