The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-15
Mrs. Fred L. Owen is still very sick
ut her home on Madison avenue.


quite i'll, is considerably improved.
The moving picture machine for the
Mount Holly schools has arrived and
the first exhibition on it will be given
on Tuesday evening next. The price
of admission will be ten cents.
Senator Harold B. Wells took the
oath as judge of the Burlington coun-
! ty courts on Saturday. The ceremony
, occurred at the court house. The obli-
CATION was administered by County
Clerk Mingin.
A committee representing Burling-
ton Lodge of Elks will go to New
York to meet and greet their famous
brother Elk, Major Edward b. Stone,
when he arrives in this country from
France. He is expected to reach
home in the near future.
Two New Egypt hotel proprietors
made application for licenses, last
week, to the Court of Common Pleas
of Ocean county. These hotels have
been debarred from selling liquors on
account of their coming within the
zone of Camp Dix. The court refused
to grant the applications.
Mrs. Charles Reeve, Rutland avenue,
was placed under $500 bail last night,
for appearance at court, on charge Of
assault and battery on Mrs. Florence
Slimm, neighbor. The assault is al
legged to have consisted of striking Mrs.
Slimm a number of times with gar
den rake.
On Friday evening of next week.
the 25th-Howard T. Middleton will
deliver his lecture on animal life. 1t
will be illustrated with photographs
of animals and birds taken by Mr.. Mid
dleton, who has made quite success
of this work. In many instances he
has made his subjects snap the camera
which caught them. His pictures have
been sought by the leading magazines
all over the country and this lecture,
which will be given in the High school
auditorium, will be one of the most
interesting events of this year.
The rain did not dampen the enthu-
siasm Of the debating teams that were
to contest for supremacy at the high
school auditorium on Friday evening |
on the question, Resolved, that the |
United States Government should own |
and operate all railways in this coun-
try" The affirmative was taken by a |
team from Haddonfield high school,
and a special car brought $50 pupils
from that town. Mount Holly high |
school pupils argued in the negative
and were given the decision. This
was the last debate of series on this
subject. Last month Collingswood
was defeated by Mount Holly and
Haddonfield won over its opponent,
thus putting the final test TO the two
teams that competed on Friday even
ing.
From nearly every town along the
coast people went to Seaside Park on
Saturday to attend the funeral of Cap
tain William Penn, known to many
thousands who have fished off the Bar
negat pier Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road since the early eighties, when the
bridge was built. He was the first
appointed to care for the
He had to his credit the
saving of five persons who at different
times fell into the bay off the bridge.
No person was ever drowned there
while he was on duty. Before entering
the employ of the railroad company he
was a lifesaver in the government SER
vice. He was SO years old. Services
were held in the Seaside Park Union
Chapel and interment was made in
Waretown.
Congressman Bacharach wishes to
call to the attention of his constituents
the fact that during the adjournment
Of Congress his office in Washington
will be kept open for the prompt trans
action of Government business. All
with reference to Of
fetal matters should therefore be ad-
dressed to him at Washington, instead
Of Atlantic City. By doing this several
days delay will be saved in the hand
ling of your requests. Mr.. Bacharach
also wishes to call attention to the fact
that the Department of Agriculture
has issued some very useful Farmers
Bulletins during the past year, and
those who are interested in these publi-
cations should write to Mr.. Bacha-
rach for the latest catalog of bulletins.
Even though Congress is not in ses-
sion Mr.. Bacharach is ready and will
ing to look after all matters in which
his constituents may be interested, and
you have but to address communi-
cation to him at Washington, stating
fully what information you would like
to have, and the question will have his
immediate attention. Much delay will
be saved by paying attention to the
above request to address all communi-
cations to him at Washington.