ay County Times

Vol. XXXIII. No. ii

CAPE MAY COUNTY, (Sea Isle City P. O.) N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH i, 1918

5 Cents a copy,'$1.50 a Year

NEWS NOTES

OF THE PAST WEEK

AND QLEANINM OP “OHAL CHARACTER; LITTLE EMS OF INTEREtT ABOUT LKB YOU KNOW OATHERCQ THE CIRCUIT OF THE CITY. Flrtt! Treaty more -Uy* to re your orders (or cool sritL Ml A. Luonfo, Corner lAnrtls Are ii Frits Street. Full velsbt end

delivery.—edr. L L

local W. C. T. U. members are making army kits (or the eol The Meat meeting vaa at the of Mrs. Lewi* Chester last week. [ will reopen my shot shop on Monday. March 11th. t your patrcnage. Vincent ta, Italia Street, Sea Isle City. . t. T. Ollllsoii, pastor of the Sea q Church, has recently re-

e death of his father, , aged 74, of York-

- Morris, of Ocean City, ha. >ed tor the paat week audita of the City. The annual of the Treasuier will he

i winds of Monday night a the chimney on the cottage >, damaging the roof and ) bed-looms, which eras forunoccupisd at the time. Quigley of Philadelphia. * week here as the guest of . a Fori, at their Pearl Mr. Quigley was down week-end. both returning to

a Monday.

Wall, former Superintendent Oaa Company, la now emi Contractor T. F. Reilly, a Sea Isle summer cottager, don of a railroad at

Mrs. Norton staying in Claude Town is also at . while Mrs. Town and 1th her parents. Mr. and

. on Mlnerra St.

C. Scott, whose practice here looked after by Dr. T. Smith. In Asheville, No. Carolina, d Scott la with a brother in . Ala. Doctor Intends tr i in the Spring to resume r the eummer months. I Red Croes I* making an e discarded clothing and i send to the Belgium Relief lead or bring what you > use for to Mrs. Thao, lent of the Sea isle City

Chester. Jr, of Philadelphia. over-Sunday visitor under the roof. Young Chester recentth* ranks of Bee Isle's bene- : married Mias Margaret . a well known summer cot-

GAS TROUBLES REPORTED TO CITY COMMISSIONERS. In Session Last Friday, Local Solon* Hoar Detailed Report of City Soiicltor’e EfTorta In City's Behalf. The regular meeting of the City Commission was held In the City Hall last Friday, with all members present. Director Chapman stat'd that his attention had been called to the condition of several lire alarm boxes, that the Chief of Police had stated to him that the glasses were broken and that It looked Ilka the work of boys. Moved by Chapman, seconded by Stelnmeyer, that the clerk write the Keystone Telephone Company and re- 1 quest them to have their employees go over the boxes and make any necessary repairs, and ao ordered. Solicitor Cole reported that he had attended hearing before VioeChanoellor twining in Camden on Monday last In the matter of an application for a receiver for the Seashore Gas Company Vnd that the result of the hearing was an order referring the matter bade to the Board of Public Utilities Com slon and the Oaa Company to make application for Increased rataa. hearing on receiver to be postponed until Tumday, the 26th Instant. The Solicitor also stated that the matler came before the Board of Public U mill ea Commission on Tuesday, the ttih instant, and application was made for an Increase oi the present rate to 63.50 per 1000 cu. feet gas, increase* in minimum to 11.50 and a deposit for sum reel dent of 610.00. The Board reserved decision. Further hearing before the VlceCbancellor was set Monday, the 35th Instant. Moved by Stelnmeyer. seconded by Chapman, that the Solicitor repre the City at the hearing before the VicoChancellor on Monday next,

ordered.

Moved by Cronecker, seconded by Stelnmeyer, that up or written request from the proper officer or officers of the Seashore Gas Company, that the proper officers be authorized and directed to draw an order In favor of Standard OH Company for any sum not to ax amount due from the City to the Company for lighting service as per contract Motion carried by nr moua vote on roll calk Moved by Mr. Chapman, seconded by Mr. Stelnmeyer, that the Director of Public Properly prepare specifications for painting the City Hall, both Inside

Mr. Hafferi. editor of the Cape May County Times, was given privilege of the Boor and stated to the Bocrd that Times would again have an Easter Edition, which would be Issued Friday before Easter, and requested that the City take a page adverilaecut at a cost of 1&0.00. this being the ime space taken by former Comm laoners. Moved by Mayor Cronecker. seconded by Mr Chapman, that the City take a page Ad, which motion r^rried by unanimous vote on roll call.

