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:K and Much Damage in Wake of Two Severe Storms

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Arietta Sheldon Instantly Killed By lightning Boh

Seaviile Home Almost Wrecked By Pranks of Fiery

Current—Bam Burned at Dim Creek—Wind Played Havoc at the Home of Coleman Coraon

Jersey C. P. & L. Co. Gets Franchise

Sea Isle Commissioners Pass Ordinances Without Dis-

senting Vote

Wildwood Homes Badly Damaged By Heavy Wind*

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Cape May Co. Delegation at Sesqui Exhibit

‘ thunder sod electrttnl stom. Arletu, little 3-rear^M d««J ter of Mr. end Kre. John St Km. wee leeteoUy kUM on I ' order morn leg when e holt of

Was Not aa As the Display Justified

, M* P. M. the Uttle 1 *m wns Bleeping oa * s«tUt in 1 ro a > v rtow on the 8r*t floor i her *-ye*r^>ld brother. Wtl-

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ortuoete girt'* body did r n ®erh. -he •nether, who wap tying on

Floor Covering For Co. jail Causes Stir

Make Offer For Gas 1

Ordinance No. •*. grant the Jersey Central Power Light Company the right to

No. 70. the right

to the district* not new

yg ; supplied by the loeel utility, were

peased on Anal reading at a meet- the Pruchol ing of the Commineioners on fio °^

Wildwood Hotel Drive Goes Over Top With Ease

Freeholders Champion and Foster Have Little Verbal

Exchange

More Land For Co. Farm

Success Celebrated Tuesday Evening By Street Parade —$462,000 Was Raised During Two Weeks Campaign—Plans Call For 135-Room Structure

Woodbine Bank

First Day’s Deposits f ed $19,500 — ftwii Happy Over Good i

Work Will Be Started So Aa To Open June 1, 1927

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those, nearly thirty were Ocean City reetflunt* Upon arrival at the Cheatnnt street ferry the county delegation were met by P. k. T. bnssee, seby W. B. D. Hall. *“

_ from the BMltJ Board also complained ahoat that Mellon and asked tkat lots ha &U»d. Mayor Sofroney stated that thr water lying In that section was due to ground being *

Freeholder Joseph Champion' motion that bide for furnishing floor covering to the county Jail he rejected, was the cause r* - little Are being added to freeholder*’ meeting at Court

House on Wednesday. ane bid waa received by iholders for the furnlehcovering to the coun-

ty Jail. Mr. Pooler elated that Be saw no reason why It should

of the ordl- is rejected as all other concerns

had been given plenty of time to

ahbmlt bide.

Champion declared that be unAerstood that tome of tbe other ooucerna who were to submit bids had been written to and tflld ft would be useless for them tfl submit bide as they “stood la •pod” with tbe Freeholders. On the vole. Mr. Foeter voted against

Free Theatre Tickets For Times Readers

Hidden Name Oaaaified Contest Starts This Week Theatres To Choose From

Wildwood 1 * Hotel drive

over tbe top at midnight Tune- , day night, after an eight day's ( Intensive selling campaign, pre- t ceded by a two weeks' drive by t the hotel executive committee. , The actual goal of tbe camp ' committee waa 9481.000 ant midnight Tuesday the ooe 1 dred and twenty Wildwood I

men who have been w

ing night and day on the drive ,

under Walter H. T

Eight Name* Hidden Today

mse were tbe city to i » to All It at prew-at. ed that litere U an ordi 1 property

Colonel Jeese Koeenfeld, repreeilng the Cape May Perry Comtny. asked the Freeholder* to ike over a highway running om Sunset Boulevard to igh line. Lower Township. County Solicitor Palmer Way

Do >ou enjoy a good moving picture Show? Would you like we one without baring sup up to the box ofllee and put down the usual admission can do Just that tf. your name Is bidden among TU*

riding you And it and notify - Contest starts this week. « was so p Isr when hsld by tbe TIMBS it two years ago that we Just king fel-

i **r was taken from i **« the netting burned

had

total stock subscription While I5M.O40 to the amount the committee would like

cure. 9481.000 1* sufficient to put the propect of a modern, beachfront hotel for Wildwood aenws. Tke campaign headquarie-m in-

additlon-

e stock

of the

probably be roach sailing to cloned.

Hotel plans call for a flreproof jj structure, modem In every detail. . to 1 contain lit room* and the man number of baths, and to bo ‘

Wildwood Avenue. The Bo walk frontage will be 194 feet and the rear of the hotel will he ' 917 feet wide.

r prank of the

1 when the ehade on

probably select an at operator for the new In the next week at the slractui' thereafter.

sa «ti lamp on a Uhl* »***•- th* : moved troth It* kin**, the nkafle that

ns oa the tn«* and — king, only the light being

i»>irw«Ki by th y the bolt, which saAs It* way to tke I On the second floor tho wUdow rams was ism nr* 4. the passe

walls. A •hit# e 00 .w. la ar

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twists* and gnarisd —d fntl <* shatured gUss and dabets from “ triTdorand waB. A BtU.

