The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-27

Z Esther Throckmorton, of Chur
= street, is typhoid fever patient at t
Burlington County Hospital.
Letters for Edgar Garrett, Mrs. v.
Green, Mrs. James Hayes and Frar
- ! Rengson, remain unclaimed in Il
u post Office.
Judson Gaskill has had the roo
y recently vacated by the RiversiC
a Engraving school, in his building CO
'r ner Garden and Button wood street
remodeled.
10 A demonstration of the use of col
q meal will be given at the Deacon ST
ton school house on Friday afternoo
e. at 1.3O o'clock. All persons intereste
& are invited.
There will be no special observant
: of Thanksgiving Day in Mount Holl!
II The usual holiday hours will be oil
served at the post Office, and the bank
t and business houses will be closed. Il
+ the day.
g Harry B. Orcutt, who has been a
tached to Company H, Hath Infantry
at Camp Mcclellan, has been trans
! ferred to the aviation section of tn
, Signal Corps at Camp Kelly, San Ar
tonic, Texas.
William c. Noble, who stole a lot {
plumbers supplies and tools at Cam
Dix, is in the Mercer county Jail. H
had suitcase packed with the good
and was getting ready to leave whel
he was arrested.
Two colored men were brought be
fore Commissioner Haines, Friday
charged with keeping house for inn
moral purposes within the five mil,
limit of Camp Dix. The men cam,
from Asbury Park.
A tea and musical for the benefit O
the Burlington county Y. w. C. A
will be given at the home OF Mrs. Ben
jamin Deacon, on Broad street; on
Wednesday afternoon, December u
from three until five o'clock.
DR.. John s. Conroy, of Burlington,
who offered his services to the govern.
ment, has received commission as
first lieutenant and has been assigned
to the ambulance corps OF the Hath
infantry at Camp Mcclellan.
Members OF the Mission Sunday
school, which meets in the Brainard
schoolhouse, spent pleasant after
noon, Saturday, packing a Thanks
giving box for the young men OF thu
school who are at Admission, Alabama.
Walter Shedaker, a workman, is
years old, Of Jamesburg, was killed at
Wrightstown on Tuesday afternoon.
While unloading lumber from car he
fell to the ground and broke his neck.
Coroner Rogers issued burial permit.
A very handsome monument re-
Gently was erected in the Mount
Holly Cemetery to the memory of the
late Mrs. Edward F. Burns. The
stone, which represents huge boulder,
is Of Westerly granite. about seven feet
high, and weighs $4,000 pounds.
Ben Frazer, of Broad street, was re-
Gently on business trip through the
south in the interest of the Burlington
County Shoe Company. While in the
neighborhood, he visited Camp NC
Clellan, at Admission, Ala, and re-
ceived warm welcome from the
Mount Holly boys there.
The annual memorial service OF
Mount Holly Lodge OF Elks will be
held in the opera house next Sunday
evening. The speaker will be the Hon.
Peter F. Daily, Of New Brunswick
lodge. Vocal music will be supplied
by soloists and the Monnt Holly Glee
Club.
The members of the Junior Order Of
American Mechanics attended the
church Sunday evening,
and listened to stirring sermon by
Rev. T. s. Hammond. The lodge has
q service flag with 26 stars on it, and
this was suspended from the ceiling
over the pulpit.
Jacob E. Ridgway, of Columbus,
has been commissioned captain of field
artillery in class A. Men in this class
are to fill existing vacancies in the
National army or to be attached to
regular army organizations. Frederick
of Browns Mills, has been
second lieutenant in
the ordinance department, class A.
A novel entertainment has been
booked for Thursday evening. Deem
Der IL, in the high school auditorium,
1T which Mrs. r. s. Williams, a talent
ed elocutionist, of Palmyra, will give
the History of Our Flags" from the
time OF Columbus to the present day. |
This recitation will be illustrated. u
There will not be any admission |
charged but an offering will be accept
ed.
Edward t. Haines, who has been
holding the Office Of county sealer OF |
weights and measures, has been adj
vised that he must relinquish the po-
sition and hand over to John B. Bur-
tbs all matters pertaining to it. His
counsel has appealed the case TO the
Court of Errors and IL that BODY |
should reverse the finding of the SUI
preme Court Mr.. Haines will be REIN
stated.
By order of the Federal Food Ad-
no more combination
sales" by grocers will be allowed. This
is intended to stop the practice of sell |
ing certain articles, such as sugar, only
when other articles to fixed amount
are purchased. The administrator
holds that this practice results in the
purchase of food that is not actually
needed, and is also discrimination in
favor Of those who can afford to buy
larger quantities.
The board of education Is much
pleased with the results obtained by
opening two additional rooms in the
building on Buttonwood street leased
from the Y. NJ. C. A. and named the
William G. Cook school. The kinder
Oa rtau and ono Of tho a rot fxro1a $1,000.