CAPE MAY HERALD.

VOL. V. NO. 10.

CAPE MAY, N. J., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1905.—EIGHT PAGES.

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PRETTY HOME WEDDING

Dias Creek Grange and County Board of Agri-.

cuiture Co-operate.

HOTHBIE EXPERTS LISTENED TO

| Mlaa May ttmith Become* (tie Brtde

of Mr. AraH Evana, of Camden.

A pretty weddiDK waa aolcmoicrd laat Saturday at noon at tin'raaldenor of Captain and Mr». L. Furman Smith, on WaakInitton atract. when their daughter. Mlu May Plorenoe Smith, became the bride of Mr. A rail Prana, of Camden, X. J., a eon of the late Joaepli R. Prana, who waa in hla day a wealthy land owner of Virginia

and mident of Philadelphia,

The ceremony was read by Iter. D. H. Larerty, D. D.. pastor of the Cold SprioK

Ptesbyteriao Church.

There was no maid of honor nor best man Miares Ada riennet and Alice Denitot acted aa bridesmaids, and Meaara.

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MU. Km. Dml»H plwrf I ! lord, .mo«« .bo« .to I Il.A m —.K { | -

Social and Personal Chat About Our Rosldenta and Visitors. Mayor Thomas W. Millet elstted bU da nub ter in Camden oeer Snnday. P. Txjgau Bochina la reported In be rerj 1.1 at hb home In Mercbaatrllle. X. Jf Dr. and Mr*. James Mrcray were rial tori to Merchantrille on Saturday and Snnday. Mrs. Harriet 8. Hughes, is In Philadelphia rbiting her daughter, Mrs. Percy F.

Hot belle.

Mrs Georgianna Garret non and slater, , Miss Sue Hildreth, are passing tbe Winter

| in Philadelphia.

I Bee. John C. Cobb baa been called tuUir

, I pastorate of tbe Baptist Church at Pal#

PUN MINT OTHER CHANGES ’ mo. this county

Head of Jewish Agricul-

tural School and Mayor Receives Promotion

YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS.

Intere*Ung Papers on Many Subjects ■ lead and Discussed Before

Large Attendance.

The spring meet in* of tbe County Board of AgrlcilUirr. in co-operation with Disi. ( reek Granite, waa held at tne court house, iu Cape May Court' Houae, on Wednesday, Marchlat The morning •esaion was devoted to motiuebUHioea', and the report of delegate* to tbe Horticultural Society sod State Board of Agriculture M. X. Hoffman, of Cold Spring, read a complete report of tbe meeting of tbe State Agricultural Society. He partienlarly related tbe experience with spraying and many discus-ona • 11 lest ions followed ab->ut pump*, etc. Tbe afternoon session waa opened at 1.90 p m. by an add res* of C. C. Hnlaart, of Mat a wan. X. J. He spoke on growing to mstoea and i-antalonpcs. and euiphaslxed the importance of good seeds, and recoin mended farmers growing seed- of toe it own. aeieci ing t Am from tbe beat and ear heat specimens He spoke of growing plants la hot beds, transplanting, fertills ing. cultivating and harvesting of tomatoea. He recommended clover aod for met - one; bot for early tomatoes, manure spread Vftar front b out of tha ground. M. F. Delano, of Mill vllJc. followed with aa addeeaa on "Poultry Kendng.’’ Mr. Delano told of the experience he bad with

broilers. Mr. Delano'

intereating, aa be spoke from personal experience, aod be baa a eery practical and successful plant in MUleiUe. Tbe ance at the meeting waa the largest In the history of tbe society, there being nearly 100 people present in (ha afternoon. Credit b due the Idas Creek Grange fot arranging for tbe meeting and swelling

ProC Smith Makes Report.

Prof John B. Smith, state entomologist of New Jersey, baa made bb report upon

hi* work in locating fnosqoito an

Xew Jersey and devotes several pages to tbr good work done at Cape May daring

thr last two summers. He oocuj telling of thb work, some thirty

which b entertaining to the average

One of the acts passed by the

which expired on Saturday was to provide a second judge tor the U- S. District Court for the District of Xew Jersey, and, It believed that ex-Judge Joseph Cross, of Union dhuuty, the president of the Stale

Seaatc, will be appointed.

