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Vol. 35, No. 43

SEA ISLE CITY, CAPE MAY COUNTY, N. J.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER -i, ,g 3 o

m NEWS NOTES OF THE PAST WEEK ftOTES AND GLEANINGS OF PERSONAL CHARACTER; LITTLE

I ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT

FOLKS YOU KNOW GATHERED IN THE CIRCUIT OF THE CITY.

[ Dr. C. W. ^a? it now taking a poatkrnduate courer in tLe medical departBeui of the University of Pennsylvania, Knd fcr this reason will be absent from au office on Friday and Saturday of £acl> week. Office hours will be kept i tneee days by Dr. Eugene Way. ryular office hours, from ‘J to 4 P. M. Jeery day; other hours by appointment.

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■ ford service station and commissioners hold

IE PAIRS. We carry a complete line

f genuine Ford parts, and ean make { SHORT SESSION MONDAY

Sepal re promptly. Electric welding 1 brazing done, and storage batter-

NO ACTION TAKEN ON UTILITY PETITIONS Because the full quota of twenty per rem. of the legal voters registered at the last General eleetion were not signers on the petitions for the purehase of the three public utilities in S«a Isle t.'lty, the City Commissioners refusi-d 10 take action, and referred the petitions back to thus*- who. pn - •anted them to obtain more shtuatures '• The petitions were at first thought to cor tain sufficient signature*, but the Solie'tor ruled that twenty percent of those registered were required, and tweny percent of those who act ally voted, as was first thought. The movement to purchase tl plants Is generally considered a to ward one. and is a measure that wl undoubtedly carry when it comes to

popular vote.

i re-charged. Expert auto repairs, tndard tins and tubes. MAZURIE'S Parage and service station, a Isle City.—adv. tt | SHOES! SHOES! SHOEf!! lor all e family, from the smallest tot up to lad and molhor; school shoes, dress work shoes, in endless variety d popular prices, big shipment uow '' sites and styles while the slock is YOUR pair is wailing for you. get 'em. PFEIFFER’S BOULEVARD STORE. Adv. f LOST.—Juvenile bicycle. Pennsylvai name plate, 26 inch wheels and [ tt inch frame, painted light blue with dark blue trimming. Finder please notify O Adeliui, SOS Asbury Avenue. Ocean City. adv. It. j£' Women. Use spare time selling from factory to wearer Big nisslon* quick sellers. Write for samples. Universal Wa'at Co., N. Hicks St . Philadelphia. Pa.— : If ft fsn’. convenient for you to come > the bank in person, you may open I account by mail. Send your first Security Trust Co., Cape X)KKEEPING AM) AUDITING yoke opened, b-lanced, closed and |dited. W. F. Jocher, 10 Dolphin St., a Isle City. Adv. | Stop that cough. Fuli line of cough “ rope—FITCH DRUG CO.-Adv. I A good warn, weather sport is billTmds. The place to play is a BRACA’S, le.—adv. if.

Sale—

The Sea

'ity Commissioners

held u short meeting on Monday, with but little new business transact^. Lights wen- ordered placed at Shell Street and Landis Avenue from Italia Street to Pearl Street, between Central Avenue and Landis Avenue, tc displace the old gas lights in tne center of each of the squares. The Solicitor was ordered to prepare the contract for the installation of the new engine at the sewerage disposal plant. ;or which bids v

•d last week.

RECENT DEATHS ALVIN ENDICOT. Calvin D. C. EnufrotL •even-month d sou of Mr. and Mrs. EndicotL of the County Boulevard, died nf'er an illness of several weeks, on Sunday . Interment was made at Calvary Ceme tery. Ocean View, on Wednesday. Baby Endicott was first taken with whooping cough, and later developed bronchial pneumonia, which caused his death.

RIPE LESS M'RNACE

. Wly new, huge

Waddington, Strathmere,

LOST— Key ring and five email keyt. Reward if returned to Stewart Gemmii,

Drug Store. Adv.

FRESH ROASTED PEANUTS— J Every day at BRACA’S.—adv. tf. PIGS AND SHOAT8 for sale—W. L. fiOE, South Seaville. Adv. ICE CREAM all the time—FITCH

BUG CO.—Adv.

Tcaty, good eating Candies- FITCH

rURUti 00. Adv.

Mrs. J. W. Parker, motored down om Beverly, N. J.. Saturday and closI her cottage for the summer. Mr. and Mre. John Limerick, of Philadelptua, motored from Philadelphia Itorday for a week-end at the shore. Miss Wilhelmina Counties returned o.. Monday from a delightful ten day itioc, which included Glenside, Mauch hunck, the Switchback and vicinity. Mr. aud Mrs. L. H. Dallas are going to Philadelphia to bring home tlieii ‘aughier, who underwent an operation * acute appendicitis, at Uie Jefferson

? #spital.

