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Cape May County Times

CAPE MAY COUNTY’S HOME NEWSPAPER

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i ISLE CITY. CAPE MAY COUHTY. H. J . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1927.

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Meeting Wildwood 'avors Merger

Capt. Bentham Goes. To Atlantic City Captain Sutton Take* Hi* Place at Townoend’s Inlet

r the Voter* Wifi So s Only the Special km Win Diacloae

Act Is Explained

■ ■ttnarutty. ia»r •*« ■*' a dM* brown :**t etk. Wa have a wee Mb* down m CKy Halt iM the cilf* sbvbriih* roi* at oar CooMaia Civic ar»)Mto an> unirt talttnc Me raaradhunw bjr the tbr—

Moonshiner* Underground Diatillet>

.He AtWrttc City

i A. f. Sutton who !• l-kaowa In (wa W* * Hy. and > for artcee year* was *t»*4 at tt» Trie- bow returns to Ufa char** at Towawnd s Inlet Station. Norton, of the Town-

Electric Rates For Sea Isle Are Lowered Atlantic Co. Cut* Price To 16J4 Cents per Kilowat, Effective At Once

Prosecutor Has Inning in Liquor Case Tells Freeholders He Ha* No Power To Act Without Evidence

• Wood bln <■ and believed by Stats- Troopetn't® have t»*n sourer of i rum In this county. »*» fttted t '

Body o( Gam 1 Moonshiners Guard Cabin

Digger Recovered

Coroner Thompaon Con-

ducting Investigation

With Odors From Dead Horse

Near Woodbine Stnte Tioopers Discover What Was Headquarters of Large Still—Cabin Well Built and

Supplied With Pump and Other Needs

published In this psper lant week, was recovered Tw-dny nlstn by George Mixer, of Green Creek. Coroner Wl’Itam H Thompson, of told Springs, who took charge 1 the body, duels red that ‘ 1 inducting an InvctlasUot ■spreswed the belief that path became bewildered l dense fog an* dropped Into one of tbt Icy holes on the beech -nd Ut*r washed out by the tide.

was • comparative Green Creek and »aa with condition* along He lived with Mrs. «. Green Geek, who

that the day h. left lor

Believed To Hava Been Source of Much lllici‘ Booze

Btste Tr.opers on night at s sero hour d on an ondentround moot cabin In the hewn of dens kxete.! srvemt mtles « Bsdh'ptein. TV* »b»a la _ to have been th- »<it«e of soppl; at rmxh bootleg liquor la CepMay County, and to have bean of turning out ftvwn Or*.*t gaUeae w««My. f yard*

so fine

eying I

Mayor Bader Honored By Commissioners Sea Isle City Solons Adopt Resolution of Respect On His Deai'.t

putee er-jrlauu tb* tag was eo thick th» r»!<t, ntly placed there by oar la re- .he lost Mghl of blm when hr. mo.mM.lnerr. to help quell

May Ask Court For Order

Prosecutor WUnai-.. 11 C beU. Jr., appeared brforr

Board of Praehold.r. on W.-li.es-dey ee requested eoi* npislned why he failed to take any action to dispose of alcohol s-ned

Sheriff James T. Huffman, jary *1, l»»«. »t Higher'*

CApe Me) City.

Ocean City T. & T. Gets County Bonds Outbid New York For Securities Worth $635,000 Ocean City Title and Trust Company was Hhe highest bidder for ItSS.OPO worth or Cape May County general -ffnanee bond*.

were received “*“*

County Will Build Cape

May Bulkhead Freeholder Champion Opposes Measure As Bad

day by the Board of Freeholder*. I „ , , The trust company *grr*d to take| \vant County Booklet Bid* CSS bunds and pay **Sl.«5S. j _________

•w Turk.

J. A- Decamp A Co . h

nd hlgheat bidder. IC3S.1S4.01 for 1*7

First National Bank of Ocean City olfere t to take CSI and pay

tCSt.1St.TP

Banker* Trust Company and Harrison-larb*e Company. of New Yoth. Jointly bid t«*l .6«d *» by Sheriff HoBmaa fori for CSt bonds

iV service and trams- George D Gibbon* Company ports!ion charge* In r««anl to* and BastmaB-GUIman. of New ak-nhui led to Mr. Campi.-li be York. Jointly bid ttSt.**' 7 * for

"Tticl * «J1.

The Batchelder Warh Compgay rd A. B. Reach Company and W Whit u*. of New York, p.lnlly offered fltt.lCC *• for

t:» tionda.

