The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-07-31
LOCAL NEWS.


A son arrived in the home of Mr.. an
Mrs. George A. Adye on Monday nigh
of last week.
The Senior Mechanics of Burlineto
county held its annual picnic at th
Mount Holly fair grounds on Satul
day.
Miss Marie Smith and Elvin "
Linton, both of Mount Holly, wer
married on Friday by Rev. E. NJ
Ogden.
Henry /. Worrell, of Mount Holly
will be candidate for the Republican
nomination for Auditor at the Septem
Der primary.
The next meeting of Armour UnioI
will be held at the home Of Mrs. Samue
Hart, 1l6 Union street, Tuesday even
ing, August Z.
The circulating library will close OF
Saturday and will reopen on Monday
August 20, in the mornings from
until IL o'clock.
Rev. Henry B. w airing closed hi
passionate at the Marlton Baptist
church on Sunday, having accepted
call to another charge
Norman Gibbs and Charles Smith
OF Company E, who are at Sea Girt
came home Saturday night and re.
furnQd tn 40 mn oy, G,ndau
Miss Anna Klein, OF Burlington,
aged IL years, died at the Darlington
county hospital, Tuesday after noon,
after being ill with heart trouble fol
about six years.
At q meeting Of Riverton Republi-
cans, X. E. Bennett was doomed fol
Mayor, to succeed Mayor Edward H.
Flagg, Jr., who is a candidate for
Sheriff of Burlington county.
The Rev. Malcolm James VanZandt,
formerly Of Mount Holly. but now a
resident Of Chicago, has been ordained
deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
church in the diocese Of Chicago.
The annual picnic of the Methodist
Sunday school will be held at Rancocas
Park on Thursday. A feature in the
afternoon will be base ball game be-
tween the married and single men.
Tramps are believed to have fred a
tenant house on the Oscar Wittmeyer
farm, on the Burlington road, Sunday
morning. The flames destroyed the
structure. The house was temporarily
vacant.
A movement has been started by
Rev. w. E. Zimmerman to organize q
p. o. 8. of A. lodge at Florence. An
organization will be effected at meet
ing to be held on Friday evening at
Florence.
The statement in last weeks NEWS
that Eugene Danley had purchased
Mrs. Howard Shrevs's farm near He'd
ding, was an error. The purchaser was
Harvey Comp, who has been living
near Wrightstown.
Albert Moore, ST., of Cherry street,
was arrested on Friday night on a
charge of assault and battery on his
wife. She claims he struck her in the
face with his fist while intoxicated.
He was held under $500 bail for court
by Recorder Herbert.
Fifty years member of Bridgeboro
Lodge, /. o. o. F., Samuel J. Painter,
of Delanco, has been presented with
handsome golden-ieweled emblem by
his fellow-members. Painter is a
veteran of the civil war and lost an
arm at Salem Church, Va, under
General Grubb.
An automobile driven by a lady
struck the iron street sign at the corner
of Mill and Pine streets on Sunday.
The red lantern was completely de
molished and the top part with the in
scription keep to the right" was
broken off. The driver paid Recorder
Herbert for the damage done.
Before Company E left town on
Wednesday. and after the roster of
members had been published in THE
News. five additional recruits were ac-
cepted. They were Salvador Lamenta,
Isaac p. Shamelia, William j. Cald
well and Antoni Noceti, of Mount
Holly, and Clarence ]. King. of MARI
ton.
The marriage of Miss Harriet Florence
Emmons, of Browns Mills, and John
Osgood Rugg, Boston, Mass, occurred
at the home of Claude B. Bullock,
Mount Holly, on Thursday evening.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Thomas s. Hammond. Mrs. Bullock
was matron of honor and Mr.. Bullock
acted as best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford R. Powell have
given up their apartments in Mount
Holly and stored their furniture.
When Company E is transferred from
Sea Girt to Admission, Alabama, Mrs.
Powell will make her home in the
southern city, as will Mrs. J. F. r.
Long and Mrs. Earl L. Everline, all
wives of officers of Company E.
Wednesday, August 7, has been
named as Red Cross day at Rancocas
Park. Picnic parties will occupy the
afternoon, and in the evening the
Mount Holly Glee Club will give o
concert, followed by an informal
dance. Tickets for the concert are
being sold by members of the Mount
Holly Red Cross at 25 cents each.
The tomato and potato crops in this
section, both of which few weeks
ago promised to be above normal
have been damaged by disease and
weather conditions recently, SO that
there probably will be shortage of
from 20 to 35 per cent. In both. Dig
gings of potatoes on some farms in
this neighborhood, during the past
few days, substantiate this shortage of
that crop.
Francis Hoffman, 26 years of age, of
Columbus, was arrested at Bordentown,
Saturday night, by Charles Carslake,
Columbus chief of police, stationed at
the camp at Wrightstown, and brought
to the county Jail here on charge Of
nsglecting to register for the draft. He
is q son of James Hoffman, civil war
veteran, and said to be of unsound
mind. He is said to have tried to en-
list and had been rejected.
Residents of Burlington county, es