Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-07-22
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
THINGS TALKED ABOUT.


ed from a lack of water. Generally
these were people who reside in third
story flats. but in some instance water
failed to flow in the second story This
condition could have been avoided if
the pumps had been kept running "a
hours each day, instead of Is to Is
hours as reported by the Water
Chairman Curry, or a rule enforced
to prevent extravagant use of water.
Bright green lawns are more beauti-
full wher most lawns are brown from
drought than when all are green, but
If to have such some citizens must be
deprived of the use of the necessary
! amount of water for household pub
poses, we doubt If such use is jlstifi-
able. Council should have power to
prevent the use of lawn sprinkles
night and day, in such emergencies,
and enforce it, too, until such time
as the city can have facilities for
keeping the reservoir full under all
conditions.
The Chosen Freeholders paid out a
considerable number of good dollars
last Thursday on account of expense
incurred by the Prosecutor in trying
to locate the negro shooter Owen
while he lay snug and safe in the
Rev. 81 Clisby's house at Jericho, and
later was smuggled to New York in
woman'S garb. According to local
Interpretation of the law, Clisby vio-
lated no law in thus adding to the
public BURDEN defeating the officers
who were spending the peoples good
dollars, and rescuing Owen from the
laws penalties for shooting fellow
man!
The strip of Imperial Road on the
Crown Point highway, is a condition
that confronts the county and the
contractors and not theory. Jos. T.
Sickler, Esq. the local representative
| of the Imperial Company, contends
that the road is completed according
to contract, and demands that the
county pay for it, while the uses of
/ the road assert that it is no road at
all, but mixture to prevent people
from using the road. If the road is
as bad as some people say, knowing
what to do with it is no small prob
/ lem, and if its as good as the Imperial
people say, how to get a lot of people
and the F'reeholders to agree with
/ them is another problem Two such
problems are certainly worthy fof be-
ing classed as q condition.
1t seems to US that the sure way -rcsv
solve a condition is to proceed strict
Iy by the terms of the contract. Mr..
Sickler says his Company has given
the county just such road as it
agreed to. A team of horses may not
be able to haul five to six tons over
! it easily, but it is such loads that
crush out a stone road in single
season Mr.. Sickler says a reason
ably fit team can haul a reasonable
load over the Imperial Road, and it
/ will improve under such use, while
such roads as the county has been
building rut out and blow away. He
says the Imperial road is not flint
hard road, was never calculated to be,
but is resilient, yielding, dustless and
noiseless, and will cost nothing for
repairs for years at least.
i
1 When the State Mutual Building
/ Association in Camden failed a good
many of the shareholders sold their
claims for about thirty cents on the
dollar Now that the receivers have
declared rs per cent. dividend and
state that rs per cent. of the capital
may be salvaged to shareowners who
/ sold out to spectators are sorry, and
they are trying to get the court to-
order the receiver to pay the surplus
above what they sold for to them as
the real sufferers. If they can prove
fraudulent Misrepresentation they
may get such an order.
**
At the meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Farmers Picnic at
Washington Park last Saturday night
the Premium committee had new
proposition put up to it. They were
told that next year there would be
hundred or two of state Aid" colts
in the county, and then must prepare
to make them candidates for prem
l.iums. Like the wisemen they are,
they delayed that trouble until next
year.
Farmers in Somerset County report
that large numbers of locusts are
turned up in ploughing, and they ex-
4 pect the seventeen-year locust in that
section this year The last visitation
was in 1892 and it was not very severe
1t is probable that this brood has got
worked out.
The Demand For Cows.