The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-06-10
a Warm Session

: and cold and the audience was amuse
2 and, at times, somewhat disguised 9
e the display made by the men in chare
7 OF spending large amount of none
e and of allotting to a firm of banker
e $4,000 of bonds at par when tn
: county might have made anywher
D.. from $1,000 to $1,000 on the transac
l ton. There were periods in the pro
! ceedings which reminded one of tn
: scenes that have transpired at the clos
| of the legislative sessions. Although
) there were not any books, papers o
: inkstands thrown, there were all sort
} of cat calls and personalities ex
; changed, and occasionally some bust
ness was conducted.
, After Tom Barrett, of Bordentowr
} township, had resigned from the Boart
because he said he was tired of tn,
monkey business carried on, tn,
township committee of Bordentown
appointed DR.. Hugh Lejambre to sue
coed Barrett. The doctors name was
not called when clerk Hawkins rea
the roll and that caused Mr.. Martin tc
inquire what was the reason for the
omission. Mr.. Hawkins said he had
not been presented with any creden
tials from Bordentown showing thai
DR.. Lejambre was entitled to recogni
ton. Whatever papers there were in
the case had been presented to the
county clerk and the doctor had been
sworn in, but Mr.. Wilkins presented
a resolution that DR.. Lejambre be
refused admission to the Board.
The ground for this action was
that the doctor was a member OF
the township committee that appointed
him and that his appointment was not
legal The resolution was adopted and
the subject was referred to the solicitor
for an opinion. Mr.. Peacock said il
would take several days to look into
all the law governing this question, SC
the matter was placed in his hands,
and DR.. Lejambre was not seated, to
the apparent satisfaction of several
who know what kind of man he is
and that he is-.quite an investigator
when he gets started.
Miss Metcalfe, who is doing hygiene
work in the county, gave synopsis of
what she has been doing and asked
the Board to aid her in getting town
ship officials interested in the work to
the extent of reporting cases of indis
cretions by women, to the end that
they might be given help which would
be of great benefit not only to them
but to the whole community. Miss
Metcalfe has had the entire county of
Burlington assigned to her and she
feels it will be physical impossibility
for her to cover the whole field unless
the officials are willing to aid her.
| Solicitor Peacock reported that he
had secured a rule to show cause why
there should not be a modification in
the injunction secured by William
Gulick against the building of new
bridge at Chesterfield in accordance
with the plans approved by the county.
This rule is returnable today.
Ross & Whalen who had been award
ed the contract for resurfacing the
Bordentown-G Georgetown road and a
portion of the Burlington Columbus
road, will now be likely to go ahead
with the work. When bids for these
roads were called Ross & Whalen
were the only bidders and the contract
was given to them but the Attorney
general stepped in and said that it was
not competitive bidding and the work
could not be given out that way. The
firm took the matter into the courts
and before decision was given the
Attorney Office seemed to
have had change of mind for they
decided that mistake had been made
and that a contract could be awarded
under the conditions of this case if the
Board voted unanimously in favor of
it. So Ross &, Whalen will now
probably go ahead with the work.
The permission given the United
States, in 1917, to use the county's
coal trestle at New Lisbon was an
nulled, it being claimed that the gov
eminent had not done it's part of the
bargain by which it agreed to allow
the county to use the trestle.
Proceedings are to be instituted
against Allen J. Scott, of Southamp-
ton township, for blowing the roadway
adjoining his farm and filling drains
and culyerts so as to injure the roads.
Mr.. Martin presented his resignation
as a member of the committee on
burial of soldiers and sailors. The
vacancy was not filled.
The charge of former Freeholder Bar
rett that there was too much monkey
business appeared to have some foun-
dalton when two letters from the State
Highway Commission we're read, show
| ing that some of the actions of the
Burlington County Board on road
| building did not please the state
officials. The letters are as follows:
At the April meeting of the State
Highway Commission it approved a
program submitted by Burlington
county covering the construction of
certain county roads under the provi-
sions of the bill passed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature, which per-
mitted counties to use a certain por-
ton of the motor vehicle funds for
the retiring Of interest and sinking
fund on bonds issued. The Highway
Commission approved a certain def
mite mileage of roads which were
named on the plans submitted by the
county engineer as being in the pro-
gram for this year.
We understand that your board ad-
vertised to receive bids on the roads
included in this program; we further
understand that a resolution was in
troduced into your board on the day
bids were received for the entire pro-
gram, to the effect that bids should
not be received on that date for the
road from Medford through Ewes
ham township or the Camden county
line Marlton- Medford road, said reso-
luton having been introduced anc
passed because a member of your
hoard was dissatisfied with the pro.