Cafe May County Time:

OCEAN CITT OFFICE

SEA ISLE CITT, CATE HAT COTHTTY, H. J., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1923

HUMBER FIFTELN

Ue Crime Says Eloredge

trace Udob OoeraCitr TUmt. Coratr Jmin

Goes to Reformatory EtxhteeBtb Amendment la A ie land, rad lu vioUUon to • Mid Judge Henry H. »-

"rad the committing of u T IntoxlceUon adds Another crime to the

ly, of AtiraUc City,

Ha Ire, of Phlledidon triAl. without a Jury,

i AteAUng the automoi C. Kiefer, of PhtlatM.n City, on July 1*U» of In the testimony both td been drinking rad some way that the ear them, or a friend of were not qnile sure newhere mired in the

wae a date that they had girls in Ocean City, which did not keep, rad which

to

cp the flret car that they , the owner of the ear. raw ; It rad Jumped on the board, hut was pushed off f the Joy riders. Donnelly • started fbr Sea tola City, ■ far as the Bellerue Hotel, e City, when they stopped, f Police Podeck had bees nor the Ocean CUy nolle* to be xJk-out for the car. rad he to the Hotel after them, and ? Of Police Howard John i City, succeeded to n npaommlttec to the State at Kahway by Ji' and Donnelly was gl in the Oennty Jail. Judge

: by drink. . tt to underetc I In Atlantic County on n charge, rad was fined «SM

i arrested in that town a a warrant sworn oat by \ Or eraser of the Poor.

eCOLD? and dry with a pair of . er la rani

COUHTY RSFRESEHTATITES ATTEHD BRIDGE HEARIHG

Faror of Beealev’i Point Bill Monday ‘*enate Bill No. S6. which proridw tor the building of n road and bridge from 8omei„ *»olnt. Atlantic County, to Beasley’s Point. Cape May County, was given a hearing In the Senate Chamber, before Sen*lor Mathis, Chairman of the Bo* -i Committee of the State Senate. The bearing was largely attended by represents Urea of both Cape May rad Atlantic Counties. ~ Charles E. Poster present— — olutlon adopted by the Cape May County Board of Preeholdera. favoring the project; Mayor W. Courtright Smith, of Wildwood, spoke in favor of the bill, representing both the City of Wildwood and the Board pf Trade; the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce was represented In President Luther C. Ogden, while the City of Cape May was repraeented by City Commissioner George Wenttell. rad Dr. Moon. President of the Progressive Leagye. The speakers ware introduced by Senator Bright, sponsor of the bill. There was no opposition of ray hind filed against the passage of the measure, rad Senator Mathis told the delegates that his Committee would report the bill favorably which to considered equivalent to Its paamC 'g Atlantic County were Fudge E. A. Hlgbee » of the Board * —

Facts About State Police Cbaai to Made That Demi ■ore Than Fays its Owm 2

An Outline of Their Aims

Who Will be the Next Prosecutor ? So Few Democratic Lawyer* in Oam May Gouty. Outcome is Uncertain

Finxea in First AnnnaJ Report Are

There are lots of interesting thl-.gs ■out the state police that reople don't know but which are being * arned since the two troopers a located et Cape May Court They have already done v. aome of which has not been brought to pubUe atteni It to their buMness to prevent e more than to puntoh criminals They have oat advantage over lecal police officers—they can do thedr duty without playing favorites with aay-

