The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-08-12
lHE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


the post office.
A double frame house on Murrell
street, belonging to the Richard P.
Holeman estate, has been sold to Sam
uel w. Bishop.
A child's gold ring, picked up on
High street Sunday, may be found by
calling on T. B. Thorn, at the Union
National Bank.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Carroll and
family desire to thank all the friends
who sent them sympathy in their hour
of bereavement.
Miss Annie Gray, having accepted
q position in private school at
Scranton, Pa, has resigned as manual
training teacher in the Mount Holly
public school.
Mrs. Anna Trimble, of Camden, has
been granted an absolute divorce from
William Trimble, of Burlington, on
the ground of desertion. b. H. White
was her attorney.
Charles Dill Croshaw, Of Wrights-
town, and Mabel Beatrice Miller, of
Jobstown, were married at the Metho-
dist parsonage, Mount Holly, yester-
day, by Rev. C. b. Fisher.
Miss Anna r. Burr had a painful
experience while visiting in Trenton,
as result Of which she is compelled to
use crutch. She, fell down cellar and
sprained her ankle beside sustaining
bruises on her shoulder.
Vincentown, by a majority of 20,
voted, on Tuesday, to erect new
school house, to be located near the
old structure. The appropriations
voted were as follows: Lot, 1000;
building and equipment, $4,000.
). Laurence Riley, of Mount Holly, |
employed in the detective service of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
has been promoted to the position OF
police sergeant and is now a member |
of the International Association for |
Identification.
Potatoes of the Cobbler variety are
being marketed in this county in car
load lots. The crop is considerably |
under normal, the best fields yielding
about 125 bushels of first size to the |
acre. The wholesale cash price being
paid is 50 per bushel on the cars. A
slightly better price is being obtained
when shipments on consignment are
made.
Sergeant A. R. mccarthy, one of the
instructors of the bakers and cooks
school at Camp Dix, and Miss Ena
Mount, nurse at the Burlington
County Hospital. were married in
Philadelphia on Wednesday. An i'm
promptu reception was rendered the ,
couple, upon their return to Mount
Holly, at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred ]. Mullen, on Madison avenue.
The Camp Dix base hospital as such /
no longer exists, the war department. {
having last week changed the institu-
ton to the status of post hospital /,
Only a third of the present hospital ,
wards, which have accommodations for |
approximately 1000 patients, will be
needed for the use of post hospital | :
The war department has not yet an l
nounced what use is to be made of the /
other buildings.
Many former residents of Jacobs
town and other visitors were present on f
Thursday at harvest home celebra- |
ton in honor of the 135th anniversary
of the Baptist church there. Although 5
organized as a congregation 1876 years /
ago, the first church was actually built ]
at Jacobstown in 1857 and for many
years was preaching station on the !
Upper Freehold Circuit. Follow ing !
the services and reception to local {
service men and visitors, ladies of the
church served an old-fashioned dinner
The wedding of Eugene B. Bates, of c
Mount Holly, and Miss Kathryn Nj. 9
Glocke took place on Wednesday at /,
the home of the bride at Audubon. :
Rev. George Kane, of Audubon, off- t
ciated. The attendants were Miss
Catherine Glocke. of Philadelphia, as
bridesmaid, and Eugene L. Engle, of I
Mount Holly, as best man. After
short wedding trip they will reside in
their new home on Mill street, the !
groom having recently purchased the
Andrew Malsbury property. /
The annual convention of the Amer 3
lean era nberry Growers Association :
will be held at Pemberton on August
23d. The sessions will be held at the
residence of Theodore Budd, whose
grandfather was one of the founders of i
the association. The Rev. Z. HI.
Dursll, of Woodbury., is the venerable
president OF the association, and HI. b. /,
Scannell, of Toms River is secretary.
An interesting sketch of the history of
cranberry culture in New Jersey will
be read by A. H. Rider, of Harmon.
ton, honorary secretary of the society
The prospects are that there will be
large crop of cranberries this year.
According to reports published in
daily newspapers the government is
preparing to sell the surplus food sup
plies stored in various army ware
houses in different parts of the United
states. The sales are to be made by
parcel post, in small packages, or bv
carload lots to municipalities, to be
distributed from storerooms opened bv
local authorities. The prices are re-
markably low for the various products,
consisting of hams, bacon, canned
meats, canned vegetables, dried beans,
etc. Postmaster Reed thus far has not
received any instructions from the
post office department relative to tax.
ing small orders from householders for
the food supplies.
Raymond b. Shedaker, master of |
Burlington Grange, Patrons of Hus. |
bandrY, was seriously injured, and his |
wife and two small children less seri- |
ously hurt when his touring car was
run down by Camden Trenton troll
ley car, Thursday night, on the Bev-
erly road. The accident happened as
Shedaker was driving his car out of a
lane at the home of his father. Will
liam B. Shedaker. The lane crosses
the track at right angles and he failed
to notice the approaching trolley.
which was running at high speed
Mildred Shedakar On tbo t~o-4 -.