The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-02-05
Next Tuesday will be Lincoln's

Mrs. Rebecca II. Shreve, widow o
James d. Shreve, died on Sunday
She was in her 91st year.
Henry P. Thorn, of Medford, ha
been reappointed member of tn,
Burlington County Board of Taxation
Franklin B. King, the agriculture
implement dealer, has an advertise
ment of interest to farmers in another
column.
Burlington high school was defeated
by the basket ball team of the Mount
Holly school on Tuesday afternoon.
Score "a to 5.
| Rev. Henry Teller Cooke. rector oil
st. Andrews church, has gone to ST.
Louis, on account of the serious illness
of his mother.
| Clark B. Wright, son OF Harry B.
Wright, of Burr's road, has sold his
farm in Pennsylvania, and will shortly
lcome home to live.
The Wednesday evening prayer SER
vice of the Presbyterian church will be
held at the residence of Mrs. Louis
Burgess, on Ridgway street.
The Palmyra township committee
has decided to take out compensation
Insurance for all township employees
affected by the compensation law.
Benjamin C. Worrell will occupy the
Robert S. Gaskill farm on the south
Pemberton road this year. Clifford L..
EngIe, who has been on the Gaskill
farm, will locate near Bridgeton.
Mrs. Howard E. EIdridge, who was
recently operated upon for appendicitis
at the Burlington County Hospital,
has recovered sufficiently to leave the
institution, and is now at her home on
Mill street.
A supply of coal having been re-
ceived, regular services will be held at
the Presbyterian church next Sunday.
Sunday school will be held at twelve
o'clock. 1t is hoped there will be no
further interruptions.
Palmer d. Atkinson has rented his
farm on the South Pemberton stone
road to Allen Henry. Mr.. Atkinson
and his family will move into Mount
Holly, occupying Mrs. Atkinson's
property on Bispham street.
Joseph P. Byers, secretary of the
committee on feeble minded, and
Judge HI. V. Osborne, of Essex county,
will address public meeting to be
held at the court house on Friday
evening, in the interest of the colony
for feeble minded at -Four Mile.
Lieut.. ]. w. P. Skidmore, who has
had over two years service in France
as a member of the First Canadian
Battalion, will deliver talk on his
military experiences on Friday, Febru-
airy Is, at the Elks' Home, Mount
Holly. He was wounded fourteen
times.
John M. Collins, of Grant street,
has accepted position with the Miller
Saw Trimmer Company, of Pittsburg,
Pa. This firm manufactures articles
for the use of the printing trade and
Mr.. Collins is right at home along that
line. He has been with the keystone
Type Foundry, in Philadelphia, for
some time.
This morning had people holding on
to their ears and noses. 1t was de- |
cidedly cold. Thermometers ranged |
from three degrees to ten degrees below
zero. That in front of the Mount |
Holly National Bank, which is proba-
bly, one of the most accurate registers
in town, was two degrees below zero at
nine o'clock.
In its account of the weddings of
several of Mount Holly's soldiers last
week THE NEWS unintentionally
omitted the maria ge of corporal AL
bert Moore, of Cherry street, and Miss
May Stillwell, of Smithville, which
was solemnized at the latter place on
the previous Sunday by Rev. w. E.
AT session of court on Thursday,
Charles L. Maginn, meat inspector
at Camp Dix, pleaded guilty to steal
ing an old overcoat while on recent
trip to Mount Holly. He was intoxi-
Gated at the time. AS his previous
record was good, he was placed on pro-
baton for three years and made to pay I
the costs of prosecution.
Luducco Patena was tried before
Judge Lippincott and jury, yester-
day, on charge of atrocious assault
on John Agostenelle, at Florence. last
August. The defendent attacked John
with knife, inflicting bad wounds on
the mans face and shoulders. Patena
ran away and was captured several
later in Camden. The jury
found verdict of guilty, and the de-
PENDANT was sentenced to from one to
seven. years in state prison.
Aliens over IA years of age, m ales,
and unnaturalized, are required to pre-
sent themselves for registration this |
week. The order of the Attorney
General calling for the registration pro-
vides heavy penalties. for failure to
obey. Assurance is given every one of |
those classed as alien enemies that |
they will be shown every courtesy and |
assisted in the registration by the local
registrars. Postmaster Reed is the
registrant for Mount Holly.
The ground hog came out on Satur-
day. 1t looked very much as if he
would not see his shadow, but George
Heisler, who swears by the animal,
told the scoffers to ''just wait" and
sure enough about two o'clock the
sun came out and George says that
settles it. A little girl living near
Cookstown, caught grounding on
Thursday, and she said that animal
would never see the sun, as she was
going 10 blindfold him on Saturday.
With a foot of ice over all the bays,
shore towns like Tuckerton, West
Creek and New Gretna depending
almost entirely for their work and
their revenue upon the oyster business
have been shut down since Christmas
week. Oyster shipping is at stand
still, no work can be done in the bays
and there is virtually nothing else to
do. Boat builders and all mechanics
have gone to some OF the plants around