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is conducting two contests tr boys and giris this week. See

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Cape May County’s Home Newspaper

Announcement on Children's Page

SEA ISLE Cm CAPE SAT COOSTY. V. J FKIDAY. 7ABCAET IE 1«S

-McMurray Take Seats In Legislature

r County Well Represented When It* Repre-

lire* Take Their Oath* of Office at the State House, Trenton, On Monday Receive Congratulation of Many Friends

Huge Power

Plant For S. Jersey

Atlantic City Electric Co Announce* Plans For

Great Development

nTTSK," 1 County - * tepreU«iniAtun-. wMt a Mlrri op*»tns o'

bi an Ocean arbtrb Ua»I train to Trmtoii \J <We«atlon, 75 t O'ttf'i nitration by ihr eul Each mw kat with O nlRmtiy on Uh .. J Wildwood i to attrsd th» raareattataUv* ■ oftbsct* ' xl.fw by bo.h

Prohibition Toast To Stone Harbor Mayor I and etly Slone

Mayor Ceor** MarJJaad. of Stone Harbor. •laB«B*. and ratal ns Ibelr Sta»* oT water to their llpe. la tribute to the Mayor and to hie rood health. TV* innovation waa introduced by President Eugene liens, at a dinner meeting of the Slone Harbor Board of Trade, held at lb* Walton Hotel. Philadelphia, last Friday night. Mr. Seng explaining that Mayor Mnrfciand waa ir. Fort Laudrrdsle. Fla , recuperating (ro t an lllneaa In which he auffei vl the amputation of a toot.

A of the body

; Big Loss In Sea Isle

Conflagration $45,000 Lom, When Fire Threatens Entire Block— Good Work of. Firemen

L

Marmora Youths Have Miraculous Escape From Death

Insured For Small Amount

VaUant work by the Sea Isle . CMy Fire Department naved a block of building* from daetroction when Are late Tuesday night ■ the Neptune Depart-

*. Forty-Aflh Street and ueM» —■*'

v t . deatroyrd (he b

■sr»r r by Vayor 9i was-

suses

ranee. The ttte. iereey u i

■ City, a ad I paaeeagpt Norman

i picked a* imerrc and «. Clergy

by detoctire wiring, waa control after an hour's

batl|e For a time the fire threat' ned to spread to the adjoining btiildtnga. the Cape May County Tim** building, and the “ of D. G- Geller Real Eutate

u lin«a of b we. which !2©« ■« of water a minute rushed gh. played on the fire, the c-quipment recently pur-

« by the resort proving it* worth, while thirty volunteer firemen worked heroically to stem

the march of the Waa*.

A shell remain* of the building which was gutted and stock and

slued at *18.000 were >g with valuable btuslra. William J. Sheehan, riphia. Is the owner of ing. which waa covered

by a small amount of Insurance. George Neptune, of the resort. operated the Wore and owned

the etock end bxturca.

Fire Chief F. H. Button of the resort fire department aaid that after an inspection. II was tbr thought of the department tbet defective wirae bad caused the Max*, there bring no other visible sc. He said that there had n rumors that the fire had n caused by an oil burner in

building. This, he declared.

S . Than three hundred acres land Is now optioned which considered sufficient for the no of this enormous undertaking. This development may be regarded as one of the gresUei step*. forwarded for Industrial *outh Jersey that has yet token

H. Howell, General

of R lompany. states that the, industrial Promotion Department of (be Atlantic Cfty Electric Company is already st work to spread this news ta the industrial world and Will ttarty co-ordinate Its efforts to thts direction with the various Boards of Commerce in

County Banks Hold Annual Elections Few Changes Are Made in Boards of Finand*! Institutions

Ryan Re-elected 26th Year

th»r will be

From Today s

Chief Button on Wednesday i f**e» wb* _Jd: The immense supply of' yet been

j water from the pumping station I elected aeu wee*

; 1 kept the standpipe overflowing) At the Tucker.M Bank 23C out I . and we had more water than! of 2Sb share* were toted, while at

(Ooattatred on Page 5) i Stone Harbor »0 oul Oi »*“ “

.! . voted.

ct j -n* np.rtenced

l N. Wildwood i " s

■en-kanU 5aU«aal i’ape Nay The officer* were aU re-elected

lo* :B2*. They are; ~ lisnry H. Eldredge. vl« Joseph H Hanes: rice John W. Mscray, casbti

J. Jcrredl.

Ih re, tors: Joreph I > hairmsn: Hen.r H Ssmurl F. Eldredg*. Hewitt. Everett J. Jerrell, K. Mecrsy. John W. Mecxay. W. II. Phillips. M. U„ H B. Rutherford.

