The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-08
A Glorious Celebration of the
Fourth.

The Fourth of July celebration in
Mount Holly will be recorded by local
historians as most successful event.
The program, covering events for the
morning, afternoon and night, passed
off smoothly, and all of it was interest
ing and inspiring.
The affair was gotten up as home
coming celebration and welcome to the
soldiers and sailors from this county
who had entered the service dur
ing the war. There were quite a
number of these men in town, but
not as many as had been ex-
pected, due to the extremely warm
weather and because number of other
communities in the county were hold
ing similar celebrations.
The town was filled with throng of
visitors from many parts of the county,
From early in the morning until night
trolley, steam and motor cars brought
spectators from every direction to view
the many events scheduled.
The morning was given over to a
parade and speechmaking. The parade
was formed In the lower part of the
town and marched over the route that
had been selected. In the line were
the war heroes, Company B of the
State Militia, Girl and Boy Scouts,
and veterans of the civil war in motor
cars There was plenty of music-the
r. ID. Wood band, of Florence; Perse-
verance band, of Philadelphia; Med
ford band, and the Moose fife and
drum corps, of Riverside.
Col. Thomas d. Landon, of Borden
town; Rev. r. A. Brotemarkle, FORM
er chaplain in the army, and Lieuten-
ant Earl L. Everline headed the pro-
cession. The various subdivisions of
the war heroes were formed in line and
headed by Captain j. F. r. Long and
Lieutenants Clifford r. Powell and !
Harold Wells. Captain Winfield S. |
Gale was in command of Company B,
State Militia, and Scout Master Rev. |
H T. Cooke in charge of the girl and |
boy scouts.
There were two attractive floats in
the parade. One represented the Red !
Cross, 1.-THE Greatest Mother in the I
World' On this float was seated Jane
Mason Marsh, of Westboro, Mass, a !
visitor to Mount Holly and quite well
known here. Her husband, Lieuten-
ant Enrol Marsh, was killed in action |
in France.
The other float, produced by the
local branch of the War Camp Com
munity Service, was memorial to the
heroes who gave up their lives in the
service. 1t was made up of scene re-
presenting field of green's dotted with
ninety-five French peoples, which re-
presents the present known number of
dead heroes from this county. On this
field was erected cross with soldiers
helmet hanging on it.
The parade was dismissed at the
court house, where after musical selec-
tions, addresses were delivered on a
platform erected on the front lawn.
The speakers were Rev. Oscar w.
Henderson, who told of the memorial
hospital to be erected in Mount Holly
in honor of all the service men from
this county; Rev. r. A. Brotemarkle,
who welcomed the visitors; Col.
Thomas ID. Landon, who said the men
made good soldiers and of the neces-
sity of their being good citizens, which
is quite as important; w. P. Jackson,
who represented the War Camp Com
Service. and told of the fine
work done by that service in this coun-
ty, and a few remarks by Major Nc
Crantz, representing General Hale, of
Camp Dix, who was unable to be pres
emit.
At the conclusion Of the speechmak-
ing the service men, militiamen,
scouts, civil war veterans and others
proceeded to the fair ground, where an
program of sports. had been
arranged. After the guests had been
served lunch, the events proceeded,
consisting of horse and foot races,
base ball game and an exhibition of
stunts by Lieutenant Donaldson, in an
airplane from Camp Dix.
The horse races were interesting and
some of the heats quite exciting. Fred
B. Shreve acted as official starter of
the races, the summaries of which fol-
low:
2.38 TROT. PURSE $3.50.
The Jolly Landlord, b. G. by Del
Cornado John White) l.
Gay Moko, b. s. by Moko
Setter Girl, b. m. (SerrflD
Catherine Glover, b. m. (Fry)
Jean Dillon, br. IA. (Randolph) 70
Axy Todd, b. s.. H. Tyson) DIR
Elsie Laird, br. m. "a. Carr dis
Time 2.lS1z, 2.l91z, 2.l91z, 2l9A
222 TROT, 225 PACE. PURSE $500
The Trip, b. 6. by Invoice
Elworthy, b. G. by Axworthy
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