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SEA ISLE CITY. CAPE MAY COURTY. H. J.. F2IDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1927.

Atlantic County. II.Ou:

Urge World Peace it Ocean City Contention I State Meet Held At First Baptist Church l Re-elected—Association Expresses Confidence in Prohibition

Jersey's Reputation As Wet State

[hth annual Slate I

New Jersey j was brought j

a.Wednesday after-j B ~ty. after renolu-]

a ursinjf the

fe abandon Its "lao-

i Join other affirming con-

Wtlon and deplor- ‘ n New Jersey has " State; urged literature and k end commending ~1 refused to feae and moral deItonvention which in the resot t, will

the most suc-

_jle ot the State The sessions were Baptist Church _‘it ;orth a host ehurth workers Ap spoke Interestpbares of church

Re-elected

Mm Ur. ^rour:

In

Start To Lay Railroad Line Between West ^ape May and Cape May Point Construction of a railroad line between West Cape May and Cape May PoltM. terminating at I he aht- of the proponed New Jersey-Delaware Perry Line on the Delaware Bay shore was begun last week by C. P. Dowers Company, of Chestnut Hill. The switch has been placed and the oontraotor’e equipment has been unloaded to start operation on excavations at once. The line will teranloate in four tracks on the Bay shore and will serve to carry both freight and passengers Original plans call for a passenger station at the terminus to be completed when the ferry line begins running.

Bar Cape May Eleven From Sunday Play Notice Served That Sunday Football Games Are Barred In Lower Township

Team To Play November 6

Another skirmish between the open Sunday and closed Sunday advocates took place at Cape May. when the Lower Towm.hip committee served notice through theii

H THEODORE SORG

He-eleeted President of New Jersey Baptist Association at SMith annual convention at Ocean City.

. 19S7 were dher year and Asaelect'd a* the

|Dr 1928.

ministers at-

given by II

dent of the Association, rhich practi-

Opening of the . funcheon was

HJHt Church,

titte the women ■Rained with a

— r * t “ M Pry ; New One. Starting Last

Week, Proves Readers Find It Fascinating

; Wildwood’s Mardi Gras On Saturday

Entries and Prizes Galore For Event—Parade To Consist of Six Sectiors Ball Masque Rain or Shine

Missing Letter Contest Loses No Popularity

Of iW late Weyiand

Pim Baptist

* Borg, pic-’ ’em ._ir expressing 4he » d«nominal!or. Tor ■ disaster, made a ■ f the mil-

This Week Should Be Easy

Wit* the moat elaborate and valuable group of prlaea ever av Kimblod for a Wildwood celebration. the Wildwood HalloweV parade and Mardi Gras on Satu day night is expected to be the

lhe history of

and huainem men of

have abided

, ; provided by the Chamber of Commerce by donating numerous beautiful and expensive gifts to be giv. n to the aem In the various claaseB u jo apoutaneous has been the reply to the reque* Cor priiee that in addition to (he regular

* awards. Che eommlctov at its dteposa! at least ... ■-* awards

r.vtngei ■ i

Mat * aasoc m

:re elected to _Jttton of the Went. Mrs. Geo.

vice prerlP. Karra* r. obn C. Kll■Rj bridge. ponding eerie M King.

f New York,

lap before the cor

r,‘

c'r^:

x,r" *■' it what li< too much le of par It profit ded with

, foreign —in Bap Mhlety.

secretary <» ial Forcigi stated I hr

great chant itlhua are >:

ring In frt»ta all sections of nherUmd and CV>' May Couni. as well as othhr places.

Cumberhmd

ties.

Last week’s was ththe. a dlfek.Hd penh une. for a start, am: n Rev. Htrwar*. H.,^ nrissed. In fact only L and aaeretary- . . . .. . —......i

■ 3. ». - Macl-rod. ^^ whit* was left out -

•praotipaedins" in the adverttee-

Kelberg's Department

Mrs. J. Bergh.

got this one alright, sed out on the very simple •V which she solved listing from the adverttaeKotok Brother*, when It have been from the ad-

vertisemeiH of H. Jarvis. T*two adi ertlsements adjoin, il ie th>- though* of the Contest Editor that she merely made this

Editor that she merely n error hi copying. She given an award this week.

