ATLANTIC COAST NEWS

!ay County Time

OL. XXX.—NO. 50

SEA ISLE CITY, N. J., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1915

3 Cents a Copy, $1 a Year

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News of the County Library in City Hall

ftp TRR filTY Papfla at the UpperTownihip Hijfh Vi 1UU VI I 1 School have «Urted * wvin** bank

for the pupils.

Ralph L. Goff, of Ocean City, has purchased the Fennsgrovp Farm, owned by the late John Bevis, for *20,000.

5APC rw « ^rme it h* 1 1 room M. ha old he A oily IS

and Gleanings ol Per1 sonal Character; Little Items About Folks

You Know

e Mornhinweg was a PhilaS visitor on business Saturday. . Fowkes was a business o Philadelphia on Tuesday of Tom Del mey. Sea Isle's crack basket ball player, is playing twice a week with the Cape May City team. Bamey "Norton, who has been em ployed in the local freight office for acme months past, has been transferTvd to the office at Pennsgrovc. Mrs. EJeanore Smith was an Sunday guest of her sister, Mrs. G.' k F. Mornhinweg. Mr*. Hunted, anothcister of Mrs. Mornhinweg, was al•c here on Sunday. 1 Samuel Norton, who is employed painting Mayor Atwater’s home at Chaddt Ford, Pa., was a visitor to his home here on Sunday. A. G. Rice and Company have the contract for the installation of a hot water heating system in the home of Patsy Montagna. John Overend, who for j ptrly two years has been employed in She Times office, left for New York j ' Tuesday and sailed for England f Wednes-

day.

Catherine Tolly, mod of Mrs. John Dougherty, of thi# I died at her home in Ireland ' k - Mn. Dougherty received Woidf Jhe death

late last week. \ A post card from Wayne

era, from Asbury Park,- reads: “Here for a few days. Left Phillipsburg

Thursday morning."*

The Cape May Camp, Sons of Veterans, has been organised, with Charles H. Dorner as commsnder, and a roll of ov^r thirty members.

The new Cape May City Comm#? the seem

si o nr to have inaugurated an economy plan, doing themselves toe work of a road supervisor, building inspector,

and city engineer. started in 8L Sim-

Comminuonem At Meeting On Wednntday Grant Permission to Committee To Use Assembly Room For Library; Other City Business; Ben-

nett Snit This Month.

The CT^Commissionere met at the usual heyj^^m Wednesday,- with all present, and Mayor Atwater presid-

A mission

eon's Episcopal Church, Wildwood, on and will continue until the

is conducting the

"CommutinM^bonld advertise the proportion of Christianity they have, as well as the number of their banks, schools and other civic advantages,” said the Rev. J. L. Foreman, pastor of a Pitman church on Sunday. The Firrt M. E. Church, Cape May Court House, has’ pledged *3081 to pay the balance on a new Sunday School room made necessary by the regular attendance of the 280 new converts gained daring the revival

services last Winter.

It is said thM there .ifi four candidates for A; State Senator-ship next fall from Cumberland County. They are: Assemblyman Raymond Shepard, of Haleyville; Morris Davis, Aloert McAllister and J. Hampton

Fithian, of Bridgeton.

The Wildwood City Commission will ask the County Board of Taxation to make a reduction in the assessment on ’the water plant of that city, as the plant is to be purchased by the municipality Drexel and Company and fcpwn ana Brothers Company bid par

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis & Chester mo-^ ^ «ter bonds, amounting to

tored to Philadelphia on Friday and remained until Sunday. Lewis Ches-

Permissjon was granted on motion for the use of the Assembly room on con^oor of the City Hall for a Public The motion specified that it was to bf' wed only for library purposes, fa. reading room, and for the distribution at books. The Director of Highways reported that he was proceeding to connect the old and new sewers at Garrison street and that about 800 feet of new pipe will be needed at Ludlam street, and 400 feet at FriU street. At a previous meeting he was authorised to purchase the necessary material and do the work, so no action was taken. The treasurer's report was read for the month of November. It is printed In this issue. The report of the Director of Revenue and Finance Was' also read, and approad. A note for |lf>00 was ordered iflewcd in anticipation of 1915 taxes^s the first 1915 tax money, to the amount of *13,000, goes to the County, thus making the City short, although some *10,000 in taxes has been collected to date. December 29th is the last day which taxes will be received without interest. The solicitor reported that the suit of the City against the Harvey Benn«U bondsmen was listed for trial December 14th. This is to collect from the bondsmen for the cost of finishing Benentt's work on the new sewer. After paying of bills, meeting ad-

journed.

