The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-09
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY. JULY 9, 1918
LOCAL NEWS.

LOSAL NEWS.
Prosecutor Kelsey has purchased g
cottage at Seaside Park.
The Presbyterian Sunday school pic
mic will be held at Rancocas Park or
Thursday.
The Sunday school sessions of st
Andrews church have been discontin
ued for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Sherman have
gone to their country home near Med
ford for the summer.
Miss Susie E. Eckman, of Mill street
has accepted a position as teacher in
the Pleasantville school.
Miss Bertha M. Herbert, of Button
wood street, is attending the state sum.
mer school at Ocean City.
Reports from cranberry boys and
lowlands are that considerable frost
was noticeable on Wednesday morn.
ing, July 8.
The July meeting of the Burlington
County Firemen's Association will be
held at Bridgeboro on Wednesday
night Of next week.
Rev. Howard g. Crammer, wife and
child, Of housewife, Pa, are visiting
the formers parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles H. Crammer.
Letters for Miss Margaret Allen,
Frank Andrews, Mrs. Mark Creibel,
and Miss Anna May Lewis, remain
unclaimed in the post Office.
Clifford VanZandt has re-entered the
employ of the Burlington County
Transit Company, after resigning some
time ago to work at Camp Dix.
John B. Herbert has sold the build
ing ON Pearl street, known as the
kelly school," The purchaser was
Budd Witcraft, whose property adioins
1t.
A daughter arrived in the family of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Randolph Fogg, Of
Ocean City, last week. Mrs. Fogg was
formerly Miss Eleanor Kahn, of MARI
ton.
Beatrice, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
c.. ]. Krayer. was taken to the Bur-
lington County Hospital last evening,
where she was operated on for appen-
dicitis.
Bernard Gluck has rented Professor
William c. Sullivan's residence on
Ridgway street, and will occupy it as
soon as Mr.. Sullivan removes with his
family to Pleasantville.
Daniel T. Sooy, former hotel keep
: er at New Gretna and well known
throughout the county, has been taken
to the Burlington County Hospital at
New Lisbon for treatment.
Herbert Wollner, of Mount Holly,
who went to Admission, Ala, with
Company E, has peen transferred to
Camp Mills. He was home on a fur
Tough last week and he said Mount
Holly looked pretty good to him.
Announcement is made of the en-
eagement Of Miss Anna Elizabeth
Gerlach, daughter of Mrs. Richard F.
Gerlach and granddaughter of Richard
]. B. Slack, to William Russell Round |
tree, Jr., u. 8. N, Of Philadelphia.
Rev. Mr.. Davis, of Haddonfield, will
conduct the services at ST. Andrews |
church until September. the rector,
Rev. Henry Teller Cooke, having gone
to Winston Salem, N. c., on two
months vacation, during which time
he will undergo an operation.
Miss Booth, who has been doing |
Community Welfare work in this
neighborhood, has resigned and gone
home. H. J. Rupert will take her
place. This young man has had much
experience in this kind of work and
will greatly aid the officials who are at
the head OF the affair.
The rest and recreation house recent
ly purchased at Pointville by the Bur-
lington County w. c t. u, was open
ed to the soldiers of Camp Dix and
their relatives on June %. The secre
tary OF the committee, Mrs. Charles H.
Engle. requests donations of food,
money, sheets, comfort bags or kits.
Harry Mccormick, fourteen years
old, of Burlington, who sells news
papers at Camp Dix, was brought to
the Burlington County Hospital on
Thursday with broken leg. He re-
ceived the injury when an automobile |
in which he was riding overturned at
Jobstowne~ Others in the car received
minor injuries.
Burlington county autoists are
threatening to follow the example of
Warren county and ask the grand jury
to indict committeeman of Springfield
township and freeholders responsible
for the neglect of roads in this vicinity.
II is claimed that gravel road lead
ing from the river front to Camp Dix
via Jobstown has been neglected for
months.
A sad occurrence last week was the
sudden death OF Mrs. Samuel C. STAN
ton at her home on Mill street on
Wednesday night. Her new born babe
died two days later and both were laid
to rest in the same casket Sunday.
Mr.. Stanton was at Sea Girt with
Company B, and was unable to get
home before her death. He is deeply
eratified at the kindness shown him
in his trouble.
The preparations of the Pennsylvan-
ia railroad company to take care of the
numbers Of soldiers given passes over
the Fourth of July on their homeward
trip to Camp Dix, were completely
swamped on Thursday night when at
least two thousand soldiers crowded
the Camden terminal in an effort to
get ON the owl train. Extra sections
were hurriedly made up and it was 4
o'clock when the last section passed
through Mount Holly.
On Tuesday evening little girl, on
leaving railroad train at Burlington,
left her suitcase in the car. 1t was q
mating case and contained several
articles of child's clothing. The train
was one that arrived at Burlington al
6.1O in the evening. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that the finder would deliberately
keep this property, and may be wait
ing to discover the owner. This may
be easily done by dropping posta