The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-04-02
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

The board of freeholders will NEE
at the court house tomorrow.
The Mount Holly schools reopene
this morning after the Easter vacation
Edward HI. Lewis was confined to tn
house last week by an attack of ton
silitis.
Miss Edith B. Cook, OF Newark, il
spending the Easter holidays with loca
relatives.
Mrs. Sarah Mack, of Philadelphia
spent the weekend with Mrs. II
Claypoole, on Pine street.
A chimney fire at a house on Mon
roe street called out the fire department
early Thursday morning. Little dam
age was done.
Letters for Morris Harmed, Mrs. A.
E. w. Howan, Mrs. V. f. Miltenberg,
Mrs. Walter Forker, Frank Vandussn,
Rev. G. d. Price.
Don't forget the Senior PLAY,
'Tommy's Wife" to be given in the
high school auditorium, Friday even
ing, April 5, at SIS o'clock.
Harry Baker, foreman of the Keesey
Hosiery Company, was taken to the
Burlington County Hospital, on
Thursday, where he was operated upon
for appendicitis.
Miss Sarah Wilkinson, who has been
one Of the saleswomen at Saltzman's
store for eight years, has resigned that
position and left the store at the close
of business Saturday night.
There will be a conference of the
Burlington County Chapter of the
American Red Cross in old st. Mary's
church, Burlington, Saturday, April
l3. All members are cordially invited
to attend.
Frederick Schrayshuen, for many
years an ice and coal dealer in Mount
Holly before his retirement owing to
advancing age, died at his home on
Bispham street, on Sunday. He was
in his 65th year.
Miss Clara P. Forte, county demon
strator Of home economics, will give
demonstration in the preparation of
war breads in the domestic science
room Of the high school, at 2.30 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon.
The Creedon Hardware Company
has decided to discontinue it's branch
store in Burlington, as the manager,
w. Charles Madden, has been drafted
for military service and will be sent to
training camp in short time.
A cannon ball, unearthed near the
Children's Home property out Pine
street, is in Kelsey & Killies window.
1t is evidently another relic of the bat
tie Of Iron Works Hill, described in
THE News Historic Mount Holly
series last year.
The custom begun last year by the
Mems Bible class OF the Methodist
church, of visiting the Mount Holly
cemetery on Easter day and placing
flowers on the graves of the twelve
Methodist ministers buried there, was
again performed on Sunday.
The curfew ordinance under consid-
GRAFTON by the township committee
was not adopted on Thursday night
as had been expected. The ordinance
will have to be changed in some par
ticulars to meet the new time condi-
tons brought about by the daylight
saving plan.
John B. Burtis, sealer of weights and
measures, who recently was ousted
from office by the board of freeholders,
has certioraried the proceedings to the
Supreme court for review. The writ
was served upon the boards officers on
Tuesday. James Mercer Davis is
for Mr.. Burtis.
At the meeting of the Business Mems
Association on Tuesday evening an
of $50 was made to help
defray the expense of the coming
Liberty Bond campaign in Mount
Holly. New members elected were:
B. H. White, Boston Confectionery
and Restaurant, s. Earl Assay, Bernard
Gluck and T. Nelson FRASER.
Leon Allen, private at Camp
Meade, Md, died there on Tuesday,
Of pneumonia. The young man was
SON of Mrs. Aaron Higgins, of Mill
street. The remains were brought to
Mount Holly for interment. The fun
eral took place on Sunday. The pail,
bearers were six members of Company
b. OF Mount Holly, in uniform.
Rev. Samuel HI. Ham, member of
the New JERSEY Methodist Episcopal
Conference, and secretary of the Law
and Order League, and who had been
in enforcing laws against
illegal liquor sales and gambling in
many parts of New Jersey, died on
at the home OF his daugh-
ter in Gloucester. His wife died abo ut
a month ago at their home in Tucka-
hoe, and he never recovered from the
shock Of her death. He was stricken
with pneumonia last Sunday. A num-
Der of Methodist clergymen were with
him at the end.
For the purpose of raising funds to
be used toward carrying on war work.
the Army Wives League of Mount
Holly has arranged to give public
card party at the soldiers club house,
Washington and White streets, on
Tuesday afternoon, April 9, beginning
at 2.30 o'clock. Bridge and five hun
dred will be played. A charge Of fifty |
cents will be made for each woman.
A general invitation to be present is
extended to the women of Mount
Holly and surrounding towns. There |
will be plenty of enjoyment for all |
women who are able to devote an af- |
ternoon to cards and those attending
will be assisting in the good work
being carried on by the Army Wives
League.
Suit was instituted in the Burling-
ton County Circuit Court last week,
by William E. Borden, formerly of
Bordentown, now of Mount Holly,
against /. D. Jessup and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company for $4,000
damages for alleged injury to his name
and character as result of charges
said to have been made against Bor-
den on February IL last, that he stole