The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-03-07
Columbus

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den, were guests over Sunday of Mr.
, and Mrs. W. ]. Ridgway.
A 'Shoe Social will be held at tn,
home of Mrs. w. L. Bullock tomorrow
night, to raise funds for repairs to tn,
Baptist church.
Miss Mabel E. Harvey, teacher of the
primary department of the Columbu.
public school, has resigned her position
to take effect March II. Miss Alice Lip
pincott, of Jobstown, has been elected t.
succeed her.
Union revival services will begin in
the town hall next Sunday at 1915 a
M, and will continue for some weeks.
Services will be held every evening be
ginning at 7.30 p. M, with special song
service at 7.15.
Ei1orts are being made by our neigh
0ors at Georgetown to provide for the
expense Of services each Sunday to be
held in the K. of P. hall, and parcel
post social will be held tomorrow night
for that purpose. This will be the social
event of the season, and no one should
miss the good things that are to be pro-
vided, in connection with the iolliest
funniest and most exciting sale Of par
cells post.
For the second time within month
the p. r. r. station was broken into last
Friday night. Entrance was gained by
battering in the front door. The bur-
glars borrowed pick and crowbar
from the tool house near by and wrecked
the safe in their efforts to open it, but
did not succeed. Nothing else was dis
turbed, and the few coins that had been
left in the cash drawer were not taken.
On former occasion the thieves carried
off an Oliver typewriter which belonged
to the agent, and robbed the telephone
cash box of it's contents.
The population of Columbus was in
creased by nearly thousand last Fri
day, many of whom came to witness
the fun which was in store for the auc-
tioneer who was to sellIthe personal prop
erty of Morris Roberts, Jr., farmer liv-
ing near here, who after obtaining goods
and chattels amounting to several thou
sands of dollars, on credit, has left for
other parts. Owing to complications
arising out of the fact that several chat
tel mortgages were against the property
and in the hands of as many different
creditors, the sale was declared off until |
some future time. Meanwhile Roberts
and his wife and two children are said to /
be sojourning at Fort Myers, Fla, es-
Gaping their creditors and the rigors of a |
cold climate.
G. Craig Tallman and Clayton Han
cock found themselves working for the |
Bell telephone company on Wednesday
when their intention was quite the re-
verse, and after the result of their &C.
ton had become clear they hardly knew |
whether to laugh at the joke they had !
played on themselves or to be angry at |
having done just what suited the phone
company. When the Interstate .sys-
tenn went out of business the farmers |
mentioned sought to be connected with |
the Bell exchange at Mount Holly, AS |
the business in this neighborhood fell to |
the lot of the Farmers telephone COM
pany, they were informed they would |
have to connect with the Bordentown |
exchange and pay toll charge every |
time they wanted to talk to Mount
Holly, which is quite often. This ar
rangement did not sound good, SO Craig /
and Clayton thought it over and de- |
cided that they would cut down the |
poles along their properties if the tele-
phone company did not toe the mark |
by March l. Nothing happened on that
date, so out came the axes and pole after |
pole went down. But while contem-
plating the wreck the other side of the
matter dawned on the two men. They
had forgotten their farms were at the
end of the line, so they had only cut
out themselves without affecting any
other PERSONS service, and if they want
telephone service again they will have
to rebuild the line at their own expense.
Besides, the Bell company was glad to
have the old Interstate poles removed. !
and the Farmers company was not very
anxious to maintain line two and a |
half miles long for the rental of two |
phones at the end of it. So there YOU
are. A smart salesman with wireless |
telephone could do some business here
just now.