Tk- officers seam to think children. A story was told t day of one of them giving a buy

idea to to tench the child ran to respect the gnardiara of the law on the theory that when they grew op they will retain that respect. More e*.. ■ ‘ • lav. New Yerk end Pennsyi raela Stele . Alee here mad* a high name tor theameivas but the New Jersey police. newe* organisation, was o: .intoed with a somewhat differed I parpens in view than the police des in the other two stet Jetsjry the orgratoation mere of a body* tor the protection of the rare! communities rad patrol of state roads It tehra no hand whatever la labor dhpatm or strikes to Now York sad FMaaytvra'a that la ops of the teggort Jobe the state po ttra have to portent. This to one 1 why then to a demand to do wtih bonm la this state and

advantage. It to a hard Job to successfully e examination for state polios The tone show that out of >(• men who he the examination only about fid qualify. They moot not only kseasurt up to a high standard physically but they must show good Judgment, a proper degree of mentality rad bear good records as to habits Col. H. Norman Bchwaraaopf. su-

e states that th* total approprtafor the year l>3l-t»SS was ■ its t>•• ••• rad for the following y*r '»m.ee0 For this year be has - Ktu aatm- nrrwo ' or “ appropriation of *41*.- - rOU BALM. CUT TO o<.« made up of the following Items: la Ct Stove er furnace; fislarlas and wages. *1*1.1M: operfi. Luoagr atiag materials and *uppll*>. (II*.-CMy.--ndv. 042; curreat repairs, (IS.000; mis _ fMoeel's report shows that during * _ ,f -- AT T* lh# tret year the stale police departmi not wily paid le- itself hut rereed to U ‘ ‘ * J J. Harding Aaule in addlttoa. Fetat. M. J—14-llt. By way of actual flaaaelal return ■njCA BLOCK FOB hj the report indicates the state police idv. fi-fit. (CoaUaaad on page S)

Political and Other Gossip

By Zip

During my Jaunt through County last week. 1 heard considerable speculation aa to who tbe next Prosecutor would be. Aa it oeratlc appointment It to only natural to assume the man selected for this position will be a that party. Scanning the Hat of possible candidates tt to a surprim to find how few Democratic lawyer* abide within the confine* of C May County. Probably the most man the Democrats could n wi aid be Charles . Landis, of Sra

Isle City.

The hitch U that Landis to a very

free thinker when it

litlcal issues, and ray political party which thinks it can guide his vote on. simple party llne^ to sadly mistaken. From a conversation with Landis 1 doubt very much could be induced to be a candidate for this office, as he could not saeriflee the time, from his busli Qoorge B. Grato, a young lawyer from Cape May Court House, had aspi ft.lions for the position. Orate moved to Court House from Attentia County last summer. I believe ha was a candidate for Assembly i yean ago. Needless to any be wai defeated, for It takes an upheaval il Atlantic County to upset the Km ilean party. Orels probably mat mistake. In his efforts to obtain position, when be had the AllantN County politicians pull strtnge tot' him. This action, though It may not be construed aa u affront to the

"powers that be,“ say strength here.

Mark 800*7, of Wildwood, quickly dispelled ray Question as far aa he to conce ted. by emphatically declaring Mmseif a Republican. Led alien Hildreth failed to get the Sea a tor’s eadoiaement last year. Senator Bright informed me he had no objection to any Democrat the Governor may auggeat. providing he was sura the man was capable of the office and would enforce law and order.

thousasd puphs housed IN NEW HIGH SCHOOL! "Almost a thousand students will be taken care of In Ocean City's new **60.000 High School." wss the statement of Superintendent of' Schools. James M. Stevens, here

Tuesday.

Ube new structure will be situated on the Old Camp Grounds between Fifth and Sixth streets. Superintendent Stevens was also asked what the Board of Education intended to make out of the old High School Building on Central avenue between Eighth and Ninth streets. In the past, the several hundred Mgh school pupils as well aa almost 1. ree hundred other elementary r.u-de.-u. have been housed in this building, and during the past' two years It has been very over-crowded. To relieve this condition the City Solons decided on a new High School, pt which time the Junior High School plan will be Inaugurated Into the new structure. According to Superintendent Stevens the old High School Building will be turned over to thw elementary grades to assist in caring tor the already over-crowded condition which now exists In the Fourth Street Grammar School. At the present time there are about three hundred high school students In the old High School, including fifty who dally ccsue from Sea Isle City. Dennlsville, Upper Township and other surrounding points in Cape May County. About two hundred new students will be added this year, when the ~ Class is inducted in

