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i ISLE CITY. CAPE MAY COUVTY. W. J . FRIDAY. JAJTUARY 15.

!4,000,000 Increase in Cape May County Valuations for 1926

•ssments Show Greatest OneJump In County’s History

Cautr b Bow 9tM00.00O-

* I10J44.000—WiMwood af UM7J000

Point Only District To Show Decrease

Woodbine Council Makes Appointments ■ssms Health OMiuttee, britea Bids For Gozhaje ODectaas aai Prorides For filiasit Streets

Borough Wants a Doctor

A regular meoUar of the Bor

■tar aflUsas of AaDm has hoca added Is the assessed

[ Om Omuttj dariag the past ymr, K became wmB whaa the Coaatp Tbs Board, at Csart Haase, aa I ou*h - oundi or Woodhtae iaeaitad the basks af the varisas Aaaeaaan af the eomaty. : “ ^ Bort ~* h H * JI OB . _ . . ' . emtlns. A report was made by ia the giaatsM taisaasi a oalaataaas H a aiagk year I Mr. Blum*, chairman or the street t Is the hMaey of the oaaaty. edipaiac thr recent af I«ommitte*. concert,.., the coodi-

» h a Ooeas City, where I10J44.000 »as ^ v ,p. Mar (OBrt How „ I a dose aecead with aa iaerease of 91.-1 appointed Borough Solicitor for i

I rear 1516 He will succeed Geor

- *«**•< UXIUm, WMw-4 Cm<| le City 11 AM.000 l Hr* Warden for a period of three

I dht plane ia the

af Asaloa were aot ready aa Taeaday

resort The Wed Cape

is. het aa great iaenaee h eipacted of Lower Tawashtp aad Vaadhtoe. oaaaty. Gape May Prist abac ahawi a The a ■east is Mid by feeretary Rice

Gape Bay City af 9M0J00 was reported.

i of the ealaas af this It aad be aaierrtoad that the IBM flgara an I are aab^ to Might rmsiaa whea the nan aa the rariaas tax beaks.

Ccft Xnj City

f7.n7.9MM

Cape Kay Fwst

MMISD0

ItoRRk T*WB*hip

813.597.00

Lower Tpwaakiy

• e •

KUik Towmhi,

1755J»D0

Morlk WiUvood

5.MM74D0

Omrb City

34.7t0JM.00

flan Ilk City

3J711MD0

talk Copt May

ia.ia.oo

•ton* Harbor

2.1MJ90.00

Uppffr Tpwr**

UM.0t4.00

Vest Cope Hay

• * •

WIUwm* City

21 J04.0M.00

WUwood Crest

4.101.M4.0G

Vast Wild weed

M7.t00.00

years. This b hU n

DenerhTsh. Tns C« pointed Tns Scorcher. A committee was appointed by the Mayor and Coaaeil to naannie

Una and keeping all placed la the hands of thU committee as well as ererythlae to thr health and clean Uncos of Woodbine. On motion of Mr. Su^rman. bids will be received for a garbage collector for the year of ISM. on January ZS. whan the next meeting (Continued on Page FOer)

Will Improve Boardwalk Lights Electric Light Company Will Cooperate With City

Assurance

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lo Cfty

«1ty Superintendent Theodore K DeBow. last Friday, that a lighting expert of the Atlantic <'lty Company would make an « to Sea Isle City and go , Boardwalk lighting sltuath a rtew of Improving Ihe

lights.

-If It is within the comi erm' province.- said Comn Maher. "Sea Isle (Tty next sui mer will he the best llxhted, else est and beet kept rttr tn Am Jersey. Additional gas farllttl are now being put in. the wal supply will be Increased with new well, and an additional pm will be placed tn the sewer ptol so that the public utilities w keep pate with the growth of l

resort

Both ( ommlssiooer Maher ■ Mr. DeBow spent all of last Friday ia Atlantic CMy with the Electric Company aad Telephone <}f-

ttriala

Applegate Pleads Guilty To Stealing Sertrace Deferred While Aaihsrities laid Bootlegger

a deferred -jpoa of Court House. •i of gntlty to the

Mrs. Langley Tried Again And Wins Prize Failed Te Fiad Best Irrars ia dassited Ads the First Time —Secoad Try b Baccessfa Has Been Mailed $5 Check

Msggaso. who Is known as Fl Anders, waived a hearing, aa hts wife. The pair will be t next wt-ek. The raan was held der StSOO ball and his wife « I1.M0.

