The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-04
LOCAL NEWS.

The board of freeholders will NEE
at the court house tomorrow.
Bordentown has a woman ticket
agent at the Pennsylvania railroad
station.
The public school at Chatsworth re-
ports one hundred per cent. enrolment
in the Junior Red Cross.
Former Y. M. C. A. secretary Robert
c. Shoemaker reported for duty at an
aviation school at Dallas, Texas, on
Saturday.
Seventy-five members of the Girls
Patriotic League, Of Bordentown, en-.
ioyed straw ride to Mount Holly on
Tuesday night.
The class day exercises of the gradu.
ating class Of the Mount Holly high
school, will be held in the school audi
forum next Tuesday evening.
There will be public sale of house
hold goods belonging to the estate of
the late Mary Ann Newbold, at 2l7
Garden street, at twelve o'clock tomor-
row.
The Red Cross wants from Burlinp
ton county twenty-one graduate nurses
between now and January LIST next
This is Burlington county's quota of
25,000 nurses to be enlisted by the Red
Cross in the nation.
Dover township, which includes
Toms River, voted dry by a narrow
margin at local option election held
ON Tuesday. The vote was 2sl dry.
275 wet. Three hotel bars and one
wholesale liquor house will be closed in
Toms River.
At the meeting of the Business
Mems Association on Tuesday night
1t was decided not to hold merchants
picnic this year. This action was con-
sidered advisable because of the war
The Association made a donation of
$50 to the Red Cross. ~
E. w. Esham has been awarded the
contract to make extensive alterations
to the soldiers club house at Wrights-
town conducted by the New JERSEY
Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs.
A. 8. L. Doughty is chairman of the
COMMITTEES in charge of the work.
Miss Sara E. Goddard, of Manaso uan
one OF the primary teachers in the pub |
lie school. has been elected to position
In the schools of Asbury Park for next
year. Miss Ruth Forman, of the
Samuel Aaron school, has presented
her resignation to the board OF educa-
ton.
The Fleetwood Motor Car Company,
Of which Joseph B. Fleetwood is the
head. has rented DIR. J. Hume Carter's
building and garage on the east side of
Main side and will shortly open show
room with a complete line OF accessor-
les. George w. Heisserman will be at
the head Of the garage force.
Former Judge Joseph H. Gaskill has
presented.his resignation as solicitor OIL
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
Company. and Philadelphia and Cam.
den Ferry Company, to take effect at
the end of this year. He takes this
action for himself, and also for the firm
Of Gaskill 4 Gaskiil.
The Army Wives League elected the
following officers last Tuesday: Presi-
dent. Mrs. w. w. Hendricks; vice pres.
ident. Mrs. w. F. Whyte; secretary,
Mrs. II. l. McPherrin; treasurer, Mrs.
H. r. Jenkinson. In place of the reg
ular meeting at the club house this
week, the League will hold picnic at
Browns Mills tomorrow.
William Rossell, who recentlv re.
signed his position as manager of one
Of the American stores at Burlington.
and accepted position as carpenter at
Camp Dix, has removed his family to
Mount Holly. The firm which en-
ploys him has finished its contract at
the camp. and Mr.. Rossell has been
sent to work on job near Florence.
THE News last week contained an
item to the effect that g. t. Ashe. one
of the assistants in the War Camp
Community Service at Camp Dix, had
sented the Charles b. Hornor property
out Garden street, and would occupy it
with his family. Mr.. Ashe had lust
completed this arrangement when he
was notified that he would be transfer
red to Johnstown. Pa, on June 10.
me funeral of Britton E. Pullen,
one of Lumberton's soldier boys, who
died in base hospital at New York
last week OF pneumonia, took place at |
Lumberton Wednesday night, with
further services on Thursday at Jacobs
town, where interment vas made.
Pollen, who was 81 years old, was the
: only member of his company unable |
to go to France, he being ill at the time
set for leaving.
The Woman's Land Army of Amer
lea sent twenty college girls from New
York city to Mount Holly last week.
Their headquarters is the Davis apart
ment house at Garden and Button
wood streets, and the girls are accom-
panied by cook and a chaperon. A
number of farmers are glad to avail
themselves of this kind of help, and
there will be plenty of work-for the
"farmerettes. The girls are paid
small monthly salary and the balance
Of their earnings is applied to their
maintenance. The result of the ex-
pertinent will be watched with interest.
1'he band that furnished the music
for Decoration day was composed OF
colored soldiers from Camp Dix, and
they certainly could play. They were
not at all stingy about it. From the
time they entered town until they left
at seven in the evening they kept
their musical instruments at work.
After marching oyer the long route
they gave concerts in Masonic Temple
and in the rooms of the Holly Club.
The people were delighted with the
music and the cheerfulness with which
the performers responded. The band,
also, left here with good opinion Of
Mount Holly.
An automobile occupied by Eckard
Kinsler. of Mount Holly, and William
Hughes, of Burlington, Bell telephone
employees, collided with the train thai
was taking the drafted men tn Camr