The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-07-24
LOCAL NEWS.

as teacher at the Samuel Aaron school
A district meeting of the p. o. s. Q
A. will be held at Moorestown OF
Thursday evening.
A daughter arrived in the home O
Mr.. and Mrs. John III. Franz, of Higl
street, on Monday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur S. Russell. q
High street, celebrated the iftieth an
niversary OF their marriage last week
Clark B. Rogers, of Bordentown
will seek the Republican nomination
for coroner at the September primaries
Evan F. Benuers has announced
that he will be a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for auditor ir
September.
William H. Stillwell and family are
spending the week at Washington
DC, being the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Fred A. Tracey.
Mrs. Bernard Fitzpatrick died at heI
home on Wall street, Saturday night,
after being ill with cancer for a long
time. She was in her SD year.
Elizabeth Gertrude, the eleven-year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James E
Berry, of Water street, died at the Bur
lingtOn county hospital on Sunday.
The recently elected officers of Wash
ington Camp No. II, p. O. S. of A.,
were installed On Thursday evening by
Lesley Reeves, district president, Of
Palmyra.
Mrs. w. Howard Shreve, of Colum.
bus, has sold her farm near Hedding tc
Eugene Danley, whose farm at Wrights-
town was among those taken by the
government.
A daughter arrived in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Borel, at Pember-
ton, on Saturday. Mrs. Borel before
her marriage was Miss Mary Wilkin-
son, OF Mount Holly.
Samuel w. Bishop, whose farm near
Wrightstown has been acquired by the
government, will remove to Mount
Holly, having rented Harry N. Smiths
property on Pine street.
A special election in Delran town.
ship authorized the board of education
to erect a school house to cost SIS, 900,
including furniture, at Cambridge,
near Riverside. Work will be started
at once.
The residence of ex-senator B. H.
White was broken into last week, dur
ing the absence of the family. En-
trance was made through a rear win
dow. Only few articles, of little
value, were taken.
After eluding his pursuers for three
weeks, Thomas Grant, a deserter from
the First Pennsylvania Regiment, and
wanted on a serious charge at Burling-
ton, was captured at Browns. Mills,
Thursday afternoon.
Henry nj. Lincoln died at his homa
on Pine street Thursday morning at
the age OF 20 years. His funeral was
held from the parlors of III. FL. Earnest
Saturday morning. His remains were
inferred at Upper Springfield.
The engagement of Miss Myrtle Mae
Friant, daughter of Horace r. Friant,
Of Mount Holly, to John E. Heineken.
OF Burlington, was announced at an
evening company held at the home of
Miss Friant last Thursday evening.
Mrs. Anna C. Harrison, of Lumber
ton, died at the Burlington county
hospital, Thursday afternoon, follow
ing an operation. Undertaken HI. H.
Earnest took the remains to Phillips
burg, N. j., Saturday, where they we're
inferred.
1t has been a~scertained by health
dut t1hO Vic tHO CdOC6 VI w
phoid fever on the Joseph l.. Hilton
farm, near Moorestown, originated
from a servant who has been found to
be a carrier Of the disease. A blood
test revealed this fact. There were two
cases of typhoid in the family-Mr.
Hilton, who died, and his daughter,
who recovered.
The local Jnnior Mechanics held a
ro1onfsNr IN 1NuoCAar oronsno for fAo
members of the order Who will go away
with Company E tomorrow, and the
affair was greatly enjoyed by the guests
of honor. More than one-third of the
present members of Company E are
members of the Junior Mechanics.
This is quite a record for showing the
patriotism which the Juniors are con-
tinually preaching.
The July meeting of the Burlington
County Firemen's Association was
held at Vincentown on Wednesday
evening. Twenty -one companies were
represented. The principal matter dis
cussed was the inability of the firemen
to avoid unnecessary runs in response
to calls made during excitement by
irresponsible persons. 1t was acknow-
lodged there was nothing to do but
respond to appeals for help.
At a luncheon given Thursday after
noon at their home between Mount
Holly and Burlington, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles F. Gaskill announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Jr., Of Mount Holly. No time has
been set for the wedding, but it will
probably take place in the fall. Mr..
Irons has purchased the Tuttle bunga-
low on Ridgway street.
William Harker, aged 25 years, son
of Joseph Harker, near Browns Mills,
was killed by a train at New Lisbon
on Thursday night. He was a private
in the regular army and had been
home On a short furlough. Apparent
~ he was walking along the railroad
tracks and for some reason did not see
an approaching train. His body was
badly mutilated-seyered across the
chest and both legs cut off.
A small cause court was held at the
court house on Wednesday evening by
justice of the peace John Throckmor-
ton. The suit was brought by Ernest
r.. Nixon, of Mount Holly, against
George Meissner, of Tabernacle, for
damages to his motorcycle when the
latter struck him with his automobile.
The accident occurred in Lumberton.
The case was tried before a jury, which
rendered a verdict of no cause for
action.
The annual outing of the Mount
Holly merchants will be held at the
fair ground on August 9Th. 1t prom
ises to be a very enjoyable affair. The
programme includes three horse races,
foot races and other events. At night
there will be dancing on Mill street, |
which will be effectively illuminated |
for the occasion. The Metropolitan
band, of Burlington, will furnish
music afternoon and night. The com
mittee in charge of the affair is COM
posed of Morris K. Perinchief, DR.. H.
L. Longsdorf, E. Lewis Schuyler, John
C.. Garrett and Harold b. Allen.
Miss Ida nj. Prickett, one of the
primary teachers in the Mount Holly
schools, has been granted a leave of
absence for one year. Since school
closed in June, Miss Prickett has been
tutoring three children in an English
family residing on Staten Island.
The father has enlisted in the English
army and gone abroad, and the mother
goes to business in New York daily,
leaving the children entirely in Miss
Prickett's care. AS there was little
likelihood of this situation being
changed by September, when the
schools open, Miss Pickett applied for
the leave of absence.
A sample of the improved service"
to be given by the Bell Telephone Com
pany: Twenty minutes to get Palmyra;
twenty-five minutes to get Philadel-
phia; a call which required running up
stairs to answer to discover, after wait