The Mount Holly news., 1919-11-11

| Rev. John r. Mason, of Camden
secretary of the Centenary Fund ant
Preachers Aid Society of the NJ. E
church, occupied the pulpit of th'
Mount Holly NJ. Z. church on Sunday
morning.
sThe annual memorial service o
Mount Holly Lodge of Elks will bt
held in the Mount Holly theatre on
Sunday evening, December 7. The
address will be delivered by Rev. o. H
Henderson. Vocal music will be sup.
piled by the Mount Holly Glee Club
The sale of the Arcade hotel, which
b as been under consideration the last
week. is about to be consummated
and it is expected final arrangements
for the transfer of the property will be
made today. The prospective pur-
chaser is a Philadelphia merchant who
contemplates making two stores of the
first floor and converting upstairs into
apartments with kitchenettes. The
sale includes only the hotel building.
Mr.. Marren will retain the Arcade row
nd the yard and stables in the rear.
A strong effort has been made to
secure subscriptions whereby the Phil
adelphia Orchestra would be able to
continue its existence. There was a
generous response to the appeals OF
the committees. Mrs. William A.
Slaughter, of Mount Holly, was chair
man of one committee whose duty it
was to raise $4,000 and last week
Mrs. Slaughter had the great pleas
ure of announcing that her mission
had been successful and that she had
turned in the amount asked for
Among the generous donators was
the Victor Talking Machine Company
which gave $12,5OO.
The Burlington police and coroner
are endeavoring to establish the iden-
tity of a woman whose body was found
floating in the Delaware river, oppo-
site the town wharf yesterday morn
ing. Employees of a steam dredge who
were working off the foot of Burling
ton Island saw the body and brought
it ashore at Burlington. Te woman
was apparently about thirty-fve years
of age, short of stature, with wealth
of chestnut hair. She was dressed in
a blue suit with white or tan stockings
and black shoes. The body was sent
to thef morgue bys Coroner Rogers,
pending Identification.
At special meeting of the Board of
Education of Riverside township, on
Friday evening, the designations of
four teachers were accepted. They
had been receiving salaries at River
side ranging up to $1,000 per year but
they were offered more elsewhere and
they accepted the new offer. This
leaves four good vacancies at River
side. This continual resignation of
teachers is causing much trouble
throughout the county. County Su-
perintendent Kaser is making up his
annual directory and since he first
gave out the copy there have been
enough changes to make ones head
swim. And now come four more which
will create other revisions of the di-
rectory if it does not get through the
press pretty soon. AS it now is the
county superintendent does not know
when he goes home at night what
teachers he will have on record the
next morning.
There was an accident last evening
when an ambulance from Camp Dix
struck boy on bicycle and smashed
his machine to pieces. The accident
occurred near the fountain The am
bulance was in charge of three soldiers
from the Camp Dix base hospital and
they were drunk After hitting the
bicycle the ambulance struck tree
and the soldiers were thrown out and
hurt, but not to any great extent, one
of them was cut on the head. The boy
was not hurt. The soldiers were turn
ed over to the township authorities on
the charge of drunk and disorderly
and Justice Throckmofton was going
to send them to Jail for go days when
some officers from Camp Dix came and
took the men under their care and
carried them back to camp. This is
q ease of breaking the state law
against driving an automobile while
under the influence of liquor. From
all accounts the action of the men was
such as to endanger the lives of peo-
pie along the streets, yet they were
allowed to get away when they should
have been sent to Jail. 1t was not a
case as has been put up before, that
it was an offense committed on gov
ernment ground and that the civil au-
thorities did not have any jurisdic-
ton, but it was a violation of state
law in this township and the men
should not have been sent back to
camp. 1t is pretty nearly time to dis
cover whether drunken soldiers are to
be allowed to go free after commit
ting offences which would bring pun
ishment upon civilians. 1t was re-
ported that there were some officers in
the ambulance but that report could
not be verified. That officers soon ar
rived and secured the lawbreakers is
certain, and the inference is that they
were not far away from the scene of
disorder.
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