The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-15
LOCAL NEWS.


is employed.
Tomorrow, October Is, is the frs
day for deer hunting. The duck, branl
and geese season also opens tomorrow
Letters for Mrs. William Crowthers
DR.. Clayton Darlington and Benjamin
Storey, remain unclaimed in the DOS
Office.
Charles e. Holmes has bought from
the estate of George Bullock the hous
and lot on Union street, between
Buttonwood and Cherry streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Garlanger, O
Mount Holly, have been installed a
steward and matron of the county tn
berculosis sanitarium at New Lisbon
Margaret H. Jones, of Philadelphia
cousin of Edward B. Jones, o
Mount Holly, who died recently, be
queathed $500 to the Burlington Coun
ty Hospital.
Charles Johnson, who In occupyin,
the farm at Arney's Mount belongin,
to the Samuel w. Shinn estate, ha
purchased the J. Elwood Hancocl
farm at Hancock's corner.
Monroe B. Smith has purchased
the Pew homestead farm on the Noun
Holly and Jobstown road, known al
Green Meadow farm. from Charles H
Pew. 1t contains 140 acres.
Fred M. Anderson and family moved
last week into the Mrs. Harry E. Lynn
property on Broad street. Professor
Edgar F. Bunce will occupy the resi-.
dence vacated by the Andersons.
Richard w. Wills took secont
money in the 2.22 pace at the Trenton
fair with his horse Judge Sales, which
be purchased at the Mount Holly fail
from H. Stacy Smith, of Newark.
The estate of Stacy B. Taylor solo
the Poke Hill farm near Cookstown at
public sale, on Thursday, to George r.
A. Brown, of Wrightstown, for $25. 25
an acre. The property contains 21C
acres.
The meeting of Pomona Grange,
Burlington county Patrons of Hus-
bandry, which was to have been held at
Pemberton. next week, has been post
poned because of the prevalence of in
huenza.
The Josephine C. Lippincott board
ing house property on Mill street, was
offered at public sale on Wednesday
afternoon, but was withdrawn, bid of
$3.50 being unsatisfactory to the per
sons in charge of the property.
The Mount Holly schools will reopen
on Monday, October %, unless condit-
ions existing at that time should make
it inadvisable to resume sessions. 1t is
probable that the time lost will have
to be made up at the end of the term,
The train carrying German war
trophies, which appeared in Mount
Holly on Tuesday, was discontinued,
on Wednesday, on orders from Wash
ington, as precautionary measure
against spreading the influenza cpl
demic.
James Marshall, while picking apples
on the farm of his son-in-Iaw, Richard
Lamb, on Wednesday, fell from lad
der and struck the ground on his head,
breaking his neck. Death was almost
instantaneous. Mr.. Marshall was 81
years of age.
For the second time in two weeks
death visited the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Eckert, Of Paxson street,
their three-year-old daughter. Helen,
dying on Thursday of pneumonia. A
son, Howard, Jr., died on September
IS, of acute Bright's disease.
Miss Jeanette Vansciver, of Beverly,
has sailed for Italy, where she will
enter Red Cross work. Her sister mar
ried Lieutenant Malcolm Gum, of
Burlington, who has been missing
since July Is, and is believed to be
prisoner in Germany. Mrs. Gum is
nursing the sick at Camp Dix.
Elvin Norcross, employed by the
Fleetwood Motor Company, was held
for court under 5000 bail, on Thursday,
by Recorder Herbert, on a charge of
assault and battery on William Lutz.
The fracas took place at the Fleetwood
garage, and the circumstances will be
brought out at the hearing before
Judge Lippincott.
On another page of THE News we
this week publish an interview with
Surgeon General Rupert Blue, of the
United States Health Service. 1t is
part of the educational plan authorized
by the Government and valuable
treatise on the present epidemic of in
fluenza and its treatment. 1t should
be read carefully and its suggestions
at once acted upon.
According to the records of the State
Food Administration, New jersey
housewives have used approximately
100000 pounds of sugar in canninl
fruits, etc., this summer and fall II
is stated that the system of allotment
and the manner of regulating the sale
of sugar in New Jersey has proven ont
of the most effective in the country TO
conserving the sugar supply.
The Vincentown branch of the Re,
Cross collected over 500 pounds O
clothing last week for the destitute
Belgians, and also sent large quantit,
of fruit, jelly and grape juice to tn
sick soldiers at Camp Dix. The Junior
collected large share of this. Through
the kindness of Ernest Haines in lend
ing stove, which was put in place b.
William ]. Trick, the Red Cross room
are now heated. Because of the ex
pense of fuel the members meet bu
one day week, being at the rooms al
day on Wednesdays.
The increasing interest Of farmers il
the farm tractor wasstrikingly brough
out at the tractor demonstration bel
at the New Jersey Agricultural Exper
ment Station, at New Brunswick, O
Tuesday. 1t is estimated that abor
fifteen hundred people were preser
from different parts of New Jersey an
adjoining states. Thirteen differer
makes of tractors participated in tt
demonstration. The tractors were c
the grounds for inspection in the NOR
ing, and in the afternoon were put
operation in blowing large fielt
Prof. l.. E. Hazen, of the departmel