Oiix. and Airs. H. H. Magouan, of New York, with their little daughter have been visiting Mrs. Mogowan'e brother, Mr. William Kandle. Tney were registered at the Bellevue. Mr*. Robert Stevens is slowly improving at the Presbyterian Hospital where she hat been ill since the birth of her Child. The Ladies Aid of the Lutheran Chaich gave her a postal eboAer this

week.

On October 13th, 1920. Mrs. George Culver gave a . rthday party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her daughter Dorothy Rae Irwin, at lheir new home, the Cleveland-by-the-aea. The bouse was beautifully decorued and the table with birthday cakes and favors might well tempt the eye of any child. Miss Dorothy was 10 years old. The first real departure from the tiaditions of the past is a Political Tea oi perhaps just a Tea. Mr*. Gee. Jeffreys the hostess disclaim* all thong, t of being a po'itician, but a* Hit wife of the I Chairman of the County Election ln.erd she rises to the occasion and opens her home tomorrow afternoon for a tea in honor of Miss Mary Baker, of Wildwood, daughter of the late J. Thompson Baker, Kx-Congrrsenan, who is a candidate for State Assembly on the Democratic ticket. Miss Bakei is not making campaign speeches but does wan' to meet the women of 8ea ls!e City. Invitation* are out for “Women Only’’ without regal d to political nffiiiiates. The bouts ate from 3 to Z>. Tbs men of the patty have arranged tor a Democratic Kaiiv in the Garden Theatre Saturday even-

ing.

ELIZABETH KNUPPEL. Mrs. Elizabeth Knuppel, of Strathtero. died suddenly on Friday of last i-t-k from dilation of the heart. Interment was made on Tuesday, at the Lutheran Cer -tery. Middle Village, Long Island.

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COX’S VARIED ROLES By SCOTT C. BONE At “one" with Woodrow IVllson and for WUsoalam sad all It tiaplles, without reservation, jot boaeoching a weary, tax-burdeaed country to eloct him President. That’s Candldsts Co*. An exponent, fnr campaign purposes, of progreailro thought and loPy Ideals. y#t nominated and barked by Boss Murphy, Bess Brennan. Bess Taggart and Ed Moore! That’s Candidate Coa. Wettest of the wet aspirants for Preoldent. ssyo Edwards, by B-van's appraisement. In a Democratic Convention dominated by the weta, yet now endeavoring to convince an arid country that bo Is dry »ad ever hut been a dry I That’s Candidate Coa. Charging that a corruption fund of S15.OUO.OUO was being raised to tuy up the Presidency. aud then, at safe distance from the oeat of l: qulry. lalslng the amount to $80,0l*.000. yot without producing an lorn of evidence In auppen of his wild charges. That’s Candidate Cox. A machine-made politician. Touched for by Tammany, yet prete :dlng to have been given the light In 1P12 as a disciple of Theodore Rjoseveli aud Hiram Johnson! That’s Candidate Cox. Arraigning the pres* for not taking him seriously by minting his a 'eeches. yet knowing, aa a newspaper man. that the cost of print p iper under this Administration Is too high to glvo space to mere T irds! That's Candidate Cox. Crying out against a mythical "Senate oligarchy," because the pr-cions Wilson covenant failed of ratification, yet with full knowledge tint hostility of iJriiiocnitlc Senators rendered raUficutlon impossible! nit’s Candidate ’Cox. A -Ud. dodging critic of Burlesonlsm and Palmerlsm, when confronted by nr,!.-:..* out West, yet committed unqualifiedly to Burlesonism and Palmerlsm by the Iiemocratlc platform! That’s Candidate Cox. An apologist for the sinking of the L. 'tsnla. a pacifist of the Newton Baker strip.- as clouds gathered, and In, -venlng on behalf of a rich slacker when war came on. yet today appealing for the support of America v sons who went to the front! That's Candldsts Cox. Dry to the drys, wet to the wets, spliituellc to the spiritual all things to all crowds. In the face of the G. O. P. landslldt clearly Impending. yet never daring to deviate In his devotion to Wilaonisui or the Wilson League by the dotting of an "1’’ or the crossing of a “t"l That’s Candidate Coxl And. finally—an acrobatic AJux defying the lightning of public disapproval 1 That's Candidate Cox.

j FORM WOMEN S AUXILIARY OF COUNTY COMMITTEE

Woman's Auxiliary to the foamy R I publican Executive fommittei- was o rum/ed Mrs. Annie H. Steelman. .

