The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-08
TUESDAY. JULY 8, 1919
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert S. Killie will
sail for England this week.
Miss Elizabeth J. Parsons is actin,
as secretary of the Y. w. C. A. CAM
at Ortley.
There were no unclaimed letters re
manning in the Mount Holly post offic,
last week.
The Presbyterian Sunday school pic
mic will be held at Rancocas Park OF
Thursday.
A meeting of the Northampton fire
police will be held in America hose
house tonight.
Miss Erma Davis is employed in the
store of l.. S. Boyce, stationer, during
the summer.
Miss Marguerite McClain and Miss
Iva Fisher are attending the summer
school at Collingswood.
The John Greenwald property al
Garden and Elm streets has been pur-
chased by William Grady.
Roscoe F. Hendrickson and family,
of Woodbridge, spent the week end
with Mount Holly relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. jeremiah H. Colkitt
are occupying cottage at Seaside
Heights for the month of July.
Mrs. Rebecca Prickitt has sold hel
house on Garden street, now occupied
by Frank s. Davis, to Mrs. I. L. Bour-
geois, of Ridgway street.
Apropos of war time prohibition the
question was asked whats the use OF
giving us two cent postage when they
make it too dry to lick the stamp?"
During the storm on Sunday even
ing lightning struck an electric light
wire at Edward Hacks boat house and
ran along it to tree nearby, ripping
off large section of bark.
The second OF the community sings
to be held this summer under the aus
pices of the War Camp Community
Service, will take place on Thursday
evening at 8 O'Clock, in the court
house yard.
A freight wreck at Riverton last
Tuesday morning upset the train SER
vice on that line until nearly evening.
About thirty feet of track was torn up
by the derailed cars, the cause being a
broken axle.
The Red Cross is DESTROYS of locating
Anna Moore Liebermann, who is SAID
to be living in Mount Holly. II she
will communicate with C. III. Polhe-
mus, 408 Main street, she will learn
something to her advantage.
Miss Elizabeth p. Fernald, of East
Boothby, Maine, has been elected
teacher of French and Spanish at the
Mount Holly high school. She is
graduate Of Colby college. A teacher
previously chosen for this position de-
clined to accept it at the salary offered.
During the community dance on
Mill street, on Friday night, collec-
ton amounting to $50 was received
from the occupants of chairs and
benches placed along the sidewalks.
This money goes to the fund for the
memorial hospital to be erected in
Mount Holly.
After considering the matter the rail-
road administration has decided to run
the popular Sunday and Thursday ex-
cursions to Long Branch. The present
arrangement includes this month,
other notice to be given later. The
train from Mount Holly will run by
way of Burlington, leaving Mount
Holly at 500 a. M, beginning Thurs
day of this week.
A tree in front of the residence of
Mrs. Ella Shinn, on Mount Holly ave-
nue., required attention from the fire
department twice on Tuesday. The
rotten interior of the tree became ignit-
ed from fire cracker, and it was ex-
tinguished by hand extinguisher. In
the evening the flames broke out again
and Union chemical engine was sum-
moned to complete the job.
Hon. Frank l.. Rain, U. s. attorney
for the district of Nebraska, accom-
panied by Mayor Harry Bacharach, of
Atlantic City, and other Elk grand
lodge officials, paid visit to the Elks'
Home, Mount Holly, on Wednesday
Mr.. Rain is candidate for grand ex-
allied ruler of the Order of Elks, the
annual convention of which is being
held at Atlantic City this week.
The third week of Camp Ockanickon
the south Jersey Y. M. c. A. boys
camp, opens today. Among the COM
ing visitors who will take part in the
evening programs are Miss Sarah AS
kew, of the State Library at Trenton,
who is pleasing story teller, F. Way
land Potter, of Camden, a noted coin
collector, and Mr.. Kennedy, of New
York, who has lately returned from
India.
Captain w. S. Gale, Lieutenapts M.
E. Matlack and J. d. Johnson, Jr
and nine non-commissioned officers of
Company B, New Jersey Militia, left
Mount Holly on Sunday, to attend a
camp of instruction being held at Sea
Girt, this week, for all such officers OF
the militia of the entire state. They
were accompanied by Lieutenant Cliff
ford r. Powell, one of the rifle range
offers Of the state.
John g.. Mack, who served several
months overseas, has been discharged
from service and is now at his home
on the Hainesport road. John was in
the army of occupation stationed neal
Coblentz, Germany. He received 6
months furlough while there anC
toured Switzerland. He delights il
telling his friends of his experience
while lover there" but says there il
no place like the good old U. s. A.
Additional steps looking to making
Camp Dix a permanent government
establishment will be taken in tn
United States Court next Monday
when either Judge Rellstab or Judg
Davis will name three Burlington
County Freeholders, condemnation
commission to pass upon severe
thousands of acres of land in Burline
ton and Ocean counties. The land il