The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
JOTTINGS.

Beverly seems to be the most enthusiasts
tic place in the county for wheelmen. The
bicycle riders of that city have fine quart
ers which have been handsomely refur-
nished and members of the fraternity are
cordially received when passing through
that place. Moorestown keeps up such
an organization, but Burlington and
Mount Holly have found it impossible to
band their riders together.
The resolution introduced at the last
meeting of the Board of Freeholders
looking to the erection of an insane asy
lum adjoining the county poor house, is
very sensible movement, and will be of
benefit to every township in the county.
The saving of $1,000 each year by the
county owning such a building is big
item to the taxpayers, and the sooner it is
erected the better. Township taxes as
general rule are not made high by local
expenditures, but it is the county tax that
sends the figures up.
Itinerant peddlerS should not be en-
couraged in any community where the
same articles they are vending can be
procured of the home merchants, and in
many cases at less price than you pay to
strangers, who have no further interest in
the welfare of the town than to get the
few dollars they carry from it. The APP
pearance of these people is really an in
Justice to our merchants, who are not on
ly compelled to pay rent for place in
which to sell the same goods, but also
contribute largely to the towns finances
in taxes, and certainly they have some
claim for the protection Of their business.
John B. Davis who has been selected
as supervisor of the proposed stone road
from Mount Holly to Burlington, will
confer favor on the travelling public at
both ends of the line if he starts the work
at Wood Lane, and little thought will
show that there is nothing selfish in the
proposition. By doing this it would not
be long before the bad strip of road in
Westampton township would be com
pleted and that would extend the finish
ed job first to the branch leading to the
Oxmead road, over which all travel to
and from Burlington could be done while
the main thoroughfore is torn up.
! In less than four weeks the voters of
Northampton township will DE called upon
| to attend the annual town meeting which
will be held in the Opera House on March
| ID, and at that time there should be a
large attendance of those who favor good
roads, for the question of improving some
of our main thorougfares is coming up.
The time has arrived when it is consider
ed expedient to take action on this ques
ton. There is probability that the state
school tax will be abolished in the future,
on account of measure before the Leg
slature presented by Senator E. G. Stokes.
If this becomes law, there will be all
the more justification to bond the town in
order to get better roads.
The recent heavy snow will undoubted
ly cause the loss of much game through
out the county. South Jerseymen have
been putting feed at various places where
quails and rabbits could get it, but in
this respect they are not ahead of our
Burlington county farmers, a num-
Der of whom have been doing the same
thing. In this way the birds are enabled
to subsist until conditions will allow them
to take care of themselves During the
heavy storm of the early winter some
considerable farmers scraped snow from
the ground, upon which they scattered
grain. This is the proper thing to do.
The sweet song of the Bob White" in
the spring repays for all the trouble to
keep them alive.
| A gunner at Swedesboro has been fgur-
ing to ascertain what his expenses have
been during the past season in the matter
of ammunition, wear and tear of cloth
| ing and loss of work, and he computes
that each rabbit he shot cost him S. In
view of this fact it is safe to say that this
hunter couldn't hit flock of barns From
a financial point of view it would pay
this gentleman to purchase his rabbits in
the future, But most gunners do not fig
ure that way. With many people the de-
| lightful experience of days outing in
the country, tramping over hills and dales
in quest of game, affords an enchanting
excitement that enables a sport to shut
his eyes to the expense attending the trip,
as the pleasure accompanying the same
l IL, Ill 1ic1N,,
ments.
When the war of the rebellion ceased
the survivors soon banded together and
organized the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. 1t has now been "a years since the
civil strife ended, and it will not be so
very long when the members of this or
der will have become extinct by death.
And this suggests the propriety of anoth-
er Grand Army being organized among
the survivors of the war with Spain.
There are many persons who enlisted last
year who did not participate in active
service, but this was no fault of their
own. They gave themselves as a sacri
flee. and it was only by the fortunes of
war that they came home unhurt. These
men would undoubtedly have displayed
as much bravery in the face Of the enc
my as did their comrades who were in
battle, and they should receive all honor
and praise.
The township committee during the
past fiscal year have been alert to the du-
ties required of them, and the members
have done remarkably well with the APP
preparations which they have had at their
command. During the coming year there
is one change they should make, which
experience seems to dictate, and that is in
the assignment of the police force in doing
day duty OF course the officers are sub
iect to the commands of the committee,
and naturally they have some delicacy in
making suggestions to wiser heads than
their own, so we will do it for them, as
long as the matter is one of unanimity
among the officers. Heretofore they have
alternated in doing two weeks day duty,
and they claim that the period of change
from day to night duty occurs at too fire.
quent intervals for their good, and as
result they are so broken up as to practi-
cally render them unfit for duty part of
, the time. Any one of the officers would