The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-02-26
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Company E Auxiliary will meet a
the home of Mrs. William A. Slaugh
ter on Thursday morning at 1913
O'Clock.
The old school house at Rancoca
has been sold to Albert Hansell TO
$500. 1t will be converted into a col,
storage house.
John w. Taylor, who conducted
grocery store on Washington street TO
number of years, died on Tuesday
He was so years old.
Rudolph p. Kumpf, who for several
months has been at a sanitarium neal
Philadelphia, has returned home much
improved in health.
The stock of the drug store owned
by the late DIR. John J. Flynn, has
been purchased by Alex Dubell. The
Flynn store is for rent.
The courts of Philadelphia have
granted divorce to Mrs. Phoebe V. ID.
Wagner, formerly of Mount Holly,
from her husband, Harry c. Wagner.
Real estate agent r. w. Bowker re-
ports the sale of the property of John
K. Scattergood, on Bispham street, to
Mrs. Anna M. Powell, of Vincentown,
who will occupy it.
Miss Myrtle E. Smith will attend the
session of the National Educational
Association at Atlantic City this week
as delegate from the local Parent
Teachers Association.
A number of new foreign instructors
have arrived at Camp Dix to instruct
the men there in the art of warfare as
practiced on the European fronts. The
men are all from the Canadian army.
Ernest Hansell, son OF Richard Han
sell, of Rancocas, who has been at
Camp Dix, was honorably discharged
from military service last week, in
order that he can conduct his fathers
farm.
Ernest Reamer, of Church street,
caught his right hand in some ma
chinery at his place of employment in
Philadelphia last week. The index
finger was so badly torn that it had to
be amputated.
DIR. Charles l.. Cater and Miss
Florence M. Whitman were quietly
married in Philadelphia, on Thursday
of last week, by Rev. Mr.. Erwood
The bride is the daughter of DIR. John
E. Whitman, of Mount Holly.
Lawyer Henry HI. Savage isconduct-
ing kind of branch hospital at his
home on Buttonwood street, all the
of the family being sick ex-
cept himself. Mrs. Savage is ill with
grippe, their little daughter, Sarah, is
with pneumonia, and Mrs. |
mother of Mrs. Savage, is
also quite sick.
The w. B. Tomlinson property on
Garden street, occupied by A. S. L.
Doughty, has been purchased by Jo-
seph Engle, for the last four years
of the E. A. Smith |
estate farms at Smithville. Mr.. Engle |
aas resigned that position and will oc-
,upy his new purchase some time in
,he spring, becoming a resident of
Mount Holly.
Gertrude Welsnack, eleven years old,
living in Trenton, while picking coal
near the Labor street wharf above Bor- |
1entown, along the Delaware River,
IN Wednesday, accidentally fell on a |
lake Of ice moving down the river. The |
child held on to the ice and was car
led down the stream, soon falling into
he water. Her cries brought two men
n boats, but they were unable to rescue
ler and she drowned.
The resolution passed in December
by the board of education, prohibiting
he evening use of the high school au
iitorium, was rescinded at a meeting
# the board on Thursday night. 1t
vas decided that 500 rent would be
charged hereafter. The former restrict
ons, prohibiting renting the room for
iances or functions at which prizes are
awarded, are still in effect. General
conditions are responsible for the adj
7anee in rent.
Giovanni Iraca, convicted as one of
he slayers of Henry d. Rider, paid
he penalty of his crime in the electric |
chair at Trenton on Tuesday flight. He
went to the chair with his eyes closed
Ind without saying a word. The
priests who accompanied him repeated |
he prayers for the dying. Iraca is
by widow and three child
'en. They are in Italy, and he for
warded to his wife his gold watch with
1he instructions that it is to go to his
youngest son.
On Wednesday and Thursday even
ings of this week there will be enter
in the opera house for the
benefit of the Junior Red Cross. This
is very worthy object and the tickets
should be purchased directly from the
members of the organization. On
Wednesday the picture will be "Jack
and the Beanstalk," one of the pretti-
est ever put on the screen. Thursdays
will be THE Honor Sys-
tenn" There will be matinees each
day, beginning at 8.80,and the evening
performance will begin promptly at
$50.
On Monday evening the Boy Scouts
who have been under training by Rev.
Henry Teller Cooke, rector of st. An
drew's church, will receive their Off
cial investiture. The exercises will
take place in the gymnasium of the
church at TO, and all who are inter
ested in this movement of training
boys-and everybody should be-are
invited to be present. There will be
drills and other exercises by the boys
and each one who has passed the item
derfoot" degree will be given his Off
cial badge and certificate of member
ship.
An entertainment for the benefit of
the Mount Holly Red Cross will be
given in the Mount Holly opera house
on Wednesday evening, March 20, by
the well-known entertainers connected
with the 311th Infantry at Camp Dix.
The propram will include two nlavs