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SKA ISLE OTT, CASE MAT COTOTT. J.. FtIDAT FEBRUARY 18. 1W«

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MVMBKR FIFTEEM

Endorse Building Delaware Bridge

s Ts Psn Act Apprsprist4 Ipsa at PkOsddphis

Rotanans Out For Second Club Meeting

Hi*b

For Bond Issue

Subscriptions For Woodbine Community Hall

CM May IWh <75.000

of ■abacrtstloDi for SMBlimhl* Is the ramt Ur vktcb will be lot la Wo^SMa*. fcST* been rwlvrd

I that t to build tb« cosmi •nr I duOara. but afttr fully aaalrsed aad

bask should bs for the bowd with as uM i la a tri-

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aatbraeite coal

that aaUiscHa

Commission Favors Concreting Road

Oaly Tw* Mnahen s( Bn bk "Baby" Aboest Wktm Oartl FeD

Good Fellowship Evident

Almoat a hundred par cost at-

Clah. at «:». the Hahn BuUdtss. os Paris Street. Two members of the cUy. and thaue two were the

Cltr «

; Captain Harry Smith. of the Atlantic CUy »«d organiser of the local dub: Fi.nk Shaaer. sec re Is ry of the Atlan'tc CUy dub, aad Mr. Unaley. Superintendent of tbo

All of the Atlantic Oiy daitc poke, aad made dear to t baby" dob the worktno aad t irlndples of RoUry.

Isle CUy atteud the District Ces- ~ In ArrU. »hd contention later

Dr. War amnosneed that be had beau la touch with Dr. Paleu. DUtrict Goreruor of Rotary, aad that after two daeslScatlou cbaa«ea. “

yon this

topic. They stated that the ob }eet of the Baron de Hirsh Fund to dmattac this to Woodbine was ta piece it la the UmeHcht. and make It oae of the ortstandlng

towns of New

Mr.

FMaher. of Philadelphia. Is well known throughout that dty as ewe of the greatest supporters of the PMladetphla Yeun* Mens

He played a eery important part la the construction of the million dollar building, located on Broad aad Pine Streeta. Both Mr. Ben lamia and Mr. Fldaher lauded the people of Woodbine in accepting the gift of the Baron de Hirsh

communication srknowledgthe resolution passed by the County Board of Freeholders was received on Wednesday from State Highway Commission which Ihc Commission stated that they had taken up the matter nlth Senator Brlghi mblyman Bead and now had the opost)Ion under consideration. The communication slated that sys and means will be derisad poaslblc to hard surface road. A similar communication was received this week b Ocean City Commissi oners. The road over which the traftc lo aad. from the May County resort cities tnvela. Is one of the poorest la the ty and the poor approach* the bridges make It dang for motorists. The fence along the road will also be repaired by

the State.

Wlm Waatg a Cow!

Director Charles E. Foster reported to the Freeholders the County Farm now has cow and one calf too many, was instructed to sell them.

Appoint Avalon John F. Gandy \Sea Me City Commissioners Pasi Building Inspector Winner of Last | Gutter and Curb Ordinance

Error Contest

Hamc

Ltumiag Wcntaell For Poutioa

l^smlar tV ••nt tel I was appoint- K , ckf . nojl CtptBrri g^cu] ed Building Inspector of Avalon , _ _ „ at the sleekly meet ire i>( ih» > Ten-Dallar Pngc For Commlartanere of that Borough Most Errors Daring •roalng. I

(t ration

BeUh I

appointed

kina Fund Commission unexplred leetn of Charles GUI. resigned The fUmnitaatoners \oled to hundred dollars In In■eat and equipment in which 1* lo be used

>y Scout Troop.

■loners Bol barker and h heartily approved of ^ the Boy Scout work. Motharker told of visiting the Scout demonstration at Wllditly and of how he had

ith It. He said

that all otganltaUons of Avalon. I Deluding the Boy Scouts. Fire Company. Building and Loan and the baseball team in summer should be heartily supported. morally aa well as A

uwOdally.

Mr. Rothscker Is enthusiast! cally In favor of a good baseball team in Avalon thia summer and promised his personal aaalstsncr He also mated a Memorial 'Day parade should be held In Avalon.

