Vol. XXXIII. No. 13

NEWS NOTES OF THE PAST WEEN

and gleaning* of •ONAL CHARACTER; LITTLE OF INTEREST AROUT KB YOU KNOW GATHERED THE CIRCUIT OF THE CITY.

CAPE MAY COUNTY, (Sea Isle Citv P. O.) N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918

5 Cents a cow, $1.50 a Year

. WftJtw 8b*rj> •pom ■

in PUllndriphU.

Sea Isle CHy Red Crow wlU In first annual meetlna at ' n March :2nd, at » p. m. el Dixon, of Atlantic City, was -t xucat of hi* •later. Mrs. Rlcbton. at her home here. Tt your order* for coal with MlLuonge. Corner Landl* Are- ! FVitx Street Full weight and t dcUrcry.—adr. L t Camp haa left hi* position -agrore. and I* now back home, In time to participate In the of hi* newest son. “Kenneth. ICE!—1 will re-opea my shoe -g shop or. Monday, March 11th. idt your patronage. Vincent te. Italia Street Sea Isle City, nd Mrs. M. Soden. accompanr. and Mr*. Higgins, of PhUamotored down on Saturday.

Margaret Necdhar

1 visitor, at the home of her

, Mr. and Mrs. George

THE ARMENIAN RELIEF FUND. Local Interest Being Awakened In National Fund Being Raised For Sufferers. The columns of this newspaper last week contained a plea for the relief of the millions of suffering and starring Armenians, whose pitiable conditions are being made known to entire Nation. Informative literature will be trlbuted from door to door in Sea Isle City, and a general effort will be made to hare this Resort enrolled as to contributor to this great work of relief. It Is stated by the Committee, that no organisation or individual In Sea Isle City has thus far become enrolled aa a contributor to Armenian and Syrian Relief This may prove to be Incorrect. If any persons hare contributed through other channels than this local campaign for contributions, our town should receive proper credit therefor. newspaper will be glad to receive such Information. The Treasurer of the Sea Isle City Fund is Mr. Irving Pitch, and contributions sent to the local drug store will be sent to the National Headquar-

ter*.

The following contributions have been received and a generous response Is hoped for:— Mr. Charles Robinson. Mr. Wm. A. Haffert Pev. J. T. Gtlllaon Irving Fitch 1.00

COUNTT NEWS NOTES OF PAST WEEN

* ADDITION TO TIME* BUILDING.

Contractor H A. Decry is about •tart on a fourteen-foot extension

is employed In the West Jersey Avenne. to the Cape May

Freeholder J. P. Fox. of Ocean City. Chamber ol Commerce meeting next passed his 66th milestone on Tueeday Thursday night, at Sea Isle City,

banqueted "by his hosts of

home-town friends In the Republican Cape May Is to increase Its bousing Club Rooms The affair was a com spuclty for the Soldiers to seven plete durprisc. somewhat on the order 'I'ousand. and Tents In July. Augyst of the one sprung on Mayor Joaept “id September for four thousand G. Champion on the occasion of his "'or*- About twenty-five hundred are birthday two weeks ago. Ms Pox 1. now stationed there at the various one of the pioneer members of th. Barracks. County Board of Freeholders, and habeen elected, and has served, for Hi Ex-Sheriff W. H. Bright, of Wildyears. He Is one of the most pop wood .last week announced that be will men on the Board, and wldel- lx- a candidate for the Republican known throughout County and State, nomination for S)ate Senator primary election In September. The Jacob T. Hammer, aged about slxt> '*iree year term of Senator Stevens years, was found dead by the poll.- • *P»res next January, and his succesat Wildwood on Friday last with a r.- -or will be elected next November. It volver by his side and a wound in hi- <» understood that Senator Stevens right temple, from which the Mood *111 be a candidate to succeed hlmpelt

was streaming. The body was found

on the boardwalk near the Casln The failure of Councllmen Jollffe. pier. Hammer, who has a «ife and MrCandlass and Becker to put in an recides In Philadelphia, came to Wild appearance hi the meeting of the Avawood fo; his health and had been atop Ion Borough Council last Friday night, ping at the Poplar Apartmenta, or. averted, for the time being, what Oak avenne. threatens to be a real scandal on the building of the 37th Street sewer, Employes of the railroad have got It which. It Is alleged, cost double the from “somewhere" that there Is to !■*- amount It should a sub-siiial Increase- in the sateri- Attorney J. FUblan Tatem. of Cam-

paid to telegraphers, switchmen, sic nalmen and other men employed in and abont the stations on the Wc-t Jersey Division, says a dispatch dated from "Sea lale Junction.” In a Phil* delphla newspaper. A number of men have left for positions paying better and other* have threatened to do so. but with the good news that haa reacted here there is a feeling of more

content among employes.

