The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-23
LOCAL NEWS.

John Worth.
During the past six months Detec
tive Parker has been instrumental il
locating 26 stolen automobiles at CAM
Dix and Wrightstown.
II. ]. Rupert, of the War Camp
Community service, is occupying Mrs
Rachel Evans property on Unior
street, with his family.
The town service flag has been cor
rected to include the men entering the
service since Memorial Day. The
number on the flag is now 173.
Letters for Mrs Eugenia Kent, Miss
: Edna b. Rendmond, Mr.. and Mrs
Wilmer Taft, and Miss Sarah Steven
son, remain unclaimed in the post
Office.
The bathing season at the mill dam
has been officially opened and life
guard Quigley is on duty every after.
noon from two until five o'clock. There
will be bathing by moonlight this
week.
In accordance with the rules recent
ly adopted requiring such action, the
board Of education advertises in an
other column for sealed bids for some
painting work at the high school au.
ditorium.
The excursion rates to the seashore
resorts have been reduced. The straight
fare from Mount Holly to Asbury
Park is $1.94. For $3.50 one can get a
tourist ticket" good for 16 days, in
eluding the day Of sale.
A blaze in the rear of the premises
occupied by William Atkinson, on the
Burlington road, Saturday afternoon,
destroyed small barn belonging to an
Italian by the name of Joseph Spenisi,
together with quantity Of hay. A
COW in the barn was saved. The blaze
il supposed to have been caused by the
over heating of the hay.
The Bureau OF Markets Of the State
Board Of Agriculture is sending daily
kilograms to Mount Holly, stating the
wholesale prices of farm products in
various markets. These quotations
are posted on bulletin board in front
Of the Kelsey & Killie building by the
Burlington County Farm Bureau.
The ladies' aid of SmithvilIs Nj. E.
church will hold a cake sale in the
grove adjoining the church, tomorrow
evening, at which they wish to see
large number Of people. Cakes and
ice cream will be served and those who
have attended similar festivals pro-
vided by the Smithville ladies know
that all will be well provided for.
Through the cooperation of State
Superintendent of Weights and Meas
ures Frank Wanser and the Federal
state food administration, short-weight
dealers are to be driven out of New
Jersey. Food licenses of any person
caught using short weights or short |
measures will be Immediately annulled
and they will thereby be forced out of |
business.
John C0nners, who resides near Bur-
lington. a retired construction foreman,
left home on July Sth and has not
since been heard from. He was traced |
to Bristol, from which city he dis
appeared. He is about 55 years of age |
and weighs $50 pounds. When the
present Burlington County Traction
Company's road was built he had |
charge of much of the construction
work.
Bright Star Lodge No. Is. Shepherds |
Of Bethlehem, has elected these Off |
GERS: Commander, Cordelia Claypool;
vice commander, Marietta Clevenger;
chaplain, Anne f. Gibbs; marshal,
Ella Stanhope; outside guard, Mary |.
Tomlinson; inside guard, Amy Sted- |
dard; mistress of ceremonies, Sarah |
Lodge; trustee, Martha Carpenter; rep
resentative to grand lodge, Anna M.
Rossell; alternate, Mary Tomlinson.
Frank s. Citizens, a former resident
of Mt. Holly, who left here IA years ago |
to enter in the drug business In Allan
tic City, has succeeded in building up
the Galbraith store where he was EN-.
ployed and which he finally became
proprietor OF. His success in this line |
has encouraged him to branch out and |
he has opened another store on Allan
tic avenue in that city. Frank has |
many friends in this neighborhood and |
they are all glad to hear of his prosper
Ing.
An appeal of the st. Paul's Catholic
Church from an assessment for taxes on
property owned by itat 222 and 223 East
Union Street. Burlington. has been dis
missed by the State Board of Taxes and
Assessment. in an opinion written by
Frank b. Jess, president of the board.
The place at Do East Union Street
was used for school purposes, as was
one at 22S, which was also used as
home for teachers The board finds
that neither property is used for pur-
poses that would exempt from taxation.
Two men from this neigh borhood
were before Judge Davis. in the United
States court, at Trenton, on Wednes-
day. One was Isaac Dixon, of SPRING
field township. He was arrested here
in the act of giving a soldier LIQUOR.
For this offence he was fined 800. DR..
Charles z. Woodward, who pleaded
guilty to the same crime, did not get
of SO easily. He was sent to the
Mercer county workhouse for one year.
The authorizes have determined to put
stop to the practice OF civilians secur-
ing liquor for the soldiers and those
who are caught at it may expect to be
punished.
Frank l.. Garbarino, special agent
Of the Department of Justice, was in
Mount Holly Friday and left here that
evening en- route for San Francisco.
Some OF the Philadelphia newspapers
have tried to make it appear that
Frank was being sent west in order to
get him out of the service. One story
was that he was to be removed because
OF political affiliations and favors but
United States District Attorney Kane
has made the statement that in the
five years he had worked with Garbar-
ino he had not seen any evidence of
the agent using the power of his office
for the purpose of extending favors to
x~oIit;ool leaders or tba;r Lo..