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Cape May County Time:

CAPE MAY COUNTY S HOME NEWSPAPER

For the Kiddies

Their friend, Uncle Bill, conducts a full page, with prizes for those who can color the best.

OCEAN J'rrr OFFICE tU A.tmry A

WIUJWOOD OKOCK: till Holly Bosch A

SEA ISLE CITY. CAPE MAY COUNTY. N. J.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 26. 1927.

NUMBER 42

' Death Mystery For

Zape May County Police

Aged Woman Found in Tuckahoe leys Point—Murder. Robbery and But No Definite Clews Found

I Lungs Shows She Met Death By Drowning

■woty hi* another I » * . r^p

^ | Moving To Bring Business To Tuckahoe

l 4S year* t nport nuii to|. coat of It-r tvitihea 1

, Chamber of Commerce Has Faith in Possibilities

I her neck, while

Want Electric Lighting

The Tuckahoe Cbaniher of Commerce hae taken the matter of elect i n ally lijthtinit the entire [ Townnhip up with the Townnhip

• eklrt by a aafety

y nottAed ■ary T. Clout In* I County Detective ttle* Hlfbee found merged in the Mriac m if it had Hw tide. V to her identity r heavy chinchilla aha wore. It bore Ool . store

body thi

the

k City vial tad the morgue at i Hoaae to tfmtiry the body, r rMd the body looked like kM*. but the hair Detective Higher the woman * hair it have bmei dyed and alter I In the water It recained it*

I* to Install light* their section. 'Welocme to Tuckahoe" which the publicity comwere authorized at the »t meeting to secure, have been dered and will’ be erected with-

ten days

The meraberHhip of the cham■r. which was only organized July 2K. ha» increased ten since that date and 1* now thirty-Ave. The goal of the body Is one hundred uiembera. The (haniber i* making general progress in its initltal endeavors and held another meeting Thursening. at which lurther plans for the bringing of industry Tuckahoe were made. The ofAcers of the Chamber _ e: President. H. J. Morgan: aecretary. R. C. Smith: treasurer. John Batdorf. The Chamlx’r of Commerce believer Tuckahoe has unlimited possibilities, industrial.

Will Wage War On | Domestic Arts

Ticket Scalpers Given Large

Wildwood Man Fined $25 For Transferring Tickets

A Ane of S25 and costs was Imposed on Joseph Thompson, of WHdwood. by Judge Eldredge on W~dn«day. when Thompson was b«<ore him on a ticket scalping Thompson was arrested thre .* Weeks ago by Constable J. P. Hicks, of Wildwood, and a Pennsylvania Railroad detective for transferring railroad tickets, which it was alleged he sold. In explanation. Thompson cdniraed he had been "framed" by another person in WHdwood declaring he had obtained the tickets from another It is claimed by the officers ing that a war will be waged on ticket scalpers, who carry on their illegal sale* throughout the county, the practice not being conffned to Wildwood.

In 111 Health Jas. Hildreth Shot Himself

Space in Fair

From Kitchen To Fine Arts Will Be Interestingly Shown In Several Divisions

Many Want Concessions

That the "fair without a fence" —the new and greater Cape May County Agricultural Fair—to be held In WHdwood. September 15, 16 and IT. will he thoroughly reprmentatite of the entire county of Cap) May. ha* become assured through the efforts of the County Board of Agriculture In etili*ting public »pirll throughout the county for the enterprise. One of the outstanding feature* of the fat. will be the part taken by the domestic arts committee represented by the w«imen. Thi* committee ha* been assigned Boor space on the south side of the exhibition ball. The space la dl-

Baby Parade at Wildwood Was Brilliant

Crowning of Queen in New Auditorium Was Witnessed By 4000 People

Robin Hood Did the Honors

I Into three port!

which will

1 managed kilt hen. offering a contrast. In another division will be a demonstration ot pattern cutting and dressmaking, while In I the third. (•‘aMm* In food value

. j given by demonstrator* and lecrromment Cape May Law- turer*. will be feat

yer and Former Judge Had Jcharg.'

this diti

Suffered Breakdowr.

Had Led An Active Career

from ill-health und lervou* breakdown, of the Common M. E. Hildreth, lawyer, of Cape and killed himself ver Tuesday night on Mill Road, near Barker's Mills.

Glartwyn. Pa.