FORMER STATE COMMISSIONER. COLONEL STEVENS. DEAD. Former State Road Commissioner. Colonel Edwin A. Stevens, died at Washington on Friday of last week. ra* buried from his home In Hoboken on Tuesday. Colonel Stevens was appointed Commissioner of public roads February 20th. Ull. the first Important official appointment made by the then Governor Woodrow Wilson upon the latter's election At that time Cape May County boasted lets than 25 miles of State roads. Colonel Stevens had a host of friends thronghont Cape May County who deeply regret his death and whose sincere sympathy has already been extended to Colonel Stevens's family. Mr. Lawrence L. Stevens, a son. Js well known In Cape May County and Philadelphia. having married Miss Anna Mai pass, daughter of a family prominent in the Ocean City summer contin-

gent

-ting department at Hog 1 Is a visitor to his Townt home over the week-end lard Sutton recently enterses Edna. Mabel. Dorothy - Gladen and Mias Unice Bry-

, for a week-end

County Time* hnlldlng. The addition la to be under roof In time to accommodate the work of mailing the Easter Edition of the Times, which will be Is-

sued on March 2»tK

J. P. Delaney A Son have the contract for the cement «rork. and Edward Buck for the plumbing

was present representing twothird* of the 37th Street property i-r*. and with him was A. M. .Sicford, of the real estate department of the Weal Jersey Railroad. The latter had not only the complaint to offer that the sewer cost too much, but alao that the railroad's property was crossed

without permission.

While there was no formal bearing laat Friday, during a recess each man spoke his piece, and from the little said, the hearing on the 22nd promises

to be Interesting.

LOCAL.

Borough Clerk Leo F. McCraven and

FOR SALE, in any quantii per thousand (now stored old Continental). Lot

Box *27. Sea late City, or bor. were Sunday visitors here.

Drug Store—adv.

Henry Brooks returned to her p on Satufday after spend- : winter In Narberth, Pa. entertaining Mr. Barker, retir;t manufacturer, of Phlladelr a short stay. . Thomas Ogle will assume as pastor of the Sea lale M. E. next Sunday. His wife and er are expected to take up their re early next week. Mr. Ogle t many year* In Evangelistic d is said to be an able speak

I one strictly local Industry lummlng these days. Love have Just completed and de-

Mr. and Mrs. August Kahn, of Philadelphia. were week-end visitors and made their many friends glad by a round of neighborly calla. Mr. John Schwartz, forme rely of this city and now living at the Lutheran Home In Mount Airy, haa had a serious spell of Illness from which he

is slowly recovering.

Mayor R. W. Cronecker was a visitor to Washington. D. C, the latter part of last week on business, reports things to be humming with war preparations at the Capital City, which Is filled to overflowing Mr. Joseph Smith and iamlly returned to their home In this city on Sonday afternoon, after a temporary res-

New Jersey's resort Industry, en bracing all the big and little she:

cities between Sandy Hook and Cape , , . . M»y. r-pr-,«u „ ol H.- “J ■" U,e bo** 100.000.000, U, „» b f * " °«»

by U... AtUMlo City Cbuobor « Cor.

_. ... , . _ . and mapped out plans for the coming

meroe. The total number of vial ton . .

. .. . issue of the Liberty bonds. The camfrequesting these resorts during a sin- , yoor Mbroytobbto. Jua ,,K„ P*'™ *" '»»” «»«''' «■ U- “b*-

Aboo. 10.000.000 °

ooUmAtod lo, Abtotr EMrrfy, And

u SbJSSrThel^ » BdlUb. .1 phlladolphlA. .nd

Investment In buildings alone is $71.000.000. A little booklet Issued by ihe

Atlantic City Chamber entitied <be 'Seashore Industry of New Jersej

well worth sending for.

Albert R. Hand, pablisher of ihe Cape May Star and Wave, haa Ju*; Issued the third edition of the New Jersey Commission Government La* by Lewis T. Stevens of the New Jersey Bar. with all court decisions tn No-

vember term. U17.