Atwater A Weils Company, of mey Oily, was MrveDih hlgbeet •h a bid of t«Si.3U 10 »or

acUon to be taken log all, declared Mr. Campbell in reply to Director Ogden * queat ion as to .t could be done. stated that h-

kad

and the

the The

vrIUli >ns put to him by the board. When questioned a* to the storing of tb* alcbol. be aatd be bad nothing to do wit and knew of no way to of It. ' In reply to a question where the alcohol might be stored, Mr.

ill 1

"You have i

n lb* county jaU

He auggerted that BhertS Hoffisn petition toe Court for sn rder to deatroy th* sloobo lartsg that he bad no pow

sake Mich an order.

Mr. Ogden isked: "I* It o

The Marlnt

your power to take action?" which Mr. Campbell replied.

I can't get evidence and get a I »urg

conviction I can take no action." Mr. Campbell explained the views of Judge War* and Judge Bart let*, whiaw view* Were con-

Prosecutor Working On Clark Case Believes He Has Clue To

Solve Mystery

Proaeeutor WltlUm H. Campbell. Jr., baa uncovered a new clue which. Is tbought. Will lead to the solution at the tnurd* Mlrs Mary Clark*, wealthy Pitt*uurg woman, whom- body was found on the beach at Cape May.

Janaary 1C.

On Tuesday. Ward Higbee, county detective Mated that the

Prior to th* introduction at a .■solution autborlilng the construction of a bulk*tad at Beach Avenue. Cap* May City, at tha Board of FraehjWers meeting on Wednesday. Freeholder Joseph Champion .rated that he wo*Id vote again., th* resolution. "1 will vote against H on tha ground that It would set a bad precedent. Th* county ha* many highways subject «o encroat*ment by tide*. Ever since tha smalt Board has been l i -alatenet. they would not coaatiaec a bulkhead within city tlm-i*. II D up «o Cap* May City to protart lheir highway. I can’t understand why th* pwnty should expend $C0 600 to protect city ■treets. If the tlty can't proert thatr street, after the county build* It. they are not deserving of It.” declared Mr. Champkm. e gave as esamples Ocean City. Sea Isle City. Avalon and Stone Harbor, where the county has built si reals and tho»* fit Da have built the necessary protection for tb* «treets after tha county had turned them over to

CUy

for the Sea We

IS: II per

the first 10.606 feat |1 66 per 1666 for tbv 666: f 1.7C for the next *5.606: f 1.60 for the next *5.066: *1 «5 for the nert *5.646; and »1.*5 tor ail over 1666.400 iwre for beating of *1.00. 60 and 10 cents In offered.

Man Drowned

On Sea Isle City Beach

Body of Bernard McGurk Fo id in Surf Near Camp

Cardinal Dougherty

ooo for No Evidence of Foul Play

ty.! volunteer

be. • mad* for th* payment pas hill*, but this will be A January Ulh ere a

The body of

Gurk. SC year* old. of 1**J No Twenly-eigntb Btraet. Philadel-

phia. was found partly submeig. .1 j ur « la the aurt off Camp Cardinally. thr mi Doughrtty. • abort dlrtance out |imn g with

of Bra Isle City. Sunday about 1* 45 P. M-. by Evan BoMuw.n. ( a Coast Guard at the Sea l*le at) Station, who w*» doing fog

patrol.

Rohioaor. was petroling the beach In the vicinity, when he-

-thing In the surf

^ Pitid Fire Department Now

V'taadey'a meeting of 8*» We aty Crrmmts»lon-i» was a very abm affair. Ordinance Ct. proof j fldlag for the creation of a paid • department In lieu of the

to ftt peifectfy. the only tnesm

of entranre. About throe or four feet down was the Mo--■noneMl lag., imoothed off. the work of an -Xpert, while in

pomp showing

(Ceat.nwad ea P*o* Two}

gaal reading a» war. ordinance S3, fixing the salary of 'he , v * ni - mlsaloner of the Department of Revenue »nd Finance at C?S6 per

on was called by Mayor to the way «n which ttk City Electric Comi placing it* new pule* street a. r realm* a forest

| poles where tb* elty had eu-

savored to ell min-.. them.

•m. aiy Oerk wa* Instructed . write the company. calling at--ntlon to the provisions <>f their anchise in this matter, and re-

ihsting that plan, for the ‘

on of new polea to- submitted i th* city authorities for apAll efflOrg-nry rvwolutton pro-

riding for

adopted.

