The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-05-19
Along the Shore.

A motion picture theatre and amuse
ment house is to be constructed at Beach
Haven at a cost of 10000. The contract
for the erection of the building has been
awarded to the Beach Haven Construc-
ton Company.
A motor speedway is the latest project
that is being agitated at Lakewood.
Committees have been appointed to
further the movement and an option on
a large tract of ground has been obtain
mated at quarter of a million dollars.
Mrs. Jennie Sprague, of Forked River,
was so badly burned on Tuesday that
she died the next day. While starting
q FIRE in stove, her clothes became ig-
nited and she was horribly burned from
head to foot. Her husband, George
Sprague, is employed at the Forked
'<sRiver life saving station.
The Clarence House, located at Bar
negat, is receiving extensive repairs.
James P. Gaynor the late proprietor had
I planned many Improvements and they
are now being carried out by his widow,
!. who will continue to manage the house.
, Interior and exterior decorations, re-
] modelling and many other plans have
been carried out.
The sail and power boat courses of the
Island Heights and Sea Side Park Yacht
Clubs will be measured by the firm OF
Haines & Sherman, who have been
designated by the Racing Commission
fsof the Barnegat Association as the off
cial engineers. This firm of engineers
were approved last year by the Ameri-
can Power Boat Association.
Harry Hawkins, of Toms River, eigh-
teen years old, had his leg amputated at
the Paul Kimball hospital and Harold
s Hagaman of the same town had his
broken in two places, as the result of a
motor cycle accident. The boys were
! enroute to Lakewood when they ran
into a farm wagon driven by Wilmer
Clayton.
Joseph B. Hoff, chairman of the
Ocean County Republican Committee,
was convicted on Thursday, at Toms
River, of bribery at the primary cleo
Il ton in 1918. The charge was that he
gave negro political club at Lakewood
the sum of 500 to influence their votes.
Hoff claimed that he gave the money
r to paw the clubs bills and to buy furni-
ture. He will be sentenced later.
John Gargare, of Lakewood, indicted
for buying stolen automobiles, was con-
yicted on one of the charges, last week,
the one being the purchase of Ford
car that had been stolen from Herbert
M. Davis, in New York City, last June.
The chief witnesses, who had turned
states evidence, were Daniel Reilly and
Chester Travers, of New York, and John
4 8. Chandler, of Barnegat. The three
men testified that with Gargare they
! stole the car, ran it to Lakewood, where
they were paid for it by the defendant.
There are six other charges of stealing
cars against Gargare, to be tried later.
The three witnesses above named stated
that he paid them $500 for each automo-
bile. The other cars stolen were one
Pierce-Arrow and five Packards
Whether Barnegat Bay north of Cedar
Creek Point is to be opened and freed to
the public as oyster grounds or appor-
toned off to private individuals will be
made the subject of a test case in which
all the oyster men assert that all are free
to use the bay. The specific case in
which the test will be made is that of Ac-
ton Bunnell, of Cedar Creek, who is ac-
cused by Harold g. Mollor, who owns a
farm at Bayville. On the farm is pond
connected with the bay, and it is charged
that Bunnell was guilty of larceny when
he took oysters out of his pond. As the
tide flows in the pond, it is contended
to carry the present case to the Court of
Errors and Appeals to get a final decis-
10. Between Bayville and Forked River
there are many of these inlets or ponds
that it is hard to distinguish from the
bay proper.
Charles l.. Holman, aged "a years,
Twice sheriff of Ocean county, died at
Toms River on Sunday. He was one of
/ 4he leading cranberry growers in the
state. in which business he was engaged
4 Tor about half q century.