The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-03-05

meet tonight In America 1re mouse.
: The limit Of time for fling incon
tax returns has been extended unit
April 1.
Mrs. Ella N. Fenstermacher, of A
lentown, Pa, was in Mount Holly, We
tsrday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold M. Lippincot
of New York, spent the week end wit
Mount Holly relatives.
Patrick Ryan is acting as mail ca
rier at the post Office, the regular fore
being reduced by illness.
A number of slot machines Illegal,
operated throughout the county, wer
confiscated last week by detective Par
ker.
/ Rev. Henry Teller Cooke was sum
moned to st. Louis, Missouri, OF
Thursday, his mother having died il
that city.
| Miss Leckie, milliner at Saltzman's
has returned from her vacation anC
has started making nice hats TO
Easter.
Local optionists of Lumberton have
filed petition for a special election
The hotel there is the only one in the
township.
Lieutenant Jerome G. Harris has
been appointed regimental exchange
officer of the 47th Regiment az Camp
Greene, Charlotte, N. C.
F. E. Embree and family have de-
cided to locate at Jersey Heights, in
the upper part of the state, It's about
seven minutes from Mr. Embree's
place of business in New York.
Misses Anna Wookey and Louisa
Frazier, of Mount Holly, and Misses
Anna Shaw and Mabel Wood, of Viii
mington, Delaware, were interested
visitors at Camp Dix on Sunday
A meeting of those interested in
girls moral protective work will be
held under the direction of Miss Booth
at the soldiers club house, Mount
holly, on Thursday evening, at 7.3O.
A meeting of the Army Wives
League will be held this afternoon, at
8 o'clock, at DR.. Eugenia Whitehead's,
281 High street. The hostess will be
Mrs A. g. Bouton. Miss Elizabeth
Curtiss, special war worker for Camp
Dix, will speak.
Mgr. Andrew Meehan, of st. Ber-
nard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y,
has been appointed bishop of the
diocese of Trenton, succeeding the late
Bishop McFaul, who died several
months ago. The new incumbent is
SO years Of age.
The exercises in connection with
comforting certificates on the boy
scouts, which were to have taken place
last evening, were postponed until a
date to be fixed later. owing to the I'M
expected absence of Rev. Henry Teller
Cooke, the scout master.
Large quantities of wooden blankets
are being woven at Royle & Pilking-
toms mill for the use of the soldiers.
The firm also has contracted to manu-
facture cotton khaki cloth for military
uniforms. Last fall this concern wove
large amounts of this cloth.
The fire department was called out
at about four o'clock on Sunday morn
ing to extinguish blaze in the rear of
Flyers marble yard on Washington
street. The fire started from hot Goals
in an ash barrel and communicated to
a small building containing a power
plant.
Announcement has been made OF
the marriage, on January 81, of Rev.
William r. A. Palmer, former pastor
of st. Paul's colored Methodist church,
now stationed at Pocomoke, Md, and
Meta s. Spencer, of Mount Holly. Mr..
Palmer's first wife died while he was
stationed in Mount Holly.
Sunday was the fourth anniversary
of the Rev. James Ii. Terry's pastorate
of the Baptist church. The congrega-
ton presented him with a beautiful
basket of flowers, for which he ex-
pressed his thanks. Two excellent
sermons were preached by the pastor
to large congregations.
The Mount Holly high school de-
batting team will debate with the Pal
myra team on March 10, at Palmyra,
on the subject, Resolved, that COM
pulsory military training should be
the fixed policy of our nation after the
present war" 1t is hoped that Mount
Holly will support the team by attend
ing.
The Hollyford Ice Company has an
announcement of Conservation Ice"
in another column which should be
read by all consumers. Conservation
Ice" is the name recommended by the
government for the natural product,
and the reasons which compel it's use
are fully explained in the advertise
ment.
Mrs. Sarah +. Barriger, whose seri-
GUS illness was mentioned in THE
News last week, died at the home of
her son-in-law, Henry H. Savage, on
Thursday, from pneumonia, Mrs.
Barriger was the widow of Brigadier
General Barrigsr, and was 70 years of
age. Interment was made in Airing
ton cemetery, Washington.
State educational officials are still
making review Of the Mount Holly
schools, the work requiring much more
time than was expected. Three days
were originally set aside by the depart
ment for completing the survey. 1t is
understood that the board of education
will make the report public, as many
persons are interested in the matter.
Similar surveys are being conducted in
the schools of Salem and Gloucester
City, where conditions are alleged to
be unsatisfactory.
The entertainments given in the
opera house last week, in aid of the
Junior Red Cross, will net that organ
ization about 500. The pictures shown
by manager Hulse were fine. A special
feature was the drill given by girls o.
was well executed and received meritec
applause. Miss Eugenia Leeds, the
high school physical training instruct
or, who was on the stage with the girls
has been highly complimented on thu
good showing made by her pupils.