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BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDCape May County, N. J. *The regular meeting* of the Board are held on the Firet and Third Tteaday of each month at the Court Houee, Cape May Court Houee, at 1040 A. M. OFFICERS Director AUGUSTUS HILTON ' ■* Vice-Director JOSEPH CAMP Clerk IRVING FITCH Sea lale City County Collector C. W. SAUL WUdwooo Rolicltor ERNEST W. LLOYD..Cape May Cl*y County Engineer LEAMIMG M. RICE Wildwood Read Supervisor. JAS. McLlNL'EN North WOdaood Oupt. Almehouee and County Farm LEWIS T. DOUGLASS Cape May Court House Superintenoent of Soldier*’ Burials JOHN W. REEVES ...Capo May City Custodian of Court He use K. L. SMITH Cape May Court House Farm Demonstrator J. A1CHER STACKHOUSE Cape Mry Court House

Cities Cape May Ci y William Porter Ocean City Harry A. Morrl« Sea Isle City Wayne M. Strutter* North Wildwood.. .Georye A. Redding Wildwood Janies E Whiteseil Boroughs Avalon Geo. J. Jackson Cape May i'olnt H. H. Basse South Cape May Elvln B Martin Stone Hart* - Edward T. Fries West Cape I lay Tbeo W. Peeves Wildwood Cr ;st . .Harry L Nickerson Woodbine L. C. Abramson

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CITY, BOROUGH AND TOWNSHIP CLERKS OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY

_ Townships Dennis..Osman M. Geary. DennisvllkMiddle... T. D Howell, Dias Creek Lower..Cha ‘lea C. Reeves, W. Cape May Upper. Jess- T. Yorng, Beealey’a Point

SOUTH 8EAVILLE. Edwin Foster, pi I'amdea. spent ' Sunday with his parents. Charles Fo. j ter and wife. Grover Nichole and wife were in MlUvlUe on Friday Miss Helen Mason entertained company from Ocean City rver the week-

end.

Beaj. Iianies and wife, of Millville. | visited H. A. Payne and wife, on Sun-.

day.

Mias Hu.da Heaton spent the weekend In Philadelphia. Mra. Harry Spence was at Wildwood on Friday. Sidney ’Busby and Clarence Orirc ere with Edw.rd McAllister and wife, over Sunday. James T Maxon attended the Great Council of Imp. O. R. M.. at Trenton, this week. Mrs. Olive McAllDter virdted friends at Atlantic City on Wednesday. Mra. John Nichols 1* vultink relatives Ui Millville for a short time.

UST OF MEMBERS Name, Address, District Represented, Term Expire* ou January lat of the Year Opposite Name.

OCEAN CITY

Address. Ocean City John P. Pox W* 1 John R. Groroe SEA I8LE CITY Address, Sea Isle City Tbeo. E. DeBow 18» James F. Eustace 1W* NORTH WILDWOOD Address, North Wildwood Floyd HewlU John W. Youne I* 21

WILDWOOD

Address, Wildwood Augustus tliitou •••IM1 Otto Koeneke W CAPE MAY CITY Addreak. Cape May City John T. Bennett I*** Henry S. Rutherford 1**1 UPPER TOWNSHIP Address, Tuckahoe # Hope W. t indy 1»22 DENNIS TOWM8HIP Address. South Seaville Charles E. Foster 1822 MIDDLE TOWNSHIP Address, PJeroe’s P. O. Joseph Camp 1823 LOWER TOWNSHIP Addre^, Rio Grande Jos. P. MacKlsslc

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF THE COUN TY OF CAPE MAY. Cape May „Tty—James J. Doak Ocean Ci:y —John J. Devine

lYank H. Ware Reuben Ljdlam

Sea lale Cl'r-AUred £ North Wilf wood—A. M. Ely Wild «ood -S C, Ingersoll *

Wel'er M. Beers Andrew Johnson

Boroughs

Slone Haroor—Olaf S. Salvesen Edw. T Fries Wildwood Crest—Edwin B. Fagan West Cape May—David Hughes V. lodblne—J. S. Levin

Townships Dennis—A. E Holmes, Dennlsvllle Thomas J. Darrell, Uelleplaln Middle—L. T. Garrvtsoc, Cape May Com House Lower—Frank Eidredge, Cold Spring Upper—James Shoemaker Tuckahoe

ASSESSORS OF CITIES, BOROUGHS AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY-OF CAPE MAY

DENNI8VILLE. Lewi* Fldler visited relatives at Tuckahoe on Friday. Hannah Uoyd has returned to her home after spending the winter at Cape May. Martin James sper.; the weekend with friends Howard VanArtsdalen and family spent the week-end with Mr*. U. Chcs-

BUILDING

RAILROADS AND GOOD ROADS Solution ol Future Transportation Problems Seen In Hard-Surfaced

Highways of Country.

Have your Machine Work done in a REAL Machine Shop. Woodbine Machine Works, Woodbine, N. J.