The winners were: Wise E'hel Dudley. 417 Gerden Streel. Mount Holly; Dr. Joseph F. Lynch. 6 Mill Street. Mount Holly: and Mr*. J. Bergh. Jr. of Tuckahoe. Tv i theatre tickets each have been sent them, and they will figure in (he final award, when |25 In cash will be distributed,

according U>

special awaj distributed

bo do not cot

those entries who — - under the <■****«eniloo of the dUWons. and aTkps«Tal eev-tioa will he riavwed to Ihese entrants. The j rade will tatn art Crtne gad Pacific Avenues and march oorth on Pacific Avenue

» Twe«gy-alxth Street.

Atlantic Avenue and south to Cedar Avenue and disband, will begin a* 8 o’clock sharp. The celebration is under the uuspioen of the entertainment Commerce, of which John J. Kay. Jr., la chairman. The other member* are: Mrs. H. Foster Gob lln. Mr*. P. H. Jackson. William Gent el. Walter T. Harrison and

Hunter T ushingham.

The Wildwood City Band and the Wildwood String Band will be In the parade, as will the

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Low Lots Are Discussed By Commissioners

May or Says Condition Between 34th and 37th Sts. Will Be Remedied Get immediate Attention

The condition of «he Jow lots between Thirty-fourth and Ttafr-ty-aeventh Streets on Landis Avenue. in the northern sec*lot of

Sea Ii>l» CUy

attorney. Samuel F El dredge.' aMentloi, of c-» Board of Coroupon Cy Cohen, manager of thej mhwlonen* at their meeting. TuesCape May football team, that all 1 day afternoon, by Mayor Maurice

“ day football games are for Sofroney

len in Lower Township, and Mayor Sofrooey declared that aid the team Insist upon play- j neveral summer residents had ing arrests will be made. , complained of the eondltUn of Two weeks ago. Mayor Shep-, tilt lots. ’’Water collects In these pard. of Cape May. notified Mans-, lots and Is a menace to health: "ohen that no Sunday gamer mHMIhinx must be done” stated

be played on Seavlew Park, the ''Ma* the city’s athletic field, under penalty of arrest for the players. The team then secured a field In

Township, at Cape May Just outside the city Sunday's decree did not s on entire surprise as au

inkling of the move had leaked out last Monday, following the

last Sunday.

fans and the football squad now contemplate retaliation by Invoking the Jersey blue laws, both this winter and with the ig of the sea.-mn next sumand to bring the situation climax will play on their Lower Township field on Sunday, iber 6. the date of their came at home. The open advocates point out that the matter be pressed to a battle to a finish the results would be fatal to the reeort. Neutral rotor: boosters are endeavoring to pour oil on the troubled waters by reaching a compromise.

Earl Hoover Brought Here From Oklahoma

Appears Before Judge Eld-

redge and Pleads Not Guilty Sentence

Form Bowling League in County Will Probably Be Composed Of Six Teams The formation of n Cape May County Bowling League, was started last Friday night at the Sea Crest Hotel. Wildwood, by Martin Taylor, of the Casino Bowling Alleys of Wildwood. Teams from Wildwood. Cape May City. Cape May Court House and Sea Isle City have signified their Intention of entering teams In the league. Efforts will be made (o have :ean City and Woodbine to enter ants In the league. The opening game was schedu.ed to take place this evening, but It Is expected that this will be postponed pending word from Ocean City and Woodbin* howler* in regard to entering teams in tho league.

"Reddents

vicinity declare they will forsake Sea Isle City if the oundllioi; is not remedied and that we do not want them to do,"

continued <be Mayor.

The maitter was given much dlacmacon by the Commission era and Sill be taken up with the!

City Engineer and eome plan to (Offenders

remedy th- condition will be «m-

dei taken it is expected.

Several months ago. the city tvise d an ordinance for having tha section and other sections in the vicinity filled. When the bids were received the cost considered prohibitive and plan to have lots filled

Chamber of Commerce Gets Suggestions For Programs Read By Presiden t At October Meeting of County Body At Stone Harbor—Dr. Samuel Grafflin Gives Inspirational Address

Luther Ogden Urges Vote On $30,000,000 Bond Issue

Addresses C. of C.