New Offices for

Freeholders

Further Hearing for Rum Runners

Bail Placed at $ 1500

Captain Charles Bernard Parsers, of Wildwood, and six members of the crew of the rum-runner "Coflcu" were held under further *1*00 bail each on charges of conspiracy and Illegal transporting of liquor, at a

. .. , .. - hearing in Atlantic City Monday and In SoUn continues tte | will be given a second bearing before *• beinr directed by Eugene Cole I United States Commlre< oner John ta-

in hto i

I brusque and efficient

The passing of James McLlnden leaves s gap not saafiy filled in North Wildwood. The amiable • Mac" had the faculty of swinging Angleeee wjth a solid front tor his own pur-

tbe toga of leadership in North Wildwood. it to a quaatloa If they will ha abta to away the voters with the effectiveness that "Mac" could, for not oaty must they contend with 8 lock- ‘ i's "insurgfsta" hut there to eon-

rard at A Use tie City Friday night. held were among the four-

captured at At the in-

itial boaring last Monday. Commissioner Istxrd released the half p dozen colored men. end Earl Caldwell, driver of the large touring car. which wae stalled near the stranded boat,

because of Uck of evidence.

What disposition will be made in the cam of the seven defendants to not known, but they have retained former United States Commissioner Hiram Steelman, and Edison Hedges, aa AUratlr City attorney, to defend

them at tonight's hearing.

Tha wamas of the seven men held include: James Derwln. Stanley _ Clouting. Wllbeit J. Jackson. Harry stead why the farmers preferred Davie. Domialc Palma. Captain Chas. Ocean City to Wildwood whs* mar- j B. Parson* rad John Nelson. ‘ ‘ equal.' According to Commandant Richard „ into the Sut'on. of Chest Guard Elation No. ty requires »*. who had charge of the lavaetfto pay a license of gallon Into th* allaged rum amugnr thetsabouta. gto«' activities, the semi-cruiser $1* to en- "Codeu" will be tutsed over to the tlaae ego. United States Marshal within th* thnmgh th* efforts of the State next several days. It to at present “ in the Lag- moored rear he Ocean City Yacht tax on Clmb. The l alted States Marshal

Director Eay Presents Resolution to Make Alterations in Court

House Building

Take Advertising in Times Anyone attending the meeting of the Board of Freeholders at Court House on Wednesday could not help but being impremetl with the promptness and business-like dispatch with which the County s business It transacted under the Small Board rule. Where the rarge Board met at ten o'clock in the morning and often wtre still in suusion at six In the evening. Wednesday's meeting was called to order at 1:46, and all hi nem had been disposed of by S o'clock. Directum Champion, Kay and Foater, together w-th Clerk FJtch. Collector Headley. Solicitor Way and Engineer Smith wete pres-

ent.

A resolution by Director Kay provided that the office of the Farm Demonstrator rad the County Bouid of Taxation be moved to the Hoffman Building on Mechanic street. Court House, and gave powev to Director Foster to lease the upper floor of that building at a rental of *16 a month. The reeoJution also provided that the offices vacated by the Farm Bureau rad the Tax Board, in the Court House Building, be altered a cost not to exceed *600 for the » of the Board and the Board’s officers. /The Clerk, Collector rad other Freeholder officers, and all County records will be housed in these ofA resolution by Director Kay provided that the Board place a double page advertisement in the SeasonOpening Edition of the CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES, the same as in previous years, at a coat of *100 per page. This, Mr. Kay mid. he considered good publicity for the County. The edition will be published on March *0th and will cover every activity of the County, both resorts and mainland. A request from the Sea Isle City Chamber of Commerce, that the present "two-ton” limit sign on the Corson's Inlet bridge be removed, as the bridge is now safe tor a much heavier load, was granted, and Director Champion was empowered to have the sign removed and a reeled one placed.