L Smith-

Fire from Engine Spark

" r - lT - *" d * b^ ’ u, " l^ “ p , 22;! Want Dredge Kept at

•tor made the return trip » and spent Sunday here.

Three Buildinga Partially Destroyed Frida) Afternoon; Quick Work of

Fire Department Averts Serious Copflairation.

A fire, supposedly caused by sparks r WgirM- on the Stone Harbor .! branch W the West Jersey lUitroad.

Clarence Pfeiffer ha* starlet on a | * - . 1 U** 11 " 1 Uw rir > brush beside the dwelling house on Central avenue, j •’retest Against Bringing Dredge Dolphin and Shell streets, and

\Ulan‘.ic City Inlet

r the Boulevard, for himself and Chas. H. Clouting. It was originally plannnd to build a double house, but at the last minute this plan was changed and a single bouse will go up

Have your name printed in script type on a dozen fancy Christmas Cards, with envelopes to match. Price fifty c£Pts. Times Printing House, 104 West Jersey Avenue, Sea

Isle City.

A County Superintendent of schools. ‘ Aaron W. Hand, was a visitor to the local school on Tuesday, and exprrsfr • himself a* being well pleased with

the work of the children.

Lots or cottage* lor sale. Boy build on terfhs to suit; money loaned; conveyancing and title-law a specialty. Charles K. Laudia, Jr., son of the Founder, 3BM Chestnut Street. Philsdelphia. Bell ’phone. Locust 3597

Must Settle Old School

Away From Inlet To Cape May.

this ignited the houses belonging to the J. J. Woeru estate and Mrs. J. a

Coyle.

There was luckily no wind, and the fires were quickly put under control

CODRT AFFAIRS OF PAST WEEK Record ol Real Estate and Commercial AHairs of the County from Clerk’s Records HEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. rr u** dMd Avalon. Sabine W. W is ter et vir, Phila., to Charles R. Hall et ox., Avalon. Lot 82. Sec. 24. Same to same. Lots 13,14,15, Sec. 22.

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at!* 19.

Same to Warren Palmer. Trenton.

Lot 35, Sec. 8.

Same to William Roach, Trenton. Lot 129, Sec., 23. Abram B. Wychoff et ux., Rightatown. to Charic-s R. Hall et ux. Lots 3, 4. Sec. 19E, Goff’s Map. State of New Jersey to Atlantic Coast Improvement Co. (Inc.). Specified parcel pf land flowed by tide water, from southwesterly line of 17th street parallel with First Ave. and 1500 feet at right angles therefrom, to the high water line of the Atlantic Ocean where same is intersected by the northwesterly line of 18th street along said high water line to beginning. With right to exclude tide waters by filling in or otherwise, etc., and with limitations as concern certain contingencies. *220 Cape May City. T. Mulford Stevens et ux. to William L. Stevens. All right, title and interest in certain lots on Broadway and Congress St Township of Middle. Charles P. V ana man et ux. to John B. Babbitt, 59 acres at Dias Creek, with specified privileges. *2,800.

Ocean City.

Sylvanus C. Aiman et ux-, Phila_ to Mary Spire, Phila. Lota 580 581. Sec. B. Facing Ocean Ave. bet. Ocean Boulevard and Cape May Ave. *180 Ethan P. Westcott. Haddonfield, to Fannie K. Wiaham et vir, Vineland. Lots 828. 829.'900, Sec. H. Fannie K. Wiaham to Ethan P. Westcott et ux. Same as above. Robert J. Thompson et ux.. Atlantic City, to Benj. H. Thompson. Phila.

Lot 421, See. C.

Harvey K. Eaton.-Jr, et ux., to Robert J. and Benj. H. Thfcnpaon. Same premise* conveyed to Harvey K. Eaton by deed from William Thompson. March 2X. 1915. I). Helene Silver Neelv et vir, Wenonah. and Eleanor Stephens Cowpcrthwait et vir. Del ran. (Bur. Co.) to John J. Keenan, Washington, D. C.

Lot 848, Sec. A.

Theophilus V. Turner et ux.. West

’ ‘ > r an

Col ling* wood, t

Fannie Richards (w

Federal engineers in charge of the work of deepening the Atlantic City inlet channel have reached the conclusion that the needs of commerce there have been met, and the dredge will probably eoon be transferred to Cape May for improving Cold Spring

Harbor. Atlantic City business inter- on shFll and the Woeru cotcste are aroused over the prospects of Ulgf! it ^ one in , he rcar n f the cotlosing the dredge, and at a meeting tag* occupied by the f WoerU family, of citixens at the Hotel S{hliu reso- during the season, on Dolphin street.

luUons were adopted calling upon the Xn out building belonging to the j Cottage, Lot 85'. Bl. B. Conveyed to City Commissioners to make strong Coyle cottage also caught fire, and Almira Haxzard by will of Randall F.

