Times

XXXIV No. 24.

CAPE MAY COUNTY (S*a Isl* Cmr P.O.), N. J., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1919

5 Cents a copy, $1.50 a Year

KCTES THE HIST WEEK

GLEANING* OP AL CHARACTER; LITTLE INTEREST A ROUT I KNOW GATHERED «»T OP THE CITY.

0 kits OB irk, Sm Isle, cheip Wit S838 Lsaosster Are.,

now open w > supplies, |

t House ob Boolsrsrd. _• is now reobcniseu r Service SUUon; repairs economical!) with A parts. Full line of lire* adv. It.

1 FOR SALE.

Halt Piano, to be sold jr. Made to order, in Can be bad tor 1150.

KIEL, Btralkinere, N. J.

over with beautiful

Day carries an unusual this year. Orislnally set in memory of the wearers of t'ae i the SO’a, it soon included the becoming national instead of lal, and now, in the dawn of aft'r the world war, the olive drab and tbe navy blue are Included. i today, or at

WEEK’S MUSS mm

A REVIEW OF THE WEEK'S J ^"TThnskn-

PENINGS THROUGHOUT CARE | "anoe floor Tairi, a.^d tbe stores and MAY COUNTY, CONDENSED FOR , P 1 **?.®? bo * Ki -

j walk, tbe visitor* will find lots to enler-

OUICK HEADING; WHAT’S WHATj Uin Um wl.il. here.

IN COUNTY AFFAIRE.

this live body at ladies preeent who took keen

•st In the

r. Thomas F. Hell y, Jr, and his bride are nt tbe Reilly bungalow on the Ocean trcml. Mrs Walter Bailey, of Tnekahoe. is visiting her brother. Mr. A. W. Miller, of Neptune street. Tbe women of

their small daughter Ruth were weekend guest* of Mr. Struibers aunt. Mrs. A. W. Miller.

BEACH FRONT JOTTINGS

snd i! tbe weather permit*, there be a large crowd pressnt over the Decoration bay holidays. With the formal opening of the draw bndje over Corson 1 .

of tbe pier

Tbe TaU Cedars Ladies Night Yacht Club, WUdwsod. on Wedi was s red letter occasion

DOINGS OF THE WEEK IN DENNIS TOWNSHIP ITEMS GLEANED FROM A WEEK'S HAPPENING* THROUGHOUT THE TOWNSHIP; PERSONAL NOTES THAT WILL INTEREST YOU ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS

e finishing ol

lack of tomberTrhU

Day. omjM to necesaifhtss pr by the beach o

or through the etreeta, to get or down the boardwalk.

Flaking '

As s beginning of their campaign

ir “S00 positively", the membership ,_ se of the Wildwood Board or ^ WM k, tbe devotees being re>,ld . WUI mm*. Wtlx : ,,0, clcbn «| co.k,,,. II,,

hool auditorium on Toeeda>_ flounders.

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Wildwood had • _

Day Celebration. Prof Harry opened the Ocean Pier D ‘

Deconuion Kay. Friday nights with Riisbtoa's chestra furnishing the parts of lhit big palace .

“EZS. 1 Su“"

c'lrnge from the cold bleak days of the •it part of tbe month. With the land ' it blew over tbe city on Tuee- _ _ s large number of gnat* which walking on the boardwalk and muing under the pavilions moat uu

comfortable.

Several bathers have ventured in the surf this week. Several were in bathing

below the pier last Monday aftei Every week tbe sport becomes popular at the weather gets

lol and tlie water more tempting.

' . A dirigible passed op the , „ Wednesday afternoon towards Atlantic

Tbe graduating Haas at Ocean CH> oily, and hying to low that its anchor High School numbers It—Witt May j faae< ] u.e surf. The pilot guided Jeffries, Lavinla Byre SculL Roth Go4 h ^ n* beach enabling those on frey Stephenson, MSrgaret Ids MiUer. „ le boardwalk to distinctly aee the oc

Marian Taylor Hewitt. Charles Way Ellenberger. • Roland Clerk Canning

H lWen St

cupants of tbe craft

CLEAN-UP WEEK SUCCESSFUL.