OCEAN CITT HAS REAL MYSTERY CLUB Limited Membership and Leu Knowledge of What They Are About Ocean City possesses a real "Mystery Club.” It goes under the name of the A. J. F. Club, but that’s about all that the average Ocean City resident knows concerning the organi-

zation.

It has twenty-three members and still growing, according to President Scott Adams, the brilliant all-round Ocean City High School athlete. However. Its purpose Is not known outside of the fact that the "A. J. F. '*" have club rooms on the second floor of the Bourse building here. According to President Adami the organization which sprung Into being • year ago has one of the strongest followings st the shore and will in all probability develop broadly in athletic clrclea within the next several months. The officers of th* organization, beside Prasldenr Adams. Include: Vice-President. Marcus Blackman: Secretary. Robert Nelson: Sergeant-at-Arms. John Boswell. The charter members of the A J. V. are Scott Adams. George Blackman, who is now attending the Philadelphia Dental College: James Stevens. Jr., of Rutgers College; T. Lee Adams, aad M. Fitzgerald. The members include Arthur Huff. Herman Selvagn. Anthony Selvagn. George Gardiner. Phillip Kutcher. Edward Barron. Earl S£amar George Myers. Marcus Blackman. Charley Gibb. Fred Pflttenmyer. Thomas Williams. Thomas Adams. John Devine and John Venable.

Cape May Wants Railroad Grant Hearing Before Board of Freeholder* on Tuesday Lare ly Attended by Cape May Citixens

Give Connection to Point

White It teat ksCiag license in Wildwood th* farm- of Angtasea. an.; waa built by Love er pays it in a gutea of a road or Brothers. Sex tote ftty. hta probably ex- Captain Parsons who commanded _ why ao many the cruiser did not ot’er a defense at farmsrs drive to Rio Grande bridge the Initial bearing. 3e did admit rad the hucksters relieve them of that he captained th-. boat, aad later disclosed his name, l-ariag previously given that of Charles Bernard,

im- Atlantic City.

that th*

of

The granting of a fifteen toot right of way to the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads, from Cape Mcy City to Cap* May Print, along the County road, was made the subject of a bearing before the Board of Freeholders, at Court House, on Wednesday, st three o'clock. This matter has been banging for the past

Director Foster reported that he, year or more, and was made the subwlth Director Kay. had attended the ject of a hearing Kith the old Board ! State Hospital for the Insane, at of Freeholders. I Trenton, and had seen al 1 of the , Attorney Samuel Eldredge. of Cape Couuty's patients there, and that all; May. presented a batch of resolutions wero comfortable. Clerk Fitch re- trom Lower Township Committee, ported that there were twenty-five Progressive League of Cape May. County patients In the hospital on Commissioners of Cape May Point January Slat, that three had been and of the Borough of West Cape sent there since, and one. Martha May. tavoring the County'r granting Lee. of Upper Townahip, had died this right of way. Mr. Eldredge outslnce. lined that at the present time the Director Foater requested power heavy trucks of the Cap* May Sand to have the Sheriff's office and real- Company are culling deep ruts In deuce re-decorated, at a coat of *170. the County road. In hauling gravel the lowsat bid be had received. The from the pit of the Company at Cape request was granted. May Point, to the railroad at Cape Hereafter all contractors on Coun- May for shipment by freight. The ty work will be compelled to "de- , Impossibility of keeping up this road liver the goods" before payment to 1 with this travel, he pointed out. waa made. A resolution by Director Kay obvious, and the only remedy was provided that in the future only hard-surfacing at a heavy coat to eighty per cent, of th* contract price the County, or relieving the truck be paid to a contractor on oompie- travel by helping get railroad aertloe of th* work, the other twenty vice to Cap* May Point, par cent, to be kept for one year. Other* to advocate the great were util the anal acceptance. AD con- former Freeholder Irvin Eldredge. tracts prerid* that th* new construe- whose plea waa as a taxpayer, to save • Uoa shall ha guaranteed for one the County the constant heavy malnyaar by the contractor, rad this tenraee cost of this road, and Dr. twaaty per cent, will be a certain Moon. President of the Cape May way of enforcing this guarantee. Progressive League. Vhich has a A resolution was paaaad providing membership of three hundred, tor immediate repair* to the bridge Attorney French, for the railroads, on th* Ocean City turnpike, now threw the "monkey wrench Into the known aa Rooaeveit Boulevard, run- machinery." however, when he stated nlng to the mainland at 34th etroet. that the railroad* would give only at a coat not to ezeeed *17.000. and freight aerricc on the proposed new the method for financing was pro- road, rad the promise of passenger Tided. Th* plana of the County En- •errlee was very indefinite, and net glnaec for the reconstruction were at all binding. Passenger service adopted, rad bids ordered advertised , might be instituted, he stated, after * r th* work. 1 the Cape May to Lewes. Delaware. The annual report of th* Count) ferr

