:ape May county times

ATLANTIC COAST NEWS

. XXXII.—NO. 23

SEA ISLE cmr, N. J., FRIDAY. MAY 25, 1917

NOTES OF PAST WEEK

[ and Gleanings of Per* Character; Little bout Folks You Know.

r cottacw for nl*. Bor or

• K. Ludk. Jr, mb of the ‘B ChMtan>t StiMt rtril*1 •phoM. Locart Ktf.

■ colUfe on Peorl ataMi d Soixlay lor Ibe dny. ind 'Lore ipect Totoday ana n Philadelphia on bnaii

n Bair and ton, of Pbiia- >, apcm Bondar at tfaair cottage F and Stephen Simon are ; their bungalow on Boonde d Mre. Tober will arrira Ur for their oeoal anmmer n Yetter, of Paha atreet. it r* repaired and painted a Herman C. Rnmpp a t thi* week, looking after F. Doagherty, of Pbiladala Bandar riehor at hit M inerea cottage. crnbinweg spent eertral elphia thi. week, alt a dear friend. U optuid his Landis areis week and will bare a t? Memorial Dar. g of the American Bed Croas I that (Friday) afternoon in 4 o’clock. All weieom

i. from Maryland, is the

ai, Mrs. Robert C. Beott. H. Wendell and daegbUr, of were rtaRore m tfoaday, bair | aadia aeaaae aotlage r Hn«»ka waa a Ritladel the U/it part of thia waak, I the meeting of the

t, who baa bean oeonpied Mr and likafy tc auy fur as a rtailor on holiday »r and family, of KbiU' d their cottage at Dolphin a annoe for the re

|t and will open it for the aew I. B. Fackler, of Fi [oeau of Mra. A. O. ir Faria atreet home, for aei

• week.

it to tackle backyard farming i MrArdle, who ia farming arecoe lot, and WalMr o ir planting tomatoes. acKay, who lw-1 Uie band at City for aeverai aammrre, waa > Bunoay, looking over the

>1 supplying tucclc

130 From County Must Go to War According to figure* Icroiahed by Congreeoman Baebarach, nnder the new conscription Uw one man for erery one bondred and eighty-four popniation will be drafted for war aereioe on June 6th, When all must regiater. On thia baaia hundred and thirty will be compelled to Baree from Cape May County, which ia accorded a population of about twan--fowr thousand. Credll will be given, bowerer, (or rery man war entered in any branch of military eerrice. In other words, the National Ouards of Ocean Chy, the Reeerre Corps of Wildwood, and erery man who baa enlisted up until April lit in the Regular army will be counted •erring and will make one leee be drafted. If this statement, made by lbs C. 8. Centut Bureau, is based on fact, tiier* will be no new men drafted from Cape May County. The Ocean Citr Gnards hare about eighty enlisted, the Wildwood battalion about thirty, and fully thirty bare enlisted In the Reg-

ular army.

The memben of the Guards who are married will cot be required to eerre* bowerer, and their place* most be filled by single men nnder the conscription w. Ibis will, of coarse, make it necsary for a man to be drafted (or erery to that ia eliminated through marriage. At any rat* only a rery few, if any, of ir men will be called out nnder the first call for an arar of 300,000.

NEW GOmONEilS

BET INTO HARNESS

Reappoint City Engineer Collison at Meeting on Wednes-

day and Discuss Change in the Fire Ordinance

CHAMER MEETING Greatest Meeting Ever Held in Cape May County Was at South Seaville on

Thursday bst

Double Attempt at Suicide is Failure

Driven to desperation over t that be had contracted a fatal Morris Wolfaon, 86 year* old, iI nnt with his wife and three al S\y t King srenne, Atlantic Sunday night made two atlcmp bis life, once by drinking an iodine and the other time by from the Ocean City automobile A ear of the Atlantic City a Liar chanced tc be passing at The motormaa in the giaia oilight uw Wollaon whan bs leap and at once stopped the

iUm

a tailor

children City, on

to end moe of

lumping

bridge. 1 Shore

out to aee washed the man

againat the Uwrtie of the railroad track.