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.. __ that ths utfis mri"and grandmotbor would have mat death together had they euptod their beds at tbe time. The lorn off the wall 1*

of the

of the house was

and was la such a coadl-

sad weather boards were seal r the ground and the weight of brieUfslUng on tbe Usd dam-

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beaded by Lcthsr Ogdan. Director of the Board of Froeholder*. The two wnr* photographed as they shook hands.

Hvcrlng the George Neptune drew th* attention of the " th* Fifty-eecoa to th* Boardwalk, tailing the Commissioner* that a girl fell through the

Will Spend $15,000 For Fire Equipment

Avalon Pastes Ordinance For Bond Untie

r year due to oaroticularly Is driving I Impressed hu hearer* | importance of obse-v-

ntally asvsred from it* place, m a sump room a board was rsmovsd from the floor by th*i lightning and sine* cannot t>*|

found.

A Los in back of the house was also strut*, by llghtn l, *g_ Uttle Arietta, earlier In th* evening, bsggsd her mother to fc. Isis City for th*

An ordinance granting a franchise to the Jersey Central Power and Light Company was Introduced and placed on Ala for two weeks at the weekly nsr-*“ of Avalon Commissioners 1 It will com* up for st tke August 81

alto stop here tonight." Ap(Continued on F*ge 7)

Newt From Todsy * QaMified Ads

Parkins : Under Way

Lost, week-end bag. on road —•""i, sue and Woodbine, via

, Vimtor. WOI [Be Troubled

Will trade Chalmsr* »>* Cylinder Touring car to exonUent condition, good ttree. for Ford or Chevrolet Sedan New bungalow, all eonv*nl•ncea. only 9*.8**- tor sal*, with only 9100 down. Ooo cret* foundation. MlsctrtcKy. Big bust now to frequently jooe with a Uttls a»*riftc<t Ad What have you to eelIT Th* new Hidden Nam* Claaslfled Contact etan* ««"» Full detail* on this

rdinsnoe. providing for a bond tonus to cover ths i of now Are equip

Another ordinance, providing n Issue of 919.809 of bonds for lands on which

Bight lucky folk* will resolve free theatre ticket# In the Hidden Name Co "*** ' week. Pro* Idea you And their

ing for retorn of deed, for strip of land la Bast Capo May which wns deeded to the county In I PAS. Tbe deed was so worded that In srer.i the donator wished to return of same tbe county would do oo. County Engineer R. F. Smith that ths strip was

tke City Bolletlor. wns kept busy answering tke queatloas of th*

Mr. Campbell.

for lovestlthat floods bo prepared for ro-ootr

I on Aret rending. will b# up for Anal reading and

issogs oo August 91.

Clerk At retch wns lantructsd to notify all property owners on Twenty-fourth Street, between Fourth sad Fifth, that sidewalks mart be ptooed oo thslr properties within thirty day* or thr

will have the work - — th* eoet to the

Jersey Central Power and Light Company, made a statement that the company would mnk* a bid for ths naa plant, Iasi tiding -reals used In eoanoctlon with th* utility at a aum< not lose than 944.888. subject to an adjustment favorable or adverse to tbs City of Asa Uto City or his company at tlmo adjustment to mad*, said offer not Including bills receivable. Mr. Campbell further stated that hto company would pay all expenses pertaining to the above, for advertising and the election which would be necessary. Th* offer was received favor-

ably by the

reported progon the Atone Harbor bridge matter, staling that £ vesting of th* railroad official* would be held In refer**** to their helping In ihe ssattor of a new bridge. Mr. inted n resolution authorising the County Engineer make soundings la Great (Continued on Png* Bight)

Stone Harbor Bank Opens For Business

engine tents of tke equipment of three manufacturers will take place at Avalon on the following consecutive Sunday*: The Peter Perch A Bon* Engine. August 98: th* American LaFrsne*. August 99: the Hall. September

Mayor Bergner oompmnrnted the Avalon Casino Club for the flar baby parodt. held under Its

auspice* on Saturday.

It was announced that tbe local school building would be In-

Door* Swung Wide Monday Morning

More Fake Newa From Wildwood

lag s Wildwood dal* of August 18. that county authorities had a Up that a woman had i ordered at Dias Creak by

i. Ths story *** branded s* s by th* county authoriUss tr trooper*. The truth of tor was the woman to ths < gone to Philadelphia and to > working Ikon.

Trooper Was On Leave

by June 1.

lucky tana could Lwaea only two theatre*. Now you have a choice of many Umea that number. Bight name* are bidden tn Uto we. Tours may be one of them. If you And your*, her# are tbe theatres you have to pi ' im -and by ths way. wfc lContinued oa Faff* Right)

Ocean Gty To Have Big Realty Auction

Remainder of Beach Front Property To Be Sold

to have pleted and

1897.