5 Cents a cop* WEEK’S HAPPEIgT INROUGHOUF COIM

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AT THE CHURCHES ST. JOSEPH’S R. C. CHURCH. Rev. Alysious Msgr. Pozzl. Rector. Sunday Masses at 7 and 9 o'clock: Sunday School at 2 o’clock: iiem-dl'--tion of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 3 o’clock. Confessions every Saturday after>on and evening. M E. CHURCH. Rev. W. H. lAither. Pastor. Preaching in the First M. E. Church by the pastor. W. H. Luther, at 1«.30 m and 7.30 p. m Morning subject. A Place to Stand. Evening subject. The Regulating Force of Life. Sunday School. 2.30 p. m.: Harold Sutton, Supt. hearty welcome tc ail.

OCEAN VIEW.

. _ , .. i»«-ceuseu ouu oeen a rcsiueu ’ IV \ w. ./ Strathmere but a short time, and ere, n. j. auv. tt iIlU . nd ,^ lo Illak ^ hrr p^nnum-m b

,.. Miss Marian He' itt. of State Normal ; School, spent Sunday with her parents. Miss Dorothy Howell is visiting her

WOODBINE.

11. Rosenthal, of Philadelphia, was a visitor here last Tuesday. A farewell party was given in honor of Mias Lula Jofte. who has been substituting as seventh grade teacher, at the Central Sihoul Building. Wednesday evening. Oct. lath. She left for New Yotk Sunday, where she will resume her previous w ork. P. Greenstein was a Millville viailo:

Saturday.

Miss L. Selgel left for Philadelphia last Wednesda; . oD not forget o ir Masquerade Ball given by the Girls’ Club Friday evening. Oct. 22:»d, at the Uberty Hall We will have the Vineland Orchestra. .Miss E. Bub her, our kindergarten teacher spent the Week-end at Sea Isle The High School boys and girls enjoyed a pleasant evening ai the Central School Friday. M. Illume paid Philadelphia a visit

recently.

Speakers included Assemblyman Boswell, and County Clerk Hildreth. The l,.dies, of whom there were a goodly number present, pledged Unit lull support lo Uie enure itepubln an ticket, and will organize local committees in each community in the Count GETTING AFTER THE UTILITIES. fonditions Unit work to the delft mem oi Ocean City were Uiorouguly discussed at the l.-.sl nteeUng oi the Ocean City Progressive League, including Uie laek of service by the Cily Uus Light Company and their method

oi making service changes

A REVIEW OF THE WEEK’S HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT CAPE MAY COUNTY, CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING; WHAT’S WHAT IN COUNTY AFFAIRS.

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> i- Mecray has put chased the fct ibu. kt i liuiliiiiig at Cape May, will III the Ilea I I mure tear It i and have huilt a large steel and , building, aud apartment house, gioui.ti itoor will he occupied by r * Mecray, with a mammoth tvildwood plans an- now nearly .complete loi tne election ol an up-to-d tt. inisiiie. . block at the corner of

Light Company

n-ntals this pasi season due in ibe lliat the Beil Teleplione • otild nol

turnish service in certain sections ol - the < ity. Also this company s meUi-i mi oi handling outgoing toll t ails weie| subjects considered of enough inipor-'

lance for the League action. BIG POTATO SHIPMENT.

Six carloads of Early Rose potatoes 1 ■ shipped from the Reading siatiou m i : May one day last week, which is a record breaker for one shipment i of potatoes. Tht spuds were ship ted ! io I. IsbelL of Camden The fann-r.-who shippt-d the potatoes got one dol-j'

i bushel for them.

EDITOR’S DAUGHTER WILL WED r. and .Mrs. Alfred Cooper, of Cape Court House, have issued invitn- - to the wedding of their daughMias Annie Elizabeth, io Mr. Arthur Nelson Ferris, of New York, at Methodist Episcopal Church, t House, Saturday, October 23. at 'clock noon. Mi. Cooper is pubT of the County Gazette,

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POSTER PAPER COST. From the Elmer (N. J.) Times. A few years ago the winter and spring supply of paper on which U> prim vendue advertisements and Uie run of farm sales cost the Times office $2i» to *25. and good quality at tha;. This week the Times purclias<-d a supply, quality inferior, but the be*’ the market alfords. and paid *170 lor, ii AU printers are up against It when it comes to obtaining a supply of pos- i ter paper.