The trolley crew shouted to him in

catch bold of the piling and they wonld UR him out of the water with ropes. He did *o and shortly afterwards the man was planed in the Tar, which took him at top speed to the jail and a physician summonsd. Chief of Police Scnll,

Ocean City, stated that the man would

h with a ri

r Anderson, of Flsrladalpbia, first Lathers of the asason, lay with her grandparent*,

•d wile, al their Nep-

*ou household on Faria It Elmer i’eteraou.tir., and dren victims of bia visit, e now over tire eerioua part of it ailment re than the reel, Margaret R and Elisabeth Reed ’ ■lilin'1 ID the ocean last weak during pell, sod aey they enjoyed tire

i FehrW, of Riverside, waa a or. Mr. Febrieis well known >gh hla connection with the . Bowling Allay*, which tv 1 for a u umbei of yean.

Facts Concerning Conscription Registration Registration day—Tuesday, June 6tb. Hours of registration—T a.m. to7 p.m Registration plaoas—Polling placet in tbe precincts wherein those eligible for military service bare their home*. Who must register—Ererr male l . tween 21 and 30, both inclusive, t. -.ess already in the miliUty or naval service of the United Buies. Persons not exempt l>ecause of lllnem. Those in charge—Regular election offi-

cial*.

Penalty lor failure to register—One year In jail. * Today is Clean-Up Day Thu ia clean-up day! By night it ia hoped in hare Sea Isle City the original •potieae Iowa, and to this evert one is asked p. help. Tbe city teams will gather up and carl away all the rubbish that ia planed in proper receptacles at the curb

line.

Get boar NOW I Clean up I

The Real Adventure

A stimng new novel, by Henry Kttcbpil Webel- •, suits in thia Issue uf the Time* and will continue aerially ontil completed. "Tbe Real Adventure" preevnta the problem of free womanhood and wifehood by chapters from Uie all around us. A story of life’s gresh adventure—marriage. Btart it today .

Be Patriotic Hhow your color*! Tbe TIMES has on sals flag sticker*, winch can be used on ; envelopes as seals and aa decorations on all ydtn outgoing correspondence. Price 15c. per hundred. Every borne and every business house should hate a laupnlr.

Engineer Collison, of Ocean City, was named by the Commissioner* a. URyl Engineer for the term ol one year at a meeting of tbe Board in City Hall Wednesday. All three Commiaaiocer* present, Mayor Cronecker presiding. Lewis Bteinmsyer, reporting for the Finance Department, atated that be bad only just received the city book* and did not know tbe condition of the city’i finances, bat hoped to hare some report e next meeting. Interest of $060, >n bonds held by the State on Jon* 1st, was referred to and laid over. A committee of Uie Parent-Teacher*' Association, who appeared merely to ask tbe presence of tbe Comml at the Memorial Day exercises at the achoolbouae on Wednesday next, away happy with a promise of $60 from the city to help pay the expenses of the celebration, and with tbe farther ia* that the Commissioner* would not only be there but wonld have their speeches all prepared and rebearaed for delivery on the occarion. In line with city adrerttsing, tbs Clark waa directed to prepare a pamphlet for distribatiou to persona inquiring about the city and submit it at the next meeting, which will be Mroaay, May 2Sth, Wednesday, the regular meeting day, being a legal holiday. A representative of tbe Philadelphia North American waa present and wanted $60 for apace on a special Cape May County page, for publication next Bandar, but waa lamed down on account of the uncertainly of financial conditions until the city's standing waa ascertained. Firs Ordinance to Ba Charmed . Attention waa called by Director Chapman to the old fire nrdinanoe, which empower* the Fire Chief to eqiplov a fire engineer at an annual salary ••( $000 and take* tbit matter entirely out of Uie hands of tbe CommiseioDera. Tbe changing of thia ordinarca to place all fire appointments nnder the Mayor's jurisdiction will be passed nt the next meet-

ing.

