:ape May County Tt

OCEAN cm Oji'KJE

gr« UTI CUT, CAPE HAT COD#TT, 1.1, TODAY, FEBRTJABY 1A IKS

S'KO'.E^COITES^.JHREE cES'TS mmaEB FOUETEEN

WOODBniE UTODSTBY HOW HAS S10.000 PAT BOU

I Mill Grinds

at Court HousebrsLrrror" 0 -

"ourteen Rum Runners

• * I | /-> * I 1 a! Sheriff Hedding cond

Nabbed at Cbrsons Wet

. Before Jndre H. H. Eim i^rter Stuiom Court

i Sent to Reformatory

Chanre of Aaoanlt

« before Jud*e H. H. i. attUos 1* the Quarter Soo- , U Court Boum oo Wed —“i* in one BcqultUl

Uon and thrift, riant

duatrr mar grow. T— _ . true In the care of the Woodbine Borough Clothing Company, tbe one truly ouceeoofiil co-operaUre manufacturing Indue try of thU section. On December IB. IBIS, fifteen em ploy jo of a Woodbine dotblng con cere banded together, pooled their eavinga. and etarted “on tbalr own. Their total, capital eonaleted of $3000 and all the employee* were the fitteen who had in reeled in the yeare Uler. on December IB, lift, the Woodbine Borough Clothlug Company bad twenty-thr—

Book Gaae Hounded Up When Bmt Stranded on Sand Bar at Conon’o Inlet Early Monday Moraine

Cargo Valued at $40,000 AD Are Bekeaed an Bail in Hearing

plant: It baa a paid In etock of $26.000: It emptoye upwarda of 260 workers, and ha* a weekly pay rod

In exceaa of $10,000!

Erery year the worker*, who are aB highly paid, elect the officers who

___ talked of case of officer gvrtiTV tbe Wwlneee the ensuing Poindexter, colored, of the For several years past this police force, on a charge; honor has fallen to Harry Flet. ns

h. of Wildwood, now la Jail on r X grand larceny, had hU bed a* first on the Ust, but 1 lawyer to rapreoent bln

i threat to kill, made ■per. Amanda Green. . was next. Amanda

j testified that PolndexI brandished a rerolrer on her

d her frosr the house, with ■ of bodily harm, and a and blows to prove *•* A number of witnee d and be waa acquitted, r chapter of the Irwin ca

- bor, waa aired, whan , the Irwin chauffeur. _1 his plea of not guilty to t the Irwin car to a plea of

The change In plea wae

c difficulties of

Samuel Kradtx. aa Sec-

retary. and Samuel Ptahtrlch. Children’a clothing exclusively manufactured, end the finished product U taken to New York by trucks, and the raw material la brought back from New York In the name way.

I Father Confesses Murder of Son

A boatload of pen ctly good Maryland distilled rye wh.\kj. valued at $40,000. and fourteen men engaged

According to Information following the apprehension of tbe rum runners it developed that the boat waa headed for Longport. but received warning that the Inlet there -aa being doeety watched by Federal Enforcement Agents, and the ervw then attempted to put Corson's Inlet, one of the wo leU on the coast, and became stranded on a sand bar. The boat waa piloted by Stanley Clouting, of Sea Isle City, and Dominic Palma, o! Parts street. Sea Isle City. H was ol tbe regular pound boat type, but hat been decked over. It »

Protest Location of Post Office

fea late Citr CUmber of Commerce Aakiaff far Be-

James Weber, who gave I

drees as the Hotel Walton. Philadelphia. la said to be the ring-leader of

the runners, who. according to eral Prohibition authorities,

members of s band now operating extensively along the South Jersey

. of Wildwood, os New , stole $200 fn*n ‘

naa Is Wild*

d sad tried Wedt trials were separately st Camp and than Lar- ■ acquitted. Eoth eald that

Summerfield‘Makes Addros

OIF poet office waa adopted by the local Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting on Tuesday night. In the City Halt The resolution set forth that

Ten of the fourteen men mi emeu gave their addressee as from Allantic City. One la a Baltimorean and the others gsre their ildraaeaa an from Boa tale City and Philadelphia.