Iri j the president of each of the banks in the county would constitute the executive committee of the county, also the following chairmen, who will appoint their committee In these districts Wildwood. Postmaster George N. Smith: Cape May City. Everet J. Jerroll. Ocean City, H. S. Mowrer; Sea Isle City. R W. Croeneker: Avalon. K Smith: Upper township. E. L Rice: Dennis tosrnshlp. R. B. Hess: Mlddl- township, W. J. Tyler: Lower

township. Reuben Johnson

SEES DANGER OF

WRITER URGES PROMPT ACTION TO STAY PROPOSITION TO DISCONTINUE SUNDAY SPRING EXCURSIONS. AND RATE INCREASE

SEVERAL CHANGES IN COUNTY M. E. PULPITS. There were about 100 changes made in the appointments announced Monday by Bishop Joseph F. Berry, for the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal conference. Those In Cape May County

re:

Alfred Wagg. superintendent. Anglefea. C. W. Reamer: Asbury and South SeavlUe, C. T. Hand; Cape May City. H. J. Root; Cape May Court House. R. H. Cloud: Dennlsvllle and South Dennis. J. H. Whittaker; Eldora Circuit, R. A. Cake; Goshen and Dias Creek. Nathan Tramor: Green Creek and Burleigh. Walter Terkers; Ocean City. George W. Yard; Peermont. J. Walker; Sea Isle City, Thomas Ogle: SeavlUe Circuit, W. A. Moore: Tucks hoe. G. W. Henners: Wildwood. J. G. Edwards.

NEW STATE COMMISSION WILL CONTROL FISH

By REESE P. SIBLEY. The Dollar Excursions, so essential to the life of our coast resorts, are not to be restored to us again until the summer schedule goes Into effecL

If AT ALL

Such was the statement made by an official of the railroad “higher command” last week in answer to a direct question as to what the prospects were for the resumption of the Sun-

day dollar trips.

The withdrawal of these Important excursions, while bitterly protested against by the resorts some weeks ago. waa accepted by most of them as one of the iUs of the first war winter. Everybody believed they would be inaugurated again In March when the weather moderated and an Increase in

travel might be looked for.

An advance In the established and widely popular tare of $1.00 to $L50 was Intimated as a feature of the renewal of the excursion service. This was conceded also as a phase of war conditions occasioned by the Increased cost of labor, coal. etc., now being

borne by the railroads.

But now. with spring at band and a te of $2.43 obtaining to most of the County resorts and an even higher rate to the other*, the plight of those depending on Sunday shore tfavel to eke out precarious week-day profits is serious, to say the least With no Sunday excursions in sight—even at the $1.50 rate—the coast communities from Atlantic City to Cape May are cut off from their principal source of supply on the one day of the week upon which they depend to help them out -.vith the expenses of the other six. Balmy spring Sundays In April. May

. The effort of the State of New Jer- i sey to deliver a knockout blow to the c

no-called fish trust Is soon

launched. While the new State Com- j June may come and they may go mission named In accordance with the _<hey will be much like any other legislation adopted at Trenton a few, ^ay, „„ far as seashore visitors are weeks ago is preparing to get down to ! concerned. Empty boardwalks, empty business as soon as possible in order dining rooms', empty shops will serve to give the people of the State the but to signalize the biggest and grossbenefit of the State purchasing plan. ,. st piece of stupidity which the topsythe fish pound operators of the coast turvy-dom of transportation has yet are getting their pounds set and ready ' attained.

for the coming s

The new law

Depleted bank deposits on Monday

' RACTOR COURSE A SUCCESS

» Long Brothers, of Virginia, tdrace In Philadelphia of i

a foot pound net boats t type, and are now comfor the Shallow Water pany. of Sea lale City, of the Other orders Include a and many miscellaneous repairs. . C. A. Brady, former pastor of E Church here, was formally : to the ministry In BL Paul's . Atlantic City, on Sunday last a Sea Isle who attended the were: Mr and Mr*. Geo. . Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bnck. ! Mrs. Geo. Whittington. Mr*. Cheater. Mrs B. F. lord. Mr*. \ Miller. Master Paul Rice and Ids Smith last the men of Sea lale City declared their rights For the two year* the women-folk have -rly been attending two or more week, and on the evenings of ranch enjoyed • social eventa. husband* went supperleca. On Wednesday night of wFek. however, the much-abused held a "kaffee-klatrh” at the of Genrgo Whittington, with the “Men Only” prominently display- ' Oee. ge made the Ice cream. Frank baked a cake, as did Hal Sutand George WUaon. and several lfl>T several attempts to beat men's defense, and gain adUi the much coveted of disappointed “w! home husbandless, and waited ■ midnight for bobby'* re r it was not until 11 f th* v broke up The next “Klatch' f given next Wednesday With le. Mr Fitch and Wm. Sharp

MB

Large Enrollment.— Second Course

Begins March Itth. Chug! Chug! Chug!

