:ape May County

THE CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES HAS A LARGER CIRCULATION THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IN CAPE MAY COUNTY

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nt of Hr. Kay, wfelefc i. is the firet reuJe by Ue Freel reoolnttoM of »rotMt I project which wart fUed Izatlons in

r frrosr (oiBC ahead with

. when ha atatea: y orer the rebuildBCoant/ Clerk'* Office and a bulldlnjx M a matter K hi fact sad riant that the S tazpayan of oar » Interest and as a of the County I would > do anythin* In the way * if I felt that any

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To Complete BoalevmrJ

The State Hick way Commission announced this week that Ue com pletloa of Seaehore Booterard from BeaTllle to Tookahoe is Included In

A sum of 9300.000 is allotted to pare this stretch. When finished Us County will hays a continoous concrete boulevard from Cape Hay Ctty to Toekabce. It t understood that this road >fUl oe erertually hard surfaced from Tuckahoe to BfC Harbor, thus eetab’ishin* the first coatinmras ooacreti Camden to Ue Coanty. No definite time b*» I the partn* beti Seartlle. but it le anUdpated that Uds for Ue contract win be advertised in Ue near future.

Fire Victims Buried

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The two little rkrttem of the fire In e home of their parents. Hr. and Mr*. Raymond C. Price, of BaleoriHe. mat Friday, ware touted in 8L KUsabeth's Cemetery. Qoahen. on Sunday afternoon. .Hra Price, mother o: Ue

» Oty Hr. Price 1 City. 1 while Hra. • ef a nel*hbor

left la hie crib. wto.i hit brother. William Joha. «*e two yean, wee toft

Storm Wrecks

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County Chamber Meets Atlantic

Many Roofr Are Loaf

Much damage was reported fay the

swept the coast Monday Tuesday and Wednesday oT this week. The torrential rains, lashed by a ter rifle wind, that reached a ▼eloclty of •I miles per boor, early W- *aa more in* to re the roots from build end demolished U*fate- boUdin*a with abandon. The maxi! ▼eloclty of the gale was the creates! ever experienced In Cape May County. The train aenrlc' was greatly Unpaired. The first trail! to reach County reeorta on Wednesday was four b

Telegraph poles scattered along the main highways outside of Ue County, especially along White Herts Pike, across the road aad blocked the yms of the antotota. The State Travers lent great

While the aeashors points felt Ue brunt U the rt fury the Inland did not mm Several old barns t

Mrs. Price wee attracted bv aeight Clerk'* Office which has 1 fco ™ «h* *»

r fit for that uec.

the fence surreondlng the Crt Fair Ground* were Mown down. , Ocean City was a greater scC* thru say of the nearby resorts. Early Tuesday morning, when Ue fury of the store was at its apex, the roof of the Urge apartment house "Palatine.'' 18th Street and Ocean Aveni was carried off. The roof fell up Ue garage* adjacent to Uto building with a crash that aroused Ue people for many bit ka around from their

the baby, but the little lad had been smothered by the smote as he lay. belpleeB. in hi* crib. It was not until later that Ue elder and from the position of hi* charred body it was for the front dear when he was overcome with | While the origin of the fire will aevpr be known, it In believed that Williari John, or "’auk." as he known, was playfully poking p Into a charcoal heater, and that In some way Ue burning embers Ml to the floor, igniting Ue rag. Volunteer firemen culck^y had the ■e under control, and the ‘ wee confined almost entirely to the Interior of tee

damaged The center garage e in half. The entimated dam about 97.00®.

tract la the i

partially washed away when the bulkhead wa* , rw"pt away hr the heavy tfc'as. The Sanriae Treat

also badly damaged,

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i Erii Jmh* 6etSofoOMr Meeting at Soma

Bad Weather a Drawback

Despite Ue furious northeast storm

night, about fifty of Cape Hay County's business men Journeyed to Somers Point for a Joint meeting of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce. with Ue Atlantic County Chamber. The Atlantic County Chamber was organised snout six month* ago. and is composed of practically all of Ue civic organisation* ol Atlantic Oountewto B. Mathias. Somers Point realtor, to president of Ue organixa

Addressing Ue Joint meeting. U C. Ogden, of Cape May. former president of Ue Cape May County Chamber. stated that the first organisation of a County Chamber was Uat of this County seven years ago. and the idee original one and resulted in

between all section* of Uto County. Within the peat two years Mr. Ogden stated, he had amtotad in organising Uree other County Chambers, and at

I la Salem County. MonmouU County. Gloucester County, and finally. la Atlantic County. Mr. Ogden congratulated the members of Ue Atlantic Oouatr Chamber, and wished

them success.

