The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-02-12
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1918
LOCAL NEWS.
Lent begins tomorrow.

Lent begins tomorrow.
The wholesale price of milk is nov
81 cents quart.
Mrs. Henry Rosenfeld is quite il
at her home on Mill street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert 8. Killie are
occupying their new residence at the
corner of High and Broad streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carson w. Wright ex.
pect to occupy their recently purchased
residence on Union street this week.
The Ladies' Aid OF the g. A. r. will
hold meeting tonight, which all the
members are requested to attend.
The engagement OF Eugene B.
Bates, of Mount Holly, and Miss
Catharine M. Glocke, Of Audubon, is
announced.
Thomas A. Mulraney has resigned
his position as local mail carrier. and
re-entered the employ of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Mrs. J. Richardson Gillian, of
Quincy, Mass, has been visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George l.. Gar
wood, OF Mill street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cross have
closed their residence on High street
and will spend the remainder Of the
winter in Philadelphia.
A meeting Of the Junior Chautau-
qua Winter Club will be held at $3.50
o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the
high school auditorium.
Company E Auxiliary will hold a
meeting at the home of Mrs. William
A. Sine. Murrell street, on Thursday
morning at 1890 o'clock.
Mrs. Warren A. Vanderveer left for
Norfolk. Va, yesterday, where she
will join her husband, who is stationed
at the navy yard there as an assistant
surgeon.
Henry B. Wright, Of Burr's road
has purchased the residence of the
Misses Sherman, on Broad street, and
will occupy it about April l. His son
Clark will operate the farm.
Miss Marjorie Eells, of near Mount
Holly, has been appointed county
demonstration of home economics for
Sussex county. She has been teach
ing domestic science in Philadelphia
school.
Mrs. Nellie Moore, aged 80 years, OF
near Red Lion, died in Cooper hospi
tai. Camden, Wednesday morning,
from the terrible burns she received all
over her body when her clothing
caught fire while she was preparing
supper at her home the previous even.
ing.
DR.. Harold E. Longsdorf, medical
inspector Of the Mount Holly schools,
is giving weekly lecture on hygiene
to the boys of the high school. Lee
lures on similar subjects are being
given to the girls by one of the high
school teachers. These lectures are
required by the new physical training
law.
The old school house at Browns |
Mills has been purchased by Miss M. |
E. Hathaway for $500. She will move |
the building to q lot opposite the |
White House and convert it into a |
bungalow. The New Lisbon old |
school building also has been disposed |
Of. Horace Harker being the purchaser,
for $3.50.
The Surgeon Generals office has APP
proved the leasing Of the Monterey
hotel, Asbury Parks most famous
hotel, for use as reconstruction hos
pital. AS soon as the lease is approved |
by Secretary of War Baker alterations
will be begun to provide accommoda-
tons for 1900 to 1900 men. The gov
eminent will keep the property until
one year after the war.
From all indications Woodbury. will |
be the first municipality in south Jer-
sey to take advantage of the new local |
option law. A meeting was held there
last week, when petitions were put out |
for signatures The required 80 per
cent. OF the voters to call special cleo
ton has not been received, but those
in charge of the campaign say the
number can be easily obtained A |
committee of volunteer solicitors is at |
work. 1t is understood that q similar
movement is under way in Glassboro.
February. the shortest month of the
year, has much to show in the way of |
special days, the majority of them
being holidays. There are four Sun |
days and so far two heatless MONDAYS,
all stricken from the business calendar |
Candlemas day, the I'd; st. Blasius,
the Sd; Lincoln's birthday, the 18th;
holiday. Ash Wednesday, the be-
ginning Of the lenten son, the 18th;
st. Valentines day, the 14th; and
Washington's birthday. holiday, the
22d; Sunday, the Oath, st. Matthias
day.
The Marlton correspondent of the
Central Record has this to say regard
ing physical training in the school:
Dancing is being introduced in our
public school as part of the manual
training course. 1t is not the kind of
dancing that is commonly known, but
is of the nature of musical exercises.
Considerable objection is being made
to this part Of the course, and while
We are neither commencing nor con-
demning it, the pupils of the Marlton
schools get all the physical exercises
necessary"
Mrs. Josephine III. Shreve, of Union
, street, whose removal to the Burling
ton County Hospital was mentioned
in THE News last week, died at that
institution on Wednesday. Pleuro-
pneumonia was the cause of death.
The funeral took place on Saturday,
and interment was made in st. An
drew's grave yard. Mrs. Shreve was
the widow OF Alfred r. Shreve, who is
well remembered by older residents of
Mount Holly. She was in her 74th
year. Mrs. Shreve's brother, George
A. Haines, preceded her in death about
four weeks.
New Jersey enjoyed the best deer
shooting in many years last fall, &C
cording to reports compiled by State
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