The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-01
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY. JULY 1, 1919
LOCAL NEWS.

Office.
Mrs. Ruth Shemeley has rented
house belonging to Walter t. Stewart
on Brainard street.
Mrs. Jesse McClain, of Marlton, i:
receiving treatment for assesses a
the Burlington County Hospital.
George d. Worrell has rented his
cottage at Seaside Park to Captain
Hall, who has been living in Mount
Holly with his family.
b. Everett zelley has accepted pc,
sition with the Market street National
Bank, Philadelphia, and entered upon
his duties yesterday.
Miss Helen C. Pumyea, of Mount
Holly, arrived home last week after
doing overseas Y. M. c. A. canteen
service for the last six months.
A fireproof building is being erected
at Camp Dix in which to store copies
of the records of the thousands of ser
vice men who are discharged there.
The remains CT Howard S. Duff, OF
Collingswood, were inferred in the
Mount Holly cemetery on Wednesday.
Mr.. Duff at one time lived at Medford.
Herman Paskow, formerly with the
Summerdale dye works, Philadelphia,
is now the manager of the dye plant
that is being established by the Anko.
kas mills on King street.
The summer schedule of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company went into
effect on Sunday and there are num-
Der of changes. The timetable is print
ed in full in another column.
Che annual reunion and grand lodge
convention, B. P. o. Elks, will be held
at Atlantic City every day next week.
The usual parade, which this year is to
be Of a patriotic nature, will take
place on Thursday, July 10.
DIR. C. B. Sitgreaves, of Pemberton,
has resigned as superintendent and
medical director of the county tuber-
culosis sanitarium at New Lisbon. The
board of freeholders will probably Sc
lect his successor at its meeting tomor.
row.
In order that the children may have
a good ending of perfect day on the
Fourth of July, manager Hulse, of the
opera house, will begin his evening
performance at six o'clock, and will
admit all children of twelve years and
under free of charge.
The post office at Hainesport has been
discontinued, owing to the inability of
the government to secure postmaster
for $500 year. Mail for that town
will now be handled from the Mount
Holly office, and will go into the gen.
eral delivery box here.
Reuben Shinn has been discharged
from the army after serving several
months overseas. John w. Saturday,
a yeoman, and s. Albert Sleeper, who
has been attached to the Naval Re-
serves as a musician, have also been
mustered out. Ryland E. Lippincott
is home, having been discharged on
Saturday.
At recent meeting of the Woman's
Burlington County Historical Society,
held in the meeting house at Westfeld
interesting papers were read by Mrs.
Murray Boyer and Heulings Lippin-
colt, giving the history of the build
ing Miss Bertha Robinson, of River.
ton, read an article descriptive of the
modes OF travel in colonial days.
The summer excursions on the Penn
sylvania railroad to Long Branch and
points on the shore which have been
advertised in THE NEWS the last
month, have beer Cancelled. The rea-
son for disconti-ling these popular
trains is that the movement of troops
and the great demand for cars owing
to increased train service on the sea-
shore roads, makes it impossible to
run the excursions.
Preparations are being made to give
banquet to all the service men of
Mount Holly some time during
August, by which time it is expected
practically all of them will have been
discharged from the army or navy.
The affair, under the direction of the
Business Mems Association, will be
held in the fine, large factory building,
30 200 feet in size, which is being
erected on King street by the Keesey
Hosiery Company.
The community singing, which was
so popular last year, is to be resumed,
and the first will be tomorrow evening,
at eight o'clock, in the court house
yard. If it rains the singing will be
done in the court house. Come out
and bring your singing voices with
you. School children are asked to go
to the court house at seven o'clock to
meet Mrs. Ethel Dudley and practice
the welcome home songs which they
will use to greet the returned soldiers.
]. g. Lipman, dean and director of
the New Jersey agricultural college
and experiment stations, one of the
leading fertilizer authorities in the
world, sailed for France yesterday on
the United States transport Agamem-
non to study fertilizer problems and
gather data throughout the leading
countries of Europe. Doctor Lipman
will spend ten week visiting expert
ment stations and departments of
agriculture in England, France, Italy,
Holland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark
and Sweden, returning in the fall to
his duties in the state college and ex-
pertinent stations.
An ENJOYABLE welcome home celebra-
ton for the thirty-four service men of
the Sacred Heart parish, took place on
Wednesday night. The boys were
first entertained at banquet given at
the Arcade hotel by Rev. P. ]. Kelly.
The guests then went to st. Mary's
Hall, where the Knights of Columbus
had prepared a fine program. Ad-
dresses were made by Father Kelly,
and by Raymond Shannon and James
McIlvain, two of the boys, who told
some of their wartime experiences
Philadelphia talent presented a fine
vaudeville program, and the evening
closed with dancing. Three boys from
the parish lost their lives in the war
A. Braham, Stacy Pine and William
Caldwell.
Following long legal battle, Mrs.
Helen Antrim, widow of Walter An
trim, who was trainmaster of the West
Jersey and Seashore Railroad, has won
her fight against the Telegraphers'
Benevolent Association to recover $500
insurance for the death of her husband.
The insurance was denied on the
ground that the husband had failed 70
pay an assessment of 81. While An
trim was critically ill in December,
1916, the association sent notice of the
assessment and the following morning
the wife sent the money by mail and
her husband died in the afternoon.
The association claimed the widow was
not entitled to the benefit because the
money was not received in time, al
though Antrim was one of the first
members of the association.
The prize of $40 in gold offered by James
Mercer Davis for the best graduation essay
read at any Burlington county high school
commencement exc cises in 1919, has been