The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-02-28

Little Notes of Interest.
Assemblyman Pine wants the use Of
guns on the Delaware river and Its tribu
taries from one hour befurs sunset and
one hour before sunrise.
Next Saturday the second chapter ir
the request of A. w. Lof1snd to have the
Board of Freeholders Investigated will bs
heard at : CIV Brunswick.
Cooper creek, the little stream at Cam.
den, one of whose chief aims In life is to
hold railroad trains up, is to be dignifed
by the name of Cooper river.
Assemblyman White has a bill In the
which provides heavy pen
atty for having In possession outside OF
the polling places ballots of any descrip
ton. This Is good move.
An effort Is being made to have the
county take charge of the road between
Mount Holly and Lumberton, and i'm
prove 1t by giving 1t good top dressing.
If the Improvement" is to be similar to
that on the Jobstown turnpike 1t would
be Just as well to let the matter rest as II
liz, unless the idea is to travel the road by
boat.
Surrogate William P. Lippincott will
he candidate for reelection. 1t is rather
early to surmise the result in the contest
for this Office as there will undoubtedly be
other candidates In the field, but it is not
too early to say that Surrogate Lippincott
has made the best Surrogate the County
has had for long time.
Among the measures in the Legislature
10 a bill introduced by Senator Lewis
having for Its purpose the conveyance Of
lands in Burlington to the United States
for post Office site. On the lot at pres
emit stands the Office of the West Jersey
and 1t is desired to take this
ACROSS the street. 1t now occupies small
portion of lot that has been condemned
for the post Office.
The Supreme Court yesterday delivered
an opinion that the Teachers Retirement
Fund law is constitutional What pity
this opinion was not delivered before the
meeting of the Burlington County Board
Of Education on Friday. 1t might have
saved considerable time which was con-
summed In showing that the members from
The rural districts knew more than the
Supreme Court does
Assemblyman Whites bill to allow
of wood duck, was defeated In
the House, last week. Mr.. White put
this bill in for two reasons. One was in
response to demand from several Of his
the other because he thought
Il was a good measure. But the Game
got to work on the matter.
White did his part. When
be gives promise you may rest assured
re will keep 1t.
By decision handed down by the Su-
preme Court yesterday there will be a
change in the manner of assessing bank
stock. The Court holds that the stock
must be assessed at its true or market
value, deducting the real estate and such
other items as the law allows. The prac-
ice heretofore has been to assess the
stock on the capital, surplus and undivid-
I'd profits. deducting real estate and all
non taxable securities.
Candidates for Sheriff are already stir
ing. William +. Stecher, who came near
landing the nomination three years ago,
Is making earnest efforts to secure the
prize this year. Postmaster Carslake, of
is also said to be working for
,he nomination. Mr.. Carslake was also
. candidate three years ago aud his atti-
Jude in certain directions did not tend to
Increase his popularity. 1t Is rumored
hat another Mansfield statesman has his
,yes on the Office.
1t is stated that John Hamilton. who is
olo-lx L. +ha Ro~dan+oun pnpf off1oo ia IN
De made acting postmaster now that Will
lam w. Brown is dead. Mr.. Brown was
lcting postmaster owing to the death Of
William 81. Foley. Bordentoxn people
ire guessing who will be appointed post
master in the place of MIR. Foley, but none
Ieem to know who 1t will be, and it is
giving great dissatisfaction to the citizens.
It is claimed that there should have been
,ne appointed by this time. But the
orders have not yet been issued on the
,ubject, and the people will have to wait.
On Saturday argument will be heard on
,he application to have the affairs of the
Burlington county Board of Freeholders
At the last hearing there
was postponement on account of tech
,icalities. These are supposed to have
been removed and the subject will now
come up on its merits. While 1t may
have been all right to put distractions in
she way of the man who is pushing this
matter, it would be just as well to go
ahead with the discussion. That would
remove all suspicion that the Freeholders
haye anything to hide.
For some time agents OF the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad Company have been look
ing around for persons who have been
selling strip tickets. These tickets are
sold in strip of ten at reduced price,
and persons owning them have accommo-
dated friends by letting them have one or
two. In a neighboring town . man has
been arrested for this action on the ground
that he has been defrauding the railroad
company, selling the tickets at a rate
lower than the regular round-trip rate. In
many cases the price charged for the strip
tickets is the same as paid for them, but
the company claims that no one save an
authorized agent has the right to sell a
ticket at any price. The case under con.
sideration may be test case ON this sub.
ject.
A railroad train is good place to study
human nature. A passenger-too often 9
lady-will take a seat and calmly place q
suit case beside her. No matter how many
passengers get into the train and walk