The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-04
A local option election is being held
at Bridgeboro today.

Buy your tickets tor Chautauqua
which begins June IA. 1t will be wortl
while this year in particular.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Carr Gillian, who
spent the winter in Philadelphia, r,
turned to their home on High stree
last week.
i Mr.. and Mrs. X. G. Ackley, of At
lantic City, spent Tuesday and Wed.
nesday with the latter's father, Rev
I. s. Hammond.
The ladies of the M. E. Church will
give strawberry tea on the church
lawn, on Saturday evening, June Sth,
beginning at five o'clock.
The regular meeting of the North
ampton fire police will be held in
America fire house this evening. All
members are requested to be present.
A meeting of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist
church will be held at the home Of
Mrs. Laura Perinchief on Friday even
ing.
Letters for Miss Matte Collins,
Fanny Smidt, Richard Thomas, Miss
Fannie Bookman. Mrs. Sheldon Heu
lit, remain unclaimed in the post
office.
Mrs. Rachel Haines, of Merchant
vile, announces the engagement of
her daughter, Miss Esther M. Haines,
to Floyd E. Scattergood, of Mount
Holly.
All the grocery stores and butcher
shops in Mount Holly have agreed to
close at noon on Wednesdays during
June, July and August. The new
custom will begin tomorrow.
A strawberry festival will be held in
Pine Grove, Ewanville, on Saturday
evening, under the direction OF the
male members of the Lane Union SUM-
day school. All are cordially invited
to attend.
The soldiers club house was a very
busy place on Saturday and Sunday.
About rs soldiers took supper there on
Saturday evening. there were over 200
soldier visitors, and all the cots in the |
sleeping rooms were filed that night. |
On the charge that he had piloted
his pleasure launch through waters
near Delaware River shipyards for
hidden to alien enemies, Hans Jacob |
son, employed at Burlington in
dustrial plant, has been arrested by
federal secret service agents.
A strawberry tea will be held on the |
lawn at the Baptist church on Thurs
day evening, June 6. Supper will be
served at $50 with all the delicacies of
the season. II the weather is stormy
the supper will be held in the Sunday
school room. Proceeds for the carpet
fund OF the primary department.
The dinner given to the Board of
last Tuesday evening by
the Junior cooking class of the high
school was very pleasant affair and
showed the skill Of the pupils under
Miss Mildred ID. Koehler i'm a very
manner. Mrs. William B.
romlinson, former member of the
BOARD, was one of the guests.
On Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings of next week Company E Auxil-
AIRY will have a benefit at the opera
house, when some very fine moving
pictures will be shown. This is a
worthy cause and should be encouraged
n order that the boys of Company E
may have rousing Christmas box
rhe boy or girl selling the most tickets
will receive $3.50 gold piece. Tickets
may be secured at Dubell's drug store
The Bell Telephone Company has an
in another column an
the discontinuance of it's
custom Of answering subscribers re-
quests for the correct time. The COM
pany claims that as much of the oper-
ator's time is needed to answer one of
these requests as is required to make
the connection for an important bust
ness message. The service has been
stopped as war conservation measure.
Officers from the State Motor and
Vehicle department visited Mount
On Saturday to ascertain how the
motor laws are observed by car drivers
and owners in this vicinity. They
spent the afternoon and evening in
stopping automobiles and making ex-
aminations. A number of arrests were
made, and Is persons were fined in
amounts ranging from 81 to $25 for in
fractions of the law. These consisted
of having no drivers or car licenses or
both, and improper lights. The total
amount of the fines was $l42. The
cases were heard by Recorder Herbert |
and Justice Heilbron.
Assistant Commissioners of Educa-
ton Meredith and Scott came to Mount
Holly on Friday night and held a |
conference with the members of the |
Board of Education preliminary |
to the presentation of their written
report on conditions in the Mount
Holly schools. The supervising princi
pal was sent for and he came to the
meeting which lasted until nearly mid
night tits rumored that the inefficient
and out-of-date methods discovered in
the local school by the state investiga
tors will astonish even those parents
and citizens who are acquainted with
some of the existing conditions.
At the close of the services at ST.
Andrews church, Sunday evening, a
tribute was paid to Captain ]. F. r.
Long, who is a member Of the vestry
OF the church, and who Will soon go
across the ocean to engage In Y. M. c.
A. work. Remarks were made by Rev.
Henry Teller Cooke, rector of the
church; Clarence I'll. Polhemus, presi-
dent of the Mems club; William A.
Slaughter, personal friend of Captain
Long; and b. F. Haywood Shreve,
representing the vestry. All spoke of
the good work that had been done by
Captain Long, in and out of the
church, and all expressed pleasure that
q man of his character was to be en-
listed In the Christian Association
work, as there was not the slightest
doubt that he would devote his entire
energies to his duties and that the re-
suits would be good.
Allen S. Hatcher and Ralph B. Ster-