The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-01-23
TUESDAY, JANUARY %, 1917
LOCAL NEWS.

Letters for Miss Mildred King and
Miss Carrie Robinson remain in the
post Office unclaimed.
Monday, January %, is Mckinley
day. Do not forget to wear pink car
naturalization McKinley's favorite
flower.
The recently elected officers of Wash
ington Camp No. II, P. o. S. Of A.,
were installed on Thursday evening by
district president Lesly Reeves. OF
Palmyra.
County engineer James Logan was
elected vice president of the New Jer-
sew State Association of County En-
gineerssat the annual meeting held at
Trenton last week.
Owing to the greatly increased cost
of white paper, ink, etc., the retail
price of all Philadelphia daily news
papers, on and after Monday next, will
be two cents copy or twelve cents a
week.
< The first annual banquet of the
Holly Club was held at the New Wash
ington House on Thursday evening.
and was very enjoyable affair.
Covers were laid for forty-six members.
President John l.. Emerson acted. as
POSTMASTER.
The jewelry and other personal proper
ty belonging to the estate OF the late Miss
Eliza c. McHenry, will be sold at pub
lie sale in the banquet room OF the
Masonic Temple, on Thursday after
noon at l o'clock, by the Farmers
Trust Company, the executor.
On Tuesday afternoon the attending
physician succeeded in stopping the
attack of hiccoughs with which Will
liam G. Lippincott, of Union street,
had been suffering since the previous
Wednesday. Mr.. Lippincott was al
most entirely exhausted when relief
came.
A number of teachers from other To-
calities have visited the Mount Holly
schools recently to observe the methods
of instruction employed here, with
other matters of interest. Last week
four such visits of inspection were
made, one teacher being sent here
from Ocean City.
Mrs. Eugene L.. Burns, of Moores-
town, was painfully injured last week
when she was struck by boy riding
bicycle and thrown to the ground. She
was given first aid treatment at Coles
hotel and then removed to her home.
Mrs. Burns was formerly Miss Marion
Deacon, Of Mount Holly.
Irving S. Warner, fellowship secre
tary of the Burlington county
Y. M. C. A., resigned last week to
take up agricultural work at Calverton,
Long Island. Mr.. Warner has been
connected with Y. nj. C. A. work in
this county since 1915, and his de-
parture is much regretted.
THE NEWS erred, last week, when it
said WINS Davis Petit had been ap-
pointed to the position made vacant
BY the death of Walter Antrim, train
master of the Pennsylvania railroad
company. The official is WINS Davis
Jessup. He will have headquarters at
Trenton, and Lewis Ancker, assistant
train master, will look after the Cam
den end.
From Mountain Cabin to Man
hood is the title of an illustrated lee
ture to be given in the Methodist
church on Thursday night, February
/, by DIR. ]. s. Burnett, of Chattanooga,
Tenn. The lecture shows the conditions
in southern mountains, subject upon
which DR.. Burnett is capable of speak
ing intelligently, as he is one Of the
mountaineers. A silver offering will
be taken.
A sad incident occurred at the home
Of John Wickward, on Washington
street, on Tuesday of last week. Mrs.
Wickward and her sister, Miss Margery
A. Hortwick, aged IA years, who were
both i'll with pneumonia, had been
placed in the same bed in order to
give them better treatment. During
the morning Miss Hortwick was sud-
denly taken worse and died while ly-
ing beside her sister. Mrs. Wickward
is in critical condition from the shock
of her sisters death.
Word has been received in Mount
Holly OF the death of Mrs. Mary J.
Coppuck, at Los Angeles, California,
on January 8. Mrs. Coppuok had
lived in California for a number of
years. She was daughter of the late
Thomas d. Armstrong, the first cash.
Ter and one time president of the
Mount Holly National Bank, and the
widow of Joseph H. Coppuck. She owned
and occupied the present residence of
Martin H. Girven, on Washington
street, before removing to the west.
Philip S. Irons, Jr., and his sister,
Mrs. Louella E. Colder, had a narrow
escape from serious injury on Thurs
day afternoon. They were riding on
the Lumberton road in the light de-
livery automobile of the Irons furni-
ture store. Mr. Irons, who was driving,
tried to fasten curtain with one hand
and lost control of the machine, which
skidded into the railing at the d. Budd
Coles farm. Mrs. Colder was thrown
forward by the impact and consider
able bruised. The machine was badly
damaged.
Through the generosity of a public
spirited citizen, whose identity is I'M
known even to the members of the
Board of Education, DIR. Russell H.
Conwell, of Philadelphia, will deliver
his famous lecture, Acres Of Dia-
monds," in the auditorium of the
Mount Holly high school, on the even
ing of March Z, to the high school stu
dents and faculty, and the pupils Of
the sixth, seventh and eighth grades
Of the grammar school, together with
the teachers. Every expense connected
with the lecture will be betrayed by
the unknown donor, the use of the au-
ditorium being the only request made
of the school authorities. Such a
striking example of public-spiritedness
and interest in the pupils is deeply APP
preciated by all connected with the
schools, and those who will hear DIR.
Conwell speak will be always grateful