The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-01-28
TUESDAY, JANUARY %, 1919
LOCAL NEWS.

Walter Davis, of Pointville, has pur-
chased Albert N. Dobbins farm near
Lewistown.
DR.. George E. Raiguel will deliver
his next lecture in the court house to-
morrow evening.
Remember the Burlington County
Children's Home on Thursday, the an
nual donation day of that worthy in :
stitution.
DIR. l. N. Keim and Samuel A. At
kinson have been elected members of
the Mount Holly Business Mems As
ISOLATION.
Mrs. Mary Evans has sold her bum
) galow on lower Cherry street to farm
demonstrators Harry b. Holcombe,
who will occupy it.
The infant son that arrived in the
family of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred L. Krayer,
did not stay with his parents long, dy-
ing in one week and day after his
birth.
The adjourned hearing on the appli-
cation Of the Mount Holly Water Com
pany for permission to increase rates
is being heard at Trenton today before
the Public Utility Commission.
The next regular meeting of the
w. c. T. U. will be held at the home
Of Mrs. Claypoole, Brainard street,
next Tuesday afternoon. at three
o'clock. A full attendance is requested.
The Holly Club will give its minstrel
entertainment in Grange hall at Col
umbus, next Tuesday evening, Febru-
airy A. This is the performance that
was postponed because of the influenza
quarantine at Columbus early this
month. when the show was scheduled
TO be given.
The Northampton township COM
mittee has designated Thursday even
ing as the time when taxpayers may
present objections to the proposed bud
get for 1919. The committee will meet
at eight o'clock in its room at No. A
White street. AS announced in THE
News last week, the budget carries an
increase over last year of $3.50.
Major General Hugh l.. Scott, COM
mandant of Camp Dix, has purchased
the John b. Reed 100-acre farm, and
also the Hodge farm adjoining, MAX
ing in all about 22S acres. These farms
are located near Princeton, and it is
the Generals intention to convert
them into dairy and fruit farms and to
live the life of a retired gentleman
farmer.
Among the individual prize winners
ut the recent corn show at Trenton,
when Burlington county took first
prize for best general exhibits, were
the following: YellowDent, I'd, George
T. Reid, Mount Holly; Sd. George P.
Lippincott, Marlton. White Dent, LIST,
George Reid. White Cap Yellow Dent,
I'd, Edward Rogers, Medford Yellow
Dent, LIST, Walter b. Winner, Marlton.
Many people are under the impress
sion that the daylight saving law was
war measure and will not be in effect |
this year. Such is not the case. The |
law is United States statute, and to
become imperative it would have to be |
repealed by Congress. Daylight saw
ing will go into effect at o'clock Sun
day morning, March 80, when clocks
will be set ahead one hour. They will |
be turned back an hour at a. M
Sunday, October 26.
At the request of the Cooperative
Growers Association a Farmers In
stitute will be held in Masonic Hall, |
Beverly, on February II. at p. m.
An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the afternoon. Speakers
who are expert in their lines will lee
ture on peach and apple growing and
diseases of truck crops. Entertainment
for the evening will consist Of cleo
ton and musical treat. All fruit and |
truck growers, and their families are
invited to attend.
The committee Of the Business Mems
Association, recently appointed to lay
plans for suitable memorial to the
towns soldiers and sailors, organized |
on Wednesday by electing V. Claude |
Palmer, chairman; Herbert s. Killie, |
secretary, and William C. Wetherill, |
treasurer. The other members of the |
committee are Ben Frazier, Morris K.
Perinchief, Walter l. Dill, John ID. |
Johnson, Jr., and Charles La Tour. |
The committee will present a report at |
the annual banquet of the association |
tonight.
At the conference of South jersey
principals and supervisors, held at At
lantic City on Monday and Tuesday
of last week, Assistant Commissioner
Scott, in his address, spoke very high
ly OF some features of the Mount Holly
schools, and advised their general
adoption. Among the points selected
for praise were the installation of the
pupil guard of honor system as an aid
to discipline, the method of teaching
reading in the elementary grades, and
the supervised playground, where the
teachers join in the games and take an
active part in the children's sports.
Morris Mendelbaum. a Trenton
jitney driver, was brutality assaulted
and left unconscious along the road by
three soldiers on Wednesday. He was
taking the men from Camp Dix to
Trenton in his Hudson car. When
near Bordentown the soldiers ordered
him to stop and get out of the jitney.
He refused, and then they beat him
until he became unconscious. They
placed him at the roadside and went
OF with the car. The driver, after
regaining consciousness, went to a
nearby farm house and telcphoned to
the Trenton police. Neither the
soldiers nor the car have been located.
On Friday evening the Parent
Teacher Association will give an enter
tainment in the high school auditor
ium for the benefit of the moving pic
ture machine fund. Among the at.
fractions offered will be a short play,
folk dances, choruses, readings, and
music by the orchestra. Admission
Is cents. This machine is to be placed
in the school in the near future and it
is expected it will prove large asset to