Cape May County Time

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SKA BLE CUT, CAFE HAT COUHTT, H. J., FBIDAY, MARCH 2. 1923

HUMBER SIXTEEN

ing Freed Rum Charge at Erideaoe to Hold Sea i to Genecttoa With

(Tested Near Ship

the eeeee where liquor tended, end where fourmen were captured, doee bet he la In any way eoet> the caee. Federal Com

Atlantic

COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOLS

AFTER HONOR FLAG

!U thirteen other aUcsed in by two Ocean City pod a handful of United H Oanrda two woeka ano Inc the dhtnccUns of

Bdiaon Hedsea. who actteet for Ooutlm* dorlnc g Friday, naked for the X Oootln* Inasmuch ee my of the Ocean City po1 the Coast Guards sao * Inc waa captured ne iy from the seen', of

id for the Federal Grand each as the auspicious acMftlnc when he waa caucht usosss of the hour was evidence to ahow that he w way connected with the plot. Van Ripper lAted he personally believed tbs y would dismiss nan ouebt to b ice glm and <e varioos wltne KO of adsed liquor, aome was removed lest week by tats to the Custom House

“Cot-

police ofBcers iful of United States Coast still moored la the Ocean «. nwalttnc the arrival of

SUfas Marshal.

>c to Boauwala Richard nmaaeani of United States rd Station No. ltd. eltu

REDUCED RATES TO QUAXER CTTYt “Philadelphia has every claim to be called one of the nation's Croat resorts." declared Mayor Courtrl«ht Smith at the meetinc of the Cnv? May County Chamber of Commerce Is* week. “It to the birthplace of lndej**.«-mee. and to rich In historical interest. It should, therefore, insist that the railroad# grant It a tourist ticket rate, the eame as to crante to

—Object: Cape May Countylans will get the eame rat* of fare traveling to Philadelphia, as Philadelphians get In coming to the shore on tourist tick eta Not bed.

Chamber Wants Three Man Board Oraat? Orranixatios Table* Pronoaiooa to Increase Gouty Freeholder Bout to Five

Lively Tilt Developed Coutv Chamber Met at Wildwood on Friday Nirht

The Caps Mey County Sunday School Association, of which Mayor Gilbert 8. Smith, of Avalon, to President. to after an Honor Bac this year for the prompt dues of the County Amociatioa Into the parent State body. The Brat quarterly due# were paid on February l*th. when

Presbyterian Church. Cape May City. Dies When Truck Is Hit hy Train

Gates at AH Oeeu City

Driver Only SHgJiily Hint

ocban errr— . . .. Ocean Cttp —Following the death of William Jooea tweoty-sU years old. who was one of the two o— panto of an automobile truck e It was hit by a West Jersey and shore Railroad train last Friday moraine, a mo Yemeni has been started to procure safety cates and watchmen at the principal railroad croaeIngs in this city. Alfred J. Davies, of 11 N. Richards avenue. Atlantic City, engineer of the train which struck the automobile. waa acquitted last Saturday, of any nrcligenc* In hlltlnc the machine. which resulted In the death of Jones. According to the Corouei'e Jury, presided over by County Physician Julius Way. the aoddeut was aa-

the

A proposition to Increase the Small

Board of Chosen Freeholders In Caps May County from three members to fire members, after a lively debate

lasting almost an hoar, was tabled by a unanimous vote of all the del-

egations present at ibe regular monthly meetinc of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, held In the Wildwood High School Building tost F-lday night. ~he Wild-

wood dalegalioa of sis members sp on the vote, three voting for I opamUou and three to table It. la a letter to the Chamber, which

was read by the Secretary. Assemblyman Ralph T. Stevens stated that he

tod Introduced s bill in the bly which would Increase th

berahlp In the County Board of Free-

holders from three to five members,

sad s companion bill which reduced

salary Tom *1000 per year for i member to *1600 per 3 These bills, be stated, were In

hands of the Judiciary Cdumlttee of

the Assembly, and had not been reported out. and he wanted an ex-

pression from the County Chamber so that he could use It to Influence the Oxaaaittee to report the bill so

it could be passed. The State As-

sociation of Boards or Freeholders, he said, were opposed to the measure, and to wanted to make sure that the tows were wanted by the people of

CEDARS MEET IN WILDWOOD The Cape May County Forest of Tall Cedars met In the High School. Wildwood. Wednesday night. Many nittees are busy formulating pla^g for Beach Day to be held in Wildwood daring July. Last year Beach Day proved the biggest Cedar social gathering In the Bast. Delegations from the various states are Invited to participate In the festivities again this year. Many handsome prizes and cups will be

distributee.

