The Mount Holly news., 1918-08-06

The Tiger base ball team, OF Noun
Holly, went to Delanco, on Saturday
and defeated the team of that place b
the score of 2 to O.
The residence property on Higl
: street owned by former Judge Josepl
I'll. Gaskill, has been sold TO T. Waite
Borton, who now occupies it.
Before leaving for Syracuse, N. Y.
for military service, on Tuesday, Win
field Quigley sold his jitney equip
ment to Justice John Throckmorton
A COW belonging to Samuel Dennis
who lives on the Mount Holly and
Jobstown road, was struck by light
ming during the storm on Tuesday and
killed.
| The New Jersey Dairymen's Protect
i've Association has fixed the wholesale
price of milk for August at eight cents
per quart, an increase of three-fourths
of cent.
4 An article in local paper is headed
"Pat Sullivan now his same old self
again. That is about so, but we
never before heard him referred to as
"Pat.''
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Stanton will re-
move from John B. Herbert's property
on Brainard street to the residence on
Mill street owned by their son, Samuel
lC. Stanton, who will live with them.
! Congratulations are being extended
to Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton 8. Sharp, of
Burlington, upon the arrival of son in
their family. Mrs. Sharp was formerly
Miss Halcyon Mann, of Mount Holly.
Captain Donald B. Cannon, of New
Orleans, La, now at Camp Dix, and
Miss Elinor Oxley Moor, OF Clifford,
Ark, were married at the Methodist
parsonage, on Saturday evening, by
Rev. I. S. Hammond.
| Edgar F. Bunce, the new supervising
principal of the Mount Holly schools,
expects to take up his work here next
week. Because of the scarcity OF de-
srable houses, his family will proba-
| bly remain at Lodi for the present.
Necrosis Of the bone having recently
developed, Joseph 8. Shreve, OF Pine
street suffered amputation Of his left
leg near the hip at the Burlington
County Hospital on Thursday. Mr..
Shreve has been ill for some time. His
condition is reported as favorable.
Robert Marshall. alias Robert Haley,
colored, was arrested last week by
County Detectives Parker and Dodd,
for robbing guests at the Pig'n Whistle
inn, Browns Mills, some time ago. A
part of the jewelry stolen was recover
ed. Marshall was employed at the inn
lat the time of the robbery. He is now
in jail.
Mary, the little daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Woodside. living on a farm
near Mount Holly, was painfully in
jured one day last week. The child
was in field running after a horse,
and the animal kicked her in the face.
breaking her jaw. She was taken to
the Burlington County Hospital for
treatment.
The general committee looking after
the details for the picnic of the Bur
lington County Firemen's Association
to be held at Rancocas Park on Au-
gust II, held meeting at Burlington
on Wednesday night, and report that
everything is moving smoothly and
there will be no trouble in presenting
the program as planned.
The dance hall in the Masonic
Temple has been leased for the fall and
winter by the War Camp Community
Service, and Mrs. Robert r. Forbes
has been named chairman of COM
mittee of ladies who will conduct a
series of chaperoned dances for men
in uniform and their lady guests. The
cost will be twenty-five cents couple,
and no girl will be admitted without
written invitation.
Announcement is made that exami-
nations will be held by the Civil Ser
vice Commission at Bordentown,
Mount Holly, Burlington and River
side, on Saturday, August "a, to fill
the position of rural mail carrier at
Wrightstown and any other vacancies
tho4 ,,,ox, ~,ao,,r ~, tho ar,,nfu nur
ing the continuance Of the war, women
are eligible for these examinations
upon the same conditions as men.
The recently enacted Migratory Bird
Treaty Act was signed by the Presi-
dent on July and is now law. The
regulations under this will soon be
published. While the regulations
have not yet been approved by the
Secretary of Agriculture, it is proba-
BILE that the duck shooting season of
New Jersey will be from October 16 to
January 81, inclusive. Heretofore the
season closed on January 18th.
The State Highway Commission, at
meeting held on Friday, adopted a
road building programme for 1919. 1t
decided to follow two main principles,
military necessi y of roads to be i'm
proved, and construction of hard sur
face pavements on the more important
gravel roads of the state which are now
more or less impossible in the winter
months. Under the latter policy south
Jersey will get big slice Of the high
way improvement for next year. The
work involved in this program relates
| to the state highway system provided
for under the Edge road tax law.
Among the Improvements coutemplat-
ed is the construction Of the road be-
tween Florence and Bordentown, to
create link in the good roads from
Camden to Newark.
Frank Lewis, Philadelphia sales
man, was injured during the storm on
/ Tuesday evening by being thrown
from an automobile on Washington
street. He hired jitney belonging 70
Lawrence Jones to take him to the
railroad station. The chauffeur, Charles
Shinn, drove the car at about it's top
speed. He tried to pass between the
lcurb and one OF d. B. Warren's cars
that was entering the latter's driveway
land couldn't make it. The result was
that the Shinn car collided with the
gasoline pump in front of Warren s
house, smashing it completely. The
jitney was upset, and was badly wreck.