They are:

Jobs Nelson. 21$ N. Maaaac etu avenue. Atlantic City. Charica Bernard. $1$ N. Mi lUaetta avenue. Atlantic City. Stanley Clou ting. 1424 Mt. Vc

HEXT TIME HE’LL KtlP

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K0SELLA BOBBERS Of STATES PRIS0R

conducted Simon Fred and Ar- 1

nold and Morris Miller, convicted of

the Rosella robbery at Wildwood, tc — State* Prison. Trenton, on Friday. «o| ^ ar Veteran Tells How

'Halt!" rang out a clear, abarp command to Thomas Donovan, of Sea Isle City, as he waa crossing the Corson's Inlet bridge on tbe way to Ocean City In his new car at 6:30 Monday morning. “Hold-up" flashed through Tommy's mind, and he stepped on the gas. Soon a policeman In uniform loomed up brandishing a revolver and Tommy decided to

atop.

Aa he slowed down, acmeone Jumped on fae running board of the ear and said to tbe well-scared Tommy. “Drive *on. you d m fool." And tbla waa all that he ided. Again he stepped on tbe i. even aa you and 1 would have

done.

Bang! went a pistol report, and “whU" said tbe bullet aa It skidded past Tommy's neck, missing him by about a sixteen.h of an

Inch.

This time be stepped on the brake, and bla passenger on the running board stepped off. Explanations followed. The police thought Tommy was a boose runner, and It was true that his self-invited passenger waa one of the boose gang trying to escape. The shot was fired by the officer, and lodged In the upholstery of Tommy's car.

B * , WllHe Jacobs was sent to State i He Slot His Son. William Gifford. Reformatory at Rahway. Monday. | a t Woodbine

with a minimum sentence of eigh-j

teen months.

Lloyd Wilson, colored, convicted c , Jl* . _f FVatK of burglarising Dr. Abbott's drug OOlVCS MyStiy Of LJCam

store. Oc an City, was also taken to tbe States Prison to serve from three

to seven years.

MAYOR McUHDEN ILL

Jamee McUnden. Mayor of North Wildwood, la seriously 111 with uomplication of diseases In Mace'e Hospital. Wildwood. He was stricken with a general breakdown four weeksago and gradually grew worse until he was removed to tbe hospital Saturday. , . Mayor McLinden was born In Ireland in 1857 and moved to PhOf***'phia at the age of 8. In 1901 he contracted to build tbe Five Mile Beach Street Railway extending from Wildwood Crest to Anglesea. After the completion of this project. McLinden remained In Anglesea In the general contracting business. His Jovial disposition and good nature won him a host of friends. He has been President of the Anglesea Association since his election In 1910. and has been Mayor of North Wild-

wood since 1916.

Pathetic Closing Chaster of life of

Honored Conn tv Resident

Investigation is Os

HoTt waa U eelared guilty by Judge i ordered him scMt to Hon waa a •Wlldd. aad was eoavletwum time '—*•

avenue, la allkt inconvenient sad dangerous, be'ag alongside of a ralld crossing. It waa explained by » of tbi. members that Us Joeai was only a temporary cas. hut aidant Boeder stated that la Sea

Ocean City. Feb. 13.—According to Federal Prohibition authorities, hundreds of thousands of dollars and prominent South Jersey residents are Implicated In the gigantic rum conspiracy. which waa unearthed here ‘londny. when two resort policemen •Ith drawn revolver* captured fourteen alleged smugglers and a cache

of liquor valued at $40,000.

N. C. Brook*. Chief Special Agent of tbe Customs Office In Philadelphia, has detailed Special Agent J. R. Agney to investigate tbe smuggling, which officers of tbe United States Coast Guard, say baa been going on

for tbe past few months.

, United States Commissioner John

r.«. » A.U.U.

Lawisacs Reed, colored. 120$ Bal ^ next Monday, at which

Four Man Board

Suits County

Assemblyman and Senator Satisfied With Highway Commission Bnt

Want South Jersey Man

M, ACREAGE tat. where retired busi in make his borne. Will B aa $$.0M. but prefer low icb could be taprorad tt Address Box 263, rt House. N. J. 12-41. IN OCEAN CITY on preferred) apart - Must be wall baatad. • party wlU pay good rant

I particulars aa to alee, loca-

—tad etc. Capa M*v through Sea

Box Office A. Baa 1 t COLD? KEEP YOUR d dry with a pair of

or in real

Another resolution waa adopted, requesting that Ue Board of Freeholder* rdnove Ue present “ too load limit'' signs on the Coraon'a Inlet bridge. Tbeee signs, it waa stated, ware placed on the bridge when It waa under re-eonetruetlon. and that Ue bridge to now safe for a much hoarier load, and Ue aigna therefore should be corrected. This reeoiutloa waa Introduced. It waa ex-

ake bus service possible

through Boa laic Ctt* this summer.

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and

tf.