_. Albert Harris, of the Wildwood delegation, moved that th* ccmmunicatton and the copies of the bills to received, died arA told on the table —meaning no action by the Chamber. for or against the proposition. Mayor Fitch, of the Sua Isle City delegation. seconded the motion. 8am-. H Lanning. of Wildwood, stated that he considered such aoUor unfair to Assemblyman Stevens, end he fait that the letter and request contained therein should

THE ANNUAL SEASON-OPEN-ING EDITION OF THE TINES Is now In preparation. Th# edition will be In magazine site, at least fifty-two pages, and will be replete with Illustrations of Cape May County's resorts and mainland. We will be glad to mail copies of this edition to all names sent In. or brought In. prior to March 30th. There U no charge whatever for this service. Here to s chance to let your friends know about Cape May f'- •'Mr. and what it offers the vscaUix. «t and home-seeker.

Hear Talk on School Matters County Superintendent of Schools E. R. Bnmvste Gives Interesting Address at Countv Chamber

Foster Godin Welcomes Body — Under-Valued Counties lighting Counties Trulv Assessed

Cape May County will lose beteen IS6.000 and *70.000 a year in :hool money, which will have to be

tade up by th* taxpayers of the' brought a barge Into the Delaware County, wm the atarUlng statement' Bretkw>ter Supd ni g b . -

of County Superintendent of Schools

Beats Intruder

with Radiator Cap Martin Goddard, of Ocean Citv. Inflicts Severe Beating todtar Found

Held For April Court

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Martin Goddard, thirty-two years Old. who Urea a*. 1033 West svenue. Ocean City, didn't atop to use diplomacy, police say. when he discovered an unwricome visitor In the house

with bis wife Sunday bight.

Instead, he hurled the first object that came within his grsep. s large automobile radiator cap. at the vlaltor'e head, and afterwards best him to such an extent that it required almost s dozen stitches before he was able to appear In police court, hi*

head swathed In bandages.

Policemen Jouraee and Marpk who heard the woman's cries came upon the pair fighting at West svenue near Tenth street, and before they

Id damage each other any further.

THE SPRING FLAPPER Oh. girls, thl? is great! The grandmother's shawl, like they wort In the Civil Wat day*. I* coming back in fashion this springAnd with It will be worn a new flapper skirt, knickers, bell sleeves. Brighton capes, lined with Jade, and one-piece suits in all color*— honeydew. tangerine, orchid, cocoa. black and white. The general trend thl* spring In woman's wear 1* to be more mannish. Camel's hair skirts, with plum-colored silk sweaters, will be popular.

KICKAPOO RESCUES BARGE

OFF SEA ISLE CITY

The roast guard cutter Kickapoo

E. R. Brunyate before the meeting

badly leaking condition.

of the Cape May County Chamber of I The Kickapoo went to the aasistCommerce at Wildwood last Fri- 1 »nce of the craft after receiving slgday. i "sH It was in distress off Sea Isle Mr. Brunyate spoke of the bill now : City. Csptsin Christopher Bentham. before tbe Stste Legislature, which of the Townsend's Inlet Station, reprovldee that tbe State school tax be celved tbe distress signals. He disdtolributed to tbe counties of the patched the signals to the Kickapoo State on a basis of attendance in the »t once. The espial;, of the barge

of by aaeeaeed valu-, bad his wife aboard. _

at ion as at present. I •*

With the present system. Mr. 1

Brunyate said, ninety per cent, of all r T’ AY7*11 the money that Cape May County [ aXPaVCTS W ill

pays each year to the State for, I J

school tax comes back to the County, and to distributed to the schools. I Cape May County's saseai menu run i high, be said, and because of this

th* County gets a large return from . , , . . . _ the Bute, while the tax-dodging Zip See* Conntv Protest Against New counties, which pay little into the, Law: Freeh older*’ Salaries

State fund and therefore get little 1 out of It. will benefit by ell that Cape May County will lone If the isy to distributed on the proposed ,

Set Up Howl

Nay Be Reduced

Law Valuations

system, the

continued. Cape May County got back from the Bute tost year for :bool purposes *100.28».00; on s

It would ha’

