The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-15
CAPTAIN Winfield s.. Gale received

Z Captain Winfield s. Gale receive
orders from battalion headquarters
: last week, to discontinue meetings G
Company B, State Militia, on accoun
of the epidemic of influenza.
A special meeting of the w. c. T. U
and other women interested in the we
and dry campaign, will be held at Mrs
Claypools, 26 Brainard street, Thurs
day evening, at seven-thirty.
Owing to the enormous demand TO
burial caskets and the inability of tn,
regular manufacturers to supply them
the mills of Severns' Sons, Burlington
and C. B. Coles Sons, Camden, ar,
now engaged in that work.
. The next issue of the Burlington
Gazette will appear under new manage
ment. James Mercer Davis has pur
chased the plant and has installed 6
new outfit. He will edit the paper .and
will conduct it as Democratic organ
Mount Holly subscriptions to the
fourth Liberty loan up to last night
amounted to 1921, 400, which is less
than half the quota. Every person in
town should now get busy and assist
n completing the loan. The war is to
be fought to a INSTRUMENTATION
surrender OF the Hun murderers and
butchers-and the money to do it
must be raised.
United States Commissioner Ralph
Haines has held Caleb Reed, Of River
side, to await the action of the United
States grand jury. The mans offence
was making false affidavit to his
QUESTIONABLE. He swore that he was
married to the woman with whom he
was living when in fact she is not his
wife. The woman will also probably be
held as she signed the QUESTIONABLE.
Harry Forman, Of Burlington, was
admitted to the Burlington county
hospital, on Thursday. He had severed
every artery in his wrist by cutting
himself with razor and had lost lot
of blood before reaching that institu-
ton. He told the hospital people that
he had been sick and could get nobody
to take care of him and that he was
delirious when he committedIthe deed.
The man was 40 years of age. He died
yesterday.
Ex-President Taft says: Liberty
Bonds are an investment in the future
of humanity. The returns are not to
be measured by any four and quarter
per cent. Every dollar we spend to
beat Germany is dollar invested in
the safety and happiness of our child
rem and their children for countless
generations. The overwhelming success
of the Fourth Liberty Loan must be
the answer of the American people to
Germany's bid for peace. Through the
Loan, every man, woman and child
can help swell the great chorus of
Nor"
| AS to feeding wheat to chickens,
about which questions have arisen,
Frank w. Thatcher, Federal Food Ad-
ministrator of Burlington county,
states farmers may not sell wheat for
chicken feed unless this wheat is
utterly unfit for human consumption,
in fact no wheat can be used for feed
ing their own chickens unless it is I'M
fit for human consumption. If farmers
have any rye which they want to use
for feeding hogs they can have it
ground, and can feed it to their own
hogs, but it is not to be sold by them
for feeding hogs, nor can miller sell
it for this purpose.
The train carrying war trophies,
sent out by the government to assist
the liberty loan campaign, visited
Mount Holly on Tuesday, and was
placed on the siding on the railroad
lot on High street. where it was in
spected by large number OF people.
Speakers accompanying the train de-
livered addresses, urging the purchase
of bonds. Before the arrival of the
train, the Metropolitan band of Bur-
lington, and the boy and girl scouts, of
Mount Holly, in charge of Scout
Master Henry Teller Cooke, made
street parade. The train was in charge
of James B. Borden, of Philadelphia,
formerly employed in the Farmers
bank, Mount Holly.
The funeral of Lieutenant Warren
A. Vanderveer, U. s. N, who died at
the navy hospital at Norfolk, Va, last
week from pneumonia, took place
from his parents residence in Mount
Holly on Friday. Prior to the re-
mains being sent from the naval head
quarters, a military service, with high
est honors, was held. The body was
accompanied to Mount Holly by
Lieutenant Jones, also a surgeon, and
one Of Lieutenant Vanderveer's init
mate friends. The deceased was
graduate of Hahnemann College,
Philadelphia, and had been in the SER
vice of his country about one year.
Both at s2ahnemann and the naval
hospitals he made excellent records as
a surgeon. He was 81 years of age
His widow, formerly Miss Anna F.
Harris, survives him. They were
married about nine months ago.