Samuel S. Mercy, who was selected aa one of the ten High School pupils to represent Xew Jersey at the Inauguration, left on Thursday afternoon for Washington. accompanied by Leroy Wilson, non of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Wilson. Tbe boys thoroughly enJond«£belr4cip to the Capitol.

Engineer Letts In Demand. Engineer Clarence Letts, of the Cape May freight. No. 87. bearing many calls to do evangelistic vfork. Mi

Eighth Street M. E. Church, Camden, when the Rev. Mr. Barns b pastor, b known at the engineer evangelist.

Hoard Appeals on Frtday. Messrs. Charles C. Black and Joseph Thompson, of the State Board of IhMMBp were at Cape May last Friday, hearing the appeals from aseesamenta for tbe year IK*, in Cape May City and Lower Township. There were sixteen cease for Cape May and one for the Township.

Levi a Blake, of Washington, who bold* a responsible position la tbe War Department, has recently Men prom from a ftUHLOO clerkship to a MM place. Mr. Blake b a brother of H. C. Blake, thb etty.

tbe wedding march. Tbe happy con pie left

train for a tour ef Virginia and thy South

.f.,rwooo ;T* 1 *' ° B, » Brlf-Oovemnd j P wUh , * a, * Uon of

afternoon Captain Walter A. Barrows, of Mt Hoi

ANTI-DANCING PBKACHEK Ol'T.

munlty In The Whole

United Htatoa.

Kev. Eli GIShrd Bids Farewell Clayton Flock.

a Hla Profraaor H. I- Sahvovlcb. superintend eat of the Baron de Hirach Agricultural

Rev. Ell Gifford, of Clayton, who ha* led the vlgorou* crusade against dancing In that town, preached hb farewell sermon to bia Methodist congregation oo Sunday light, and many of hia parishooera are giving vent to sighs of relief. Pastor Gifford bade farewell Sunday nigh'. Not a trace of resentment was shown either by him or hla (hick. The church waa packed to tbe doors. Only •>noe did he refer to hia crusade. Then he said tbe steps taken by him were becai be waa urged by edmr members and because be felt it te be bb duty. Former Presiding Elder O. B, Wright is spoken of aa a probabh

Gifford.

BURNED IH8TKICT RECOVERING Buildings Rising on Capo May Court

House Rains.

Several temporary buildings have sprung up on the area burned over In tha flic of two weeks ago tt Cape May Coart

story brick structure, will be completed

by May 9A

Alexander Springer, proprietor of tbe burned Hotel Bellevae,. baa awarded a coot rad to a Philadelphia contractor for a modern hotel, with a capacity for 190 goests. It will be dbmpleteo by May 90.

A lew vary desirable oottagaa ai: the moat desirable part of the town. Abo aoma bargains In lota in diffluent aaetlona of the city. Now b the time to bay year

btdldlng lot.

800 Wi

A Neatly Printed Paper. Tbe Millville Republican” has joined the march of Improvement, aod added new presses, and mad* e larger slxed daily of lu issues. Under the new management of John B. Clevenatine. It b doing well, and we wbk It enooeae

Cape May People B^joloe. The appropriation tor surveying a d nal and harbor of refuge at Cap* May. inaid* of OoM Spring Inlet was included In the River and Harbor bill paaaad by 4 gram and signed by President Rooar All Cape May rejoices therefor.

M. K. Conference la fleealnn Tbe aannal conference of M. E. Cbnreh ■gaalb session at Atlantic City ye. day and will last until tha middle of i will prob la Cap* May county

yon want year boose painted ora n ggOeed. la tootaay workdooe In the itiag Una wa weald be planned to I Q jou. J. B. Hub ms * Bog.

