The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-26
Along the Shore.

Lemuel c. Matthews has been ap
pointed postmaster at Barnegat, to sue
coed Ralph S. Collins.
Rowland A. Files, aged % years, was
drowned at Island Heights on Wednes.
day while bathing The affair happened
within two hours after he had arrived at
the resort.
| Two new fishpounds are to be put in
at Seaside Park. The Woolley Fish Com
pany is now putting in new pound at
| Twenty-third street, between the Seaside
Park Co. and the Spring Lake Co.'S
pounds.
Isaiah A. Johnson, of West Creek,
while walking along the road near Tuck
erton, was struck by an automobile and
so seriously injured that he died a few
days later and was buried last week. He
was quite deaf and did not hear the APP
preaching auto.
Plans have been made for school at
Seaside Heights next winter. Miss Rilla
Evernham, of Toms River, will be the
teacher and will have about 25 pupils,
including several to be transported from
Lavallette borough, where they have no
school. Heretofore these were sent to
Seaside Park.
The Annaheim cottage at Pine Beach
was raided by officers last week and Fred
Stoll, the owner; Anna Stoll, his wife,
and John Shields, an employe, were ar
rested on the charge of running speak
easy. AT the hearing on Thursday after
noon testimony was produced to show
that the house was used for the sale of
liquor on Sundays and at other times.
The defendants were placed under bail
to appear before the grand jury.
Gunners say that there are thousands
of black ducks about Barnegat and
Manahawkin bays this summer, and
that thousands of nests can be found on
the meadows. This is comparatively a
new thing, in recent years. 1t was
noticed two years ago that few black
ducks stayed here during the breeding
season. Last year the number increased;
this year, so the gunners say who are
watching the birds, there has been a
bigger increase still in their number.
After struggle for many years the
residents and property owners at Beach
Haven at last see the road from Mamma
hawkin to Beach Haven in sight. The
Board of Freeholders with state aid have
provided for the road on the beach from
Beach Haven to Surf City, one section
being largely graded by the contractors,
Oscar Parker and Ashbrook Cranmer,
the other about to be started by the
Beach Haven Construction Company,
which has the contract. Long Beach
township has given the contract for the
section of road between Bay avenue,
which is being built by the county, and
the bridge across the bay, to Jonathan
b. Cox, of West Creek, which will be
started at once. The bridge itself was
built last summer by the Long Beach
Turnpike Co. With this work partly
irr1n nd
more piece of road is needed to connect
the beach with the state system of good
roads, and that is the road across the
meadows at Mannahawkin, from the
main shore road to the west end of the
bridge. The county has advertised for
bids on this piece of road, to be received
Tuesday, September 2.
The Seaside Heights Board of Trade
held its first banquet on Saturday night
at the Hotel Sheridan, covers being laid
for more than 100. DR.. g. Gould Law
yer, of Germantown, acted as toastmas-
ter, and speeches were made by Edmund
Kramer, mayor, former Judge Berry,
former Senator Mathis, F. C. Goodwin,
Germantown, president of the Manhas-
set Realty Company; r. c. LeCompte,
of Lakewood, for more than 20 years a
member of the Board of FreeholderS of
ocean county; councilman Frederick
Jones, G. w. Mathis, mayor of Seaside
Park; councilman Christian Hiering and
Alexander p. Simpson, of Philadelphia.
Former Judge Berry and the other
speakers referred to the wonderful prog
ITess made by Seaside Heights and the
enterprise of the men who had made a
fine town out of desert waste of sand
dunes and brushwood. -Four years ago, -
said MIR Kerry ssthp sand on which
there are now SO many beautiful cottages
and bungalows was almost worthless.
The taxable value was barely worth
while, and today you have a borough
and valuation of more than $400, 600. .
He outlined the steps taken for the build
ing of the bridge now being constructed
from Seaside Heights across Barnegat
bay to the mainland and which will
bring Seaside Heights As miles nearer to
Philadelphia. The progress made is al
most inconceivable, said Mr.. Berry.