VicCardell Fined For Liquor Violation

I Wsadtone • • •

•) ngms ant ia.

•to] aasMned vahmttoa of the ooanty ia IBM wu 9*4.- ^ aad this ysax M wttl exo

wood Kiwants Liquor Raiders district Meeting Cause Excitement , «f Badsaa. Ia- hate Treeper* Alarm Cape Hay

Colored Crip Shooters

_ j- A few mtautae of wild eacitement __ „ KlwnaW | oererred Uat Baturday when State M. ▲. Walker?'dtotrict B1 * bo *’ ****■

Edward O. Middleton, ■stdeni. and Robert C attended the district Inst teg. at Newark.

They mad* the

3*3 mile# ia one day

'Udwood Club t

H. ,

live t'nfreed and Constable Mark* raided the place of -Oitch* Iwwl. color ad. T32 Lafayette Street. Cape May. and discovered a crap g*n>>

if at Irat you don't fry. try again” is na old adage that Mrs. 8. S. Langley, of Tuckshoe, has followed with preflt She submitted a checked page at the start of the new and fascinating Class!Sed Contest, but failed to win the prise of ftve dollar*, awarded weekly to the person who Slid* the mo*' errors among thoe*

saluabte little ada.

Was she discouraged* Not at all. Last week she submitted another page and as a result ha* bees moiled a cheek for five dollar*. her list containing more errors than any other contestant All of which l» good and auf«cient proof that preolsleore’paya Mrs. Langley checked II errors, but only tea of theoe were found to be boneet-to-goodneoa error* Allan Nickerson, of 1» South Thirty-fourth Street. Camden, wa* a cloae second. He checked 1* mistake*, of which eight were

legitimate errors.

We are glad the contestant* noted the new ruling that no errors of punctuation would count. Not one *vch error was marked One conteetant. however, marked aa errors every place In wkieh the word Avenue' wa* omitted from

fore Judge C(dredge last Wad day morning nt Court House. McCardell * lea was raided on December 1*. Mri ardell pleaded that he had the bar from the estaband sold the hotel. The sale of the hotel was in progress when the raid was made. 1 < ardell wasn't In the hotel wl

Prisoners Joy Riding The prisoners la tb* county Jail are enjoytug the experience of riding while they are still la Jail. Tb* contractors are moving the Sheriff'* office aad count. Jail to the reor of the ground* The prtsooei* are still la their cell*. W hen earn pleted. the old Jail will he placed adjacent to the Jail which la under

Bradley Fined $500 For Possession

Betelkeeper Pleads GwQty to Charge

Charles Bradley, proprletr Bradley'* Hotel. Wildwood guilty to the charge of |*>

Coast Guards Financial Institutions of Rescue Pair County Elect Officials

From Icy Water

EMrodge on W*dn«-~u> at Conn House Bradley's hotel wa. raided by the authorities about a month ago . ThU was hi. secvmd offense Pronecutor Campbell -uted the only complaint hr had to make against the place wa* the liquor charge Brsdt*> declared hr was through with the liquor busmex. forever. In passing sentence Judge Kldredge said: Toder the law. Bradley. I ran send you to the county Jail for the second offense of possessing liquor. Ton are treading on very thin ice when you persist tn Vtototfng this law The third offnoae Is a State'* prison term, and I wlah to warn you that's where yon wtU go the next time Juat a* tare as your name Is Bradley If you are brought before me on a similar charge. The the was *S0» Sheriff Raids Wildwood Cafe

