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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clopp. of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cooper, of Ocean City, attended the funeral of; Twenty-ninth street, attended the Harry Kielnlelder, which was held Army-Nary same at Prankltn Field,

In Philadelphia on Wednesday after-

noon.

Mies Catharine Lundlng. formerly secretary to F. l^eroy Howe, secretary of the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, left Sunday for her home la Philadelphia, where she and her family hare moved. A chicken pot pie dinner will be Siren at the Union Chapel, of Ocean City, on December 16th, for the purpose of raisins fundi, to install heatins and Itshtins systems in the chapel in order that services may be held throushout the winter months. Indicative of the advancement of better architecture In Ocean City, oomes the announcement of the openlns of offices at 805 Elshth street, by Joseph Van O. Hoffecker, a local architect, who from December 1st. will be located In the Howe advertlslns suite. Mr. and Mrs. Haney h. Chattln, who were recently married, hare been apendins their honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va., and are expected to return to Ocean City within the com Ins ten days. The couple motored to the Sprlnsa and win ably return the same way. Officers of the First National of Ocean City bar^mored their desks Into the bulldlns adjoining the beak building, durins the repairs and el' terationa now In progreac in the Interior of the bank. The temporary quarters hare been fitted up with telephone and ahelf 'acuities. Her. Lee F. Johnson and his wife, formerly of PaoU were recent rialtors in Ocean City at the home of Mrs. Oranrllle Steelman, mother of Mrs. Johnson. A box luncheon was enjoyed and the couple continued on their way by automobile to Boxborough. Philadelphia, where Dr. Johnson Is holding a series of rerlral eer-

Philadelphia, last Saturday. The Bpworth League, of the First

M. R. Church, in Ocean City, held an Interesting erenlng service last Sunday. with MUe Ethel E. Lee es

Urge Immediate Fire Law Action Duger to Ooeam City in Om of High Wiat and CemtacmtiiR Preaeata ferioua Problem

strong wind wUl suffice *o carry the tames to other neighborhoods and in a trice the place has become reek-

ing with conflagration.”

It was Intimated to this newjpnper that an aEort la being made to Include In the coming municipal budgat (Or Ittl, prortalon with the wa-

Need High Water Prewar

OCEAN CITY—

Mr. and Mra. Walter Rich, of Bev- i A tiny flame in a frame house, u enth street, entertained at cards and I noticed until It Is beyond coatroL dinner Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Scull,' A high wind fanning the blase. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Shomo and a well equipped fire department

Mr. and Mra. Walter Kuehn, recently. Mr. and Mrs. ScuU will entertain at cards at their home on Central arenne on Thursday with Mr. and Mra. Kuehn and Mr. and Mra.

Shomo as their guests.

Mias Catharine Lundlng. secretary to F. Leroy Howe, of the Chambet of Commerce, left Ocean City for her home in Philadelphia last Saturday night. Mias Lundlng will open a email office In Philadelphia, where she will Inrlte public stenographic k. Mlse May S. Ward and Mies Marion Steelman, better known "MUe Ocean City." are now employed by Howe In hie advertising office. hick u also tho TIMES office, at ••• Eighth street. MUe Ward U

office manager.

Members of the Ocean City Council Number Tea. of the Daughter* of America, la a meeting held Usl Thursday Bight, placed their nomlnatlous for officers for the coming

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Serricee were held In churches In Ocean City

Wiring Day and those who attended were reminded In rarious waps of that the first Thanksgiving of the Usd. ‘

a subject somewhat close to the tag roundly «a the streets, at each

hearts of residents in this part of the

country, where history

made and unmade many a time and

oft.

Mary Coraua; Social Counselor, Ro- » Howe; Vice-Counselor. Helen Sharp; Associate Vic*-Counselor, El sU ScuU; Conductor. Mrs. Cook; Warden. Mra. Hass! Buaeotn; Inside Sentinel. Mrs. Charlotte Jeep; Outside Sentinel. Mrs. Florence Jefferies The actual election of officers will be held within the coming three weeks.

without high water pressure. A neighborhood of homes, hotels, etoree and houses of wooder ■traction, ehlngls rpofe and dry as

tinder.