Director Chapman, of Uie Department of Highways, reported that be had men employed cleaning up tbe grass in tbe gutter* of tbe Meets and that two teamt and wagon* would ba placed in eerrice to re mo, e rubbish today (Friday), which has been designated Clean-Up Day. Other Mattert The bond of tbe Collector-Treasurer was fixed at $6000 and tbe bond of Uie former Treasurer ordered released and refund obtained for nnaxpirad time. Complaint baring been received of tbe dangerous condition of tbe approach to tbe board a alk at Gar. json atreet, in front of the Tonar property, ibt owner will be notified to have the same placed m repair within thirty days. A committee from Townsend's Inlet, composed of Capt. Lewie Coon, R. TV. Hadden and David Lenox, requested the Commissioner* to favor the removal of the railroad station al tbe Inlet from its present location to a point near Rose avenue. It waa explained by Mayor Cronecker that to indorse this removal would be showing tavoritiam, aa acme people are opposed to the change, and - compromise was a letter to BuperinUndent Bockalew that ilia City Comtuiaakmert were ol the opinion that • new atation, with proper shelter, war needed at the Inlet, the location to be left to the railroad company to decide. Tbe New Jersey Rapid Transit Company, of Sea Uie City, on motion ol Diretear Chapman, are to o* notified tc liare their track* at tbe Inlet made aafr to drive over by filling ir with ashes tome other material.

The P. O. 8. of A. Hall at Booth Beadle waa filled to overflowing on Thursday evening, at tbe meeting of tbe Cape May County Chamber of Commerce. The meeting waa tbe first held on the inland, tbe first with tbe Pomona Grange, and tbe first at which women

mere invited.

At the opening of tbe meeting, Presitnt Brick called on Frank Swain, Master of tbe Booth BeavilL Grange, and Mr. Swain responded with a few well chosen words of welcome. In the absence of Secretary HaBert, Edward B. Arnett, President of tbe Bea Uie City Buimeea Men's Amociation, waa elected temporary secretary. The resignation of E. O. Howell, Jr., as Treasnrar, was read and accepted, and Eli Towneend, of Slone Harbor, was elected ia bis place. Mr. Howell resigned on aaaount of bia enbatment in

'Oppotition to Moving Station

at Townsend's Inlet

I Inlet is by no means a

proposed snoring of the

Pennsylvania Railroad station from it*

i a point about three

itoee avenue,

filed with the Public

U till tie* Commiaeioii requesting that the station be moved and that a shelter be This wae opposed by those who want the atation nay where it is. On Wednasday Mr. Mayberry, a Utility representative, waa at the Inlet and stated that a hearing on both side* of

ild be held on June Ti

at tbe Atlantic Honse. The bearing wi to have been in Trenton on the fiih, bat

account of the 5tb

being declared a legal holiday. Mr. Mayberry was of tbe opinion that the present location la the better of the

two inggeated

3 Cents a Copy, $1 JO a Year STATE INSPECTOR GRANT

IN AUTO SMASH-OP

Speeding at Ocean View Sta-

lion Hits Team and Throws Car Into Telegraph Pois.

Injuring Three

Memorial Day in Sea Isle City Memorial Day will be fi'tingiy obeer red Uie City by tehoolbonee at 2 p. bya proceeding to the beach, where the floral boat will be launched and a salute fired br Coast Guards. Through tbe liberality of the City Coma band will render appropri-

Committee Reports •t committee report* were pointed. Jodgr Hildreth, for tbe Mosquito Committee, reported that the Coanty Commission had concluded to •pend about $600 '.a moaqoito elimination work around Bea Isle City and the balance ol tbe appropriation in ditcbing between tbe Wildw >od road and their present work at Cape May. Cornelias Mahan, for the Executive Committee, stated that be b effort* to bare the old County ire League funds transferred to the Chamber. In reply to this, Capt. Vi Daman, of Dias Creek, Secretary of i League, aaid that h* would gladly algn the neeresary check 11 he could get the UpprdVal of the officer* of the League. In tin general diacuasion. Mayor Philip Baker, of W ild wood Creat, spoke on the county advertiayig and the booklet that waa t<> be—bat is not. and a rather spirited debate followed. Tbe net molt wae that an effort arili be made at next meeting of tbe Board of Freeholdera to have some undemanding. R. P. Ktaley, of Slone Hxrbor, aaked whether or qo< it wonld be profitable to use farm tractors on Cape May Coanty farm*. Juaepb Camp, bead of tbe agricultural mtereate of the county, replied that it wonld not pay an individual farmer, bat If three or fonr could get together, and could agree, a tractor might be bought to good advantage. Along the line of (arm work, Mr. Baker staled that be had a plan for developing tbe conutr farm* for potatoes and would ask the county papers to pobliah it. Miscellaneous Biainaaa Other speaker* were Mayor Champion, of Ocean City, on the consolidation of the rreorte and tbe grange* through the County Chamber; Mre. R. P. Rialey, of Stone Harbor Grange, and Mr*. McPherson, ol Cold Bpring Orange; County Judge Kldredg* on the duty of every loyrl cltiaen to rapport the government in thewr time* of a-rew*. Invitation to meet in Stralbmrre on June -Met was accepted K. P. Kislvy, L. C. Ogden and Jeaeph Camp were elected a committee to attend tin- Federation of the Bute Chamber* ol Commerce at Perth Amboy on June lltii, 15tb and Kith. Chaplain bohner closed the meeting mill prayer, alter which the Grange acted a* boat to a splendid luncheon, •waved m tbe Hall basemtnt. ’the Sooth Beat ill* Baud helped liven up the evening, uitli President Brick as its leader.

