The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-28
License Application FQ|Se
Provision For Inn and Tavern Not
Made According To Law

49,
The subscriber hereby applies for a
license to keep an Inn and Tavern in
the house located at 326-2S Main street,
Penns Grove, N. j., now leased by him
and to sell spirituous, %vinous, malt or
brewed liquors, in quantities less than
one quart, to be drunk on or about the
premises where sold. said house being
situate as aforesaid.
The subcriber ~certifies that there is
not at this time a licensed Inn and Tav-
ern in the Borough of Penns Grove
aforesaid therein to be the number of IL
censes isued would be greater than five
hundred to one.
Comfy S. EAGLE,
Applicant.
Dated April Term, 1916.
We, the subscribing freeholders of the
Borough of Penns Grove, in the County
of Salem and State of New Jersey, do
hereby recommend Comfy s. Eagle to be
licensed to keep an Inn and Tavern in
the house wherein he now dwells in said
Borough.
And we do hereby certify that the said
Comfy s. Eagle is of good repute for
honesty and temperance and is known to
each of us to have at least two spare
beds, more than are necessary for the
family use and is well provided with
house room, stabling and provender.
And we do further certify that such
an Inn an9 Tavern is necessary and will
conduee to the public good.
And we further certify that there has
not been issued any license to keep an
Inn. and Tavern in said Borough and that
the population is more than five hundred.
The above application is signed by
nineteen men, five of whom have moved
into Penns Grove within less than a
year and one is not an owner of real es-
tate.
Who this rare bird, Comfy s. Eagle,
is we have been unable to learn. He and
his aerie seem to be known only to
these nineteen signers. Other citizens
believe they are pawning off on the pub
lie and the Court a buzzard or wooden
duck.
No. 326-2S, Main street, is a brick
building under construction adjoining the
railroad, which is not entirely enclosed with
windows AID doors. There is not a kitchen
nor stove to provide food, not a bed nor
stable on the premises, yet these nine
teen signers certify that Comfy 5. Gag
lie resides therein and has at least W
4 feather beds for guests, with good and
sufficient bed clothes for the same, and
proyender and keep good, wholesome.
and sufficient diet for travellers and
stabling and provender of hay and grain
for four horses more than his W
stock"
We ask every citizen of Penns Grove
to investigate as to the truth of these
statements which the said Comfy ). Eagle
c~ertiies to, as we'll as the signers of his
application for license.
Section 4 of the Inn and Tavern law
reads:
IF any peron, who shall sign a rec
ommendation as aforesaid, shall there
in have imposed on the court, either by
signing to an UNDERSIGNED character, or
by describing a situation not true, or IN
any other manner, then every person of
offending shall be DENIED guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and, on conviction, shall be
fined the sun of ten dollars, to be paid
TO the overseer Of the poor where the
inn and tavern was proposed to be kept,
and applied to the poor of township"
Believing these men had no knowledge
of the law and were deceived we forego
publishing their names, feeling that they
will hereafter avoid being caught in a
legal net by one, a stranger to our Dor
ough, who desires to come here and get
rich off of the moral depravity of the
people.
Be sure an eagle is not a buzzard be-
fore signing another license application.
REMONSTRANCE.
The remonstrance against Eagles ap-
plication sets forth the claim that the
building is now in the course OF con-
struction. The roof is not yet on. The
p~etition is in bad form, untrue and the
signers are imposing upon and dece1vlng
the court. There are no spare bed
rooms and the premises are provided
with proper stabling. The licensed
inn is not a necessity and will be detrl-
mental to good morals, peace and good
order. The proposed inn is within a
mile of the Penns Grove Camp Meeting
Association.
Eighty-cne persons signed the remon-
STRANGE.
BOTTLERS' LICENSES.
The application for bottlers' licenses
made by Trevis Jenkins, to be located
at 513 Walnut street, in building partly
occupied by an italian grocery store. is
$40 feet from South Broad street and at
the north end of the Italian colony of
eighty-two houses, mostly shacks erected
within the past nine months.
James ]. Barrett, who applies for a
bottler's license where Robert w. Bevis
formerly lived, is reported to be from
. Bordentown. H. S. Golf, the owner of
the farm, has given no lease to Barrett.
Ray Morris has rented a piece of land
of Richard Brown opposite Borden
Dansen's and had a shack erected.
The application for b%ottler's license
requires no signers.
The remonstrance filed against grant
ing a license to Trevis jenkins claims
the place is located in a section of the
Borough which is Inhabited by lawless
.peoI1c. Walnut street is not recognized
as a regular s.raer, is ~unlighted and can
not be properly policed. 1t is not a ne
cessity and is within a mile of the Camns
Meeting Association meetings.