The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-09
Mrs. Joseph B. EIbertson is visiting

fine street, are receiving cOHgIatuiaeAol
az upon the birth of O. son, on Saturday
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Che
a. ter A. Appleton, of Union street, at IL
g. Hahnemann hospital, Philadelphia, 0
October %.
t. The increasing clothing business
a Schuyler & Rogers has made necessar
the employment of Pierre ID. Stanto
le as an additional clerk.
l, The Queen Esther Circle of the N
E. church will hold bazaar in tn
10 Masonic Temple, Saturday afternoon
If land evening OF November q.
The forty-second annual meeting o
i the New Jersey State Horticultural So
q cietv will be held at Freehold on Novem
a Der 80, and December and 2.
John McGrath, OF Camden, has &C
cepted position on the local Prudential
Insurance Company's staff, aud has
/ moved to Mount Holly with his family
All Saints Day services were held in
the Dobbins memorial chapel, out Pine
street, yesterday, in accordance with the
annual custom of st. Andrews church.
The brick stack at the old electric
light station on Water street has been
condemned by building inspector Sapp,
and the Public Service Corporation will
demolish it in short time
Hillman Ellis of Indian Mills, while
taking care of his team on Saturday
morning, was thrown under the feet Of
one OF his mules and seriously hurt, one
ankle and rib being broken and he was
badly cut about the head and face.
Edward Hulse, manager of the Mount
Holly theatre, is installing heating
plant. The apparatus necessary for this
arrangement arrived on Friday and Mr..
Hulse hopes to have the entire system
working before the end of the present
week.
George Nixon, who had his foot mashed
while working as brakeman at New
Egypt for the Union Transportation Co.
on December 2. 1914, has brought suit
under the employers liability act, before
Judge Carmichael, for the loss Of his
foot. which was afterward amputated.
The popularity of canoeing on the
upper creek has not abated with the
coming of cool weather. On Sunday
Edward Hack hired fourteen canoes to
parties from Philadelphia, Germantown,
and other places. Charles Cause, of
Llanerch, Pa, with party of boys,
spent several days last week camping
near Smithville.
A farmers institute will be held in
grange hall, Marlton. on November Is.
In the morning prizes will be awarded in
the boys corn growing contest, and the
Marlton corn growing contest will be
judged. The rest of the day will be de-
voted to speaking. The new farm demon
strator. George T. Reid will conduct the
institute.
The work of improving the auditorium
of the Methodist church began yester-
day, when E. w. Esham started the
erection of the scaffold. On Thursday
the Penn Metal Ceiling Co. will begin
the placing of metal ceiling ten feet
from the present one. 1t is expected
that it will take about four weeks to
complete the Improvements.
The Court of Chancery has granted an
absolute divorce to William j. Collins,
of Riverside. from his wife. Mary E.
C,Il;x.r -, tho exro,xn<f~ of <1oear+sox.
Robert Peacock, of Mount Holly, was
Mr.. Collins attorney. The court has
also granted this week decree nisi of
divorce to Sarah McHenry, of Bridge
boro, from her husband, Mathew Nc
Henry, formerly of Delanco, on the
same ground as the Collins case. Law
yer Peacock was Mrs. McHenry's attor-
ney.
Articles alleged to have been stolen by
Lewis Farmer. aged 35 years. colored,
who is locked up in Moorestown, were
recovered in the negro's home by detec-
tives Moffett and Murray. The plumber
belonged to the Pennsylvania Railroad
and Lewis Roberts, contractor Of
Moorestown. From the railroad COM
pany tools to the value of $50 were taken
and building material and leadpipe were
stolen from Contractor Roberts. Through
a tip given Chief Broadwater, of Moores-
town, Farmer was arrested on Monday
OF last week.
The automobile license OF William
Grover, who has been driving jitney
in Mount Holly, was revoked by Com
missioner Dill. ON Wednesday, at a
hearing in Trenton. The complaint was
made by V. Claude Palmer, who wit
messed some of Growers reckless driving
on Ridgway street on October %. Be
fore the commissioner, Grover said he
had been driving car since June of last
year, but could not explain how his Ii
cense came to be dated in September.
he had driven three months
without a license.
Now that election is over it is time tol
consider the matter of securing your
tickets for the Lyceum entertainment
course which will begin in the Methodist
church on Thursday of next week. The
attraction at that time will be the Royal
Male Quartette, who will give vocal and
instrumental recitals. enriched with de-
lightful humor, in double concert pro-
gram. Single admission, 35c. Tickets
for the course of five big attractions,
$l.00. The attractions in this years
course are in class by themselves and
will be the best that have been seen in
Mount Holly for number of years.
The State Chiropractic Society OF New
Jersey held its monthly meeting at the
home OF DIR. Whitman, in Mount Holly,
on Sunday. DIR. Whitman gave talk on
the eyes from chiropractie standpoint,
in which many new and interesting
points were brought out. Those present
were: Doctors d. r. Bryan, William U.
Whitman, E. ]. ROLAND, Newark; Gar
rett C. Payne, Mrs. Garrett c. Payne,
Robert E. Assay, Mrs. Robert E. Assay,
and DIR. Ogden. of Camden; George b.
Sellen, of Woodbury. and Glassboro;
Charles E. Marchand, of Trenton; and
j. F. Bryan. of New York.
| A very successful meeting of the
Junior Chautauqua Winter Club was
held in the High school auditorium on
the 10Th ult., being conducted by Miss
Helen Mari, of Swarthmore, Pa. The