Several Are Sentenced At Court House

Commissioner John L. Maher reported u> the board that a contractor In the cky had ruined several streets by having a tractor driven over them, particularly

cutting The gravel.

The matter was referred (Continued on paga sight)

Appear Before

Judge Eidredge Wednesday To Hear Fate Two Sent To Reformatory

DR. SAMUEL W. GltAFUN New York City, who spoke at October meeting of County Chamber of Commerce at iitone Har

bor last weelt.

Arrest Boys For Small Robberies

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DO NOT WAIT until

1 md'lJb-

•rtv Ulan Bonds for collection.;

’ - ^ Tru.oVrer has

62d Annual Convention S. S. Ass’n

Meet At Cape May Tuesday—Morning, Afternoon and Evening Sessions Opens 9.45 in Morning

Earl Hoover. 29. of Enu-. who was brought back from Okmulgee. Oklahoma, by County Detective Ward Hlgbee on Monday, pled not guilty (o the charge of nonsupport and fornication before Judge Eidredge W< ’

It is believed by tha authorltier that Hoover ha* four wives, each living n a different State. l*uU week it was thought that Hoover c.'uld not be prosecuted in any one of the States, because of the lack of State laws. On Wednesday It was learned that In New Jersey, according to the compiled statute he can be. the law reading as follows; "Any person who having a husband wife living, marries another p son shall be guilty of bigamy It was stated by the authorities last week that charges of bigamy can be made against him only 'n New York, since the New Jersey law* read that a man most marry twice In this State in order to be charged with bigamy. The unearthing of the law this week puts Hoover in a diJTerenl light according to veteran law-

, United States Tre-

requeued tha the bona* be sent to him at an early date. Be* Sreuritv Trust Company. Cap. May collect them for you. K “

charge, glad to * jrvl

u Know—F

The sixty-second annual ention of the Cape May County lunday School Association and iecond* convention of the Cape liav County Council of Religious Education will be held Tuesday. November 1. In the First M. E. Church. Cape May City. The ention • theme is “The Supreme Objective.” There will be sessions at 9.45 in the morning: 1.30 in the afternoon, and 7.30 In the evening. Gilbert 8. Smith, president of the Association Council, will preside The gram for the day wIM be as

Will Be Pro-

noonced in Few Days Hamilton, of Wildwood, and Stafte Trooper R.iUy have rounded up the boy* v'* - " hove been committing small i beries and stealing bicycles Wildwood. The boys, who from 12 to 15 years of t broke into several place, si Ing cigars, candy and small si

of money.

The mealing of bicycles < the schools while the owners are attending clatoes has beet problem to the authorities, bicycles were taken and t abandoned. Recently two ■ In Leesburg and In Bri One of the boys recently i boa* from Captain Buck, of the Crest, which .was found drifting between See Me CUy and Ocean CUy. after it had been abandoned in Stone Harbor. The boys, upon apprehension, claimed to have tied the boat, bu

drifted.

G4n» Mueller reported the boys had broken In hta garage on Cent ml Avenue and moler. 165 worth of cigars and cigarettes. The boys have been nrrrlgned and sentence will be pronounced in a few day*.

Found guilty last week on a charge of assault and battery upon an Avalon girl. Walter Spalding. 23. of Court House, was sentenced to Rahway Reformatory by Judge Henry Eidredge on Wednesday, it being sentence day. Another youth to be sent to the same institution was William Carey. 21. of Wildwood, who was found guilty cf rape. Carey

' the Judge If his sente Be changed to the State t. apparently believing the Prison was better than the

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rard Chlaplnl. of Belleplaln, charged with assault and battery wife, was given a suasentence. the defendant declaring he mistreated his wifi whm he was intoxicated. _ tnded sentence wta given Jacob Udelnwitx. of Wlldwoofi. who mas. found guilty of lewdness and Indieenry The in Boapendins sentence The offense with which charged la not to be tolerated in this community." is a wife and three children. An order of |7 a week toward tho support of his son. was mad against Charier Fields, colored of West Cape May. who had beei with desertion and non Kilko. of South Denm.drew a suspended sentence or the charge of manufacturing liquor with u still. Kltko said he tried to make K. but didn’t succeed. He was arrested ami placed in the county Jail. when, as a re(Contlnued on Page Two)