I

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riff Hoffman

.sled

Craft of Men Entoate To Sea ble City Wu Washed

Ashore

V aded Through Breakers After a hanowtxg experience, two Camden men arrived in Sen tale City last Sunday. While en route from Camden to S~a Isle City In a Sf-foot rabln .miser, the Sea Gull, the craft wa. «.i»hed ashore near Cold Spring Inlet last Saturday and the men wei* ,earned by roast guards. Those rescued were Ole Olxen. of S37 Broadway, and John K Johnson, of tZZ Erie Strict. h..th of Camden. Seeking shelter from a sixtymile gale that swept the ley w* ter* of Delaware Bay. the men anchored theli craft In the hatbor on Friday night. So strong was the force of ihe Mow. how ever, that thr anchor oragged and thr Sea Gull was swept through the pounding surf onto the heart,. Pair Waited Ashore eakers dashed over the ided rtaft. The cabin was ried sway. Through the |ry waters Johnson and Olsen waded ashoi• Johnson had saved some

Palmer H. Way WQ1 Head Union Bank, of WildwMi—Him J. Mowrer Advanced To Tice President of 0c«8R

City Pint national

Few New Men Added To Directorates of

Harry Spalding and State) . Bishop and Xllev. raided

U* Porlflc Hotel. Andrew, aad Holly Beach Avenue. Wildwood,

toot Friday afternoon

Thr* raiders discovered a quantity of liquor stored under the floor of the klteaen of the hotel. Jonathan Jamas, the proprietor, wja placed under tZtod ball by Supreme Court

Caamhntoner Douglas*

Tb* liquor onnltarated of nine coom of Brotch whiskey, thrw five gal loo can* of alcohol, three live gailoo can* of rye w btskee and ■

assorted bottles of Mquoi |

point of exhaustion from

cold, they gathried dry twigs tn fragments, and after two hnutv

Limerick Prize Captured By Wildwood HOda Cranium WtU Be Retpfcat of M Check This Week For Her Efort Many Lines Almost Alike

Every week the ranks of the "Sptnaterbood" I.In|enrk contest fans are growing larger, the recratta coming from the host of folk* who are following, with In tense Inter**!, the story' of Barbara Hawley, who made the decision that a car**r aaa more important > her than love The Are dollar prlr* for the best ne of Inst week'a IJmrrMk cue* Mias Hilda Cranston. 312 Mrs! Montgomery Avenue Wildwood She baa been malted a check for amount. The completed Mm ertek rarefied from the price win I* aa folio* - The WMnaa showed Mile «omern.

aide* keeping them waim. It would serve as a dlstrwe*. signal, they

planned.

Signals Lighted The watch at the Cold Spring Station sighted the signals at the moment the crew of the station's open surf boat returned from a search of several hours for the ruttet No. 10S. Thr iii.iiihe crew were half tioxen. but they at once set out to answer the.<1i.treo* sigma.'. Cpon their arrival at the scene of Ihe wreck they supplied Johnson and Olsen with riurrgenry ration. an-t pulled ihe stianded craft off the I each. When the storm abated the two Camden men continued their trip to Sea Isle City.

Robert Cossaboon Dies Suddenly Was Bridge Tender at Stone Harbor—Had Paralytic Stroke Roheit Cossaboon. blidge telidei at Stone Harbor, died about ti o'clock Wednesday night in the Mace Hospital. Wildwood, where he wa* rushed early Wednesday afternoon, following a paralytic

stroke

■clous on the floor of his tied loom al»ui noon Wednesday Dr. Cry dsf Of Cape May Court House. was railed and he ordeied the stricken man Mto I to dM Mac* HrupHal lam Cherry, wife of

Stone Harbor Wants National Bank Institntion With $25,000 Capita] Recommended By Committee A largely attended and enthusiastic meeting of the Slone Harbor Board ol Trade was held In the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce rooms Friday evening. Several new members were admitted to the board The committee appointed at the December meeting of thr board to decide the kind of financial Institution that will be most desirable for Stone Harbor reported, recommending a national hank, with a capital of (ZS.AOO.OO and a surplus o« JU'.OlHi to $15,000. The commlttec. of which Hamid I Taylor is chairman, was retained to endeavor lo put the proposition

across.

