The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-10-30
LOCAL NEWS.
Election day-Tuesday next.

V. Claude Palmer has purchased
Hudson automobile.
Martin Bayersdorfer and wife spen
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham
Saltzman.
Wednesday of next week-Novem
Der Twill be donation day at the Bur
lington County Hospital.
Samuel and Caroline Holmes enter
tanned the Young Friends Association
at the meeting house on Friday even
ing.
Robert A. Cook, of Smithville, has
enlisted as a stenographer attached tt
the aviation corps, and will be stationed
in Texas.
A chimney fire at the Black farm al
Jobstown, Tuesday night, required the
services of the Union chemical to ex
tinguish.
Concrete sidewalks have been laiC
in front of the properties of Charles
Griffin and Elwood Bennett, on Mount
Holly avenue.
The Tuekerton Railroad Company
has been fined $1,000 by Judge John
Warren Davis for granting concessions
on freight shipments.
The election boards OF Northampton
township sit at the respective polling
places today from one to nine O'Clock
to revise the registry lists.
Miss Mary Prickitt, one of the teach
ers in the Medford public school, died
at the Burlington County Hospital, on
Tuesday, from appendicitis. She was
20 years old.
Rancocas Grange will give an old
fashioned Halloween social and dance
in the hall at Rancocas on Saturday
evening. All grangers will be welcome.
Camp SO, P. o. of A., will hold a
masquerade social in the Kelsey &
KilIie building on Wednesday evening.
All members are invited to come.
Bring old newspapers for admittance.
Members of the local Junior Me-
chanics are requested to attend an i'm
portant meeting OF the order this even
ing, when the advisability Of increas-
ing the dues from ID to 20 cents week
will be discussed.
Jerome G. Harris spent Sunday in
Mount Holly. This will be his last
furlough for four weeks by which time
he hopes to be given promotion from
the position he now holds. He is in
the officers training camp at Fort
Myer.
Roy G.. Wyllie, of Burlington, and
J. Harold Eckman, of Mount Holly,
have been appointed to clerical posi-
tions in the Office of supervisor Hart,
at the Mount Holly railroad station.
MIR. Wylhe will move to Mount Holly
on December l. and occupy his house
on Brainard street.
Samuel w. Evans has sold his farm
adjoining the fair ground to Mr..
Adams, Of Plainsboro, near Princeton,
who will occupy the place. Mr.. Evans
will move to Pennsylvania, where he
will manage two adjoining farms, one
of which is owned by Frank and Harry
Carpenter, former Mount Holly resi-
dents.
Thomas l.. Quigley has made ar
rangements to enter the canoe hiring
business and has leased the water COM
pany building lately occupied by the
Ankokas Canoe Club, for his head
quarters. He has also purchased the
mill dam lot from Mrs Carrie B. Den
ness, and intends to convert it into
park next summer.
Lewis Abel, of Philadelphia, was ar
rested by government officials last
week on charge Of having liquor in
his possession and trying to sell it in
side Camp Dix. He was given hear
ing before United States Commissioner
Haines, in Mount Holly, and commit
ted to the Camden county Jail in de-
fault OF $500 bail, to await the action
of the United States grand jury.
AS the result of suit brought be-
fore Justice Slack, Mrs. Ralph E
Haines, of Vincentown, has recovered
$25 from the Adams Express Company
for damage to dress she shipped to
Pittsburgh nearly year ago. The suit
was brought after other methods to OBJ
tain satisfaction had failed. w. A.
Slaughter represented Mrs. Haines in
the matter, and the express company
settled the claim last week.
w. III. Richman, Of Borton's Land
ing. was seriously injured on Tuesday,
and had to be taken to Camden hos
pital for treatment. Mr.. Richman was
running his automobile big heavy
car, along the Haddonfield road, when
. Ford machine came along and struck
his car in the rear. This threw the
Richman machine off its course, and
it went down the embankment at that
point, turning it over three times, bad
ly wrecking it. How Mr.. Richmap
escaped death is mystery.
The physicians composing the Bur
Iington County Medical Society an
nounce that they feel compelled tomake
q moderate Increase in their fees.
After November l, the charges will be
as follows: Office CONSULTATION, mini
mum fee, IS cents; house visits, within
town or city limits, $3.50; outside town
or city limits, 81. For visits between
p. m. and a. M, or during office
hours, double the regular fee. Moder-
ate increase will also be made foi
special work.
The project of opening a soldiers
rest and recreation house in Mount
Holly has been referred to the War De
partment Commission on Training
Camp Activities for approval. This
commission has authority 10 allot q
limited amour. of money to assist the
financing of such propositions in towns
near military camps, as many com
munities cannot bear the expense with
out outside assistance. If favorable
reply is received the indications are
that house will be opened in Mount
Holly.
The following officers were elected al
the fall meeting of Burlington County
Pomona Grange, held at Burlington.
on Tuesday: Master, Herman Gro
shaw; overseer, Frank Hargrove; lee
turer, Mrs. Mary B. Rockhill; steward,