„„ “ k ; ,h ' I'-™* P“> •»■; H cK*. William MmJmid. Philm. t.

A considerable sum ha* been spent A curious feature in connection j Charles H Masland. Phila. Lots 781. by the city in the Inlet section since wit h the fires was that the burning 732. Sec. D. Q. C. Aas'n. *100 the dredge began ite work, and this houses appeared to be lit all over, Sarah W. Fawley, Phila-to William will be the basis of the Commission- , idell and burning at the same, Barth. Phila. Lots 166, m, Se^Here' protest- After several month.' Umt A .tream was kept on the out-1 oiiye Ann Wll^mPhlla. "loU 28.' 30. operation the dredge has deepened uio bi(lc o{ ^ building* preventing the ; 7, Ocean City I .and Aas'n. 82000 channel to an average of from 12 to 1 ,- irt . f Tvm breaking through the boards. | Bernard Ruckdeschil et ux.. Phila.. 14 feet at low water, and from 15 to . und a line of b oac was taken inaide to I Herman C. Evsma. Jr.. Ocean City.

by the Fire Company. The damage! Phils- 14, 16, 18, Sec. 19, Ocean 1. b.U, ™ conBaed m lh. Crdou Co. to MiIl.SK interior, and the l»aS is esUmated at, StL B.nh Iy>t and one-half lot

about 11.000. The Coyle cottege is, 9^4. Bl. 9.

Warrington H. Harris et ux., Ocean City, to Ella Rogers, Millville. Lot

609, Sec. C.

Almira Haxzard (w), Phila., to Annie M. Gormlsy (w). Phila. Ocean

w w a Bl. 1. *6600

water was greater than by the fire,! Annie E Townsend, et vir to Otis which occurred al one-thirty last Kri-1 W. Townsend. Ixil 712, Sec. C. Ocean

* o, b-h o, cdoo, .After FortforCape May ZZ™™ lion was held in the School house on I ^ fommittee from the Chamber j |«*d ; ‘o ^ ^ *^^1 Sea.We City Imprjgpnent Co. L>

Tuesday evening, and a resolution was adopted that Edward C, Stevens, purchaser of the old school house, selU« for it by the eighth of December, oi . the deposit of *200 will be declaied forfeited, and the Board will re-sell the echool house. There he* been some question on the part of Mr. Stevens' attorney as to the legality of the sale, but a* this ha* been cleared up, there is no further holdup antici-

also been widened to 300 feet.

of Commerce ol Cpe Me, CeunlyI"Wm, S. Bo,d *»? Cleb" Se„shore Kem.rU. eempe^ ol Luther '-or. the ude. et the roitroml tueta (UsHit teeh on Ludl.m i Thorouirhf.m ,„dee ud J. H. Hu.hu « |Wm. 8. th.y.1 IU, Club Hue., .SL" May, and Reese P. Rrsley, of Stone, Nf' . . f . Act Ui incurponite boat club, etc., for

tUrbor, preseeUd the upte,. et Cpe '■ «•« .t th.s brush .ere eu dummt Huy County tor > rout drlrum- forti- thr sue.™ r , .e. somr ot thr mro fleation t. Conra-mm. Willim. J. Uur yur rould h.rr breu

Browning, of Camden, and J. Hamp

Mainland Getting Bnlk cf County Money Out of *902,079.36 of Cof^iy Mom\ “penl For Bridge* and <oant) Roads, *763,610.00 Has Gone, -o the Mainland.—Lena than Twenty Per Ceat. of County Money Expended on the Resort Islands Who Pay Eighty-Five Per Cent, of Total County Taxes.— Report By County Clerk.

The following statement, prepared by the County Clerk, will serve as an answer to the many who are criticizing the Freeholdere’ recent actions in spending a little more than formerly for road and bridge improvements for the benefit of the Seashore Resort*. Vjhe statement shows that the Seashore resorts are constantly paying more Jfcd more on the total County taxation, and the townships—the mainland—less. The entire report follows, and it speaks for,itaelf. Ir. Miter Owing to rerent pmbllc laUeranM bavins refrrerrv to the coantr'h prwent Bn.ncUl ondltlon wklr-L rnculn-d veUed chsnsee ol rrtr.r.ShOoru or - “ "* ;boeeo rrveboMor*. and exprowlona of alarm for ISv future 1 the county If eurtsla Improvi lumber of InSl ——

HAPPENINGS AT STONEHARB'^ News of Cape May Ooimf,; Fastest Growing Resort_ Borough's Activities . for Beven Days John Garis has tie jetty i busy on the bulkheading of the £ lot on Yacht Club Basin Mr. and Mra. W. L. Turpi their much desired first grand f ter in the little daughter < (Mrs. Tyson BoVeg),’burn

d (izi.oza.se or is acs

EXHIIIIT <

BM'Ui.t of ruunty fasre | ' *

r Tow yblph. re.|onl>i-|y.