How the Thirty-fourth Street. Ocean City. Station looked after train drove auio through corner of waiting room Tusoday morning. Raymond Snee d and Harold Gannon were badly bruised, hut fered no mrtous injuries in the crash.

Realty Co. Will Lease For $45,000 Offers Wildwood 2nd and 3rd Ward Beachfront Holdings at That Figure For the Period of One Year

The Beach Realty tfempany. whose claim to the ownership of Marly all of tba beset frool and riparian right* hi the second and third retorts of Wildwood »»» op court wheat the city i»>

a cmnmuwtthtkKi read Tuesday maattng. that they would renew the dtyv leoso on their holdings for MS.dOO in escess of ail taxation. In 1«7 WIMwotxl leased this imroc section from tbr company for one dollar After the city lost Its suit to ■ecere title to land last year the pto|«*iUon to purchase the frontage for M55«.0«s' was pm up to the voters and soffered an over-' whelming defeat. In tbslr comamnicaitoG «c It. •Wmmtssloners the company de-maom-d that «u- cll> remove from its bolding" all buildings ain't Improvements. These include life Kitarfl buildings, pom fort station*, surface draining eqiilpnu-u! and a section of the Third Ward

Boardwalk.

Clerk Hell was iostructod to notify the company that their term* were not satisfactory, but that the city is wlUlr-g to enter Into a (case under the same term* 1

sad c - '

Auto Skids On Bridge Another Accident at Dangerous Curve

Blind Man Near Death In Blaze Rescued By Neighbor Before House Bums Down

Moses Murrey, elderly ool man. who. though blind, has lived atone In his home at Cold Bp many yasrs. narrowly esc

W have . Urol* RanfleM. RaufioM entered

WJ

bis hand* and calling for help.

The '"ape May Fire

Banks Offer Prizes For Thrift Week Co-operating With Schools and Y. M. C. A. in C«pe May County Program The Plans Include Speakers

The i.imity. wide thrift campaign Wblrh I" being held during the week of January 17 to 23 in the schools of the county with the co-operation of the bank* and the <!ape May County V. M. C. A., is rapidly rounding into shape and It Is expected that all plans will be completed by the end of thin week. T!.' I'.. !. I-' ! ' i. li.lif, .

“Saratoga” Anchors Off Cape May Hundreds of sutotMs were drawn to Cape May Point on Sunday by the "Saratoga." the big airplane carrier Just launched by the Government. The "Sar itoga" was anchored off the bt. ^waters at Cape May. taking on fuel and oil, preparatory lo starting on a trip to the Pacific coast, with seventeen hundred men aboard.

Policeman Is Found Guilty Jury Deckles He Was Negligent H Allowing His |i Prisoner To Escape

I F. M..

j May

Aside Verdict

Discuss Plan Stone Harbor Development Extensive Real Estate Operations, Advertising and Gty Planning Considered At Board of Trade Dinner

Hi. proposed plans of Samuel Hchen. of New York, for extensive real estate operations, advertising and eity planning for Stone Harbor, were fiiDeusai-d at a dinner meeting of the Stone Harbor Board of Trade, held at Ibe Walton Hotel. Philadelphia. Friday evening, evident Bugen.- Seng, and newly-elected president of coun•f Stone Harbor, prodded at meeting, and fully ISO Intfreeled stone Harbor property owners attended. Forty men from Stone Harbor made tba trip to Philadelphia in the new Stone (Continued on page six)

Wildwood String Band To Parade Will March Through Home Streets in Costumes

j Wildwood String Band will I k> in W. I wood Sunday af-l January IS. st 2:30 P. j ■ musician*, who won *ecc year in the .wumui' i a i’a-j st Phiiade'pbU. ou New j s Day. will uc in full cos-] They will form at Hand and Pacific Avenues am, march j north on Pacific to Magnolia, east on Magnolia to AilanUc, north on AUsntic to Twenty-sixth .Street. | west on Twenty-Sixth Street to! Avenue north on Penn-' Avenue to Eleventh, via us lo Third Street then to club oust-, where they will disband. Every yea. the iwnd gives their i*ny follower* who were unable > ace them in Philadelphia, an ppo.-tunity to know Just how the rise winners looked and played.

