The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-02-11
Ocean County.


As the result Of the announcement OF
Director Otis Of the Board Of Freeholders
that he would refuse to approve the bill
of the State Law and Order League for
detective work In this county, the county
will have another law suit on its hands.
1t il stated on good authority that the
Law and Order League viii bring suit for
s210.
County Superintendent Charles A. Nor
ris Is arranging for q meeting OF the
school boards of the county in the parlor
of the Ocean House, Toms River, on
Wednesday, February 10. at 10 a. m. 1t
is expected that Prof. Sensor, of the State
Department of Education, will be present
and address the meeting. Under the rules
of the State Board of Education these
meetings are to be held In each county
twice year.
1t Is stated that in the past few days
both the bay bridge on the Pennsylvania
railroad across the bay at Barnegat Pier
and the bridge across the river at Island
Heights have been considerably damaged
by Ice. PiliDg are said to have been
lifted and jammed out of place by the
force of the ice, driven by wind and tide.
At Barnegat Pier it is said that the dock
platform and walk have suffered most.
and will need somewhat of repairs.
Strange to say, the P. r. R. bridge car
penter gang had Just been laid of for the
winter. The last time they were laid off
In this way, ice took out much of the bay
bridge, so that trains could not run over
it. and the gang were put back on full
time.
Tuckerton taxpayers are again strug-
Cling with the schoolhouse proposition.
The present school building in East Tuck
erton was built about 1870, and has four
rooms. The building is not big enough
to hold the pupils, and one room has to
be rented outside, and it is said to be both
insuficiently lighted and ventilated, and
the State department is objecting to it.
Joseph Brown, the district clerk, has OBJ
tained from the State department several
plans Of six room buildings, but it is said
that nothing less than an eight room
building will now meet Tuckerton's
needs, particularly If they decide to teach
their high school pupils at home instead
of transporting them to Barnegat or some
other high school. For under the new
law, to obtain the additional money from
the State railroad tax, each district must
either furnish 9 high school course or
transport its pupils to neighboring high
school.
1t il announced that R. Tenbroek Stout,
solicitor of the Board of Freeholders, has
paid over to county collector Pearce the
$3.50 that expert Hartshorne found owing
the county from Stout during the investi-
cation two years ago. The $132 was
moneys paid Stout at various times for
defending prisoners who were too poor to
hire counsel, and was paid on the appro-
val of the county Judge. Judge Hen
erickson held that there was no law to
allow such expenditure of county funds,
and demanded that all attorneys who had
received such fees should pay them back.
Several did, others did not. Accordingly,
ut the December term Of court, Justice
Hendrickson announced that he would
have disbarment proceedings instituted
against any attorney who failed to pay up
by January l. It is understood that aflda
Wits were prepared for presentation to the
February term of the Supreme Court, but
Stout paid up.