The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-04-16
The local dealers have reduced the
price of milk to IL cents q quart.

1ueIt Will DC sale Vi CakcS anu PIE
by the Spare Minute Circle of tn
|? Methodist church, at No. 81 MAR
t street, next Saturday afternoon.
Miss Sarah Wilkinson, who resigned
8 as salesman in Saltzman's store, hal
!, accepted position in the shoe depart
ment at Strawbridge & Clothier's.
, A new draft call for AS, SAB men to b.
. modified on May LIST has been made
The first district of Burlington county
f will supply about six under this call.
} Henry H. Savage, who has been con
nected with Judge Lippincott's Cam
den Office for some time, has discon
tinued his law Office in Mount Holly
! J. Rogers Brick, of Medford, will
J operate Edward E. Logan's farm on
the South Pemberton road. Mr.. and
Mrs. Logan will continue to reside at
the farm.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Helmuth 3uttmann,
of Orange, are being congratulated on
the birth of son. Mrs. Guttmann
was formerly Miss Bessie Pease, of
Mount Holly.
Mrs. James Lippincott, who former
ly resided on Garden street, died
yesterday, at Charlottesville, Virginia,
in her 91st year. The body will be
brought to Mount Holly for interment.
| DIR. William A. Newell. of Trenton,
who enlisted in the army some time
ago and has been awaiting call, re-
ceived word on Wednesday to report at
Camp Greenwood, Ga, Immediately.
The voters of Jacksonville failed to
elect the required number OF members
OF the Board of Education at their re-
cent school meeting, and County SUI
perintendent Kayser has appointed
Mrs. Rachel Britton to fill the vacancy.
John l.. Emerson, of Mount Holly
avenue, has resigned his position at
Strawbridge & Clothier's and enlisted
geant major, and is at present station
ed at Philadelphia.
DIR. J. Hume Carter is about to make
extensive Improvements to his property
vacated by the Farmers Exchange.
Matthews shoe shining establishment
has removed to the larger store at the
north end of the building, and the
two rooms now vacant will be made
into one large store.
N. R. Evan, of Ewanville, has been
awarded a contract by the War Depart
ment to furnish 10000 gallons of vine-
gar for the American forces in France.
This will load about "a cars. Mr.. Evan
has already supplied several canton
ments in this country, and shipped
some vinegar to France early this
year.
Harry H. Brakeley, Jr., son of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Harry II. Brakeley, of Bor-
dentown, and Miss Pauline Henderson,
OF Jobstown, were married at Holy |
Trinity church, Philadelphia, last |
week, by Rev. Floyd Tompkins. The |
bridegroom is a member of the Naval
Reserves and is stationed at Woods |
Hole, Mass.
All the property Of the Rake Pond |
Cranberry Company was sold at public
sale on SATURDAY.. Joseph ]. White |
bought the real estate for $1,000. This
sale will cause the dissolution of the
company. The land will possibly be
used for cultivating huckleberries, as
it seems to have outlived ITS useful
ness as cranberry land.
The mother-in-law of Captain Jen-
sen, Of Brainard street, who had been
sick for some weeks, died on Monday !
of last week. The body was taken to
her home in New York, and word |
has been received that those of the |
family who accompanied the remains
have been placed in quarantine owing |
to Captain Jensen's son having been |
attacked with measles.
Rev. Luther M. Bicknell went to |
Moorestown last Wednesday evening
to assist in the installation of Rev. ].
S. Dauerty, formerly pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Columbus, as
pastor of the Presbyterian church of
Moorestown. Mr.. Dauerty and Mr.. |
Bicknell were classmates at Princeton
Seminary, and it was Mr.. Bicknell's |
pleasure and privilege to deliver the
charge to the new pastor.
A large tract near Newtonville, a |
small settlement seven miles west Of
Hammonton and about the same dis |
lance from Mays Landing, is said to
have been selected as the site for can
Torment for colored men. Surveyors
were at work on the ground during the
week. 1t is reported to be the inten-
ton of the government to send all OF
the colored drafted men to this canton
ment and transfer the colored section
from Camp Dix.
Two criminal cases were disposed OF
by Judge Lippincott on Thursday.
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ed with assault, was put on probation.
She got into scrap with woman
about the placing of some household
furniture in bed room. Thomas F.
Pfsiffer, charged with stealing corn
from Mrs. Lydia Clevenger, Burr''s
road, was placed on probation and
compelled to pay costs of prosecution.
He previously had made restitution for
the value of the corn.
Capt. Winfield S. Gale, of Company
b, state militia, has received the fol-
lowing note from Lieut.. Clifford r.
Powell, who is in the United States
aerial service in France: 81 hope you
are getting along quite nicely with the
new company, and hope it keeps going
strong. With an unbroken record of
45 years it would be shame for Mount
Holly to lose out on military COM
pany. Please remember me to all its
members, as my heart is with them,
and may the organization prosper"
State Commissioner of Education
Calvin N. Kendall has notified the
local Board of Education that the work
of making a survey of the Mount
Holly schools, which was begun last
month, has been unayoidably delayed
by the non-receipt of the blanks and
other supplies necessary for the scien
tific testing of the local school system
The application of these tests will b'
made by impartial educational ex
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