School and of tbe Woodbine Battlement of tbe Baron de Hirach Fond and Mayor of the borough of Woodbine, baa been points t general • agent pf tbe Baron da Hlr*ch Fund, of America. and be will leave for hla new post In J one. He will ancoeed A. S. Solomons, of Washington. D.C. w jo resigned in December, 1908. M. S. Isaac*, tbe proddent of tbe Baron de Hirach Fond since its organisation, died laat May. aod Dr. Julius Goldman, a Xew York lawyer, aaa elected president laat September. Dr. Goldman desired to place at tbe bead of tbe central office of tbe Baron dr Hirach Fund a man acquainted with the ways of Russian Jews and perienoe in ootoolsalioa, and hia choice naturally fall upon Profraaor Seb«orlcb Professor Sabeorich has been with the colony of Woodbine siooa Ita establish meat In 1991, and was the leading spirit In all tha agricultural. Industrial, social sad political developments of tbe eettlemaot. la 199* be established tbe Boron da Hirach Agricultural School and developed It until It la now oooatdervd ooe of tbe bast last! tnLions of 1U kind. It was mainly through his efforts that in 19ns Woodbine was made Into an Independent borough—tbe first self-governed Jewish community la the United States. If not la the world. Professor Sabeorich wa* born February 95.1990, in Berdianak. aouthere Russia, aod received hla education in tbe Odessa University. Hla agricultural training be recaired In Zurich, Swtixeriaod. He emi grated to the United State* la 109k sad occupied the chair of professor of agricul torsi chemistry at tbe Colorado University

until 1991.

Another important change ‘n tbe school will be the abandoaing of the proaMt plan of boarding tha pupils In the dormitory. The pupils will be given n scholarship, payable weekly, and will board In private families In Woodbine. They,will receive as before, tuition and books fro*. It ia also the plan of the trustee* of the Baron de Hirach Fond not to admit young

| ly. visited Hou. Jamro M. E. Hildreth and ) Thomas R. Wales laat Thuraiiay. Senator Lewis M. Creaac.nf tbia county, waa among those wbo wltoroaed tbr Inaugural ceremonial at Waahln .too on Sat-

urday.

Mr*. John Trainer, of Washington, D C. , will have a handoome seaside Tills erected oo First Arenas, near the beach boulevard. !». IwRoy Reeves, of Philadelphia, son of tor ner Sheriff John W. Reeves, of Weal i‘* pr May. was a visitor to Cape May oyer Sunday. !x>uis J. McGrath, one of onr prominent Beach Mveuue Summer cottager*, cam* down from bia Philadelphia home and visited Cape May over Sunder. Kelson Z.Jjfavea, Jr., tbe faroou- crick eter wbo played in tbe international matches In England, was a guest at Cape May over Satarday and Snnday. A. Marcy LndUm. who last season proprietor of the Glen wood Hotel. Cap* May, baa lea-ed for tbe year 1905 the Klngttra*lng Hotel at Octan City. Mr. O- O. Barr, principal of onr public «cb<»ls, waa among those who were at Washington last Satarday witnessing tbe inauguration of President Roosevalt. Dr. Cborie* H Band. Dr. CaUel anAMr. William F. H. Raed, of Philadelphia, were prominent Philadelphians who \ gneste at the Aldlo* over laat Saturday and Sunday. Madame de Kennel, of France. 1 guest at Cape day. She ia a daughter of -Mm. D, M. Kearney, wide a of Gen. Phil Kearney, wbo ia passing the Wlnlerat the Windsor Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Milton Kennedy, of New York City, came to Cape May on Sot nrday evening to pay a few days visit to Mi*. Mary E Kennedy, their mothel? at her Washington street cottage. Mr. and Mr*. Georg* W. Edwards, of Philadelphia, were gneste at the Ah over Sunday. Mrs. Edward* wax formerly Mbs Reed, daughter of Mr*. Ana* 8. Reed, a prominent Lafayette street summer Uger. j Mr*. Everett J. Jerrell, who has been viaRIn* her paaeats, Mr. mod Mrs. Lewi. D. Stevens, In Brooklyn for a fortnight, wna joined on Saturday by her husband, and they both returned home on Monday

newly arrived Immigrants will be i pelted to learn the language In the cities will be admitted to the school.