OUer speaker! from Cape May Coanty were: Leaning Mj _ . Wildwood. p r *eiitont of the County Chamber: Mayor OUfaert 8. Smith, of

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Harry Morgan, a member of So. Ocean City Coast Guard Station, picked up a wallet In Ue drift debris Uat gathered at 10th St.. several days age, vhile petroling Ue beach. The wallet contained 90S In currei. ~y and a rent receipt bearing Ue n une of H. L Raton. Morgan delivered Ue wallet to Captain Cornelius Nickerson, of Ue Ooaet Guard Station. O plain Nickerson located the owner, who proved to be Harold I. Eaton. Civil Engineer, who to employed by Ue Brigantine Development Co., He identified Ue wall.t and stated that Ue wallet was lost about Ue middle of December at Brigantine

The battered condition of Ue wallet showed ample evidence of the storm-tossed voyage It eneountred driflng from above Atlantic Ctty to Ocean City.

Political Pot Starts to Boil

Expert Hot Scrap

Bus Lines Merge Shore Service Company Absorbs the

Shivers, of North Wildwood; K. S. Jerrcll. of Caps May; fon"-r Sen Lewto T. Stevana. of Cape May; and Attorney Samuel EMredge. of Cape May. • Of rorttoolar interest to the Cape

iamsged. The total 1m* Sc n t to many th*uara»i of the ’ 1XU end West- Street* wu

vard. fliarnssm by a parallell with the

ntvllle to

Semen Po'nt. to re’teve congestion on

which was owned uy Coward O. MnPhcroon, & local contractor, was recently moved from 10U Street aad

regamt the Atlantic County w to pnpare plana am * of the eost of Uts roat

t of the At-

Untie City Chamber of voeated the poem go of a resolution

the proposed nee

Organize Moose Legion

Central aad Aabur/ Avenues la t vicinity of 34U Street were a a

Atlantic County Board of Freeholder* of an rephalt block/ paving on the Ahaecon Boulevard, which, by res. would cost a quarter of a ion dollar* more to Ue people of I Atlantic County than a concrete pav- ■ lag would. A resolution was ado 1 opposing uto type of paving, to be

Mrs. T Regent of « opening of the Sea lets City Chapter, and Mrs. Margaret Senior Regent of Lodge No. 94, of

Ten Hurt In Auto Crash

trie pole was felled aad the t stalkm was without powe

be Wilhelm! na.Conn dm; Chaplain, Mia-, i

Pfeiffer; Golds. Marie Neki array.

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the water did not , reeeL the depth of the Mona of e

Dtomcsd; ffrol'nv 1 *«■■« May ; Argos. Margartt Lnongo.

day afternoun to lx the time of r the regular naetlcgs of the Legion.

> thought about K the e the general plaa of the

Campbell Made Proaectitor

on Whale Beach wee torn off and the building was fiooded. This bu.ldla* was damaged by a fire sever*' months agu. The tin roof on McBride'* cottage on Shell SC. Sea lele. was tom by Ue storm. Communication sea San Me City aad Ue mainwas cut off early Tuesday sftepwfaea the tide swept across the

> It the first qoestto i whether we are going s which will take care

William H. Campbell. Jr., was sprinted Prosecutor of Flae:> for Ospe

May Oouaty last troak. The term to

fire yearn. Campbell to the

The Ode receded rapidly and fhe following morning revealed Ue road to te coveted with sea weed and

of W. H.

fbt of future growth, ur • are going to try to take . what the future

■ will require,

a thought of attempt-

I County i

FlaanM, ftoeaa City.

