The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16

: street, spent Sunday with relatives
Florence.
j A delegation from Washington Cam
No. II, P. o. S. of A., paid visit to tt
Camp at Rancocas last night.
There will be sale of personal prope
! ty on the Chambers farm, Chambel
corner, Thursday, December 16.
| Miss Myrtle o. Buzby, postmistress 6
Chatsworth, died at her home theI
Sunday evening, after weeks Hines
from diphtheria.
While George B. Weast was at Lun
berton on Saturday, the tongue of
wagon fell on one of his feet, breakin
two small bones in that member.
| Arthur N. Woertz and Miss Ethel /
Leonard, both of Mount Holly, wer
married ON Wednesday, November IL
by Rev. James H. Terry, pastor of tn
First Baptist church.
Jacob Claypoole was operated on a
Cooper hospital, Camden, on Saturda,
morning. 1t will take several
days to determine if the operation will
bring the desired results.
A. Lincoln Jones and family, hav,
moved to Petersburg, Virginia, wher'
the former has accepted position as as
sistant to the yardmaster of the railroad
there. He left Mount Holly this morn
ing. Mrs. Jones will remain here for 9
few days and will join her husband
sometime next week.
The union Thanksgiving service of the
Baptist, Methodist. and Presbyterian
churches, will be held in the Presbyter-
ian church on Thanksgiving day at
1870 a. m. Rev. James H. Terry, pas
tor of the First Baptist church, will
preach the sermon, the theme being:
1.-THE Basis for Continual Thanksgiv-
ing"
Coroner Samuel X. Gaskill had his
first case yesterday morning when he
was called to view the body of Benjamin
Fl. Moore, farmer who lived between
Marlton and Evesboro. He had gone to
the field to work and dropped dead.
Heart disease was the cause of death,
and the coroner gave certificate in ac-
cordance with that fact. Mr.. Moore was
81 years of age.
Capt. Amos Birdsall, Jr., of Toms
River and Melrose, Pa, last week sold
the .fourmast schooner Agnes Man
ming. The new owners at once start
ed to load her with oil for France.
The Manning is about rs years of age,
and cost about $4,000 to build. 1t is
rumored that she brought $4,000, and
was probably paid for out of the
charter for this voyage to France.
One of the most important decision
of the session OF the Court of Errors and
Appeals, yesterday, was that upholding
the acts of 1900 and 1908, empowering
the State Sewerage Commission and the
State Board of Health to force the towns
and cities along the Delaware to cease
polluting the stream. The action was
that brought by the State Board Of
Health against the town of Phillipsburg
Mrs. Beulah Clayton Jefferys died
Sunday morning at the home of her son
William H. Jefferys, Camden, of genera
debility. She was in her 83rd year. Fol
the last two months she had been con
fined to her bed and was unconscious fol
several days prior to passing peacefully
away, surrounded by her children. She
was the widow of Rev. William H
Jefferys, at one time pastor of the Mount
Holly M. E. church.
A party of gunners, composed of John
Throckmorton, ST., Henry Powell an6
Nathan Miller, of Mount Holly, joined
another party at Buddtown and wen
out after rabbits on Wednesday, the frs
of the season. They succeeded in cap
turing 25 rabbits and 10 quail. Throck
morton, the oldest member of the party
being in his seventy-ifth year, ant
probably the oldest gunner in Burling
ton county, was high man in shooting
killing 5 rabbits and quail, whichSis {
fair record for man of his age.
The work of building new roads in
Mount Holly has reached just the posi-
ton that was predicted. Cold weather
is coming on and the work is not nearly
completed. The laying of sewer pipe
on Water street has been responsible fol
much of this delay. Albert G. Mayer
who has been supervising the work. has
done all in his power to hurry it alone
and has been on the job all the time
So busy was he that he did not take the
time to work for his reelection, but the
people saw to it that he was not neglected
and his plurality of AIS showed that the
taxpayers were well content with his adj
ministration.
The South Jersey Commuters Asso
citation has sent broadcast an appeal fol
membership that is expected to make
the organization a power in the fight fol
lower fares and better railroad service
1t is intended to make the membership
so large that members of the Legislature
will give heed to it's requests. Every
county is to be organized with the view
of permanent body that will continue
after the present fight against highel
fares is ended. The next Legislature
will be asked to enact laws to strengthen
the powers of the Public Utility Com
mission. Persons desiring to becom,
members are asked to send their names
to Wadsworth Crosse, Pitman, and tn,
fee has been fixed at 81.
Accurate information regarding Bur
lington county's crop conditions of thu
recent summer, collected without cos
to the public, will be available for tn
State Board of Agriculture within a few
days as result of thorough canvas
completed by pupils in rural public
schools under direction of County Super
intendent Herman A. Stees. The dat;
will be the most complete available re
garding any agricultural county in thu
east Statewide adoption of the plan is
expected as result of the success. of tn
scheme. Such a system, well organized
it is pointed out, would permit State O
Federal agricultural authorities to pre-
cure quick and definite information
from any section. merely by fling tn
proper question blanks with the schoc
authorities.
| A mysterious blaze started Sunda
morning at the farm of w. L. Bell, whic
is located near Burlington, and resulte
| in DAMAGE of IS. 600. At6.45 one of tn