On* doable meat refrigerator, rise 10 (set long 10 feet wide aod 11 feet high, made by •Thackara"; nearly new: a Ana box. One oaah office, eocloaed; a fin* ooe. Two i blocks. Two pieces of counter* 10 feet long, good onee. On* spring helenoe scale. Also a lot of other articles suitable for a

No

New Post OSoe. Ground was brokaa ea Monday for the new Poet office on Ocean Street, dt will be n thyee story baiidlng with an lod limestone front. The work will be « The boildlng wU coat

Foster Gilroy, eon of Mr. and Mrs. M. Y. Gilroy, of Philadelphia, and grand Of the late Captain Chari** P. Footer, „ Cape May, now hold* a responsible reportorial position on tbe Philadelphia "North

• - Wohvd 8, Uftle. eon of Mr. and Mrs. Alberta Little, cl'i^f* elty. wbo te printer, end wbo baa been' t>iP Ployed in Philadelphia tor several yean post, ha) moeptad • position In IndUnapolte, lod, m* ‘ for the Hogster State to begin

Dr. Walter H. Phillip*, wbo te always preparing himself to keep pace with tbe soteooe of bis profeaskta, journeyed to Beltltnore, and on Monday morning was an attendant upon tbe clinic of Dr. William Oater, at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Oder will soon leave Johns Hopkins for Loodoo. wberoh* i ~ '

Ton Should Read This. We have opened a ten-cent counter at our store, and many useful and pretty *rtlctea that were U and 90 cauls may be had at 10 cents now. You will wood** how H aaa be dons, bat drop in and I will explain

Committees Busy , With Hearings on Important Measures.

NEW QUARTERMASTER GENERAL

C. E. Murray. Former City Clerk of Treaton, Slated to Succeed tbe Late R. A. Donnelly.

Special Correspondence of the Cart Mar HxnaLO. Trenton. March 8.—The week has been an extremely busy one In legislative circle*. From Mouilay afternoon until this morning the time that wa* not actually devoted to the legislative mill's grind was given to bearing* by t-ommluee* on Important measure*. Among these was n bearing on the bill restricting automobiles Tuesday, which brought hundreds of antoiti- of the state about the ears of tbe leg dators; nn airing of the equal taxat: u measures, In which great interest \\ j » muni* - fested, and a hearing on th- Morris canal abandonment bill, it. o is of great Interest in north Jer.^v The lawmaker* paid np this week i'or much of the time that was lost cany la the

it ia expected that tbe name of C. Edward Murray, formerly city clerk of Trenton, will be sent to the senate ve.y shortly for coahnnatiou us enrccssor to the late General Richard A. IXmneliy, quartermaster general of tbe state.

The slim showing made by tbe Xew Jersey troop* at President Roosevelt's Inauguration at Washington Saturday because of the difference between the legislature and the state military board over tbe disregarding by tbe latter of the former’s direction to send a pro visional regiment to Washington ted this week to the Introlnctiou lu t!ic senate of two bills by Senator Homer of Burlington which are regarded as retaliatory measures directed by tbe legislature against tbe military board. The Aral bill provide* for a reorganisation of tbe state military board, which now consists of the major general, commanding tbe division; tbe adjutant general, tbe quartermaster general and tbe two brigade commanders. In anditioit to these officer* tbe new bill provides that the state military board shall include tbe Ave regimental commanders of tbe state. By this bill tbe men of tbe different regiments will be directly rei»re*ented on tbe board through their colonels. It la claimed by some that the trouble over the raising of a provlsibun* regiment for Washington would not have occurred bad the colonela of the different regiments been consulted. Senator Horner’s second bin provide* for tbe retirement of all Officers of the nathmal guard who have reached the age of sixty year* and allows an officer reaching such ago to retire with n tirerank, one rank cbove that which be bokte a* the time of retirement, providing he aba!1 hl-te *crve»! the state twen-ty-five year*. Ti'‘« measure If passed will at once .retire General Breintnall and Inaiwctor CrtWraj Gongdan. with brevet ranks. '*'• s, UBilled Fraaehlse BUI ShelvrA. ' The MU of Assemblyman Colby'of N. Essex calling for the limiting of all (COJtTDiCKD OX FOCBTH PAOEJ

To Erect New Bwlkbead. Thh Coreon's Islet Land Company, who rn« th* north end of Lodlam’s Island, will erect one thousand feat of bulkhead