The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Ocean County.

Ocean County.
/ Game Warden Arson ]. Rider, of TUCK
erton, was in the upper part of the count
last week looking for dogs that run in tn
woods.
Pressgrove Cranmer was struck by a.
automobile on Saturday evening Will
attempting to cross the road In Coxtown
As result he is suffering with broker
leg.
The Island house at Island Heights wa
sold by Sheriff Jeffrey on Friday in sui
brought by Edward K. Jeans of Philadel
phia to foreclose against Robert B. Magee
Mr.. Jeans was the buyer, bidding through
his attorney, Judge Samuel P. Jones o.
Camden, the sum of $500 above mort
gage Of $4,000, or $1,000 in all.
August 10. the day preceding the big
annual lake carnival at New Egypt, will
be big day for the local Council of the
Junior Order United American Mechanics.
They have just secured dispensation priv
ilege from the State Councillor, j. M.
Thompson, to change the date of the regu
lar meeting from August 10 to the 18th,
that all the visitors who desire may remain
over night and be present at the carnival
The entire Board of State Officers Of the
State Council will belpresent, ndaddress-
es made by leading Mechanics of the
State and visiting Councils. All members
of the Councils in Burlington, Ocean
and surrounding counties are invited to
be present, and the indications point to
one of the largest gatherings of lodge men
ever held In this vicinity.
On Saturday Coroner John Hagaman
was notified of the death of the infant
child Of Ethel Phillips, at the home Of its
grandparents, in BayYille. This was the
child that was abandoned by Its mother,
Ethel Phillips, in the ruins of the Penn
berton barrel factory on Mayo. Accord
ing to the statement of DR.. E. c.. Disbrow
the child died from natural causes. Coron-
er Hagaman before giving death certiti-
cate, as the child had not been treated by a
physician, took DR.. E. @. Disbrow with
him. The latter examined the body which
was wasted to skin and bones, and said
that death was due to CASTRO enteritis
The mother of the baby said 1t was sick
before she left Mount Holly Jail with it,
and that while in the Jail it was under the
prison physicians treatment. Since COM
ing home it had no doctor, but she said
she had given it medicine which she had
brought from Mount Holly, a bottle of
which she produced to show the coroner
and doctor.
With three attempts at three special
elections to secure funds needed to put
the Tuckerton school house where 1t
would pass the requirements OF the State
Department of Education, the Tuckerton
School Board finds itself shut out all
around. 1t is understood now that as
last resort a fourth meeting of the voters
will be called, and the proposition present
ed to them again. If this fails, and II
the promises of the State Department are
carried out, Tuckerton will find that its
share of the school fund from the State
will be withheld; for early last winter
when the School Board began the cam
pairn for a new school building 1t did so
under the prodding of the State officials,
who said that State moneys would not be
paid to Tuckerton unless better school ia
cilities were provided. Tuckerton has
school house that was built about 1870, OF
wood, in East Tuckerton, but it Is so
crowded that the primary children are
kept in a room In the town hall. The
latter place is said to be unfit in matter of
light and ventilation and is the strongest
argument of the State authorities In their
demand for new building. West Tuck
erton sends its grammar grade pupils to
East Tuckerton school; high school pupils
under the rules of the State the past year
have been sent to Barnegat school. Three
attempts have been made to secure new
building. At the first, the March school
meeting. proposition to issue bonds Tor
a brick building was voted down. and 1t
was voted to raise half the amount and fix
up the old building. This was the meet
ing which was ruled out by the Attorney
General as illegal because Jas. E. Otis
refused to allow women to vote The
second meeting resulted in adopting the
same plan, to raise $4,000 and rebuild the
old school house Bids were advertised
for by the Board under this decision, but
the lowest bid received was over $40, 900.
So new meeting was called. The Board
of Education had three propositions to
build and equip new brick school house
at cost not to exceed twenty thousand
dollars; second to rebuild and equip the
old school house at cost not to exceed
sixteen thousand dollars, third to pay fif-
teen hundred dollars from the current ex-
pepse fund and thus wipe out the indebt-
edness on the old school building. There
was ninety votes cast, as follows: for pro-
position No. l, 81; for proposition No. 2,
s; for proposition No, 3, o. AS the law
requires that any proposition must have
majority of the votes cast at such meetings
the third proposition was the only one
carried.