The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-06
Mount Holly dealers report scarcity

4, of sugar and -four.
/ Miss Hannah F. Oliphant, Of Tren
ton, spent the weekend with Mr.. anc
Mrs. w. c. Wetherill.
The members of the Girls Bible
/ class of the Baptist church are organ
izing class in physical training.
The second meeting of the Junior
Chautauqua winter club will be held
in the high school auditorium this
afternoon.
At its meeting last evening Relief
Fire Company donated ten dollars for
the Christmas box for the members OF
Company E.
ChristianJ. Krayer, Walter H. Lamb
and Ralph Throckmorton have been
elected to represent Relief Fire Com
pany in the Burlington County Fire
mems Association.
Richayd p. Brown has been elected
treasurer of Relief Fire Company to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Floyd Stockton, who has ae-
cepted position in Washington.
There will be a meeting of the Red
Cross Association, Thursday evening,
at eight o'clock, in the headquarters,
corner of High and Murrell streets.
This will be very important meeting
and it is requested that every member
be present.
The regular meeting Of the Parent
Teacher Association will be held Thurs
day evening, November Is, in the
school auditorium. Miss Suydam, of
Newark, will give an interesting lee
ture, and there will be a musical pro-
gram by the children.
The show in the opera house this
evening will be for the benefit of Com
pany E Christmas fund. The admis-
sion will be ten cents with,the one cent
war tax added. Tickets may be OBJ
tanned from members of the Red Cross.
The pictures to be shown will be of a
fine character.
Frank Wright, strolling through the
woods short time since, saw a snake
which he quickly put out of the way
by cutting it in half. After he had
done this he saw something crawling
on the ground and ON examination he
found it to be young snake about
three inches long. 1t had two heads.
Mr.. Wright has it preservedin alcohol.
A race riot occurred at Beverly Sat
urday night about ten o'clock, in
which number took part and several,
including officer Holland, were severely
slashed by razors welded by negroes.
Several arrests were made and hear
ing held before Justice Birkhead. Two
negroes, who gave the names of Wash
ington and Magee, were found guilty
Of disorderly conduct. The first named
was fined 800 and committed to the
county Jail for six months, and the lat
ter SIS fine and similar Jail term. A
colored woman was fined 1920 and
discharged.
1.-THE Importance of the Child in the
State and Community, will be the
dominant topic of the annual conven-
ton OF the New Jersey Congress of
Mothers in Moorestown next Friday
and Saturday. The program, an
nounced by the president, Mrs. We'll
lington Bechtel, of Haddonfield, in
clude many widely known speakers
along these lines and it is expected that
the Congress will take active steps for
the conservation of child life with es-
pecfal reference to the work of the
parent-teacher associations which are
affiliated with it.
Several applications. for the position
of physical training teacher in the
Mount Hollyschools have been received
by the board Of education, but the gen
eral opinion is that it would not be ad-
visable to employ such teacher this
year, the board being unwilling to in
crease the expense Of conducting the
schools except in instances where such
action is unavoidable. Indications are
that reasonably good results will be
obtained by the method now in use in
the grades, each teacher taking charge
of the exercises Of her own class. This
is not so satisfactory in the high school.
1t is thought that the problem may be
solved for the present by the organiza-
ton of class of the teachers, under
a competent instructor, who would
come to Mount Holly one or two even
ings a month and drill the teachers in
the exercises they would later impart
to their scholars. This would not be |
expensive and the board is seriously
considering such action.