The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-14

startled Mrs. John D. Layton so she died
and Mr.. Layton had been forbidden to
have a family funeral and to even follow
the body of his own wife to the grave.
He has butted into the business of
local physicians and declared guarantees
%itnOut authority of the local Board. He
has in many cases made himself obnox-
ious.
Mr.. Summerill said that he himself
could take the State laws and local sani-
tary codes and with absolute authority
collect 100000 in fines from the proper
ty owners of Penns Grove. He could
find enough wild carrot, thistles, briars.
burdock and other obnoxious weeds for
hidden to allow grow and bankrupt most
of the farmers in the Township.
The meeting adjourned and when Mr..
Summerill left the others present held a
council of war what to do with the only
o~bstreperous and contrary member of the
Board of Health.
COMMENT
Mr.. Summeril last Saturday afternoon
went to 131 Franklin street and found
the turbid water as represented. Before
he left the owner, Mrs. Lavinia Daven-
port, a widow, with small means, over
sixty years of age, arrived, and was in
! formed Of the condition and that it was
her duty to furnish good water to a ten
ant.
She said she had been sick at her
home in Pedricktown for a month. and
that was her first trip to Penns Grove
for six weeks. She did not know the
water was unfit for use and had not re-
ceived a notice since the condemnation
for b. coli, which crusade had been stop
ped.
She thanked us for saving her from
fifty dollars fine and went at once and
signed a contract to have corporation
water supplied to the tenant.
Mr.. Summerill has been unable to get
the ordinances changed in regards to
fines, because of lack of authority to hire
some one to do the legal work, which a
member of the local Board is not requir-
ed to give his time for nothing.
l.. C. CckeyAwho took up the work of
scavengering abandoned it because he
would not work under the arbitrary man
ner of DR.. Knight. who acted as if he
ed the citizens. but is willing to work
under a reasonable citizen.
To let DR.. Knight loose on Penns
Grove with a lot of young state inspec-
tors, in our opinion, would be equivalent
to letting a hyena and a lot of jackals
loose on a flock of sheep.
Harry L. Blohm and S. NJ. Justice are
responsible for DIR. Knights retention in
Penns Grove.
Whether the people realize it or not,
some do and many do not; whether the
people appreciate it or not. W. A. Sum-
merrill intends to stand like Leonidas at
Thermopylea or Horatius at the Bridge
and such ravages as DIR. Knight and the
State Board have in mind will not be
permitted except over our dead body, of
icially, under the present sanitary code
which has never been changed.
We can recall nothing to equal it, but
the fugitive slave law which permitted
blood hounds to chase runaway slaves.
Penns Grove may be black and dirty in
the eyes of some. like the slave was, but
the State Board has got to prove the un-
healthiness of the inhabitants. Their
predictions of what would happen last
summer did not come true, and their
fund of book knowledge of what happen
ed in other places with a lack of common
sense may not bring it true next sum
mer, in Penns Grove, any more than il
did last summer.
Tell your borrowing neighbor you pay