The Mount Holly news., 1918-03-26
William G. Phillips, of Vincentown
has removed to Mount Holly.

Mrs. Louisa Borden, mother Of San
usl A. Borden, Of the Farmers Tru
Company, died on Sunday.
George GaskiIl has sold his farm
Tabernacle and removed to Moul
Holly, renting Mrs. Charles Fl. Wa
ner's property on Shreve street.
Lawrence G. Gillian is on one of I'll
Dutch ships that the United Stat,
has taken over and is now anchored O
97th str reet, on the North river, Ne
York.
Mrs. Addie Boileau Parsels, natior
al lecturer Of the Women's Christia
Temperance Union, will speak in tb
Lumberton M. E. Church, Sunda
evening.
Rev. James H. Terry, pastor of tn
Mount Holly Baptist church, has re
ceived unanimous call to a church il
Allentown, Pa. He has the matte
under consideration.
Mrs. Mary A. Naylor has sold he
residence, No. 80 Mill street, to Thoma
l.. Naylor, of Columbus, and will
make her home with her daughter
Miss Nora N. Naylor.
The curfew ordinance under consid
Grafton by the township committee il
published in another column. 1t will
come up for final reading at the meet
ing of the committee on Thursda,
night.
Budd S. Goldy, who is acting treas
urer OF the H. b. Smith Machine Com
pany, spent Saturday, Sunday anc
yesterday in New York on business fol-
the company. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Goldy.
Morris r. Games, colored, veteran
of the civil war, died in Mount Holly
on Friday, from heart trouble and
dropsy. He was janitor of the Samue
Aaron school on Chestnut street, and
was member of the colored Masons
and Odd Fellows lodges. His age was
70 years. The funeral took place or
Sunday.
William E. Borden, of Bordentown,
Instituted suit in the Circuit Court
against l.. ID. Jessup, of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company, to recover
$4,000 damages for alleged injury tc
his name and character as the result OF
charges said to have been made against
him on February II last, to the effect
that he stole and disposed of pig iron
from the property of the company.
Company E Auxiliary will hold a
cake sale in the store No. 2S High
street, on Saturday afternoon. Bread
and cakes will be offered for sale, to.
gether with baskets filled with fresh
eggs. The Auxiliary is a permanent
organization that is watching the needs
of the members of Company +, who
went to Admission. On Christmas a
large box of needful articles were sent
to the soldiers, and it is proposed to
get ready now for the next occasion of
that kind.
The committee appointed by local
chairman Mrs. V. Claude Palmer to
arrange for a parade and rally in
Mount Holly on Saturday, April 6, to
formally open the local end OF the
third Liberty Bond drive, is rapidly
getting its plans perfected. In the
parade will be a band and military
company from Camp Dix. The Mount
Holly Boy Scouts are ready to get in
line, and local organizations are to be
asked to participate. April will be a
big day in Mount Holly.
At special meeting of the south
Jersey Y. M. G. A. camp committee,
Saturday afternoon, the committee de-
termined to operate Camp Ockanickon
at New Egypt, the coming summer.
Camp will open Tuesday, June 25 The
period is for a month. IT.,
however, applications are not received
in sufficient number to warrant four
weeks term, camp will be held for
three weeks. The cost of board per
week this year is to be the same as last
year-$6.50. An attractive announce
ment of the camp and its exceptional
privileges for boys vacations is in pre-.
paration and will soon be off the press.
Mount Holly was not the only place
that had an election for members of
Boards of Education. They had some
sport in Medford, where four women
beat the men candidates. This caused
some feeling and one of the defeated
fellows is reported to have gone home
and expressed himself in such a man.
ner that he wished later that he had
not talked so much. In Palmyra, only
seventeen voters appeared, and of that
number there were the nine members
of the Board, the principal of thl
school, and the janitor. This did not
leave a sufficient number of disinter-
ested persons to act in the various
offices, SO hurry call was sent out anC
more men were brought in.