The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07

press Company.
At meeting of Company B, State
Militia, last night, two vacancies Of
corporal were filled by the election o.
David F. Swain and Charles E. Yerger
Charles Kugler died at his home in
New York, Saturday. He was wei
known in Mount Holly, his wife be
ing a sister OF the late Martin HI. Cir
ven.
A meeting of dairymen was held at
the court house on Saturday night to
discuss the milk situation. 1t was
decided to fix the wholesale price al
81 cents per quart.
Sergt. Carl Becker, Company H,
Hath Infantry, Camp Mcclellan, is
entertaining his wife and Mrs. Lewis
H. Becker, his mother. who are stop
ping at the Silver Moon hotel, Annis-
ton, Alabama.
The weekly meeting of the Army
Wives League will be held this after :
noon at the residence of Mrs. Charles
B. Parsons, q Washington street,
when Mrs. William F. Whyte will be
the hostess.
Miss Elizabeth Curtis, one OF the
welfare workers in the Camp Dix
neighborhood, ia suffering with a
broken ankle, sustained when she step
ped into ditch at the camp one night
last week.
Mount Holly went over the top in
fine shape in its liberty loan subscrip-
tions, exceeding its quota by at least
$05, 900. The latest figures give the
total as 1856, 200 with some subscrip-
tions not yet reported.
The annual meeting Of the Burling-
ton County Association for Insurance
was held at Medford yesterday, and
the board of directors and officers were
reelected. Among those who attend
cd the meeting was former Senator
Henry ]. Trick, who was heartily con-
graduated on his ability to be present.
Finding that an ordinance recently
passed by Wrightstown giving the
Hanover Water Company q franchise
to construct water system does not
with restrictions imposed by |
State law and with rules Of the Public I
Utility Commiasioners, the commission |
has declined to approve the ordinance.
1t il referred back to Wrightstown
with the suggestion that 1t be amended.
The Mount Holly Glse Club went to
Camp Dix, Tuesday evening, and gave
an entertainment in Hut No. 4 of the
Y. M. c. A. The club gave several of
It's choice selections. Phil Irons and
Hainss performed their
speciality and Pierre Stanton gave his
emale approximations to such good
fleet that it was hard to convince the
audience that the performer was not
/ lady.
DIR. William Cowan, of Gault,
Canada, is visiting DIR. J. Hume Car
or. DR.. Gault was the preceptor Of
)rs. Robert W., and j. Hume Carter.
This is his first trip into the United
States. and he is well pleased with
What he is seeing. He was very much
Interested in the crowds that were ON
he street Saturday evening, and
bought the lineup of automobiles ON
High and Mill streets were indications
4 prosperity.
The Court of Errors and Appeals has
endered an opinion in the matter Of
between John B. Burtis and
Edward T. Haines, who are contend
ng for the position of sealer Of weights !,
nd measures in this county. The
,ourt upholds the decision of the Su-
RENE Court which was that Mr.. Bur-
is was the legal possessor of the office.
sut the decision does not affect the
ction of the Board of Fresholders in !
listing Burtis and replacing Haines,
be State Department acknowledging |.
he latter to be the man they will re-
ognize. Mr.. Burtis has now taken
ut a writ OF csrtiorari to show cause .
Thy Haines should not again give up /.
be position.
When the bell in the cupola Of the
curt house was ringing for the meet ,
ng, Saturday afternoon, somebody re.
marked that 1t was pity we could
lot have an old bell like the Philadel-
hia Liberty Bell, to call the people
ogether. This led to the query of who
new the age Of the court house bell.
Nobody seemed able to answer, so q
itizen climbed to the bslfry and there
ound the figures 1855. AS the court
louse was not built until 1896, the bell
hung on q building in Bur
ington, which was the first county
eat. Like the Philadelphia bell, it
vas probably cast in England. The
after was cast in 1852, but was cracked
n crossing the sea, and was recast in
in 1853.
The dogcatchsr is doing good work
n riding the streets Of stray ours, but
ls should be given instructions how
o do his work. This morning he
captured a small dog and his manner
n working the matter certainly needs
1t was case for the Society
or Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals
He threw rope around the dogs neck
and then inserted it between the ami
mails teeth, causing the blood to flow.
Having secured the pup, the man put
The rope around his neck and dragged
him up the street. 1t was clear case
Of cruelty and the township authori-
ties should see that such methods are
not allowed. If the fellow is not able
to buy a net, one should be provided |
for him, but from what we have heard |
he is making enough money to supply |
himself with the proper appliances |
for catching dogs In humane way.
Prosecutor Takes a Hand
In THE News, last week. there was
an account OF some boys in Rfverton
having been arrested for stealing and