The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-24
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1918
LOCAL NEWS.

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An important meeting of Company
E Auxiliary will be held at 7.S0 O'Clock
tonight at Union fire house on Wash
ington street.
Burr c. Wright and family will take
up their residence at Perth Amboy
next week for the winter. Mr.. Wright
is employed there.
The report that Mrs. Clayton Esti-
low had rented her house on Mill
street was erroneous. She is still con-
Quoting boarding house there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra C. EngIe, of
MasonviIle. will entertain the mem
bers OF the Mount Holly Young
Friends Association on Friday even
ing.
Dixie ]. Cannon, travelling printer.
who has been employed by the Mount
Holly offices during the last six months,
left for his home in the west on Sun
day.
John B. Tilton and family have
moved from Mill street to Mrs. Richard
III. Parsons residence on Union street.
Mrs. Parsons will continue TO reside
there.
Charles C. Cowperthwait has been
appointed chairman Of the Mount
Holly district for the next Liberty
loan drive, which will open September
18th.
The engagement Of Miss Ruth A
Goekeler, OF UnionviIle, to Clarence
e. Anderson, OF Elmont, Kansas. now
somewhere in France, has been an
nounced.
Pierre H. Stanton, who was recently
sent to Camp Meade, Admiral, Nd,
was robbed of all his money last week,
while absent nom barracks. He was
compelled to write home for funds.
Mrs. Lynton M. Nippins is ill With
typhoid fever ut the Burlington Coun-
" Hospital. where she was removed
on Friday morning from her home on
Brainard street
Supervising principal Edgar F.
Bunce has rented the Campion proper
ty on Broad street, and will remove
there as soon as it is vacated by the
present tenant, Fred NJ Anderson.
Troop No. l, Mount Holly Boy
Scouts, has rented the building on
Mill street formerly occupied by the
Ankokas Canoe Club from Thomas L.
Quigley. 1t will be used as meeting
place.
In compliance with the request OF
the government for the conservation Of
light and heat. the Wetherill stores
now open at 8 ~ m. and close at p.
m. except Saturdays. when the closing
hour is 10 p. m.
Mrs. Henry 1. Budd was elected
president Of the Mount Holly w. c.
T. U. at its annual meeting last week.
Other officers were chosen as follows:
Recording secretary. Mrs. F. H. Jacket;
corresponding secretary, Miss Olive
Robinson; treasurer, Mrs. William P.
Eddy.
Mrs. w. Howard Longstreet and
Miss Bertha Gaskill have rented the
residence Of Philip s. Irons, Jr., on
Ridgway street. Mrs. Irons will make |
her home with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles s. GaskiIl. of the Bur
lington road, while Mr.. Irons, who
went to Camp Dix last week, is in
government service.
The last OF the Liberty sings to be
held in Mount Holly this year took
place in the court house yard on Sun |
day afternoon and was well attended. |
The programme consisted of selections
by sextette from one of the brass
bands at Camp Dix, followed by sing
ing by the audience of well known
war and religious songs.
Ethelbert Haines and Ernest Haines,
both of Vincentown, we're arrested on |
September 7, on complaint of George
Worth, for being disorderly persons in
Woodland township. The complain.
ant charged that they used indecent
and abusive language toward him and
that they were intoxicated. Alta hear
ing before Justice Slack, of Mount |
Holly, held at Chatsworth, the de-
PENDANTS were found guilty and fined
SO and costs each.
Miss Elizabeth s. Kite, who is well |
known throughout Burlington county,
has recently written and published an
interesting volume on neglected
chapter OF American history, dealing
with the assistance rendered the strug-
Cling Americans by France during the
Revolution, and the part played by
Beaumarchais in inducing the French
government to extend material help
to America at that time. A copy Of
this book has recently been presented
to the library of the public school by
Miss Mamie McCarty, of Mount Holly.
At q session of the county court, on
Thursday, Alexander Stevens, colored,
aged IL years, OF Chesterfield, pleaded
guilty to forging theNnames of George
Birdsall and Gustave Werner on two
checks Of 50 and SO. The defendant
bought an automobile recently, which
apparently increased his expense &C.
count beyond his earnings as a farm
laborer. His former record is excellent.
Edward Catterall, the boys employer,
said be is an efficient and industrious
farm hand. Judge Lippincott imposed
costs OF prosecution and placed the lad
on probation for three years.
Undeveloped land in New Jersey
which has practically no present value
may be used by the United States
Government for establishing small
homestead tracts for manned soldiers
and sailors who return from the war
and who will demand new occupations
Governor Edge has communicated
with Secretary of Agriculture David S.
Honghton, suggesting that in the plan
for rehabilitation of soldiers and sail
ors the undeveloped land in New Jer-
sey and other states might be used as
homestead tracts for men who desire
to lead rural life and who can in any
degree contribute toward their own
maintenance. Among other things
the Governor suggests; ut may be
that the Government could well afford
TO put portion of each homestead
into condition for tillage and also sup