Interesting Gossip or County

By Zip

When the contents of Senator Whitney's Bill, creating a new distribution of school taxes, is fully grasped, a howl of protest can be

celved a little over *28.000. and the ^

. * _. , expected from the taxpayers of Lape

•uppo.1 Ik adioou Id iDD-JodUn, ^ to 0 „ llt

basis of rateables. For instance. Cape May County tost year paid about

, _n- n n-r *110.000 for school tax. Nine-tenths rtoh faml or « boul *101.000 was relu ned t

f under-i

counties, the speaker mentioned Burlington County as the worst offender;

It has 800 square mill

Conflicting sutemenu were

outcome of the Inquest which Atlantic held tost Saturday afternoon,

armed guard Davies on tbe witness stand. d»-

- - stored that the train wes only traveling at th* rate of fifteen mile# an

and that the auto track, before ■ hit. had been making around

forty miles an hour.

“I didn't aee tbe machine until five feet on top of It, too tote to stop the

*leh hit r ”

ton tor health would peeks survived by MX children W. Gandy, of Tuckahoa. « Ntekenoa. of — k Gandy, of

Cole as to whether he immediately pot on th* brakes, he replied in the affirmative, but said that the tsulu did not MUM to a stop until It tod gone another car length. Had It gone two feet further, ae—rdlag to eye witneeeea. It would have hilled J. Douglass Taylor, the driver of the machine, who was plased beneath the wreckage In such a manner that to was unable to free

WE ARE BITLDfNC OUR you have a cto ~ ■ used tw your

The driver declared that hi* aaChiae waa making only ten to fifteen mi toe. but as he came to the railroad fimaMeg at the latereectioa of Teath street and Warn avenue, be looked up

To this Mr. Harris replied that tbs whole County was all too familiar

with the old large Board ayutmn. and could dai

th* things ltot led up to the elect ioo I orrealen! them. ... of e three-man Board of Freeholders Before Magistrate Frank H. Ware TtoM men tod been in office only | B tbe Ocean City Police Court. Godtwo mouths, he stated, and already | dard was held under a *1000 ball for action to sought to Increase the mem- the April term of tbe Cape May berahlp. and he felt that this action County court, on an assault and batwm not the will of the people, who tery charge, while Mrs Marti* Godetoariy expressed themselves at the dard. the defendant's alleged cornpolls when they voted for the three- mon-tow wife, was held with Archie man Board. If Mr- York (the Dem- Webb, tbe unwelcomed visitor, under ocratie candidate at tost November's {&»• ball each on charges of dtoor-

eieetlon. from Cap* May) bad been derly conduct.

elected, continued Mr. HarrU. the Aecoiding to Goddard be was reblll would never have been present- turning home Sunday night when he ad. it was simply politic* and As- stopped outside the house to fix the eemhlymaa Stevens was pulling. radiator on his automobile Deeideomeoae's ctoutauu" out of th* fire. 1 IBS that he could eee better in the At this Juncture President Ogden house, he entered and to alleged to ealto* for order, stating that tbe sub- have found his wife with the etranJect of poll tic* muat not enter Into cer . who later turned out to be ArCtomtor matters or Chamber die- rhie Webb, a boatman. Without any tuntonn*. and that the debate must further ado. Goddard picked up the to confined simply to the merits of radiator cap and threw It at Webb, the question who fell to th* floor, dated by the

Leaning Myers, of Wildwood, then mlssle.

stated that to him the matter had Despite his wife's objections potto apple ranee of politics and should allege. Ooddaru continued to beat not be brought into th* Chamber. up the defense!*** Webb, until PoAaeemblyman Stevens now stated |icemen Jouraee and darple attractthat there wm no thought of politics sd by the cries of Mr a Goddard arIn th* proposition la any way. He rived and arreei *d the three.

Inc country and three tore* elttoe the County for educational purposes, ind ^Tfnriv million Th* oU »er one-tentb is used to malnof dollars Cumberland County with ui “ thls'^U600 square miles of land, and three Und*'’ the Whitney B.U this dto large municipalities (Millville, trtbutlon will be hared upon the

Bridgeton and Vineland) Is assessed ^

at only thirty tnllltonj of dollar*. Ployed. H *111 “*«■<*»£ And little Cape May County, with that to

only 338 square miles of land, and 2 > . , |® cted 8P ^.°,

no large ciUes and no manufacturing T h‘« sum inuat he made up by the centres, is aaemeed at forty milliour muntcIpeJIUMln the «nnty--«hlch

means the taxpayer. Stripped of all

School Co*t* MounGnr the frills and fancy phrases it means Along the lines of cost* of educa- no more or lees than Cape May Coun1 tlon. Mr. Brunyate said that while In t y taxpayers are not only going to ?1*1* forty-three per cent, of all the f^t the bill for their own schools, money rmtoed by taxes were spent !n but are actually going to help pay tbe public schools. In 1*22 only the educational till in Cumberland, thirty-nine per cent, went for the Burlington and like counties, same purpose Indicating that while This bill calls attention to the uneducation costa are mounting tbe In- equal and unfair method of crease Is less than the increase In ........

