The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-09-04
LOCAL NEWS.


The Ladies' Aid of the G. A. R. will
resume its meetings next Tuesday
evening, September IL.
Harold d. Lippincott, of Mill street
on Tuesday began work as one OF tn,
clerks at Camp Dix post Office.
The regular meeting of the North
ampton fire police will be held thiI
evening in the America hose house.
The Young Friends Association viii
meet at the residence of d. Budd Jones
near Vincentown, next Friday evening
The Evesham township board of edu
cation is advertising for bids for the
erection of a school building at Marl
ton.
Grand stand reserved seats and sea.
son tickets for the Mount Holly Fair,
next week, are on sale at Dubell's drug
store.
Labor day was quietly observed in
Mount Holly Yesterday. The banks
and post Office and many Of the stores
were closed.
Union Fire Company will hold its
annual fair at its fire house on Wash
ington street on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights.
A 500, 600 school house is to be erect
ed ate Cinnaminson adjoining the
present building on the Moorestown
and Riverton road.
Frank L. Pratt, Jr., left Mount
Holly, on Friday, for Scott's Bluff,
Nebraska, where he will resume his
studies for the ministry.
The Burlington County Federation
of Patriotic and Religious Fraternities
will hold it's next meeting at Taber
nacle next Tuesday evening, Septem-
Der IL.
The Loyal Sisters Bible class of the
M. E. Sunday school will meet at the
home of Mrs. Thomas Gauntt, at
Deacon's station, on Thursday even
ing.
The Northampton Board Of EdHoa-
ton, at a meeting held ON Tuesday
night, decided to postpone the opening
of the public schools until Monday,
September 18th.
The annual convention of the New
Jersey State Firemen's Relief Associa-
ton will be held on the steel pier, At
lantic City, on Friday and Saturday,
September q and %.
The marriage of William F. Gibbs
and Miss Cassie r. Lawrence occurred
at the Methodist parsonage on August
q. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. T. s. Hammond.
Columbus Hawthorn, the we'll known
Adams express delivery man, has been
promoted to the railroad service of the |
company. His run will be between |
Philadelphia and Stroudsburg, Pa.
There is not the slightest doubt that
: the 18th Fair of the Burlington County |
Association, to be held September IL,
IL, 13 and IA, will be one of the best |
ever presented to the public.
William Post has been added to the |
Mount Holly police force, doing special
duty principally out Pine street, where
there has been considerable disorder by |
buns travelling to and from Camp Dix.
Armydis Hilton. son of the late
Joseph l.. Hilton, was taken ill last
week with typhoid fever at his home
near Moorestown. This is the third
case in the family within a few
months.
There will be supper at Medford,
on Thursday, September 9Th, under
the auspices of the Medford branch of
the Red Cross. 1t will be served on /
the lawns of Misses Ella r. Allen and
Bertha Weeks, on Main street.
Thomas Thornton Newbold, who is
well known in Mount Holly, where he
has spent many OF his summers, has
received a commission as second
lieutenant, and is now attached to an
engineers regiment in camp at zap
hank, l.. /.
The sale of the hotel property of
Richard w. Harker, at Pointville, was
contaminated last week. The new
owner, Walter H. Church, it is report
ed. will not apply for a transfer of the
liquor license, not wishing to continue
the business.
Raymond w. Sprow has resigned his
position with THE News, and entered
the printing department of the Taubel
hosiery mills at Riverside. He is spend
ing this week at Jersey City, receiving
factory instruction in the operation of
a new kind OF cylinder press in use at
the Taubel plant.
Capt. William E. Doron, owner of
the Burlington-Bristo ferry, gave his
annual free picnic for children at Bur-
lington island park on Thursday. The
attendance OF Mount Holly children
was about five in number, as the |
trolley company refused to furnish free
transportation as 1t has done in former |
years.
The Central Record, OF Medford, |
which recently changed owners, is now
issued by the Central Record Publish
ing Company, new corporation re-
Gently organized. The incorporators |
are: Harry L. Knight, president; Law
renee g. Mingin, secretary and treas |
urer; Charles F. Clymer, editor and
manager, and Charles E. Holmes.
There was collision on the Medford-
Hammonton road, on Thursday, be-
tween motor truck diven by Harley
Wells, of Indian Mills, ana touring
car driven by DIR. ]. H. Deemer, of
Atlantic City. Wells had his right
hip, shoulder and arm fractured, DR..
Deemer received many cuts and bruises,
Thomas P. Williams had his collar
bone broken and Mrs. Deemer and Mrs.
Williams suffered severely from shock.
DIR. Deemer said he was driving about
twenty-five miles an hour at the time
of the accident. He did not attach
blame for the accident to Wells. DR..
Deemer has since died.
At the meeting of Armour Union,
held on Tuesday evening, the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Mrs. Carrie Engle; vice presidents, Mrs.
Leon Buzby, Mrs. Alfred X. Boyer,
Mrs. Harold Carter, Miss Cora Stokes;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Alfred