The publicity coraiiilttee reported plans for spreading knowledge of Stone Harbor's advantage* and attractions were well under way. T hr big annual dinner, to he held at the Ihdrl Adelphla. I'hiladelphU. on Wednrsu*; evening. February 17. was dha usued and over one hundred plates ordeied by those present. The dinner Is one of the biggest events of thr year tn Stone Harbor and the coming affair

attendance, i

s* at! others 1

Bids Opened For Addition To Water Plant Coatraci Will Be Split Between Three Bidden on Recommendation of Engineer Botrdman DeBow Re-elected Supt.

it WIM-

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budge.

ridge

Tuesday received bids lor the artesian well, pump and fixtures for rhe addition to the city water

plant.

There were six bid* In all. bur only bid on the pump, an-

other only bid «

the

vetilalng la charged for by the word aad for thi* resaoa "brevity ' 1* th* watchword ta writing these little ada. It la. tharwforr. al (CootinaM oo pag* four)

Legislative Plums For Cape May County A number of Cap* May county

r Goal I a land a discus- j hrank So. frond tho on of conducting | un*ip*rt*d outflow of roloraO achooo aaaet I aaa at lha aporta took the raider* by aoryrM* BOUtvranc* "Mirk- Lrnls oas last seen dl* no* with thr Tb* raider.

the flute Mgtalcture «

pointed William R Ht Ocean ‘'My. a* dooikeep* The salsrte* for the lino u> W» U

New, From Today's Classified Ads 1)21 Dodge Sedan. In flretclaaa condition, for anle. Maxwell Spun Touring, good condition, cheap. Offer of tree souvenir, made by one of our advertisers, i* at Ill-open. Cash Register. Meat Mirer and other rewtaurnnt equipment for sale. Head the "la sat fled Ada for pleasure and profit. You'll derive keen enjoyment from the new Claaaifled Content. Cash in on the many money saving opportunltlm to b, found In the flaastapd DepaH

CiassISed .

le We'll mail you a cheek for flve dollars. There are probably many article* around your home you have no further use for Ui. po«e of them by advertising ■hem for sale in the Cl ass (tied

Depart men'

»* rlaaelflralUin* for y«»u* The east af an ad ot two

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beis only hid on the well.

The bid* of the two Him. who submitted tignres for the addition complete were $IM5II and H6.027.26 respectively. No bid* were received lor the building Bid* for the slrnrtiire are asked lor tn an adt criisctncnt In the TIMES today The bids ol the competing firms were submitted to City Engineer < olltsson and Engineer lloaidman ter*, who ana'yzed the figures Mr Board man recommended tu tin' • ommtssioners that the contrail t»

