The Penn's Grove record., 1910-11-18
Murder Trials Expensive.
Lower Creek Wants a State Road

Lower Creek Wants a State Road
The November meeting OF the Board
Of Freeholders was held at the Court
House Salem, on the 9th, with all
| the members present and Director Gray
in tile chair.
The township election bills were laid
over, to be passed upon by the special
committee to consider them, or paid by
the County Collector, if in regular from.
| Only a part of the bills nave been re-
I ceived.
The Committee on Supplies to County
| Jail reported the cost for maintenance
the past month $40.2 "a or all average Of
81 cent per day per prisoner.
The Committee OF Discharge of Pris-
oners recommend that William Dill
be discharged, and the amount OF costs
in his commitment, of 81. rs, be paid.
They also approved a recommendation
| OF Sheriff Batten that five days be re-
mitted from the sentences of Thomas
Quinn, Louis Colnton, Charles Devics,
Frank Kelly and Louis Rebenstein, for
| good behavior, and that they be dis
charged.
A petition was received from residents
in Lower Alloways Creek asking that
the public road from Hancocks Bridge,
the end of the present State road, through
Harmersville and Canton, to the Cum
berland county line, a distance OF five
miles and one-tenth, be improved as a
State road, and the township committee
agreeing to pay ten per cent, of the cost
of said road. On motion of Mr.. Hannah,
the petition was placed on file, to be
taken up in order.
A bill OF $l,312.72 of Tuft & Lloyd,
for work done OF the Elmer State road,
and approved by the engineer and com
mittee, was ordered paid. There is some
question as to a part of the gravel used
on this road, which was left to be ad-
justed- later,
Director Gray notified the Board that
a sluice was needed on the Elmer and
Harding State road, to stop the washing |
of a embankment during storms, aud
also a railing erected along this embark
ment for about one hundred yards, as d
protection to travellers. The committee
was authorized to make this charge.
Messrs. Lounsbruy, Pierson and Han
nah, of the committee on the Alloway
and Aldine Svate road, recommended
the acceptance Of the road, and the BAL
ance due Tuft & Lloyd, the contractors
of 1860, be paid, which was ordered. I
Mr.. Burk made a report of the dam
g recently done to the piling at the
Pedricktown bridge by the boat Of Capt.
William Wright, and that after a con-
ference of the committees from Salem
and Gloucester counties, and proper
ment, it had been agreed to put in al
extra cluster of pilings OH the Salem
county side, and he had been directed to
proceed and a pile-driver had been en-
gagged to do the work. The matter vas !
approved by the Board.
Mr.. Prickett said that complaints had
been again entered against the Courses
Landing bridge, and the difficulty in
running off the draw, and asking that
something be done at one, or an appeal
would be taken to the War Department..
Mr.. Prickett was authorized to make
all investigation and remedy the Difficult
county Butcher notified the
Board that IS, oO6-nnld have tn he 'tnr- !
rowed, in anticipation OF taxes, to pay
the election bills, amounting to about
$4,000, and $4,000 for courts and $500 for
interest. He said the recent session OF
court was an expensive II to the county,
having cost $2,400. The murder trial
swelled the expense item.
On motion of Mr.. Hires, it was ordered
that the money be borrowed from the
Salem National Banking Company.
The Solicitor reported that the Pension
Department at Washington, had called
his attention to All act which states that
no pension money could be used to
reimburse the county for expenses III
the last illness and death and burial OF
soldiers.