Marts. Mary Anna Clark. Helen

Ing Coxaon and Margaret

ter. I That the Clean-Up Week in Sea tale

Icily was a marked success wss ev+ Member* of the Sophomore Class of deoced by tbe many dosens of load* tbe Ocean City High School Md a 1 of rubbish and Junk accumulations

beach party on the strand at North; For three days the teams of Joseph street Tuesday evening, to which their DaR** were kept busy, with help from

n and wife *

elr cottage, coming down idMphla on Friday, rbert Phillip*, of Avalon, _.t to her aunt, Mrs. Edward i find of tbe weak. . who has been visiting , Mrs. D. A Marsh, bss re

> Pnoll. Pa.

idles Aid Cake Bale on Wed a was well petronlsed i snd strawberry short

ing faaturws.

Us. of Philadelphia, was I visitor, getting his bench>erty In read in ex for openpart at this week tar

i is a guest of the

ss Margarette Strutters snd Miss • Strutters came by motor from 1, Sunday, to visit their cousin.

Night at tbe Tall the Wildwood yacht Igbt. A large party vac man n*a Ms Mrs Ik R. Baer, came flown last week and are at their apartments over the Philadelphia store. The Misers Unie snd Frances Whittington. of Philadelphia, were at their home in Sea lale City over the weekTueeda. on the early train to P’.flad el phi* were noted Mr. Theodore De Bow. Mr. Edward Buck. Rev. J. T. Q111 Ison, Mrs. Barbour. Mr. and ’era. Martin MdLaughlln have openeu their cottage. Tbeir sou Charles. ’ -lely returned from France. Is with them. Mr. and Mrs. J. Francis Meicbell of ti>e Chapman spsrtmeut, entertained the Mixes Snaps of Atisntic City, snd Mr. Edwin A. Snaps of Uennartovn, Philadelphia On account of Ladles Night at the Men's Club next Wednesday evening the regular meeting of tbe W. C. T. U. will be postponed to Weilnsedsy eve Ung, J* '-* Utb. J*r. Percy Neel, of Merlon, Pa., snd Sea lale. is having a group of bunga lows erected at Ocean City, under so porvtslon of Mr. E. B. Arnett, at Paris

street.

friends were Invited, ed will be used in defraying the «■- penses of tte Hass trip to Washington D. C., next year. Tbe dance giver, by tte Hans last Thursday evening wne largely attended and all had a Jolly

time.

Pilot Edwin L Davis, one at Cat May's oldest and moat respected HU sens, died at the home of his son. Harry Davia, on Monday afternoon, at tte age of 8S yearn. The funeral eervieee were bHd on Iburaday after

at Cold - - -

Lodge

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JlOE TABLE FOR JUNE

Mick Low

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IK.M 6 48 .7.09 1.04 7.41 8.04

8.88 E,W

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Premier Aaqallb's

Tbe Ladles Aid postponed It* after noon tea this week on account of the Ladies' Night at the Burf House to br given next Wednesday evening by tte Man's Club on occasion of ita last meeting for the esaaoti Mr* Fiances 1’l.illlps, who with her daughter Eleanor ha* been paying a visit to her unHe and aunt. Mr. and Mr*. E. B. Arnett, of Pari* street, returned to her home at Trenton on Thuraday. Mr. and Mr*. Woodrow and Mr*. Woodrow's u rtber returned to Fblla delpbia the first of tin week alter a two weeks' stay lu Hca Isle City They have their cottage all ready fur occu pylng and will be down early lu June for the season

CITY AUDIT COMPLETED Auditor Harry A. Monis. of Ocean City, has completed the audit ol tin' city's aocoanu, and has filed Ills re port, show log everything to be m Dm wnditiun. A summary of tte report Is published in tbi* Issue WHY IS IT— That there I* a till no gas? That moie Interest la nut being taken In the coming municipal election T ThU tbe ordinance relating to dog* tunning at large ia not enforced? That mote people do not send in dnal news Hem*, either by or mail?

I Spring Cemetery- tte streets of

ie attended in a body aad .

igular Imprsaslrn aenrtok <-oU»j TV

a Tbe Mrs. F'aher. of

Harry Hampton and A. A. Lapngo. The Cttys yard Is being cleaned . td tte buildings painted, and tte nee white-washed. The grounds of tte t being put into condition, and a ruis court will be

•or of tte lot.