Veterans of the Civil Wgr and all ganirations are cordially Invited to participate, and it is hoped that .n theee trying timet, when oar nation is at war, every one will make a special effort »me and honor the memory if those who fought and preeerved ut as ■ United country. In tbe ereniift theee will be moving picture* and entertainment (or the ecbool children at the Garden Theatre.

Civic Club Tenders House to Red Cross

Tbe dab room and emergency room of tbe Women's Civic Clob are being oCered to the local Red Croea for their use this rammer, beginning when tbe dab boner opens on June 11th. Tbe rgency room will be equipped with all Red Croat requisite*, including a large medicine cheat and wathaUnd. An emergency tent ^itl be erected on the club brute ground* gnd will be (ally equipped also for tbe Red Croea work. Thia aa* aettied at a meeting of the officer* and truetertof Uie d'wb, held

on Monday In Philadelphia.

It ia proposed that the large clob room be used as a work room for making bandage* and other material to halp

equip tbe county baae hospital.

I

Oaks Club Here Sunday The Oak* Clob, cf Philadelphia, will have their annual spring txenraion In flea 1*1* Cit’, next Sunday, when Uw dub house on tbe beach front will be opened for the day. A large croud t* expeotad.

They're Biting al Corson's Coaaov'a la Lav, May 26.—The flabertuen hereabout* bare been making tome good catches of bloefith and Boston mackerel outside. 1 'tc inude Sailing lias been good lor flcumin* and a few weaktiah.

ju can pay for "Liberty" bond* to toatallu rote, it ta nut only your privilege but your duly. Subscription* cue* June lith. Write Security Treat Company, Cape May. for application blank* and particular*. No charge or mission lot eerriew.—Adv. 6-26dlt

Wear Cara May, N.J., May 21. 1V17 To tire Republican Voter* of tbe County ■ d Cape May Subject to the will ol member* ol Republican party, I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Hum-gate at the coining Beptembei primaries, being ateured uf the rapport ol a number of the member* of the party, and in accordance with their wish**. 1 am making tl i» auiMUD0**nri>l. Jamm T. Horxiua.

Condensed Story of the War Edward W. Pickard's "Weekly Reriew of the War News" give* tire latest and moat important information about tbe preterit great conflict. Wading through Mverel columns of war new* doeen't appeal to the average reader, but still he wank, to read all of importance. Realising thia, the Timk* will start in this Lsue. and continue every week, thi* war review. Mr. Pickard suit* the wheat from the chaff and give* in concrete form oulv that portion of the new* that 1* of real interest. The article is illustrated with a group picture of the moat intererting event* of the week. Start reading thi* feature today.

County Red Cross Meets The fitting op of a haw hospital for Cape May Coanty w a* the chief matter finder diseoaaion at tbe meeting of tbe Cape May Coanty Chapter of Uie Amercan Red Croea, held in tbe court bouae building. Jape May Conn Honee. on Tuesday afternoon. J. M. E. Hildreth, of Cape May, chairman & the chapter, conducted lb* meeting, at which reprewillative* of the county branches were

prt# nt.

