The Penn's Grove record., 1910-08-19
FREEHOLDERS TURN WOODSrOWN DOWN
Elmer,s State Road to Cost 81, 4ls.s2

Elmer'S State Road to Cost ~,
At the the June meeting Of the Board
| of ~Freeholders, MI. Griscom, OF the Com
mittee on Maintenance of the County
Jail, reported seventeen prisoners IN the
Jail and the cost of maintaining them the
past month $41.25 or IL cents a day.
Director Gray appointed Lucius E.
Hires, the new Freebooter from the West
Ward, Salem, to take the place on all
committees of which the former Free
holder, Eugene II. Hires, was a member.
Mr.. Hannah, of the committee on
Penn's Neck bridge, reported that the
cost Of the repairs to the bridge, for dam
g e done by a barge of the Atlantic Re-
filming Company, of Philadelphia, was
$3.50. 13.
Mr.. Hires made a motion that Solicitor
Keasbey be instructed to bring suit at
once for the collection of the amount.
H. P. Gray, L. S. Prickett, George w.
Pierson and G. Charlesworth, ofthe COM
mittee on the Elmer State road, reported
that bids had been advertised for the
building of the road, and that bids had
been received as follows; ]. S. Fisher &
Son, Clayton, So, 1889. "a; Richmond &
Craig, Cedarville, {, 52O. Sc; F. H. Lloyd,
Salem, 5 ,419.32. The committee recon-
mended the acceptance of the bid oil Mr..
Lloyd, which was approved by the Board
and the Director authorized to enter into
contract, in accordance with Mr.. Lloyd's
bid, for the construction of the road.
AT the afternoon session the bond of
Mr.. Lloyd for $7,419, signed by DIR. w.
H. Carpenter and ]. Morris Reeves, was
presented and accepted.
Director Gray, in relation to the Sec
ton of road rendered the county by the
township committee of Alloway, said he
felt, as one OF the committee, that the road
should be put in as good condition as the
State roads are left by the contractor, be-
fore accepted by the Board.
A board foot-path on a small bridge on
Grant Street, Salem, being reported in a
dilapidated condition and unsafe for
travel, and some question having arisen
as to the obligation of the county in the
matter, Solicitor Keasbey gave an opinion
that the repair of the foot-path is wholly
discretionary with the Board.
Mr.. Hires moved that the Board build
the foot-path, which was carried, Mr..
Prickett voting in the negative. He said
the same question had been up in Woods
town, and there the borough had to con-
struct the foot-path, and he thought in
taking this action tile Board was estab-
fishing a bad precedent.
Mr.. Hannah asked that GO Slow
signs be placed at the Pennsville end Of
the Lower Penn's Neck State road as a
warning to automobiles. The request was
granted.
On motion OF Mr.. Prickett, the County
Board Of Elections was granted a fur
nished room in the Court House.
Messrs. Pancoast, Hannah and Gray, a
committee on the Cooper's Branch bridge
in Lower Alloways Creek, reported that
they had met on the bridge on July 30th,
and they recommended that a new bridge
be built, with concrete abutments and
plank flooring, the bridge to cost about
$500. The bridge is a forty-fve feet span,
with eighteen feet plank.
Mr.. Hires advocated a concrete flooring
instead OF plank as the best and cheapest
in the end.
Mr.. Pricket said he was compelled to
replank bridges in Woodstown every
year, as the plank would not stand heavy
travel longer, and that he is in favor of
concrete.
On a vote being taken it was unani-
mously decided to build the bridge with
a concrete floor.
Messrs. Gray, Lounsbury, Griscom,
Burk and Prickett, the committee on the
Mannington-Pilesgro Woodstown State
road, reported that they met with the
Borough Council of Woodstown on July
18th, and that they made a proposition
to the Borough Council that the county
grade the section within the borough,
from the bridge to the public fountain,
the borough surfacing the road, in addi-
ton to paying the requisite ten per cent.
as required by law.
A communication was read from the
Borough Council of Woodstown, accept
ing this proposition.
Mr.. Prickett said that ne considered
the proposition a lair one, and that the
road would be incomplete without the
buildino this short niece of road,