The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-10

March 26. 1t will be show worth hear
= ing and seeing. Seats will be on salt
l. March 49,
William Appleby, for several year.
blacksmith at Columbus, committed
y suicide last week by sending bulle
from revolver into his brain. He was
e found dead in bed. He was sick ano
n respondent and thought he was losing
b his mind. He was SO years of age
Coroner Worrell issued the burial certifi-
a cate.
}. Railway telegraphers, at a meeting
i held at Maple Shade, on Sunday, ap'
pointed legislative committee to urge
: the passage of a bill, introduced by
Senator Ackley, of Cumberland, grant
' ing two days off duty each month to
telegraph and telephone operators, or
tower men engaged in the transmission
, of train orders.
: Herbert G.. Harris, of Pemberton, a
former clerk at the local post Office, who
recently passed the civil service examin-
alton for railway mail clerk, and has
been on the night shift at Broad street
station, Philadelphia, and at Atlantic
City for some weeks, has been notified
that he will be permanently located in
New York city at the Grand Central
station.
The combined talents of both the
Junior and Senior groups of the Mount
Holly Y. NJ. c. A. will be demonstrated
in the form of minstrel show in the
near future. The show is under the
direction of Frank Hendrickson, Richard
Garon, Charles Merritt and William
Mcdonald. Both groups are meeting
regularly for their usual Bible study and
entertainment weekly
In the High school auditorium next
Tuesday evening, Miss Marion Wilson
will give character reading. Miss Wilson
is excellent in this line and should be
greeted by a large audience. The pro-
ceeds are to aid the pupils of the high
school in securing equipment that will
add to their enjoyment but which are
not such that they feel like asking the
Board of Education to purchase.
Since the revocation of the two retail
hotel licenses at Moorestown, it is re-
ported that Coles hotel has refused to
sell under it's wholesale license also, while
the West End hotel has continued the
wholesale part of the business. There is
| said to be an agitation on foot among
| the temperance people to enter remon-
STRANGE against the renewal of the West
End wholesale license if an attempt is
made to renew it at the next term of
court. The license expires April 9th.
At meeting of Mount Holly Lodge
of Elks, on Thursday night, the follow
| ing officers were elected for the ensuing
lodge year: Exalted ruler, DIR. Raymond
S. Clarke; leading knight, William b.
Pearson; loyal knight, Elwood H. Stokes;
lecturing knight, Alfred j. Mullen; Sec
rotary, Harry L. Walters; treasurer,
| Charles c. Cowperthwait; tyler, Samuel
Fryer; trustee, Edward ID. Stokes; repre-
sentative to grand lodge, Samuel C
Fenimore; alternate representative, Will
liam S. Rendell; delegates to state asso-
ciation DR.. R. S. Clarke, w. S. Rendell,
H. l.. Walters.
Special attention is called to the meet
ing in the interest of the organization
and work of the adult Bible class, which
is to occur at the First Baptist church
Sunday school room on Thursday even
ing at 7.45. An attractive program is
being arranged. The speakers will be
f. &. Hoyler, member of the Philadel-
phia. county committee, and John A.
Rogers, state superintendent of adult
class work. These men are both able
opponents of this phase of church activ-
ity, and their presence at this time
should attract large attendance. All
who are interested are cordially invited
to be present and do what they can to
bring others.
| The annual meeting of the Delaware
River League of base ball clubs was held
at Palmyra on Friday night, all teams
represented except Camden. Officers
elected were: President, Albert S. Wells,
of Merchantville; vice president, William
H. Absalom, of Florence; secretary to be
selected later; treasurer, Theobold A.
Schneider, of Riverside. Palmyra and
Camden withdrew from the league An
application for admittance from the
American Bridge club,iof Trenton, was
accepted An effort will be made to get
sixth club, preferably Burlington, to
fill the other vacancy. The clubs now
in the league are Florence, Roebling,
Morrisville, Riverside and American
Bridge.
Briefs were submitted to the Court of
Errors and Appeals, on Wednesday, in
the suit for divorce brought by Mrs.
Irma Leigh Earl against her husband,
Binney Woodward Earl, of Edgewater
/ Park. The suit followed runaway
marriage, the bride at the time being
only 10 years old. The couple lived to-
gether for about year, and in October,
1911, the wife returned to the home of
her mother. She later charged her hus-
band with being unfaithful, and he filed
a cross-petition, charging his wife with
violating her marriage VOWS. He named
1 Z,
as the correspondent. Mrs. Earl had the
case decided in her favor by the Court of
Chancery, and she obtained a divorce.
Earl took the appeal to the court, which
now has it up for decision.
Arrangements are being made for an
other course of lectures and entertain
ments for next winter by the Methodist
: Episcopal church. Rev. L. j. j. Wright
p secured the endorsement of the official
board at the meeting held on Thursday
night. A larger and more expensive
course will be secured; the prospects now
a are that there will be six attractions,
q composed of two lectures by men of the
best ability, and four entertainments by
the best companies that can be secured.
i 1t is probable that the course tickets for
4 next winter will be $780, The course
: Just closed last Tuesday night, when j.
II Lorenzo Zwickey gave high class art
: entertainment, was grand success in
e every way, the entertainments and
4 and lectures being of a high standard
and very instructive as well as amusing
i The numbers being selected for mex
d winters course will surpass the one JUS
re closed.
s During a recent discussion of the liquo
p, question, especially the confirmed in
I temperate clause of the Bishops act
=, which was SO prominent in the recen
10 Moorestown license cases, one of thoS
10 present advanced a theory which h
I'd claimed would solve the problem, afford
IT ing protection to both the hotelkeepe
"a and the community. Pressed for detail
~ he said that while retaining the nrpSpD