other lines

In concluding the speaker urged ttot tbe public schools be forever

PLASTERER WD3 SUIT

tlcas of the County to get legislation to ini reuse the Board membership

and be tod merely com* before tbe On Thursday Judge Eldr-dge ren Chamber to get a County-wide opln- dared a verdict of *1S3*.0(> ^nd costs Ion on the measure against Wllltom Casrelman. Receiver Mr. Lanning then said that one of for Cape May Hotel. In fevor of Ed th* members of the present three- ward F. Jones, plasterer Ocean man Board favors the larger Board, city, and In his opinion there should be —

nt Meet enough moabers on the Board of Freeholder* to give the sehtps twj Eton to represent s. aad one to represent each of tto three larger resorts li

kepi out of politics, and said hoped that the bills now before the Stste Legislature, which would put the school fymtem of tbe State In the

political domination.

Chamber Welcomed bv Godin Immediately after tbe reading of tbe minutes at Friday's meeting. H. Foster Gaslit.. President of the Wildwood Board of Trade, was called upon to welcome tbe Chamber to Wildwood, and in a few well chosen (Continued on pax* 4)

ment used in the State. Mary of the taxpayers In the County delude themselves with the thought, “the tax rate is high, but the aaeeaeed value is low." The troth of the matter is that Cape May. Eeeex. Hudson and Atlantic Counties are among the highest assessed counties in the Stale. As an illustration, a Cape May County property owner will pay Burlington County school bills because the assessed value averages from fifty to a hundred per cent,

greater.

This bill passed the Senate Tuesday. despite tbe strenuous efforts of the Senators from the counties that will be effected. Senator Bright in a (Continued on |

Lewis (toady, a meter-reader, emptofWd by the Atlantic City Water Com peer, who Uvea at *21 Plymouth sreawe. Ocean City, was the oaly eye wttaam to the aeeidext. Gandy teoilfied ttot to saw the occupants of the track look up aad down track wkea they were within five last of the creasing aad later mw Taylor, the driver, try to aqc*rve kto truck when to mw the oncoming train He admitted bearing the toIvo'a bell, but doctored that ac

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OCTA ; white gold. Finder will erd If returned to L M l Office, fie* late City.

i Tax Itopuiy Daugherty wlR alt 1a tto Fire: Notional Tank, dm tola City, oa Wednesday. Mi

Mr. Harrto replied to thto in nay lag that there to no guaraatM ttot all of tto five member* of th* pro posed enlarged Board wouldn't come * om one diet rid. Charles Norton, of Wildwood then sled that be could see no politics la tto bill. He was a Democrat, he nd never expected to aee ■at elected on tto Board.

Thursday Sheriff Redding conducted Laalle Hoft alia* Dutch Vananan rnd George R. Hair* to Rahway Re-

Hoft pled guilty of robbing hi* grandfather In Wildwood on New Year’* eve. Hair* wa» convicted last week for Joy riding while Intoxicated. FOR ENDURANCE UBS ADA HLICA BLOCK la your bulldlne—adv. 6-»L

Carpatars Wanted Icaui Cily-SSc par hour

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EDGAK F. BERGER 3100 Aabury Arum

Today is the Big Day! Our Clearance Sale is in Full Sway Why net jeu the crowd which it taking advantage of the Hoot Wonderful Yalnm Em Offered to the Public» New York Bargain Store CORNER WASHINGTON AVENUE AND FRANKLIN STREET Th. Woodbine Be S«e You Are Sure of WoodbK N. J. !• the Rtf* Store Wtoa tu S"ne» City nnt the lew Trek Cut Price Shot Store.

STRAND THEATRE OCEAN CITY, N. J. SATURDAY MARCH 3

Attraction Extraordinary Marion Davies in "When Knighthood Was In Flower"

Added:— Pathe News Electric Comedy Krazy Kat Kartoon Special Comedy Hit " Mud and Sand "

On account of the length of the feature production there will be only one show, commencing at 7:30 P. M. Feature on at 8:45 P. M. No Advance in Prices