Plan To Pave 4 Miles

Of New Route 49

It Is alleged that Hoover’s first ife lives In Philadelphia, third in a small city in New York, and the fourth in Carthage Mo. Wife No. 2 is thought

be his wife al Erma. ' i further alleged t

Hoover was arrested in Philadelphia some months ago on similar

r L?:,

[Tuesday approved of the placing I of advertialng tor bids for the

Trrwiners Fxoert I construction of five miles of route iroopers expert ir,. between South Dennis and Pistol Marksmen | Kaf ,t creek, at a com or *230.-

00. and replied to a commilntca-

Wlldwood Chamber of

then to the Oklahoma city.

Ocean City Hunter Is Fined $20

Officials Skeptical As To

Validity of Jasper

Mira's License

Case Will Be Appealed

Ocean City Wins InterCity Match Wildwood and Ocean City Golfers Stage Friendly Battle On the Links Played At Ocean City Club

e May Court

Jasper Mira. 1131' West Avete. Ocean City, was fined *20

and coots for,- bunting •without a license by Police Magistrate Ware

on Tuesday morning. The

was premetf ’

William Reel, Cape i House. Mira appeal.<1

He produced Court, but th ucat as to *ti

Mira

by Warden Steel while

in Lower Township. A.t that time Mira produced a hunting, license for lust year and declared that he had obtained a license in Ocean City this year. He was released by Warden Steel, who came to Ocean Wy on Monday

verify KUra's gtotemenl.

When he found no record of a lice nee being issued this year,

he ordered Mira's arreet.

At Uic hearing Mira. produced license card whlcti appeared

though erasures hud been

An examination of the records In the City Clerk's office failed to reveal and record of Mira obtaining a hunting license this

year.

Emil Palmer posted a bail bond of *50 for Mira. The case will be heard In the Common Pleas CVjurt at Court House. •

Dr. Samuel W. Grafflin. of New York City. »a* the speaker at the October meeting ot the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, held at the Stone Harbor Fire House Thursday evening. The hall was well filled with folk* from every section of the county. Dr. Grafflin is one of the most inspirational speake a in the East and be has the ab lily to tllnstrate his points wi'a the kind ot humor that is nex to tinpoasibte to resist. He kept his audience in constant laughter. while bringing home striking facts. He emphasized the need of Imagination In developing a community or county, declaring the residents must see their county and vision Us future. President Haffert was in the chair and called upon the delegates to report on anything their communities might have to bring

up.

County PubUcity Director Y.\ ... D. Hall reported that 11.000 county booklets had been distributed and told of the plans to advertise the county In Floridly. Georgia. California and other sections this winter. id that a larger county advertising appropriation would be asked of the Freeholders this year, as much greater results can be obtained with additional expenditure. President Haffert reported that conference has been arranged by the Art Center Committee, and that something mere definite would undoubtedly be reported on this project at the neat meet-

ing.

Marshall Balnbridge reported that the matter of the Wilmington bridge will be started over ’ again, from the bottom up. He said he had gone to Wilmington, where he found nothing had been

started on the project.

President Haffert read a number of replies to the queationaire Z card sent out by him. making for l ' expressions a* to what Could I* ' 'r. complished by the Chan'er of vLunnere* in one year *nd In five years. Many valuable idea* were

u *£ ,n : contained in these replies, which •w-cp- {j,,. preajdpnt reported had come

in In far greater numbers than

bed been anticipated.

Among the ones that were suggested by many folks were the paving of all roads, the Increase of the county advertising appropriation. air porta, beautification of the highways, the Cape May Lewes Ferry, bridges connecting the county resorts, particularly the Avalon-Townsend’s Inlet span lower railroad fare and better train service. There were many unique suggestions, many hutnoious ones and many of undoubted Importance that have never been

placed on any program

Comfort stations along ’

main highway*

suggested.