Makes Restitution Is Given Freedom

Bader Will Get Contract For O. C. Boardwalk

Formal Award of Contract Will Be Made on Monday, January 23—Work Will Be Rushed So New ’Walk Will Be Completed By May 30

All But Few Owners Give Gty Easement Deeds

Many Thanks

company cwrty sad stood by ready tor action while of the department as•sa Isle City firemen ; the coofia*ration In the re vrt in exceEeni The blast waa under i they arrived. The i by Ocean View lire departecfated by the

Train Drives Auto Through R. R. Station Two Marmora Youths Have Miraculous Escape From Sudden Death

The Ocean City C<

o.-nralsehawre to City, the

the Dante’ 8 Bader (

company, of Atlantic City. 1 coat met tor the coostructvoo of a new sixty-foot wide boardwalk from Sixth to Twelfth Street TfcH action was token at a rt-gvi*.

of the soloes held Monday ore a throng ablet

They Saw Train Too Late

red a* the resuit of a grade ring accident at 10:30 A- M day at the Pennsylvania Rxilc remain* at Thirty-fourth et. Ocean City, it injured occufiaai* ot thg car Raymond Sneed, r aed Harold Gannon. 1«, bolt of MwrL The car, a tudor Ford n. was demolished by the c«iwk! was driving east ou Thir-ty-fourth Street. He declared af!bc accident, that he did not nor hear the train approachTbr train was slowing up to diage paseengers when the cow ier struck the auto allgbtly in front of the right

previously.

some nnarrouniable manner ion was knocked from the and buried beneath It. He sitting on the side struck by Ibe train. The force of the Impact. despite the decreasing speed »f the train, ripped off one of Ms •hoes. Unwood Sack, U» esginrer of the train, quiekly brought the rain to a standstill. Assisted by 'oodurtor William Handle and several i«-rreins attracted by the «raah. the auto waa lifted ftom Uannt.n r.-d he. with Sneed, were placed aboard and rushed to the Eighth Street station where the train was met by the Ocean City ambulance. Both men were ronpriou*. They wete token lo the offices of Dr. Alien Corson (Continued on Page 3)

Ibe formal award of the tod rill take place on Mi ary 23, at tfc. law | award of a contract tntiri lay over two week* after the resoiution is introduced. A repreaentotlve of the Bader (dmpany stated at the r.iesUng hu company was ready and wlUtag to assn me all the ohligathm.- of the contract. The Bader Company received the contract on its bM of 3227.100 for precast piling and spruce decking. This contract is tor the con st ruction of the boardwalk proper. City Engineer Coiltsson is busy

will be token ■■(■■the right-of-way and land on (be oceanward side of the new boardwalk from the owners who refused to sign «*utc-

. j the

local ion of the boardwalk ter a period ot SO years and giving the city full power of the land be-

yond the board walk.

Tba tuts of tbs Und hapexd the ,

iHf

I w alk would x

This ensem ut deed provided the right for th city to erect the

toe land of the own-

ers. fix the boardwalk line tor a oi year* and would prevent th*' erection of stores, or (winding on the oceanward side of toe boardwalk without the city's COO-

The previous on,mis* toners to award the contract .... . beachfront owners hsd faile furnish the city with eesemen’ Until Monday |t was doubtful whether the old boardwalk. partially destroyed by fir*, would be re-construried or a new boardwalk built When the resolution to sward the contract was introditcod by rommiiwtoner Trow. Mayor CbprePion asked if any peraon wrasen) had anything to say on !h* lest tv Gsskill. of At Dot Ir City, asked pvrmlssinn to speak, not •- resident, but as peraon who was interested in Ocean Cltv. H

Dr. Walker Installed As Kiwanis Head

Dist. Governor S. Pawley

Installs New Wildwood Officers--Many P;-esent

Six Member* Rewarded

(Continued oa page slxj Attended Reception To Lindbergh in Mexko Mrs. Margaret Evans, of Sblioh

tho rM«niiy went to Mexico, •here her husband is employed >y the Victor Company, writes to \ friends that she saw rotoari Und- { berg's plane come la and tost ibe I dsy was declared a general hoM I day. 8he si tend so the reception given In hi* honor at the Aowri ran Embassy and met Colonel I Undherg. the Ambsasodur and

I Mr*. Morrm

| Wildwood String Band Advertising Resort

' First Baby Bom in ! Central Section of County ; ■