About six weeks ago. Mr. Hildreth went to a sanltorlum at Gladwyn for hi* health. Though It was known he was In poor health, bis condition

tional and residential, and plan* ala ran ing to his friends, to develop the community along! He had left the aanltoriura these three-fold line*. | early In the evening, after dlnTuckahoe business folks have ] ner for a walk, which he was inserted a full Pag, advertise-j accustomed U> do. He was found

- mrnt in this iaue of the TIMES

a rood hi

; SS7'‘L, J o""»»**iiStone Harbor

y .isolored that as autopsy H

r part of the week

Baby Parade On Saturday

revealed any Detective Higtoe. d, 9 had Bathing to work j has b%an working day [

. runnn

By Civic Club, Miss Loret-

ta Gowen Director

body

Prograi

i ha'

. with

clutched in bla hand. Officers at the sanltorlum identified the body. They said that Mr Hildreth appeared in good spirit* when he left the place and could not explain his act. He ts survived by a daughter, who resides In Mt. Holly, and a brother. Frank Hildreth, of New

York City.

Mr Hildreth was born In Cape May City. When Aftcen years old b. m>.ved to Mt. Holly. N. J.. where he studied law. later returning to Cape May. He was a former City Solicitor and Mayor of Cape May. Solicitor of Sea late (City during Irving Fitch’s admin-

Pier Follows i islrmtlon and was elected three

| times to the aw<emb1y.

HI* wife died two year* afco and It was known that hr ha*

grieved since over her lose.

Courtesy and cheer were some of the outstanding marks of Mr. Hildreth, he always appearing

jolly and ready to help

Grange. Another contemplated activity of the women will be a production of a three-act play for

f the fair by Mrs.

Augustus J. Meerwaid and. hei girls’ club, of South Dennis, with the co-operation of the ex'enaion service of Rutgers University. To augment the educational at lire* of the fair, various detriments of the county goveinpnl and other organixationa, inudlng the Health League, the _runty Free Library, the Bureau of Publicity and Advertlunj;. Department of Education, including the Vocational School. Slaic Ap.t! • cultural Extension Se. tee. Humane Society. Bute Depzrtia.-nt of Weight* and Mearurt*. and others, have been invilod to artange exhibits at the fat:. A silver lov ing cup has l <-eT donated to be competed foi by the Ave Cape May County Granges—Tuckahoe. South 8eavilie. Cape May Grange (Dias Creek I. Rio Grande and Cold

Spring.

A meeting of the auto draleie Cape May County was held in Wildwood this week at the call •f Mayor Plerpont. to consider arums matters in connection with the auto display at l'ie lair. • autom.mi!, races. This meeting was attendi-d i.y the ofAcera of the fair uni counjilee chairmen affected. .Merchants' Assocm .• cl ontinued on page t* I

Wildwood’s nineteenth annual baby pageant, staged its initial opening number for this season in the new autditoriutn on the Boardwalk in company with Patrick Conway’s Band. The downpour ot rain Tuesday night, was no barrier to dampen the throng* eager to gain admission. It war a veritable sea of humanity thal Aled past the guards at the door as early as 7 o'clock. It seemed but the passing of a few minute:', when the gmt Interior was Ailed to rapacity. The auditorium has an nitlmaled sealing capacity of 1.000. The parling ot the curtains was scheduled for K 15 Conway’s Band played the opening number to the biggest audience It has been their privilege to witness here, and when Robin Hood appeared in the aisle escorting the exqueen with her company Of wood elf*. ;lie rain of applause Ihi greeted them completely drowm out the music and heralded it

beginning ot the show.

ll was a gorgeous spectacle n deed. aAre with brilliant color and beauty They came in suites down one al*le and another until all were sealed In their respe-. tlve group*. The background o' tapestry and silk hangings to create the woodland scene the artist had planned, made n charming stage setting. The queen's chair in the center was hung in royal blue satin Dimmed in gold. The queen. Miss Myrliae Louise Bowm. of Savannah. Ga.. came with her attendant*, the Mlssea Mary and Martha Bassett, twin

(Continued on Page Two)

Avalon Life Guards Saved Three Men

Boat Capsized While They Were Fishing Off Avalon

Life guard* a

ved thre

i draw

ing whet

which rhey were Ashin throwing them into thThe three men w..

White, of Uanerch I*;. . Monchettt. of Sea Lie < :v. jn William Eaton, or D nver. t’ol. The men were Ashing off Avi

Charlc

Autos and Cash Awarded To Winners Saturday, Sept. 3

Workers in Subscription Campaign Have Only Eight More Days To Win Nash Sedan. Chevrolet Coach or Cash Prizes

All Entries Have An Equal Chance To Win A Prize

Ion when

iwell

craft. They climlM ,1 : of their boat and sign help. The life guardplight and brought the: Monchetti was exhaui rescued and was temm

