The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-30
IRIS. Howard e. Alcott is i'll at her

! Mrs. Howard E. Alcott is i'll at he
home on Broad street.
! Edgar G. Murphy will go to the electri
(, chair next week for the murder of Her
man Fisher.
i The Ladies' Aid of the G. A. r. viii
celebrate their first anniversary OF
Tuesday evening, December IA.
1t costs you nothing to join the Christ
mas club of the Farmers Trust Com
pany for 1916. 1t starts December n
1916. Simply ask to be enrolled as 8
member, and make the first weeks
payment or more. Two weeks before
Christmas your check will be ready fol
you. The officials will be pleased to
have you call for information concern.
ing the different classes.
George s. Phillips, who lives near
| Arney's Mount, produced new variety
Of corn this season and he was at loss
to give it a proper name, so he offered a
prize of SIS to the boy or girl who would
select the name that would seem to fit.
Miss Anna Shreve, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas G. Shreve, of Pemberton,
was the lucky girl. She named the
variety "Phil-a-bin," and that struck
the right spot.
There came near being mix-up on
High street Saturday afternoon. A
horse was hitched to post and an auto
mobile was drawn up to the sidewalk,
facing the horse. Either the driver of
the auto did not take his power off or
else his brakes were not firmly set as the
machine started towards the horse and il
some gentlemen who were standing near
had not jumped to the rescue there
would have been bad accident. The
owner OF the horse however, would have
had hard time to recover damages as
he had his animal facing contrary to
the way the law prescribes, while the
auto was entirely right.
A fire occurred at Roebling shortly
after midnight Thanksgiving night and
eight combined stores and dwellings,
with their contents, were destroyed and
125 people were thrown out of homes.
The fire started in the dwelling occupied
by Frank Guilas, who, with his family,
was spending Thanksgiving at Trenton,
and the fire gained much Roadway before
it was discovered. When it was extin-
guished the old Knickerbocker Row,
owned by the Knickerbocker Ice Com
pany, together with two houses owned
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
were utStfOycus dllu ~ Was Ontl Wy Lhi0
work that the railroad station was saved.
The loss is estimated at $50, 900 and the
fire is supposed to have been of incendi-
airy origin. Saturday night passenger
waiting at. the railroad station for late
train saw two men running from the
barns and shacks that were saved on
Friday morning. Soon after this flames
were seen to issue from the buildings,
but the fire was soon put out.
Court.
When court convened on Tuesday
Judge Carrow rendered decision on the
point put up to him the previous even
ing. It was that there had not been
shown in the case of Curran
against the Pine Crest Sanitarium that
the plaintiff had done work for which he
should be compensated and that he
acted entirely of his own volition, no
having eyer been signed giving
him authority to proceed. The court
directed the jury to render verdict ac-
cordingly.
This settled all matters that Judge
Carrow will hear until the 9th of De-
cember, when he will come back to take
up some cases that will then be pre-
sented.
Thursday being holiday the session
Of court usually held on that day was
omitted, but on Friday Judge Lippin-
colt was present.
James T. Matthews pleaded guilty to
J tealing muff and a fur neckpiece and
be received the usual sentence-three
years under the probation officer, alb
stain from the use OF liquor for one year,
and pay the costs within six months.
William J. Burns was present to
answer the charge of attempted high
way robbery. The main trouble with
William was that he picked out the
wrong man to practice on. He selected
/ special officer in Palmyra and instead
of holding the latter up he was captured
BY the officer. The Judge sent William
back to Jail in order that his past record
might be looked into.
John Gauntt and Lousia Becker. who
we're acquitted by jury at the present
term, were brought into court on a
charge as serious as that of which they
were found not guilty, but the prose-
cutor said he could not secure the evil
dence he desired, SO he dropped the case
and the couple were allowed to go.