The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-01
Isaac H. Lippincott has purchased a
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ranks on Monday and go to work on
farm.
Albertus A. Stidfols has taken
position as plumber inspector at tn
Philadelphia navy yard. AT the pres
emit time he is stationed on battle
ship.
HI Everett Lippincott, Ole Moen an6
Gerald ". Coikitt have enlisted If
the naval coast reserves. They arr
subject to call within twenty-four hours
notice. u
"A Sunday school institute will b.
held in the M. E. church at Vincen
town to morrow evening. A similar
meeting will be held at Medford this
evening.
Mrs. Amelia McElven and Seth Ben
nett, both of Pemberton, came te
Mount Holly on Thursday and wers
united in marriage by Rev. Johnson
Oatman, Jr.
Wilma, the little daughter of Mrs.
Ray o. VanArsdale, of Lumberton,
had the first finger of her right hand
badly smashed yesterday, by getting
it caught in the door of one of w. A.
Jones' auto buses. The door was shut
and latched on the child's finger.
George T. Carmslia died at his home
on Church street Friday night from
heart trouble. He was SO years Of age.
His funeral will take place this after
noon from the home of his son in-law,
Walter Bowker. Church street. His
remains will be inferred in Brother
hood cemetery.
A 500 party was given in Medford,
last week, which Melted sos. This
sum was given to the Burlington
County Children's Home. Mrs. John
r. Lewis and Mrs. William Jones were
in charge OF the affair and they desire
to return thanks to all who aided in
making it success.
On Thursday the survivors of the
Twenty-third Regiment New Jersey
volunteers will hold their annual re-
union. At ten o'clock the business
session will be convened In the room
of Gen. A. E. Shiras Post. Theluneh-
con will be served in the lecture room
of the M. E. church.
George B. Hates has sold his cabin
on the upper creek to DIR. Turner. Of
Philadelphia, and begun work ON q
new one on the Nathan Henry proper
ty neas Hearts Delight. DR.. Lichten-
Der, of the University of Pennsylvania,
is erecting two-story bungalow and
garage on the Paducah tract.
DIR. Paul M. Pearson, of the Chau-
tauqua Association, has given good
reasons why the Chautauqua should
not be abandoned in 1917 on account
of the war. Therefore, the Chautauqua
season has opened. On Monday, next,
Miss Grace Hershey, the Chautauqua
representative, will meet the guarantors
and committee in the Office Of Kelsey
& Killie at 7.45 p. m.
William I. Dill, head Of the state
motor vehicle department., asks motor
lists not to place flags on their cars to
fiutter in the wind. He says numerous
horses have been frightened in this
way, and much damage done. He
likes to see the flag on the auto. but he
wants it fastened SO it will not flutter in
the wind. He also cautions against
FASTING flags on the headlight lens, as
some have done.
Washington Camp No. II, p. o. 8.
of A., have planned an active time for
this month. On Thursday night there
will be initiation. May 10th will be
roll call night when all members will
be expected 10 answer when their
names are called. May 17ths will be
oratory night when the members of
the order who have been selected will
give chair rising" addresses. May
oath will be ladies' night.
The spring institute OF the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Bur
lington county will be held in the First
Baptist church, Burlington, on Thurs
day. Sessions will be held morning,
afternoon and evening. The evening
speaker will be Mrs. Mary Harris
Armour, known as the Georgia
cyclone" In view of the new phase
of the liquor question now before the
country and the recommendations from
high authorities for legislation that
will convert grain into food instead OF
letting it go to the distiileries, it is ex-
pected that the sessions will be OF more
than ordinary interest.
Lieutenant Edwin A. Abbey, OF
Philadelphia, for nerly of Mount Holly,
who was recently reported missing from
Canadian regiment at Vimy, France.
has been killed, according to a cable
gram received on Sunday by his father,
William b. Abbey. Abbey was grad
uated from the University of Penn
sylvania Engineering School in June,
1912, and afterward entered the service
Of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a
construction engineer. In 1915 he en-
listed in the Second Pioneer Battalion
of the Canadian Engineers, which was
one of the first contingents to go to the
front. About a year ago he was
wounded at the battle OF Ypres.
The house on the farm OF Ellis /.
Worrell, at Eayrestown, was totally
destroyed by fire on Saturday night
while the family was In Mount Holly.
The household goods also were almost
all burned. The fire evidently was Of
incendiary origin, as there were no fires
in any of the stoves, and, when dis
covered by neighbors, the flames were
confined to the outside OF the house
near the ground. George Wedell, Of
Mount Holly, who was seen near the
Worrell residence that night, and who
does not give a satisfactory sxplana
ton as to why he was there, was ar
rested on suspicion Of having set fire
to the building, but it is probable be
will be released because of lack of evi
dence.
William Stockton has been working
for Samuel Earl, who lives on tn,
Samuel Davis farm near Wrightstown
About midnight Saturday. he took
without permission, the old famil,
horse and buggy and went to Pember
ton. What happened there is no
known, but Stockton started for hom
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