The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-06-05
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


The board of freeholders will meet
at the court house tomorrow.
The Mount Holly branch of the Red
Cross now has 500 members enrolled.
Miss Mary Flynn attended a confer
ence of Junior Chautauqua leaders at
Swarthmore, Pa. on Friday.
Mrs. John w. Harris has gone to
housekeeping in the Horace Brock
property ON Brainard street.
John Hetters, of Riverside, is spend
ing 80 days in the county jail for
threatening his wife with razor.
There was large attendance at Ran
eocas Park on Decoration day, and the
dance floor was well filled in the even
ing.
The wholesale price Of milk for June
has been fixed at 81 cents per quart by
the Interstate Milk Producers Asso-
citation.
The regular meeting Of the North
ampton fire police will be held at the
America hose house this evening at
eight o'clock.
The subscription book nuisance is
certainly being overdone in Mount
Holly. Five agents were canvassing
the town last week.
The personal property of the late Jo-
seph Huff will be sold at public sale on
Saturday afternoon, at his late resi-
dence on Brainard street.
The next meeting of the Burlington
County Federation Of Patriotic and
Religious Fraternities will be held at
Hsdding next Tuesday evening.
The baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class Of the high school was
delivered by Rev. Henry Teller Cooke,
at st. Andrews church on Sunday
night.
Harness dealer John Worlin is now
occupying his property at Mill and
Paxson streets, moving from Arcade
row, where he has been located for a
number Of years.
Byron Grigg. Of Broad street, has
bsen transferred from the Camden
Office of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and is now committing to
the Office at Trenton.
Mrs. Harry G.. Clapoole, the visiting
nurse, has been called to Ohio by the
illness of her mother. Miss Mary J.
Lennox is acting lin the position dur
ing Mrs. Claypoole's absence.
BY direction Of Judge Lippincott all
hotel and other liquor license holders
in the county have been notified to
close their bars from a. m. to p. M,
today, which is military registration
day.
John A. Carr, father Of Mrs. Joseph |
r. Gillian, of Mount Holly, Ia quite ill |
ut his home in Bordentown. Mr.. Carr
ia in his ninetv-third year, and is re-
putsd to be the oldest resident OF Bor-
dentown.
F. Shreve Armstrong, who has been
employed at the local Acme store, has
been transferred to Trenton and made
manager OF one of the American chain
stores at that place. He .entered upon
his new duties yesterday.
William A. Slaughter addressed a
meeting OF the Wrightstown Red
Cross chapter last week. He told of
the work already done in Burlington
county. and gave information relative
to membership requirements.
''Billy In Japan" the entertainment
recently given in Mount Holly for the
benefit Of the local Red Cross, is to be
given by cast of Burlington people
in the auditorium there, this evening
for the benefit Of the Burlington chap.
ter.
The next meeting Of the Pemberton
Home Economic Club will be held on
Friday, June 9Th, at 2 o'clock p. M, in
Grange Hall. Miss M. Anna Hauser,
OF Rutgers College, will give a demon
stration on canning of vegetables. All
interested are cordially invited to be
present.
The children of the Children 3 Home
will give strawberry tea and bazaar
at the home on Saturday afternoon
and evening, June %, from until 5,
and from Z until 9. Strawberries
grown on the farm belonging to the
home, ice cream, and cake will be
served for rs cents.
Among The twelve young women |
who received diplomas at the annual
graduation exercises of Cooper Hospi-
tai Training School for Nurses, Cam
den, last week, were four from Burling-
ton county: Clara F. Worden, River
side; Elizabeth Birley and Edith H.
Mitchell, Palmyra, and Marie H. Rich,
Moorsstown.
Sidney Krupnick, son of Herman
Krupnick, has invented and made a |
working model of device for protect |
ing ship from submarine torpedo at |
tacks. The model was made in the
manual training department of the
public school, and is creditabls piece
Of work. The boy conceived the idea
and carried it into execution without
assistance.
Mary A.. widow of Robert Mccoy,
went to visit her son, William, near
Medford. She was stricken with para
lysis and died on Wednesday. She
was rs years of age. Her funeral took
place from her late residence on Main
street, Mount Holly, on Sunday. The
services were conducted by Rev. t. 8.
Hammond, of the Methodist church.
Her remains were inferred in the
Brotherhood cemetery.
The commencement exercises Of the
Mount Holly high school will be held
in the school auditorium on Thu rsday
evening. The class Of this year is
composed of nineteen graduates, az
follows: Latin scientific courss-Mary
L. Kinsler, Beatrice Mitchell, Clara 1.
M. Turner, Elizabeth v. Lewis, Otto
t. Palmer. English and modern lam
guage course, Irene T. Jennings, Flora
NJ. Harker, Mary w. Borden, Clara M.
Hogan, Donald H. Ross, Watson C..
Cooper, Luther S. Bradley, Russell l..
living. Commercial course, Estslla
H. Brown. Roy o. Thornton. r. Edwin
Willitts, George s. Kimble, Madeleine
II a.,tsoh Mahal NJ Phillina Tho