The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-01
Military Affairs.


Ralph Gordon, brother of Mrs. Henry
J fisherman, ofiMoorestowii,was among
the so.oiers who died at Camp Dix,
last Z, k, from influenza.
Robert Peacock and Charles w.
Mendenall have arranged to enter an
officers training camp at Camp Lee,
: Va, about the middle of October.
Company B, State Militia, held an
election, last night, to ill three va
cancies of corporal. The following were
elected; Maurice E. Reeve, Edwin r.
Peak, Roscoe c. Gale.
i The local registry board had orders
to send 20 draftees to Camp Dix on
October It'll, but postponement was
ordered, on Friday, on account of the
influenza epidemic at the camp.
Among the fatalities among soldiers
at Camp DIX, resulting from influenza,
was Fillmore Haines, son of Harvey
i Haines, who for many years has been
employed on farms near Medford.
Edwin L. Sibbett, of Mount. Holly,
who was recently sent to Camp Hum
phreys, Va, by the draft board for
this district, has>been discharged from
military service because of physical
disability.
The epidemic of influenza at Camp
Dix shows some improvement. The
latest repor is give big decrease in
the number of new cases. Yesterday
tie we So d ,atlss Tie total number
of deaths at the camp from this dis
ease and pneumonia has been 442 The
total number of cases is absut $500 at
present.
The first number drawn in the new
draft lottery was 1922. In the third
registration district of Burlington
county this number represents Harry
F. Weaver, of Green Bank. In the
first hundred numbers drawn the fol-
lowing from Mount Holly are included
1923, Albert S. Matthias; 1856, Clifford
Hulse; 904, George E. Street; 1910,
Charles C. Morton.
Erie J. Smith, of Smithville, who is
a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, is
receiving special course of training
at the r. F. c. School of Aerial Fight
ing at Beamsville, Ont Only those
pilots who have shown particular apti-
tude in operating the fast scout ma
chimes are given this, course. He ex-
poets to be home in about three weeks |
on final leave, before proceeding over
seas.
An appeal for books of fiction and /
late issues of magazines has been sent
from Camp Dix to the people in this
vicinity. The quarantine on the camp
prevents the men from having their
usual recreation away from the can
Torment, with the result that they
have plenty of time to read. Con-
tributions taken to the soldiers club
will be forwarded to the camp.
Hobart Hudgens, of Bulls Gap,
Tenn. a soldier stationed at Camp
Dix, was struck and killed by train
on the Camden and Amboy Division
of the Pennsylvania Railroad near
Bordentown on Thursday morning.
His skull was crushed and death was
Hudgens was walk
ing along the tracks when struck. He
was placed on the train which struck
him and taken to Trenton.
DR.. Hunter Robb, of Boston, Mass.
a Burlington boy, has enlisted in the
Medical Reserve Corps of the United
States Army and on his way to Camp
Greenleaf, Georgia, stopped at Bur
lington, on Thursday, to see his brother
Walter E. Robb, and his sister, Mrs.
E. J. Thomson. DR.. Robb, after a
short training at Camp Greenleaf ex-
poets to be sent to France. He is a
widely known surgeon and speaks
German, French and Italian and will
be invaluable in the foreign fields.
Owing to the strict quarantine that
Is in effect at Camp Dix there have
been no soldier visitors to Mount Holly
during the past week. Only few
men sent here on business, have been
seen in town. This is quite contrast
to the usual condition of having hun
lreds of these visitors and the accom-
panying activity created thereby. The
soldiers club here is kept open daily
70 accommodate the few soldiers who
10 come, but it is deserted place now
n comparison to the former hustling
md busy times there.