The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-17
Mercantile Tax Law
To Be Revised
Payments Must Be Made Yet As
1t Now Stands. New Ordi-
nance Governing Fire De-
partment Presented

The Mayor and Council met in reg
ular session on tuesday night.
mayor Kidd presided. Two mem
bers were absent, an nuSua thing
since the new Council was organized.
Those responding to roll caIl were
GIlilson, Wills, Naylor, Long, to-
gether with Clerk StruDle, Soncitor
ureer and Recorder u. v. Summerlu,
ia.
The Finance Committees report as
received IRON ID. Z. featherer, treas
urer, shows a balance OF $3.50, and
$4,24z.16 Tor licenses, tees and mis-
ceIianeous accounts.
Clerk Struble turned in a check for
sos Tor license tees and street open
mgs Tor January:
The annual report of ID. p. Feath-
erer, treasurer, Tor the year, was re-
ceived and ordered published.
The Committee on Streets and
Sidewalks. reported several complaints.
Chairman Glllison admitted that they
were in bad shape in many places. 1t
must be remembered, that the appro-
priation for such work this year is
only $4,000. Last year it vas $4,000.
Regarding sidewalks, citizens should
understand there were private prop
erty and could not be repaired with
public money,
Committee on Lights were instruct
ed to have a light placed at Norma
Avenue and Main Street and at north
end of Morris Avenue.
John J. Crane addressed Council re-
garding a ditch running across Cum
berland Avenue, between Walnut
Street and Willis Avenue, which had
been filed up.
The Clerk was instructed to notify
the owner to clean out this ditch on
his land or it would be done by the
Borough and charged to him,
William NJ. Clark spoke of automo-
biles running over his sidewalk IN
Pearl Street and asked permission to
sink some hitching posts along the
edge of the sidewalk to keep them off.
The request "a granted
j.. u. Layton, furniture dealer, on
South Broad Street, referred to his
mercantile license, which he has not
paid yet. He had always paid here
tofore but did not feel inclined TO do
so this year when payments from
others were not being generally en-
forced. There should be a square
deal in this matter.
Mayor Kidd informed Mr.. Layton
that there was to be a general .revi-
sion of the ordinance and this would
be the last payment under it as it
now stands.
A new fire ordinance, supplemental
to the one now in force, was intro
duced and passed first reading. 1t
appears in full elsewhere.
The Board of Health was granted
$500 OF their appropriation for the
current year as they We're in need OF
funds.
Engle Pedrick was reappointed a
special officer without pay. He will
continue to act as truant officer at
the school as in the past.
The lists of delinquent taxpayers
for several years past were presented
to Council by Collector Featherer with
the idea of having sales for their col
lection. Industrial conditions are
such, however, at the present time,
that it was finally decided to wait
until Spring to begin the sales, as
there would probably be better en-
ployfnent conditions then. Just now
such a sale would prove a great hard
ship upon many and less money would
be realized.
The bond of Clyde w. Struble,
Borough Clerk for $500 was presented
and accepted.
Fire Chief johnson rendered a re-
port for 1921 since the taking over
of the department. During that
period there were SO fires, Ia being re-
ported for December. 1t was a care
fully prepared report, covering the
time, location, damage and insurance
(where possible) of each fire. The
report was accepted and the thanks of
the Mayor and Council rendered to the
Chief.
Clerk Struble desires it to be known
that he has the dog tags for 1922 on
hand and is ready to register your
doc before a dog warden is ap-
pointed.
The next meeting will be held
Tuesday, February 2S.