The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-08-26
A new railroad station is to be erect

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day school will be resumed on Sunday
September IA.
Letters for w. ]. Welty, Osca
Stevens, and Mrs. Leslie McMeckir
remain unclaimed in the post Office.
Miss Margaret Doane is conductin,
a story hour for children at Mrs
Powell's on Water street, this after
noon.
Three are three candidates for tn,
Republican nomination for township
clerk: Herbert s. Killie, Bertram r
Orcutt and Bert F. DILL.
Mrs. Edward Claypoole is recovering
from a successful operation for appen
dicitis which was performed at tn,
Burlington County Hospital.
Walter Oliphant, of Trenton, who
has been in Mount Holly for several
weeks on road inspection work, has
been transferred to Lambertville.
Mrs. Charles H. Folwell, wife of the
editor of the Mirror, was burned last
week by gas flames bursting out Of
the oven of a stove. Her face and
arms we're slightly injured.
Rev. s. Harper Leeper, former pas
tor of the Mount Holly Presbyterian
church, now located at Media, Pa, oc-
cupied the local pulpit on Sunday and
was greeted by many friends.
The Burlington County Poultry AS
ISOLATION held a meeting in the office
of the Farm Bureau, Friday evening.
The audience was small, but quite in
terested in the subject of raising chick
ems. A. NJ. Taykin, who has farm
near Smithville, gave q talk on the
breeding of poultry.
Miss Mae Zina and Lieutenant Dear.
doff, Of Montana, were married on
August IA, by Rev. Henry Teller
Cooke, the ceremony being performed
at the home of Mrs. T. Sterling Nc
Twain. When the Lieutenant is dis
charged from the army he and his
bride will reside at Springfield, Ohio.
The work of improving Bispham
and lower Water streets has been be-
gun by the township committee.
Both now are laid with cobble stones,
upon which is to be placed a compost
ton surface similar to that on upper
Water street. The rainy weather has
interfered considerably with work
upon the roads.
After being abandoned for twenty
five years the old Merch antville race
track will again be used for horse rae
ing. 1t will be conducted, however in
a very different manner from what il
was in the past when it was notorious
for the rough element usually in at
tendance. The Camden County Driv-
ing Club will now control it and use
the track more as a gentleman's race
course without betting.
Semuel c. Stanton seems to have had
bad luck attend him during. his trips
to the shore. In July of last year,
while with the soldiers at Camp Edge,
he was summoned home on account OF
the serious illness of his wife, which
resulted fatally. Last week he was at
Atlantic City when he received word
of the sudden death of his father. Mr..
Stanton and his mother feel under
obligations to the friends who were so
kind to them in their affection.
Three automobiles brought IL sleuths
from Philadelphia, on Saturday, who
made thorough search of the Hall,
Whitaker and Mcfarland farms, on
the Jobstown road, looking for Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, who evaded con-
scription during the war and has sue
cessfully evaded arrest The secret
service men again missed getting the
young Philadelphian, brother-in-law
of Albert Hall, who has fine summer
residence on the Jobstown road. None
of the neighbors had seen Bergdoll in
this vicinity.
Do not forget, all ex-service boys,
the Camp Dix Night" dance at Ran.
cocas Park tonight. Put on
your Red Circle discharge button (get
it at the club if you have not one al
ready and walk in as our guest. Mu-
sic will be furnished by detail from
the 50th Inf. Band. Ladies invited by
chaperones. All service and ex-service
men welcome to attend. Arrange
ments are being made through the
courtesy of the management of the
park for complimentary night to all
service men later on.
Lightning played one of it's peculiar
freaks on Monday evening of last
week. The bolt struck the barn on
the farm of Henry Ballinger, near
Lumberton. Going into the building
the electricity ran along the rafters
tearing some of them to pieces and
throwing the splinters all over the
barn. There was large quantity o.
hay that had just been stored but thin
was not touched. The lightning wen
across the barn and finally landed in {
stall in which there was bull, killing
the animal instantly. Mr.. Ballinge
had been offered sos for the bull few
days before he was killed.
The program OF races at the Noun
Holly Fair, which has been announc
ed, contains Is events. There will b.
three races on Tuesday and Friday
four on Wednesday, and five on Thurs
day. as follows; Tuesday, September
amateur trot and pace for prizes, %
pace, purse, 81, 900, and the free-for- al
pace for $780, Wednesday = Three
year-old trot, $500; 2.30 trot and 2.14
trot, each for 1000 purse, and tn
2 Is pace for $400. Thursday-Two
year old trot, $500; 2 10 trot, 81 900; 2
pace, $500; 2.25 pace, $500; ZIG trot
$500. On Friday two 81, 900 stake race
are listed-2.17 pace and PIP pace, an
the final event is the 2.25 trot for $3O(
There is being discussed by men
bers of the Business Mems Associatio
and others a proposition to buy th
Evan lumber yard property on Wasi
ington street, for community recrei
ton park. The tract, with an al
joining lot, comprises over ten acres
land. The absence Of an athlet
field here has brought about the di
cussion of the purchase of some feel
for that purpose, and the central /
cation of the property above name
has brought it favorable mention
2 No details of financing the DrODOsitiC