Be denied that he knew who e owner of the Mquor waa Mr. Ogden asked: WNw* duty it to move the liquor lo the county Jail?" The Proaeeutor replied that whan George Redding i* Sheriff he moved liquor with e assistance of county priaon- *. Freeholder Robert Miller used laughter when he asked the Prasacolor: "If the Sheriff got tired of holding khe liquor and by accident put a hole In I P*BV Twel

Want Bids For County W. R. Hall, county publicity director, was sutborlied tr> adrertlse for bids for printing the county booklet, also for newspaper advertising Earlier In the meeting County Engineer R Fendall Smith stated he had received req ' *~

J^Tiat first tbinigbt It aaa a log. but _ on eioser I u. pact Ion saw s coat

Who Is It?

ro^e^. iMrs. S. Langley Wins mg » ”eV^> j Missing Letter Contest ^ 40 'Mr*. E. D Biahop ind Mi« S. Somers Gone 'second* ].,

WHAT'S WHAT WHERE IT IS

Freeholdero Pam Detective Bureau Bill For Payment A resolution authorizing th* payment of th# bill of the Guarantee Detective Bure, lamle City, was pawed at the meeting of th# Board of Freeholders n Wednesday The Supreme Court two weeks ago, ordered the Board to the bill, after a writ of mua had been secured by Marcus Carroll, bead of the bureau, bin -as for I146C.47. Th* E osd refused to pass the bill for

b*y thought it

j At the meeting cn Wad-.eaday I Freeholder champion lid not vote when the resolution was up

The I’rnaecotor ha* been work ing tirrionsly to u.. earth facta concerning the murder. D* Uve Itigbcc ha* been following

every ctae.

A man wHh whom Mlm Clark ts believed to have planned feting at Cape May Is being ugbt in several cttla*. The authorities refuse to dls oae the extent of their low it!on* In reference to the Kt. They admitted that the j*ne at the auapact la being and tha* an arraat will

Coroner William H. Thompaon. tr two weeks after Ibe crime ran In charge of rh* Invew

loo.

Laat week a Coroner's Jury decided shat Mias Clarke mat her ■teach by stran-_ulatloa by being h- ld face downward on the beach by fK-raon or parsons unknown. The Prxwacvi tor's office has since been handling the case.

Mr. Hal. In making bis report, referred lo Mr. Smith a rvport la regard to the map*. iujg.•eating that when map* of the eouatr are requested by arms printing ivad tpe. changes tn th* roada and iw highway* be furnished sue* ms. Mr. Hall stated tltat ae had the expeHenee laat year of picking up a road map purport(Ceatlnued ea Pas* Tv**)

of Mayor Sofroney a i mp . to the Ut* r. of Atlantic Cliy.

Cape May Poat master Reappomtmen* Confinred The appointaieat ol Horace ERlchardeon for another four-year term as postmaster at Cap* May confirmed by the Senate last Saturday. H* was reappointed on recommendation of Congressman Isaac Bacharacb. who rvxoffi.l zed that he had given the postal patron* of Cape May four year* of sattoUctory ferric#. Fmtmaater Richardson's touryear term will expire February 19. The P reel dent will sign hi* commission and mall It to Richardson In a few day*, giving hi*

New Postmaster in Charge j * not her tour year* in office at

! 1*660 a year.

Richard Rosenbaum, who was ^ i: —

recvntl) appointed postmaster at Bra l»lf city, took th* offlee over on Monday and entered actively on the discharge Of hi* dutl*».

be Allant Ir City Board in thl* pap* t The | appear* else*her* In j

3-Mile Fishing Limit Not To Be Removed, Says Read

— i In Interview Aaaemblyman Declares That BUI Ha* Not ! Secretarial Council New | and Will Not Be Introduced—Will Support Bill | Jereey Chamber Commerce j Imposing Greater Penalties For Violations Proposed BUI False

News From Today’s

i today s Classified t

Garden* bungalow, lea* than

1*000 rash required.

Thlrly-teet speed runabout for aale. New engine. Just

overhauled. 1*66.

Fordeon Tractor. u**d only a few weeks, at a considerable

saving. Guaranteed

sired.

For Bale

Pntlets. lay and ns* roc Experienced

I If A

ft IK.:;..: feg ag. two aaitlai

, S. Smith 1° f the Cope, P" f of Cms- <»*' =

aid Board of j ' is. secretary! 1 Chamber of! 1

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