Corporal P. J. Smith. Troopers W. T. Corns and Joseph V. Reilly, of the State FoHcc. stationed at Tuckahoe. qualified expert pistol marksmen a* the record shoot held at the patter training school at Trenton re-

cently.

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i 9.45. Devotional 8t-r-lee. Rev. DeWltt Cobb

Address of Welcome. Rev. E.

f. Graham.

Response. Mr. Gilbert 8 Smith 10.00 to 10.15. Report of Deartment Superintendent*.

10.15

j 10.4'

I Offering.

Appel r

dachlnery. Hamilton. 12.00. Singing. Luncheon.

News From Today's Classified Ads Fine boar, two b. ood sows Sloop, fully equipped, foi

weekly. it Coach. 1925. (SOC ■ are Jost a few o! t

Commerce, stating that during next year plan* would be made to pave four mile* Of the new route 49. from South Denntsville in this county on route 15. to make a connection with route 14. providing a eras* mad near

the middle .OT thla county. Thl* wifl be greeted with much

favor by' the resident* of Cape May Cotanty. a* well a* summer

vlaitppC

Cars Collide at Woodbine Two cars collided at Franklin and .leffserson Street, Woodbine, Saturday morning when a chine driven by William Turner, colored, of Woodbine, attempted struck by a sedan driven by Max Medgebow. a ton of Woodblm causing the Turner car to nwarv. into a M-l«Kraj.h ’pole. The Turner machine wa* badly .huuagnd while th# other oar almott exoapod entirely. WHntwww declared that M*dgrtaow had the right of way. No one was injured.

Freeholders To Meet

Ocean City knight* of the link* proved victors In the firat of the inter-city golf matches being staged between the Wildwood Country Club and Ocean City Coutry Club. The matches were played on the Ocean City course. The margin of victory wa* close. Ocean City copping eleven wins, while Wildwood landed ten. The result of the matches were as fellows: Henry Y. Clouting. O. C . defeated Charlie Douglas*.

Wildwood; Dick Johnson. O.

defeated Bill Hunt. Wildwood; Otto Huff. Wildwood, subdued Geo. Shomo. O. C-: Ed Charleswortb. Wildwood, won from J De Reamer. O. C.: C. Howard Topham.

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Annual 'Red Cross Roll Call November 9 to 25 The national office of the

American Red Cross i* prep, ring

for the eleventh annual roll

which opens Armistic Da}', November 11 nnd la«ts until Thankagiving Day. Hundred* ov thiMiKund* will renew their membership, cost only One Dollar, and volunteer* all over the country are offering their aid in brim If of their local chapter* in campaign work. Since the World

rany nation wide great

disaster* have brought big problem* before the Red Oros*. The MDaiaaippi flood called for doc-

nunws. food and fund* to for th; need* of the stricken

district. - It war a magnificent work accomplished In a nuignl

The Red Crot*> belong* to every merloan. man. woman and child.

The school* will enter the na-

roll call drive for member-

while rtveral replies *tre**ed the need of bringing industries to the county. Borough Clerk Charles D. Quick, of Stone Harbor, welcomed the chamber, stating that Mayor Markland was not able to be present, because he had undergone a minor operation on Tues-

day.

Luther Ogden suggested that In the county beautification program small sections be concentrated on at a time. (Continued on Page 2)

Senator Edge Visits Oystermen l . S. Senator Edge wtth a number ol the New Jersey Board of UommiaaipnenB and Navigator* paid the' oywtermen a visit Una week. The Scnaror complimented the oystermen on rhe quick change of their equipment (hat hod been made to meet the new condition, brought about through a new inrosurr aponeored by the United States Department nt Agriculture and assured them that he stood ready to give any teeiutance he could when the industry felt the need and

Give Supper Benefit Of Goshen Band

of Goshen attended the cnicken: pot pi <• supper given last Friday evening, by the newly organised:

Free Movie Tickets For Our Readers From pa*t experiences we have learned that lhe reader* of this paper are keenly observant and alert. Few error* ran pas* by without a flock of readers calling our attention to them. For this reason we think Mr. Ciobons. manager of the Mootlyn Theatre. Ocean City.

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