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|sister. Mrs. Arthur Sutton, of Stone) A local base ball game was play

Miss Magiel went to Philadelphia to | Harbor. | Saturday uHernuuii by the 7th a pass the week-end with her sister. Mrs. Charles Robinson aud family)Hh grades. The score ua.- 2.;-C,

| have moved hack to Sea Isle City, after (favor of the Mli grad-

in Ocean City j spending the summer here. ! Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Upman and

Mrs. Waller Shari' «

n Tuesday.

Mrs.

Point. Mr*. Harry

| Mr. William Carew spent Saturday ! - hildn ,. m . ,. r n i in Philadelphia. Somuei 1 oung. of Beesley s 1 -• - -

the guest of her daughter.

. Muller, on Tuesday.

Miss Helen Coxson and Miss Margar Miller were home from the Stale Normal at Trenton for fin week-end. Mrs. H. F. Kralsse and Miss Tillie Cronecker are home from a very joyable week In Philadelphia. Mrs. B Ford entertained Mr. and Mrs. Sines. Miss Sines. Mr. and Mi Chubb and Miss Chubb lust week. Mrs. Thomas P, Curley. Miss Helene Curley and Mr. Robert Rhea, of Philadelphia, were guests ..f Mr. and M: S. S. Gemmill over the week-end. Professor and Mrs. LcHoy J. Archer motored to Lakewood on Sunday, to visit Mrs. Archer’s parents, Mr. and

Mrs. C. H. Thompson.

Rev. and Mrs. John T. Glllison left on Wednesday for Washington, D. C., to attend the .Synod of the United Lu

Uieran Church in America.

.Mrs Ralph E Carter and Miss Grace Carter, who have been passing the limner In Sea isle City, left on Wed■sday morning's express for their new

bome In Philadelphia.

Mre. Annie Schlck'ls at the Luther- ■ parsonage for a stay of a week. Mre. E. 11 Osgood has been Invited i speak at a W. C. T. U. Rally at Eldora in the near future. Dr. Geo. Morris Dorrance, of Phila--IphJa spent the week-end at the home of Mr. aud Mrs. Geo. B. Jefferyi while here enjoyed a dip in the

Mr. Owen Dervin Is spending some 0

time in Philadelphia.

(day i

Mre. Blume i<-turn<-d Sunday eveMr. and Mrs. George Mossop and ,1!n g after spending thn • w«-vk>

daughter spent Sunday with Mr. Mon- j Philadelphia.

sister, Mrs. Ernest Duwnaiii.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dnwnam and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Richard Godfrey and fam-

ily, of Green Creek. N. J.

Mr. Amos Gandy, of Philadelphia,

spent Sunday with his father. '

Father McGrath, of Villaiiova. spent Wednesday with Mr. Joseph Dow

and family.

Miss Florence WrlghL of Sea Isle ’iiy. spent Sunday with her mother her home here.

The nearer we get lo elect ii and the assurance of Kepulilii miui.ntration, the higher the price of Liberty bonds

is*. M Robinson and family <d from their summer's sojourn the Shore Road, and will shortly go to Townsend':' Inlet for the winter, Mr. Kobinsuit will leave soon for a bust trip in the south. \ and Mre. E, B. Arnett were delayed in their plans for trip to l-am-bertville. on account of the work on their car. which is being put it. order for the Southern trip. They are leaving Saturday, if pleasant, for the visit to Mr. Arnett's old home. Rev. Aloysios Monsignor Pozzi, rector of Si Joseph's Church, is spending some lime in Greensburg. Pa., and is expected to return here the fore part of next week Father Pozzl has been in ill health and a rest was ordered h--Bishop Waist. Rev. Father Phelan, of the Holy Ghost order, who assisted here this summer is uow pastor-ln-

charge.

PHILIP P. BAKER

Resolutions by the Cape May County

Chamber of Commerce.

Whereas, In the order of Divine rovideme our esteemed fri.nd and other, Philip P. Baker, after a long id honorable earthly rareei. was re•mly summoned to his eternal reani by the Messenger of Death, and \\ here**. This great and rood man of Cape May County was one whose iferling character and personal ity, combined with capacity for lervice and successful business, him a valued office, and counsellor of

this organization: and

Whereas, In his work as a public official and repi-senutive of the people, Senator Baker rendered good and faithful service, greatly appreciated by residents of this County and Ftme;

end

.titering took place at the home of Mre. L. C. Abramson Saturday eve-

ning.