I THE TIME TC REPAIR ■ ha*a a good etock of t aad baary weight. «doa Roofing of Cl . street aaC Wdtf avnaae. N. J. “Look for the . 4U. FILE INDEX B1 Mdere; paper ell pa. ■ paper roUa aad general ! turn than city pricee. r Hone*. See tol* City.

tic aveaue. Atlantic City.

Other County Political Gotsip

By Zip

,1,

Last Friday afternoon. Israel Gifford. 85. of S'eelmantown. confessed to Justice J. o. Levin, of Woodbine, he shot and killed his son. William. 38. of Woodbine, on Sunday. February 4th. He stated his motive was to prevent any possible harm to his grandchild. Rachael Gifford. 10. at the hands of her father. He was lodged In Cour* House Jail and will be tried during the April term of

Court.

An unfitting ending to a story in which he Tasted both of the thrills and the commonplaces, of the pleasures and the sorrows, seems to be the fate of Israel Gifftrd when he faces a jury in April t mete out punishment for a most unusual erfine. the murder of his only boy. a beloved son. It is a tale that rivals the modern In 1861 when Abraham Lincoln called upon the dtlsens to preserve the Union, among the first to answer the call was Israel Gifford, then a young man of twenty-five, living In Steelmantown. As a volunteer in the Twelfth New Jersey Infantry, he served a brief enlistment, upon receiving an honorable discharge, he re-enlisted in the name regiment for the duration of the struggle. A capable and courageous soldier of the Union, until hi* capture by the confederates In 1$$4. . „ . , Cast in that Confederate hell-hole. Libby Prison. Virginia, where men subsided on the rats and mice they captured, and held their palms through Jthe grated window bars to , catch the rain drop* to quench their end- parched lip*, a prisoner *

Our County representatives . .

ed their way from Trenton’to enjoy months and five h «

a lull In the fireworks that culmln- until an exchange of prlsonere found ated In the Four Man Board for the him lr hi* old regiment again. At State Highway C<*nmtosion. While i the conclusion of the W, I** T"*®

expressing aattofaction in the out- honorably discharged come of this controversy. I under- year* of honotable

stand that the names submitted by which were spent as a trnnted emthe Governor, for the Senate's ap- ployee of one family, pawed until ha

time sensational developments eon-1 Governor, for the Senate's ap- ploy<

wauaoB tfvauuB colored. 203 J*. ' North Carolina avenue. Atlantic City. I tL i apprehended Monday bore no name

nn addreM. Atlantic' pUt * h “ b * en to ' iD6 10 **.*?•

■art Caswell, no fidrtreas. Atlantic |cT] .. vk , ch not entered In the a 1^. HamJ. I«M B.Rie >-;»>>** « N.rtn.-

avenue. Atlantic City.

Bort Wmt. colored. 1$11 New Gretna avenue. Atlantic City. A. Gaston, colored. 242 N. South Carolina avenue. Atlantic City. James Weber. Hotel Walton. Pbll-

Accordlng to Chief of Police Howard T. Johnson, of Ocean City, tbe alleged rum-runnor* showed considerable fight when Policemen George Myera and Edward Seaman, of **- Ocean City force, with drawn volver* attempted to board the b

Coast Guard Stations, the at test ion of the Cc-aon’e Inlet guards wee directed to the boat when It passed e

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GOUMTY CHAMBER MEET-:

FRIDAY PI WILDWOOD

Tbe February meeting of lie Cape .May County Chamber of 'Commerce I will be held In tbe Hlyk S bool building. Wildwood, on Fi :day right. February 23rd. at eight Vdoci

i la the ed pevlluld be

i City.

9 at Btratbmere and $16

Raymond Rosarth,

r. $tf.

IN OCEAN CITY CEM>d etae lot for home giving location and

be paid by Mre H F.

ml Bechambd? er of the

not < dent.

tent was

One Man Escaped Strathmere. Feb. 14.—The See Isle City Coeat Guards sent word to the Ocean City police and tbe Ocean City Guards as they saw two trucks coming to Coreon's Inlet without lights. It was for these trucks that the men aboard the boat beaded as soon ms It

An unknown man took a small row boat belonging to Charles Miller, of Btratbmere. and made two tripe to the "Coflcu" and as he brought the first boatload of men ashore they were captured. He then went beck after a second load, and these were aieo caught as soon a* they landed. None of the rum-runner* were taken by the officer* from the boat. One of the men to said to have escaped by quietly Jumping overboard, and swimming ashore In •*— *~

