The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-06-19

Moorestown.
/ Miss Emma Stevenson, who has beer
| teaching in Riverside the past year, will
: be one of the Moorestown public schoo
teachers this coming year.
Hose Company No. will have their en-
tire % men on duty at the house July
Fourth, three men at time, changing
them every three hours from a. m. to s
p. M, and will also have two horses ready
harnessed to be used In case of emergency
Walter s. French was the only one tc
present bid last Tuesday evening for the
construction of cement walk around the
school house. His bid was $789 for six
foot walk, or 1854 for five foot walk.
William B. Urquhart was awarded the
contract for repairing the lavatories In
the old school for 1868. The J. S. Rogers
Company was awarded the contract to sup
ply the coal for the district for the coming
year.
There was meeting in the town hall
Thursday evening, to receive the report
of the committee appointed at the previous
meeting to bring forward suitable con-
stftution and by laws for the proposed Law
and Order Society. The following officers
were elected Walter P. Stokes, president
]. Whitall Nicholson, vice president; Albert
9. Haines, secretary, and John B. Buzby,
treasurer, all of whom are trustees, besides
whom the following other trustees were
elected: James II. Huston, William F.
Derrick, Frank S. Herr, DR.. Joseph Stokes
and Joseph T. Sullivan. The organization
is called the Law and Order Society of
Chester Township, and its objects are to
promote good order and morality and to
counterfeit the evil influences of the liquor
traffic.
A special meeting of the Township Com
mittee was held in the town hall, Wednes-
day evening, to decide the controversy
between the Moorestown Improvement AS |
ISOLATION and the Water Company regard
ing the use of water for street sprinkling. |
One officer of the water company wished |
to have the association limited to fifteen
loads per day, but the township committee
decided to allow the association to use its
permit so long as the street sprinkling was
satisfactory to them. The township pays
for seventy five plugs for fire, sani-
tary and sprinkling purposes. Using forty
loads per day would only be about three
and one half per cent. of the water COM
panys capacity, and the forty loads is a
forced maximum output of one sprinkling
cart.
Eight of Moorestown's young women
were awarded diplomas at the public
school Friday evening. The class was
composed of girls, the members receiving
higher averages than in former years.
Evelyn Townsend Supple delivered the
salutatory and Jean Elizabeth Measey the
valedictory. The other graduates who
were on the programme were Anna Marie
Feeney, Nettie Murray Edgar Clara May
Johnson. Caroline Buzby LIE Coney, Helen
Irma Cox and Anna Louise Hubbard
George E. Megargee, supervising princi-
pal, made an address to the graduates,
and Henry B. Coles president of the
board, awarded the diplomas.
The $500 reward offered by the Town
ship Committee for the arrest and convict
ion of the Atkinson murderers has been
divided by the Committee as follows Bal,
timore police, $3.50; Detective Frank |
Lore, $125; Detective John Lynch, $75
John Dugan, $50 Moorestown Police $50; |
Charles Goodenough, 500 Emma Wood |
house, 500 The breach of faith in this |
matter which was charged against the |
committee by some of the County papers |
and the Mount Holly correspondents to |
the daily papers is entirely without foun-
dation. The committee never agreed to |
settle the claims according to any arrange |
ments made by Prosecutor Atkinson, but |
expressed their willingness to await the |
division of the County reward by the |
Prosecutor, which they did, and it was
then that they struck a snag by asking the
Prosecutor to give them information con
corning services supposed to have been
rendered by certain parties to whom re
wards were to be given. This he refused
to do, except to say they did lots, every
thing" This was not satisfactory to the
Committee and then they very properly
took the matter in their own hands.