The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-02
Ocean County.

Representative Gardner has introduced
bill to grant pension to Benjamin P.
Bussom, formerly of Company E., Twenty
third New Jersey regiment at$60 month.
The veteran is resident of New Egypt.
He is unable to perform any manual labor.
1t is rumored about Tuckerton that T.
Wilmer Speck, one of the prominent
young men of the vicinity, is in the fight
for the County Clerkship this fall, and is
after the nomination in the Republican
Tuckerton bank and has also served as
clerk of the Borough. The young man
attended Trenton business college after
leaving the local school.
Edward Horner and Nelson Marshall
were drowned in the Crosswicks Creek
near Walnford, Monmouth county, on the
22d. Henry Wins, who was member of
the fishing party, swan ashore with his
son, after hard battle with the rushing
water. caused by the recent heavy rain.
The quartet started out after dinner to
enjoy the afternoon fishing for pike. All
went we'll until toward night, when they
we're returning, when they lost control OF
the boat and were swept over the dam in
to twenty feet of rushing water
WINS grasped his son and reached shore.
The other two men who were good swim
mers, were probably stunned in some way
and drowned.
Horner was a married man, and leaves
wife and six small children.
At meeting of the Tuckerton Board OF
Education, it was decided to employ q
man as principal of the high school and
to have an assistant high school teacher,
making a two year high school course for
pupils the coming year, and presumably
increasing it to three year course with
three teachers the year following. The
additional years work and the additional
teachers can be secured largely at the ex-
pense of the State, and at little cost to the
borough.
The proposition is now to pay about 500
month for principal. For nearly ten
years past the school has had woman
principal, and the feeling has grown
that to keep the boys in the school 1t may
paw better to have man in the higher
grades. The second high school teacher
will probably be paid from $50 to $65 pei
month. 1t is understood that at the next
meeting of the board plans for the rebuild
- - AZ old oobooIhouco 90 uOfad of 3
recent school meeting, will be submitted
1t is hoped to have the schoolhouse re-
modelled in time for opening school in Sep
TENDER, though that looks rather doubtful
just now
Before Justice Jere s. Storms at Barne
gat on Tuesday. Frank Ireland tele
phone lineman from Tuckerton, was con
victed of failure to support his wifi
and child, and held under $500 bail to fur
nish her with five dollars week for on
wear. Ireland was convicted last fal
after stubborn fight on charge brough
by the parents of Selma Larsen, Barne
gat girl, who was under fifteen years old
He applied for new trial and was re
fused. He afterwards married the gin
and when he came up for sentence, pun
ishment was suspended because of tn
marriage. Since then his wife hs
charged that he refused to support hel
Action was brought by Moses II. Cranmel
Overseer of the Poor of Union township
before Squire Storms to compel Ireland
support his family under the recent az
which makes wife deserter a disorderl
person. W. Howard Jeffrey appeared fc
the Overseer of the Poor.
Samuel B. VanHise of Cream Ridg'
has been given bronze Carnegie med'
for saving the life of William E. Carey {
/ Cassville, August %, 1906. Carey, a Ne
Egypt plumber, had been caught in we
8 cave-in. VanHise ran four miles an
. worked for many hours at the risk OF b
own life to rescue Carey, whom he ha
not known. Carey begged VanHise to G
and save himself, but he would not.