Cottage Renting My Specialty Houses and Lota For Sate | M. M. SOFRONEY REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE

NOTARY PUBLIC

SEA ISLE CITY, NEW JERSEY

HARRY F. KRAISS

Carpenter and Builder

JOBBING A SPECIALTY

SEA ISLE CITY, NEW JERSEY. asritf sn^e." «ter' traffic. I OSOB»B»Oa«CdiODDC^^

LIST OF STANDING COMMF’TEES FOR 1920 ALMSHOUSE — MacKlsslc, Gandy. Eustace, Gcoves, Koeneke, Ben-

nett

AUDITING—Young. Foster, Ruther-

ford.

BILLS—Gandy. Camp. Koeneke. BRIDGES—De Bow, Gaudy, Camp, Groves, Hewitt, Eustace, Foster. DISCHARGE OF PRISONERS—FosFINANCE—Koeneke, Camp. Huther-

tord.

LEGISLATIVE—Fox, Hewitt, Camp. LIGHTING AND ELECTRICAL— MacKuuOc, DeBow, Koeneke. LUNACY—Euau Fox. YoOng. PIOSQUIXO EXTERMINATION — Camp, MacKissic. Gandy. PRINTING AND ADVERTISING Groves, Koenehe, Gandy. PUBLIC BUILDINGS—Bennett. Hewitt, Camp, Eustace. ROADS—The Director and Full Board VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS — Young. Foster.

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Cape May City J. Allen Wales Ocean -City Dr. H. T. Fould* Sea Isle City '.G. E. W. Corse* North Wildwood— 1st Ward Robert Bright 2nd Ward Louis Krause Wtldnood Lynn H. Boyer

Boroughs.

Avalon Win. Bennett Cape May Point Norman Rigor South Cape May Albett J. Rudolph Stone Harbor Harry F. Jakemelt West Cape May Harry S. Fisher' Wildwood Crest Win. A. Justice Woodbine Israel Elscnberg

Townships.

Dennis Holla Hewitt, Ocean View Middle V K. Erricson, Diaa Creek Lower Aaron Woolson Upper Geo^^JIott. Tuckcboe TAX FOR CITIES, oitTgoh# AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY OF

CAPE MAY

Phoebe Grace visited her sister on Saturday Mr Eugene Springer and family motoroj to Eldora on Sunday Uriah Gandy snd family spent Sunday at Heislervflie. Rebecca MeOray Is visiting her

grandmother.

Mm Hughes and daughter visited relatives at Eldom on S-iiday. and Mrs. J. K. Carroll visited Bridgeton ca Monday. A meeting of the Junior League held In the M. E. Church on Sunday. Mrs. Samuel Woolson was elected Su-

perintendent.

Mr. and Mm. Leon Creamer visited

friends on Sunday.

Cape May C. H. visitors on Friday were Mr. and Mrs. Z. Taylor. Mrs Frank Fldler and Miss Clara James. Miss Mary Robinson ' spent t la-week-end with her mother. Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Reed went to

Tuckahoe on Friday

Madeline and Mary Derarde spent

Sunday with their parents.

Miss Mary Jackson Is visiiiw Miss

Cora Corson.

Mm. W. G. TLompson is quite 111 at

this writing.

Benjamin Springer has a new blcy

de.

CONTRACTORS A BUILDERS

I Any student of the railroad situation must reach the conclusion that rail- ! road operation in America has reached !the height of Us efficiency and hceaf ter it will remain stationary or de-

crease.

it Is always possible that some evolutionary process will be discovered, hut the long years without marked Improvement of process Indicate that railroad mechanics have about reached their maximum while bureaucratic and political c-jotre! now assured "111 be as deadening to all machanlca. Improvement as they Will he to effective

management.

Progress in transportation. Ihorefore. must lie In other line*. Navigation has been heralded for some years u« a solution, but in spite of heavy

government

even ou the Great Lakes, has steadily declined. The remedy does not appet.r to rest there, at least for the present, i There remain the highroads. In j them salvation lies, say* Chicago Trite one The war, which proved the utter | incapacity of the French government j owned railways to rise to the emcr- j gentry, established the motor truck in i Its full majesty. What the French railroads could not d.> ’he mot..r trucks on flue French hlghwav- did. - What llie highroads are .n France | they must he made la America. Fortunately, we have an excellent little beginning In the middle West. The principle of hard roads has been accepted and timid beginnings have been made In a number of states, chief among them Illinois. Let us understand. and Immediately, that win. 1ms b.-en done and what has been legislated for Is merely the thin entering wedge of our hlghrovd program. The narrow ribbons of cojcrete romls laid out by legislation will no more carry the forthcoming auto truck traffic than the old narrow gouge single track railroads were able to carry the ralt.rond traffic which they cauwsl to de-

velop.

It Is fortunate that we have man; agencies building road*. The nation will do something for the most back-

ward The state*, however, should | HiBe a.H-iHeMtHiC+UsHt

ESTIMATES OHEERh ULLY GIVEN

LUMBER AND BUILDING SUPPLIES PAINT. COAL. MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES STRATHMERE LUMBER CO.