Icy

Sew Craft to Outrun Rum-Runnei* Cane May. Feb. 14.—Tbe coast

New Jersey Bute Chamber oi Coin tlona on the New Jetbey coeat and ZZtfVm ^ the principal speak.. I ™ «*>"" bo * u «“ - pUc * of

and hi* subject to “Regional “ ,K “

aad

Berortly h* r mu yea Its ( "TV

> FOR RALE: 'YTTOi^ Bt etove or ftuai

, Bee lato CHy -

MADE WNBELRARBOWg .rail ‘ Merging Aaale at. N J - I4-I$t

co the old ones, which were so slow any t “ Countv •um-i-unner with n boat of fair

t of Schools E. R. cculd easily get away. New

Brum rate will explain bow Cape May were left at Cold Spring Inlet and C^ty wm iM* $70,000 TTecbool Two Mile Beech among other atemoney from the Bute If pending leg- Goan.

.r .h, 1 CAM CIUH MOOUH HOME

Chamber or not. to urged to attend CAJ . B cot'KT HOVSt-

thU. meeting, which to expected to be wbM pMa i na the High School, one of tbe beat so far this Chamber House, on Tuesday afternoon, few- Dr. Lummto. of Cape May. loei eon-

- , .— TV .T-nw trok of his Ford Baden, crashing Into BECZMTDEATH8 <.be car* of County Agent Stackhouse «*_. and Frank High, of Goshen, •'bo Mn. CBAlte* wright werr attending the School Board Mrs. Charles Wright, of Pari* action m tbe High School,

street. Ban lale aiy. died at her AUer tacking from the pavement home on Thursday afternoon at four Lummit was able to continue on o'clock Mrs. Wrigh: suffered from way Stackhoua* and High ©*erc complication of dtoaaaea. and Ust took hIm a( Whlteeboro and upon weak we* sent to the Alton tic City ^1* prum.ee to nettle all damage*. Hospital lor observation and wan gu^khouae a nd High agreed not 'o discharged after five days as incur- Lummto stated the *t.-l-abto dent was caused by a defective tire.

Funeral arrangements have not L 4ulun i l was uninjured. •en completed Deceased wae

year* of sge. ssd to survived r husband, a member of the Harbor Coaet Guards, and sev-

en children.

not entirely sattofsetory. again heard the click of the prison

"—‘ door. What a pathetic comparison 1BU --o — ifor the old man to make-once a

i be three score and ten mark. | prisoner, s. meritorious honor-then he co aid hardly perform the arduous to become a prisoner with a stigma

dnties be would be expected to. Jen- j of shame,

kins, a road contractor, did not meet Murdered Man Moroee

X .««" On Sunday. F.brnnry 4U.. W.m.M

^All the Droeoective CommU- Gifford, a moroee man. who made few nLnorfb™rTrmtou trtend. nnd took IHUe l«ere.t [n live norm oi iron ^ clrlc Ufe WM found dead

In bl* home. In Woodbine, with two bullet wound* In hi* body. HI* father gave tbe alarm. The first thought was he had committed *>>icide but an autopsy performed by County Physician Way revealed the one bullet pierced the brain and the other the vicinity of the heart. The coroners Jury returned an open verdict. A suspicion, with robbery as the motive. was quickly dispelled when It was learned that Gifford was never In possession of any sum of money. He picked up odd Jobs as carpenter or day laborer and lived by hlmaeif. ' On Friday. State Troopers Hall and Cohen questioned the father for several hours In the office of Justice Levin. He first denied any knowledge of the crime, bnt finally made a confession to Justice Levin. Justice Levin committed Gifford to the County Jail. On Saturday morning Gifford summoned Sheriff Redding expressing a desire to make a statement. Prosecutor Eugene Cole was railed. Deputy Sheriff Hoffman and Troopers Hall and Cohen were also In the room as witnesses. The Prrpecutor warned Gifford that

During s chat on Wednesday with Assemblyman Ralph Stevens he expressed his views on the bill he proponed Vast week. The bill would change the number of Freeholders from three to fire. He said. "I doubt very much If throe men can fill the County Administrative offices capably unlens they devote their entire time to that task. A Five Man Board would eradIcatc the bitter sectional rivalry that now prevails. There are sections In the County where I have met bitter complaints that they do not have a a from that locality to represent Five mer. I believe, would be far more efficient than three. Tbe salary would be $1600 Instead of the mt $3000 annually." His bill referred to the Judiciary Com

mlttns

Mr. Stevens last week asked for an appropriation of $26,000 for sea walls, bulkheads, etc., lo be used in

tbe vicinity of Cape May.

