$120000 Spent on Our County Roads
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m m m m £N£NM^ T p g PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF OCEAN COUNTY. HAT II, ISM ▼ 01 IMO eight teat beam. A three hone Short and Pithy Bita of FLEET OF power Howe ea«iae will Airaiah Intoroat to Many Roadart auxiliary driving power $120,000 SPENT ON YACHTS Dr. Balph R. Jones m the owner John F.ldrldge of Colliers Milla of the other power craft that Dorset! lost a to m last week TH IS YEA R has almost completed, and it now Bart Seaman of Tuckerton vili welting for the engine. This motor OUR COUNTY ROADS ride a new motor cycle inched and Some duct boat is a6 teat 8 inches tong, 7 feet T ta Barnegat Daughter of Liberty, hav« almost eaten up tta $37,000 re when tta county roads wars start ad, in at Local Yards beam, and 3 feat depth of hold. An will give a minstrel show NOW BUILT AND BUILDING, ceived by the county trom tta State and $70,000 was raised,tta rata being eight horsepower, two cylinder, and 75 cants oji tha $100. Naxt yaar A eon wee bon to Mr. and Mrt. ANO §87,000 FROM THE aa ita one-third share of the roads __ yacht Marital« 44 teat two cycle engine will drive this craft. tta same amount was raised, but tta Preston Newman at Lakewood last STATE AL80 GONE now finished by Kirk tor Congressman It la an open boat, and will also fly rate was 73 cents Last year another week oftha Fourth Pennsyl- the T. R. T. 0 . colore COUNTY TAX MORE THAN leap rained the amount of tta budget A daughter was born to Mr. and ^■ iet, aa a gilt tor hit ion. Vice Commodore George T. Crook Many people in Ocean county of DOUBLED IN 8 YEARS— to $ioo,ooqt and the tax rata to $1.01 Mrs. Goodrich Holman at Whites* late have been asking what has I Jfoon. wai launched on ol the Toma River Yacht club it §45,000 TO §100,000 ' on tta $1 |ait, at 4'io p. m. Mr. having a thirty toot motor boat built villa Apnl 37 become of the county funds, that the But for several year» past, or aver Tta New Egypt Press boasts that Board ot Freeholders should have a party of hla friend were by Doraett, the keel being laid thia Back in tta eighties. $35,000 to since tta work on county road* be» summer boarders are already local the launching week. She will be 9 feet beam. been compelled to create "a funded $40,000 was enough to run Ocean gan, each year piled up a debt on mg in that village ihel measure* 39 feet on The Vice Commodore already has a debt” to meet the current expenaea county a year, but the amounts grew the following one, for tha Board line, 14 feet beam, and sailing yacht, the famed cupwinner Water it being let ofl some of tta ot the county in the past few years till $50,000 was required early in tta contracted more bil.s than it had They do not understand for whht tta feet of water. She is Lulu cranberry bog«, but tta danger from nineties. raiaad funds to meet That ia why and equipped with all Continued on page 4 frost ia not yat over money has been spent, nor how it 1* By caieful management however the county now for the first time in for cruising. A self- William Camp is building a home tta Board has exceeded its appropria this wa* cut down to $45,000 in ita history ot 55 years haa what could tions so thst Supreme Court Justice ipit opens into a roomy O BITUARY at VanHieeville, to replace the house both 1895-6, with a courty tax rata tie called a funded debt, carried In Fort felt compelled to call the atten transoms on each side recently burned there both these years of 64 cents on the the shape of yearly notes The infant child of Mrs. William tion of the grand jury to the aitua _. Forward is the to’c’stle, The Laurel house, Lakewood, $100. Not only wai the county run Ferrine ot Lanoka, died last week tion and also the grand jury, on in it and the main cabin will stay open till June let, while on this sum, hut $17,000 was aaved BIG ROAD CONTRAGT8 AND and was buried on Sunday investigation, felt compelled to bring galley and lavatory. The the Laurel in the Pines doses next in these years, towards this county’s NO MONEY APPROPRIA fitted up for a gasoline in a presentment against the methods Mrs. Lydia M. Parker, wife of week halt of the $40,000 Manasquan River TED TO MEET THEM but the auxiliary power will of doing business employed by the Shreeve Parke.1, formerlv of near Samuel Robbins ot New Egypt, bridge, which was built in the | put in till next year. The Board tor some time past Tuckerton, died at Bridgeton, April formerly ot