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hoed keeper to be in the whoteaale

THRZS HURT WHEN

, . ^ . _ YRAI* HITS AUTO

have a new pant to deal with, the —

ddeiin* eel*rain Salesmen, reprr- Driver’s Leg Fractured in Accident

senUeg napsfrlHo * —

l firms, will qolct-

at Rio thrade

Three persons narrowly escaped of their firm’s product* as they b * u * kuud when » loe * 1 Dwin on in selling ’good^touff* their re- llk * Read In* Railway at Rio Grande te would be remaritahle tntek an automobila. In which they Not only they but people living driving. Uai Sunday morning, tha locality eadaavorto eel! me Though badly shaken and cut. . ire moonshine ' When I state 1 *1!. Injured exceptam not In that budaem my reply U **• «»>e ear. *t with a tough of derision •• L*roy Wood, who suffered a frac- , - . lured left tog rad badly lacerated An evidence of th* progress and Tb# olh ! r ^ ct ' u P* n ^ B * r ' prosperity of the County farmer* can ^artea and Dorothy Kenedy, be taken from a statement of Frank "hocked and cut with gloss. Evans, manager of the Ford Agency Fortunately for the occur'rate of Court House, ttet he hao already (h# c * r the train slackened speed to sold his year's allotment of tractor*. * l °V at Rio Grande station before It la former year* the tractor was a * ,n * ek Ih » «*' The driver. Leroy •phut on the Fort dealer r *** “<* hear th* warning «lgNnw I tat el* of perauadlaa AJI mrTr resident* of Rio Grande the fanner to use the tractor It to a ** d token to their home after question of when deliveries can tw ’*• accident. The auto waa badly made. There to another ear road of “maged. tractor* oa th* way to Court House :: of which are note already HEW BANK BUILDING Ira whether the occur- FOR MERCHANT'S BANK due to unusual prosperity on to. trmcUir In lb. rut nn< tb, cob.l-- J"**, “ " tibb bi tb. bbu™ [bract, tb.t tb, 22“ trsrlor emu he need to I heir sAvsi.- S “ a ®" t Brittan and English. Inc.. Of tractor can be uert to their advau p, !ubur|rh 1or lht drawing of plana and specifications for a sew. modern

Something New Happens In Woodbine! wSL Clearance Sale

Entire otock o* high grade, standard merchand'ae mint be told reggrdleu of coot to make room for Spring Mock. Sale Suru

Friday, March 2

AT 9 P. M.

Store doted aii day Thunday to nu rk down price*. Thousand* of tpedai* to numerou* to meotioa. Come and tee for ycuneif. You all know our taiet—they are genuine.

New York Bargain Store Corner Washington Avc. and Franklin St The Department OOcSklalC Be Sore You Are Store of Woodbine N. J. In the Right Store