D. Taylor, of Ocean Oty, wee appointed for e term of throe

of the Oouaty Tax

i what we wtu need tan s from now, X feel that l oeelece erpendlturo of Bthl*^ which la a I hav« to be dtoeai r to that which wtu be i well kaow Uat la the sta County BUid-

Me the vacancy cai by the refusal of Senator Bright to •m the sppolatmc.t of E ill. Jr. Tko poeiloa pays 91,000

i la Many Pulpit*

The MeUedtot gHaoopal CcaImnee la smalm at Atlas tic Oty Met

drtris. The road

f huge bcle* were torn in the

The top dr—ing of gravel

was wimplstslT washed away in several eaotlnsis Many of Ue larger

carped away by Ue ter-

Tbe 'rxmd Into Avalon saflered a tgte at- the baa Isle Boulevard.

Avalon wee light. A by Matt Rlsley on

ear 8Srd Street was partially daetroyvd. The storm tore off the ehimrey from 'he home off Charles Fort on Tktrd Avenue.

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garage owned

E to the Court I

r geoetal plaa talked ay thought to utiltaa Ung la practically It* £t. thereby msk y to go to the erec t

pulpits In Uto Coast/.

The miatolaro to serve Ule anaonaeed, aro aa follows; Cap* May City. J. S. Shaw; Caps May Court Honor. C. i. Champion: North Wildwood; G. C. BaynoMs; Omen City. John Handley; See tola City L Clark; Pefaroburg. ffomael Cawi; SjuU WrtLe. W. H. Andrews; Mrathmme, J. B. Haloes; ~

Wildwood. O. H.

many o* the buildings to sway « leg the residents much alarm.

Vtat On< tta •TA taka groaf pains to do a rood job this lime." tr-*- the suividu na he downed a bottle of earboli: arid.

ffBCURTTY TRUST COMPANY, Cape May. at noun— that It wlU pay 4% iatereet on Its f wingi Aeeounts beginning April let.

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The driver rf a ear on the Shore Road heading south. losing control of hi* machine, caused Injury to ten me. near Ooean View, last Th\.*eday night. Two cam were parked ot the aide of the road, oaa wltL a. uw trouhto. aad the oeeupaato of this car wore standing on the nad attempting to correct the trouble. The driver of Ue ear doing the damage struck 4Le parket ears, sldenwlpln* them, aad striking the i

The Reliance Tranuponation Company. operators of a bus line during Ue Beeson, between Wildwood and Cape May and Ocean City, was. last eek, taken over by the Shore Service

ompany. a 'oneern which

me need operation last summer to Atlantic City, and which *>»« maintained a regular schedule Uto winter. The Shore Service* Company hai been In a battle with Ue Reliance since Ue Inception of Its service, and Ue fight culminated In the conaoUda-

Uoc of Ue two companies. Us Shore Service Company

waa greeted a franchise it promised a year-round schedule which It has faithfully kept. The company began operations here on July 30. 19JC. and has since that time covered 119.000 mllm, without'Injury to a person. They have operated on Ue same schedule Uat Was put In farce on October *U and Ue patrons never tee have bad cane- to complain. There will be more tripe added on or about March 16th. thereby giving better service and as soon as basin— will permit, additional eervlce will be put on. New echedtues will be.

ready about March 19 th

Peterson Wins Suit Car Tangle b Uotaagled ia Ooart

For Ue put few weeks political gossip hu been running wild In the Democratic ranks, and both faetioni of the Republican ranks, u to the possible lie-up In the coming election. WlU Ue biggest County election In years looming up when a Presides*. Vice-President. U. S. Senator. Congressman, State Senator. Assemblyman, County Clerk, and three Freeholders will be elected. Ue political leaders are busy scanning the horison tor -mitabic candidates. A. Ue beginning of Ue year Senator Bright appeared to have Ue situation wen In control. The pre-

from the opposing faction and little hostility wu visible In the Democratic Party, which had aa sye oa a Freeholder berth for ooe of their ibert. The c

it occurred when George Greta, the Court House attorney, who wu endorsed by the Demociatlc County Committee for rejected by Senator Bright. When E. O. Howell, who wu by the

County Tax Board, wu rejected by Ue State Senate at tha Instigation of Senator Bright, the real eruption started. The action not only angered

numerous friends of Howell's ia the

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of ths County. for Howell's character or ability fay hto Mt-

Judge Eld .-edge ruled no cause for action in a suit brought by r barim McKeague. of Corbin City, against Alfred M. Peterson. Ue Woodbine •tor. McKeague stated that Peterson agreed to allow him 91 ? S ted car In payment on a new Ftrd sed n. The used car had a cracked i; Under and wu towed

Woodbine.