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o.' Mr. and Mrs. Frederick , recently of Townsend's Inlow residing In Sea Isle City, pneumonia last Saturday. This t third death this winter la

ma family.

' Board of Education met la the r on Tuesday, and root(he old office!* to act for 1611 Itlaes were continued as last The painting of the frame work

T Smith has bees ap.-olnted ’overunwnt as a member of al Advisory Board ft »m Cape ity lu rtamine sorb draftee# Biional Army aa may have tf-mptioo for physical defect j ite been rejected by the local Pbe Advisory Board meets i week In Atlantic City. seph A McGIllin. well knows ktuer cottager, gave a dinner y U. honor of her aiateMnWm J. Hoop*, who will be vd aa Miss Mertvdaa MrGll e Mr and Mrs

LOCAL Cipt Lewis Conn, of Townsend’s Intel Is Mill at tha Lank*nan Hospital, and is slowly Improving. Mrs. Mathew Jefferson has returned from a two weeks* stay In Atlantic City with Mrs. Lou LaClalr. who has been spending the winter there. Miss Elizabeth Dougherty, of Italia Street, has been In Philadelphia for the paat two months attending her alster. Miss Mary Dougherty, who was 111 with bronchitis, contracted while on a visit here. ** Mrs. Flora Olden went to Philadelphia last Sunday, with her son Richard. who will undergo two minor operations at the Women's Homeopathic Hospital Dick expects to return In about a week. Mrs. Gllllaon Is stlU confined to her om at the Lutheran Parsonage with •.a illness that has lasted over four weeks. The boys and girls of the Sunday School miss her very much, and Mrs. GlUlaon's place as organist at the O'urch servicer Is hard to fill. City Solicitor .'iugene Cole was In lAmSen on Monday appearing before ■'nancellor laming for Sea isle enty Ik the Seashore Gas controversy. The status quo will be maintained for another two weeks, by order of the Chancellor. inspector Annett, of Jersey City, visited the local *■« plant on Monday, coming one day eailler than he waa expected WAGONS FOR SALE J SV ana make' Stable ruth and Wharton Hirer la Philadelphia, are closing out nil waguna and barneoa. both single and double For full In1 or mat too apply Wm. Honlin. RnpL in charga, or to Joseph Dallas. So* Isle CftL-M-tt ... _ .

WEEK’S HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT GOONTT

SIX MORE QO FROM CAPE MAY COUNTY TO THE TRAINING CAMP; SENATE PASSES FISH LAW, EFFECTING POUND NET OPERATORS; CHAMBER O COMMERCE SEEKS WAR DIVEI OPMENT.

Six additional names wars added to Cape May County's Honor Rail on Me day, when that number were sent Camp Dlx. at Wrightstown. with near !y 4.000 other New Jersey draftees, the largest one-day assignment yet atad< The Cape May County boya art: FYai-k Barker, of Wildwood; Garner Heat, of Tuck shoe; Joseph Lloyd, of 8e*Vll)<; Antonio Camovo. of Sea lale Ctty; John Francis Doyle, formerly of tea lale City, and Lawrence Ruu-H nf Ocean Ctty. ^Tbey an quartered in barracks of the 610th Infantry-

The Cape May County Chamber Commerce will take stepe to bring some of the Bethlehem Steel Compa ny's war developments now going on in the vicinity of May's Landing. Into Cape May County. At their meeting last week, a resolution was adopted calling for the appointment of a committee to ma^e an active effort lo bring some of the developments south of the County line President Brick named Joseph G. Champion, chairman of the OommlUea When his hydroplane caught fire Monday afternoon and fall a distance of fifty feet In the ocean off Cape May. Ensign Walker Weed, of Montclair, waa severely honied about tne face and bands and one aide of his body. A companion, who waa receiving Instructions from Ensign Weed and who was operating the plane, is not expected to liva His Identity la not known. It la reported that the angina bankfirec. setting fire to the plane and that bv-fo-e the engine oculd he gotten under control the machine dropped.

