The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


Miss Emma w. Aaronson, of Hig
street, is now in charge of the schot
at the Children's Home.
Miss Lydia D. Evans has been al
pointed teacher of the first grade elias
at the William c. Cook school.
County engineer James Logan ha
his right wrist broken, ON Friday
while cranking his automobile engine
The annual banquet of the Holl
Club will be held on Thursday even
ing, February 81. at the Washington
House.
Miss Vala Woodside, of Wallaceton
Pa, has purchased Harry NJ. Abdill'
residence on Pine street, and will oc
cupy.it soon.
Robert Alice, we'll known civil
war veteran, died at the Burlington
County Hospital last week. He wa
Is years of age. =
Miss Elizabeth F. Darlington ha
been appointed an organizer of girls
clubs under the auspices of the Epis
copal Diocese of New Jersey.
Rev. Oscar Henderson, of Baltimore
who has accepted a call to the pulpit
of the Mount Holly Baptist church
will begin his duties here March II.
Mrs. Nj. A. Green wishes to thank
her many friends for their kindness
and expressions of sympathy in hel
bereavement by the death OF hel
daughter, Susie j. Cooper.
The degree team of Washing tor
Council No. 5. P. o. S. of A., -ot
Mount Holly, went to Chatsworth on
Wednesday night and initiated thirty
five candidates into the new lodge
there.
A quarterly meeting OF Burlington
Friends will be held in the meeting
house, Mount Holly, to-day beginning
st TO- 80 this morning. Isaac Wilson,
the well-known speaker OF the Society
Of Friends, will be present.
Miss Layinia McClain, of Mount
Holly, was one of the bridesmaids at
the wedding of Miss Achsah Rue
Abrams, of Vincentoyn, and Lyle
Grant Donald, of Edgewater Park,
which took place last week.
The official reports Of the weather
bureau state that Thursday was the
warmest February day since 1884. To
add to the peculiarities OF the present
winter, there was thunder shower
that same night, with vivid flashes OF
I lightning.
Louis ]. Kaser has been named by
Governor Edge as member of the
committee of fifty who will make ar
Engagements for New jerseys part in
national celebration of the 2OOth ami
versary of the landing of the pilgrim
fathers in 1920.
The funeral of John ]. Simon and
5 his daughter. Mabel NJ. Simon, both of
whom died on the same day from
pneumonia, took place on Thursday.
Mass was held in the Sacred Heart
Church and interment was made in
st. Mary's cemetery.
The teachers of the elementary de-
partment of the Mount Holly schools
gave valentine party to the pupils
composing the school guard of honor,
ON Friday afternoon, in the high school
gymnasium. Refreshments were
served and games played.
Samuel Shinn, of Burlington, died
at the Burlington County Hospital, on
Wednesday, from injuries received in |
railroad accident. While driving an |
automobile, on Tuesday, he was struck
at East Burlington, by an Atlantic
City express train and was badly in
iured internally.
Mrs. Herman Krupniek, vice presi |
dent of the Burlington County Coun
Gil of Parent-Teacher Associations,
which has been conducting cam
paign for 81, 600 with which to endow
bed for children in the Burlington
County Hospital, announces that the
desired amount has been secured.
A regular meeting of the Parent |
Teacher Association will be held |
this afternoon, February 18th, al
three o'clock. There will be an enter |
tainment for the children for halt ar
hour, after which the business meeting
will take place. Everyone is cordially
invited and earnestly urged to attend
The Potato Growers Association OF
New Jersey will hold meeting in the
Court House, Mount Holly, on Monday
February "a, at P. NJ, to discuss the
growing of second-crop seed. There
will be prominent speakers from the
State College. The meeting will be OF
interest to every potato grower in Bur
jngton county.
The following officers have been in
stalled by the Mount Holly Woodmen
of the World; Past council command
er. Herman Krupnick; council COM
mander, Leon A. Claypoole; advisory
: lieutenant, George B. Mcclellan; es-
cort, 5. Zaimis; clerk, Irving G.
Gaskill; banker, Benjamin F. Hirsch-
blond; Waterman, Allie Damico; SEN
try, David Cerlin; board of managers
William b. Crozier, H. Krupnick, H.
Comp; examining physician, DIR. Ivan
n. Keim.
Nineteen persons-fourteen men and
five women-took enough interest in
local school affairs to go to the
special meeting in the court house on
Tuesday night. and vote on the appro-
priation of $50, $50 asked from the tax
payers for the purpose of conducting
the schools of the township for another
year. Eighteen votes were cast for the
entire appropriation, while one voter
opposed any sum being given for man.
ual training. G. d. w. Slack was
chairman of the meeting, and Richard
S. Folwell and Miss Mary w. Budd
were tellers.
At the annual banquet of the Bur
lington County Game Protective
League, to be held in Mount Holly on
February 28th, action will be taken on
purchasing or leasing tract of land
suitable for raising rabbits, quail
native grouse, etc. The members real
ize that if game is to be kept plentiful
in this county it must be supplied by
citizens, as not much in this direction
is done by the State Fish and Gam,
Commission. A committee from tn,