The Mount Holly news., 1919-12-02
LOCAL NEWS.
No unclaimed letters remained in
the post office last week.

Charles r.. Holmes, receiving telle
of the Union bank, has accepted a pc
sition in Washington, d. C.
The annual three-day Chautauqu;
at New Egypt is to be held there oil
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of thi
week, in the NJ 2. church.
Officers of the Burlington County
Lyceum of History and Natura
Sciences will be elected at meeting
to be held on Friday evening in thu
Gaskill building.
Automobiles owned by Harry Pullen
OF Cookstown, and Eugene Fort, neal
Wrightstown, had head-on collision
on the Camp Dix to Trenton road one
night last week. Two occupants were
considerably injured Mr.. Pullen and
Berthold Grant.
There was slight fire at the resi-
dence of Millard F. Tomlinson, 81
Washington street, on Thursday. An
awning over one of the windows
caught fire from some unknown cause
and the flames had communicated to
the weather boards, when few buck
cts of water were applied and further
trouble was averted.
Governor Runyon has named 25
men to represent the state as delegates
to the fifteenth annual convention OF
the National Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress, to be held in Washington De-
cember s to IL. Among the appoint
ees are Horace g. Reeder, of Borden
town; Albertus l.. Severns, of Burling-
ton; Walter T. Kirk, of Beverly; and
Robert F. Engle, of Beach Haven.
The wedding of Ole o. Moen, of
Mount Holly, and Miss Marion U.
HanselI, of Rancocas, took place on
Wednesday, Rev. Curwen B. Fisher
performing the ceremony. The couple
were attended by Miss Anna S. Han
sell, OF Masonville, and Charles S.
Goldy, of Mount Holly. After we'd
ding trip Mr. and Mrs. Moen will oc-
cupy apartments with Mr.. and Mrs.
George l.. Garwood, on Mill street.
The Burlington County Historical
Society is making an effort to COM
plete its collection of genealogical
records of the county, and to that end
they have sent out a request for all
families having such records to send
copy to Miss Margaret Haines, Bur-
lington, or notify her in order that a
copy can be made. 1t is important that
the records should be received before
December Is. The society has also an
nounced that it will be glad to receive
any papers or letters of historical in
terest which the owners wish to pre-
serve for future generations.
Once more an enthusiast is boring
for oil in Ocean county, this time at
Prospertown, in the northwest corner
of the county. The work is being
done by William d. Driver, who has a
huge steel derrick, making the derrick
that was used few years ago at
Cassville look like toy beside this
one. The outfit used in boring is said
to represent $4,000; and there is
quite a colony of sheet iron houses
about it, as camp for the workmen
to live in. The depth that the work |
men say they are instructed to go is
1000 feet.
Engineers sent by the Lighthouse
Bureau at Washington, D. c., left last
week after inspecting the results OF |
the work done to save the Barnegat |
Lighthouse from being undermined by |
the inroads of the ocean. They found |
that the wall built this fall, which had
been much criticised as inadequate,
had turned the sea currents so that |
sand now is rapidly piling up, and
they are of the opinion that the light
house soon will be more safe than it |
has been for many years. Their in
Iestigations also developed that the |
structure stands on a rock and cement |
base that probably would have held it |
many years even though the ocean |
had reached it.
In line with its spirit of civic ser
vice the New Era Brotherhood of the
Presbyterian Church desires to pre-
sent to the public lecture by the
Rev. Anees 7. Baroody, Ph.D., on "The
Shepherd of the Holy Land" Doctor
Baroody is product of the American
and British mission work in the Holy
Land; and his training and personal
ity will give ready answer to any
question of this work. Doctor Baroody
will give his lecture in costume at
the Presbyterian Church Thursday
evening, December 18th, at 7.45.
Young and old are cordially invited
and urged to hear this interesting lee
ture which has been given over 500
times all over the United States.
Encouraged by their success of the
previous Saturday the Holly Club foot
ball team went at their work on
Thanksgiving day in true sportsman
like fashion and pulled off another
victory. Riverside was the visiting
team, and SO strong has it been all
season that it came to Mount Holly
with the idea that it would be easy to
walk home with another scalp added
to its already large list. But Mount
Holly gave the players from :he river
front the surprise of their lives. From
the start our boys played fast and
snappy game and went on all sides OF
their opponents. When the final
whistle was blown Riverside went off
the field without having been allowed
to score and the figures were: Mount
Holly, %: Riverside =.
Her reputation for arising at a
punctual hour every morning saved
the life of Mrs. Lydia E. Wills, OF
Marlton, when she was overcome by
coal oas in her home on Main street.
where she lives alone. Neighbors
noticing that she did not open her
home at the usual hour Saturday be-
came suspicious that something was
wrong and made an investigation
Unable to get an answer to repeated
knockings, neighbors summoned Harry
Venable, who entered a second-stor!
window. Mrs. Wills was found uncon
scious and apparently lifeless in bed
but medical aid was summoned, am