The City has shored up tbe Krtpp yttsge on the Boardwalk, which In dangerous and unsightly cond! Tbe street signs st each stree tersection are now nearly all in place on tte east aide of the principal

Wildwood, waa tile minister in charge. Mr. Dart: was a Delaware River Pilot tor 50 years. He was one of tbe moat efficient and careful pilot* in tbe business. never having an accident of any He wa* a man highly respected by all Cape May people. He is sur-

vived by bis son Harry.

Tbe board of architects of the United Lutheran Church have approved tbe plans drawn bv George C. Banrr. architect. for the temporary chapel of 8L John s Lutheran congregation of Ocean City. Tbe Lutheran Church lot la located at the northeast corner of Wesley avenue and Eleventh street, snd la fifty by one hundred and twonty fast. Tbe businea* affairs of tbe Ocean City Lutheran Church are being administered by the following committee of well-known Lutheran layman: William H. Dieeroth. chairman; Harvey C Miller. treasurer; O. B. Kriaewetter. retary. with Milton K. Harr. George Hofsteiter and Hater Well. Jr. MMI business men of Philadelphia who have substantial interests In Ocean City. Lutheran clergymen who have direct Interest in the new chapel and the lo cal congregation to be formed era; The Rev H A Weller. D. J> prealdent of the Mlnlsterium of Pennsylvania; the Rev. W. H Huffman, sgperintandem of missions (Eastern Dirts ion) for the United Lutheran Church; tte Her. 8. D. Daugherty, D. D . and the Rev John T. Gllllaon, who ha* been elected as pastor-in-charge of the Ocean City and Kornev* Point pariah.

Superintendent of Weights « Paul E. Carroll has reWashlngton, D. C., where ited the County at the NaConvention of Weight* and Ir. Carroll made tte trip by motor. Prank Wanner, of Vineland. Bute Superintendem of New Jersey, wa* 5 Treasurer of the National Twenty-nine delegates were it from New Jersey.

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MICKIE SAYS

i VJ'NON GUN V4VSO V.

BREEZES IN MERE AMD ' MAN06 THE GO BE A LINE OF CHATTER ’GOUT HIE BlZMCBB 'N VHMAT a LOYTA adnerTldtMG vsg'g GO ini' Y' DO , GtTfc JRET V4HKT ME PA'tB Ft A 'ROUND Ym\» OFFICE* “ Talk 'gout contractin' PER A QUARTER PAGE *N THE NEAR DON f EVEN I GtT A FRtR TVHO-BlT LOCI

OUT A VAE NO VAORE l GAN* THE BOBS'

MARMORA. Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey and son Manton. of TuckahOA ap noon with Mr. snd Mrs. A. E Mr*. Wm Wilhelm wa City visitor. Thursday. Mr and Mn. Herman Bayer spent the week-end in Wildwood. Mr. and Mrs Charles Dukes, of Wild 1 on reistiyea Saturday af-

WOODBINE. Mrs. Shropshire and son have recently returned from a week's stay In Philadelphia. aaa meeting was held at the fue Wednesday ai 2 o’clock. F. Carson, of Beaviile. former teacher here, paid the town a Islt. Sunday Mr. Kennyon died at tbe hospital in Philadelphia, May 20th. Tbe body was -ought here tbe following day. where « was buried. Mr. and Mrs. Boyarsky, of Phlladel phia, spent a few days with friend* a Mendelshon snd R. Benson rts some of their friends in Atlantic City last week. A gathering of the eighth grade took place at tte Central School building Friday evening. May 23rd. Mia* R. Benson »tU substitute as id grade teacher for tte remaining A meeting of tte Parent-Teacher As social Ion wa* held at tbe Central School Anditorium Tuesday at 3 P Miaa Washburn waa there to ad a the meeting. Other speaker* > on tte program. One of the kindergarten Haase* gave a few exer else* under the direction of Mis* Ward. Priv. L Goldford. who has rece returned from Prance, arrived on late train Tnesdav. He if now b stories and take a |

* SOUTH DENNIS. Master Leslie Ludlam, of Cape May H . spent the week-end with b‘» aunts, tte Misses Ludlam. Wilfred Hasbroock spent Sunday with bis parent* Matthew Jeffersoi inday with Capt. and Mrs Stephen Charles Nelson, of Salem, spent Sunday with Mias Anna Hewitt May Cahaley spent tbe week-end with her parent*. Joseph Taylor, of Dennlsville, called on friends here on Saturday Mr* George Peterson *pen day with Mr* Smith Sttlea Capt. and Mrs. A. J. Meerwald. ms and little Helen motored to Mill

lie on Saturday.

