The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-20
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1917
LOCAL NEWS.

Mrs. Margaret Warrick spent las
week with relatives at Ocean City.
Armour Union will meet this even.
ing at the home of Mrs. Price Richards
on Mill street.
A son arrived in the family of Mr..
and Mrs. Horace K. McIlvain, on Wed
nesday morning.
Patrick Birkholz, an employee of the
Chalmers-Sutter garage, has enlisted
In the aviation corps.
Ezekiel Palmer, of Medford, was ar
rested last week by game warden Nor
ton for trapping rabbits.
The November meeting of the Bur
lington County Firemen's Association
will be held at Beverly tomorrow even
ing.
The second lecture of the present
series by DIR. George Earle Raiguel,
will be delivered in st. Andrews par
ish house tonight.
Holmes N. Hurley, of Madison ave-
nue.. who has been a deacon in the
Baptist church for some time, has been
given license to preach.
Letters for Harry Taylor, Ed Cody,
]. s. Klutz, T. F. Martins, Mrs. Lulu
v. Mearkle and Mrs. S. w. Moore re-
main unclaimed in the post Office
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip B. Burtis will
remove to Philadelphia shortly, the
present train schedule making it in
convenient for Mr.. Burtis to commute
The third annual minstrel show of
the Holly Club will be given in the
opera house on the evenings of Tues
day and Wednesday, December and
5.
The annual supper and bazaar for the
benefit Of the Burlington County Hos
pital will be held in ST. Andrews par
ish house on Thursday evening, De-
cember 6.
A daughter arrived in the family of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry N. Warner, of AS
bury Park, last week. Mrs. Warner
was formerly Miss Lena Stewart, of
Mount Holly.
Earnest Fleming, of Medford, whose
accidental injury while cunning was
recorded in THE News last week, died
in Cooper hospital, Camden, from the
gunshot wound.
Farm demonstration Reid announces
that farmers institutes will be held at
Marlton on December IL, Vincentown
on December Is, Pemberton on Deem
Der 10, and Columbus on January 16.
Holmes Howe, who has been assist
ing John M. Smith, postmaster at
Wrightstown, has resigned, and ac-
cepted the position of shipping clerk
with the HI. b. Smith Machine Com
pany.
The Loyal Temperance Legion will
begin its meetings tomorrow afternoon
in the historic Brainard schoolhouse
Parents are asked to send their child
rem at the close of the public school
session.
The Public Service Company has re.
quested industrial plants in Mount
Holly to be as economical as possible |
in the use Of electric current, especially
between the hours OF four and SIX in
the afternoons.
Postmaster Reed has received notice
of another change in the mailing time
table. Mails for Philadelphia now
close at 7.l5, $40 a. M, 2.4O, 4.30, $40
p. m. Arrive from Philadelphia at
6.25, $40 a. M, 200, 5.15 p. m.
The strike on the trolley road came
to an end Wednesday when the Bur-
lington County Transit Company and
Its employees got together. A demand
had been made for 80 cents per hour,
but a compromise was made on the
basis of % cents.
John, son of Game Warden Morton,
is fortunate in not losing the sight of
one of his eyes. He was using a small
rifle and when he fired it the cartridge
back fired" Luckily the shot did |
not hit him, but the powder burned
his face just below the eye.
Harry Byllesby, who spent his boy
hood days in Mount Holly, now one of
the foremost electrical engineers in the
United States, paid short visit here |
on Sunday. He is giving his entire |
services to the government in con-
nection with the aviation department |
Of the army.
The 9th annual convention of the |
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton was held at Trenton on Friday. |
Among the officers elected were Mrs.
Ward ID. Kerlin, of Moorestown, vice |
president. and Miss Helen Lippincott,
Of Riverton, member of national ex- |
ecutive committee.
The members of Rancocas Grange |
are requested to make a note that
Wednesday of next week will be the
time for the annual meeting and for
the election of officers. 1t is hoped
there will be large attendance. The
meeting will be held in the afternoon,
beginning at two o'clock.
Coroner Gaskill was called to Bur-
lington Thursday morning to view the
body of John Midura, "a years old, of
that city, who was found lying dead
along the railroad track in West Bur
lington. The condition of the body
showed he had been struck and killed
by train. Midura is survived by a
wife and four children.
T. III. Dudley Perkins, of Moores-
town, chairman of the committee in
charge Of the food conservation move
ment in Burlington county, reports
that 10,369 pledge cards have been
signed by housewives in the county
This is about COZ of the estimated
number of homes in the county, and
is considered remarkably good show
ing.
At meeting of the board Of educa-
ton, on Thursday evening, the prob
lem of physical training under the
new state law was thoroughly discussed
and it was decided that the welfare of
the school would best be served by the
employment of a regular full time in
structor, who would take entire charge
Of the physical training of the pupils.
A motion that such teacher be en-
ployed was unanimously adopted. 1t
ia honed that n teacher can be Sc