ThU briefly, preaenU tha situation In Ocean City today, and U sufftcl ently Interesting to cause li action In the Intereet of fire tlon In the town. At a recent meeting of members ol the Young Men's Progressive League, the matter was given consideration

but not action sotted to the peril by flame of the entire Me city. Committees ere at work bring the condition for Immodti action, befoie the city father*. Tlx,re U a coned district with certain well defined regulations, irhich. It U said, have been dUregaided time and

■gain.

Building Inspector Herbert Smith. In an Informal statement TIMES, declared that he was not familiar with all of the existing dltlons that go toward the solidification beyond question of doubt of fire laws and regulations with which to protect the city from being destroyed. A member of the Progresslr League told the TIMES that thr tom district which has been tends- from Sixth to Twelfth and from the Bay side of Central avenue to the east side of West are-

The city has an Insurance rating

as Class O.

are withheld Is the Interest of the Measures proposing to adjust the it. are said to be laying P r » ent conditions are said to have

,t of oondi-1 be ® n P p **« I1,ed to the City Council children of u m co « nm| ttee, but a declaim has,

rw.. city W |tb an,. “ yet. aot been announced from that

and In tn« 11,0(5the natter sUll pending It ap-

Oceas City

The Union service was held this year at the First Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening. Instead of tbe following holiday and to a certain extent the weekly prayer meeting was blended with services of thanks to God for His many blessing* during the past year. Dr. Milton George Buck led the service and chose for his topic “Think and Thank." A program of music was rendered by tbe excellent choir of tbe church, under the leadership of

W. H. Colllsson. Jr

At Holy Trinity Church, Eleventh street and Central avenue, a series of special services marked the holiday. At ten o'clock Thursday morning. the festival of Bt. Andrew was observed and Holy Communion celebrated. Forty-five minute* later the

To paint word pictures of conflagrations and reveal firemen carrying charred bodies out of nicking and flame swept ruins, falls utterly in the attempt to Interest those who

It Is said, to bs e sort of profanity' con * ,der • uch * d*nger not at all

•o that the fire department, responding to a sail, win not be forest! to

throw a stream to a roof sevei eight stories above ground.

Should thle be the case and la the event that such a proviso Is to bs In eluded In the municipal budget, sev-

eral etUsena Interviewed by

TIMES* representative, have declared

totally In favor of

wave In Ocean City

school children, from grade to high school, and the effort by several women to put a stop to It. Is said to be under consideration.

HEW UPHOLSTERER

George Benson, for many years ms■oelated in the wall paper, upholstery and awning bus!nee* with Lawrence M. Lear, has branched out In bis business to such sn extent that be Is now occupying the store at SOS Eighth street. Ocean City. Benson expects to maintain a shop

Imminent or at hand.

Newspaper stoiies telling of tremendous havoc wreaked on a community through Inattention to ade-

quate fire protection, are

Inflated and "painted" beyond reasonable doubt. Such however Is not generally the case and it appears that in the vast majority of Instances the roportoria! accounts can-

not be too vividly described. Elmer Jackson Pearl. In a conver-

sation with a representative or the TIMES, declared himself strongly In favor of Iron-clad laws providing for the regulation of roof construction.

There are, at present, two of the

three engine houses open end ready

to respond at any moment

alarm. The present equipment. It la said. Is entirely within the needs of the city, but It Is also pointed out that without high water pressure the larger buidings In the city sill not

bs within reach of hose streams. OCRAA CRT KA80IB A^TERI) VXHTMO a CHURCH SERVICES DhkfktiMi of Twelve Gather

Corner Stop Laying

Twelve members of the Masonic Lodge In Ocean City were guests of the Atlantic Cotnmandery at a corner stone laying last Sunday morn-

ho attended the affair

went In automobiles furnished by local members of the organisation and v ere taken to the Veatnor Thea-

tre, where the corner

were held, the weather being clement and the wind too chilly for out-of-door services, as had been pre-

viously planned.

According to Dr. W. G. AbbotTTa member of the party that went from Ocean City, following the the uniformed Maaona, fully forty In all, were taken to the Ventnor Congregational Church, where the eoretone was laid, the ceremony requiring fully fifteen mlnutea. Later they disbanded, following a brief talk by Rev. M. B. Poison, pastor of the church, and also a member of

the Masonic Order.

