The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-21
MORE IMPROVED ROADS WANTED
Penns Grove and SharptOwn Road
To BE rIade State Highway


The monthly meeting of the County
| Board of Freeholders was held on the
18th. All the members were present eX-
cept Mr.. Vanneman. Director Gray
presided.
William Ward, of Elmer, appealed to
the Board for aid for a tuberculosis
patient at Elmer, Samuel Bryant, whose
means of support, he declared, are very
limited. Mr.. Hart, of the tuberculosis
| Committee was instructed to have the
County Physician make an examination
of this case and render such aid as may
be advisable. ,
Samuel H. Wright, OF Elmer, addressed
the Board in behalf of the proposed State
highway, to be built from Pennsgrove
through Sharptown, Woodstown and
Elmer to the county line at Malaga, and
then to Atlantic City.
Damon q. Humphreys, of Woodstown,
! and H. T. Bell, of Elmer, also urged the
building of the road. Resolutions OF
Woodstown and Courses Landing urging
the road were presented. A letter from
State Road Commissioner E. A. Stevens
was presented. In it he said he believed
a heavy traffic, not only in touring but
for the transportation of farm produce in
both directions would be developed. He
was ready to approve any portion OF 1t
when asked.
Director Gray named Burk, Gray,
tanning, Griscom and Borton as a COM
mittee to take up the matter with State
Commissioner Stevens.
Mayhem Sparks, of Warrington, pre-
scented a petition for the construction of
a State road from the Pointers, through
Courses Landing to Auburn, a distance
of some nine miles. The petition was
signed by a large number of citizens.
1t was received and placed on file to take
its turn.
Engineer Keasbey made a staten ent
in reference to the Quinton road and the
work of the contractors, and that a por-
zion OF the shells placed on the road are
not up to contract requirements. He
also complained that Contractor Craig
had not scraped the road and kept it i'll
as passable a condition as he might.
Mr.. Craig expressed his willingness to
do all that the contract called for, and
to try and satisfy the Board in the
work.
The contract to erect an iron bridge
over Beaver Creek on the road between
P~edricktown and Auburn was given to
Henry B. Richman, of Woodstown, for
SI9IO. The other bids were Chris Pome-
lear, Pitman, $2342; Isaac E. Harris, Sal
en-, $23S0; Bridgeton Construction Co.,
Bridgeton, $266l' Owego Bridge Co.,
Philadelphia, $685..
Mr.. Hart reported that the county
physician had sent some saliva of Mrs.
Beddoe to the State Board of health and
no traces of tuberculosis had been found.
Frank Headley was released from jail,
the County to pay the cost, So. 10.
Mr.. Griscom, of the Committee on
Supplies to the County Jail, reported
nine prisoners in cofinement, three white
and six colored. at a cost Of S68,
or an average of 1871 cents per day.
The Committee on Insane, Reeves,
Borton and CARL, reported having visit
ed the asylum at Trenton on January
DIST, and found all OF Salem county's
patients well cared for. There are now
tilty-two there from Salem county.
Mir. Pierson reported the Pleasan t
Hill bridge completed, and the committee
was discharged.
Mr.. Hart, Of the Public Building Com
mittee, reported that a new typewriter is
needed in the Surrogate's office, the pres
civ Out DeIbS DdOlN NOiu, ditcl q use VI
about five years. The committee was
instructed to purchase a new machine,
at a cost Of $l67.
Mr.. Borton said the iron bridge at
Woodstown needed painting, and the
matter was left in his hands to have it
painted.
Engineer Cattell, OF Gloucester county,
who is preparing plans for the repairs OF
the Courses Landing bridge, stated that
in a conference with Major Raymond, of
the Engineer Corps, it had been decided
to move the centre pier to the opposite
side of the stream, so that the same could
be used i'll constructing a new bridge
The Board approved the change.
The joint committees of Salem and
Gloucester counties, consisting of Burk,
Gray and Lanning, for Salem county, and
Usinger. Haines and Horner, for Glouces-
ter county, on the county line bridge at
Nortonville, reported that they had met
on the bridge, and after a careful exami-