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EDITORIAL PAGE of the CAPE MAY COUNTY

CAPE MAT COUSTT TIMES Couolidated with the Sea Ule City Renew. February, 1118 WILLIAM JL HAFTERT Genera! Manager Published Rrery Friday by the CAPE MAT OOUITT TIMES CO. (la corpora ted) Atlantic Are. and Eighth St. OCEAN CITT, N. J. South LandU Arenue rka ISLE cm. N. J.

WHAT WILL THE

TAXES BET

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Entered at the Paet OC.ce at Sea Isle City. N. JMatter.

FEEDAT, THE TWEHTT-HIHTH

A diligent search was made the Dies of the TIMES this week to find a time when publication Ml upon Friday, February Hth. None could be fount So today we hare

February 2»th came on Friday, this could only happen once In four yean. But so far in the life of the TIMES the February l*th's hare been most

any other day but Friday. It Is aleo the Hist time that

tasuee have been published In any

February month. It happens «

fourth mor.ch. or so, during the year that ther, are five Issues in a month, but never In February. tb« ordinary

twenty-eight days. But, then, ve don't mind the extra work that this extra FMday hm ▼olved this month. If thje F^idacr did not happen In February, think of the

have caused! Throughout this broad land, we are told, couatlcas a urn

months for this Las# Tear. TUs may or may not be so, but they at least should haws f

and who la not convinced by the end

of 1984 that "two cun Bye as

aa one,” la one whose romantic a

Is dead Indeed. QXEAT

. The Philadelphia Inquirer, within the next year, win be hooeed ta what It claims win be paper plant In the world.

what It claims to be the moat • Plate newspaper p.ant la tie world.

been saying that there was nothing like Its plant As Messrs. Eiverson, Cuttle and McLean are all meet estimable tlemen and thorough newspaper and none of them are In the Bam ms A Bailey circus class, tbs outsider Is at a lam to figure out just which data u> accept Then. too. the Windy City, through the MeConalekPatteison luteresta. owners ot tb« Tribune, of that city, ray there M nothing like the plant of that on this terrestrial ball. So there you M*. say* the MlUvUle Republican. There an two things, how eve which the controversy brings out Cdoerir—first that seen of the three 1 Is the owner of

mdly, that

mile old New Toth the Umbo of the “has boons ' la this nowspepei controversy and erea giving out n chirp.

the Mellon plan, and Is enraged over the oil scandal, the thought that Is nearest and dearest to the heart of the average Cepe May County taxpayer Is "What will my tax* he this

year?"

And no one knows. With Increased municipal budgets of expenditures tor city purposes thh, year ell along the line, end with e general re-rating of the County's real estate, no on! knows whire we stand. The action of the State Board of Taxation in ordering an upward revision ot the tax r .teables In this County Is, In itself, not a bad

Minings of the Office Cal

Probably the reason eorae men stir eat with a knife Is betause they knee ancestry who shoveled hay with n

The bad luck In two dollar Mile Is In not haring than.

i January, end fifteen „ the Altoona TJ i the Item. "More Quits

assessment is. provided the expenditures are kept down to n reasonable figure, ft teealts merely In a lower rate, and the amount of cash paid to the despised Tax Collector is pret-

Direettons for wishing cV'yen: Don't sunk overnight; just add i Utile Blue Devil to the water.Three Riven (Mich.) Dally Oocsmer

Lodges get along very well without

, eomen. hut the churches lest n week without them.

which are notoriously under-aye eased —notably Burlington, Cumberland and Salem In South Jeney—are going to be Increased to something near the true valuation, or whether they are going to be allowed to get away with a slight increase which will yet

i girts love to have a good

Only the rich have time end can afford to walk. The rest at ue hav* to hustle to buy tires.

County. The unfairness of this would , be that thia County must i greater than 'ta proportionate share of the State taxes, which i on a basis of valuation, at a rate

fixed by the* State.

