The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-01
TUESDAY, MAY /, 1917
LOCAL NEWS.

Overland touring car.
Washington Council No. 5, Jr. o. U
A. NJ, will hold an important meeting
tonight.
The May meeting of the board Of
freeholders will be held at the court
house tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Clements are
having house erected on Pine street
next to the bridge.
Next Sunday evening the members
of the Northampton Fire Department
will attend St. Andrews church.
The Burlington County Dairymen's
League will hold meeting at the
court house on Saturday night.
Miss Edith E. Hulse and Caleb s.
Shinn, both of Mount Holly, were
married at Elkton, Nd, on Thursday.
The first quarterly conference of the
Mount Holly Methodist Episcopal
church will be held on Thursday even
ing.
Fire in the woods at the forks of the
creek, near Hainesport, on Sunday,
destroyed considerable timber before it
was extinguished.
The Burlington County Hospital has
received $259.35, the proceeds of the
concert recently given in Burlington
by the Metropolitan band.
Harry V. Shoop, of Pine street, has
been awarded the contract for carrying
the mails between the Mount Holly
post office and the railroad station.
Washington Camp No. II, P. o. s.
OF A., will have initiation at it's meet.
ing on Thursday night. All members
of the degree team are requested to be
present.
Announcement is made of the. en-
gagement of Miss Julia t. French,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George W.
A. French, and Orville T. Crane, of
Atlantic City.
Fifteen members of the senior class
of the Mount Holly high school en-
joyed three-day trip to Washington
last week. The party was chaperoned
by Mrs. Micajah E. Matlack.
Charles Colby, of Water street, who
has been on parole from the James
burg reform school, was taken back to
the institution en- Thursday. The boy
was beyond the control of his mother
and could not be made to attend
school.
Recruiting for Company E progresses
more slowly than it should. The COM
pany now numbers 81. Last week or
ders were received to drop from the
rolls all married men or men having
dependents to support. This eliminat-
ed 10 of the men.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthias Steelman, OF
Elizabeth, were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Slimm, Friday even
ing. Mrs. Steelman is an earnest mem
Der and worker in the Society OF the
Daughters of the Revolution, and had
been attending session of the asso-
citation in Washington, ID. G..
The President of the United States,
the Governor of New Jersey, and the
County Farm Bureau are urging the
women of Mount Holly to conserve the
food supply. A meeting with this pur-
pose in view, will be held at the home
of.Mrs. J. Aquila Jones, on Madison
avenue, on Saturday at two o'clock.
Every woman in Mount Holly and
vicinity is requested to come to this
meeting.
A 500 party for the benefit of the
local Red Cross will be held at the high
school auditorium on Friday evening.
The tickets will be so cents, and prizes
will be awarded The recent decision
of the board of education forbidding
the use of the auditorium for parties
where prizes are offered, does not apply
to this affair, the use of the room hav-
ing been granted the Red Cross before
the resolution was adopted.
Mount Holly Forest No. 8, Tall
Cedars of Lebanon, will hold its spring
meeting in the Masonic Temple, next
Tuesday evening, May s, at 7.45
o'clock. Edward HI. Flagg, Jr., Grand
Tall Cedar Of Camden Forest, accom-
panied by the band, rangers and degree
team, with 100 members of Camden
Forest, will come to Mount Holly on
special trolleys, and will parade from
Madison avenue to the Temple. The
work of the degree will be conferred by
the Camden team.
The district meeting of the P. o. s.
of A. that was to be held at Marlton
last Thursday night was again post
poned and the meeting has been trans
ferred to Delanco and will be held
there on Friday evening, if the officers
do not conclude to postpone it again at
the last moment. This was the second
attempt to hold the meeting at that
place and both times it was called off.
If the interest is lacking at Marlton in
this work, that is just the place to hold
such meeting to revive interest in
that order. although if it isn't quite as
easy a place to reach as some other
towns.
1t is not wise to have any unkind
thoughts against President Wilson at
present, and less wisdom is displayed
in making remarks derogatory to him.
A man in indianapolis, Indiana, was
walking along the street on Tuesday,
and was heard to make threats against
the President. The man was arrested
and sent to the Federal prison at At
lanta, Georgia, for one year. and one
day. People sometimes make remarks
that are perhaps the result of thought
lessness or from desire to talk for the
sake of saying something. Such per
sons should be careful to restrain
themselves as arrest and imprison
ment is likely to follow such acts
Woodrow Wilson is President of thu
United States and is using his very
best efforts for the benefit OF this coun
try. He should have the encourage
ment of every citizen without REGARD
to personal or partisan feelings.
A county convention of the Brother
hood of America was held in Noun
Holly on Wednesday evening and tn
various circles were well represented
Reeve Stewart, of Mount Holly, wa
reelected president, and William II
Bougher. of MasonviIle. was chosel