NO COUNTY ADVERTISING TO BE DONE THIS YEAR. The Board of Freeholder* co-Jolntly with the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce have decided not to do any County advertising this year. waa developed at the meeting of the Chamber on February 21st, at Stone Harbor, that the effect of the advertising done last year waa lost through the lack of a follow-up system. To avoid making this and other mistaken again a Committee of three waa named to formulate plans for future County advertising. The Committee la: Director Henry Rutherford, of the Board of Freeholders; Mayor Philip Baker, of the Chamber of Commerce, and a third member, yet to be named, from the Pomona Grange.

DAVID BAIRD NOW UNITED STATES SENATOR. Governor Edge on Saturday of last week appointed former Sheriff David Baird, of Camden, as junior United States Senator, to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator William Hughes, from now until the election In November. The appointment waa tendered by telegram, and Mr. Baird accepted by wire from Florida, where be has been for the past month on a combined business and pleasure trip. Senator Baird will assume his seat aa soon aa his credentials are presented to the Senate. This will be done by Senator Frelingbuyaen immediately upon the arrival of the document from Trenton.

The following

LONE SCOUT NOTES. There are twenty-three Lone Scouts enroll'd, of which three (Dr. Theron Smith. Professor LeRoy Archer and Rev. C. P. Swank) are honorary members. and six are Juniors. Lon* Scout bats have been ordered for both Junior and Senior Scouts, and are expected dally Mr. Ohas. Wright, of the Coast Guard service, visaed the camp at last Friday night camp-fire, and after a tee talk, promised to load the Scouts In an out-door drilling at an early Scouts have held a special re-

HOW SHALL GOUNlYi FINANCE BOULEVARD? SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS ASKED; SPENDING OF feoUTE FIFTEEN MONEY ON Al 1 'L-RE-SORT BOULEVARD WOULD SAVE COUNTY HALF MILLION, SAYS WRITER.

By REESE P. RI8LEY. The fag end of the Kalaer*a winter finds Cape May County with her great adventure In County Improvement work, the All-Resort Automobile Highway. disconnected and far from finished. And the breakers that mark the shoals of finance ahead appear to be dangerously near. This waa the high point developed at the Chamber of Commerce meeting at Stone Harbor on February 2L There were many other things said germane to the subject and otherwise, but the big fundamental question was: How are wa to finance the completion of our partly-built All-Resort Boulevard under tha pressure of war-time

is in Its infancy, and the founders of moa: of them are living. The qaaatiao ariws whether real estate valuta have discounted the near future or whether they will continue to advance. Each yuar one hears that a tew yean ago money waa to be made In aeaanorr :• *1 estate, but prices are now high. But the prices of a few rears ago look *>i*ap now, and the prices today slD In all probability look cheap In a few yean. Secahore values have always advanced, and there has never been a

slump.

The high uost of living bogey received a body blow In the State Legislature on Monday night, in the paseage by the Senate of the bill to allow the Slate to go Into the flab bualnaea. This la Governor Edge's scheme and **s embodied In a bill presented by Aaatm bl) man Badglry, of Eaeex. It will permit the State not only to have thd first opportunity to purchase the fi>b caught In the pounds along the coast at the market price, but will also allua the purchase and construction of cold storage plants and to market the same to Jbe people of the State. TLe scheme ia to be administered by a oommlsaum to he named by the Governor and to serve without salary.

MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH. Rev John T. GUliaon. Pastor. Dunns the Lenten Season (which began with Feby. 13th, and will with Easter Sunday. March Slat) special Lenti-n aerrlces are being held every Friday. The usual hour for these eerrlc i u i to 5 o'clock, hut to commodate the largest number, thi aervio-a sill hereafter be held In the evening al 1.15. At a recent meeting of thr Building Committee, the question of when to begin the erection of a new church edlflri'. waa discussed from every angle. The Committee decided unanimous!) that In view of present war condition!, and in consideration of national and local public opinion against unneccrsary employment of labor, the Church will postpone **tnai building until laoor and financial condition! Improve

And the answer made by the Director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders waa that we are'NOT to finance It for two years! To Stone Harbor people this answer Is far from satisfactory and the further reference to possible "State aid" is equally as Inconclusive. Quite Incidentally and casually the Chamber delivered what might have appeared to be a knockout blow to the suggestion that the hard-surfacing of ROute 15 from the Cumberland County line to Cape May Courthouse be dropped and the half-million dollara It la to coat be expended Instead on the AllResort Boulevard. The vote showed that the resolution hadn't a ghost of a cLance. Now the only trouble with Director Rutherford's method of disposing of the AH-Resort resolution la that It doesn’t dispose of the PURPOSE of the resolution and it doesn't complete the Boulevard! The Idea of using the State Highway Tax money (Route 16, Capa May County's share) on the AU-Raaort Boulevard la ao reasonable and practical that It can’t be ignored. It win stick In the minds of every tax-payer in the county and out of it until there 1* some better plan devised to finance and finish the All-Resort

Boulevard.

