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Cape May County Times

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t ISLE OTT. CATE HAT COOTTT. *. J. FRIDAY JAHUARY A 1«2».

By thr yw In Caps Mjr,. Oumhrrland nnd Atlantic County. IIOb: tiurwhrre. ISKO

Board ber Is

Given Post Chalmers Ao-

1 To Fmu DepartffAcnt

Howard Topham Wins Ocean City Tournament Fifty-one Golfers Undau.'itel By Low Temperature and Wintry Blast* Participate in First Golf Tournament erf 1928 Season—H. Y. Lake Wins Low Net Score

Wildwood Golfer Shoot* Consistent Game To Win

Pud To Gosiin

icd U>» department W. Kr. Csnhaan the Department of Pl-

oT the Wildwood Counlr/ Club. I another trophy to bte list he wsUed oS with the le Brat aontuil Jorst-y l*-bOle Ocean CKy r* w 3Sc. r> Bftj-oitr ardent goH »«•>* br»v ;he freezing weather to participate In the first tournament of the season. Topham won srosa honor* with a «4 and a 4S for a score of SO. Harvey Y. Lake, veteran tennis star of Ocean City, shared honor* with Topham by winning low net pri*e with at) gras*. 14 handicap for

a net T8.

WMtlcar won the runner-up prlte for low a S’ which eonalled w. The rales w. *nt would win prise, so Big Vic ge BoyaJIan. of Atl*nUc City. „ _ for low nine prise with s II. Topham and Dr. Whlltear

Wildwood Tot IsKiUedln Phila. Crash P»renU Sustain Injuries When Taxicab and Trolley Collide With Car

Drivers Escape Uninjured

r hit bsalth for but

Dlcorio, fifteen_j. of Mr. srd Mr*.

Dlcorio. of 4 Sut Arctic Wildwood, wa* killed and bis parent* injured Monday afternoon. when the automobile in which they were riding waa struck by a taxicab aaS trolley car

!«**S n o!* l BM»er to Mr. Chstmer fUpcbticsa Wart! and from the wild r also «aa remem Ocean City RoUr ch b* is a ’ .embei

4 of flower*.

1 rap of SB. giving t - total of 71. The tournament ceoaiMtee (ConUntied on Pago S)

Cape May Man Dies Skating , Was Demonstrating Figure

“8” On the Ice

two^daagtit^* 01 ^^^ rtwM C« th» flgnre eight on .he ice. Henry Y. Smyth, as. proeral mam^er of me I’ape May Eand and Grave! da™ night txhS» \JUy n^Qkpe May. Over exertion Is believed to have overtaxed his heart. and Ann IS. Smyth went skating on the lake. HU daughters asked him to cat the figure etgb ar-cocnpUfhlng It he fell

ssj-r-n. i be chfld and its parents wan pv&ft&S &X. **** The driver rd the ray « hey s-ere riding, Antonio 1 -Mar*. 97. of Andrew* Avenne. Wild*nod. wa* ohtajured Many passengers on the trolley

by the crash.

■ that the trolley

To Observe Thrift Week In County From January 17 to 23— Plans include Essay Contests For Boys and Girls Cash Prizes For Winners

Nations) Thrift Weofc._ *

it* on Jar ‘ fittingly ob»i ity according I

n January l*-*S. wUl he ol«rvTd tbrougbout the according to plan* which

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provide for easy contest* In Uw graded and high schools throughlit the country. In 1S20 It waa rites will be awarded to the wloer* in each of these coo tost* The Thrift Movement waa first 1914 by the Y. M. C.

a direct the activities of t which h-d become uaIn If* sevtie. Today It tee repr u nis more forty national orgnnizallota

eo-oprrotm service, the Gape May foouty Y SI. f. A is aieistiiir

wit* ihrtB

leg local thrift rotnauMsw In Ukvarious towns of the county

Seng Chosen President of S. H. Council At Organization Meeting— Charles D. Quick ReapBorough Clerk

Better County Roads A re Planned By Freeholders New Bridge At Cape May, Increased Use. of Oil and Hard Surfacing of North Wildwood Boulevard Planned, Says Director Ogden

Work of 1927 b Reviewed in Address By Director

Other Appointment, Mode Red MCH Will Hold Big Rally In Ocean City Judge Harry Cuthriel, of

