The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-14


: Mrs. Eliza Clavpoole, of Brainard
street, will entertain the w. C. T. U
this afternoon.
Richard F. Holeman and Eckard L.
Cox, Mount Holly soldiers at Camp
Dix, have been promoted to be ser.
geants.
Letters for William Mason Trusty,
Bill Leads, Miss Margaret Lewe and
Miss Amelia Musil, remain unclaimed
in the post Office.
Edwin b. Fraser, formerly manager
OF the Burlington County Farmers
Exchange, is now assistant manager
of John A. Kelly's lumber business at
Medford.
Harry r. McClain, Jr., of Mount
Holly, who recently entered the army
at Camp Dix, has been assigned to
Camp Custer, Mich, to go into an
officers training camp.
i Following its custom of recent years,
Mothers Day was appropriately OBJ
served in the Methodist church on
Sunday. Automobiles were sent for
those who felt unequal to the task Of
walking to the church.
George F. Ashe, of Detroit, has been
appointed associate to Director Will
liam Jackson, of the War Department
Commission on Training Camp Activ-
tiles, and will continue the organiza.
ton work in communities near Camp
Dix.
Samuel Haines, of Mount Holly,
who was compelled to give up his tim
smithing business when drafted for the
National army, and later was dis
charged from the service for physical
defects, is now employed at Rosenfeld's
store in Burlington.
There have been q large number of
changes in the ownership of many of
the canoes stored at Hacks wharf, ow-
ing to so many young men going into
the service of the United States. Dur
| ing the winter Mr.. Hack, again en-
larged his buildings and 176 canoes are
now stored there.
George Smith, of Buttonwood street,
who conducts an automobile hiring
service, drove party to New Lisbon
on Saturday afternoon. While return
ing alone. his car sxidded into a pile
of sand and turned turtle. Smith sus-
tanned only a few bruises, but the car
was badly damaged.
Mrs. Charles Throckmorton, former
ly Of Mount Holly, died at the home
of her husband, in Trenton, on Satur-
day. The funeral will take place this
afternoon from the residence Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Fl. Warner, on Pax
son street, Mount Holly. Interment
will be made in Brotherhood cemetery.
The following drafted men left
Mount Holly yesterday morning to
enter the military camp at Fort
Slocum, N. Y: Armin VoImer. Sam
uel Fenimore, Jacob w. Paul, Roy H.
Fenimore, Frank Edward Morrison,
Walter w. Johnson, all of Mount
Holly. and Samuel Sitrin, of New
York city.
Columbus Hawthorne, who has been ,
attending to the transportation de-
partment OF the Adams Express Com ,
pany for long time, has resigned the
position and went to work yesterday @
on the special express car which runs
between Camden and Camp Dix. Roy !
Naylor will take the place left vacant /,
by Hawthorne's resignation.
Wilbur Osgood, of Mount Holly, t
went to Camp Dix, on Thursday, as \
taking the place of man
rejected for physical reasons. Osgood
had been employed for the last eight :,
years at the Royle & Pilkington mill, !,
and members of the firm and en- :,
ployes presented him with a blanket :,
and wrist watch before his departure. T
A fire that might have caused con- L
damage started in some rub
Dish in the rear Of the Atlantic & Pa p
,ific store on Main street, Thursday Il
morning. The blaze spread to the "
lence and ignited the frame shed in c
The rear of the grocery store, but was t
by America chemical en- 4
CINE before much damage was done. b
Seventeen chickens. eight OF them +
setting hens, were killed by dogs in
Robert s. Gaskill's yard on High !,
street on Friday night. In these times
when food conservation is being urged
and seems to be necessary, it would be I,
q good move to have large majority
Of dogs killed in order to avoid repe-
tition Of such slaughter as above men,
toned.
The following order has been received :
by the local Board for District No. !,
from the Adiutant General of New \
Jersey: son some day between May !.
25th and Both to be fixed later, you
will send Sc white men to Camp Dix
fit for general military service" This
will take every white man that the :
local Board has at the present time in
Class lit for general military service.
The Burlington County Chapter,
American Red Cross, in the last four
weeks has shipped to the Atlantic Di-
vision Supply Service, New York, fifty {
four cases of surgical dressings and 9
hospital supplies, and thirty-flve cases I
and six barrels of clothing, etc, for
Belgian relief. This is q splendid
record and shows what the women OF
Burlington county can do. A compli
mentary letter from headquarters
abroad was received short time ago,
commencing the careful packing and
good quality Of materials coming from
the Burlington County Chapter.
On Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, in
the court house, ]. Henry Scattergood,
of Philadelphia, will give stereopti-
can lecture on "the reconstruction of
devastated France" Mr.. Scattergood
has just returned from five months
study of the conditions of the war zone
described so wildly in his lecture and
pictures. He was the organizer in
France of the American Friends Re-
construction Unit OF the Red Cross.
There will not be any admission charg-
ed and the public will be cordially well
coined to hear the lecture and view the |
pictures.
The Burlington county teachers as |
ISOLATION, with IL representatives from
poo rdc Of Edunafion met Mt MnnraS-