BENJAMIN F. Lit DEAD. W*ll-K«o«n to Cop* M»y Nooldont. For Vooro. Ranjituta /FWboc Uff, I factor to Uto uptxAtdto* of Oope ooo of tbo FMMt ood of N*w Jonwr toto U*» i tho couotrr, SttotUj »' 140 o'ctocA. to tlx. HJ-idoc HoU 1 tal. M AU««ic C*J. D*^b <

ae bod baeo ofmctod di*1o« l«tr mm. tTO w^«0> Tbo dtocooo dwrofop d foflo»toc * chill Ho woot to Ibo oooabore rraort

Mm Loo Lod b«-o w

d urine bio Moy ORy TyRotbor wltbM m. Loo

mac nt (be bedoldr tfso Suodoy Rtorttooc and 4ouKbt«r-to-tew FVonrlo Boxley Lao.

and Mr* Hualoo IXxorr Edward H ewooooy and Alfrod W Larwobo. tbo loner of wbtxn wm Mr Lao * f*rt ■Mr In buatoom. boro booo oooRonl risFora at tbo bedoide durtoe tbo

tltno at bit *t»«*

Li*o bio totboo. Htto. Tbocio* Leo. be oftnty* woo on ewraeot and ocxivo oupporter of Deenocrotto lde«* HR caroor to pttoflc Mfe b.*an who® bo

Mr

PAPE MAY HBtALP, THUBflDAY. APRIL 29, 1909

1860 He *.

o DeaxxxoUc Pretodeotlai ohwxor and mm a member of the Doonocrottc 3tat< Ctmmlctee to 1860 In 18&i and 18(1 he wax nom tooted for tbe House of AaoernWy, but to both tootonce* war defeated by a meecre majorKy to 1870 Mr. Lee wm nominated for Coocreoo from Tbe Fbwt DWrtct Tbo dtoLriot umiolly gore J700 mo Jortty. and that yoer abotA 1600 colored Totem were added. maAtoe near ly 6000 to oerorcomo yet tbe Demo eratic candidate war defeated by only 1800 rotee. Mr Leo’a *pieodld ctrupaton for tbo CXmgreeatonal poet marked tbe first Inroad made tote tbe Republican ntoJorlLy to tbo Firs'

DUtrlot.

Tbeae perticular flafterto* records at Che pells pointed him out at

ui* to tbe a

tut tan. a

be minute aAlatos erf tbe t noat to brtncltx U ti

a And Mr Lee 1 # h wbtob tout feaolf t s aa not alooo to to

of the toatPutton Fre-ltientiy tb« approprtatlou two tbe totoMuUoo was tint nrffictool to meet hte do i • b made tbrmsriv** p .r Ocularly fait to tbo i-tnia.; if jomo. Mr. Leo is aaW to hare take ■d* own perwooal funds to help eetaL lab permanently tbe toatitutloo. to rent was Ms teal to tbo work He waa tlao preatdeut of tbe New teraey Oonforent* of Charities and forrectloas. and for many years {mat ■»— taken an active part amons tbo vestrymen of Trinity Bpiacopal Cburrt Mr Lee waa alao a member of tbo Sew Jersey State Hlatnrlcal Society, the Academy of Political and Social Science of PbUadelpbla, the Mercan.llo Library of that dty and tbe Lsr tua atwtoCofutry Cluba of Trenton. Benjamin Ftaber Lee was born lone 80. 18S7, at tbe Lee Mansion, in Port EXIaabetb. to the county of Ximberland Ho was tbe aou of Tbo* da Lee- Doth bla buatoea* talents and love of politics he pretoaMy tnbartted tnxa Mb father. Thomas waa a Me man and a successful and waa rccardod as a Uvtoc xwuradlctloo of the timeworn adage lusuxee and politics would ie was a success to botb. Leo. tbo fatber, kept a general at Port ataaLotb. and acted at sort of bualoeas and political a the cummitoKy. He was at Assemblyman and Judge, a tter of cougroes during tbo ik-oad Seal

aootroversy, and

and sincere friend and admirer

y Andrew Jackson. Almost before be

mtn Leo was a power to tbe local Democratic politics While active politics and bustocee bo managed

OLD SOLDIERS ATTENTION

Any Old Soldier who made a home*lead entry of 40, 80 or.1^0 a res in »ny aUte in the union before the year of 1874, ha* a claim .-oiintijf to him from the government, provided he ba* never sold this

right or taken up another homestead.

