The Penn's Grove record., 1919-03-28
Salem Needs Pure Water
Amazing Unsanitary Conditions
At County Seat

Salem citizens have been drinking
skunk cabbage juice from Quinton
pond for thirty years. They stood it
we'll as long as there were four hotel
licenses and a bottling establishment.
Now that licensed liquors cannot be
had Salem is getting thirsty for pure
water. Having no whiskey to pre-
serve the swamp juice microbes the
people must have pure water.
The Standard and Jerseyman says:
CAS- stated in these columns last
week the citizens of Salem will not
have to wait much longer for a better
and greater supply of water for do
nestle and fire purposes, for action
was taken on Monday night to adver-
tise for bids at once for the furnish
ing and erection of a standpipe and al
so the installation of a filtration sys-
TEN at Quinton.
A resolution was adopted to appro-
pirate the sum of 100000 or so much
thereof as is necessary to defray the
cost of erection and construction of a
standpipe, of filters and of additions of
water mains to be used in connection
with the present water works system.
Another resolution was also intro
duced and adopted authorizing the
Mayor, City Treasurer and Recorder
to issue temporary bonds to the
amount of 100000, said bonds to ma
ture in three years, which time shall
not be more than six years after the
completion of the improvement.
Salem could stand bad water with
good whiskey, but without whiskey
Salem's death rate may be expected to
jump unless filtered water is gotten
very quickly"
The Standard and Jerseyman also
says:
"Mr. Bacon called the attention of
Council to the condition of some of the
public dumps within the City limits.
He said that his attention has espec-
tally been called to the n at the foot
of North Seventh Street and he had
viewed the premises and found them
a disgrace to the City. He said that
no effort is being made to keep the
debris on the lot and waste paper is
allowed to blow into the streets and
yards of the residents. He declared
that if ever there was a menance to
public health this was one. Mr.. Bacon
also said that there are other lots or
dumps in the thickly populated por-
lions of the city almost as bad.
Council pays a large sum of money
each year, Mr.. Bacon stated, for clean
ing out bitches that are in close
proximity to these dumps, all because
tin cans, baby coaches, wash boilers,
etc. are allowed to drift into the
streams"
How such things can be at the
County Seat is amazing, especially
where the President of the State Board
of Health lives.
If Salem citizens get sick on Quin-
ton skunk cabbage water, better come
to Penns Grove and drink out of our
16 foot wells which are the fountains
of long life.
Is it any wonder Salem needs a
hospital ?
Long Life In Penns Grove
The minutes of the 107th anniver-
sary of the West Jersey Baptist AS
ISOLATION held in Pedricktown Baptist
Church, October LIST and End, 1918,
contains a list of deaths in the mem
bership of the thirty Baptist Churches
in South Jersey. Of the 101 deaths
records in thirty Churches only two
were in the Penns Grove Baptist
Church. George Whitaker died De
cember 2sth, 1917, aged 92 years;
Hannah Armstrong July, 1918, aged
"a years. These are the two most
aged persons who died in the Baptist
Society in West Jersey.
The Baptists believe in pure water
and plenty of it. These are two more
witnesses to the fact that people who
lived in Penns Grove and drank water
from wells only Is feet deep or less
got the water of long life.
The two oldest men in Penns Grove
today are over 80. Others who do
not want to die of old age should move
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