Advertise,

'which hi

past six

cplember 3. turned in al r

ss the termination of offer, and you May « ounty Times and j reel count for big drive for circulation BE SURE r

edan—First Prize

ich. latest model

Woodbine

Opened New Dl 1 K,f,h Prise—$50 in cash. r lay ground »»»>«*• »"o nave *' O : in one or more sulweriptio

time during this ill have the eorhe extension. But ite the word “Ex-

across the- top ol the stub

]to l>e turned In. A hunch of sub-

o’clock Satur- iscriptlons turned in on this offer iy evening of next week the win >' ou an automobile,

impaign judges will close impaign and begin the Anal c

hicb will determine the winners. ! Any irlend who has been proThe prizes to be awarded a re ^lining to aid a candidate in this follows: race should hand that candidate New Model Nash Special Six I*? 1 ? subscription or send It In t

Last Chance to Help Workers

office Immediately. Just your 1 subscription may win a car for I him or her This ts YOUR LAST i T1ANTE to aid that friend, so

help NOW or never

j In order to malnuin the strictest (secrecy as to the relative strength the various candidate*, the cam-

Lincoln Park Officially De-

dicated For Recreatio

For Young and Old

{Samuel Fleisher Speak:

State Police Had Busy Week-end

Last Saturday , ...

happlnc** to tin pimple of Wood-! ,he workers who are after

bin* and many resident* of Cape May County who attended the

official opening of Lincoln Park. | A klance at the standing of the Ih ■ new playground fostered py ''•'ndidates published today will the Baron De Hiroch Fund trll „ {disclose Just how rapidly the point

totals are mounting. The candl-

—, ... {dates are certainly making things The exerc,«s were opened w th | huI1 , , hjs wwk , re out huitll| „

T subscriptions as they reallz.

Banner and salute of the flag „ or never , f |h „„ u v l nUb,Mlrk - of , N -» 'win one of the two automobiles. York, field representative of the, more days of the last extra

and" noTne. not

m of in olr [even the club maniger. will know l 1 “ , per nl ' the exact count of the respective turned in. ADD - AUTOS AND CASH ••

candidates unUI after the race has

hat the |>olnt standings been brought to a close and the

idges determine the winners. A ballot box will he locked and ■aled and placed in the Times ’Ace in Rea Isle City Saturday, pptember 3rd. The candidates may

lace their subscriptions, together 'by (with the money for them, in a Ihe sealed envelope, and drop it into

imobiles und cash prizes to be ballot box: or they may turn

week. I**

That is v

of the different candidates

ing as a final round-up ts being made for subscriptions in the Advertiser and Times big campaign.

Going up and rapidly mounting

higher and higher are the grand day of [total* of points being polled

to the club manager as he will drop the point ballot Into the box.

A« soon an the campaign Is closed the Judges will open the sealed ballot box. and linmodlately thereafter. or as soon as the points can be Issued on the subscriptions {contained therein, the final <ountilng will begin The winners will I he determined by adding their pub

d eight more days

*] until the close of the campaign is

a for »hc fewbtsh activity

Two Paid $10 and Costs

For Speeding

points to the reserve _

nd subscriptions contained in the aaled ballot box. There will be no . ailing, no complicated cotint hut

oner 01 the ' * im P 1 r * matter of adding up the

ill end at 8.10 o'clock |M nt 'annotmcliig the wlnnero-

evening. August 31st. I™* n,fk ^ r " u *f W ! U - f

Jhen the candidates VMII be "U' “ '“5^T^Sw . I |

4-NF extra, po.nu * nir conn,

. ISDBrlniente Sponsored hy the Stone Harbor vke East la »» at '| Women’s Civic Club and under her Mectifi,- 1 lhp p, reonal direction of Mi** iff aa effort •** made Loretta Gowen. physical director the death of the teach activities In that resort. l *»t <>f sn untd.-ntt ] stune Harbor s first baby and hose b-jdy was foun I children’s parade will start from

Idge St Thlrty-lourth ,.. r House. Ninety-sixth about twenty years ago in City, three be t and Second Avenue.. Sat Funeral arrangements ha’ that ha* been a urday afternoon, at 3 o’clock. j been completed, due

The age limit has been

end.

Police were <ea:n Shore Ropd last 1

reek

Sea Isle City Firemen Will

Celebrate

Corporal P. J. Smith i Satur-

day arrested Harry Murphy. 1616 Sanson. Street. Philadelphia, and Walter Long. 1100 Stuyvesanl Avenue. Trenton, for speeding along the road between Tuckahoe and Pe’.eradxirg. Earl, were fined lio and cost* by Justice of 'he

Peaee Clarence Williams. Or. Sunday noon Trooper

earns investigated an accident .11 BellcovMIe A car driven by George J. Molx. 170S Frankford Avenue. Philadelphia was struck

car driven by Fred Srhnei55 South Burlington Street, mcester City, when Mol* tried

I

Make

Iff

After

Playground Recreation of America was the first speaker. She ex- ^ pressed her appraciation of the the great work that wa* being done!