It does not make any difference whether he proved up on his

original homestead entry or simply left it.

A Soldier who never made a homestead entry or on who entered land after Inn* 22, I874, hafmothing to sell. WE BUY THESE CLAIMS.^ The widow or heirs ■>f a soldier can also sell these rights.

tier, of tbo Stalo. when tbe gubernatorial convention of 1871 assembled, every delegate from the Fbsc Coogreestcoai Dtotrict went to Ttectoc to urge the eMecdoc <* Mr. Lee as the candidate few Stat.

He let his constituency knew.bow ever, that bla preference was f« Joel Parker, but they were bent up on casting their 118 votes ter his on the toformai bailor, until be to*tot ed upon their yielding to the drsnfcnd tar Parker's naminatlon, and Mr

e Freeboltl candidate to a the tide of battle r later appointed be Supreme Court

1 tht

;atoed svrfndcni knowledge to stand largely to good atead during the later k of Ms Bfe. A Philadelphia let to tbe Bridgeton Chronicle, that featured the paper, of the hustling yo'tng Cumbertand comity man. who wss wtoc spurs to politics. Everything marked as a man whose sexipe of future waa to great for tbe little town of Pott BlUatoeth.

Uge began to court Mm. and . h b. tUrw. on itotll bk death «-a« moulded an active, powerful life, {real for good. tireleBa civic progreas. dominant in tbe Demo of years agooo and marked On Jtrfy 18. 1862. Annabefta WMaon Ttywnaend. seven years Ms Jttokw. Mrs Lee la daughter of the fate WKUam

R. H. Peal & Co., Jsiie talMlii, Bnwtr C. Salt Lake City, Utah

7,731,739 POLICIES IN FORCE Think of this vast army of policyholders ail enjoying and feeling the security of Life Insurance Protection in The Prudential

Bis* Ball and Athlatlca 'Oder tbe aueptoea of the Board of Trade tfcore la to be a fltwi-rfaa* tmmm bww *nd Geotge Doroer. for many yean a player of the rfd Cape May team, wtC be manager He 1* endeavoring to organise the «ame aggregation of players as last

yfea of Athkv Jc meets will be arranged If poaalbte md tbe Hotel Cape May will offer cup* for succeasfrf pqrtJctpaanti

IF THE CONDITION OF s National Bank *• r

the 8tat* of New of business. April

RESOURCCSI disco uo la

Du* from approved Reserve

Cap*

LIABILITIES, itock paid In 1

fund

Bonk Note* outs la ml i deposits subjoct to

IndlrtSts

Certified checks

€1,181 M

li

JU.7U M

a was subae qoeody tow to 1861. again by Oovemor Greet] to 1887. and finally by GoveroocAb best to 1892 ' While in the latt-r porttou of hi* offtotoi refatlooe with the office the Bopreme Court clerkablp he p aooaSfy dbected the rrllaftog. arrange all tbe C eases. This comprised cases frtiu. 1683 to 1846. previous to which latter

Mr. Lee's buatoea* actlvSty dsiei from 1860. when he wa* Ideuiifled w«h the dc eioproesa of raFroad to--'taraau In the ajotberri aectiou of the BUte. Ssrty In fbe f .0'n be- wrote eaten lively on the subject, particularly L. the Tr^ptota Cam Jen and Brtdgetoc. rnis^apui. with the purpose of Ideo CVytog tbe Camden and Amboy rail road with J*.- development of Ur southern portion of New Jersey, to 1868 he became one of the tooorporators of the West Jersey BaUroad 1 to 1869 was oo* of tbe of tbe Waat Jersey Central Railroad Ctmpaay. On the 9th of March. 1461. be was uamed by act of (be Legtotatm os director of the Cape May and vnumie Company. IBected as treasnrvr at the company he ratatoed tbe poaltioc until 1*7*. He was also active to the boMbtog of the Stockton Hotel at Cape May. to 1866 be was as: lucorporator of tbe