The quiet of the agricultural college campus at New Brunswick Is aha'ierrd by the chugging of the farm tractors being operated by those who hsve enrolled for the short course in the operation and care of the farm trsi tor. A second conrae will be given Ma:

| HAVING ROYAL TIME

TOURING THROUGH FLORIDA.

The following Interesting U tter from thf . Bute commission Stuart. Fla., was received from Ed-' an j the allied commission merrhani

ward 11 Arnett, who with Mr*. Arnett. I Mr. and Mrs. Hess, of Tuckahoe, and

doe* not become entirely operative mora|n| . w „, ^ the coroIUrT of poor until January L 1919. but It Is believed .. xcurg , on business on Sunday and that the fish pound men. who aucteed IM>or ,. x( . urston business on Sunday is ed In securing Important modifications , 0 u . , h< . ^ |onK M tb . in the leglslatior originally plann.d. .Sunday "dollar” train* are side-track-

will co-operate from the vety outset ^

with the State official* Thr biK su^ay excursion crowds In

There Is little question but that the , h< . fUrinK Mnd

summer ARE

action of the State In officially going THE jjasIS OF PROSPERITY OF Into the fish buxine*, for the benefit „ RESORTS. They are made up of the people of New Jersey Invite* a )f VERY BEST of our cottage and

It la planned to give a four*- . tractor operation to women during th first two weeks In April, there bein already several who wish to take -u<

month* Mr. Smkb will be employed by the Pfeiffer Fishing Company. Mr and Mrs. Charles Bell went to Philadelphia on Saturday but it Is generally well known tbit upon their return trip to Sea We City they will become semi-permanent residents of

this resort.

Mr*. Joseph A. McGllllo'* card party at her Philadelphia home on Thursday was enjoyed by the following guests: Mr* Jack Bo*fong. Mr*. Paul Comelly. Mr* Joe Chapman. Mrs. John Brown. MI* Margaret Sommer

and Miss Kale Doby.

bouse party *a» given by W.

Scott Rinehart. Jr., at the home of ’ Uon. to transfer the membership Misses Marie and Rae Hahn. Spray boys over twelve years of age. to H>e Hotel. s>»‘urday evening. March 9th. - Boy Scouts of America.” The srnsilYe Cafe v»as beautifully decorated eet unit admissible Is one “patrol" of Ub American flag* and flower*. In right boy*. The following boy* were hone; of a few of their friend*, who j named In the application for adml*have answered the cour'ry's call. The rion to the National Order of Boy dancing pro-.ed to be the main attrai- Scouts: Willard Wright Richard oldtion for Ihe young folk* Titoae pres ' en. Herbert Wilson, Thomas Jefferson.

Mrs. I aura Klenn. is now touring

throurh Florida:

“We arrived here about 5 P. M.. aftei a very strenuous day aa the road* were very rough to Fort Pierce, but

18tb to March 30th and men wishing ; cool ] ,his side of there. This toarn to enroll for this course should write JiU , on t b P map by the late Exto the Director of Short Course.- as j „t Cleveland, who came here to possible, ; fish. We have certainly passed

SCOUT NOTES

At the laat meeting of the Ion Scouts It was voted without op|“>-

Mlsses V^ri.- and Rae

Hahn. Phtlidelphla; Rose Marie Miller. Philadrlphla: Gertrude LsRort. Philadelphia Elizabeth K Reed. lale; Lillian O. Walker. Olney. Pa.; EUain V. Brook*. New York; Stephanie B. Sleil. W Philadelphia; Ruth St. Clair Boston. Ma*» : W Scott Rinehart, Jr., Olney. Pa Captain Paul Jones McBride. Seattle. Wash : Lieut. Philip Young Proctor, Seattle Wash Lieut Norton F Lyon. Portland. O.-.*-gun Ueut Fred A Wartman. Olney.