In Woodbine. j Thp „ trn pom, „„„

The next speaker was Samuel campaign will end L. Fleisher. founder of the Phila- Wednoadny delphia Graphic Sketch Club .-nd ICntil l;vcn

organiser of the mowynent here Rivenexi.-a point* n 1

Mr. Fleisher’s kina words held'Hon t<- t the rapt attention of a large (for earh

crowd of men an wnmer He spoke in a promising ner. showed his great lo\

children and urged the co-opera- I,™ u "‘ |scripUoi. must ta- deposited tlon of the townspeople i™”' WrinHow^mL d^rnc,' h *‘ t *°* ,n ,h ' T*™" Should the citizens it. Wood- ij.,, .i,,--, *■» lat Sea Isle City before that time.

!'lel*her j'^oT/unpaign d *orkers: —Are you campaign Judges who wl.l ' every- Volnr ih* on,. ... «ni«t, "mke the Anal count of the potnU

ake this friumnhanUv with an overwhelm. I* 111 ,ak '' ,h, ‘ ballw ,>0 *

' number of nolnm m aTe vou i n ' * :30 0 ' < ' l0fk and , '" 1 ch * ck th ®

a rdepend u^on what you In «>•". * av A h ‘

have, and see the efforts of e many week* t.r-rtically the biggest reward of

paign wrested from your grasp

-utar point scyg^le about the >rth of subscrU^nn. |P"*f wl11 ^ a « a rd«> '<** "«>*• urn in on the campaign. , .,, , , *

ptfonr^^r^

Will not count extra jmint* Sepumher 3rd. ond «J> jmb-

show Interests Mr.

eontimied. be would do ever thing In his power to make ti city a place that all ounty re dents would be proud of. In the absence m Mavnr Sni nd Greenatein. Mr Jacob

*?-vke and Miss Esth, row. co-worker with M also delivered a fine a<! The Boy Scouts aided Ing the event an impre, and aided in the d, !:, the playground appara'i

IdMate

content*. In this way the

lion* and cash will not pass •through the hand* of any one connected with thi* fiewspaper until

th# judges have mar • the

*’(final count.

ylvlnt. Late!

ltd i

Brighto

with the campaign will l* in your own hands. !""* p you only h, trfllng | '™.“ d SS 7!™

in

out West.

daughter wht

tus Will Be Marked By Big Parade

children

he'MuSSSi.Car Took Porch :^ r nTZ Off House in Crash *h Occupants Only Slightly Injured—Taken to Hospital

Gold Prizes For Visitors

d Beylon were called to j Belcovllle to Investigate an arcl. dent in which three cars partiI clpatvd. I'hillp Normando. 831 {Carpenter Street. Philadelphia.

ere Road, w a*

ton Shores

Owners Optimistic Will Fill and Grade Six Hundred Additional Lots

before the closing hoi

i” one of them for yourself, •nd is hut a few d*ys away. Sere 1* time tor any one of

WORKERS to win cither

showing no favoritism i giving out any information to detriment of the chance* of candidate in favor of another.

thrw

flle*

of the r

Wei

. by i

Phila

2506

elphia

Fifth

land participate it »"hli-h will Saturda

j truck driven by Ole Ive Mays Landing, going si Shore Road slrauk ih’ ’ iio ea' fh- Ihrer cal

program whl

filling,

of at least 600 a ••ring made by th i ■ ompany. develop

* another round-up

win will make if all friends, relatives.

> the end. and

! velopm

Stra

»rld after th.

SS’n,:

Railroad Men Will Hold Outing at Wildwood

work wl!

tli'ouglmut the wlm {houses already bui!> ]to until at least erected and made re

I occupancy.

The Grlffeth t on (•ptimUtic over the <

■upalgn is <

fairs of this kind dekeen judgment

snta of the ear iLght bruises. . practically dc-

of the cr p dark ai rs as the

Trainman’s Foot Caught Between Bumpers, Crushed Peter Frandsen. of Cape May. a trainman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, met with a painful Injury Monday afternoon at South Seavllle. when he caught his foot between the engine of the train, which was drilling, and a coupler eruehing part of his foot. Frandsen wa* rushed jp *Tne office of Dr. C. W Way. of pea Isle City, in a tmek at the Collins Lumber (’ompany, of South Seatille. where Brat-aid was rendered From Sea Isle City he was taken to the Atlantic City Hospital, where it is Dared ihai several toes will have to be

"Minute Men" Will Tell Wildwood’s Advantages

, S223 Frankfor

•lellepla :i Boy Badly j 1 Injured in Fall From Car'

Entries in the $3,000 Prize Campaign

Fell Dead at Wildwood From Heart Trou

Husband Sole Benefit i«

ourt House Notes