The Penn's Grove record., 1920-01-16
County FreehOlders
Make Yearly Budget
Trolley Company VIII Run Line
To Dye Plant. Aims
house Big Cost
Salem. January IA. 1920.

ldT I1eeLiUS LOT lJZU Oh The DOdIQ OF
Chosen Freeholders was a very busy
one On Wednesday, the 14th. The an
nual reports were submitted and
the budget for the year was read
and approved. 1t will be published and
a public hearing held on Saturday
morning, January oath, at II o'clock.
A digest of the budget is given in the
report of the Finance Committee. 1t
appears in another column of the
Record.
A number of committees were heard
by the Board, among them being.
from the Elmer Borough Council,
which came to learn whether or not
the Freeholders had provided for 60
ing ahead with the concrete paving
in that town next spring. This had
been provided for when the work was
necessarily postponed last summer.
This committee also asked that the
Freeholders take over a piece of
gravel road in that Borough which is
a continuation of the State road con-
Meeting portions of the road from
Upper Pittsgrove and Maple Ridge.
1t is about f~ve-eights of a mile long.
AS the County has been appropriating
money each year to help maintain the
road it was decided to take it over.
Mayor Miller, of Salem, accompa-
MED by former Mayor Grier, addressed
the Board on the matter of an appro-
~priation for that City for 1920. Mr..
Grier stated that through a misunder-
standing the City was led to expect
that the County would appropriate
$4,000 this year and had entered into
a contract with the Burke Company
to finish the construction of Market
Street from Grant Street to the cover
ed bridge. 1t was later learned that
the County budget would include only
$1,000 for Salem. After some investi-
CATION it was found that since the
State was going to take over the
Huntington Woodstown road o
money could be spared and Salem was
granted $4,000 for this year.
J. Forman Sinnickson, Esq, appear
ed for the Salem-Penns Grove Trac-
ton Company and presented a pei
ton for the construction of a track
across the road in Lower Penns Neck
Township at Deep Water so that the
Company can extend its line into the
dupont dye plant. The new line will
be run on the second street above the
road that runs along the canal. A
resolution was adopted granting the
desired right of way and a hearing
will be held at the special meeting OF
the Freeholders on the Gath.
DR.. A. Ralston Green, in behalf of
Harry P. Morrison Post, asked an ap-
preparation for the proposed hall for
that body. He stated that the build
ing would not be erected until 1871.
The Board will act on the matter
later.
The report of the Finance Com
mittee included a report of their trip
to Newark to attend the conference
of representatives of the several
Boards of Freeholders of the State
last month. Many of the counties
want legislation that will give them
power to increase their bonded IN
debtedness for public improvements.
The report stated that Salem County
is not at the present time interested
in securing funds by issuing bonds
but that the committee believed that
if the users of roads, the automobile
and truck owners were taxed more,
it would result in securing more money
for road building. 1t is contended
that an increase in the motor vehicle
license would not be as much OF a
burden to the owners as the wear on
machines and the extra cost OF gaso-
line.
While the majority Of the Freehol-
ders seemed in favor of increasing
the license fee substantially it was
decided to postpone action until the
owners had a chance to express their
opinions.
The Road Committee, among other
things, reported upon the idea OF
planting trees along the roads Tor
shade and also for protection to the
roads themselves. Salem County has
the honor of taking the initiative IN
this proposition. In a letter to En-
gineer Keasbey, State Forester Alfred
Gaskill says that trees ten to twelve
feet high can be planted on fifty foot
intervals on both sides of the road at
about $500 a mile. Only about 40 per
cent. of the total mileage need be
planted with trees from a nursery.
For the other 60 per cent. the trees
growing in the vicinity may be used
at a cost of 5000 a mile. The cost of
up keep will be about $50 a mile per
wear. This matter was referred to
the Road Committee with power to
act.
Owing to the freezing weather,
which has prevented any work, the
Bridge Committee had no report to
make.
The annual report of the County
Almshouse Trustees showed that the
total receipts were S12,010.26, and the
expenditures S12,006.50, leaving a bal
ance of 1915.
Jail and Road Camp
The annual report of the Jail and
C2sl Camp Committees show that
during 1919 there were SO prisoners
od,o;ttad Thare were served in the