The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-08-20
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard e. AlcOt
left Mount Holly, Yesterday, for the
new home in Philadelphia.
Letters for Miss EstelIa Steele, Mrs
R. b. Haines, and Miss Margaret Va
ker. remain unclaimed in the pos
office.
The Tiger base ball team went t
Moorestown Saturday, and was defeat
ed by the team of that place. Scor
6toO.
The board OF education advertises il
another column for bids for variou
Kinds of repair work at the schoo
buildings.
Judge Carlow has announced tina
he will hold the fall session of the cir
cult court in Mount Holly from No
vember to Is.
A postal card informs us thai
Jay B. Tomlinson, of Mount Holly, i:
quartermaster on submarine chaser
in the Mediterranean.
The Mount Holly Baptist church re.
ceives bequest OF 800 under the will
Of Mrs. Lucella Haines, former resi-.
dent, who died recently in Camden.
Edgar F. Bunce, supervising princi-
pal Of the Mount Holly schools, has
rented Mrs. Samuel L. Bullock's prop
erty on Union street, and will shortly
remove his family toyMount Holly.
The Burlington and Bucks Quarterly
Meeting Of Friends will hold a relig-
ious service in the town hall, Column
bus. ON Sunday, September l, at 8 p.
M, to attendlwhich cordial invitation
Is extended to all persons.
Curfew did not ring Wednesday
evening. Policeman Post. who has
charge of the bell, had such Sore foot
that he could not get out of the house.
This does not mean to indicate that
Post rings the bell with his foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. c. Monach. of Pal
myra, have announced the engage
ments OF their daughters. Miss Emma
I. Monach, to Charles E. Weikel, Of
Olney, Pa. and OF Miss ]. Edna Mon
ach to w. Raymond Beecher, of River
side.
For driving past trolley car while
passengers were alighting, in Camden,
Reed Hopkins, of Medford, was fined
s.. Perhaps something of that kind
will happen i'll Mount Holly, some
day. as the law in this respect is fire.
quently broken.
Howard Eckert, of Mount Holly, and
George Hughes, of Moorestown, have
been held for the Federal grand jury
by United States Commissioner
Haines. The men are charged with
carrying liquor into Camp Dix,
where they were employed. Bail
was fixed at $500 each.
At public sale of securities in Phil
adelphia, Wednesday, the following in
(which Burlington county has an inter-
est brought these prices: Two Moores-
town National bank, $341. so per share;
two Moorestown Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, 1852 per share; one
Burlington County Safe Deposit Com
pany. 1852; ten Burlington County
Traction Company. $14s per share.
The supply of school teachers appears
to be running short, owing to the fact
that women can get better salaries
working elsewhere than in the school
rooms. In Philadelphia a rule pro-
hibiting married women from teaching |
has been rescinded. An agent from |
Atlantic county was in Mount Holly,
Saturday, endeavoring to secure teach
ers to fill the ranks of the schools over
which he will preside next term.
Through the patriotism Of the mem
hers Of the Vincent fire company, the |
Vincentown branch of the Red Cross
has been given the exclusive use of the |
beautiful upper room of the fire engine /
house. Visitors all say they have not
seen q finer room for Red Cross work.
The workers meet every Tuesday from
10 q. m. to p. M. and on Wednes
days from to p. m. Members need |
not hesitate to come on warm days, as
it is the coolest place in town.
William c. Wetherill, Charles La
Tour, and Harry Hawkins, Jr., have
have been named as a committee of
the Mount Holly Business Mems Asso-
citation to cooperate with and assist
the board OF education in the advance
ment of local educational affairs. A
public reception for Edgar F. Bunce,
the new supervising principal, will be
one OF the matters to be arranged by
this committee and the school officials.
The affair will take place at an early
date.
Supposed to have been asleep when
he fell under the wheels of a motor
truck on which he was riding to mar
ket, John Schaffer, 80 years old, of ]
Riverside. wassalmostly instantly kill
ed at Camden, early Thursday morn
ing. His chest was crushed and his
right hipiractured and he died while
being carried into Cooper hospital. |
Schaffer worked for John w. Fenni- |
more, a Delanco farmer, whose son
William was driving the truck. The
coroner gave Verdict Of accidental
death.
John Ellis, ten years of age, lost his
life, Tuesday afternoon, by coming in
contact with live electric wire. He
had walked from Riverside to Bridge
boro, and at the latter place climbed
one Of the high poles which carry
wires across the creek, coming in
contact withia live. wire..::which threw
him to the ground-a distance of about
100 feet. He was hurried to the hospi-
tai at Riverside, but died soon after
reaching the institution. The mother
of the boy was formerly Miss Stella
Kelly, of Mount Holly.
The New Jersey State fish and game
commission issues information to Jer
sey hunters that the bobolink or reed
bird has been declared by proclama
ton by President Wilson as an insect
ivorous bird throughout the year, thus
making the killing of this bird illegal.
Gunners are warned not to hunt the
reedbird this year, and are informed
that if they do they will get into seri
Gus difficulties with the Federal gov
eminent. The reason for putting the
hohoiink in oloSad ceoSoy, 10 tl,ot 20 IN