If the tax-dodging conn ties are made to come across to tl -. weli and good. But If the published figures later show that the x till continues, the verbal ' brickbats that wlH be buried by Atlas tie and Cape May Counties will > require reel dodging—end ec

Redartag routes lengthens the pvallshi* day in which driving can b*

with comfort, and tempt* don at the original plan tovtatt a certain spot. Cood roads the £ win reduce traveling time, pro-

all points sad make of district motorola motorists. Scientific ad-

it of miles

point to another will work wonders

A EPLEMWB MUSCAL

One of tb* fineat musical organiraOons Is South Jersey Is that of the Wildwood String Band, composed of

aw wool n»d«u. mu tool. "ij*

the Cape May County Chamber of Ooaunerce at Its last meeting. Matss all the snap and go of the modera musical organization, and

playi wonderfully well

W*idwoo£. and In fact all of Cape May County, aay well be proud or!

“*<7“'“““ *»• •>»-«Hxis-sTars

pie Cape May County Times, pub-

lished st Sea Isle Ctty. km ' moved Into Its commodious see flee and devoted several pages ol

weekV. Issue to s “New Building __

The Times was started is 111!, and after a rherxsreil « came under the management of

A. Haflert a few ye Prospered ever since

Is one of the most coavea South Jersey for newspaper Uon and Job printing.—Bi

J.) Times.

paper publishers In South Jeruey la William A. HaSfcrt. preeldent of the Cape May County Times Publishlag Company. I ht New Building edltiea

recounts the slwdy growth of the pLvt from a diminutive shop U -•Id. wnen Editor Haflert «%n^| charge, to Its present magnificent building, sousing so ewripmaot eecond to none In South Jersey. Editor

their Look t

The klfcK '• ionrt’v darned oold to ma al one's Bigbtsblr'

l will IseOa d their rnas to tbs mmt fas t cities, llmre are aeons of

Jade Johnscm. who ad thlrtjAtwo times la the last five raars, thlnkr It Is bscame he Is poor. But the tact la, Jude was arrested because he was a poor dtiaen. Is ST feuTiTi^hoTS treated by fate became he cannot winter ia the South. The optimist Is the fallow who is all smiles because the cold wavs didn't bant Us water

» baby Is became It always acts •«*

“*F- but that rouge looks natural —Itbought It was yon.- skin." "WeO, It 4 the aert thing to It.'

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the Go .-eminent'* oU U

flll.Ofifi from tn o oil munon- ~ «_ - ~ —- . i. has gone back to his ranch L> AaTasa^ **■

Mmr Mexico, broken In body and ^ SBlriL The Tlena V-I -M.n • *. .. ea.. —

drowning his

wUs. Man certainly Ms no rights

■Pint. The Department of 1 “1 Permission for Fall to no bat he fat under constant surM and has been warned no* to , le«v# the territorial limit of * United States, under penalty of [

Be»t Wishes, Editor Haffert ' * 2Z m

Are much alike Us true,

-tr-i bum with outal •boms gW. la. too.

iSSSini. or July. -

■ALD, tbs : triad te c bel efs to hto the other day. "I gueae 1 aa an old-feahtimed Whig RepubUona." be said, “and If I am net aa MA^diioiied Whig Republican. I am a Will lam Jennings Bryan Democrat

the dent us from

am only one.

>il SUM I oa. one. I cannot do everything.

THE WASHINGTON

PkllsdelphU on Now Yeer'i Day. and BU ««m =«fi Prosperity.—Pleasant-!» w111 »« rduss to do the somethin* r * e ** t OTenU - though, have slowed the advertisement U wae for lie home v!; * P*"***- | which 1 can do. | 'town the wbeela. The flint was town, sbottid be appreciated, and tbt " ! Jm,. . , Franx A. VsndcrUp's public eonfeswomber. of the Wild-rood siring Is 0«ma Y»c^ -tWB there^^bT w^hiST* , h# W “ ■* 0—pln *" wh «* Bend ebculd receive every 'Koourage Tb * doU . 1o< *- they come small, j voters to go around. I . t«»lnuations on the UU Preslu> coi.tii.uo tbvlr spi'-iidld work th- ^ ' vk . i ^ Harding, and the next was the „ .oliZ. . The poutoee. they come smsll, i Ther. u s-. much talk shout eex in ' - - -

• duratloaal W J-orition for In Ocean View. I the world <Aum dare that It u really

H- lake

l-.n A* you expect to pst.“

T^rearea number of H

so they can break vh^

^-en you loec }UU r footing on the . h'&'U*!? *^J he ! !hat ! SL ^