The Mount Holly news., 1914-12-22


town to Medford, to Robert Cover, {
the latter place.
At the Y. M. c. A. tonight shoI
i talk on Simple Dietetics for the boysIan
a calisthenics drill. Something of in
terest to every fellow.
Owing to the quantities of ice in th
Rancocas creek the steamboat Vanscive
has been withdrawn and will remain Il
L dock until the first of March.
: The farm belonging to the estate O
Samuel HI. Chambers, deceased, wa
again offered at public sale, Friday, bu
there did not appear to be any buyer
: around and nothing was done.
On Wednesday evening at the Method
ist parsonage occurred the marriage o
Lewis A. Mcfarland and Miss Clar,
Scheidecker, both of Mount Holly. Th,
ceremony was performed by Rev. Thos
J. J. Wright.
There are four cases of diphtheria il
Smithville and vicinity. The disease il
of malignant form. There has been ont
death, the four-year-old child of Johr
Kenny. who lives on the Mount Holly
! and Smithville road.
At recent quarterly conference of the
the Lumberton Methodist church it was
requested that the pastor, Rev. William
} E. Zimmerman, be returned to that
} church for another year, with an increase
of 500 in salary.
The December term of court opened
this morning. Judge Kalisch was not
present and Judge Lippincott presided.
He appointed ]. Fletcher Street, of Bev-
|erly, foreman. There was nothing to re-
lquire special change to the jury.
Since the Rancocas creek was stocked
with trout recently, local anglers are
eagerly looking up the proper methods
of going after those gamey fish, and
Samuel G. Stanton is said to be taking
a correspondence course on the subject.
A mass meeting under the auspices of
the Clover Leaf Club mems Bible class
will be held in the Presbyterian church
tonight. Rev. E. H. Emmett, the per-
sonal representative Of the great evan
gelist, Rev. William A. Sunday, viii be
present and deliver an address upon Mr..
Sunday and his work.
William N. Garrett, an old soldier, and
former resident OF Mount Holly, died
at the Soldiers Home, Kearny, NJ, on
Friday. He will be buried from the
residence of his nephew, John c. Garrett,
on Madison avenue tomorrow. Inter-
ment st. Andrews cemetery.
Joseph Beck Tyler, attorney for Robert
q. Collins, trustee in bankruptcy for the
Ottomobile Company, of Mount Holly, |
served notice that all unpaid subscrip-
tions for stock in the company must be
paid by December 25. There are a large
number of unpaid subscriptions in this
neighborhood.
Samuel Evans, a farmer residing next
to the fair ground, had a fall, on Friday,
and was seriously injured. Hewas load |
ing hay and had placed rope over the
load to hold it in place. He attempted
to climb to the top. the rope broke and
he fell to the ground, sustaining internal |
injuries of a serious nature.
Miss Van Schoonover, of Port Henry,
N. Y, who came to Mount Holly to /
visit Miss Myrtle E. Smith, a school |
teacher. was stricken with paralysis in |
the Mount Holly National bank, on
Thursday. She was removed to the |
home Of Mrs. R. P. Holeman, where she
had been stopping. Her condition is
improved.
The death of Alfred Delete leaves a
vacancy in the Office of constable. Ed |
gar Armstrong is candidate for the Of |
flee and as he came within ten votes of |
securing the nomination in September
it would appear as if he was entitled to
recognition, taking also into considera-
lion the fact that he had acceptably |
served as constable some time ago.
The question whether Joseph Couples
has right to a seat in the Board of |
Freeholders has created considerable dis
cussion and there have been many state
ments on the subject. One of them is
that Judge Horner fined Couples and
afterwards swore him in as member of
the Board. This is not correct. Couples
had been sworn in and had taken his
seat before he was called before Judge |
Horner for sentence.
Coroner Worrell has been quite busy |
during the last week. Sunday he was
called to Bridgeboro to view the body of
a child five weeks old, who had been left |
in bed while her parents went down
stairs. When they went up againt they
found the little one had been smothered |
by becoming covered with the bed cloth
ing. Yesterday the coroner went to
Columbus to view the remains of Henry |
Herbert. who diedsuddenly from apo
plexy.
Yesterday the finance committee Of
fered for sale $4,000 of bonds of Bur-
lington county. They will run for
twenty years and bear interest at the |
rate of Al percent. 1t was not much |
trouble to dispose of them, all but $1,000 |
being sold. Many OF the purchasers
had been loaning money to the county
on notes at four percent, and they |
called the notes in that they might be |
benefited the one-half percent. increase |
in the interest.
New Jersey fishing and cunning licen-
ses for 1915 are of three classes. One is |
for non-residents and aliens for fishing in |
fresh waters of the State. This cost 81. .15
with the war tax of 10 cents, making a
total of 1925. Resident hunting and
fishing licenses cost $1.15, with the war
tax of 10 cents. The other form is the
nonresident hunting and fishing license,
the fee for which is $l0.15, and war tax
Under the act of 1914 all persons fishing
in the fresh waters of the State must
have license. Women and boys under
IA years of age, are exempt. The new
law becomes effective January 1, 1915
The fact that President Wilson seems
to be in earnest about practicing
economy and will use as one avenue the
salaries of postmasters. will not in any
way reduce the number of candidates for
the positions soon to be made vacant
under the old rule stO the victor heIon orc