Those who attended from Ocean Olty were: Howard Thorne, Benny Groves. Dr. Christian, John Steel Rev. James Edward Lake, Leroy Jefferies. Dr. M. B. Standard, Dr. Abbott, Dr. Pettit, Maurice Gandy, Elmer Jackson Pearl and Mr. Ellaeon, of Bomer'a Point. The local party on arriving at Atlantic City, were taken to tha Ventaor National Bank, where uniforms were donned and thee they proceed to the theatre to the serricee. Pending the construction of the

church,

the theatre. The man who is so busy attendlag to civic duties that he can’t take his family out riding Isn't much of s

eltlsen.

OCEAH CITY HAD HOTEL DELEGATIOH

(Continued from pace » have been enough on hand to - ta£e

care of them.

'•We advertised Ocean City only. I made every effort to eliminate any personal attention to any particular hotel, save the new Flanders, Chir prime object In the booth was to advertise our Unit Ing city, and we did

It to tbe Queen's taste.”

Wildwood had. placed s map or their booth, showing tbe more Important sea ooaat towns and displaying Wildwood in s prominent position. According to several who attended the convention a Joke wai suggested whereby the name Ocean City would have been written in bold letters on tho tnap and a dot showing where the city Is located, but It was finally decided not to disturb

the neighbor property.

Hundreds are said to have visited

the Ocean City booth. Many Intimated, others pledged themselves, to vtut this thriving metropolis during

itng eesson The new Flan-

ders hotel picture met with much approval and men high Id the hotel world commented with favor on the plana and specifications as shown by *t|Shants and Yeung, who remained In

charge of the booth.

“It was k huge success for Ocean

City,” Young declared.

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Your mot sy grows fast. Is safe and always subject to your call. Sea Isle City B, A L CHARLC* K. LANDIS, JfL, JULIUS WAY. M.D. BONNBY PLACE CAP* MAY COURT HOUSC. N. J. BY** KXAMINBO

If yon want it right HARRY JACOBI PAINTER

•ke Year CWct "*’*•-“-S'* a munHA^ SONORA CHENEY H Bbrukswi Fm Mmt IN ONE HOUR NO MONEY DOWN

r to Lear, who expects to have a building of bis own shortly, on As-

i bury avenue.

For many years Benson was associated with the larger newspapers

Thanksgiving exercises followed with the East In the mechanical dea sermon by Dr. Joseph W Watts, P*rtments. He Is also familiar sith the Rector. — * the present vocation and looks forThrough the untiring efforts of wwd to s promising business. Mrs. F. Leroy Howe, superintendent —~ 1 1 — of the Union Chapel Sunday School. MYSTERY PARTY brief services were held at that Member* of Ue Daughters of church Thursday morning. America held s My tery Party in the

PRIZES FOR STUDEHTS

where furniture only can be re-) to be so made of asbestos, slate tile paired. Awning work will be turned or fire-proof material that the dan-

ger would be not at all. Insofar as flying sparks are concerned. Likewise did Building Inspector Smith point out the need for better

conditions.

“It Is no Joke,” Smith stated, "and when a fire starts at one end of tbe town, even with our usual wide streets, vacant and fiat space*, a

Hann building oa

with dancing sad cards and four

announced hostess**

Student, ot tit. m.nu.l tr^nlu, .... muvM tollo.-

ing tbe program during which five hundred end other card game* were indulged in. and ihe guests depart--

a late hour.

and domestic science classes of the

Ocean City High School, will awarded prlxee amounting

dollars at the close of the school year in June, It Is learned by the TIMES, and members of tbe Civic Club will be donors of such awards. It is planned to select one pupil

FIRST PRIZE BABY

Richard Junior Sutton, son of Cap-

from each clam, who haa exhibited , « ln •"d Ri«*srd Button, of the highest ability at advanoment Clt r- ««>* “•« P* - '*- *** In that particular class work during the Prettiest baby ai the baby conthe school year. This Is done so as te * t held ln 8omer K Point, to include those who may be a bit Th * youngster received much adbackward In their work. miration from those who gathered toi The prizes will be presented by a witness the contest, which was held club member. lMt 8»t«fday.

S. A. R. VISITORS

When the savage red man lived In a wigwam he paid no rent. What

—— was It, then, that made him savage' A commit!,, ot member, o, tb. , m ., nl a,,,,,

City renter.

Ocean City chapter of tbe Daughter* of America visited tbe various organisation councils In Wildwood, Goshen. Pitman and Haddonfleld lest

Wednesday.

Those who made the tour from Ocean City were: Mrs. Florence Glider, Mrs. Madeline Porter. Mrs! Elsie Cadman and Miss Sally Lake.

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