View Contest Next Week

Full Report Sea Isle Free Public Library

Secretary Fitch Proents Figures For Free Tears. Bo Citiaeu May See Where Moaey Goes

To Provide New Quartan

* Editor. Cope May County Times: I beg to submit herewith la’onastton la connection with the > Sea tale City Free Public Library. > Report of librarian. Mias Ida E. • 8n.ith for the year 1*15 shows:

of the sire of the

city. Sea Isle City, be said, was the smallest city in America to have a Rotary 'Tnb. aad he was sur* that by a strict adherent t’je Ideals of service whirl Rotary, that Sea Isle City would

Increase distribution 1*X5 1.5SS , Fine* collected $1 T.00 ' Check from the treasurer j for supplies lO.lp)

r At-

i U the

Untie City Club,

"daddy" of the Saa Isle Club, would he lastly proud of Us hob The club treasury was

by sixty

of the rcle that everyooe mu* called by his first name, or nick name. Six members forgot thU and addressed other' members.

next meeting will be Mon-

Excursionists Lose Two Precious Hours

Young Jones Sent To Reform School By Judge

Bock To This County on UH Chart* Bern** Time la CwWertard County

Stole Bicycle at Cape May

Citixeni Take Advantage of Invitation To Voice Their Opinion ol the Curbing Provision—Many Letter* of Protest—City

Engineer Defend* That Section ct Ordinance

Contract For Pump For New Water Plant Unit Awanlec

Stone Harbor

Boosters Dine " "‘Wh-

at Adelphia.

John K. Gandy, of Petersburg, wbo won a five dollar pritc for finding tbr mosl errors among the lasslArd Ad* In the Times of January T<. sent us a lint of errors from last week’s Issue that him another fire dollsi check, sat. tnnrtentallv. fo be awarded

in the < u**ificd Proofreading con- Two Hundred und Fifty Gather

***• »<•*"* •»<

for the most errors found during Upon Advantage* of Resort the entire oonlesf goe* lo Allan! — —— Nickerson, of 1J5 South Thirty-), .. fourth Street, f.mden. who won!Optimism Was the keynote five dollar prises on January 15 and :

Keburary 5. Mr. Nickerson sub-

mitted checked classified page* Two hundred and fifty Stone Hareverv week of fhe cooteat. except-1 bor boosters gathered around «he tng tbr very first. HI* total 11*11 lc*«lvc board of the Hotel Adelphia. of error* was 7K i Philadelphia. Wednesday evening And. (hut folk*, end* the search; for _ ,h * annual dinner of the Boaid

for the error contest, which has eating so much cooimei.l our readers the past few weeks If you have enjoyed it. a* Indications point, we are more than satisfied with having rooducued u And to prove this we are stalling next week another Classified Contest. In which n«te hundrec dol lars In prise* will be awarded. This latest contest will be something entirely new. The big prise list combined with the pleasure yon

will derive

t worth your while to part

clpate. We'll miss « popularity I* not even gr* that of the preceding

s If It*

lassified

We arc not going to tell yon anymore snout the new contest until nest week The fact that promise It will be Interewtlng and entertaining—In short, great fun

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Haary E. EMradge a

l Special Ses-

•rSwlWildwood 1 reasurer

i Tuesday’s meeting of the Bn , l»le City Commissioner* was mu Of the llvellewi held in a lonj

he cause being the sec he gutter anw curbing

ordinance requiring all ovirbs li he city to be constructed of con •rete of a uniform width oni heighth. all curb* now in nol complying with the vpr'ifiralkMM

replaced.

begin with Clerk MeBrMf

produred a big batch of letten of protest from property owgen who objected to having theli -urbs now In taken out and new urb* put tn at what they con eldcred an unnecessary coat. Af

letters were read Mayoi

Sofroney Invited the rlllsens pro* ent to express their views beforf the ordinance was put on fina passage. In response to this In vital Ion. Ld-wl* Chester. Willlan Tullner. Hugh McElwee am former Mayor Fitch exprenaoi their view* considering It an ua necessary expense to force prop eriy owner* to remove curb* tho were good. Mr. Fitch staled ,ha he pot tn a cement curb a fa* year* ago which did not stauri u|

niupsny. : and last year he had to put ll was toastmaster, and after tbr dm-j a new curb and he thought 1 ner had been tucked away and j pretty expensive to be called Of some Mings, old and new. sung, hr no* tn put In another, when hi Introduced Mayor George I- Mark-! was still good, land, the first speaker City Engineer William H. Col