The children of Mr.

iliaa Anna Towneeod Lee and Mrs Marguerite Alepander (L^e) Dtxnn. all of whom survive. AH who knew him regarded and spoke of Mm as a man without fads. He was an eothudaetic wotkerjoved activity and attended personalty 90 Ur u was prrwIMe to Ml the projects that come under Me attention. The funeral oorurrod In Trenton

hSurf. 10

ate of New J orsey. County of Cape ■a L Henry H. Bdredas. Cashier he abov* naznod bank, do eolemnly ■r that tbe abov* statement Is * **-- — of my knowledge and

day of April ISM,

JOHN T. HEiVll-r.

DENNIBVILL* HI mi in M«m*> Gandy sod Leoa Cor n spent Saturday to PhUsdolptlcMr. Braamo Earneei and family to Mr. Frank Bamcat Jr., trf Camden. spent Sunday with their parents. Mrs Sonera Lloyd mxi Mrs Samuel Cfcraoo. of Cape May, have been dartag the week Biting friends and relatives here On Friday and Saturday Mrs EH* eary was rtoMM« her daughter M». WUlets Coreoo of Coist Hooae. Dr. J. Morgan DU and Leslie LadLam. of Court House, .were calling on

Proposals Wanted. Sealed bids will be receBtod by tbe City Council, of tbe CUy erf Cape May N. J., at 8 o'clock" J> m.. May 10th. 1*0«, at the CHy Han. tor the extension at its Marttooc avenue, COrgie,

to Taj/et 'Stoy sod i bids lx expressly rWerred by the ct

AN ORDINANCE.

ware looking for a cedar tree that would do for s flag staff tor lbs ptetic school grounds at the coun"^Mra. Samuel Dlckaoc. of Ocean CSfy is sp»ndk« the week here with reto-

die Appraiser to and far tbe < of Cape May, New Jersey. Seodoo 1. Be It ordained and acted by the InhaHtarts or Tbe Ctty of Cape May to City QounfU bled, and It to hereby enacted by tbe authority of the at shad b* elected by tbe C

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LADIES ENTBAHCl

BOTTLING CO. sea uc a itue in mes a m in ms

Mount Vernon Tnmuick Bailey’s Peerless Pepper, 8 year-old OvertioU Philadelphia Rye

P. and C. No. 6 G. and B. Black Label C. B. Co. Sunny Brook Moroney Army and Navy Wm. Penn Gibson Monti cello Rye

AND AT f T. OTHER BRANDS (■parted art Doaestk Wire; aD klB^of Bcer

m A 314 WasklDftoB Street. Cape May

said Mercantile Appraiser aball receive an ancsxl salary of fire hundred dollar* to be paid to equal nxarfbty taataUmeoti 81, 1809. tram the

GAS

NOW, IS THE TIME OIL HEATERS Linoleum, Oil Cloth, Stove Boards, Stove Pipe and Coal Hods. I have a stock on hand. Prices Reasonable. CHARLES A. SWAIN 305-7 Jackson St. Cape May, N. J

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Merchants National Bank CAPE MAY, N. J. \y THE POLICY OF THE MERCHANT’S NATIONAL BANK is as liberal as is possible with that degree of safety necessary to insure Confidence and Success 8 Bar CeaL talerts Attswcrf aa Time DcpadK PRIVATE BOXES FOR RENT IN FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF VAULTS

W. L. arevgss, President Joseph H. Hakbb, Vlee-Prea Hkkby H. Ei.drkdoe, Cashier G BOKO a H. Rkbvbs, Vine Pres Evkkktt J. Jkkkklx, AaL Cashier