The Mount Holly news., 1919-10-07
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTORER Z, 1919
LOCAL NEWS.
fonday next-Columbus day.

begun rehearsals for the fall and win
ter concert season.
Letters for Mrs. John Myers, Harry
Rhoda and Mrs. Eugene Peterson re.
main unclaimed in the post Office.
Richard w. Wills won second money
in the 2.25 pace at the Trenton fair last
week, driving his horse Judge Sales.
Bergen I. Raynor has resigned as
cashier of the Wrightstown National
Bank. His successor has not yet been
appointed.
Mrs. Catherine Root and Miss Helen
Hussey, out-of-town teachers in the
Mount Holly schools, have resigned
their positions.
The Holly Club will give its annual
minstrel show late in the fall and plans
for the performance are already under
consideration.
The Mount Holly high school foot
pall team played the first game of the
season at Moorestown on Friday, and
was defeated by the score of 81 too.
DIR. G.. II. Hickman, of Mount
Holly, has been appointed to the chair
of Professor of Clinics at the Osteo-
pathic College and Hospital of Phila-
delphia.
DIR. and Mrs. John C. Brown, of Vim
centown, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Evelyn, to Wilbur F.
Jones, of Georgetown, Del, who is
living in Mount Holly temporarily.
A four-ton truck belonging to George
Murphy, of Masonville, which was
being used on county work, caught fire
in an unknown manner while in its
shed on Wednesday night, and was
destroyed.
A delightful house party was held at
Mrs. Comegys' home by the Burling
ton farmerette group Saturday night.
Fifteen of the camp boys were present.
Supper, games and special features
made up the program.
Ensign Jay b. Tomlinson will relate
some Of his interesting war experiences
at the Presbyterian church on Friday
evening OF next week. the subject of
his address being with the 4ubmar
inc Chasers in the Mediterranean.
Earl Carn, formerly moving picture
operator at the Mount Holly theatre,
has returned to this county with a |
French bride after seventeen months
OF military service overseas. Mr.. and |
Mrs. earn are living In Burlington.
The War Department has sent to
Alfred T. Braham, of Hainesport, a
ring that was found on the body of his |
SON, Albert. of Co. l, 60th Infantry,
who was killed in the battle Of the Ar
gonne Forest on October 16 Of last
year.
War Camp Community Service
dances in Mount Holly have been dis
continued in favor of volunteer parties
for the boys. 1t is hoped later on to
have one closing dance. Eighteen
Mount Holly girls went as guests to
the Hostess House dance at Camp Dix
on Friday evening, reporting very
pleasant time.
Herbert t. Heller, eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Heller, is in the west,
witnessing the worlds series base ball
games between Cincinnati and Chica-
90. Heller was one of the fifty win
ners in voting contest conducted by 4
the Philadelphia Inquirer, and all ex
penses incident to the trip are being
paid by the management of that
newspaper.
A quiet wedding took place on We'd
nesday at the parsonage of Kemble
Memorial Methodist Church, Wood
bury, on Wednesday, when Miss Ethel
Garwcod, OF Mount Holly, and Joseph
E. Benedict, of Syracuse, N. Y, were
married by Rev. Henry ]. Zelley, q
cousin of the bride. The groom was
recently discharged from the army,
after twenty months service overseas
Harry Hulse was elected to member
ship at the regular monthly meeting
of the Mount Holly Business Mems
Association, held at the office of Kel
sey and Killie on Tuesday evening,
and nine members who had discon-
tinued business in Mount Holly were
dropped from the roll. Herbert S
Killie presented his resignation As
secretary and treasurer, but the asso-
citation was unwilling to accept it and
the matter was laid over for one
month.
The Lincoln club, on West Wash
ington street, having closed, the house
hold property there belonging to War
Camp Community Service, will be
sold on Wednesday. 1t consists OF |
cots with mattresses and bedding, small |
dishes, kitchen utensils, several tables,
an old square piano, and other mis- |
cellaneous articles. These articles will
be sold for about half their cost to those
coming first to the club on Wednes
day. The sale begins at o'clock and
continues through the day until 8 p. m.
Frank, son of Prosecutor Kelsey was
quite sick at his fathers home in
Pemberton, last week, and it was
feared that he was going to have con-
cussion of the brain. He was going
into the schoolyard when another boy
who appears to be sort of Village
tough" struck Frank in the stomach
with q base ball bat and as Frank fell
the other boy either struck him in the
head or else the formers head hit the
fence. At any rate he was picked up
unconscious and was taken to his
fathers home where he remained in
that condition for two days. He is
now on the road to recovery.
A matter that has been called to the
attention of the authorities is the prac
tice of children running around town
with cards soliciting people to punch q
hole and take chance on q doll. The
scheme is to'put a hole in design
ated space and whatever number is
drawn is the amount that must be
paid. When all Of the holes are
punched some one of the purchasers
gets doll worth possibly dollar The
child who solicits gets doll for hel
work. Beside being nuisance it is
claimed that the scheme is as much q
lottery or gambling device as the slo1
machines, and the authorities hav,