The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-09-25
LOCAL NEWS.

Dodge automobile.
Rev. johnson Oatman spent severa
days in Atlantic City last week.
John Pickard, ten years old, of Mad.
ison avenue, is ill with typhoid fever
Krupnick's department store viii
close tomorrow wednesday, until 5.S(
p. m.
A son arrived in the family of MI
and Mrs. William Paul, of Whit
street, last week.
Joseph Cross, of Mount Holly, haI
been elected president of the Seaside
Park citizens committee.
DR.. John E. Whitman has purchased
the property on White street where be
has lived for some time, from Mrs. 8.
c. Matthias.
DIR. M. w. Curran, formerly of Chats
worth, is now a first lieutenant, sta
tionediat Camp Greenleaf. Fort Ogle
thorpe, Georgia.
Harris A. Glover has removed hi
paper hanging establishment to thu
northeast corner OF Chdfch and PIN
streets, Mount Holly.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methods
church has changed the date Of its
supper in the Masonic Temple from
September q to October A.
Mrs. w. Howard Longstreet and
Miss Bertha GaskilI have rented Mrs
Edward B. Deacon's residence or
Broad street for the winter.
Letters for Miss Al. H. Saunders,
Mrs. James McQuade, John Keller
Bernard Hughes, C. H. Beadles, Joe
Shapiro. remain unclaimed in the post
Office.
The George Bullock property on
Union street has been occupied by D.
w. Figler, the local Bell telephone
traffic manager, who moved his family
here from Philadelphia.
The commercial class of the Mount
Holly high school is SO large this year
that there are not enough typewriters
to supply the pupils, and it will be
necessary for the board of education
to purchase additional machines.
Norton Hall, of Jobstown, visited
his parents last week, after having
spent four months in the officers train.
ing camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. He
10 a corOoax,f T., tho raf{oro1 o.~,x,
and is stationed at Camp Lee, Va.
Mrs. Helen d. Martin, formerly OF
Mount Holly, who will be remembered
as the leader of the choir of the Bap-
fist church some years ago, has been
appointed supervisor of music in the
schools OF White River Junction, VT.
Gerald w. Colkitt, who enlisted in
the Naval Coast Defense Reserves
some time ago, applied last week for a
transfer to Company E. Permission
was refused, but the young man found
he could be transferred toother branches
OF the navy. He has not decided on
his next step.
On Thursday Sheriff Stecher sold
the property of Minnie P. Jordan. in
Willingboro township, to the complain
ant, Luther w. Perkins, of Beverly,
for $500. The property of Samuel c..
Wallace at Palmyra, was purchased by
the complainant, Eleanor A. Stokes,
Of Camden, for $500.
The striking telegraph operators
have returned to their posts with the
exception of q few whom the railroad
company refused to allow to continue
in their employ. The men had q con-
ference with Governor Edge, on Tues
day, and the result was the determine
ton to return to work.
Declaring that about $4,000 a year
is the amount of revenue derived from
bee keeping in New Jersey, the state
Department of Agriculture is now is
suing special literature on the subject.
1t is estimated that the bee business in
this state is developed to only one
tenth OF its capabilities.
William Post, the policeman who
has had the Pine street district, has
been transferred to West Washington
street. Actions in that neighborhood
have been such as to cause much COM
ment, but the police on the beat did
DOT seem to be able to locate any of the
supposed disorderly places or persons,
and change was thought to be benz
fetal.
A meeting will be held in the high
school auditorium on Thursday even
ing at o'clock for the purpose Of &C.
quainting the public with the work
that the Young Women's Christian
Association is undertaking in towns in
the nsighborhood of the army canton
ments. Mrs. Edwin C. Grice, of Bev-
erly. and Miss Anna Clark, of the
national board, will be the speakers.
The public is invited to attend this
meeting.
Sunday evening the policeman on
duty at the fountain rounded up sever
al automobile drivers who were going
through without any rear lights. At
seven o'clock he was compelled to leave
that station and go to his Pine street
post. Two policemen stood in the vi
cinity Of the fountain, one in front OF
the bank, the other in front of the
hotel, and automobiles rounded the
corner as they pleased By actual
count there were, inside Of half hour,
seven cars without rear lights, and nc
attempt was made to call them to or.
der.
Miss Katharine Rue, of Burlington
died on Monday of last week as a re
suit of eating toadstools in mistake fol
mushrooms. Miss Rue had gathered
the supposed mushrooms on a nearby
lot and they were cooked with thu
evening meal. A few hours afterwarC
Miss Rue, her mother, and two board
ers, Miss Mary Dugan and Alex James
were taken sick. Physicians trace
the trouble to the toadstools. Miss
Rue seemed to improve for time, blu
suffered relapse, and died at mid
night. The other patients have re
covered.
The thirtv-second annual convention
of the Woman's Christian Temperate
Union of Burlington county, is bein
held in the Baptist church, Moores
town, today. The sessions begin q
$50 a. M, 2 p. m. and 7.45 p. m. Tn
cunarintandopts of the twentv-f1va dc