The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-08-28
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

The annual convention of the New
Jersey State Firemen's Association
will be held at Atlantic City on Sep
TENDER q and %.
Henry 1. Worrell, candidate for tn,
Republican nomination for county
auditor, took in the firemen's carniva
at Palmyra on Saturday.
George w. Stockton has been trans
ferred:.. fromi the ticket office at tn,
Mount Holly station to the Pennsyl
vania railroad headquarters at Camp
Dix.
A special meeting of the Armour
Union will be held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Buzby, 134 Button
wood street, this evening at eight
O'Clock.
Stokes F. Burtis, of Mount Holly,
and Miss Lilyan Irons. of Burlington,
were married in Philadelphia ON Mon
day of last week. They will reside at
Logan, Pa.
Benjamin F. Stidfole had his left
arm badly injured last week when q
pump fell and struck him while work.
ing in well on farm between Lum-
bertOn and Eayrestown.
Supervising Principal William c..
Sullivan will be at his office in the
high school building next Monday
morning, September 8, from until
IL o'clock, to enroll new pupils for the
fall term.
The first ambulance company of New
Jersey has left Sea Girt, having been
ordered to Mineola for mobilization
with other organizations to form
division which is to go to France in
the near future.
At the Mount Holly Methodist par
sonage on August 10th occurred the
marriage of Miss NARROW Greenwald
and ]. Austin Brown, both of Lum-
berton. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. T. s. Hammond.
The Riverside House at Toms River,
has been sold by the owner, George C.
VanHlse, to Andrew J. Kelley, we'll
known in Burlington county, who is
at present in California. The property
has been turned over to Mr.. Keeley's
representative.
Henry H. Cross, of Mount Holly,
who received commission as second
lieutenant at the Fort Myer officers
training camp, left ON Sunday for the
camp at Petersburgh, Va, where he
will receive special training in the |
duties of the quartermaster depart
ment of the army.
The county Board of Taxation has
finished its preliminary equalization
tables, and will hold meeting at its
Office in the Zelley building, Mount
Holly, at ten o'clock this morning,
at which hearing s'ze assessors and
representatives Of the governing bodies
may appear and be heard in regard to
the valuations fixed for any district.
EDWARD Cutter and Albert Fitzgerald,
of Burlington, are now serving time in
the county Jail here. Both became in
toxicated. The former engaged in an
alteration and struck his mother, and
Fitzgerald made himself obnoxious
on the streets of Burlington. Cutter
was sent over last week for . six
months term, and Fitzgerald for three
months.
Some of the Philadelphia papers
have been complaining about the
Pennsylvania railroad company hav-
ing couple of hundred idle freight
cars lying on sidings at the Mount
Holly fair ground, while shippers all
over the country are suffering from a
lack of cars. Investigation showed,
however. that nearly all the cars in
question were dilapidated cast offs,
waiting for purchasers. and unfit for
service.
John H. McIlroy, son of Mrs. George
ID. Worrell, of Mount Holly, and Miss
Phyllis l. Barber. of Morristown, were
married at the Sea Girt encampmentI
on Thursday, August II, by Captain
Charles A. Dubell, chaplain of the
Third Infantry. Mr.. McIlroy is a
member of Battery F, of Morristown,
and when he learned that his unit was
to be sent south before the end of the
week, the ceremony was quickly ar
ranged.
An advertisement elsewhere, over
the signature of the Mount Holly
Water Company, advises all consum-
ers OF water to boil it. This Is in COM
pliance with advice of the State Board
OF Health, owing to recent analysis
of the water showing that it is not
satisfactory. The water company
hopes to have the matter satisfactorily
adjusted in short time, but in the
meanwhile gives the precaution sug-
gssted by the State Board of Health.
There was q scrap at one of the cafe
terias at the Wrightstown camp, last
week, when John Carman broke the
collar bone Of William Wilkinson after
an argument that led to fight. Car
man, who had charge of the cafeteria,
was arrested on charge of assault and
battery. He also was arrested on
charge OF larceny, having sold to Ed
ward Bird, at ridiculously low price,
some pork rolls belonging to the camp
supply. Bird was placed under bail
for having received stolen goods.
The season for shooting black
breasted aud golden plover and yellow
leg snipe by Federal Government regu-
lations opened August IL instead of
September l, as was the case in 1916. |
The water fowl season, covering all |
web-footed inhabitants Of our waters, |
has also been changed. The season |
will open on October and close Janu-
airy Is. The latter advances the open
season a month and closes it fifteen
days earlier. The best croaker season
on record is now being enjoyed by the
fishermen of Barnegat bay who go
outside. 1t is nothing for hand line
fisherman to catch two barrels in a
day, and they are receiving good money
for them. The wreck of the Sumner
off Barnegat Inlet has made one of the
best fishing grounds for Blacklist and
croakers that is to be found along the
coast. The wreck has also changed
the contour of the beach SO that there
is sheer drop of thirty feet near the