The Mount Holly news., 1919-12-16
lHE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1919
LOCAL NEWS.

Prof. and Mrs. Edgar F. Bunce al
receiving congratulations upon tn
birth of a son last week.
The Burlington County Fair Assc
citation has removed its office to tn
Kelsey & KiIlie building.
Mrs. Florence V. Burr, of Moores
town, has been chosen matron OF tn
Salem county memorial hospital.
The engagement of Mrs. May ]
Kirby, of Mount Holly, to Watson
Harker, of Pemberton, Is announced
Frank Clark, of Burlington, WHIT
was serving term in the state prisor
for larceny, has been granted parole
by the Court of Pardons.
The December term of court will
open on Tuesday. Judge Carrow has
fixed March / to 13 as the dates fol
hearing circuit court cases.
The recent supper and bazaar held
in st. Andrews parish building for
the benefit of the Burlington County
Hospital, netted about $500.
Miss Elva P. Hughes, of Vincen
town, has been reappointed school at
tendance officer for Burlington county.
The position pays s120 per mouth.
The board of freeholders will meet
tomorrow and endeavor to wind up its
affairs but will probably be compelled
to have another meeting the last week
In the month.
Contractor Fred lippincott has be-
gun the work of altering the former
Carter property on Main street, which
will be occupied by the new owner,
Charles B. WoIlner.
All members of the local p. o So
A. are requested to be present at the
meeting on Thursday. when recep-
tion will be given the members who
served in the world war.
H. /. Dasher, of Moorestown, who is
preparing to open a steam laundry in
one of the buildings OF the old Ander-
son cannery on Water street, has rent
ed the Riley property on Union street
William Wells, of Mount Laurel,
was arrested for cunning without a
license last week, and Justice Throck-
morton imposed a fine of $23.65.
Game warden Morton made the COM
plant.
Mount Holly Lodge of Elks will
serve its annual dinner to children on
Christmas day. in the Masonic Temple.
The bill of fare will be up to the stand2
ard Of former years, with turkey as
the principal dish.
Edward Sunderland, of Columbus,
was arrested in Philadelphia, on Sat
urday, and is being held until requisi-
tion papers are obtained to bring him
to this county. He is charged with
assaulting a girl aged IL years.
Vincent B. Brecht, head of the Eng
lish department of the Northeast high
school, Philadelphia, delivered a fine
address on Paul Lawrence Dunbar be-
fore the Fortnightly Club, which met
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
w. Harker.
Richard L. Glover and Russell
Atkins. who recently went to Akron,
Ohio. to seek employment in the
Goodrich plant there, have returned to
Mount Holly. They report that the
coal shortage has seriously interfered
with the operation of the factory.
The Ushers' Union of the Methodist
church has elected the following Off
GERS: President, w. Chester Croshaw;
vice president, William H. Dobbins;
secretary, Samuel E. Colder; treasurer,
Raymond w. Sprow; executive COM
mittee, Albert H. Ridgway, A. R. w.
Atwood.
The wedding of Sydney C. Adsit
of Rochester, N. Y, and Miss Anne
Grigg, took place yesterday at the
home of the bride, No. 12O Broad
street, Mount Holly. Rev. Oscar w.
Henderson was the officiating clergy
man. After the ceremony the couple
left on wedding tour to Denver.
An automobile inspector is investi
eating an accident in which speed
ing automobile struck farm wagon
on the Columbus road near Five
Points, Saturday night, wrecking the
vehicle and throwing the occupants
and crate of pigs into an adjoining
field. The men were cut and bruised,
and say the motorist drove on without
waiting to offer them assistance.
The annual meeting of the Brother
hood Bible class of the Methodist
church was held last week and the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
Mark Reynolds; vice presidents, John
Hunt, Harry Turner, w. Scott Gamer
on, J. Ward Meeks; secretary, Homer
Lippincott; treasurer, Raymond W.
Sprow; musical director, Nathan Mil
Ter; teacher, Rev. C. B. Fisher.
Speedy relief from the bad conditions
that have prevailed on the Brown S
Mills Lakehurst road has been prom
ised, and contract has been awarded
by the State Highway Commission to
Cranmer & Parker to put the road in
first-class shape. This road has been
SO bad that drivers have Stunned il
except when it was absolutely neces-
sary to use it. For over three wears il
has been neglected by both the coun-
ty and the township; SO the state au-
thorities took hand in the matter
and it is said that by the time the
summer travel sets in everything will
be in good shape.
A meeting of the Parent-Teacher
Association was held in the school au-
ditorium on Friday night. A pleasing
part of the programme was the rendit-
ion of playlet and some folk dances
and songs by the pupils of Misses
Robertson's and Hendrickson's rooms
Mount Holly Post No. II, American
Legion, will have a moving picture
benefit at the Mount Holly theatre on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings of
this week. Tickets 25 cents each, can
be obtained from any of the members
1t is hoped there will be good attend
ance.
The annual banquet of the Men's S
Club of st. Andrews church was held
in the parish house on Wednesday
evening. A fine dinner was served by
st. Elizabeth Guild. The speakers
were Rev. Stanley Cleveland, oil
Princeton, and Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee
Kinsolving. Bishop of Southern Bra
zil. The affair was the best ever given