The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-03-23
Annual School Meeting.


ownship of Northampton was held in
he court house Tuesday evening. The
gathering was in marked contrast with
hat Of year ago, when there were
leven candidates for the position OF
member of the Board of Education and
I78 ballots were cast. This year there
we're but four candidates who were elect
ID without opposition, and it took but
% votes to do the business. The meet
ng was opened at 1880 and by nine i
)'clock it was all over. Except that the
law requires the polls to be kept open for
one hour the meeting would not have |
lasted over thirty minutes.
District Clerk Mason called to order
and Joseph C. Kingdom was made chair |
man, Mr.. Mason being elected secretary. |
He read the report of Walter /. Dill, who
had audited the books and found them
correct, and then Mr.. Mason read de-
tailed statement of the business of the
past year. 1t will be found in full in
another part of this paper, the meeting
having directed that it be published in
all Of the Mount Holly papers.
The polls were then declared open, and
the following were nominated for MEM
bers of the Board of Education: For the
unexpired term of two years, William A.
Slaughter; for the full term OF three
years, John M. Huff, William II. Mason
and Ross w. Quicksall. S. Earl Assay
and Richard S. Folwell were appointed
tellers at the box to receive votes for APP
propriations; Garret d. w. Slack and
John Throckmorton, Jr., for the box Tor
members of the Board. The appropria-
tions asked for were 81, 800 for repairs and
s14, 900 for current expenses and this re-
quest was granted by "a votes in favor,
none against The gentlemen nomi-
mated for members were elected, each re-
ceiving 60 votes.
IN OTHER TOWNSHIPS
Burlington township had an interest
ing contest in which the building OF a
new schoolhouse figured. There was
proposition to close the Edgewood school
and the Trick school, transporting the
pupils to the schoolhouse at Springside.
At this place it was desired that new
building be erected, with five rooms and
an auditorium For this purpose the
sum of $40, 900 was required. The school
district agreed to raise 1900 of this
amount, and the township of Burlington
will give the balance. This is with the
understanding that the auditorium is to
be at the disposal of the residents
of the township at such times as it
may be asked for. There was an
effort to displace some of the old MEM
bers of the Board of Education but 1T
was not successful, the old members be-
| ing reelected by the following vote:
James G. Mccormick, 81; G. Harry Dun
can, 81; Thomas b. Candy, IA. The OPP
position ticket received the following
vote: H. H. Mattson, 81; Thomas STAN
field, IA; Hartley Severns, l. The
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was carried by vote of 81 in favor and
10 against.
In Florence the name of John r.
Coats was presented for consideration
but John did not get enough votes to
put him in the running. The old MEM
bers were reelected, as follows: John
Adams, Daniel w. Bishop, Richard p.
Hughes. Two ladies were present and
attempted to vote but their ballots were
refused SO far as voting for members was
considered.
| Moorestown had a spirited contest,
there being five candidates for the full
| term of three years as members of the
| Board of Education and two for the two
year term. The successful parties were:
For three years, Howard Knight, j.
Hansell Lippincott and William p.
| Thomson. The latter beat the next high
candidate woman-by five votes. DR..
| George HI. Wilkinson was elected for
two years. Over 300 votes were cast.
The sum of $32, 200 was appropriated for
school expenses.
| Three new members of the Board of
Education were elected in Vincentown
after short contest. They are Samuel
P. Estilow, Charles K. Jones and J. ID.
Coles.
| g. L..-<3..a 90 +x.,<, ,,ofos xro~o oo cf
at Medford, there being two tickets in
| the field. The result was as follows:
| Pemberton B. Griscom, 81; William
Jones, so; Ezra Evans, 81; Mrs. Harry
| Brick, Al; Mrs. Jay Wilkins, Al; Mrs.
Mary B. Evens, 40. The women did not
make their candidacy known until the
evening of the meeting or the result
might have been different. There was
some division on the subject of appro-
priation The sum of S., 900 received 56
votes, and the sum of Sc, 900 got 30 votes.
The query that was put up was IF the
township could getalong with SIS, 900 when
it had high school, why did it need 81, 900
more now that the high school had been
abandoned?' Nobody seemed to be able
to solve this problem, but $1,000 was
granted.
A curious situation arose at Riverton.
About ten o'clock on Tuesday night
County Superintendent Stees was called
by auto express and was asked to go to
the borough and decide on a question
that was causing trouble. The tickets
for members of the Board of Education
contained three names under the caption
For members, ETC., then there was a
heavy black line and another name APP
peared, over which were the words ''for
= 49,
law SAYS that the ticket shall designate
which of the members is running for a
full term and which for an unexpired
term. The tellers were inclined to throw
out the ballots cast for the three men on
the ground that the full term of three
years had not been designated, but Mr..
Stees inclined to the opinion that the
law had been complied with by the fact
that there was heavy rule separating
the three names from the one name and
that the latter had the designation over
it, thus showing that the others must
have been for the full term. 1t was de-
cided to refer the matter to the authori-
ties at Trenton.
In Pemberton township there were
two propositions. One was to appropriate
S12, 900 to build new schoolhouse, the
other for $4,000 to repair the present
building. The vote was very close. The
$12, 900 idea was defeated by one vote,
while the other went through by
majority of one vote. At times the dis
cussion in the meeting was quite heated
and there was a prospect of having to
come to test of physical strength to
settle the dispute of a couple of men
who could not agree to the same thing.
There were several candidates for men,
bership on the Board of Education.
Thomas c. Shreve and William H.
Reeves declined reelection. Abram
Brown, district clerk, also said he did
not desire to continue but he was kept
in the position. The candidates were
Owen Oatman. Chester Gaunt, Harold
Harker, Clifford Emmons, DR.. M. w.
Newcomb and Abram Brown. The vote
on this part Of the programme was diff
ferent from that on appropriations and
the last three named were elected by
large majority.
New Hanover had one of the largest
meetings that has been held in the town
ship for long time. The term of Hill
man Croshaw, Samuel w. Bishop and
Edwin l.. Davis had expired. Mr..
Bishop did not care to serve any longer
and the Cookstown people thought they
wanted more representation on the
Board, SO they dropped Mr.. Croshaw.
The successful candidates were Servan
Casperson, Nathaniel Carr and Edwin
l.. Davis.
Beverly township voters went out
Tuesday evening with the expectation of
having grand rumpus," owing to
some criticism that had been showered
on the heads of the members of the
Board of Education. William H. Holt
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