EARL M. WADDINGTON. Ms»*aa«

Build Now

The price ot lumber is.bold* g at an even\market, and

every indication is that it will be years before there is s downward trend in prices. Labor, too, will not reach a lower scale. Your Government urges yon to BUILD NtllY. It's good business, to. EDWARD B. ARNETT

BUILDING CONTRACTOR

Uoui Phones Sea Is!e City,

Frank Erickson and family spent Sunday with Mis. A. Scull. Richard Robinson, mother and brother, visited Cape May C. H. on Fri-

day.

Mrs. C. Berarde called on friends Tuckahoe on Sunday. Benjamin Springer visited friends Goshen on Sunday Edward Buck, of Sea Isle, calh-d on j friends on Tuesday. Way spent WednesSkF evening In Atlantic City The Community Day exercises held on May itlh were well attended by people from the four communities.

COURT AND COUNTY OFFICERS Address: Caps May Court House

Circuit Court Judge HON. HOWARD CARHOW Common Pleas Judge HON HENRY H. ELDREDGE

F. R. STILES Sheriff HEAD TOMLIN Deputy Sheriff * R. W. ROSENBAUM Surrogate HARRY A. DOUGLASS Prosecutor of the Pleas EUGENE C. COLE County Superintendent of 8c hoc is at Secretary of Vocational Schools AARON W. H.»ND

Cities Cape May City.. .W. J. Ftnderson, Jr. Ocean City E. W. Burleigh Sea lale City M. M. Sofroney North Wildwood P. L Peterson Wildwood Robert J. Kay Boroughs Avalon Ralph Peterson Cape May Point*. J. T. Huff South Cape Mav. .C Marshall Rudolph Stone Harbor Thomas A. Gash West Cape Mar Harry T. Ludlam Wildwood Crest Cha*. U. Lare Woodbine Dp Joseph Joffe Townships Dennis H. M. CarroU, Dennlsvllle Middle..Wilk-ts Corson. Cape May C.H. Lower Scott Seymore, Cord Spring Upper ... .Alfred H. Sapp, Petersburg

COUNTY BOARD OF TAXATION SAMUEL ELDREDGE. .Cape May City JAMES M. CHESTER ....Ocean City * RICE Tuckahoe GILBERT C. HUGHES. Sec. Cape May City

CORONERS DR. N. A. COHEN Wildwood H. THOMPSON ...Cape May City JOHN P. CADMAN Ocean City

I! II !l n IIII UJLILO,

COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS GEORGE JEFFERY'S, Chairman See Isle City JOHN E. TROUT Oaear City* LECN A. WHEATON..No. WO*rood gy r. ii END1COTT, Sec^Rlo Grande l

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Landis Avenue and Fritz St.

Sea Isle City, N. J.

Sometimes we think that if some people we know d'.J worry a little more they w.-uld be better off. This Is the season when the rich write those wonderful “wish you tyere here" cards from the sunny South.

The man who ear set you an exam- _

pie i'j a ’wner teacher than 40 mec j or quadruple all nsMunal allowwho merely tell you what you ought j Bncrti i u it, e beginning, grid until the to do. 1 (irlnciples of highroad traffic an- gen- •

| entlly understood. It 'vIU probably be ^ dullW ?i i necessary for comities and even cities ♦

but If we live t*> be 100 years old well t|| |ir(l vide the wide thoroughfares uec- I

t the |>olnts where traffic cen- ♦

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uov.*r made a mlUh

i live to be 100 years old

never quit thinking that it-rhaps some I j.'^ry

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It takes all sorts of people to make up a world, including the young fellow who thinks i.'iug a cauoe load of sofa pillows a .Ide Is having a good time.— Detroit Fre*- Pre**.

BY THE OFFICE SAGE.

■ a rocket;

ters.

To Illustrate, the 18-foot road" which * ire perhaps adequate a hundred miles , I tn the country are even now more con- T pi>"tcd ten miles out from the city t limits than are our most crowded city ♦ streets- I

BILLION DOLLARS FOR ROADS Immsns* Amount to Be Spent In 1820 for Construction and Proper

Maintenance.

•if, hut not In ; 1 Mure than $1,000,000,000 trill be j spent till* jvar In construction and Admit that you ar* Ignorant too j maintenance of roads and. street* "" wU1 i tSTEJLS; j Rudders' aMoclatlon, estimated. HINDERlMilL iNTERCnURSE

West Jersey Garage Landis Avenue, just South oi Ocean Avenue SEA ISLE CITY, N. J. REPAIRING, STORAGE AND CLEANING GASOLINE, OIL, ETC.

Nobody writ"-, bis eff-wth at h It Isn't funny.

Conditi

Whs* has become of the old-fash- j g j tom-d woman who made her husband's j „

of Travel Caused by Poor | i of Highways in Rural

Communlliss.

roads are often a handicap t<> j in*, n'ourae. Under the woru i utvKIous all travel may be com ! suspended. It ts not dlfflcnlt ■ such condlt'uns. but what Is

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