»Uill

b " ^-oand i the bodw „ „ the \ <*T The Wednesday evening M meeting of the Union fSmreh c Vru; being held in Borough Hall, ^ ' away with the objection •or - 1 — attending a meeting ia/i Mrs. Freahell says the < out for an organ and t good for having one pre The lowest bid as yet offered for ti Channel jetties and fcalkht-bding the *4176.85 of the HQi Dredging^ of Atlantic City, i Councils' Docks i m It tee will report Engineer Smith •

The Children's Bazar at Borc-jL

_____ lipU Friday night will be their «A rrsi own and the effort they are pci'.A.

into it dr-serves our best •uppvW\ The object is to get money for rial and tools for the Boys’ Mhi.> ( Training Club and for the girls' )»• nig and sewing circle. The ho," | uiat the show will be continued i Saturday so the children of Ava. '^iiCi'^ft Houwerawegmsjol] J. tturos^to'tbe* 1 building «• » W

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.. Vnice relgnea »up“ , - il^vTvare. Hammonton. p. J-

• Isrludre WlVduuod Cre.l 1 DhbliK r-hprctivrly. t Isiluds. 8lunr llsrbur. thw

LMWWl In Ulddlv Tr.UU.blp si MMSKl r Urn •»•»» yvwlu. IYS3.SIK T'

a Tuu 11.in,.. f„r Impravr

•Utru»-i>i. all of wblrli a

ulll Common-ounuu •• a

J.cat methofi- OrdlnnAJ ' , are no tdaoUd .

oial-iul a. .am. In lira pre^ul i.< rala .ill rwsalvu f.rwr.M. , , ,7. ussd, UeaO ,• • iro.rri ..r r b—I. i v.K-w.r. ^ U ‘. box provide, a P“«'

n Moore, of Philadelphia, on Friday'

promotion of athletic rxerriae*

laaac G. Ferguson, Philadelphia, lot ] vir g,,,,, „ a bove.

above mentioned. Nov. 22. 1915. | j 0 h n A. Scanlon, executor and tru»-

Slonr Harbor. , lee. under will of Isaac Cohen, dre'd. Celia Fulde et vir, Phila., to South I to Virgilio A. Haldi. Phila. Is»u 10.

Jersey Realty Co. Kortbwralrrlv 10 i )2. 1«, 18. 20. 22, Sec. 48. *293

feet of lot 205 and 20 fe«t adjoining Noiih Wildwood

I William T Cabell et ux.. Phila., to

I low* box provides ihr upper nsat. upon ’ «,n sastlT aUgtt ^

CARD OF THANKS.

last. • j The Woerte Family desire* to thank The Cape May County Committee; the Officer* anil Membci-s of The Sea pointed out in tnrir interview with, 1*1* City Volunteer Fire Company. t-m ... wj. i - ar.

turm doors at Iwth entrant * lhe for a fortification on the Jersey shore ^!ZZtZ.ZMay Put Experimental Station

some of the work of Ihe *chool, sod}a channel admitting vessel* of a 3t HammOntOD C. H. la.t 85 and part of lot. TVL that actual riming in fire draught of 20 feet. Emphasis was u 87. Bl. 89 irilh the school h«. Wn cleared, j ^ CS K with every person out, in fifty-mx soc- : Iw.th ot the Delaware capes. »•> onier^^ uf thr Sul4 . experiment stetlon ;, 02 ,. Un n 1650 ond* Thr Board conriudrd m Ik- oa t- »»*ure adequate Pro^Ota to the accompanied by Professor Andrew J. Woodbine, v it .mac day to w.tnr.* the drill. i lireat munitions plant* at W IlmingVm. Km , ( , of Hammonton. a member of the Thoms* E Isidlam et ux.. Sea I sir, / ■ | ■ the Board pa*‘eit| Cheater, H*W Caatle, Bddyatone, Phil- j. ;x)vul j vr . Committee of the Stati to Anna Foreman, Phila. lot 12, Sec. ®fT“ ™ dor , inc the library adelphla and Trenlon. Both „f Agriculture, have inspected ^- Woodbine Terrece _. al „

a reaolutio enuorsinu ^ Mrownine nlnteed , . . .. L _ .. .. Same te John L. Hal!. Phila. lori* '

