The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-12
County Freeholders
Give Road Contract
County Statements to be Printed
In All County Papers. Rec
Ords Need Rebuilding

absentee when the roll was called at
the March meeting Of the Board of
Chosen .rreehoioers on Wednesday
morning. And it was also no doubt on
account of the bad condition of the
roads n the after effects of the
heavy storms OF the past month that
accounted for the rather tame ses-
sion, for the Bridge Committee had
been put out of business and could
submit nc report while the Road Com
mittee's report was made up princi-
pally Of complaints against the road
supervisors for neglecting to scrape
the roads and keep them in some kind
of shape Tor travel.
The contract for the building of por-
tions of the Elmer road and the llala-
ga-Penns Grove road in WoodstoWn
was awarded to Campbell & Co., of
Bridgeton. The total price Tor cost
of the two roads will be $22,171.65 of
which 15,056.25 will be required for
the Woodstown road and $7,115.40 for
the road in Elmer,
A resolution which accepted the
drawings and specifications for that
portion of the Pedricktown-Woods-
town road, section 2, beginning in
Pilesgrove township at the Oldmans
township line and ending near Main
Street IN WoodstoWn was adopted.
Quinton township had presented a
resolution asking that the county take
ove hat portion of the township road
which is really an extension of the
Marlboro-Quinton turnpike, extending
from the easterly end of the turnpike
to the Cumberland county line near
Marlboro Church, the township to pay
ten per cent. of the cost. 1t is really
known as a portion of the Quinton-
Shiloh road.
A resolution to take over the piece
of road signed by Freebooter Louns-
bury was adopted.
The matter of supplying new bal
lot boxes for Penns Grove and Upper
Penns Neck township was referred to
the Elections Committee together with
the Solicitor.
The annual report for 1919 of l. c..
Smashey, treasurer of the Surplus
Revenue Fund, was read and accepted
The Finance Committee reported that
| the bonds and securities had been
handed over to Mr.. Smashey's sue
cessor, Clerk Erwin G. Ochs.
The ordinance granting authority to
the Salem & Penns Grove Traction
| Company to construct tracks across
the road at Deepwater for an extern
sion into the dye plant vas given sec
ond and third reading and finally
adopted. Publication of the ordinance
was ordered in the Salem Sunbeam.
A petition signed by Messrs. j. Mil
ton Harris, George NJ. Pierpont and
George NJ. Lawrence, for the Cham
Der or Commerce of Quinton, asked
that the County construct a hard sur
face road on Main Street, when the
State road in Marlboro-Quinton turn
pike is constructed into a State road.
This petition was received and filed.
County Clerk Ballinger appeared be-
fore the Board and stated that many
of the books of record were in a dl-
lapidated condition and should be re-
bound or renewed. He also called at
tention to the fact that five of these
books are records of judgments and
liens. He said that it was n OF the
two counties that had not yet adopt
ed the system of combination 1ndeXeS
for the records. He said that repre-
sentatives of a firm that was dong
this work for Mercer county had been
here and had made an estimate OF the
cost of making this desirable change
here. The work will cost $500, pro-
yided the work is started before the
company's men are taken out OF the
State. The matter was left in The
hands of the Committee on County
Clerks office and the county solicitor
with power to act.
1t was decided to print the County
annual statement in all OF the papers
of the county for the benefit Of the
taxpayers, the compilation of the
statement OF be made by W. B. Dunn.
The report of the president OF the
Board of Managers of the Salem
County Memorial Hospital was read to
the Freeholders and addresses COM
mending the work of the hospital dur
ing its first six months of operation
were made by Messrs. Borton and
Heron. The clerk was instructed to
send a letter of appreciation IN the
name of the Board to the Board OF
Managers. The Freeholders as a
whole feel that the money a%pproprlat-
ed out of the county funds Tor the
hospital is a splendid investment. J.,
A resolution + Ny Wy
gave the County Collector authority to
nav over to ]. Emmor Robinson, treas
'rer. $500 Ior payment OF tie -%poAs-
pc of the County Almshouse.
The reports of the committee on
all and road camp show that there
are four prisoners in the jail and ~
at the road camp. The cost OF feed
inp the inmates of the Jail in Febru-
ary was S42.3S, or $50 cents per prls-
oner per day. At the road camp the
total maintenance was S334.90, or
"a Ia cents per man per day.