Miss C. RoseitK-ld stopped in Phila deiphia over Friday. The Zionist, meetnig was b«-Jd '-t Centra! Si:hoc' Saturday • veiling. Mrs. Botwineck spent a few days Miss C. Kabinowit-r paid her parents a visit last Sunday . Mrs. Baker was '.he speaker at the suffrage meeting Saturday aflernoon at the Borough Hail. Zenitz. of Baltimore, was a visitor lure on Molid.-<) •w of our boy.- and gills attetiddance at Ocean < it> .Saturday

Mr. Guidon, of New York. Messrs. Feldman and itnbi the M R. U. Hat Co, were • is Horn for the week.

Is your priming nupply running low? Don’t wait until yju are down *o your lost ohcet—order

i ii i oplar building, lor Sheppard ' .«>int,s. ttie well-known grocer, in whom will be associated Harry Diy. tiie t'.isiiiu dancing muster, -e building will be two stories in I height. 01 tc S. Ute-proof and heated, it wi., in- 65x10V feel and will bo built b. k on a line with the Marine NaUotiiil Rank building, which occupies u- other corner of the block, giving a w til,- open walk aud artistic effect. TO IMPROVE BRIDGE ROAD. '! !.e dtectoru ol the Ol'eaU City Auloiuobiie Bridge t'umpaity have dedd- • t, .. •• ctavel the road between Ocean i . . .it .Soiuei.-. i’oint. The company *‘e't Aptiug will pave tfie till between .Son.ei;. 1‘oiiit and Rainbow Channel, a distance ol ab 'it a quarter ol a mile. This work - to be started at once. Signs .-ire to he placed on the bridges liutittnc the capacity of trucks passing

over them to seven tons.

The directors have re-elected the company officers. They are: President. Henry D. .Moore; first vice-presi-dent. Harry irer, Wm. K. Massey; secretary. Otis M. T .wn-

send.

WILL RETAIN LATE CAR. As a result ol information which reached Oe. an t tty that, effective Octohei 17. tl Shore line car learicg AUantic i -ty at 12.25 A. M. and making connecliun at Pleasantville with 11 I’ M. train from Camden, would run only i.ii : Unwood. Mayor Joseph G. Champion, the Chamber of Commerci- and the Young Men's Progressive l.eacue tiled a i'rotest against the raoli-i'l change wlileb would make it i!ii,H,.-.-ibli lot t- -idents of Ocean City io spend an evening either in PhiladeJpn a or Atlantic City, aud a conferee e was held with the R. R. officials, which rtsuited in the late car being

retained.

Mr Cox de<-lar<-tl in au address in Oklahoma. "Mr. vtlsou is not running Ihi.- year.” He will remark when Inread* the election returns. Well. I

didn't run very fast myself." —

Printing with the “Tfmea Printing

I: '..-.i liave had enouch ol Wilson- ’louse" Imprint thereon means quality

' printing that Is instantly dlstlnguishahle from tiie ordinary kind—at so

higher cost.

An Ideal Way to Save Saving comes easy when it is done the Building and Loan A small payment every month, coupled with the payments of hundreds of others, earns big interest, anti in a surprisingly few years your savings come back to you in the form of a check for $200 for every dollar that you place in the Association each month. Tradesmens Building and Loan Association CHAS. H. CLOUTING, Pres. H. LOVE. Treat. A. S. STEELMAN, Sec.

Wber

lore oi a

as. During many yean tla activities ol this, out fellow-1 i greatly aided the growth and of the City of Wildwood.Wild- j esl and the County of Capelj

The

Cape May those in Hu.

and good counsel v .

triable value in the wo-k ol t!

■ration: therefore

Be it Resolved. That the : of the Cap May Chnutbe. shall convey to the wii fly and friends of the late Senator j Philip B. Baker, our sincere sympathy i and heartfelt grief in their lore and i •reavcmenl; and be ft further Resolved, That copies of there resolutions be sent to all the newspapers 'ape May County, and be entered j in the records of this organization. j

\V/HY net make your _ ** appeal for patronH age thrsugh the columns | of this i ewpaper? With = every issue h carries its | message into the homes of g all the best people ol this | community. Don't blame | the people for flocking to g the store of your competi- | tor. Tell them what you = have to sell and if your ( prices are right you can I get tike business.

TJ1 E«U N J VER S^kJL-C A & The war is over and war prices must go. Effective at once, Ford cars and trucks and factors sold F. O. B. Detroit at the following prices. CHASSIS $360 RUNABOUT Regular . . 395 TOURING Regular . . . 440 RUNABOUT With starter . 465 TOURING With starter . . 510 TRUCK Pneumatic Tires . . 545 COUPE SSL?;, ... 745 SEDAN ... 795 FORDSON TRACTOR . . 790 War tax, freight and delivery charges extra Cape May Court House Garage DEALERS FOR SEA ISLE AND VICINITY

Focer and Mecray

Cape May, N. J.