The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-15
Military Affairs

Military Affairs.
Charles w. Mendenhall and Rober
Peacock left Saturday to enter an in
fantry officers training school at CAM
Lee, Va.
Captain Henry H. Cross, of Mount
Holly, who recently left this country
with the 18th Division, has cabled that
he arrived safely overseas.
William O'Hara, of Burlington, has
been reported killed in action in
France. This is the first death among
the soldiers who went from that city.
Registry Board No. 1, of Burlington
county, is compiling the order num-
bers of the recent registrants for mill
tary service, and expects to complete
the work in few days.
In the casualty list made public
yesterday appears the name of George
Whitcraft, of Riverside, and Edgar M.
Foster of Burlington, both reported to
be wounded in action, degree I'M
determined.
Roy N. Shaw, of Pemberton, was
reported last week as missing from the
ar my in France. He is son of Albert
Shaw, who is employed at the Nor
cross & Edmunds sand plant, Biz
mingham, where Roy also worked be-
fore entering the army. The young
man enlisted in the regular army early
in the war and was rated as me-
chanic. In August he spent some
time in hospital as the result of
being gassed. Upon recovering he
resumed his duties in the army.
James v. Hamilton, of Bordentown,
received information, on Friday, Of the
death in France of his son, Sergeant V.
Hamilton, who died on September %,
as the results of wounds received in
action. Sergeant Hamilton, who was
% years old, was member Of the old
National Guard for number of years
and joined the regular army when the
Mexican trouble began. He served II
months at Ell Paso, Tex, and while
doing service on the Mexican border he
aros to the rank of Sergeant. On May
4th he went overseas with Company
g, 109th Pennsylvania Regiment, and
at the time of his death was a
member of the Rainbow Division. AT
the time he entered the army he had
just completed his studies for the
ministry of the Presbyterian faith. He
pursued his studies at the Presbyterian
Seminary at Montuorsville, Pa, and
was engaged to be married to Miss
Catherine Sherman of that place. The
wedding was to take place after the
war.
M. Howard Dobbins has received an
interesting letter from William J.
Caldwell, who was in the trenches in
France and since has been reported as
having been wounded. The letter is
dated September 18th. The weather
has been cool there all summer and
there are frequent rains, SO that the
men In the trenches are compelled to
wallow in deep mud almost constantly.
When not in the front or the reserve
trenches, the soldiers are billeted in
barns or old houses, with poor sleeping
"a pile of hay
looks as good to me now as feather
bed did at home," he says. The i'm
preston among the men is that the
war will be over in less than year.
Canned goods, cheese, ETC., in the vii
lage stores are exceedingly high in
price. A can of fruit, for example,
costs s1.2O. The bursting of shells has
become commonplace affair with the
men; it no longer causes tremors. |
This part of the country belonged to
before the war;" he says,
land was taken in earlier French |
Orders for the entertainment of 300 |
New Jersey draft registrants fit for
general military service to go into |
special training at Lafayette College,
at Easton, were issued last week by |
Adjutant General Gilkyson. The |
men will go to Lafayette to-day. Two |
go from the first registration district |
Of Burlington county-Howard Harris,
of Mount Holly, and John N. Clev-
enger, Jr., of Pemberton. Others who |
have been sent by the board for similar |
recently are as follows: Will
liam t. Black, Jobstown, to Princeton |
university; John E. Madden, Mount /
Holly, to Villanova; Calvin B. Swain,
to college at Providence,
r. l.; William E. Karg, Mount Holly,
to Cornell university; John X. Mathis,
and Earl B. Hollings-
head, Medford, to Lafayette college;
Howard M. Colby, Jobstown, to |
Rutgers college; Harold Phares, Mount
Holly, to Drexel Institute. Next Mon
day Lynden ii. Hargrove, of Browns |
Mills, will go to Camp Holabird, Balti-
more, for induction into motor transport |
corps, and Stanley X. Heilbron, of |
Mount Holly, will enter students |
school at West Chester, Pa.