The Penn's Grove record., 1921-01-14
~FreehOlders Want
More Road Money
Many In Jail To Do County Road
Work. Maintenance Money
Divided

By a vote of ten to three, the Board
of Chosen Freeholders, at their meeting
on Wednesday afternoon, decided to
adhere strictly to the program app
out by the Finance and Road Com
mittees and build such roads as had
been approved by the State Highway
Department. The question of road
constructor becomes more serious with
every year and the demands for better
permanent roads from all parts of the
County become more persistent as the
traffic increases and it is found that
the old roads will not hold up under
the severe strain of the heavier trucks.
The action taken at the meeting was
the outcome of a conference with a COM
mittee of the Salem Chamber of Com
merce, which had been appointed for
the purpose of asking the Freeholders
to change their plans so that money
enough could be furnished to finish
a section of the concrete road from
Churchtown to Pennsville. 1t was late
in the afternoon when the Freeholders
could give the committee a hearing
and the discussion took UP more than
an hour, during which every phase
of the ROAD building proposition was
handled with a view of coming TO some
solution to the problem whereby the
County seat could be satisfied and no
Injustice worked on the taxpayers of
other sections of the County.
Isaac C. Smashey presented the
proposition of the Chamber of Com
merce to the Board. He called atten-
ton to the fact tina while the Board
had agreed to build with the penetra-
ton method the road leading from Sa-
lem across the causeway north beyond
the ice house it was only because the
State Highway department had failed
to grant enough money from the motor
vehicular fund to build the concrete
section. He said that he believed that
if a change was made in the program
for the Road Camp work on the
pointers-Auburn road the Freeholders
devote sufficient funds to build
another mile of the Salem-Penns Grove
road from Churchtown to Pennsville
and thus save a year in completing the
making of a concrete road through
Ouinton. He thought that the state
aid should be diverted to this purpose
this year.
President Summerlin, of the Chamber
of Commerce, and Robert n. Nanneman,
member of the Board of Direc-
tors. also made appeals and advanced
reasons for pushing the work on TINS
section this year.
Freebooter Heron stated that the
postponement of construction from
C"hurchtown to Pennsville for one year
had sui IN sever CIltiClSh ~
the taxpayers in his territory who
claimed that they were being discrim-
mated against as it was apparent hat
the Board of Freeholders had appro-
for their road only what was
left of the motor vehicular fund afteer
ali other roads had been taken care or
Messrs. Borton and GaVentG were
in their support of continuing along
the present program and refused 10
- Tho pan6 Damn
which would delay for another year
the completion of all the work between
Pedricktown and Woodstown on the
Pointers-Auburn road.
After the vote to stick to the pro-
gram there was further discussion ana
several ways were proposed by when
it was thought that funds could be
to go ahead with the Church-
town-Pennsville concrete section.
Will Ask More State Aid
Engineer Sparks announced that the
next meeting of the State Board of
Highway commissioners would be held
Wednesday, February 2. The com"
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
then offered to send a committee with
a committee from the Board of Free
holders to this meeting at trenton ana
there make another appeal for more
State aid for the work on this road.
rms pFOpOSlliOH was dSlCCu " civ IN
and Road Committees Will go
with the committee from the
Another plea for a concrete road was
made by Preston S. Foster. of the
Elmer Times, who asked the Freehol-
ders to AXE up for consideration the
building of the roa that runs through
Elmer to Pole Tavern. He said that he
realized that this cannot be done this
year but wished the members to know
tIat %ha I'm pnrnIIOh Council had
already acted on the project and would
furnish their ten per cent, of the cost.
He said that the road can never be
up as a gravel road and 1T is only
a waste of good money to try to do 1t.
This is a link in the Malaga-Penns
Grove road which is a direct route to
Atlantic City and is being subjected to
harder usage every year.
Frank A. Grier appeared for the City
of Salem and asked for an a~ppropria-
ton for the City toward the rebuild
ing of III road to Oakford Beach. part
of which is in Salem and the balance in
Elsinboro Township. After consulting
the allotment for roa maintenance
for 1921 the Board granted Salem City
$500 from the motor vehicular funds
for the work on the road.
The estimates for road maintenance
in 1921 as fixed by the Road and
Finance Committees were read by
County Engineer H. B. Keasbey and
accepted by the Board. The allotments
follow:
Roads Appropriated 1921
Aldine-Pole Tavern 81, 900
CarrI's Corner 500
Elmer Boro 1000
Elmer-HardingviTle ...-.--.... $500
Hancock's Bridge-Canton ........ 1000
Hancock's Bridge-Sa1em ........ 1000
Malaga-Elmer 1000
Elmer-Ple Tavern ............. $500
Pole Tavern-Pi1esgrove Township 500
Pflesgrove Twp line Woods'tn... 200
Pointers-Auburn to Layton's Lake 200
Layton's Lake to Penns Grove . 500
........ 500
Pedricktown-Penns Grove ....... $500
Penns Grove-Pennsvi1le, 4 Sect's. 400
Road Camp, Pointers-Auburn ....47 600
Ouinton-Marlboro ............. 1900
Quinton-Remsterville ........... 500
RemsterviIle-Aldine ............ 700
Grove .....--.....2 %. 400
Salem-Quinton 1000
Sh~irley-Elmer 1900