The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-09-22
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DR.. Wolkin, of Brooklyn, is letting
out contracts for the erection of resi-
dence here, and we are charmed to real
ize that in the near future we can count
on having himself and Mrs. Wollkin fol
neighbors.
Harry Alloway, our registry clerk, has
been appointed trrant officer. Were the
commission form of government insti
tuted here, and were he given entire con.
troll of school matters, efficiency, econo-
my and morality would be advanced.
There are some rumors afloat that one
of our young matrons will be prosecuted
for criminal and malicious libel, and her
friends, to offset any chance of her pay
ing or mourning a prison penalty, will
plead her responsibility on the score of
insanity Should that plea succeed, with
its correct sequence, the village will be
rid of very annoying gossip.
Dunbar Wright, of Winslow, in the
interests of a lumber association, visited
our village last week to look over the
available supply of cedar wood with
marched right in, and turned around,
and marched right out again. He says
he was not looking for bean poles, and
couldn't wait until they grew.
On the completion of the Manhattan
cloak and suit factory, Harry Bach
threw the building open for inspection,
and at night the operation of the electric
light plant and the illumination from
the myriads of electric light bulbs
throwing shadows ON the piney sur
roundings, simply presaged change in
the economic condition of this commu-
itxr oh ont oil ~ 0f
the past.
Fred Dunfee, who has been the Pooh
bah of our school board for quite long
period, has resigned. The influx of too
many New York Hebrews with the ad-
vanced educational ideas characteristic
of their race disturbed his equanimity.
What was good enough for the natives
was not acceptable to them, hence exit
of Fred and installation of our popular
freeholder, George Bozarth. Should Miss
Kite pay us visit this winter, she will
find that the good old times (which she
fittingly characterized by another name)
are passing away in proportion to the
lessening of the influence of the parties
responsible. There is a large degree of
probability that the stigma publicly
branded on this township will soon be
undeSerVed.
Much disapproval over the methods of
service, and the uncleanly condition of
our railroad station waiting room here is
heard from the lips of visitors. This is
no structure on the local employee who
in addition to being the freight agent for
Harris, Chatsworth and Woodmansie, is
also the official auctioneer, township tax
collector, railroad ticket agent, telegraph
operator, mail bag porter, American ex-
press agent, chewing gum and candy
vender, head of local lodge, base ball
magnate, amanuensis for the illiterate,
and custodian of school funds,
Remembering that the Central rail
road with it's enormous freight and pas
senger traffic is only single track line
between Lakewood and Winslow, and
Chatsworth, situated about midway, ad-
Joins one of the sharpest curves on any
road, besides being inflicted with street
grade, unprotected crossing running
through the heart of the village, it
would seem that ordinary prudence, if
not humanity, would insure precautions
to eliminate the potential possibilities OF
a wholesale slaughter. Since no method
has as yet been devised by means OF
which two trains can be made to meet
and safely pass each other on a single
track road, yet our traffic managers
would have us believe they have solved
the problem, since the agent of an i'm
portant station is permitted to devote
the greater part of his time to outside
matters to exc out the pittance they
dole. When as commonly supposed one
man cannot serve two masters, it mus
take some shifty side-stepping to serve {
dozen.