Portsmouth, Va., To Address Members

Tribes Will Attend

of Council, out of «

•ay to Mayor Markland. to allow - — is to remain the i

Judge Harry Cutbrisll. of Ports mouth. V*, the Orest Auekw dagamora of the Improved Order of Red Men of the country, will be the chief speaker at a rally or. south Jersey tribes of the order to be held In the wlgwsm of K»lmla Tribe. No 2*0. at Red Men* Hall Ocean City. Saturday evpthrtall, who serves in court of Virginia. I* k* one of the most ( orators and jurists of The Ocean City rally Is planned In the Iniereet of the preeent State wide campaign to Incrnaae 1 the Red Men 1 la New Jersey from S6.0O0 to 1 — “ * ‘ l« South

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. 4 to be on fraternal gatherings

k of the

i Degree will

•The Board of Chosen Freeholders has r lowed |u> work for the year 19?,7 and has again organised for tbo year of 19** At the pollr the people In November expressed thulr confidence la the work of the. hoard as It hnt been constituted. so that there is but one cJkang« In its membership. Inwrence Chalmers, of Wildwood being the new member and taking the place of H. Foster Goelln. who because of ill health could not re nomination for his old feature of the work of 19*7 has been th* .

of the the co

first time Ihr- oft re* of the county in o bvautlfu. and adequate building. This . -Hiding was dedicated ■with appropriate ceremonies In July, and baa .’ore been the Joy and pride not only the members of the board but of all r of Cape May County as It has been most gratifying to receive the many expressions of satisfaction that bare come to the board commending the building and equipping of this building"Closely related to this enterprise are two others that are worthy of mention, rii: The pietlon of the installation of the Russell Index System in the offices of the ('aunty Clerk. "Thu has beep n somewhat cosily InstallaUon. he' all thoee who have to oo with the j^. -chinx of records report that Cape v (Continued on page

Ice-Coated Schooner Is Saved Crew Thought Loat Are Brought to New Ycfk After Heroic Battle

Crippled Off Cape May

night for the Pendleton. Faulty directions sent the two ships steaming over wide arcs • storm swept see before the found the disabled Until word waa reerired from the A rush met by Captain Henderson, it was tanred that the crew o' the Penrtloton

had been lost.

The cutter Seminole, unable to find th* Pendleton, wo* apprined ' the schooner 1 * position by fin* and to now believed to standing by. prepared to id the Acuahnot in towing the ship the Breakwater. . That the schooner was not with all hand* was due to fortunate chance which sent the steamship Cosmo, of the Purtb Rican line, a '

Vital Statistics of Sea Isle City

Tribes which are expected Eleven DeBth*, IS Birth*

Bank o! New York City. A new rat* of 8 per cent. ■ voted on an dellaqurnl tax 1" On motion of H S

Cjaraea. of Peters-, ■

>.-d V •'■ ' l" f*~' ‘ aterwm toll*- of t ap* May “U. Kalvis. Ace»4£g to*thn vtud siaristlr. schooner-* t

, k . Cail To Award Contract

of On a Cky; ... May Court House; CMy; On*ids. or

•. of Atlantic

isett. of Mays I : pba. of Atlantic City: > Egg Harbor City; J ton lie CHy. and Tuckerton

Lodge Elects i Devil rank Dodg . meeting to tha Y. rsttay evening.

weighing 2i, . The deeeaaed had lived at Cap* World War and Mrs. Mattie Rebeland two daughter., ana his parent*. Mr. and Mrs C. F. Smyth, of Weoonah. N. J.. vive him Mrs. Smyth l* a ter of Mrs James Koch, of Ocaaa

city

Puner;! arrangements have not

County Body Favors Cut

For 0. C. Boardwalk

Your Scale*

Read To Be

ina: Honored When

■ Senate Opens

~ y sh ! Special Train WUl Take '

4 tt . | Admirer* To Trenton

On January 10

th" m* (Expect Large Delegation

Failure of Beachfront Owner* To DeBever Easement Deed* To City, SoJons Declare, ia Reason Why Coo-

Tax Rates ! tract b Not Awarded For Construction of Walk Resolution Forwarded To Prospect* For New Boardwalk Are Not Encouraging Governing Bathe* of j — «

i Bosrdwslk fir.m Sixth to Twvlfth gfrenu received w wtlwck l*s> Monday when the Ocean CMy ' Coatmtoaiourr* announced th* in At-'coBtraci for the work could not

