The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-01-29

John Valentine, SO years old, o.
Bordsntown, was struck and killed by
a Pennsylvania railroad train at Dor
dentown on Sunday night.
Frank l.. Garbarlno, who has been
at the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia
where surgical operation was per
formed on him, is rapidly recovering.
The engagement of Miss Nj. Louise
Masters, one of the teachers at the
Moorestown High School, to Clarence
Roberts, of Haddonfield, has been an
nounced.
The board of education has requested
the state department of education to
make review of the Mount Holly
schools and furnish report when the
work is completed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt Halliday, of
Philadelphia, announce the engage
ment of their niece, Miss Virginia For
syth, of Pemberton, to Richard VAIN
Wills, secretary of the Burlington
County Fair Association.
Lieut.. Charles C. Cans, of the base
hospital, Camp Dix, who with his
family has been residing in Mount
Holly, has been ordered to report for
duty at Washington, and left here to-
day to go to that city.
1t will do no harm at this time to
repeat the word of caution that has
appeared in THE News and
advise the boiling of all drinking
water. When the heavy snow which
now covers the ground begins to melt
impurities of all kinds will be washed
into the creek, and an extra task will
be placed upon the filtration plant of
the water company.
OF interest to many Mount Holly
people will be the announcement made
by Mr.. and Mrs. Egerton Brown, of New
York, of the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Gertrude Egerton
Brown, to Lieutenant Chester Coursen
Lewis, 80 M. G. B. A., stationed at
Camp Meade. Lieutenant Lewis is
the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
c. Lewis, of London, and grandson of
Mrs Franklin b. Lewis, of Mount
Holly.
There was much dissatisfaction over
the manner in which assessments were
made in Palmyra township, last year,
and the assessor claimed that the work
had outgrown the lone man" system.
The matter was the subject of much
discussion at meeting of the town.
ship committee and the collector said
the work of the assessor was not up to
the standard and the latter official said
to the contrary. At the last meeting
of the township committee Wilbur r.
Hartman was appointed assistant as
SCISSOR at salary of 800 per year.
On Saturday evening Officer Post
took two men before chief of police
Assay. They were running auto trucks
light front or back and had
lumber protruding at least three feet
from the rear of the trucks. The men
were from Camp Dix and the trucks
we're army machines Chief Asay
told them they were violating the law,
but he allowed them to go with the
that repetition of the offence
would mean punishment. A few
weeks ago an automobile containing
some military police in charge of a
sergeant, was stopped by officer Post |
the machine did not have the |
equired lights on it. The sergeant |
aughed at the officer and said he was
In army man and would do as he |
pleased. Post let the man go. But |
his will not be the usual procedure.
Those who break the automobile laws
will be prosecuted, regardless of their |
ank or occupation. One class of men |
S no better than another in this re-
pect. Chief Assay has decided that he
will take steps to stop speeding through |
he streets of Mount Holly and it is
likely that there will be something
heard within the next two months.