The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-13

The entertainment in the opera house
last Tuesday evening for the Christmas
box of Company E, netted $54.
} Washington Camp No. II, P. o. S
of A, will celebrate it's anniversary al
a special meeting on Thursday even
ing.
At the meeting of the local Red
Cross Association, Thursday evening,
DIR. Harold E. Longsdorf was elected
president.
A meeting was held at the court
house, last night, to make preparations
for the local campaign for contribu-
tions for the big fund to be raised for
the Y. M. C. A.
Charles E. Holmes has resigned as
cashier of the First National Bank at
Wrightstown, to take effect Thursday.
Bergen T. Raynor, of Rockaway Gen.
tire, Long Island, will probably succeed
Mr.. Holmes.
Victor Wierman, the former super
intendent of the Trenton Division OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad, is suffer
ing from a broken rib which he sus-
tanned in an accident a few days ago
while he was in a sleeping car on a
Buffalo Philadelphia express train.
Sheriff Haines filed his official bond
this morning. 1t is for $4,000 and is
signed by the Sheriff, Ezra C. Engle,
Lawrence J. Cowperthwait, Harry
Hawkins, Jr., Morris X. Perinchief, j.
AquiIa Jones, Albert Haines, Robert
T. Evans, Edward M. Comfort, Ben
jamin M. Haines and William T.
Stecher.
William ]. Ellis, of Palmyra, was
married, Saturday evening, in Allan
tic City, to Miss Nina Shaner, daughter
of Joseph L. Shaner, who is proprietor
of large printing plant in Atlantic
City. The mother of the bridegroom
was formerly Miss Stella Kelly,
daughter OF the late Professor William
]. Kelley, of Mount Holly.
The regular meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association will be held in
the high school auditorium, Thursday
evening, and it is requested that there
be laege attendance. Miss Suydam
will be the speaker. This is not an ex-
elusive gathering. Every parent in
the town is invited to this meeting and
it is hoped the invitation will be &C.
cepted.
Until some arrangement is made
with the employees OF the Burlington
County Traction Company the public
will have to use some other means of
conveyance. The men who run the
cars went on strike this morning.
They took out one or two cars and
then ran them back into the barn,
turned in their books and stopped
work. On its part the company had
the power shut off and the line was
made idle. The men want an increase
in pay to the extent of 30 cents an
hour, They had been getting Is cents.
At meeting Of the directors yester-
day, the employees were offered q cents
an hour, which they refused to accept.
A piece Of reckless driving was seen
yesterday afternoon. The engine OF
Good Intent fire company was return
ing to its house. 1t need not have
come up High street except for the
purpose of having little run or to
show off the machine. 1t was run at
rate of speed that was beyond all traf-
fic rules and when it turned the corner
of High and Mill streets people held
their breath. The machine was being
driven so fast that it almost touched
the curb on the Arcade hotel side and
missed an automobile by less than two
feet. There was not any excuse for
this reckless driving. 1t is all right to
hurry to get to a fire but in going
home there is not any necessity for
speed. The members of the Good In
tent Company may feel comfortable
over the fact that they do not have a
damage suit confronting them or that
some body was not killed. The Union
engine came back faster than there
was any necessity but was not in it
with the other.
To be Of some temporary material
aid to its home Office and field forces
in meeting the advanced cost of living
the Prudential Insurance Company
has allowed ten per cent. increase in
all salaries not exceeding 50, 400 year.
About 1000 clerks in the Newark home
Office Of the company, and in the
neighborhood of 12,OOOagents scattered
throughout the United States and
Canada will be benefited. sit has been
desirable from several angles to grant
the salary increase" said President
Dryden. 1.-THE war has taken from the
homes of many of our employees in
comes which had heretofore been of
much help in maintaining those
homes. What we are doing will, there
fore, be of aid in meeting this unex-
pected deficiency. The high cost of
living today, however, is the more inn
portant reason for the increase, and the
Prudential is glad it can be of service
to its loyal workers in this connection.
The salary increases will be based on
the incomes of those at work at the
home Office of the company and upon
the guaranteed salaries of those en-
ployed in the field as agents. Just for
what period the increases will be con-
tinued has not been settled upon. Con-
ditions as they arise will determine
this.
Liquor Restrictions.
The E,voico C0no m i ociOn of Rurlin0.