It helps to SOLVE a problem which Director Rutherford's plan only j

AVOIDS.

It helps to extricate the county from a situation which Director Rutber-

SOUTH SEAVILLE. Miss Margaret Langley la visiting relatives at Malaga. Mr*. Alfred Banie* spent Thursday with her -laughter at Pitman. Mr*. Ernest A. Grace and Mrs Olive McAllister were shopping in Millville on Thursday. Mias Edna Sherman, of Pasadena, Cal., waa the guest of Mrs. Ernest Grace over the week-end. Samuel Cox, of Claremont, has moved Into Westcott's house on the avenue. f Elmer Smith, of Boston. Mast, spent the week-end with hla mother. Mrs. S. S. Terry. Mr*. Harold Collins Is vial ting relative* at Salem for an indefinite time. Mr*. Horace B. Payne and sons were In Millville on Saturday. Mrs. Lid*. Wheaton, of Camden. Is i*pending the week with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Pierson. Horace A. Payne waa in Woodbine Sunday and Millville Monday. Mlaser Margaret and Mildred Steelman. of Camden, apent the week-end with Harry Pierson and family. Mrs. Jennie Currie hat been visiting relative* in Philadelphia. Mias Nina Quigley, of Bordentown, waa the guest of Mias Florence Cor son over the week-end. Mr*. Leslie Potter and Mrs. Rose Ktlton were In Philadelphia on Man-

day.

Richard Hltner »nit Manning Harvey. of Philadelphia, apent Sunday with F. M. Hltner and family. Mrs. Charles Sparks, of Philadelphia. called on friend* here, Thursday. The P. O. S. of A. Band gave an entertainment in honor of Washington's Birthday Friday night in the baU.

STONE HARBOR.

Mr. John Kinaen baa been spending the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. David

TroxeL

Mrs. Potts-Jones la occupying Mias Nellie May Rennyaon’a apartment while Mias Rennyaon ia engaged In helping Rev. Mr. Twlng In hit work In the "Pl^es " Mr. Twlng It doing a wonderful work there among the alt savage people. Mr. Twlng will be remembered by many of the Stone Harbor people at the speaker at the American Needlework Guild, trhlch met in Borough Hall last summer. '’Vlalt the School Week" was weH carried out by the parents of our pupils. Every day saw at least some one visit the school, and on Friday evening a special session waa held and was very well attended. Considering the night, the sale of Ice cream was

Is known that the work of the >r Red Cross thrvout the country vital part of the whole orgmnlxalion, and Stone Harbor is holding up

ford's two-year wait nmkro more «D-| hor < nd UIUJ|I Th „ ^ DroIlniMt ungting . (| ,. !r |% thlriy-nlae. This Includes the

And It will be heard from again . when the Chamber has had time to

A wave of patriotism and respect for

the County's heroes In bat lie ha*

struck the County Board of Freehold era. who last week edopted the follow Ing resolution unanimously: Resolved

That it la the sense of this Board of Chosen Freeholders of the Count) of Cape May that. In commemoration of

the great service rendered to It United States of America by the ao

diet* and sailors of this Count) of I V|

ai* wbc b... lor b,, d, ! ^.,11,|,„

fen as In any of the wars ta which lt| has been engaged, the office* in which tbe public business of the Couniy ■*

conducted, eo far aa la possible without •rtoualy Interfering with the trailw on of the public business of tbe s»v era) offices, remain closed Uf the bus! of tbs public during Ur. hours

FIRST DRAFTEE GOES

TO CAMP OIX

The first man to be called to thr colors under the draft' law from Sea Isle City ia Tony Cannuso. better known t» tbe boys aa Jumbo He left Sunday .-iftercaon. going to Cape May Court House and leaving for Camp Dlx early Monday morning with five other boya, which comprised Cape

May County*# quota.

