The Mount Holly news., 1914-10-06

| John Hoffman, boy IA yerrs OF age,
left his home at Birmingham, on Friday,
and has not been heard from since. He
is of light complexion, rosy checks, and
wore pair of overalls, cap and shoes
ANY information that will lead to his re-
turn may be sent to William T. Hoff-
| man, Birmingham, or Detective Parker
Mount Holly. He must not be given
employ, ,ent or harbored by any one.
On Thursday. October l, William c..
Wetherill took possession of the Joseph
G. Cowgirl property, 46 High street,
which he recently purchased. An arch
way will open communication between
the two stores, both of which will be
erill's increasing dry goods business.
The Cowgirl storeroom is being remodel
ed to meet the requirements of the new
business. The mems furnishing depart
ment of the old store will be transferred
to the new location.
Two houses on Madison Avenve were
burglarized on Friday night-John w.
Archer's and Grover Aaronson's. In
both places entrance was gained by sec
ond story windows. At Archer's $3.50
in money and gold watch and chain
were taken; at Aaronson's, gold watch
and chain and $16 in money. Detec-
tive Parker was notified early the next
morning and he at once notified the
Philadelphia police to have all pawn
shops warned of the robbery. A short
time after the notice had been received,
Walter Diggs, colored, appeared at one
of the pawn shops and wanted to dispose
OF the watches. He was arrested and
locked up in Philadelphia and will be
brought to Mount Holly for trial.
In response to the complaint entered
by the South Jersey Commuters Club,
Inspector Mayberry, of the State Public
Utility Commission, has been in this
section investigating the services of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. By chance he
arrived on the express train from Seaside
Park in the afternoon when it was al
most an hour late. He found that the
train was doing the work usually done
by two trains, including the loading of
so barrels of fish. Then the train was
side-tracked half dozen timeslReaching
Merchantville Mr.. Mayberry found that
instead of eleven trains in the afternoon
to Philadelphia, as some years ago,
there are now but FIVE. He will confer
with the officers of the railroad relative
to the complaints and endeaver to bring
about a satisfactory adjustment. Those
that cannot be adjusted will go to pub
lie hearing before the Utility Commits
sion.
Once more we are given date on
which the day current of electricity is to
be installed in Mount Holly. This time
it is the 9th of this month, which will be
next Friday. In the meantime agents
or the Public Service Company are can
vassing for subscribers, making arrange
ments for installing motors, and so on
1t would be just as well if consumers
would look very carefully into what is to
be given them before signing any con-
tracts OF agreements, and not to put
name to paper unless it is completely
filled. Those who already have motors,
fans or other electric contrivances will
do well to ascertain whether the com
pany will supply current that will
drive them or whether it will try to
compel the substitution of some other
machine. This is no suggestion that
t trickery or underhand methods may be
used, merely caution to know what is
to be required and to act accordingly.