The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-04-09
LOCAL NEWS.

A 0augnter arrived IN the lamliy
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Clay poole, of Pin
street, on Friday.
Mrs. L D. Allen has moved fron
Riverside to the Josiah P. Engle prop
erty on Cherry street.
Burlington county residents ha
purchased thrift stamps to the amour
Of $49, 512.75 on April l.
The Burlington County Firemen'
Association will meet at Masonville OIL
Wednesday night of next week.
Joseph H. johnson, OF Vincentown
is quite sick at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. John 8. Haines, of BroaC
street.
Until November, Rancocas Grang'
will hold its regular meetings on tn,
first and third Wednesday evenings o
each month at 745.
At a meeting OF the township com
mittee, on Thursday night, Benjamin
O. Herbert was reelected recorder for 9
term of three years.
The wholesale price of milk for Apri
has been fixed by the Interstate Pro
ducers' Association at II cents quart
(. o. b. Philadelphia.
Practically all the local business men
have donated their advertising space
in this issue of THE NEWS to the in
terest Of the Liberty Loan campaign
DR.. ]. P. Savitz, principal OF the
State Normal School at Trenton, spent
Thursday in Mount Holly, on a visit
OF inspection to the local high school.
Mrs. Henry B. Wright, who recently
underwent serious operation at the
Burlington County Hospital, was re-
moved to her home on Broad street, on
Wednesday.
George Albright, who expects to be
called into military service shortly, has
resigned as collector of Union fire COM
pany, and G. d. w. Slack has been
elected to the position.
The Burlington County Board of
Education has sent out call to dis
trict boards requesting the payment OF
the annual dues Of 81. This is the first
time that dues have been asked for
SINCE 1914.
Conductor Edward Claypoole, of
Mount Holly, who was taken sick on
his train last week and removed to the
hospital at Long Branch for treatment,
was brought to his home here on We'd
nesday. His condition is much i'm
proved.
The Court Of Pardons was in session
at Trenton last week. Prisoners from
Burlington Countrywide were given free
dom were Harry Fields, breaking, en-
tering and larceny; John Hartell, as
sault and battery; Wardner Nickens,
breaking, entering, and larceny.
The sale of the steamboats, Columbia,
Twilight and Bristol, seized as the
property of the Delaware River Trans
portation Company by the United
States Marshal of New Jersey, which
was to have taken place at Camden on
Saturday, was postponed until April
20.
While performing physical exercises
in the public school playground on
Wednesday, little Joseph Worrell. of
Union street, slipped and fell, break
ing bone in his lower arm. Medical
inspector Longsdorf was at the school
at the time, and the injury was given
prompt attention.
William H. Hinkle. SO years old, and |
John Throckmorton, ST., who is n, |
cello Arated their birthdays on Friday. |
Both men are members OF Washing
ton Council No. 10, o. U. A. NJ, and |
the session Of the lodge on Thursday
night was turned into q surprise birth |
day party for them.
Relief Fire Company has elected the |
following officers: President, Joseph c. |
Kingdom; vice president. Joseph S. |
Shreve; secretary, William II. Mason;
treasurer, Richard P. Brown; foreman,
John A. Throckmorton; engineer, Geo. |
M. <Dcnnelly; trustees, Barclay w.
Shinn; H. H. Hawkins, John Throck- |
morton, Jr., Harry w. Kempte, Rich
ard p. Brown.
Arrangements have been made by
NH. snf, t4ro Of H. -
class Of the Mount Holly high school,
who are to graduate this year, will re-
ceive pra stical experience in the office
Of County Superintendent Kayser. The
arrangement was proposed by Mr..
Kayser, and advocated by Miss Smith,
the commercial teacher, so it was ap.
proved by the board of education.
A play, THE Way to Happiness,
will be given in the high school audi
torium on Thursday evening, by the
Junior Chautauqua Winter Club. The
proceeds are to be used for the improve
ment Of the playground in the court
house yard. Members who have pass
ed the citizenship course will be given
certificates, and a prize will be award
cd for the best bird house made by
member.
Two Mount Holly men received in
juries at their places of employment
last week. Harry Aaronson, of Branch
street, repair man in Philadelphia
hosiery mill, had foot broken when q
machine he was handling fell on it.
Albert Rosseii, of Church street, had
his hand badly torn in a machine at
the Victor plant in Camden, when a
workman accidentally struck his arm,
pushing his hand into the machine.
Walter /. Dill has been named as
administrator Of the estate of Mrs. Jo-
sephine c. Lippincott, of Mill street.
A part of the estate consists of the
Gaunt farm on the Lumberton road,
which has been rented by n. Eckard
Austin for years. This farm is proba-
bly, unique in New Jersey, for it has
never passed by deed, having descend.
ed from father to son ever since its
original allotment to the progenitor Of
the Gaunt family by the Council oil
Proprietors. 1t is doubtful if such a
title to land can be found frequently
The thirty eighth annual report Of
the Burlington County Hospital, fol
the year 1917, has just been issued ir
pamphlet form. The work was done
in THE News job printing depart
ment. During the wear lOl operations