Mias Margaret Pierson spent the eek-end with her parents. snd family, of Ara-

i motored to

Mr. and Mr* A B. Smith spent Saturday afternoon in Tuckahoe. Mr. and Mrs C ~ “ Saturday in Atla Mias Harriet Dailey the winter in

MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE. Tbe Parent-Teacher Association baa arranged a fine program for Memorial Day. The children will meet at the school ground* at 2 p. m. The procession will aurt at 2.30, going >ver tbe following route; Ariadne to Ijindis. aouth on Landi* '.o Pearl, countermarch on Landis to Swain, return to Italia to tte Pier, where a fioral boat will be

The school children will sing patrl otic sir* and there will be addresses by Mayor Pitch and war veteran* POHOSA OKAKUK UHF.TlSn The Spring Meeting of the Cape May Pomona or County Grange, deferred from April 18 because of the quarantine over the County for the "flu." will be held with the South Beaviile Grange the afternoon and evaning of Setcrday. June 7 The afternoon se* aion will be for Pomona business gpd limited to those who have passed the Fifth Degree The evening will be given to tbe "Lecturer's Hour" with A. D. T. Howell In charge; the program mainly made up of Grange talent, and poasibiy an address by Myron A. Waterman. i tta U. S. Treasury, upon the Ijmd Bank Act. The dinner and “hoclal Hour" will be between the session*' George Sayre, Clermont. Master, or Truman Hickman, the overwear, will preside at the Pomona aeaalon. Mr*. H. P Rialey I* Pomona. At a time when thing* began to look dark for the Wiasahlrkon Barrack* at Cape May. and material* were being shipped to other places, preparatory to disbandment, telegraphic order* have arrived which atop the dismantling of the big barrack* and tbe place ia now being placed In order to accommodate two to four thousand men who will a; rive In a few day*. This Is welcome new* to tbe people of (Tape May. as It Increases tbe activity of the resort In s social and commercial way.

PUBLIC NOTICE. Public notice I* hereby given that on and after Monday. June 2nd. 1919, any and all dog* tunning at laige on my -proper!' at Townaeud** Inlet and deal 111) ing tbe property, will be sum manly shot, or In soma other way detlroyed No further notice

given.

City, Saturday evening. Alfred Sapp, of Petersburg, spent Wednesday with his brother, Bnathan app. Herbert Madara and Paul Corson pent Saturday evening in Ocean City. Karl Sapp has returned home, after Vending two week* in New York Mr* S. Stratton is entertaining Phil-

On Monday evening Mr* Wm. WUelm entertained a number at friends u meet her nephew. Clinton Howell.

just returned from oversea*

a ”S-,

Wy-locker ba at Atco, after

ter hare.

E. A. Stratton ma i Atlantic City. The children wbool gave a very tainment Friday afle •njoyed by tbeir friends and Harvey Young Clarence Smith. Mrs. Stephen Youngs vent Sal with Mrs. Howard Stiles. Ambrose Corson, of Palermo, Sunday with Mr. and Mr*

Barer.

Mrs. Joeey Btites made a trip to Ocean City. Mr* Nora Corson, of Thursday with Mr*

A 1

Mr* C. F. Learning and Mix Martha eaion went to Philadelphia on Tues

day.

Charles Boyle, of Wildwood, apery Sunday with hi* parent*. Mr and Mrs Smith Stiles received word on Wednesday that their son Eugene has arrived wifely from France at Newport News. John Douglas motored from Cape May C. H. in a Ford Sedan to aee bis mother. Mr Pierson motored to Wildwood on Saturday. Mn Jesse Crandol Is entertaining Mix Sara Godfrey and a friend from Cape May C. II. vtslton on Saturday were Mix Martha Meerwald. Master* Prancl* and Edward Meerwald Those who sueresafully passed the Eighth Grade In our school are Thelma Nickerson. Catharine McCormick. Elisabeth Robinson and Paul McKeag

TWO LETTERS.

