The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-08-26
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1919
LOCAL NEWS.
.abor dav-next Monday


weeks from today.
Harry R. McClain, Jr. has purchased
a Scripps- Booth automobile.
]. Clayton Anderson has been ap-
pointed policeman to succeed Budd
Harmon, resigned.
The annual picnic of Rancocas
Grange will be held on Thursday at
Rancocas Park.
Officers of the Mount Holly Bust
ness Mems Association will be elected
at the regular meeting tonight.
Mrs. George w. Slimm has pur-
cha sed from Samuel L. Tomlinson a
building lot on Rutlaud avenue.
Grand stand tickets for the Mount
Holly Fair will be on sale at Dubell's
drug store on and after next Saturday.
John b. Tilton won the victrola
that was given away by Mount Holly
Lodge of Moose at the merchants pic
mic on Tuesday.
Acute indigestion caused the death
Of Daniel Stanton, we'll known citi-
zen, on Wednesday, Mr.. Stanton COM
planned of pain after eating dinner and
within ten minutes he was dead. He
was 66 years old.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Sarah s. Brokaw, of
Lebanon, Pa, principal of the public
school at Masonville, to James F. Bal
lew, of Mount Holly.
Robert P. Rowan. grandson of Maui
rice w. Rowan, fell overheard at Ben
jamin =. Cross boat landing, near the
King street bridge, on Friday. Mr..
Cross rescued the boy from an untime-
ly death.
Thomas H. Phares. who has been
living at Amboy, has returned to
Mount Holly and will take up his
trade of mason. He is stuccoing the
building owned by Miss Eva Dobbins,
on High street.
Delegates from the Northampton
Firemen's Relief Association to the
State Convention at Atlantic City on
September 10 and 90 were chosen last
week as follows: Chief George G.. Den.
mis-, G. w. A. French, William J.
Haines, Barclay w. Shinn; alternate,
Alvin Staley.
There will be big time at Rancocas
Park tomorrow when the Holly Club
will hold picnic there. The married
and single men Of the club will meet
in b base ball game in the afternoon;
the Metropolitan band Will give con-
cert in the evening, and then dancing
will be the attraction.
At meeting of the township COM
mittee, on Thursday night, township
engineer Benjamin A. Sleeper present
ed plans and specifications for the
erection of concrete wall along the
creek on Washington street. opposite
the Imperial hotel. A resolution was
passed providing that bids be received
for the erection of the wall.
The Ida Whitcraft property at 169
West Washington street was sold at
sheriff's sale on Thursday to John w
Archer, the complainant, for $500.
A property in Beverly, belonging to
William Smith and Alice Johnson,
was also sold by Sheriff Haines to the
complainant, the Fred s. Drake estate,
for 500.
The Senate on Wednesday joined
the House and voted to repeal the day
light saving bill over President Will
sons veto, the vote being 81 to 10. The
farmers started the agitation and were
backed up by some labor unions. The
repeal becomes effective after the
clocks are turned back to normal in
October.
Howard T. Jarrett. of Bordentown,
was chosen president OF the State
Camp, Patriotic Order Sons of Ameri-
ca, at the annual session held at At
lantic City last week. Samuel f.
Colder, Samuel C. Stanton. William
II. Stillwell, Eugene L. Engle, Har-
vey E. Rossell, Daniel E. Wells and
Roscoe C. Gale attended the sessions
as delegates from the Mount Holly
Camp. The order gained 900 members
in New Jersey last year.
The Red Cross would like to locate
the relatives, if any, of a discharged
soldier, who died at Reno, Nevada, on
March 81, of influenza. His name
may have been William Howard,
William Howard Elliott, Ned Manner
ing or Manning. This man is thought
to have come from southern New Jer-
sey. Kindly send any information to
Mrs. H. l. Cooper, Mount Holly. chair
man of the Home Service Section A.
r. C. for Mount Holly.
United States Senators Frelinghuy
sen and Edge have been asked to have
Congress pass bill under which the
200 army trucks assigned to New Jer-
sew may be distributed between the
State Highway department and the
State institutions. Under the condi-
tions by which the state receives these
trucks they can only be used for high
way construction work. The high way
department does not need so many
cars and it is desired to transfer some
of them to the institutional service.
While Edward Walsh, of Philadel-
phia, a soldier in the A. f. F., was
living in hospital in France with a
shrapnel wound in the back, he was
handed a package of cigarettes mark
ed "For boy wounded in action" In.
side the package was the name of Miss
Henrietta Zawdska, of Riverside. A
correspondence followed. When Walsh
was discharged at Camp Dix he wen'
to Riverside to see his fair correspond
ent. 1t was case of love at frs
sight, and the couple were married be
fore twenty-four hours had passed.
Charles g. Davis, who has been as
SCISSOR for Riverton borough for mum
bef of years, has resigned and Ogder
HI. Maths has been appointed his sue
cessor until the November election
Riverton borough has lost an efficien
officer. Personal acquaintance will
the work of MIR. Davis permits tn
statement that there was no bette
assessor in the county and one agains
whose work the &as the least obieC
ton. He was o. ( of the few who lai
out his work in strict accordance wit