The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-07-31
The board Of frssholders will meet al
the court house tomorrow.

Three letters remain at the post Office
unclaimed for Miss Martha Stewart
Edward Wilson and ]. A. Mingin.
Real estate agent I. H. Lippincott
has sold the four houses at q, 29, 81
, and SO Buttonwood street to Miss
, Annie Murphy.
A large limb Of tree in the yard Of
, policeman Curtis, on Water street, fell
with crash early Wednesday morn
ing, and took part of chimney on
the house with it.
A moonlight swim" will be con.
Quoted at the bathing grounds at the
mill dam on Thursday night from 1C
to IL o'clock. Life guard QuigIey will
be on duty that hour.
Miss Margaretta Fort, daughter of
former Governor ]. Franklin Fort, has
opened rest house at the Sea Girt
camp, where the soldiers can entertain
their relatives and sweethearts.
There will be a Chinese picnic at
Burlington island on Monday which
will be an interesting event. There
will be Chinese and American music
and the famous Lion dance" will be
given.
Miss Mary E. Kitchens, who a num-
Der Of years ago was resident of
Mount Holly, died on Thursday night
at the Essex county hospital for the
J insane, where she had been employed
as an attendant of patients for long
time
Rev. Henry Teller Cooke, rector of
st. Andrews church, Mount Holly, is
at the Episcopal hospital, Philadel-
phia, where a slight surgical operation
was performed on him yesterday. He
expects to be in the hospital about
three weeks.
Miss Fannie Cooper, who has given
several canning demonstrations in
Mount Holly, will be at the high
school auditorium tomorrow afternoon,
at 1.3O o'clock, and give another de-
monstration with especial attention to
canning corn and peaches.
c. B. Wollner has the contract to
furnish the meat for the officers in
charge Of the construction work at the
Wrightstown camp, and Oscar Evan,
the local Crew-Levick representative,
10 furnishing gasoline and oil to the
general contractors, Irwin g. Leighton.
Mrs. Fannie Crum, OF Long Branch,
has announced the engagement Of her
daughter, Miss Mercsde L. Crum, to
George d. Hendrickson, son OF former
Judge Charles E. Hendrickson. Mrs.
Crum is the widow of former official
of the Equitable Life Insurance Com
pany.
The work Of laying cement sidewalks
on upper High street, above the mount,
is proceeding rapidly, and considerable
improvement is already noticed in the
appearance Of that part of town. Ar
rangements have been made to remove |
several useless poles belonging to the
defunct Interstate Telephone Co.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Frank L. Mar
tin are receiving congratulations on
the arrival of a daughter born on
Thursday. Mrs. Martin was formerl v
Miss Anna B. Ward. Lieutenant Mar
tin and his family are quartered at
Fort Niagara, N. Y. where the Lieu
tenant is training recruits for officers.
Day electric current in Mount Holly
was discontinued on Sunday, yester-
day and today in order that employees
of the Public Service Corporation
might work with safety in adding to
the feed wire service, which must be
increased considerably to supply cur
rent to the Wrightstown military
camp.
> The seven Lumberton boys belong
ing to Company E, of Mount Holly,
were given a farewell reception in the
Lumberton hall on Tuesday night.
The affair was arranged by the Junior
Mechanics. Refreshments were served,
and the Lumberton Daughters of
America presented a wrist watch to
each soldier.
DR.. M. w. Curran, formerly of Chats
worth, paid short visit to Mount
Holly on Friday. He is a regimental
surgeon in the United States army,
with rank of first lieutenant, and has
been stationed at Washington. He
has received orders to report for duty
at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and will
leave for that place tomorrow.
The annual picnic and outing of the
Loyal Sisters Bible class OF the M. E.
Sunday school was held, on Thursday,
on the farm Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
HI. Crammer, the latter being teacher
of the class. The members spent a
very enjoyable day, and in the even
ing the husbands of the members were |
their invited guests at a chicken
supper.
The Burlington County Medical So
ciety held special meeting at the Ar
cade hotel on Wednesday, to consider |
matters of interest connected with the |
county tuberculosis hospital soon to
be opened at New Lisbon. The society
decided to recommend to the board of
freeholders that DIR. NJ. w. Newcomb,
of Browns Mills, be appointed super
intendent of the new institution.
Your son or brother at Sea Girt will
be glad to receive his home paper every
week. Don't bother to wrap and re
mail your own copy and have him re-
ceive it two or three days late, but
come to THE NEWS Office today and
tell US to send the paper direct to him
every Tuesday. 1t will cost you only
so cents for six months, or 81 for
whole year, and the boy will appreciate
it.
During August the Wednesday even
ing prayer service at the Presbyterian
church will be discontinued, az the
pastor, Rev. Luther M. BickneH, will
be away on his vacation. The preach
ers on Sundays during the month will
be as follows: August 5, Rev. William
P. Finney, Of Lincoln university; Au-
gust II, not yet filled; August 10, Rev.
J. N. Mcdowell, Collingswood; August
%, Prof. George Johnson, Ph.D., of
Lincoln university.
Tomorrow will be ''Moorestown Day.
at Rancocas Park. Instead of holding
thair reoular waeklv drill at home the