The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-08
A letter for Laura A. DeRue remains
in the most nff1ca unclaimed

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the clerks at the Farmers Trust Com
pany, is at military training schoo
at West Chester, Pa. Mrs. Heller
Kelsey has been appointed clerk at thu
Trust Company
The epidemic of influenza is interior
ing with the Liberty Loan drive in
Mount Holly, as many residents are
ill and have not yet subscribed. The
subscriptions to date amount to about
s135, 900.
By order of the Board of Health, on
account of the influenza epidemic, the
annual convention of the Burlington
County Sunday School Association,
advertised for October 10, at Moores.
town, has been postponed until later
date, of which due notice will be given.
The river road between Florence and
Burlington is to be improved. Free
holders Smith, of Burlington, and
Stout, of Florence, accompanied by a
numbek Of prominent citizens, with
Senator Wells as their spokesman,
appeared before the State Highway
Commission, on Thursday, and re-
ceived promise of anlappropriation Of
$4,000.
William Caldwell and Ralph Schenk,
of Mount Holly. and Carlton Arm
strong of Evesboro, have been reported
wounded in action" according to
kilograms received here. This wording
indicates that the injuries are not
severe. All of the young men are con-
nected with Company H, Hath Infan-
try of which nearly all the boys who
went from Mount Holly are members.
Among the many deaths that have
caused great sorrow in Mount Holly is
that of DR.. Warren A. VanDerveer,
who had been stationed at Portsmouth,
Va. He had been i'll about a week with
pneumonia and died last evening. His
father was summoned to his bedside
yesterday, but the son died before he
reached him. The deceased had re-
Gently been promoted to higher rank
in the navy.
At noon. to-day. Miss M. Gwendolen
Merritt, daughter of the late Charles
Evan Merritt, will be married at the
home of her mother, on High street,
to Clare Williams Hinkle, of Middle
town, Ohio. The best man will be
Rollo Whit, OF Middletown, and the
maid of honor will be Miss Eleanor
Harding Merritt. sister Of the bride.
The ceremony will be performed by
Rev. Norman VanPelt Lewis, of Phila-
Two large lots of iellies. jams. grape
juice, apples, grapes, etc. and consid-
cradle quantity Of magazines were
taken from the Mount Holly Soldiers
Club to Camp Dix, on Thursday and
for the use of convalescent
patients in the hospital there. The
delicacies are much appreciated by the
Contributions are still re.
quested of fruits and canned goods, to
make up another load to be sent next
The Burlington Board of Health has
taken sharp steps to aid in preventing
the spread OF influenza. In addition to
having churches closed it has ordered
that hotel bars, saloons, clubs with bars
attached, pool rooms and all places
where persons are likely to. assemble,
shall be closed from six o'clock, last
evening, Boards of Health in New
Jersey have almost unlimited power,
and all that is needed to aid in this
work is little backbone. 1t is prob
able that the liquor bars and soda
water fountains in Mount Holly will
be closed
Liberty bond sales by Mount Holly
public school children as reported to
yesterday, amounted to 500, 100 The
quota assigned to the school was
s15, 900. and the pupils have gone
over the top" in the first week Of the
drive. The senior class won the $500
bond for the class selling the largest
amount during the week, its sales
to $4,000. In the third
Liberty Loan drive last spring, the en-
tire school sold little more than
81 900 worth, and that sum has been
in one week of the present
dri re by single class.
The State Department of Conserva-
ton, in connection with the Federal
Soil Survey division of Agricultural
Department, is making a soil survey
of the pines section of New Jersey,
mapping all the various soils as they
crop out, and also testing them. This
is to connect up with the Monmouth
county soil survey, made some years
ago. and the survey of the Millville
section, recently completed, but not
yet in print. The ground covered is
from Mount Holly and New Egypt on
the west, to the sea, and from Ham
monitor on the south to the mari belt
at Farmingdale on the north.