The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-15
Prohibition will remove wine stains

August.
Announcement is made of the Ell
gagement of Miss Edith Kester,
V. Mount Holly, to Russell Wills, of Co
umbus
Is The cellar is being dug for -hous
T. to be erected by George H. Kille, O
Broad street, adjoining the property q
If Clayton Hancock.
Jay Friant, barber at Medford, acc
dentally shot himself in the foot Will
/ handling his revolver on Friday. Tn
t bullet was removed at the Burlington
County Hospital.
# Letters for Mrs. VIM. B. Gibbon
T Mrs. I. S. Thompson, Miss Lillian
8 Hall, Miss Betty Hall, Mrs. Lizzie Ed
monte and Miss Anna Roberts remain
i unclaimed in the post Office.
s Today is the last day for the paw
e ment of the first installment of take,
for the current year, which were due
: June LIST, if the taxpayer wishes tc
) avoid the payment of interest.
George Bozarth, of Mount Holly
had the wrist of his right arm broken
when the automobile which he was
cranking backfred, the handle strik-
, ing with such force as to break the
bone.
: DIR. and Mrs. Francis NewtonThorpe,
: OF Pittsburgh, Pa, formerly of Mount
Holly, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Marian Egerton
Thorpe, to DR.. Isaac S. Diller, of Pitts
burgh.
Stacy Powell and Herbert Wollner,
overseas soldiers, have arrived home
and have been discharged from the
service. Norman F. Gibbs also arrived
home but has reenlisted in the regular
army for year.
j There will be a STORY hour" for
children under twelve years, tomorrow
morning at ten o'clock, at the girls
club house, Garden street. All chill
dren under the age mentioned are
asked to be present as pleasant time
is promised to all.
Work is being rushed on the new
road through Moorestown, and within
a month the automobile traffic that
has had to detour will have direct
road to Mount Holly. In order to keep
the laborers at work the contractor is
supplying them with free tobacco.
1t is reported that Camp Kendrick,
at Lakehurst, is to be used for a huge
hangar site and dirigible field, and
that the navy department will spend
So, 10000 there in building hangers
and developing the field. 1t is said
that the money has been appropriated |
by Congress. The airfield is to be one
mile square.
Until July 81, all/unused and un.
damaged No. 8 and No. 10 two cent
postal cards and three cent envelopes |
will be redeemed at full value, provid- |
ed they are returned by the original
purchasers. They may be exchanged |
for any other denomination, but re-
demption will not be made in cash.
Three cent stamps will not be redeemed
or exchanged.
Company B. of Mount Holly, will
go to Sea Girt next Saturday, for it's
annual encampment of one week with
the Second Battalion, State Militia.
The officers and on-commissioned
officers Of the company returned last
Saturday after weeks intensive
training with all other similar officers
from the entire state. The Fourth
Battalion also will be in camp next
week.
Camp Dix having been included in
the list of IA cantonments specified as
exceptions to the order issued by Sec
rotary of War Baker calling for dis
of all work and the pur-
chase of real estate, is regarded as
assurance of the permanency of the
In addition to Camp
Dix, the only exceptions under the bill
are Camps Custer, Devens, Dodge,
Gordon, Grant, Jackson, Lee, Mead,
Pike, Sherman, Taylor, Travis and
Upton.
During the heavy storm early Sun
day morning barn on the farm of
Wilbert Evans, at Deacon's station,
was struck by lightning and burned
to the ground, together with two mules,
n horse, calf, quantity of farm inn
plements and about $1,000 worth of
hay and grain. The total loss will be
about $1,000. About three years ago a
barn on the same site was destroyed
by fire. At that time the farm was
owned by Mrs. Edward B. Deacon,
and was occupied by Harry Hancock
New Jersey State and Federal au-
thorities are making every effort to
eliminate from a restricted area in |
Burlington county the Japanese beetle
which was introduced in this country
few years ago with some plants inn
ported from Japan. In Burlington
county the beetle has attacked fruits
and truck. 1t is also fond of boring
into growing corn ears. Its destruction |
in Burlington county is confined to
Delran, Chester and Cinnaminson
townships. Persons who discover the |
beetle outside of these places are re-
quested to notify the State Board of |
Agriculture.
Judges Rellstab and Davis, in the
United States court, at Trenton, yes
terday, named former Judge William
ID. Lippincott, of Moorestown; John P.
Hutchinson, of Georgetown, and Alfred
l. Davis. of Pemberton, commission
to pass upon the price to be paid fifty
odd property owners in the vicinity of
Camp Dix for land desired by the Gov
eminent in connection with Camp Dix
The owners and the government were
unable to arrive at an understanding
relative to the compensation. The jury
named yesterday will pass upon lands
in Burlington county, while another
similar body will be named to pass
upon property in Ocean county.
At its regular July meeting held in
Trenton, on Thursday, the New Jersey
State Highway Commission decided
that it will distribute among the twen-
ty-one counties of the state $3.50, 900,
to assist them in the execution of high
way work programs which they are
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