split and awarded tn th

Palmer q. Way. prorata, wood attorney and County C was elect ad aa Prealden* of th* Fnlon Bank, at Wildwood, at W meeting of the board of 'll rector* of that l uat Hut taw. following the Stockholder's meeting last Tuesday. The Cr-ion Bank recently wan purchased by ILe Wildwood Tltio and Trust Company, and Heber crane, bead of that bank, was elected *■ chairman of the hoard of directors of the Fnlon Bank Bank elections were belli Uat Tuesday In every bank In the courty. and in moat cases all of thr old board of director* were reelected. with aornc new addition*. At the first National Bank. Ocean, city. W illiam H. ( 'ollisaon. City Raginrer of Ocean city. Sea I*ie CMy and Avalon, was elected to the board, succeeding Howard Stainton Rnheri B. chew and Hiram 8. Mowrer are also new members. It Is expet ted at the first hoard meeting following the election, which will be today. Hiram 8. Mowrer. until now cashier of tbe Kind National. will be elected aa Brat vice president and Clyde W. Struble will lie elevated to the caahterahip. Other directors of the Find N»Ikin are R B. Stltew. P. Howard Thorn. Dr Hcrachell PettM. Randolph Marshall. R. W Edward*. Elmer S Schantx. Ralph L Go*. E. V. Corson. A Randolph Fogg. Edward 8 Arnett. Coleman F looming. William G. Abbott. Robert B. chew, and H. 8 Mowrer. Three new director* were added to the Board of tbe c a pe May Connty Title and Trust < ampany. They are Ira Scott Johnson. J. William Morrison and Walter A Dittrich all ol Ovean city. The re-elected directors of the Title and Trust company ar* Klrliard B Stiles. Hiram S_Jdo*rer. Edward B Arnett. Julius Way. John Sayre. Robert Bright. Robert J. Kay. H. Foster Goslln. Eds B. Fagan. Henry II. Kldrrdge. William H Bright and Samuel F Eldredge. Tbe entire Board of tbe First National Bank, of Sea Isle CMy. with i be except bin of Howard Stainton. who retired, were re— elected. They are Ms and B. Arnett. Theodore ' Wheaton. Gilbert 8. Smith. C O. t^rtxku*. A. W. Miller. i w Way. Thomas E. laidlam. Jr, Hiram S Mowrer. R. B. Stiteo. George Boeder and WtltUm A. Hafferf. At Ihe I'nHui Bank. Wlldwoo^ the only n tiling member from til hoard was i .'plain Frank P. Downe». who was succeeded by Het* i ' ram The other otocera and direct^ra nre: Vice preskleni. G. H Hlippert; cashier. N. R Johnson i.-iant cashier. M. W. Lnmo,,' . (,'irman of the hoard if dm* inr v Heber Crane: director*, i. s ' aid well. Roland Coraoa. lb i - ‘ rone. Washington Hilton. It Huppert. C. A Norton. 1. M. ' Continued on Page Four)

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Then th* murderess said With a toss of her bead. “Ttor* sometkinr that y..gH haie

to lenra.”

The Judges of last week s Umer-I Irk were W. K. Middleton, edltoi 1 of tbe Cape May County TIMES:! Adolph C. Wllsey. editor of the Seven Mile Bearb REPORTER, and W illiam K. Jocber secretary ot the t Atlantic Pnbllshing • ompany. and | *» many of tbe liars w.r.- almost j the same, the Judging was by no

Revival Meeting* at Palermo Baptist Church,

B<ginning with a baptismal *er- j „ vice, Sunday evening. January 17. | at 7.30 P M . the BapHat Church 1

tewlan Well Drilling i'o, Phila. Well urthlngton Pump • <i

dollars W illing a 1 Limerick I* rw>) A fun If you are i

f dollar check e sad Hncrerd” ’ d lama nay abK nd sure A-k Irv

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County Chambei *,1 ComiDme i The Febtuary meeting id tin ] C.immerrJ wit! I- brl.l in ?!,. High School. Wild wool, on m x' . iThurnday evening January 21.

« riling and t

Temple Degree Staff Will Initiate Class v . ■ ii|i 'if candldaii- tor the ill..11' tosh Lodg. ol Odd F.I l. v Wildwood, will he Inl'tgi l.e Tempi, degree staff, of phis, on Saturday even-

thirty fit.

Officers of County Firemen’* Association

I Fhaile* L. Nickel eon. of Wildwood. was ie elected as president of the Cape May County Firemen's Association .-t ihe annual meeting which wa. held tn Wildwood Wednesday night Samuel Conver. ol Ocean City, and Wilbert B. Gilbert were elected aa vie* prewlTbe Cape May County Plre- - Aid Association alao held ii- annual eiertlob of orfleer* and ret ui ned Inina Filch, of Sea (ale city, a* pterideni: Charles R. Page, ol Wildwood, a* secretory: U Howard Thorn, of Ocean City, Following the biislnew* meeting, the county fire flghteis were enter'atned by Ihe Lyite qua,tel. of Mill, lHe. aided by L Pow.ll Evan., well-known AUanllr City

Marry Hampton. of

Mlllitlle. gave * humurou* talk.

Th,

"■tgh the pace#

'he High School building. A banquet, in the lodge hall, will follow the degree work.

it you want to make you ] tot* come home Ui roost, put j In a savings account tn Se i Trust Company, Cap. May You will tie surprised bos the ac.ount will grow an Tm»t • ompany will coaUn' add to It 4 per cent. Icteiost