The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-04-02

, The newly-elected officers of Noun
Holly Lodge of Elks will be Unstable,
at the regular meeting of the lodge to
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. l.. Doughty hav'
rented Mrs. o. L. Jeffrey's property OF
High street, recently vacated by Mrs
William S. Sharp.
Milton Lewis, private at Camp Me
Clellan, Ala, enjoyed furlough last
week, and came home to visit his
parents on Washington street.
An exhibit of pedigreed Persian kit
tens in the window of Aliens drug
store attracted much attention last
week. All three of the kittens have
been sold.
The board of education of Mount
Laurel township is advertising in
another column for sealed bids for the
erection of a six-room school house at
Mount Laurel.
| Letters received by Harvey E. Lip
pincott, of Garden street, from his son
RYland f. Lippincott, who is SER
geant with the American forces abroad,
was in Rome at the time of writing.
Union chemical engine was called
to Cedar lane, Jacksonville, yesterday
afternoon, to extinguish fire in some
dried grass and brush on a field that
threatened to communicate to adjacent
buildings.
Ernest Bateman, house painter, fell
a distance of over twenty feet, yester-
day afternoon, while painting the front
of America fire house. He was sitting
on swinging ladder, and either was
adjusting a pulley rope or it became
unfastened and let one end of the
scaffold drop. His scalp was badly cut
and he may have received internal in
juries. He was taken to the Burling-
ton County Hospital.
Charles Weitz, of Pemberton, was
arrested on Sunday on charge of will
fully setting fire to his home, and was
committed to Jail yesterday after a
hearing before Justice Slack. The
complaint was made by Mrs. Weitz,
who said her husband had threatened
at other times to burn down the house.
He started the fire in one of the rooms |
on the first floor. 1t was discovered |
and extinguished by neighbors.
"Spiral socks are the latest COM
fort for the soldiers. Their chief adj
vantage is that they are knitted with
out any heel. The spirals are some
what shapeless, but soft and clinging
and have been enthusiastically praised
by the men. They are said to out
wear three pairs of socks knitted in the
other style. The sock is the invention
Of Australian women. The Red Cross
is preparing to issue instructions for
knitting the new style socks.
The board of education organized
last night by electing Henry G. Shinn,
president; Ross w. ,Quicksall, vice
and William H. Mason, dis
5rict clerk. DIR. H. E. Longsdorf was
reelected medical inspector, and Sam
lei K. Gaskill attendance officer.
John N. Carly and Samuel Thomas
we're elected janitors of the Brainard
md Buttonwood streets schools, and
Johnson was named janitor
If the William c. Cook school. The
of a janitor for the Samuel
Aaron school was postponed.
At the annual meeting of st. An
lrew's parish, yesterday, the following
'ficers and deputies were elected:
b F. Haywood Shreve and
Clarence Fl. Polhemus; vestrymen,
5eorge A. Lippincott, William A.
Slaughter; Joseph Cross, Richard b.
Ickman, Edward H. Lewis, Harry
". Phares, Stacy b. Lippincott, Mel
on d. w. Pumyea; deputies to
Irocesan convention, b. f. H. Shreve,
". A. Slaughter, E. Fl. Lewis; alter
late deputies, John r. Howell, Will
lam L. Heyer, w. Roland Warrlck. (
Good Intent fire company elected
he following officers last night: Presi-
let, George M. Sleeper; vice president, /,
Ilwood H. Stokes; secretary, William +,
j.. Haines; treasurer, T. Clifford Keller; ,
rustee, years, Samuel Brown; col
ector, Roscoe c. Gale; engineer, {
,harles Griffith; captain, Howard n {
'hinn; directors, William S. Taylor,
logan B. Morris, William j. Haines, {
rankin, B. King, Richard S. Fol- i
yell, John J. Cardwell, c. Monroe |
Grammar, William H. Stillwell; house {
William L. Bullock,
,amuel Browne, Floyd E. Scattergood, t
ohm j. Cardwell, William S. Taylor; S
INVESTIGATING committee, Logan b. '
Iorris, Floyd f. Scattergood, Fred V. {
lngle; fire police, William Sherman,
'. Nelson Frazier, Raymond E. Thorn q
on, Fred V. Engle, Lewis Lippincott. i
IarN ey \. Worrell. II