The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-03
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918
LOCAL NEWS.
Mrs. John w. Pickard, of Madison
avenue. is ill with pneumonia.

part Vi iasG week visiting IrlenuS 1T
Wilmington.
The Burlington County Firemen''
Association will meet at Moorestowr
on December Is.
A baby girl arrived at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur D. Cross, on
High street, last week.
Addie P. Parcels, temperance lee
turer, who has frequently spoken in
Mount Holly, died in Philadelphia
last week.
The Mount Holly Safe Deposit and
Trust Company will pay off its Christ
mas Club this year on Tuesday, De-
cember 10.
David B. Warren has been awarded
the contract for carrying the mails be-
tween the Mount Holly post office and
the railroad station.
Mrs. Harry A. Reynolds and baby
Annabel, OF Hightstown, have been
spending a few days with Mrs. F.
Shreve Armstrong, on Pearl street.
The annual meeting of the Burling-
ton County Lyceum of History and
Natural Sciences will be held in the
Gaskill building on Friday evening.
Mrs. Henry Claypoole, of Pine
street. entertained privates Gerald j.
Donohue and Armitt ii. Pelliant, of
Camp Dix, at dinner on THANKSGIVING
day.
While working in THE NEWS Office
on Saturday afternoon, Joseph C.
Kingdom fell from step ladder and
sprained his ankle, SO that he is con-
fined to bed.
Last night Miss Amy Lippincott's
club had box supper party at the
girls club house, 101 Garden street,
and Mrs. C. E. Lords club met and or
.nized for the years work.
The wedding of Robert b. Harris,
: former railroad supervisor stationed
ut Mount Holly, and Miss Edna F.
Myers, of Lock Haven. Pa, took place
ia the latter city on November 5th
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris are residing in
Philadelphia.
The Fleetwood Motor Car Company
will give demonstration of blowing
with Knickerbocker forma-tractor to-
morrow, Wednesday afternoon, at two
o'clock, on the Robert S. Gaskill farm
on the South Pemberton road. The
public is invited to witness the event.
A subscription dance will be given
on December 6, in the hall at Smith
vile, under the direction of Miss Eliza
beth Smith, for the benefit of the Bur-
lington County Hospital. The patron
esses will be Mrs. Howard Burr, Mrs
Lester Collins, Mrs. George Holloway,
Mrs. John Kuser and Mrs. Clarence HI.
Polhemus.
There is nothing that will make
more appropriate Christmas present to
boy or girl than thrift stamp card,
containing one or more of the War
Savings Stamps that bear compound
interest, and encourage sthe saving
habit. There never has been any re-
striction on the purchase of these, and
there is none now.
All departments of the public school
held appropriate Thanksgiving exer-
cises in the school auditorium on We'd
nesday. The high school entertain
ment took place in the morning. and |
those of the primary and grammar de-
partments in the afternoon. A large
number of relatives and friends of the |
children attended.
Ford automobiles belonging to Eu-
gene Stackhouse, of Juliustown, and |
Henry Bryan, of Columbus, were
stolen recently. Bryan's was taken on
November %. at Trenton; Stackhouse's |
ut Juliustown, on November 49, The
Stackhouse car was recovered yester
day. 1t had been stolen by Dato Nor
ricco, soldier at Camp Dix. He will
be given trial by military court.
The marriage of s. Lawrence Bull
lock. of Mount Holly, and Miss Der
nice e. Headley, of Collingswood,
took place in the Methodist church at
Bordentown on Wednesday afternoon,
the pastor, Rev. James Burns, per-
forming the ceremony. The bride and
groom were attended by Mrs. Headley,
Of Collingswood, and Leonidas S.
Boyce, of Mount Holly. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bullock will make their home in
Mount Holly.
Girls of Mount Holly oyer twelve
years Of age, are invited to the meet
ing to be held this afternoon in the
girls club house, 101 Garden street
Mrs. C. E. Mosher, who made many
friends when here last year, will speak,
and it is hoped that she will also sing
Mrs. Mosher is to be the house guest of
Mrs. George w. Durand while in town.
This evening she will speak in Bur
lington at the Civic League club rooms
to all g. p. l.. girls.
The fire department was called out
early Thursday night to extinguish
blaze under the roof of the property of
Joseph Wolfrom and William X.
Priestly, on Washington street, origin
ating, it is thought, from crates of
matches stored in the attic. X. A.
Foster has store and restaurant in
the Wolfrom property and his stock
was badly damaged by water. The
Priestly store was vacant. The fire
men had to break through the sides of
the building to reach the flames
L. Clinton French, of Pemberton, for
many years employed by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company, met with a
painful accident at Pemberton yester-
day. He entered passenger car, carry
ing lighted lantern. There was a
leak in the gas pipes, filling the car
with gas. The gas was ignited by the
lantern flame, causing an explosion,
which burned Mr.. French severely
about the face and hands, and broke a
number of the window panes. He was
brought to the Burlington County
Hospital.
The Burlington County Red Gross
Chapter has elected these officers
Chairman. Mrs. Alexander Marcy, Jr.
Riverton; vice chairman, Mrs. John ID
MacMullin, Moorestown; treasurer
George 7. Williams, Burlington; secre
tary, Miss Ann E. Wallace, Riverton
chairman civilian relief, William II