The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-09-29
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Connecting us with the outside world,
and particularly enabling us to keep tab
on our neighbors, the Farmers Telephone
Company's line plays an important part
The fact that all the bells on our single
line ring with every call, is a constant
temptation to sit in and soak up every
thing going through, and even ''unbe-
knowst" contribute something of interest
occasionally to peeve the interested
parties. We're nice, peaceable folk in
Chatsworth, face to face. But like every
one else we lay aside our manners when
we get ON the wires and push and elbow
and generally rough house with our
rubber ears good DEAL Something
like the following is of constant occur
renee: You ring up and take down the
receiver and prepare to smile, and are
greeted in cold fashion with the follow
you know any better than to ring in?'
and you come right back with, "Well
you big hog, I've waited ten minutes
and I'll ring all want" and then the
party of the second part says something
that bites little semicircnlar spot out of
the edge of your ear, whilst the whole
township with singular obtuseness about
the etiquette of listening, and with their
ears set like graphophone horns, drink
ing in all details, are nearly suffocated
trying to control their disabilities. How
about the business needs of the phone?
you inquire; well, if you were in a hurry
and had to wait half an hour while two
women are planning an ice cream social,
you would eliminate the phone as a de-
pendable factor in your business, and
very few establishments pay for one here,
though some are induced to admit paw
station on account of the rake off on the
messages sent. An applicant here de-
string to become subscriber is informed
that he must supply the poles and the
wire and hire the company's men to
erect the poles and place the wire, and
when the preliminaries are financed the
company will admit YOU to the party
wire on payment of $24.00 annually
Figure out how much your entrance into
telephone circles has cost the company,
and what dividend they are drawing on
your-nOt their-inyestment, and what
taxes they pay for the franchise they en-
joy, and quit kicking about Wall street
film fans, and wake up to some of the
corporations doing business at your
doorsteps. Are those public corporations
exploiting the public, or is the public be-
ing benefited by the utilization of public
utilities?
A meeting to organize an association
for the purpose of establishing circulat-
ing free library, and to encourage the
promotion of public entertainments,
such as lectures, concerts, theatrical per
formances, &C., by our local amateur
talent, was held last week. The follow.
ing gentlemen, to meet preparatory or
ganization expenses, contributed S. each
George Bozarth, DIR. Curran, Vic Ritzen
dollar, DIR. Wollxin and Walter Sloan
| The next issue of THE News will report
names of the various committees having
the matter in charge.
James P. Briers, of Woodmansie, re
quests the courtesy of THE NEWS to pro
test against the annoyances he has beer
subjected to each week by being regularly
referred to as physician, clergyman OF
other public parsonage, which he decries
as he has no desire to sail under fals'
colors, as he is simply clerk employed
lat Woodmansie by Philadelphia con
Germ.
A baseball game between the New
Egypt Sluggers and our local talent wa
pulled off here last Saturday to the dis
comfiture of our players who wer
amongst the ''also rans", Failure of on
bows TO win was due to the absence @
some of our best players, who are EN-
ployed gathering in the cranberry crop
and their places were taken by member
of the junior team, differing in that re