The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-11-12
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1918
LOCAL NEWS.

A. F. Bradley has purchased the 10
seph M. Haines farm on WOODLAND.
The Young Friends Association will
meet on Friday evening, November %
In the meeting house at High and
Garden streets.
An honor flag, showing that Bur.
lington county raised its fourth liberty
bond quota. has been placed in front Of
the court house.
At meeting of the vestry of st.
Andrews church, Wednesday evening,
Beverley C. Kingdom was elected or
ganist and choirmaster.
The annual supper and bazaar for
the benefit Of the Burlington County
Hospital will be held in st. Andrews
parish house, Mount Holly, on Thurs
day evening, December II.
This evening the musical comedy
"Our Heroes" will be presented at the
opera house. This entertainment is
for the benefit of the Red Cross. The
tickets have been selling rapidly and
there is every prospect of large house.
Commissioner of Education Calvin
N. Kendall has written letter of con-
graduation to the Mount Holly school
children for their great work in the
fourth Liberty Loan, when over $67, 900
worth Of bonds were sold by the pupils.
The Ladies' Aid of the Baptist
church having decided to dispense with
the annual supper, they will hold a
social in the lecture room of the church
Thursday evening, at 7.3O, at which
the presence OF every member of the
society is requested.
Members of America Fire Company
last week presented a handsome gold
ex-chief's badge to George w. A.
French, who has been a member of
that company for thirty-four years,
and recently retired as chief of the
Mount Holly fire department.
Moorestown high school foot ball
team defeated Mount Holly on Tues
day afternoon at Moorestown. Score
IL too. On Friday afternoon the local
boys played at Palmyra and were
again defeated, 26 to 0. The next
three games will be played at Mount
Holly.
In commenting on the result Of the
local option election the Trenton Times
says: 1.-THE Mount Holly Fair like the
Trenton fair, is also hit by the dry
victory" You have another guess,
neighbor. The Mount Holly Fair has
not allowed the sale of liquor on it's
grounds for several years.
While bringing load of workmen
home from Camp Dix on Thursday
night. an automobile driven by An
drew Pallante, of Green street, collided
with the buggy of Michael Bradley, on
the Jobstown road, near Stewart Mac
Farland's farm. Both vehicles were
upset and the occupants badly bruised.
The cunning season opened yester-
day. and. the weather being favorable,
sportsmen were out in large numbers.
Game is reported to be fairly plentiful,
although some gunners did not have
much luck. The number of gunners'
licenses issued by the clerk of North
ampton township was unusually high
over 625.
An important meeting of the Bur
lington County Dairymen's League
will be held at the court house, on Sat
urday evening, at o'clock. Besides
other business, nominations for the
election Of successor to Harold d.
Parker, who has resigned as the Bur-
lington county director in the Inter-
State Milk Producers Association, will |
be made.
Among the sales of real estate, last
week, were the following: Farm of
Samuel Ewes estate, near Marlton,
$50 acres at $3.50 per acre to Warning
ton Brothers. Ninety acres of wood
lots on the same estate were bought by
Stacy Wills for $29.75 per acre. Bow
man 8. Lippincott has sold his farm
near Marlton to Spencer Fowler, for |
$3.50 per acre. 1t contains 100 acres.
Granville L. Haines, son of Hudson |
B. Haines, of Rancocas, had his jaw
and shoulder blade broken on Wednes- |
day afternoon when he was struck by
an automobile while riding to school |
on his bicycle. The accident was un-
avoidable, as the boy was riding be-
hind truck and turned out to pass it |
without knowing of the approaching
automobile.
A meeting of the Burlington County |
Medical Society was held in the Mount |
Holly theatre on Wednesday after
noon. The manner in which the re-
cent influenza and pneumonia epidem-
ic at Camp Dix was handled was the |
subject OF addresses by Major Cameron
Major Martin J. Synnot, Major J. Ben
nett Edwards and Major Gilbert Clarke,
who spoke on the various phases of the |
epidemic's development and how the |
cases were treated.
Mrs. Annie Moore, of Cherry street, |
Mount Holly, recently arrested on a
charge of furnishing liquor to soldiers,
was taken before Judge Haight in
the U. s. District Court at Newark, on
Thursday, for trial. The testimony
showed that Mrs. Moore was technical
ly guilty of giving liquor to two uni
formed men, and the Court suggested
that the plea of not guilty be with
drawn and one of guilty entered This
was done. In imposing sentence the
Judge stated that in view of the char
acter of the testimony and as Mrs.
Moore had son fighting in France, he
would impose the minimum penalty
possible fine Of one dollar.
At the meeting of the managers of
the Burlington County Hospital on
Wednesday, the annual donation day
OF that institution, especial mention
was made OF the generous services of
Miss Irene C. Dougherty, of the Mount
Holly high school teaching staff, and
Miss Mildred d. Koehler, domestic
science teacher at the Moorestown high
school. These ladies volunteered for
work In the hospital kitchen for three
weeks while their schools were closed
because of the influenza epidemic, and
refused to accept anything for their
services The cash contributions rn