On next Monday 3 P. M. there .

will be a public hearing In tbe Sen- , ny statement he made could and ate Chamber on bills $6. 167 and ^oujd be used against him. In add19$. Bill No 16 was proposed b/ ltlon to ,be warning-Hie Prosecutor Senator Brtgbt to extend tbe State Gifford that before he made Highway frem Mar*ball’s corner to' , t *tement he had better consult

~ " Point and Somers Point via j wt|h hl8 counsel. bridge Senator tyleta- Gifford said: "It to my deslie to

Ocean County. In bill 167 ma ke a statement regardlaw of tbe

this route be continued to, fact „ n . ay hang we.” route. The Prosecutor warned the wlt—TL . nesees not to make any Interruptions.

BUI 191 proposed by Senator Wall- sa -- Mt|ona or qu ».tlon« until Gifwortli would have the State High-{ ford had unfolda< i his tale In htoown

way run from Somers Point. Ocean faahlon

City. Sea Ule City to Shore road. 0n g^ turday morning the old man wu-in b, «< r -b ;ss’“:!,f 1 o b v^bSrt5 h vii.^

^b.'v^.rrr- ..'ll a..

—ibly BIU No. 80. whl< h provides a 'h* AA ^} rT of ' Ulb J

for $35 or less can 1. In " - r *'~ d

without the assistance of a

and abolishing the present fees. The

cost of stsrtlng proceedings will .

$1.00 Mr. Stevens to In favor of

MUtor$36 or less can l Instituted In* raised by the BraniHaUtersince sun tor aaa or 1 i awT et «!>•■ separation of the girls mother

-- -nd bis son seven years previous. On

the eon's home they found

... _ Irritable and quarrelsome

mood which they attributed t

Isle City Id get out If whet * and no

Mn. MArrxret Gabel

GRANGE INSTALL OFFICERS Tie South Sttvllic Grange held lu Installation officer ceremonies on Tuesday rvtnlug. Ralph Schelllngwr County Deputy of the Gtange was tr of ceremonle*. and was m«sto-

this bill

1 shine whisky in which he was a fre-

Ggae May 1 found already bussing quect Indulger

raY*,. dinner.' election In' On the arrival of his sister, rin-

derelta. 62. a spinster of sterling

Bt.T5rsL s. isst’zrjrz&'vsxz - t of Sea Ule City oos County granges were Pr**ent | „ a long time ‘-fr^ there to mtoldee- chael

with the Commissioners' election May liooking over a score of e

dldates' nanteo. the present Commls- charaeter. about

.toners George Wentaell and WU-; wordy argument occurred bet

Sheppard. oupled with the two. They decided •" «> b

Dias j Frank MeCrcy. appes- to be

the While the old t

at the burn

on Tburedly of last week, at tbe age exprewnd bis thank* for such * ho*_ a R^ubllcaA randluste for Free ! h ' h , hrlf h , hl f h bP J 79 in.^meat was mad. o. Tu- p,ubl. reception and ^gwlteuth bolder neat fall- ^t^.nhu^ke! day moraiAA'at Calvary Cemetery SuAvlIle and tbe granges of Cape May . w . |||rr# WBa foD . pU n pw Mr. Gabel had gom. to thec'tyto County lo r&i Egg Harbor. agitation oH In favor Mun&er iu Middle of Eight iSL^J^.J^tifi^nSd dM WHY'USE ADA 8IUCA BLOCK? , h e prup-d rosd from South Th , fath , r be ...we quietly ctotoai.r IU -1th lAfiueura A«d ^ bullder.-Adr. 6-it. ; Sea vine to Woodbine .to cbo ui I P M and walked to the not rally. * Juartlon. The rosd from Woodbine Getting in tbe backdoor CONTRACTORB MAIL US YOUR IF YOU WANT LUMBER CR to Mt Ptoaaaal to rump let ad he heard bla w.n ptowling around up IlsU for buildert aappitoa. W« can anything In builder* supplies call * stretch of se'.ral mile* from that Mvlt , niu nettn« moidenma threats

var heard

thT best at rest aad Weal aveaue. Ore r#» beerd * * "Lo-k to.' the Mga."

19th Champion. 191h street and West sv# Cliy no*. Ocean City. N. J . phone 410 kdrer- "Look tor th* algu. adverttoemeat.

4U.

USE AHA SILICA BLOt!K FOB A permanent b- Idlns —adv. $-$L

family Including

Rachael'* mother Th* old man (Continued on page $)