The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
LOCAL NEWS.

Letters for Mrs. Glenn, and Miss Z
Jones remain unclaimed in the pos
Office.
Charles R. Morrison has purchased
the Charles M. Randall property on
Cherry street.
Thomas Alcott, of Broad street, il
now employed in the telephone ex
change at Camp Dix.
Clarence Dunfee has accepted posi-.
ton as linotype operator in the Office
of the Camden Courier.
Miss Anne B. Grigg, of Broad street.
has accepted position as assistant te
the station master at Camp Dix.
Sunday was the coolest June 23d on
record. Oyercoats and heavy furs were
worn, and heater fires were desirable.
Twenty members are now represent
ed on the service flag of Washington
Camp No. II. P. o. s. of A., of Mount
Holly.
A son arrived in the family of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold M. Lippincott, of
Brooklyn, formerly of Mount Holly,
last week.
Deputy internal revenue collector
William ]. Hampton will sit at the
Arcade hotel, on Thursday. to receive
government taxes.
Mrs. Ada Holland has returned from
Washington, d. c., after spending her
vacation with her cousin, Mrs. Ross
Gaskill, of that city.
Albert B. Walters, cashier of the
Mount Holly National Bank, has been
named as chairman of the War Saw
ings Stamp drive in Mount Holly.
The Ladies' Aid Society of st. Paul's
M. e. church will give a reception to
their new pastor and his wife, Rev.
and Mrs. w. B. Perry, ON Wednesday
evening, July 8.
Miss Dorothy Dill, who has been
teaching in the school at the children's
home. has been elected to one of the
vacancies in the primary building on
Brainard street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry C. Thorp, Of
Philadelphia, announce the engage
ment of their daughter. Miss Marion
R. Thorp. to Sergeant Albert c. Wor-
all ~ h1r.f H1Ilx,
When you buy War Savings Stamps
you do not give your money, you loan
1t at 4 per cent. interest compounded
quarterly, You help your government
but you help yourself even more.
Samuel III. Popkin, who recently en-
listed in the Naval Reserve. has sold
his autotruck to the Northampton
township committee, and it will be at
tached to the road supervisors de-
partment.
An automobile occupied by B. F.
Middleton, of Mill street, and four of |
his children, upset near Hainesport on
Tuesday afternoon. One of the child
rem was painfully bruised. but all es-
capped serious injury.
The quota OF 5000 set for Mount
Holly in the second Red Cross war
fund drive was reached on Wednesday. |
Last week there was some shortage,
but the committee went to work with
the determination that the town should
not remain behind, and the efforts
were successful.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter FL. Mason, of
Union street, announce the marriage
OF their daughter, Miss Julia Mason,
to Lieutenant John P. Ray, of Buffalo,
N. Y. on MAY "a. The ceremony was
performed in one of the Y. M. C. A.
huts at Camp Dix, the day before the
groom left the camp.
John Allen, of Gibbstown, is in the
Burlington County Hospital with
broken collar bone and other injuries
sustained when his automobile upset
near New Lisbon on Wednesday. The
others in the car escaped with slight
injuries. Allen was unconscious when
brought to the hospital, but has since
revived.
Isaac Dixon, employed on a farm on
the JObstown road, was arrested and
to jail, on Saturday, on a
charge of supplying whiskey to a
soldier. He was caught just after he
had delivered quart to the man in
uniform. The whiskey was taken
charge of by Chief of Police Assay,
who made the arrest. Dixon later was
released on bail.
Frederick s. Forker, forty-four years
old, of Yardville, formerly of Mount |
Holly, died in Trenton hospital last
week from Durns received in an explo- |
sion Of linseed oil and gasoline mix
ture at the Yardville oil cloth factory.
FOrker was the second of his family
and the third Mount Holly man to be
killed in the factory. Edward Forker,
q brother of the latest victim, met his
death there two years ago through a
similar explosion, and at the same
time son of Barclay w. Shinn, OF
Mount Holly, was killed.
A double drowning took place at
Browns Mills early Wednesday even
ing, when David. thirteen years. son
OF Ezekiel Sooy, and Milton, seventeen
years, son of George Eckman, were
thrown into the lake when their boat
upset. Eckman was able to swim, but
the work Of rescuing his companion
was probably too much for his strength.
There was no one present to help
After the drowning was discovered and
the bodies recovered, every possible
effort was made to revive them and a
lungmotor was rushed to Browns Mills
in the hospital ambulance, but it was
OF NO avail.
Mrs. Estella Showers, colored, cut
Francis Roy, a southern negro. such a
severe cash on his right wrist with q
razor during quarrel at Bordentown
last week, that the victim had to. be
brought to the Burlington County
Hospital. 1t is feared he will lose the
use of his hand. Roy and the woman
came north some time ago, and bott
found work in Bordentown. Later she
married colored lieutenant at Camp
Dix, who is now in France. The wo
man and her former lover met on tn,
street last week and quarrel began
ending in the cutting, after which Es
tella disappeared and has not been 10