The Penn's Grove record., 1922-01-20
BOARD OF "FREEHOLDERS
County Tax Rate S1.02. Budget
Read and Adopted

OF Chosen t'reehOlders held the usual
hearing on the budget for the year
at an adjourned meeting on Wednes-
day. This delegation was from the
Woodstown Chamber of Commence
and was headed by President Smell
baker, who in a very fine speech
thanked the members of the Board
for granting the appropriation for
the building Of the bridge over the
proposed Memorial Lake. Mr.. Smell
baker laid stress on the fact that this
was not a memorial bridge, as some
people thought, but was the replace
ment of an old bridge by n that was
badly needed. The memorial was the
lake which was to be built and beau
titled with money contributed by he
citizens of Woodstown. He mention
ed the fact that twenty-five men had
contributed $4,000 toward the me-
mortal lake fund.
County Tax Rate S1.02
The budget was read and with a
slight change was adopted. There
was no one present to make any OBJ
lection to n of the items. The
change referred to was in the amount
Of the surplus revenues, which after
the budget had been made up and adj
vertised was found to be $30,925.62,
instead of S31 ,999.73. This made a
difference in the amount to be raised
by taxation. This amount is now
S345, 016.S4, instead of 343,942.73,'
but does not effect the County tax
rate, which will be S1.02, as compared
with SLOT last year. A resolution
to make the changes in the budget
was adopted.
Almshouse Report
The County Almshouse report for
1921 was read and accepted. This re-
port showed the total expenditures
during the year To have been S15,-
J2I.04. The receipts from the farm
Tor the year amounted TO S2,O2I.O4.
The receipts from the County were
$4,000.
The report OF Harry c. Hitchner,
Sealer Of Weights and Measures, was
read and accepted. During the year
he visited 532 stores and places Of
business, and made 5,408 inspections.
Of the latter 5,136 were found to be
correct. He condemned 103 and cor
rected 1863. He re-weighed 1,572 pack
ages, only n of which were found to
be Incorrect. There were three prose
cutions for offenders of the law and a
fine OF S25 was imposed upon each
n of them.
County Takes Over Salem Street
Recorder Dunn presented a petition
from the Common Council of the City
of Salem praying that the County
accept Yorke Street, which begins at
East Broadway and extends to the
Hancock's Bridge road. The City
offers to pay ten per cent of the cost
whenever the County decides to hard
surface this portion of the road. A
resolution formally taking over this
road was adopted.
Mr.. Dunn also presented a request
from Common Council to open Quin-
ton Street, which is now a portion OF
the State Highway system, for the
purpose of extending the sewer pipe
lines before the State department be-
gins the work of making a concrete
road. A resolution granting the re-
quest was adopted.
The Board passed a vote of thanks
to the Board Of Managers of the Salem
County Memorial Hospital for the
way in which the hospital authorities
had cared for James H. Wright, the
man who was accidentally shot by
Henry Kragler, one of Sheriff Brand
riffs deputies.
viii Accept Township Road
A delegation from Upper Pitts
grove Township, consisting of Messrs.
r. A. Robinson, Eugene Mcfarland,
John Wiltsee and Elmer Dare came
before the Board and asked that the
Monroeville Pole Tavern road be
taken over by the County. They
claimed that the road was in a very
bad condition and that the taxpayers
in that city realized that the County
could best rebuild and maintain it.
There was general discussion on
this proposition. Mr.. Gaventa was
supported by the other members when
he stated that if the County took over
the road it would have to be entirely
rebuilt to conform to the standard of
roads being built by the County both
as to width and style of construction.
This could not be done at the present
time.
MI. Ward then reminded the Board
that his Township (Pittsgrove) was
in greater need of a County road than
any other township. They had the
least number of miles of County roads
and had waited long to have the road
from Elmer to Centreton constructed
when they presented a resolution in
proper form the County would accept
it and bring it up to the standard of
County roads.
1t was finally decided that the town.
ship should build the road with town
ship aid from the State and then
presented a resolution in proper form
the County would accept it and bring
it up to the standard of County roads.
It is likely that the road from Elmer
to Centreton will be built by the road
camp force in the very near future.
F~reeholders J.. Morris Reeves and
Samuel Layman were present at the
meeting, after several weeks illness.
Mr.. Reeves has been i'll with the flu
at Royersford, Pa, from the day
after Christmas until Monday, and
Mr.. Layman had been suffering from
an attack of vertigo. Both gentlemen