McKeague got tired waiting fur Ue ear to be deltv*

make. He than de-

rmenl on hto old car from

Peterson refused and re-

old car. JseKeague stated ths ear had depreciated while Peterson's custody and he was forced to sail it for 979. and hs wu suing for the difference. After hearing the testimony Judge Eldredg* quickly I no cause for action. Ths trial held Uat Wednesday at Court

No License Cost* $53.85

Boy Smith. 33. colored, of PhlUdelphia, wu fined «60 and costs by Squire Gaxretaoa. at Court House. Uat Friday, for driving a car without

Just who wu who In Uc crash wu difficult to ascertain, but all tea eon eerned were injured. Charles Kell?, of Wildwood, to In a critical oorditkm at Cooper Hospital. Camden, where be wu taken from tbs Wildwood Hospital wbeu it wu found Uat In addition to a fractured leg and three fractured riba, be wu suffering fro a.

Internal Injuries.

The others injured wars treated ths Wildwood Hospital. They are: Charles McFall, Walter Sweeney, John 8tell. William Ealing. Girard Liveley, Edmund Kalbaeh, Fred McKeown and Etmer Pinker. All

from Wild wood.

Concert Broadcuted

A concert by the Wildwood Glee

maker's lu* Monday night. About thlrty-fl r* members under Ue direction of Prof. Karl Nocka participated. Tb- program wu similar to a eoncert given by tkta cluS in Wildwood March 84. Due to Ue terrific wind rad •tom Monday sight m ef the radio f* w u. the County « . . miabi# to prof sly tar • la for UU

rested SmiU several days previous at Denalsvllto. Hutchinson stoy the driver when he noticed that the car answered the description of n ear

wu detained ia the Coanty Jail until the authorlttoe made an investigation >hen the driver failed to produce either an owner's card or a driver'*

license- He wu released when I

•. James Darrin, of Philadelphia. raid hto fine and produced own-

ership credentials

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wards. Governor BUaar, Mayor Donnelly. of Trenton, imd Jim NugauL the National Convention. InciGovernor Miser will be the

New Jersey delegates' choice for the “ ridsntal nomination. Whether Senator Bright pulled a political faux pu will be answered In Ue future. While a fight will be eentareff around the re election of Senator Bright this Fall another office that to causing much speculation to Uat of County Clerk. The leaders are Marrying In efforts to find suitable mate-

rial for this office.

Whether the present County Clerk. Carlton HUdreU. will be a candidate unknown. It to whispered that A. Coreoa. of fiouU Burl lie. to batag groomed for the office by the Bright

wu formerly deputy dark, to a usry capable chap, hut doubtful If he cool eater the political i

Ctty Title aad I

Rumor* have It that Chari** Aadereoa. of O—a View, er? leaked *» e very sell* toe re oil date mr

Will Meet at Tuckahoe

future office fighting .

such a no table r He I* popular well known la fl ber of possible ]

It hu bean announced by Ue re of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce Uat the March meeting of Ue Chamber ail] be held to Ue ment of the M. E. Church. Tucki. late Uto month. Ibe exact date ^ Ue meeting hu not bom

Aa effort to bring made to *eea State speaker on the subject of taxes and tax aaseasmeou. a topic now of great Id Ur eat in all of South Jersey.

The crawfish hu a lot mors m an some auto drivers. Ha knows enough to back out when bo goto in u tight place.

certa Uat they have heard.

SECURITT TRUST COMPaNT. OK Cape May. announeu that It will pay

Us Bering* Fund

trtaa e plan to put at toast one strong candidate L. the field. At the present time it looks u a “> use*at time will be had by oa# aad all'* nut November—except the

The rppolatmeat of W. H. Camp-

prim Is the County u his name bed nor been mentioned frequently a* a candidate for that position. Campbell 1* an Ocean City product and n very capable member of the bar. He U Ue son ol Commissioner Campbell, of Ocean City. W. H., Jr., after graduating from Ocean City High

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SECURITY TRU8T COMPANY. OT Cape Mey. announ— that It will pay 4% Interset on Its i '

Account* beginning April let. 18-lt nccouaU beginning April 1st. 19-lt