Thomas Whittington, William Stev Clay Sutton. Walter Wright The Lone Scouts will continu<

work (with headouarter* at the Lutheran Church) with a roster of twelve name* All the Scouts are watching the local express office, impatiently looking for a box of nineteen servicehats. shipped from Lone Scout b*-sd-

coariers about the first of March

through H>me Interesting and picturesque i uuniry and are now down In the pineapple country We are 45 miles from Palm Beach, sill go there tomorri'W. and then on down to Miami and tl • n double back to New Smyrna lima and on up through SL Augur'ine and Jacksonville the extreme in both cases, from the 20th century Miami to the fliTit or oldest city In America—

Augustine.

rntmot begin to describe the beautiful scenery we have passefl through, also Mime of the most desolate You extreme# In each case The! are thousand* of the most txautlful lake* one could pos*lbIe Imagine air laden with sweet orange blossom* . the flower* are certainly fine ee them everywhere. -rtalnly will have plenty to toll bout When I see you. WlU write you later from one of the towns below

HAVE NICE CONTRACT Messrs Seaman and Letzku*

Lieut. Frank H- lbrick. Olney.i Stone Harbor contractors, are now Officer Albert Scott Rinehart, caged In building a wharf In Ocean New Ixmdoa. Conn ; Dm tor Usll 8. j City, with the Seaman patent IntrrHavlson. Manayunk. i s : Brewer Karl Ixicklng piling. Each pile measure* W slfrum. Olney. Pa : Detectivajli feet long and walgha two and ■as O. Tow. Hog laland. f „ jquartar tena. __

With best • friend*

all t

AHNET

If you think “The Time*” ■* a good dollar snd a half* investment, whj not subscribe (or it and gn it regularly thro jet- •»— msil ever* Friday! All the County News worth reading every week In the Cape May County

Times. *1.60 per year.

visiting element.

Hen- you will find the business man and bl* family who an- property-own-er* coming down to *ee how their nretty bungalow, or cottage, haa stead

the winter's storms

In the next seat Is the lot-buyer of last season, blue-print In hand, with his wife and the children headed for hi* chosen resort to clore a profitable contract with hla builder who will meet him in his auto at the station to take him over to “the lot” and then around town lo see the “new Improve ments” and so to the hotel for dinner "111 all this happen *o frequently at the $2.43-12.70 faro now preralUny?

Positively, it will NOT.

And who will be the loser? The answe-r Is each party to the Imaginary transaction described above and a lot of other “parties" w hose Interests may not be *o apparent, beginning with the railroad companies themselves and c-ndlng with the county and the munlrlpalltle* which won't get the new houses they should have added to their list of ratable* In AugFbr the cutting off of the Sunday excursions strikes at the very root of the reMirt'* building business ASK

ANY CONTRACTOR!

If It wen- near the time of a Chamber Of Commerce Meeting I’d really almost be tempted to offer another art of resolutions addn-ssed to "our Congressman". "our Senator", "oor liirwctor G-neial" and “our railroad officials" of the higher command, on the

if New York and Philadelphia Un l- r the provision* of the new law the fish pound men must offer their i-atc-L to the State Commission first If tbi State does hot buy their fish they an then free to dispose of it to any other commission merchant who want* It. It literally makes of the Bute Commls slon a wholesaler In competition with the tremendously wealthy commission interests of the two biggest cities ad

Jarcnt to New Jersey.

POUND FISHING NOTES. Th*- Pfleffer Flab Company, of which Clarence Pfleffer Is the head, will this year operate from Sea Isle City In stead of Ocean City. A large fish bouse Is now being erected for the Company's ui<e adjacent to that uf the Sea Isle and Deep Water Companies I steal Pound Net operaturs are obJertlng moat strenuously to the letter the National Food Administration sent by the Cape May County Cham her of Commerce, objecting to the licensing of pound* off the Virginia coast. The Food Administration, in view of the Countv Chamber's pro test, refused to llren«e pound* in the district mentioned The local operators contend that this Is merely a stepping stone for the Virginia operators registering a similar protest against our bkhermen off Five Fathom Bank, aod will prove a boomerang to the

County hahlnr Industry

Disposing of your property by WUlJ ulf , ‘ l

I. . ,hm, II* or I or-or-oo 'lo. -u,,,. Bui «oo«. 1,1* ..Minor la gull# anoUi.r. And!"' eadour.' — Whafa the naelad!, become a eer, almpla mattar “ l ■ , ™ b * b| r >'*" ,b " b »>'»r ^1®" -hen (oo Invohe He aid W Ha Sa.t““" 0 ' '■*"”« “» *mmatl«e eunir Truat Comhao,. ol Cwa Mar ' bl1 - ri ‘ “‘•‘U.*'’ b > ntr N. J. 10 admioiatar roor “> -""H-o"* a loam or dlaar- [ ranging »otne*>ne’* plans, or butting In

something that Is none of toy hcsP

rcontiaoad cm paps V)

tiubserlba tor thy Caps May County

Tlmsa. $LM psr ysar.