The af-

of Trade of lhal

fair, hy far the biggest and most Important of It* kind ever held by Stone Harbor, overflowed with optimism. < nthustaxlsm and the call in action. It wa* the finest kind of evidence of what can be accom-

plished by co-operation

I.. A I^wl*. President of the

Stone Harbor Railway

•n forth the haring uniform

city. He said fhe

d van

• chin

Praised By Auditor

Soy* Robert Kay I* Mot Sur-

by the Millville au pxucd tn the State

asntenred to threej

the Cumberland County

___ .1 j Jail- His term there ended early , Wildwood, was hlghl **‘’ i * 1 this wwok and he was IrnmedUtely : bT William H. Welch. 6,1,1 in sa ' u,rm * d ov * r 10 the t ape May « oun-1 for Cap. May County.

City Treawiier Rob.-rt J. Kay.

I. was highly praised

auditor

Mayor Mark land, w ho I returned troni Florida, s.

there Is only one Florida, only one «

.’ape May County and onbeach. Stone Harbor. Only b

Ing together can Stone Harbor a* beautiful as f grow, he said. Referring to a asserted that ' movement to consolidate Avalon iter* and uniform concrete curb and Stone Harbor, he said that he , Ing the streets would present i neither advocated, nor roodemnsd j beau Ufa 1 appearance. whiel it. that it was up to the people to | would enhance the value of eve* say. but he felt Stone Harbor'piece of property several time xhould take cate of Itself for the over fhe cost of fhe tmprovemect present. and that no single thing Woul Borough Solicitor Kellam dwel’jdo more to modernize the city, upon the advantages of Slone Har- Continuing. Mr. Collisson sal bor. the efficiency of the governing - there were no uniform Won * Continued on Page Five) jcurh* In the city and that an al :: , tempt lo specify whtrh curb

■wild he replaced and which r«

c.uld entail eadlsa

n Itemised statement of the funds coming Into my hands July lot. 1*21. to February 1st. IttC. and the disbursement* .herefrom attached hereto and I would be pi rosed to have you publish same In order that the public may know what becomes of the city appropriation for the public library. The city appropriation for the year 1125 has dm yet been ro(Continued on Pege Five)

Cope May Emrsioa To Phflly Wo* HeotSed By CrippM Ea fixe ou Liaeotm'i BirtMoy

Wildwood Glee Club Broadcast Friday Evening

ape May County

"Never Again” Say Riders

i of the r that the reduction was Mr. Campbell stated that t a clerk la a store tn B CRT aad because of the long i wife, he had very xad he felt that the which Row* had > pay was working a hard x the young mar.

Nearly all of Cape May County and his wife went to Philadelphia he P< nnaylvanlo excursion dncnln's Birthday, and nearly all of Cape May County said

lale

thortlles there consider that has repeated sufficiently to again permitted to h at Urge.

trial for his jf 0r the City of Wildwood, who "1 guilty Lpnhc at ihc luncheon of the •need to Wildwood Ktwants Club Tuesday until the an-] on the subject of •’Business

Millville Plays

Here This Evening "

! Building

be j Mr. Welcher slated the ac ! count* of Wildwood are in splenidtd condition, have been *o lot ! a number of year* and that credll

that condition I* due Treasur who. he said. I* surpassed

Sen Ur Fas* Will Have Chance

To See League Star*

Stste

Will I

richer told how. In yean many bus!nese men kepi i book*. Modern b««>k methods, showing st all

t condition of lbs

the attraction at the

tow vital

1 listened in oo

May County talent Friday evening, when the Wildwood Giro Club broadcast from WPG. Atlantic City. 1 •**' fi