•ctoe as th* be awarded on that date due to

Laud the Coohdge Program

Dabby Vsrgkoa, 22, kw

Advertising

Fund Remains

Ui.changed

Freeholders Adopt Budget

—Bergner Proteat*— But One Change

Increase* in Salaries Made

The following reoolutiea from, the (tope May G taty number — 1

has b,«a received • - — of ( tope I

jctolly | frost own ore in the c-nti

of pulling rhaia* ntwrt.! Uon of the reran to deli*' plraAtri not -sf«> before Judge;®™! dred* to the city. Rid ledge oti Wednesdit} to an-1 The anntnin- ‘

entireiy upon ourj ,

Vargirw. hot 6 I

. (be U.e atrongnet i

Ml which would immedtatemnlate bulldtag activity kn ■rut and would remil' ■tabllahmost of a pet

t taxaa Invariably ]

From Today’* ‘ tffad Ad*

Whereas. ITewMaat Coolldie to conaistently urged upon all Ni

tlona; Ix'gKlatu

spirit of A flo- at 8! matters i Thomas Case* . 21 ' h>r Jl

Didn't Mean Wrong

rdwalk could be awat it owing to a nunttool Lwnera not signlug

o. Preebolders at thldr meeting Wednaaday. which time a hearing was held on the budget Bik mm- amend ment waa made to th* tentatltr budget, that of Increaelng tb« Oonnty Vocal local School a’lmment from *2000 to *2*00. Th. budge* without the increase to the advertising adopted.

luring the-year Just The 1X27 statiaUcs he eievtn deaths, ulx nd five lemalee. the average age f the deeeaaed bring 6* in 19M

« and 4 boy. In i ten equally dl

The year Just ended records that n marriages were performed in the city. The average age of the groom was 29 and the bride *7. The. figures to 192* Indicate that there were also ten unions with the average age of the groom 25 ' the bride *0.

To Be Destroyed Wot machln.-s ronftoraled in recent raids in the county were ordered destroyed by Judge H H. Eldredge Wednesday. NewWoodbine Officers Are Inaugurated Outgoing Member Praised; Borough Clerk Is Reappointed

With three of her tour mastbroken off. tne schooner Brina P. Pendleton, of Portland. Maine, which was caught to the gal,* off Cspe May Sarturday. was •owed to the Delaware Breakwater on Wednesday, by the coast guard

cutter Acushnet. The crew waa saved from death after thrr days' battle with th* stormy soar The craft was bound for Cbsr.caton. S. C., with a cargo of /* Ultoer.

Th. Acushnet. opt rat it.;; front

New York, and the U. 8. Co**. Guard cutler Semlntor. despatched by Commander K. a. Ad-

of Coaat Guard F

9 at Cape

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shap,’ drifting by In <he Btottb two days ago. -z&fi Wavna were heating at the io and her auperetrueture

The hulk wa* sighted aevaatyfive miles south of Ambrose light anti east of Cap* May. at a point where many wrecks have drifted with I he winter lid** The Schooner was so aheethed to ice that it Was In daag r of taming over, the captain of the Coamo believed. But them was still life aboard the hulk. Seas bad jawept It elnan Of all Its deck furniture, lb* galley was bat

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tbrtr Christ mas Club check? fi th* Sreurity Trtiri Company. C May You nhoaid Join the i now fcrmlny sod .hare ia distribution which will be » I roe for Christmas neat y

Sea I*ie’* Fire Lou $325 A record low Iona of 1X25 for the year just ended was the extent of the damage Incurred to screw rails which th* Mr* Isle Klfo Department answered in 192: The firemen were called ton time*, three of the rail* being nut of the city, to Denuiavtlie. to a highway and the Ocean City fire to October, a.rorthn* to the report of Fir*- Chief Sutton which was submitted at the ommiasioiier*' meeting Toes

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possible owners deeds it

up and sign t r» that th* buildii mw boardwalk will

Crimhu! Court Will j Caneelori Be HeW Wedneadgy i ^ ^ » ( «

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Mayor Ch»mpi« t large percentage oi did jin the heart of ti but have failed to u

Prize Winner In Mummers’ Parade

Meeting Turn. I* Changed! | l J^‘

family Mondny.

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