The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-10-16
LOCAL NEWS.

"A ACstduIdub was opened laSC
week in Red Mems hall.
Charles X. Middleton has resigned
as postmaster of Marlton.
DIR. d. f. Remer has been appointed
medical inspector of the schools Of
Pemberton township.
Lawrence G. Gillian has enlisted in
the navy as chief yeoman. He re-
ported at League Island today.
John B. Tilton, secretary of the
county tax board, has moved to Mount
Holly, occupying the Holeman proper
ty on Garden street.
The fall meeting of the Burlington
County Council of the New Jersey
Congress of Mothers will be held in
Mount Holly on Saturday.
Allen Fenimore, Jr. underwent a
successful operation for the removal Of
tonsils and adenoids at the Burlington
County Hospital on Friday.
Floyd S. Stockton has been trans
ferred from the local freight station to
the position in the supervisors Office
recently resigned by James II. Ander-
son.
Charles E. Holmes, cashier of the
First National Bank of Wrightstown,
will move from Medford to Mount
Holly and will occupy house on Gar
den street.
The high school teachers have FORM
ed physical training class, with Will
liam A. Slaughter as instructor.
Weekly meetings will be held in the
school auditorium.
Motor vehicle commissioner Dill has
announced that after November his
department will impose a minimum
fine of $25 upon automobile drivers
who go over 40 miles an hour.
The newly organized Young Wo-
mans Christian Association has rent
ed the store room on Garden street re-
Gently vacated by B. f. Stidfoie, and
will occupy it as its headquarters.
Game warden Morton stocked the
upper Rancocas creek with carload of
trout and bass on Friday. The fish
were distributed at various points be-
tween Mount Holly and Browns Mills.
Walter g. Naylor is back to his old
position with the trolley company.
He recently secured employment at
the shipyard in Bristol, but found that
he could not continue to live in Mount
Holly and get to his work on time.
Farm demonstration George 7. Reid
has presented his resignation to the
board of directors of the Burlington
County Farm Bureau, to take effect
at the end of the year. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Reid will then operate
farm Of his own.
There will be a meeting of the Bur
ington county section of the United
States Food Conservation campaign,
tomorrow evening, at eight o'clock, in
the school auditorium, at which Frank
lin w. Fort, Of Newark, will be the
speaker. This will be very import
ant meeting.
About ninety children attended the
opening meeting of the Junior Chau
tauqua winter club at the high school
auditorium on Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Elizabeth Southwick, of Chicago,
the new circuit leader, was present.
Carlton Hogan was elected mayor of
Junior Town.
Motor vehicle commissioner Dill
Wednesday morning fined Harry P.
Hall, chauffeur for John Wanamaker,
$27.75 for running the Wanamaker car
at 40 miles an hour between Mount
Holly and Moorestown, on October 8.
At the time. according to an inspector,
Wanamaker was sitting by the side of
Hall.
Members of Mount Holly ana Unity
Lodge of Odd Fellows are requested to
attend district meeting to be held in
the lodge room, corner Of High and
Murrell streets, tomorrow evening, for
the purpose of electinga district deputy
Grand Master. Every member of the
lodge is especially asked to attend to
this meeting.
Clarence Dunstan, Of Water street,
who left town with one of the shows
performing at the Mount Holly fair af
ter he had been examined and certified
for military service, and had paid
no attention to notices sent him since
his departure. appeared in town last
week. He was promptly arrested by
Constable Gaskill and placed in charge
of the military authorities at Camp
Dix.
The post Office department has de-
cided to cut out large number of rural
routes In the next few months to re-
ducs expenses. Inspectors will go
about and examine all roads which
the rural carriers travel, and whenever
the conditions of the road are found
bad the route will be discontinued.
Roads which show neglect will be
more apt to be condemned than those
put in first class condition.
Miss Katharine Gillian, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph K. Gillian, and
Levi Wire. supervising principal of the
Beverly public schools, were married
at the home of the brides parents, on
High street, Tuesday afternoon, by
Rev. James II. Durham, OF Philadel-
phia. Mrs. William H. Heisler, Jr.,
Of Pemberton. and Guy Albert, of
Philadelphia, attended the couple.
Only members of the immediate fami-
lies were present.
There will be change in the rail-
road timetable, Thursday, but the
usual advance notice has not yet been
made public. OF course it is we'll to
have some idea of when trains are sup
posed to leave the different stations,
but as they have been running ever
since the base OF operations was re-
moved from Camden to Trenton about
the only thing that seems necessary is
go to the station and wait for the
first train that comes along.
A special effort is being made by the
local school authorities to impress upon
the pupils the danger of playing in
the roads, or of running across the
streets without being certain that auto
mobiles are not approaching. During
the last few weeks there has been one
serious accident and many narrow es-
capes, because of the carelessness of
children. Acting on a suggestion of
DR.. H. E. Longsdorf, medical inspector,
large warning cards have been hung in