The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-08-27
: MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1918
LOCAL NEWS.

vania and New York.
A son arrived in the family of Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. johnson, of Washing
ton street, on Tuesday.
George T. Durand and family hav'
moved from Union street to their owl
property on Brainard street.
Grand stand and season tickets TO
the Mount Holly Fair will be on sail
at Dubell's drug store on Saturday.
The thirteenth annual harvest home
Of the Tabernacle Nj. E. Church will
be held at Fox Chase on Thursday
August 18th.
Judge Carlow has announced that
he will hold the fall session of the
Circuit court in Mount Holly from
November 4 to Is.
The next meeting of the Burlington
County Firemen's Association will be
held at Riverside, on Wednesday
evening, September 4th.
Victor g. Aubrey. extension special
list of the State Poultry Department.
will give poultry culling demonstra-
ton on Thursday afternoon at 100
o'clock. at the farm of Irving Wayne
Clarke. on the Moorestown and Bridge
boro road
The Jobstown-C Columbus unit OF the
Interstate Milk Producers Associa-
ton will hold meeting in Grange
Hall, Columbus. on Friday evening, at
8 o'clock. Paul B. Bennetch, market
specialist of the State Board of Agri-
culture, will address the meeting.
The new public school building at
Marion will be dedicated on Labor
Day with appropriate exercises. 1t is
expected that a band from Camp Dix
will be present and some prominent
speakers.wiH deliver addresses. There
will be y parade, liberty sing, etc.
During the thunder shower yester-
day afternoon there was very sharp
fash of lightning and it was discov-
cred that the bolt had gone through
the chimney of the house of William
Holland, on Mill street, adjoining
Worth's market. No serious damage
was done.
1t is rumored that the DuPonts are
to utilize the 200 acres they have on
the north side OF the P. R. r. east of
Writings, and are to put shell load,
ing plant there. The shells would be
tested at the Lakewood range, accord
ing to this story. There was once
dynamite mill on the site.
Wesley Wells, aged twenty-seven
years, was arrested at Medford, on
Thursday, by Detective Dodd, for hav-
ing evat1ed the military draft law by
not registering. He was committed to
the county jail, where he will remain
until examined and assigned to some
camp by the registration board.
A number Of the 1918 graduates of |
the Mount Holly high school will en-
ter advanced educational schools in
September. Misses Mary Evan and
Martha Jones will go to the West
Chester Normal school; Miss Elizabeth
Bovine to the Trenton Normal; Misses
Elizabeth Parsons and Dorothy Budd
to Vassar College.
Matthews & Williams opened their
new store Saturday and the business
done seems to indicate that it will be
popular place. The proprietors de-
sire to thank the ladies of the Red
Cross who SO kindly helped them al
the opening. Half the receiptsIof the |
day were donated to the Mount Holly |
Red Cross.
The board of education feels quite
proud over the many words of conn
mendation that have come to it re-
garding its set of rules adopted last
April. Some of these rules have been
copied by the State board of educa-
ton, and requests have come from
school boards all over the state for |
copies Of them. New Brunswick is
the latest district to express its inten-
ton OF following the Northampton
boards rules.
Governor Edge has issued proclaim
alton calling upon the people of New
Jersey to observe the first Sunday of
each month as the DAY for Service
Flag Prayer" He suggests organiza-
tions Of all kinds join the families of
the soldiers in attending services. LET
us~ioin with them," the proclamation
says. in supplicating for the well-be-
ing of their loved ones, and hold our
selves in readiness not only to express
but to feel the keenest of sympathy,
in the case of every New Jersey home
shrouded in gloom, if blazoned in
glory by the greatess and noblest of
all sacrifices"
Reports on the condition of the
water supply of Mount Holly, received
about a week ago, were so unsatisfac-
tory that the Water Company publish
ed notice advising all consumers to
boil their drinking water until further
analyses were made. Since then the
state department has twice sent walls
in which to return samples of water
and in both instances the walls were
broken in transit. While the company
is doing-ah in its power to Secure pure
water they feel that, until positive in
formation is received from the Tren-
ton authorities, it will be well for all
consumers to boil their water.
The home economics courses which
will be offered by the State Agricultur-
al College in cooperation with the
State Board of Education beginning
September IS, are attracting a large
number OF students. These courses
are offered under the Smith Hughes
act and although designed to train
teachers OF home economies lare filling
q need for war workers in the food con-
servation movement. One purpose OF
the college and state br>rd is TO aid in
the preparation of war workers both
for teaching and food work. In an in
tervtew with DIR. Charles II Elliott
Director OF Vocational Courses, it was
learned that special attention will bt
given to the preparation of teachers
and demonstrators for the vocationa