Tke campaign committee and as y enthusiastic Wildwood el tint* held a parade to celebrate Us successful completion of the drive Tuesday night, half aa hour after the goal had been reached. Nearly one hundred automobile* line and wlU music furnished by tbe Holm**-Baker rhlch to playing at th* Crest Pier, the parade traveled over every section of Five Mile Bench, heralding U* splendid accomplishment. From Tuesday noon, when the subscription total was 9400.100, drive gained the momentum of a snowball rolling down hlU. and Ue twelve

r as the start of «

The First Natloasl

The bank « tbs Comptroller of the arrived Monday and al-

* on the Interior of the m, U waa. due to the tnoand of many Stone Har-

Harold I. Taylor la president of

the new Institution and George L.

Mark land U vice president

Hun H. Tonney. of Wildwood. Is

Th# grsatoot auction sale of real estate to the history of Ocean City will open today (Friday) at 1:80 tor a four-day proCram. The tale continues Saturday. Monday and Tnaeday. Under a hug* tent

remaining large tract of i»**U Tm~. front property toft to elUer At- —•—

Untie Clur or Ocean City will go under th* hammer to Ue lowest bidder* ,Over 400 building loU with Won lag* on U* oeach and on Central end Anbury Avonuee will figure in Ue event. Louis Tratman. of tbe Real Estate Auc-, lion Company, will conduct Ue

sale, ratn or akine.

Parlor bus** with free transportation. wlU !*av* Ue P. R. T. building. 997 South Broad Street. Philadelphia, each day of the 1* at 11 A. M-. returning th*

mo night.

This property wa* Just recently taken over by the Stanley Development Company, which immediately flled a bond with the Ocean City TUI# and Trust Company. guaranteeing Improvement* that will tnc'ude Alllnc to ** grade, concrete curbing, si wait* and graveled street*. Visitors lo Ocean City will recall that this property, taking In from Forty-second to Forty-ninth Street, Is the ou t remain In* g*p from where Ue cottage section ends st Thirty-fourth Street sod the built-up section at Fiftythird Street. Ths property extends from Uo beach back to thi bay. Lota will be sold singly or tn onUrt blocks on a convenient payment

men sold 981.900 worth of stock

In tke next twelve hours. The highest amount of sub-

scriptions turned in from Tuesday noon to midnight by any of the twelve groups of Ue cam-

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Exchange National Bank. A- J- - T-K.Kre-K.-Kf-gr

Dies of While Bathing

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Robert Ingfia, of Yanfley, Pa., Dies at Avalon

Deposit by, malt—Adv.

Trooper G*n* Mury stationed I Cap* May Court House enjoy

spsetsd by tbs State teapsxtor os

■d a two-day leave of absence

I Thursday.

Tbe board of directors *iroag one and to composed,

addition to Ue president and vice lirraldent. of the following men: William Webster. Jr.. E. O. Howell. Jr- Otto Wundsr. George

I John Klenale.

SAVE FOR A HOME--tbe easiest method U the Building and I.can t can easily be arranged, a - Filch. Secrotary.

Baby Parade on

Saturday

iruc to the

eather. the Sea Isle City Baby Parade, scheduled tot kit Wednesday main*, wao postponed until tomorrow (Saturday) evening, when tt in take place on Ue Board-

Uk. at 7 o'clock tharpXn. Carrie Oallen, Secre-

tary of the Women * Civic OUb. under whom auspioct the parade to beta* given, an nounce* that entree* will be received up util Saturday morning, at th* Civic Ciab, the peetpoamcat firing on added opportunity for entrant! to what promises to be th*

Robert inglls, aged 89 ydift of Yanfley. Pa., died of heart a* while bathing at Awa-

wtth his wife and two. I

spend thVsr vacation Hall apartmer “

seventh Street.

its. oa Thirty-

There are fear diririoai, with geld cask print* (or each. All Children ep to tea ysan of age may eater, and each entry most be charahtltollflaly named. The divtotosi art Moot Original Pleat or Tftaey Decorated Float; Fancy Decorated Go-Cart or Oeaoh; Vest Original Dreeaed Bay; Host

^ Original Dressed By.

Ingtia had only I

water a tew mtoutes and waa swimming out when two Councilors of Camp Ocean Wave thought Usy heard him ery out. Thr two boya at umoe •worn toward him, hut had not gone far when hto body, floating face downward, reached them. Three suwr “"" 1

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•gout for U* Trenton plant of I. Beal dee hi* wife, hs to ived by twe sons. Robert. I 9 and on* half year*, sod rones, aged 4 and oae-haB

^rar.?

This summer wa* U« Ant Ue> have vacationed at Avntoa for two yec-ra. previous to wAML how-wr. they ware regular sumn.*r visitors at that resort.

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