Tony was furnished with a comfort kit through the kindness ol the ladles of tn. W C. T. U. of this city. He also r»-reived a full knitted outfit, con ■istinr of sweater, helmet, scarf and wristlrt><. together with a small silk American flag from the Sea lale Brant b of tbe Red Cross "Jumbo" waa a gunner in thr Italian Navy and honorably din' barged before the

OUR MISTAKE.

Philadelphia,

February 1*. ISIS

Caps May County Time*

Gentlemen I have to inform yon (hat 1 have nu interest at the Sea Isle

tbs funeral cervices of any of Una Co and do not like to see n.y name be said soldier* or sailors la brine j tosntioned In your paper LuoL' for irid in tbs County; notificallou of tin the persons who own the plant at aid servies* to be amt by those bav present, hut cut me out (as not guilty) Ing them In charge, to the several pub | Yours truly, lie offices HENRY STOHREK

Sea lale City will entertain lbs Cap May County

ol pupils, the High School pupils York Smith. The girls are mak-

n-aiizr tbe full hearing on County al- , or

fairs of the present condition of the , ,. rM7 Wednesday afternoon. Tho

All-Resort Boulevard

6500.000 Saved to Taxpayer*.

Director Rutherford, In answer to a question asked of him as to bow h< purposed financing tbe construction of the unbuilt remainder of the AH Re eon Boulevard, replied that it would hr- done with State aid Asked if the links now being built were getting State aid he admitted they were not excepting the Wildwood Crest-Two MU# Beach extension on which some state money was be spent It waa then pointed out to Director Rutherford that the burdens ** Cape May County*a taz-paye-* would be teriaUy lightened In tlie future If the half million dollars to be spent Route 15 under the state Highway Act were used instead to build some of the misting links In the AU-Re*ort Boule-

vard.

For Instance, out of this vast sum of money (now to be used on concrvthtg tbe tup of one of the finest road* In the county built Of the famous Den niavMJe gravel) some one or more of the following d-apoat-ly m ressary things might be dune which would b*of enormous benefit in the growth af Hi# enltf- « ounty - Abolish tolls on the Somers Point Ocean city Bridge by buying 1L Build the Two Mlb flescb-Bcbeilrn-ger’s Landing Me*dow Boulevard Unking Wildwood with Cape May Build the Townsend's Inlet Bridge connecting Sea lale City with Avalon, thus drawing off tbe tide of motor (Continued oc page ai

Let aa do your printing—we print anything that can be printed, and do ■ it reasonably.

Help Wanted

Young lady wanted at utios, lor Ugh work in printing ofltos, knowledge <• "graphy and typewriting dssirah

cliool now baa the Red Cross t

8. Certiflci > and the <

till cate of member* hip In the Jr. Bed

Tbe "Home and School" pr.*ent the "Celebrated

expect to

breach of promise case" soon aid no one can afford to ml a,' it. The proceeds wlU go toward the Red Cross. Ur R. I*. Kisley came on Tbunday evening for the purpose of attending the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. which was held in the Domaatlc Science Room of the School. Tbe Freeholders In conjunction with the South Jeney Realty Company. are expecting to make repairs on the Great Channel Bridge, which la now said to be In an unsafe condition. Mr. R. I*. Rlsley waa In Stone Harbor on Saturday, taking dinner with Mayor Herbert and family. Mr Wm. Elder nnd son. of Philadelphia. were in Slone Harbor over Sun-

day.

Mr lock Smith, who la employed at Hog Island, was at bis home here suf(••ing from a severe cold, the fort part of the week Mrs. Larry Ketnon la very aick la I’hiladelpbia with broncbltia Mias Hannah has bw-n with her. H< * Bailey, of Wildwood, expects to hold aemrlrcs every Monday night In the Episcopal Church. Tbe first. Iasi Monday, was well attended. Mrs Jacob Miller

The forms of the Cape May County Times doss promptly each week on Wednesday afternoon, at four o’clock. No newr* or advertising copy can be accepted after that time for Insertion in the current week's issue. Thlg nils will be strictly adhered to, and adver

but not taroutial. Apply Tings, hea'Uaer* and correspondents are cantaot1*1* City. 3oll 40. '» r «queeted to get their owpy In on^.