Toms River, has bo ught winter following The first county road let was the W'll have her own china, Last week the Courier showed, > * *8ed ‘ ye»r»t The building of the Squan bridge west section ol the Lakewood road, 5 4 a house on Railroad avenue from J. from the testimony of the representa 1 silverware, and will carry however introduced the Ocean on February 13, 190a, for $10,• Mrs. Alexander M Heron, wife ol M. Thompson tives ot the county, in the suit of binnacle and compass, I county Freeholders to the iron bridge 715,98; followed May 6, 1902, with a prominent Lakewood physician, FreJ Applegate o f New Egypt, John B Peters, where some of this ter, etc. She was designed builders, and soon it was evident the east section at $18.498. At the died April 30. She had lived twelye has a job as draughtsman at the money went. It showed that accord ler, Perkins and Field of New that both the bridge builders and time these Contracts were let the years at Lakewood Orocker-Wheeler electric works, at ing to the sworn testimony of the some members ot the Board ot Free Board had appropriated no money Ampere, N. J men who represented the county in carries almost 1300 squire Bartlev I. Dunfee, formerly a resi holders thought the acquaintance whatever for roadbuilding, nor dtd Keeper Pearce of the Bay Head building this road, large section* of canvas in her mainsail, jib, dent of the shore, died in Camden, might be made mutually profitable. it do so till August, 1902, when it L. S. S. last week had a sprained it were ripped up, after these repre inn staysail. Her mainsail April 38, aged 53 years, and was In the next few yeais several costly included in its annual budget the s6 on the hoist,37 feet on the leg, and surtman J. F. Stout a black sentatives had certified that it was buried at Tuckerton bridges were bunt— one at Toms item— “ road* and incidentals, $16,• 23 feet on the gaff. The jih eye No scrap, however built by Peters, and on this certifica River, two at Lakewood and one at - *" tion Peters had been paid for the 543 7 16 feet on the foot, and Benjamin Britton died April 30 The Point Pleasant school ground New Egypt.’ Of these, the last The two 1 tionsof tta Lakewood work. The ripping up and the re the luff. Standing rigging at Greenville, near Lakewood, and hat been surrounded with a hedge, named was the only one that seemed Point Pleas nt road, as already building, on a much more expensive of wire. White pine and leavea a widow and one child. He the ground topsoiled, gravel walk* to give the county its money’s worth shown, wl: n completed, cost the scale than Peters’ contract price, ty are used for trim, inside was buried at Lakewood built, and flower beds planted for the expenditures, and New Egypt county, including law suits, and was done by the same officials who The cabin is lighted with Former Senator George F. Ed people will remember the fight that other expenW $10,000 more than Mrs. Hannah Miller, mother of had certified that Peters had done his 11 well as bullseye win munds is one of the early cottage Freeholder Camp made to compel the contract price, or about $38,000 he tas three tons of fixed Mrs. Dr. U . W. MacMillan of Lake- arrival at Bay Head, coming from work the bridge company to liye up to its On the strength ot the $16,000 wood, died May 1st, at Adelpbia, But the Lakewood Point TJeasaut Aiken, B. 0., where lie spent the contract appropriated in August, 1902, the war a companion craft, but Monmouth county, aged 70 years road only cost about $38,000 in all, winter The habit of spending money Board in twelve months following, ; as to details of construction costiv as it was, and does not ex Mr*. Maggie Davison, wife of The Burlington baseball team will grew, and it seemed just as easy to awarded theLe contracts, amounting , is the Mabel, which is about. plain all the county's indebtedness. Gordon Davison ot Jackson Mills, play two "ames at New Egvpt on raise bigger sums, as the growth of to about $40,000, and on which the ’ launching at Kirk’s yard. To understand this it will be neces Jackson township, died April 38th Decoration day; May 20, Wrights- wealth at Lakewood and at the shore county’s share was between $28,000 Edson is the owner, and sary to review the history of the past of pneumonia, aged 52 years, She town nine will open the season at resorts increased the amount of rata- and $30,000 iNieukirk has had charge of ten years, and show how with leaps leaves three sons New Egypt bles yearly.