The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
LOCAL NEWS.
The Holly Club will have an EMO Y.
able smoker at its rooms tonight.

LOCAL NEWS.
The Holly Club will have an EMO y.
able smoker at its rooms tonight.
The visiting nurse reports making
46 calls last month. % of which were
free.
Mrs. Daniel Suffer, ST., has had her
residence on Garden street newly
painted.
A letter for Miss Catherine Lamb is
the only one remaining unclaimed IN
the post Office.
Theodore NJ. Pennock has sold his
property No. 49 Bispham street to
Levi Fl. Shinn
Robert r. Forbes has purchased a
Stewart truck and an Essex automo-
bile from the Fleetwood Motor Com
pany.
The gutter on the east side of High
street above the mount has been paved
and the roadway improved by the
townships workmen during the last
week.
Congressman Bacharach has intro
duced bill in the House of Represent
atives making October q national
holiday, to be known as "Roosevelt's
Birthday"
A. A. Anderson, real estate dealer,
reports the sale Of house and lot, No.
1873 Madison avenue, from Charles II.
Smith to Charles q. Woolston. Also
the small farm of William C. Hobson,
on WOODLAND, to Robert H. G. Fisher,
Of Oaklyn, Pa.
Operations were begun last week by
contractor Walter Allen on a new
building for the Keesey Hosiery Com
pany, on King street, which will
double the size OF the plant. A num-
Der OF additional hands will be given
employment in the new building.
Henry J. A. Rau, for many years
with the F. A. Hardy Co., of New
York and Chicago. and late of the
American Lens Manufacturing Co., of
Newark, has acquired the optical prac
tice OF the late DR.. J. E. Whitman.
DIR. Rau can be consulted at 43 Main
street daily after June 1st.
Announcement is made by Mrs.
William C. Wetherill, chairman of
Red Cross sewing work, that all gar
ments in the hands of sewers are to be
finished and delivered at the Red
Cross rooms not later than Thursday
OF this week. 1t is important that
this matter be given immediate atten-
ton.
An old linden tree in the court house |
yard gave up the ghost one day last
week and in its fall struck the roof of
the county clerks Office, creating con-
sternation among the clerks, who
thought the angel Gabriel had sound |
ed taps with his bugle. The janitor of
the court house diagnosed the case as
death caused by senility.
A request has come from Camp Dix
that Mount Holly and adjacent com.
munities shall donate flowers for the
observance OF Memorial day within |
the camp, in memory of the soldiers
who lost their lives. Contributors are
requested to send the flowers to the
Ankokas Soldiers Club, Mount Holly,
not later than noon OF May 20.
William II. Richie, of Moorestown,
has accepted call to be county secre
tary OF the Y. M. C. A. for DuPage
county, ILL.,. and will leave, with his
family, for Wheaton, in that state in
a short time. He will be associated
with Otis b. Read, formerly of Mount |
Holly. and now Illinois State Secretary
for County Work. Wheaton is a beau
tiful town about twenty-five miles
from Chicago, and is one of the wealth.
lest suburbs OF that city.
Mrs. Frank ID. Watson, OF Haver-
ford, will deliver an address on ''Our |
Local Problems and How to Meet |
Them" and a county child hygienic |
program will be outlined by DR.. Levy,
OF the State Department of Health, at
a public meeting to be held at the
court house at eight o'clock tonight. |
The meeting is held under the auspices
OF the Burlington County Committee |
on Arrangements for the National
Conference of Social Work.
Memorial day will be celebrated in
the usual manner by General Sbiras
Post, q. A. r., on Friday morning. |
The various cemeteries will be visited, |
the graves OF soldiers decorated, and |
salutes fred. Appropriate addresses
will be delivered at the grave of Gener-
oil Shiras. in Trinity burying ground.
Company b, State Militia, under COM
mand OF Captain w. S. Gale, will act
as escort for the G.. A. r. veterans.
The members Of the Post, of Company
b, and Sons of Veterans attended the
Methodist church, on Sunday evening,
and listened to an appropriate sermon
by the pastor, Rev. c. B. Fisher.
A very pleasant birthday surprise
was rendered Mrs. Ethel g. Dudley, at
her home in Moorestown, by the teach
ers OF the Mount Holly public school,
ON Monday night of last week. An en-
ioyable evening was spent. Those pre-
sent were the Misses Marguerite Nc
Clam, Lavinia McClain, Ida Prickett,
Josephine Hendrickson, Mary Eckert,
Iva Fisher, Sarah Keller, Frances
Worth, Susie Ecknan and Dorothy
Dill, Of Mount Holly; Jean Leeds, OF
Rancocas; Mildred Perinchief, of Bur
lington; and Mary Mannion, of Moores-
town. Mrs. Dudley is musical super
visor in the Mount Holly public school,
and in expression of appreciation for
her untiring help and interest for both
teachers and pupils in the music work
a handsome bouquet was presented to
her by the teachers.
Miss Rita Krupnick, OF Mount Holly,
was graduated from the Combs Con
servatory of Music at the thirty-fourth
annual commencement exercises held
on Tuesday evening in the Academy
of Music, Philadelphia. Certifying
her completion of the required course
of study a certificate in public schoo
music supervision was awarded Miss
Krupnick. In view of the growing
interest in music in the public schools