The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-09-11
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

John B. Dolan has been appointe'
to position in the post Office at Cam
Dix.
Ferdinand H. jacket, of Noun
Holly, has heen nominated for corone
of Burlington county by the Prohibi
ton party.
The annual meeting of the North
ampton fire department will be held il
Relief engine house on Friday even
ing, September 81.
F. Herbert Alloway is now employed
at Saltzman's store, having resigne'
the position he has held for man,
years with Abram r. Gerber.
Benjamin o. Herbert has resigned al
member Of the board of directors o
the Burlington county Society for tn
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Letters for Harry Spear, William
Spang, d. Hunt, F. A. Post, Mis-
Emma Harrison, and E. H. Var
Schoick, remain unclaimed in the pos
Office.
The reed bird season opened on Sep
tember /, but few birds have been kill
cd. Many hunters stopped shooting
owing to the poor condition of thu
birds.
The County Board of Taxation has
not completed its work yet, but enough
has been done to show that Mount
Holly's tax rate will be about 1924 this
year.
Several national guardsmen from
Sea Girt spent Sunday in Mount Holly.
Among them were Charles E. Merritt,
who now is sergeant in Battery ID,
and Lieutenant Earl L. Everline.
Mrs. John H. Vansciver, of Beverly,
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Margaret Stokly, to Malcolm
b. Gum, OF Burlington. Mr.. Gum is
in training at the Royal Aviation
school at Toronto, Canada.
Five COWS and q bull belonging to
Harry C. Bakley, who occupies one OF
Henry J. Tricks farms near Vincen-
town, died last week as result of get
ting into field in which was part of a
bag OF poison, which the animals ate.
Miss Beulah Davis, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Davis, of Haines-
port, and Francis Ried, OF Lumberton,
were quietly married in st. Andrews
church, Mount Holly, on Monday.
August q. by Rev. Henry Teller
Cooke.
Owing to the difficulty in moving
freight, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has cut its Iocsl service be-
tween Mount Holly and Philadelphia,
and freight between the two places will
be shipped on Tuesdays. Thursdays
and Saturdays.
Saturday, September 20, at Green
Hill Farm, between Mount Holly and
Burlington, will be held a big Y. M. G.
A. rally to which hearty welcome is
extended to the women and girls of
Burlington county. The meeting will
begin at II o'clock, and an interesting
program has been arranged.
The local exemption board for Divis-
ion No. l of Burlington county, has
been furnished by the War Depart
ment with supply of exemption but
tons. which will be given out to those
who want them upon presentation at
the office of the Board of their exemp-
ton or discharge certificates.
Because of the numerous inquiries
being made it seems necessary to again
publish that new pupils may be en-
rolled for the fall term of the Mount
Holly schools upon application to the
supervising principal, at his Office in
the high school building, between 8
and IL o'clock next Saturday morning.
State officers of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
made trip through Burlington and
Ocean counties on Wednesday. The
object of the tour was to look into the
conditions regarding the care of horses,
and where animals were found suffer
ing from disease or overwork, their
owners were required to withdraw them
from service at once.
An effort is being made to get read
ing matter for the soldiers at Camp
Dix. Mrs. Ella HI. Scheetz, librarian
at the Mount Holly library, will re-
csive books and reading matter that
any one may desire to contribute and
will see that they get to the proper
destination. One book from every per-
son will give many volumes and will
be appreciated by the soldiers who are
in camp.
The Burlington Enterprise publishes
the following gruesome item: "An-
other one Of our progressive business
men has been successful in obtaining
new business from the activities at
Camp Dix, III. Blanchard Earnest hav-
ing secured the contract with the gov
eminent at Washington to bury and
have charge of all the deaths at the
new cantonment. For the sake of
the families of the young men who
will be stationed at the camp, THE
News hopes that Mr.. Earnsst's con-
tract will not prove to be very profit
able one.
The Mount Holly fair opened today
and everything bids fair for prosper.
GUS week. The programme of events
is unusually interesting and there will
not be moment when there will not
be something going on that win please
all. The base ball match between
Mount Holly and Toms River, tomor
row afternoon. will be one of the events
of the fair. Howard Berry, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania athlete, will
be on the visiting team. The name o
Howard Berry is not new to this town
Howard Berry, the father, was one 0
Mount Holly's best players when tn
Burlington County League was il
existence.
For some time it has been apparen
that it is no trouble for any one to ge
liquor in Mount Holly. Men are seel
: xgering on the streets and 1t is
certainty that they are not supplied b
any hotel, for they are those who's
habits have placed them on the "fla
list" Last week two colored soldier
from Camp Dix, in uniform, were o
the street in an intoxicated condition
On Tuesday evening some more of th