WILLIAM KAPPEL. and shipping

will make a

Cape May County i-nnnot reach It* peak of auccen* ngitrulturally. until we adopt some of the marketing tneihod* of. the fanner* Minuted alone the Bridgeton DI« *lon of the Central R R. of New Jersey. I was visiting that aerUon last week. The alrawberrles were Just beeinning to ripen Thou* and* of empty crate* were being haul id from tbe nation to the farm* Buy er* were golnv to the farm*, compel Ing with one another tor the puirhaaiof the crop* Thl* week. Iced car* will he held In readlnex for the safe transportation of thl* fruit. The rail-' road get* the produce into New York market* In ten hour*. Pepper*, peacber. tomatoes, cranberries. bean*, sweet polatoo*. apple* and asparagus are all handled In the xnte manner Out problem down he>c t* not so much Increased production a* It l» co-opvrailvc production, marketing

Most cordially your*. WM A HAPFKKT

Editor, 'lime*

WILL NOT BE UNDER-SHERIFF. Sheri* Robert S MiUer has given tte following announcement to the county prex this week, over hi* signature: In order that there may be no misunderstanding as to why 1 am so deeply interested in tte nomination and election of Mr. Mead Tomlin to tte sheriff's office. I want to make it clear everybody that I am not to be Mr Tomlin s deputy, nor will I have any connection with tte sheriff* office after my term expire*. I admit that 1 am amious to see Mr Tomlin elected, and the reason i* not hard to Bud—I know better than anybody elae bow capable he la. and how worthy be la of advancement.” ,

rad some power the giftle gie us To aee ourselves The above lines brought to our blind ol tie "aqulb” in tte k. asking why tbe city Hail ground was not kept in better condition. If the "Times" would remove tte otc from lu eye and cxl IU optica •m ike sidewalk o. its own building and alxi note tbe filthy condition in •u laar. then act on tte advice which it's gratuitously giving to tbe public in general a* to a “general clean-up", nd put tin "Times" *urrouudlngs in a- nresenublr a condition ax tbe City Hall grounds.—the criticism, or whatever It may be called would coma with better grace and might have :ome weight JAB. T CHAPMAN

THE REPI.*. May 28. 1919.

My deni chapman- —

You have a xring aenae of humor. Thanks for the suggestion contained In your* undated The Time* surrounding* shall be cleaned forthwith,

and with due haste

Your allegoriaatian. however, la , xlightlv mixed Inasmuch a* the Times Ijls private property, owned by private | - ■ . . . a pjfyai* «

VOCATIONAL SCHOOL BRIEFS.

"Seeing ia be.levlng " Rled'* low dent corn grown by R. T. Hi Goshen, weighs 8i pound*, corn cob. to tte bushel. The old corn baa been growing weigh* but 78

believe tbe Xllie difference will bv|capital and operated

noted when we shell It. It I* money j terprise. while the City HaU. now In easily made when one ran add ten or your kind and tender cars. Is a public more bushels of cum per acre to hla property, owned by the uxpayer* and

crop over an unsettled variety, for the operated for the public welfare

xmr growing expense* | Henceforth, while we would not

Thl* dlfierenre shows, alw. what ; have the effrontery to query the condl

seed selectlbn will do. Rled'* yellow , Mon of the ground* of James T Chapdent corn ha* been carefully aelectid nan. citizen, we felt not at all tltnorfor over 90 year*. | ou* In questioning the condition In

The Johnson County-white corn which James T Chapman, public aer

which Jus! cam* out In Mr Ktack- vant. I* keeping the City Hall ground* house's corn variety teat*. U a coral With renewed appreciation of your produced by year* of selection and consideration ln calling atlention lo breeding Rled's yellow dent com was . the "mote." which ha* been removed not in the teat* last year, but it is hv a painless and pleasurable opera-

this year, and I am confident that It tlon. '

CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF

Having compiled witii tha ‘ in such case made and providad" I tlii* mean* of aauoenring to tbs Kspub lican Voter* of Caps Ma* County ili*t I am a candidate fur Ui* Ksuublir*n nomination lor Fhenff. and solicit tl>s aupboit ol every member ol tta pan* at lire Primary Election lu Meptstohei MEAD TUN Li N Tine advi-rtissuieut c.deted and paid .1 hv 8l**d Tomlin Catu- 1