Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1890-10-16

Jdtu0S HauQ ana henry flerce.
Court then adjourned until Monday
morning ten o'clock.
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
When Court opened yesterday after
noon, upon the arrival of Judge Hen
dee, several Russian Jews presented
themselves and took out their natura-
lization papers.
Some Orphans Court business was
transacted, and the appeal cases were
taken up.
The case of w. G. Wright, appellant.
and the Bridgeton Board of Health,
was put off till some other day during
the term, on account of illness of e. wit
ness.
The appeal case of Lorepzo D. Wood
ruff and Harry A. Rice, Overseer of
the Poor, was also laid over.
An application for laying out pub
lie road in Fairfield township was
granted, and the usual commiss ioners
will be appointed.
Stephen Griffith and Mary A. Griffith,
of Miilville, made applications to be
appointed guardians of Thos. Rush, a
10 year old boy of that city.
Asborne McLaughlan was called up
and pleaded guilty to an Indictment
charging him with assault and battery.
He was Immediately sentenced by
Judge Hoagland to pay a fine Of 81. 90
and costs, which he did at once.
The application of Ezekiel Loper, to
keep hotel in Dserfield, was taken
up. Lawyer John y. Mitchell and
Mayor Acton, ,appearing for Mr.. Loper
Mr.. G. E. Sheppard presented long
remonstrance against granting the IL
cense applied for. The remonstrance
was signed by number of the male
citizens of Deerfield and a few women.
1t was signed by 95 voters and 81 ladies'.
The remonstrance declared that a.
licensed place was not necessary there,
and also that the applicant was not a
n6 person to keep hotel.
j. Coleman was the first witness
called on the part OF the remonstrance.
He said he lived in the fifth house this
side OF the hotel. He lived in Salem
county before moving to his present
residence on the 25th of last March.
He said that since May the peace
and quiet of Deerfeld had been very
good. The hotel license expired at
that time.
Mr. Mitchell objected to the presen.
alton OF testimony of this character.
Mr.. Sheppard wanted to show that
such testimony was competent. The
objection was sustained.
An exception was taken.
10 question, MI. Coleman said he
did not think licensed place was
needed there. He said there was a
place, kept by Mrs. Biddle, convenient
to entertain travellers already. He had
never heard that the public interests
OF the place had suffered by there be-
Ing no licensed place there.
On cross-examiaation he said Mrs
biddle had not, at all times, sufficient
accommodations for the public busi-
ness of the place.
Dr. 9. G. Philips testified that no Ii
censed hotel was needed there. He
was quite positive of this. He had
never heard of the public business be-
ing neglected by the absence of a IL
censed house.
Lewis Brooks thought there was no
necessity for a licensed hotel in Deer
field. The public business did not suf.
ter by the lack of one, and he had seen
no demand for one.
There were three stores, and black
smith shops, and 400 perhaps, popu-
lation there.
he mad observed good deal of
travel to Deerfield when the hotel was
there; the travel seemed to be directed
to the hotel.
Charles Hetzel, Of Deerfield, was
positive a license hotel was not needed
In Deerfield. He thought what travel
there was to come there could be
entertained without hotel.
Paul Shoemaker thought the place
was better without licensed hotel
than with one, and public convenience
was better served without than with a
licensed place, for when there was no
licensed house, persons going to the
post office, did not have to get entirely
out OF the road to let frequenters of
the hotel pass as they did when there
was licensed place.
Elmer E. Davis, a butcher, said a
licensed place was not needed. He
had known Mr.. Loper several years;
ne knew him when he kept the Half
Way House on the Salem Turnpike.
He said he had had some good times
at that house; had bought whiskey
there, could tell Of whom he got the
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