The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-12-25

mems meeting at Delanco next Sun
day afternoon.
Charles Griffith has opened an auto
and repair shop at the corner etGar-
den and Buttonwood streets.
Union Fire Company has arranged
to present fire bell to the company at
Bridgeboro, and it will be delivered in
short time.
James Lavery, of near Masonville,
who recently joined the navy, and is
home for Christmas, entertained a
number of friends on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Walter Borton an
nounce the engagement Of their
daughter, Miss Mary Ancker Borton,
to Clifford M. Hubbs, Of Moorestown.
Mrs. Elwood Kirby, of Clifton ave-
nue., is i'll with a dangerous disease,
but is reported to be recovering slowly
but surely. which is joyful news to her
many friends.
Charles E. Cause, OF Llanerch, Pa,
announces the engagement of his sis
ter, Miss Ella Townsend Cause, of At
Iantic City, to Rev. johnson Oatman,
Jr., of Mount Holly.
AS her son could not get home for
Christmas, Mrs. Spencer H. Powell, Of
Lumberton, decided to 20 to Admission,
Alabama, to see him, and she started
on the trip on Friday.
At the sale of farm stock, etc., at
George Wisham's, near Tabernacle,
last week, corn brought 1892 bushel,
offal corn, $1.01 a bushel Meadow hay
brought $21 a ton, and wheat straw SIT
per ton.
The Board of Freeholders will organ
ize next Tuesday. 1t is reported there
are some surprises on the carpet. but
the probabilities are that the action of
the Republicans in their recent confer
snce will be confirmed.
Carl Gordon has sold his place, con-
tanning q acres, along the railroad be-
tween Columbus and Hedding, to
Raymond Assay, who lives on Elmer
Tallman's farm opposite. The new
owner expects to move there in the
spring.
Miss Edna L. Bacon was Saturday
visitor in Mount Holly. She is an in
in a Newark school and was
on her way home for the holidays, but
she thinks SO much of Mount Holly
she had to stop off to greet her many
friends here.
The court Of pardons last week re-
leased on parole the following who had
been sent to the state prison from this
county: George Hunland, burglary;
Jackson, burglary; George
PouIsen, obtaining money under false
pretenses.
William Stricken, ST., while return
ng from delivering milk at the Jobs
own station, on Sunday morning,
vas struck by train at the crossing |
Jobstown and Columbus. The
horse was killed, the wagon demolished,
md Mr.. Stricken was injured, but not |
seriously.
Feeling the necessity for more room |
he Holly Club has leased the second
ioor over the store of the Atlantic and |
Pacific Tea store, and will hold their
ocial session there this evening and
omorrow. This addition to their
quarters gives the club the second and
bird floors of the building.
The war has not only taken some of
'ur best young men for the army but
has developed talent that has cyl
lently long been dormant and poets
ire springing up in all parts of the var
GUS camps. THE Ne VS. is therecip
ent OF several productions but they are
coming in SO thick and fast that we
ire compelled to omit their publica
ion for the present. They may appear
alter.
Answers of registrants on the select
We draft questionaires relating to
health, and the answers under the
read dependency" with the excep-
ion Of the names and addresses of per-
ons claimed to be dependent, will
lot be open to inspection by the public
Without the consent of the registrants.
for not to exceed one
,ear will be the penalty imposed on
Inyone connected with the administra-
ion of the selective:draft law who shall |
make this information public.
With continuance Of the war, in
he next year at least 10000 nurses will
,e needed in army hospitals at home
md abroad. OF the $4,000 graduate
nurses Of the country only $500 have
10 far been assigned to duty in army |
ervice, and of this number 1900 are in
France. An army nurse may be a |
graduate of training school for nurses
md must have served for two years in |
! hospital. They are assigned to duty |
n ts~ United States or abroad, and |
preference are granted when conditions |
permit. Nurses who prefer not to |
nave services abroad will have their
preferences respected.
Some member of the Burlington
County bar is sitting at the court
house daily, except Sundays and holt
lays, to assist men of military draft
age to answer the question blanks that
are being sent by the draft board. The
man subject to selection for military
service is allowed to keep the blank for
several days, but must have it com
pleted and in the hands of the draft
board in seven days from the date on
which 1t was issued. After the blanks
come in, the questionaires must be ex-
amined in detail by the draft board
and the men all assigned to their ap-
classes. This means about
three months steady work for the draft
board.
William Burtis, Of New Egypt, died
on Wednesday, not having sufficient
strength to recover from an operation
performed at Jefferson hospital, PhiIa-
delphia. He had been in poor health
for over year, and had given up
active business in the hope that such
move might be beneficial. He was
one of New Egypt's prominent citi-
zens, and took great interest in every
thing that was of advantage to the
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