The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-04
Ocea,, County Affairs.

: New Egypt bank, succeeding William N
Nash, resigned.
T. s. A. MeanY have bought the Goa
yard of Chafey d Brown at New Egypt
The latter firm has been in business TO
more than thirty years.
DR.. H. G. Keeler, district clerk of the
Tuckerton school board, has been elected
supervising principal of the schools there
L. j. Kayser Is the new district clerk.
Sheriff Cox took Bornt s. Cranmer Of
Manahawkin TO the Railway Reformatory
on Wednesday. Oranmer pleaded guilty
to robbing the homes Of William Hall anC
Mrs. Annette Peckworth of Manahawkin
together with Charles Horner a seventeen
year old boy, on whom sentence was sus
pended.
Albert T. Sprsgue Of Barnegat City
formerly employed with the Mshahawkir
& Long Beach Transportation Co.. as sec
ton foreman, has secured a position as
captain of pleasure boat for a Philadel-
phian, and will move his family there
He has for several summers past sailed
the Barnegat sneakbox Mineola which has
figured prominently In the races of Barne-
gat Bay.
The township committee of Dover
township has called special election for
May Ii to vote on appropriations for this
year. The money was supposed to have
| 1ork ~ ha on11la r
election, but 1t seems there was some hitch
in the proceedings. At the last election,
no budget was certified to the County
Clerk by either party caucus, nor by the
Township Committee, hence there were no
appropriations on the official ballots
Stickers were printed, however, and pasted
on some ballots, and the amounts thereon
declared carried, as they were the only
amounts voted. 1t is said that the Town
ship Committee were afraid the election
was illegal, and have called special cleo
ton. The total amount asked for by the
committee is $12,925.
Some time ago committee was ap-
pointed by the Ocean County Board of
Freeholders to secure q survey and esti-
mate of the cost Of a bridge across Bar
negat bay from point near Manahawkin
to Long Beach. This committee met on
Friday with surveyors, engineers and
others interested and went thoroughly
over the various routes suggested and
selected as the best the route Immediately
adjoining the Pennsylvania railroad on
the south side. Arrangements will imme-
diatelY proceed, and it is expected that
the matter will be in readiness to report
to the Board in early summer, and because
of the extreme Importance of the project
speedy action is anticipated. 1t is said
that no public improvement in the county
would net such good results as this.
There is noticeable increase in cram
berry acreage In this county and vicinity
this year, number of new boys being set
out. E. Freeman, of Philadelphia, has a
gang of men setting out new vines on the
Goose Creek boys. just north of Island
Heights. Freeman has been building
these bogs for a number of years, and
will have the largest acreage in one series
of boys owned by one man in Ocean
county when they are completed. At
Double Trouble Edward Crabbe, of the
Double Trouble Lumber Company, is
putting the cedar swamp bottom into
cranberry bog about as fast as the timber
Is cut off and sawed up into lumber at the
big mill, which is the largest sawmill in
New Jersey. Crabbe is now putting out
about thirty acres In vines to add to his
acreage. Former Sheriff Charles L. Hol-
man, the veteran cranberry grower. has
twenty five acre tract on Sunken Branch
that he is putting into vines. Winfield
Ravens is putting in new bog on Quail
run, Just below Toms River village on the
main shore road. At Tuckerton, DR.. ]. L.
Lane, who is Mayor, has just put fine
large bog in good shape.
The residents Of Manahawkin have been
building road by unique methods. The
road is from that town to the bay at Main
Point, and work on it has been going on
for about three years, being paid for by
voluntary contributions of work and
money. One of the strongest factors In
this work, has been the women's club Of
the village, known as the Village Improve
ment Club. This club has collected
money by personal solicitations, giving
dinners and in other ways encouraged the
road building.
The road when completed will be per-
haps four and half miles long. Half way
it runs through Moore's swamp, and the
other half across the meadows. There is
one creek that had to be bridged. More
than half the road had to be poled or cor
duroyed to make foundation for the
gravel that is to be put on. The polling is
now almost completed, all but perhaps a
half mile The " /. G. each week gives
dinner on the meadow end for the men
who will contribute days work carting or
laying the poles. Recently 1t was chick
en- dinner. Several Of these dinners have
been held.