Twenty-two members of the club,

led by Alvin Franckie. their director. rendered forty-five minutes of entertaining numbers, gains on the air at t:!5 and off at » oc’.jck Most folks who beard the concert agree that with one exception every

rum her came through good. Roy Laudemaa sang a fine solo The outstanding feature of the

program was a solo by Horace Burke. Mr. Burke will again Journey to Atlantic CUy on Turoday

Tuckahoe Baptist Church

Wifi Hi

Have Choir

The .rain arrived at Be*

City Junction a half-hour late, on the trip up in the morning. It

wa* a long train and heavily _

and tne poor, panting old j evening. March IS. and will enter* ►tniggled along unttli enthusiast* from 8:15 he Juncuon. and there I „ O ' c!ork . i r0 m the same station,

h breath to continue to ,

banks!ball cage this even-

ing against the Bea Isle five

Millville la wow rated as the p<‘

initial champion of the **-eotid half of the league race. In Bloomy

Bill Young the Sea

will witness two of the

greale*' forward* In the league. KBort* are being made to huve l Bridgeton here next week The Brldgdton team lieu with tbr Morns Guards of Atlantic City for firot place at the close of ihe first half of fhe league race last week. The two teams are nowin the midst of the play-off series lor the title, but arrangements may be made to have them her.-

next Friday evening.

declared.

In rhe ef-

|. r weekly talks by members Ihe flub about the business ol rt Ktwantan*. He described

Slavs Out All Night And Skips School

dress and rwort i

Judge Eldredgf Order* Mental!,ha n me Su per cent, of the ooi Examination of Young Girl (Continued on Page Throe)

Margaret Halloway. young *'° , -.£ ourt ImmacuUta Z"°‘.; How, r« cod Ptan mental examination after a short ! 0n cvealng the •’athot cmro-cxamlnattem by Judge Henry ; |Mu , < . t||t . n , 0 , An „ riai . < oart , B - Eldredge. .1 special Sessions j mjirlI | JlU No b, M , u ^

party aad dance gt 11

Knights of <’olumb«s Home. 101 cntral Avenue, Ocean City, whlc

iuccrosful. There wei

I Special Sesslor

Wednesday morning, j

w a* charged b; her. Mrs. Wright,

r girl resided, as being!

.1 eighty persons playing < r | ax many more who cn

In corrigible.

Mrs. Wright stated that

girl had letr home two or three times and refuses to attend school and that she was picked up last Monday by a Cape May officer sitting on the steps of the! Catholic Church at 2 o'clock In j tbr morning. "She was put away! for a while after she had left her) home In Philadelphia, but I I

thought that she had been pun- j —— Ished enough and asked that she, William F. Jocber. who hi be permitted to be brought home, ( been director of the Sea lale Clt Since that time she has bee,, fhe Municipal Band for the past iw same as before." stated the years, has resigned that pen

cards i

enjoyed tl

dancing that followed. The mils was furnished by Hap Bramber Orchestra, who were tn their usu good torm. There were beaut if prices for all playing, aa well l

Resign* As Bond Director

\X ai Collect For Up-

i Keep of County Library

The Tuckahoe Baptist Church at Corbin City, will have an added feature at

under the direction of Mr. aad Mrw. Job a Wallace, will lead congregational singing. They will also render aom- special lecitow*. which wUI help n the eerviee very interesting this service. S P. M-. the pastor. Re>. E. M Stoffeta. wlU preach The Bible school meets at 2 P. M.

t

breathing spell, aad a few steel roar he* (which had been locked and were empty) were put off ua a aiding. Relieved of part of Its load, the engine »*» able to make Its way leisurely along, stopping at every designated station, and many that were not. until It finally reached the outskirts of Carnal » :0. Just one hour late. (Continued on Page Five)

—LAY YOl’R FOUNDATION with a first deposit now In Sc eurlty Trust Company. Cape May CUy. and keep adding to the pile, aad your foundation will noon be solid The Trust Company helps you hy adding 4 per

New Jeroey M. E. Conference Meet* March 3

The New Jersey Conference of the >! E. Church will convene in the First Methodist Church. Atlantic City, of which Rev. Geo'ge H- Neal 1* parlor, on March 5 Bishop Edwin Holt Hughe*, of Chicago. wtU preride

