The Mount Holly news., 1918-08-06
rHE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
DR.. /. N. Keim has been granted ;
patent on resilient vehicle tire.
The Mount Holly schools will opel
for the fall term on Monday, Septem
Der Is.
The August meeting Of the Board Of
Freeholders will be held at the cour
house tomorrow.
Armour Union will meet at the
home OF Mrs. Price Richards, Mil
street, this evening.
The restaurant business of Ryan &
Hulse is now owned by Mr.. Hulse
alone, he having purchased the interest
Of his partner on Wednesday.
Letters for Allen Cox, ]. A. Himp,
Arthur Cooper, M. Lomparde, Miss
Anna Powell. James B. Throuer and
William Gaskill, remain unclaimed in
the post Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo st. Clair Pie. for
merly of Mount Holly and Smithville,
now living at Erie, Pa, are being con-
gratuIated upon the arrival of baby
girl in their family.
Evangelist Ethel B. Roser, who has
been conducting tent meetings on
Paxson street, packed up the outfit on
Thursday, and has begun meetings at
Burlington.
Burlington common council has
granted the petition of citizens asking
for local option election, and has
fixed the next general election in No
vember as the date.
Rev. Thomas ]. Walsh, formerly of
Buffalo, was installed bishop of the
Catholic diocese of Trenton. on We'd
nesday, the ceremonies taking place in
st. Mary's Cathedral, Trenton.
Charles Hawkins, colored, of Mount
Holly, employed by the local Adams
Express Company, disappeared last
week. taking with him s65.5s that he
had collected for the company. He has
not been located by the detectives.
Miss Edith b. Cook, formerly of
Mount Holly, who has been teaching
ct Irvington for some time, has been
elected teacher OF special subjects in
= large school in Newark. Miss Cook
Is attending Cornell summer school
preparing Tor her new position.
The colored supplement Of the New
York Sun, on Sunday, contained q
photograph Of a number Of American
soldiers being entertained by Elsie
Janis, the actress. at a Y. M. G. A.
hut somewhere in France. Clifford D.
Cain, Of Mount Holly. who went away
with old Company E. is plainly seen in
the group Of soldiers.
Albert M. Watson, mayor of the
borough Of Wrightstown, has purchas-
ed from Mrs. Howard E. Alcott her
residence on Broad street. Mr.. and
Mrs. Alcott will shortly remove to
West Philadelphia. On Sunday Mr..
Alcott presented his resignation as
superintendent of the Methodist Sum
day school, to take effect in two weeks.
Charles Gibbs, Water street, has
been held under $500 bail to await the
action Of the federal grand jury on
charge OF furnishing liquor to soldiers.
Elizabeth Michaels, West Washington
street, native OF Germany, has been
placed under 81 900 bail on the same
charge. The hearings were held before
United States Commissioner Haines
on Wednesday.
Seated in the doorway and reading |
newspaper during the storm on Tues
day evening. Barkley Barnes was
struck by lightning and rendered un-
conscious. His left leg and arm and
the left side of his face we're injured. |
He is employed by John r. Howell,
and lives in the tenant house on But |
tonwood street, in the rear of the
Howell property. His condition is now |
much improved.
Death and great damage to the roads |
followed in the wake Of the heavy rain
storm that hit Camp Dix last week. |
The soldier who lost his life was private
Wadley E. Sharp. Of Waycross, Ga, a |
member Of Company e, 26th Engi
neers, who was swept into manhole
and drowned. Nearly every road in
the camp suffered. Two bridges on the |
Wrightstown-P Pointville road were car
ried away and many tons of earth |
washed out.
Owing to the excessive cost of the |
Burlington Roebling section of State |
highway route No. 2, under bids re-
ceived Wednesday, the State Highway
Commission decided not to build this
road under present prices. The low
bid received for the work was that of
the Utility Construction Company, of
New Brunswick. for 1922, ,62S OF, which
was over 20 per cent. higher than the
highway engineers estimate of the
cost. New bids will be asked for.
The executive committee of the
State Highway Commission recon-
mends that steps be taken at once to
make permanent repairs to the Bor
dentown end of the Camp Dix road,
which is now in poor shape, hindering
vehicular traffic to the cantonment.
This is SO because the Burlington
county freeholders have not the funds
with which to make permanent re
pairs. The section of this highway
near Camp Dix has been built by con
vict labor and is in excellent condition
The present officers of the Mount
Holly Business Mems Association were
unanimously renominated for another
year at the meeting of the association
on Tuesday night. The election will
take place at the August meeting.
Other business transacted was the ap-
pointment of committee to work
with the local Board of Education in
school matters and present report at
the next meeting. The Association
agreed to do whatever was possible
toward securing employment in Mount
Holly for soldiers wives desiring to re
main here while their husbands are
overseas.
The appointment of Frank w.
Thacher, prominent business man of
Florence, as Food Administrator for
Burlington county. was announced on
Wednesday bv w. &. TYLER Federal
Food Administrator for New Jersey.