The Penn's Grove record., 1916-08-18
Upper Penns Neck To Have
Wider Road

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bidder for building the bridge on the
line of Gloucester county was given the
contract for $2.249. provided Gloucester
county approved.
Edward Steelman was the lowest bid
der for building the new bridge at
Daretown, $2,1S6. and was awarded the
contract.
c. 7. Fox made an offer to lower the
pond nine feet for a period of 40 work
ing days while the bridge is being
built, for a sum of $3.50. any extra time
required to be paid for at the rate of IS
per day. The offer was accepted. The
question of building a temporary bridge
while the new one is being built was left
to the director to decide.
A letter was received from County
Solicitor keasbey in relation to the
Penns Grove Sharptown road stating
that the State Road Department refuses
to approve plans for the improved road
as at present laid out through the village
OF Sharptown and that offers to buy the
necessary land to straighten the road
had been refused. For a little over one
Aaere of land the owner. Mrs. Oliphant.
Wants $500 and for 66-1O0 of an acre
, Mr.~Webber demands $1,000. Both have
! refused offers of $500. He stated that
m his opinion there are four courses
which might be pursued: /. to abandon
the building Of this road until the State
oilclals and the property owners change
their views; ?, to pay the prices de-
manded: 3, to condemn the land desir-
ed; 4. to build the road through the vii
lage as planned and to pay the entire
cost from the county funds without
State aid. The question was settled
when the necessary resolutions to start
condemnation proceedings as quickly as
possible were presented by Mr.. Borton
and adopted by the Board.
A petition was received from the resi-
dents of Canton and vicinity asking that
no more gravel be placed on the Han
cocks Bridge-Canton road but that it be
finished with shells. 1t is the intention
of the Board to complete with shells.
Mr.. Heron moved to take some action
to get shells for the L. p. Neck road de-
livered in this city as quickly as possible
for placing on the road this fall.
A motion was adopted authorizing the
extending of the road past the Rubber
old Village in e. p. Neck township 60
the building line at the approaches Of
two intersecting streets.
n County Collector Reeves and Director
Gray were authorized to borrow $1O.-
600, at five per cent from the First Ma
tional Bank of Elmer.
Mr.. Smith moved that the section of
the Penns Grove-Sharptown-W oodstown
road, extending out of Penns Grove az
far as the Courses Landing road, be
eighteen feet wide, with two feet stone
shoulders on each side. Mr.. Smith ar
gued very strongly for this width of
road, saying that "a sixteen foot road
would be too narrow to accommodate
the traffic that this road will have to
carry. He said that Upper Penns Neck
is paying the county $4,000 in taxes,
and he felt that this entitled them to
what they ask for this road, and espec-
tally since that township is not having
money spent there for concrete bridges.
4. Mr.. Borton said a sixteen foot road
would be too narrow to accommodate the
wagon and automobile traffic.
Mr.. Smith, in reply to Mr.. Heron.
said that if ninety automobiles passed
over this road an hour. it would look
much more attractive to promoters of
the trolley project.
A motion of Mr.. Smith to this effect
was carried. with only one vote against
it.
The county collector was authorized
to pay J. Emmor Robinson, treasurer
of the Salem County Almshouse, 81 900
for the needs of that institution.
: Mr.. Griscom, for the Committee on
Supplies to the County Jail. reported
twenty-five prisoners in confinement,
and the cost of maintenance $S7.23, or
an average of II 1-66 cents. In the
road camp fourteen prisoners. at a cost
for two months of 1851, or an average
of As ID cents.
Mr.. Smith read a letter from ]. T.
Burk & Co., the contractors OF the
Penns Greve-Pennsyille road. to rebuild
the road on Main street, Penns Groyes
torn up by the trolley company, of stone,
for the cost of the work, plus fifteen per
cent. IckN{A Nj 1
The toffer was accepted. w
Mr.. SmifHNasked that some repairs
be made at bnce to the road from Penns
Grove to the old Danser mill, and it was
ordered that the road be graveled, the
work to be lone by the county convicts.
and the matter was left in the hands of
the County Road Supervisor and Free
holder Smith.
Bids were ordered advertised for, for
the building of the piece of road from
the Pilesgrove line to Pole Tavern, to
be constructed of gravel, a distance of
about 2 IA miles.
Mr.. Heron was given authority to
employ a second bridge tender at the
lower canal bridge. and he and Engineer
Keasbey investigate the repairs being
made to the bridge by the builders Of
trolley road.
1t was also ordered that bids be adj
v~ertised Cor to furnish an electric motor
to be used on the lower canal bridge.
s ThAAFlanigin bridge, in Oldman's was
reporteB completed, and the committee
was discharged.
Mr.. EBurk reported that he had en-
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