The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-10

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scented handsome Morris chair to Sheri
Jordan, on Wednesday, as birthda
present.
A meeting of the board of directors {
the Y. NJ. c. A. will be held at thei
rooms on Buttonwood street, this (Tues
day. evening.
Ten operations were performed at th
Burlington County Hospital last week
of which three were for appendicitis an
five for the removal of tonsils.
Elton E. Dennis, of Mount Holly, an
Miss Clara Salesman, of Philadelphia
were married at the Presbyterian mans
by Rev. Frank Wilcox ON Sunday.
The regular meeting of the w. C. T
U. will be held at the home of Mrs
Claypoole, on Brainard st. Tuesda,
afternoon, Nov. 18th, at three o'clock
Persons wishing to attend the so
party at Medford, ON November 18th, TO
the benefit of the Children's Home, will
please report to Miss Margaret Semple
131 High street, from which place ar
auto omnibus will leave at 1.15 p. m.
Charles b. Ballinger, of Lumberton,
sustained compound fracture of the
right wrist while cranking his automo
bile at the corner of King and Washing
ton streets yesterday. The injury was
attended to at the Burlington Comfy
Hospital.
The Teachers Institute opened yester-
day. The principal speaker tomorrow,
morning and afternoon, will be Miss
Field, who is highly entertaing talker.
The public is invited to be present in the
High school auditorium and listen to
Miss Field.
The new electric current now being
distributed in Mount Holly by the Pub
lie Service Electric Company is not sat
isfactory in the home or on the streets.
The old service was not first-class but it
was better than the new. Dim lights
are the rule now.
At the third quarterly conference of
the Methodist church held Saturday
night Rev. Thomas ]. J. Wright was
unanimously asked to return for another
year, subject to the approval of the
annual New Jersey Conference which
convenes next March.
The unclaimed letters that remain in
the post Office for the week ending Sat-
urday, November 6, are as follows; Sam'l
Chas. Haincs, Miss Margaret
Kelly, Mystic Co., VIM. Schaffer, Fred
/. Button, card; Max Bricke, Chas. w.
Brown, Thos. w. Elan, Master Mack
McElven.
Fire was discovered in the buildings
on the farm OF John Workman, at Eel
lowship, about half-past ten yesterday
All of the outbuildings and
their contents were destroyed. The only
live stock that was burned was seven
pigs, all there were on the farm. How
the fire started is a mystery.
The new concrete bridge at Smithville
has been completed and is open to travel.
The specifications called for bitumin-
ous top dressing on the roadway, which
has not yet been done, being now cover
ed with loose stone, SO it is not probable
,he bridge will be accepted by the Board
If Freeholders at it's meeting to-day.
Justice Slack and jury heard law
suit, on Thursday, between Samuel ].
Taylor and William Il. Hall, on dis
Dute as to the amount due Taylor for
boring a we'll. Taylor was hired by
she hour and presented a bill for $52,
which Hall claimed was excessive. The
ury reduced the bill to SAIL The case
will be appealed.
Camp 50, P. o. of A., will have in
ltiation exercises on Wednesday even
ing, November IL, and on Wednesday
November IS, will have masquer-
ade party in the Kelsey & Killie build
ng to which an admission of ten cents
will be charged. Prizes will be awarded
or the best and most comically dressed
persons.
A brick house, with frame addition in
he rear, belonging to Albert Hansell, |
md opposite his residence near Rancocas,
vas destroyed by fire of unknown origin
IN Saturday. The Mount Holly Fire
Department was requested to give assis- |
,ance at the fire, and Chief Sapp ordered
the Union Company's chemical engine
20 go to the farm. The house was be-
yond help when the firemen got there
out they prevented the flames from
reaching other buildings.
A suit brought by Abraham Saltzman
against Joseph Devlin and wife Ella, of
for damages to an auto
mobile, was heard before Justice Slack
last week. The accident occurred at the
corner of Pine and Mill streets, Mount
Holly, last May. The plaintiff claimed
that while turning the corner he was
struck by the Devlin car coming in the
opposite direction and that the latter car
was on the wrong side of the street. JUS
tice Slack gave judgment for $189.65 in
favor of Saltzman. Since the accident
Mr.. Devlin died, so the verdict is against
Mrs. Devlin. Thomas Logan Gaskill
represented the defendant; James M.
Davis appeared for the plaintiff.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of John Weber, aged IL, from
his home in Weeksville, in Bass River
township early last July, was solved on
Wednesday, when the boy was located
on the farm of Thomas Weber, near
Clark's Landing. The farmer stated
last week, footsore and hungry from a
long tramp from the Western states,
where he had been since his departure.
Nothing can be learned from him as
to the reason of his strange actions.
Weber disappeared in July after quar-
rel with dredge hand. His father,
claiming he had been murdered, had
one of the men with whom he quarreled
arrested.
John Throckmorton, ST., John Throck-
morton, Jr., and son Ralph, and Winfield
Quigley, of Mount Holly; Henry, Charles
George and Francis Bakley, Walter
Simons, Joseph Worrell and Abraham
Kimble, of the vicinity of Vincentown,
composed cunning party that went
after deer last week. On Thursday, the
last day of the season, two deer were
crippled by the party, and not being able
to find them the Mount Holly delegation