George U Dead

Director Charles E. Foster

r May •

their

Wednesday afternoon (hat George Washington bad died at the county poor bouse The particular Ceoige referred to was a colored gentleman w bo w aa picked op In an uaronaciou* coudltioa in Wildwood and who had regained conacHvtssBeas only long enough to give bis name and hi* re-si-emden

i day* under the

The director that be had 875 hi a W lid wood and also w.

potted

The matter wa* turned over to Solicitor Way for d!*Toa!Uan.

the

•id of Freeholder. V 'rurtlng the County- 7 •‘.licet one-fifth of a

Ham Hunt* moving picture j grandmother,

ne*. in an interesting fashion. - j„d Kr Eldredge asked talks have been atranged by | , f ha(1 Bn} . to glvel business standard* committee. j| or |, pr ae tjon* of staying away ■|.a Moltrr gave the address 'from home all night, but Margmreleora* and al-o won the at-|rrt merely stated hack af her) lance ptixe, do.-iateu by Frank questioner. The Judge then ask«-<1 i TaUins. I Sheriff Hoffman who has had I F James received an ap- charge of the giil since Monday.! vriste birthday gift | when she was arrested, if be cou-

xidered her to be normal. The |

——— '.Sheriff replied that it was ques-'

i linnahle and Judge Eldredge dl- -

ev W H. Andrr-t Ervigns {^tsd Pnn«-utor (’ampb.ll to!

'have ihe giil examined by Dt j

ev. \V H. Andrew*, pastor of Way bej,,,^ M-wdon* nex' > S..tih Seav tile V E Church j WrJlnrw , >y ||e will disptn- .vt the past three year*, has re- ^ < . aw . after receiving th.

led hi* •barge effective Jan-■ J( j 1 _ I q t . 1 a n -y ,^po.t.

y 31. and has accepted a p-ei

Sent to Jail

| George Soeder.

i;l r |. manager of the Band, riatro t

has a* yet bN

ty lor the maiiitename i County Library. This ta not affect the residents ol Ci'v. wbo having a city are uot contributors to 'hty institution.

i YinrUnd

ijed gt

Want Road At Cape May

•a- pie

-xrz

M«y

A eommunlcation I ed to vh~ Board « W-dnesday from

City Progressive Lrogu.

I Ing the county body to place a iconcrete boulevard a-rose the old I race track near Ninth Stteet. at I Cape May. The matter was rc(ferred to the Direetor «*f HigU-

Iway*.

$100.00 in Prizes

>n to get your share of the in prlxes which will l* iled by the JIMKS In th. • lassified (’oulesl which

The contest will he sm thing entirely .ffeient more enjoyable than the f ceding < lassified Contests And of course yon will w to try for part of that hundred dollars Full details in next wc

t < M«d bine.

\cw Jersey Stab le-Mtnded Males,

xi rested by Slate Trooper Oox. irkahoe. on a charge of being .icated and resisting arrest. He brought before fustlre of the e l.evin. ol Woodl4ne. and ■need to nerve thlri) day* in ■ nunty Jail for being mtoxt 1 and lor disorderly conduct.

Lincoln wg* America'* Greatest exponent of systematic saving I Save and succeed Ihe Building land Loan way. Irving Fitch. J Secretary Tradesmen s Building and Loan Aaa’n. Sew Isle City. N J.—ndv.

News From Today's Classified Ads

apber and typist

FI v« lot*

for stenog

furnish* Boulcvan

Easy terms, und in Sion

Mayxllle. I Sneak I Harbor t

color.

Bungalow and id lot*, corns property. at Wildwood Join lion 82.20(1. Small paymet down. 815 monthly House at t’ourt House, wit lot. 81.Coo I.IdMi lot tract, ripe for di velopmenl. easy terms. Other real estate opporiun tie# include a Truck Farm I uiife i part of county and

tlppr.

rtunlty for making al money knocks eve n the iTaasihed Depai Read il every week. In prires will be off* ihe new • lassified Ob hlch will I- annouuo

If you have someth Ing to w par a valuable Utile l laaaifi Ad to work for you.