The Mount Holly news., 1919-11-25
LOCAL NEWS.


William w. Worrell has purchased
Lexington sedan automobile.
A steam heating plant is being il
stalled in the Mount Holly raiIroa
station.
Daniel Sutter, Jr. is now occupyin
the homestead at Garden and Buttor
wood streets.
Letters for C. A. Willis, Miss Laua
White and William Raft remain ur
claimed in the post office.
Washington Camp No. II, P.O. s
of A., initiated five candidates at il
meeting on Thursday night.
Mrs. Warren A. VanDerveer ha
been elected teacher of Latin ant
history in the high school at Palmyra
The Burlington county Y. w. C. A
is now comfortably located in it's nev
quarters over Lutz's store on Mali
street.
The annual banquet of the Burling
ton County Board of Agriculture will
be held in Mount Holly on Friday
evening, December IL
Mrs. Leonidas s. Boyce, of Garder
street, was successfully operated upor
for appendicitis at the Burlington
County Hospital on Sunday.
The Junior Y. NJ. C. A. basket bal
team was defeated by the Boy Scou
team ON Thursday evening in st. An
drew's gymnasium. Score IL to s.
William C. Wetherill will represent
the Northampton board of education
at the annual meeting of the State
Federation of Boards of Education al
Trenton, on Saturday.
Fine congregations greeted the Vic
tor Gospel team at the Methodist
church on Sunday. There was large
attendance of men at the afternoon
meeting, which was addressed by Rev
w. E. Zimmerman.
The Western Union telegraph office
is to be moved from its present location
in Assays stationery store to the Office
room of the Washington House next
month. Miss Tillie Asay will be re-
tanned as local manager.
Pocahontas Tribe of Red Men, ac-
companied by its fife and drum corps,
went to Camden, on Wednesday, in
a special car, to take part in monster
class initiation at the armory there,
when 1900 palefaces received the de
gree of the order.
The 45th Infantry orchestra will be
present at the union service in the
Baptist church on Thanksgiving day.
Last year the 50th Infantry band was
present, but these boys now are in
France. The authorities of Camp Dix
were glad to assign the orchestra for
duty here.
Mrs. John NJ. Huff has been super
intendent of the primary department
of the Methodist Sunday school for the
last thirty years. Owing to ill health
Mrs Huff had expressed her intention
of retiring, but she has, since the an
nual meeting, consented to continue
her good work.
The Burlington county girls who
spent vacations at Ortley, the Y. w. c.
A. camp on the Jersey coast, held a
reunion at the Mount Holly high
school auditorium last week. Girls
were present from all over the county,
a picnic lunch was served, and there
were games and songs.
John ]. Mitchell, who was police ad
jutant at Camp Dix, and who has beer
making his home in Mount Holly
since his discharge from the service,
received an appointment to the Bureau
of Investigation in the Department OF
Justice on Tuesday. His headquarters
will be in Philadelphia.
The community service dance in the |
Temple tomorrow night is for the boys
of the 57th Infantry. These boys hal
from Camp Pike, whence some of the |
best known soldier visitors have also |
come. The chaperones are Miss Annie |
M. Watts, Miss Carrie J. Kingdom, |
Miss ella johnson and Mrs. William
Fryer.
Norval Osgood, who worked in the |
Royle-Pilkington mill, had two fingers
badly cut early on Saturday and he
was hurried to the Burlington County
Hospital. He died while on the oper
ating table. The suffering caused by
his wounds and the fear of the opera
tion hurried his death. He was Is |
years of age.
A man claiming to be Lieut-Col. Ru- |
dolph w. Flemkey, solicitor for the
Crusaders of America, Inc, was ar
rested in Moorestown, last week, after
he had obtained money from several
persons. Investigation showed that
the Crusaders" was apparently or
ganized for the personal profit of the
collector, and the man was ordered to
leave the town.
One of the funny things in connec-
tion with the high cost of living is the
price of rabbits. The cost of gun
ming license is no higder than las
year, powder and shot are about the
same, and the time the gunner takes
amounts to as much as heretofor, fol
he would go anyhow, game or no
game, yet if you want to buy pair OF
rabbits the price is $175.
Several people have already offered
to share their Thanksgiving hospital
ity with boys from Camp Dix. II
there are others who will do likewise, q
phone message to the soldiers clul
will get immediate response. Two OF
the hospital convalescents were guests
of Miss Parry. at Hainesport, for th,
weekend, and were highly appreciativ'
of a taste of home life after confine
ment in the hospital.
There was a fatal accident at the
railroad station in New Egypt, on
Monday of last week. The local ex-
pressmen were endeavoring to handle
a heavy tombstone at the freight sta
ton when Adolphus ]. Hopkins, OF
Hornerstown, came along and asked if
he could be of assistance. The ston,
was very heavy and it struck th,
truck on which it was to be loaded III
such manner as to cause the handle
of the truck to fly up and strike Mr.