,d giving iU hearty mor. M re and Mr Browning piwlged i irt uf ^ b]K Hob.-rt* estate. 10 . 12. Soc. 15. Woodbine Terrace. *th. . . their hearty co-operation. j yvi nK ] OWi as a prospective site for the, Isaac Blazer et ux.. Qeveland, O.. **-* iiippor present at the! rmiriSW i n.-w experiment station te be locate.! to ElkmnJntner. Farm Parcel 89. All member* were prrteni a, NOTICE TO COUNT) jeruev Map of Farm Plot* in Ruasian Colony Burling. i CORRESPONDENTS. ' on land of Woodbine lond and Ini-

.. ! 11 Dia|M<*inK of your property by Will' provement Co.

When YOU want a thing done well. owing to lack of spare, some county , j, , lllr thing; the aelection of a suite West Cape May.

' J&l.liS'.UTW—«» k.. u™ hrfl We pwvlor is quite another. And low-i* S. Kausi »'>rx ax in any- ' , . . Qui >«-t both tmeome a very simple mattet ! Nichols, both of W . .

f he Tirotw *h>»P“'*•-. “y 1 u ,k tiux-< i»v > wl"i you invoke the aid of the Se-J conveyed by deed to Russell Vogel.

Postum There* ■ — w — -i-i..irw^. on . . _ — u — —

lot. Bl. 98. Plan D2.

South Jersey Realty Qo. te 1 Edwurd M

Florence Ilsrnrll et vir. Berlin, l-ot | 128. BL104, Plan D. *893

.Same to Kliaabelh Gishsm Fries et ** >"■ Circuit Court Opens Soon Uliam Steel. Cape May

The winter schedule of Howard Carrow, eirruit court judge, will be as

follows:

Cap May Court House, Dec. 14th te 20th, Inc.; Salem, December 21*t te 24th, inc.; Mt. Holly, Dee. 28th to Jain 10th, inc.; May's landing, Jan. Uth 31st, inr.; Woodbury'. February l».t

Bridgeton, March 15th te

Th- U Jtetroe thing rl» Ti

busy, and

pote lb* <Lfl<

Postum * “v'v * T copy res. nos vno n • your n«xt job, and i laleI Xuesd*}' t

ch week.

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JO Vi MIC or-. . oiiv.->. .1 of Cape MayxVPeb'y, 1914. -r vsur asS-f- “ . William 1

City, N. J . u admlniater y*ur e^*»'• WiiUaai NMwls to Lillie Faust et.

Judge Carrow will ait at chamber* when notified of motions a* follows First and Second Saturday*, Coqrt House, Camden, 10.30 A. M Thlnl

to William j Saturday. law library, Atlantic City, Cape Ma>_._ Ivot ‘^o ::ii M. Motion* may be arrang ither times aad places. .. . _ _. Arrow can be eecn at hbfl.county bn,\iUry Uaoa

office, 207 Markrt Htreet, Camden, J., any day at 10 o'clock when not out on the Circuit, and when he is the Cireuit. letters directed te his office will be forwarded to him. Sentenced to Life in Ocean

City

“Madam, select any term up to a year and the court will endeavor te agree with your decision," said Recorler Gaakill in police court of Atlantic ’it)' on Monday, when John MrGann was arraigned on the charge of swearing at and beating his wife, who was offered the chance te sentence him. "If you want to give him hla just deserts send him up for Ulw,'' lulled the woman. "1 don’t want him bothering me wi\h his drunken conduct.” “• ow months, and at ihe end of that time go on over to Ocean City, the only dry tnwn in Atlantic county,"

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Kx-Judge Clarence L. CoL Ian tic City, Ra* been appoj ceiver for Um Atlantic City Hail road Coinpany, upon ° r dto creditors of the coi neya have caused a lusa of *H Company they way, and if account that they cannot

their obligations, the moat pi. one of which it *23,855 due a.-

eat on the Company '* bonds. An oixier was allow.-.! by

•M'lialab of the United States 1 Court, retnrnat.le December C.

the company to show enu the appointment of thr i

sentenced the

The court was evidently not famil-

his State geography, and

Mrs.

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not be i

permanent. Th>

P«»y owns two miles of track lantic City and opcraU-^ i-ai> track* of the West Jerse- A Railroad from the Inlet to l «<.d to Borner. Point and O

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