It is proposed that each branch engage in mating up boxes containing bandage*, sheet*, towel*, bath robes, and other article* uece**ary to equip the

hospital.

While traveling at a higl. speed acroaa the railroad crowing at Ocean View on Toesday, Motor Inapector j. A. G. Grant's high-powered Mercer car atrack tbe team of A. Cannao sad skidded into a telegraph pole in front of the store of Bert Way, seriously injuring Grant, who waa driving, and Inspector A. G. Bradford and Constable John N. Johnson, of Ocean City, who were paaeengwi in

a car.

According to ere-wiloeeaee of tbe accident, Grant waa driving bia car in tbe direction of Ocean City at a apead of not lew than fifty miles an hour and did ncA atop or alow down aa b* approached and. crossed the Ocean View croeaing of West Jersey Railroad. Cannae'* team wae engaged in coanty work hauling gravel and had just turned oat from back of tbe Ocean View station on the main waabore road as Grant approaab•d. Ha immediately applied tbe brake, but waa traveling so fast that bis oar ■kidded into tbe team, throwing down both boraee and .njaring one, and then raerad in thi other direction and bit the telegraph pole. All Badly Hurt Tbe car was wrecked and Grant waa jammed down beneath tbe d.itriag wheel when the onlooker* rushed to Ms aid. He waa picked op in an ancooacion* condition and carried to tbe porch of War'* atora. Hi* left hand waa pierced Ibroogb with a broken piece of the wheel, hie left arm was broken, and bia face waa badly cat. He atio sustained injuries about tbe hips, and it waa thought by physician* that be raftered internal injuries. Bradford'* ‘njurie* were most sarkxif about tbe bead, hi* left eye being severely lacerated From bia position in tb* car after the accident it waa thought that he bad placed hia head down when the collision waa imminent and that bad received the full blow on the head. He waa uuconaciooi. Johnson's left arm sustained a double fracture and be waa cut about the face and head. Word waa at once phoned for physicians, bat it «** fully half an hour before medical aid arrived. First aid wae administered by Irviug Fitch, of Bps Isle City, who received word of the accident by pboae. Grant ia now at hi* home in Atlantic Citr, Bradford is in th* Atlantic City Hospital and Johnson at hi* homeln ocean City. It is Uionght that all three will fully recover, altiiough the condition of Bradford'* eye it seriou*. All who witneaaed the accident completely exonerate the driver of the Canute team and lay tits fnll blame on Grant. Extraordmarv though it may teem, the engine of the wrecked car kept rnnniug for some time after tbe accident until it was stopped by shutting off the gas. A report that Grant died in Atlantic City on Tuesday night ia without foundation. He is now resting easily in tb* Atlantic City Hospital, where an Xray examination by Dr. Coward abowed bia injuries to be not aa serious aa waa first thought. According to Grant, who waa interviewed on Wednesday, he was chasing another car, which waa traveling "(aster than thirty mile* an hoar" when tbe accident occurred. Persona who witnessed the accident, however, declare that a car had not passed for fatly a ball

hour.

Your country call*! Buy a “Liberty’ bond and "do your bit" toward ending this fearful »ar. «#curily Trutt Com pany. Cape May, will recsive and forward war subscription without cost K you. Do it now! —Ad*. 5-26-Sl

Swwart Glmsnat ba* again rented tbe store on tbe corner cf Ocean avruu* and tbe boardwalk and will soon open for

AT THE CHURCHES METHODIST EPISCOPAL On Wedaaaday nine of the W.C.T. U. ladies Journeyed t<> the county convention of the W.C. T. U. at Goaben. They report a day of pleasure and of adnealion along tbe linee uf their work. Tbe next county conveutijn. which ia held in the fall, will meet in Bea isle l iiy. Bondev will be Patriotic Day in the church. The building will be beautifully decorated with the national color*. A large, regulation army *tr.e etlk flag ha* been loaned by Mr. Theodore DrBow. The P. O. B. of a. have been invited and we nope they will be preaenl al Uie evening service in a bod*. Tb* large chorus choir of Uie chart h i* preparing many beautiful antbeme lor the occasion. All are welcome to our Idiia church, where etx an gars are made to tael very much at borne.