PUBLIC NOTICE Public Dotice is hereby given, that / on tbe Second day of March. A. D.. 1909, tbe Cape May Light and Power Company, a corporation of the State of New Jereey. filed a petition with the Board of Cboeen Freeboldera of the County of Cape May, in the State of New Jersey, requesting its consent and permission to erect poles and string wires thereon, with tbe necessary fixtures in and ui on certain County Roads in the County of Cape May,. for the purpose of providing electric light and power for the residenta of Cape May County residing on or near the said roads, and over which tlie said Board of Freeholders have control. The time for which said consent and permission is asked is for a period of twenty years. The uses in detail for which such consent and permission is asked is to erect poles and string wires thereon, with the necessary fixtures, for the purpose of providing electric light and power for the residents of Cape May County residing on or near said roads. The roads through and over which said consent and permission is asked is as follows, to wit: The Main Sea Shore Road from a point where the line of the poles of said company now end at Erma, to a point where the same is crossed by the West Jersey and Sea Shore Railroad at Burleigh ; tbe Schellioger's Landing Road from the Bridge at Schellinger's Landing to a point where the same intersects the Main SeaShore Road at Cold Spring; the Meadow Road to Holly Beach City from a point where the same intersects the said Main Sea Shore Road at Rio Grahde to tbe borough limits of Holly BeachlOity; the Green Creek Road from a point where the same intersects the Main Sea Shore Road at Rio Grande to Schellinger's Corner at Green Creek. The said petition will be considered y the Board of Chosen Freeholders of ■Se County of Cape May, at the Court House, at Cape May Court House, New Jersey, at tbe hour of two o'clock p m., on tbe Sixth day of April, A. D., 1909. SAMUEL TOWNSEND, 8-13 St Clerk. APPROPRIATING ORDINANCE An ordinance to direct and prescribe the amount of taxes to be levied in the City of Cape May, in the year, A. D., 1909, and to make appropriations and limit expenditures for tbe time beginning the first day of January, A. D.. 1909, and ending the thirty-first day of December, A. D., 1909. Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by th« inhabitants of the City of Cape May in City Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted b* the authority of the same, that the following amounts are hereby appropriated fo the respective purposes herein stated, from any funds in the Treasury, to be used for tbe respective purposes and not otherwise 1. Mayor'6 Salary, $ 500.00 2. Recorder, Superintenpent Water Works, etc., 1000.00 8. Assessor's Salary, 600.00 4. Collector'# Salary, 600.00 5. Treasurer's Salary, 600.00 6. Building Inspector's Sal., 160 00 i 7. City Solicitor's Salary, 300.00 & Street Stuwyi»E!a Sal.. 600.00 9. EngineerWater Works, 780.00 10. Asst. Engineer of Water Works, 720.00 11. Two Engineers of Fire Department, 1440.00 12. Police and Watchman, 4000.00 13. Lighting Streets and Public Buildings, 12500 00 14. Repairing, Cleaning & Watering Streets, 6000.00 16. Fire aud Water. 6500.00 16. Property aud Improvement, 4000.00 17. Incidentals. 1000.00 18. Interest on City Bonds and notes, 33000 00 19. Sinking Fund. 11164.00 20. Schools. 4100.00 21. Payment of $1000 School bonds, 1000.00 22. Int on School Bonds, 1200.00 23. Stationery, Printing sod Advertising, 1500.00 24. Fire Department, 4200.00 26. Poor Fund, 500.00 26. Memorial Services, 200.00 27. board of Health. 600.00 28. Operation Sewer Plant, 3000.00 29. City Carpenter, 600.00 30. City Engineer, 600.00 31. Engineer Pumping Sta., 720.00 82. Arousemets, 300.00 33. Music, 5000.00 Total, $107,774.00 Section 2 And be it further enacted that tbe money appropriated by the first section shall be derived from the following sources : Anticipated water rents, $16,500.00 Anticipated licenses and Miscellaneous receipts, 11,500.00 Tax duplicate for 1909, $79., 774 00 ' Total. $107,774.00 Scetion 3. And be it further ordained and enacted by the authority of the same that this ordinance shall take effect immediately. J. F. JAOOBY, President ofCouncil. F. J. MELVIN, Mayor. Attest:— JNO. W. THOMPSON, Recorder. Approved March 8. 1909. PETITION. To the Honorable City Council of the City of Cape May : Gentlemen:— We the undersigned, being Freeholders residing in said City of Cape May respectfully petition your Honorable body that you will cause . the following named streets, highways, roads or alleys in said City to be laid with a sidewalk, curbed and guttered of such character as the judgment of your Honorable body deems best. Continuation of Franklin street from Lafayette street, both s;des to Kearney avenue ; Sewell street from Howard street to Franklin street, both sides; Kearney avenue from Howard street to Jefferson street, both sides; Howard street trom Hughes to Columbia avenue, both sides ; Howard street, both sides, from Columbia avenue to Beach avenue; Jefferson street to Kearney avenue from Beach avenue ; Queen street, one square ; Beach avenue. to Stockton avenue; Beach ave- )

nue, north side, from Second avenue to , shkJ'SSi.'SS SSSES Creek to Beach avenue; Congress . | [ sides from Pennsylvania Railroad tract I to Beach avenue ; North street from : Perry street to Grant street, both ; sides; Jackson street, both sides, from I Bridge over Cape Island Creek to 1 Be -eh* venue; Broad street, both sides " from Jackson street to Elmira street ; Decatur street, both sides, from La- : fayette sireet to Beach avenue; Stock- I ; ton street) both sides, from Howard , street to Madison avenue ; Bank street, | both sides, from Broad street to La- ] 1 fayette street ; Lafayette street from , . Jackson street to Schellenger's Land- . 1 ing ; Queen street from Oorgie street ' [ to Lafayette street; Jefferson street from Oorgie to Lafayette street; from j Perry street to Congress street, both > sides of street known as Congress , Place ; South . Lafayette street, both » side, from^Perry street to Grant street ; 1 Washington stTeet, both sides, from r Perry street to Schellenger's Landing ; , Guerney street, both sides, from Coi lumbia avenue to Bescb avenue ; Grant i street, east side, from Beach avenue to i Broadway; Broadway, southeast side . from Grant street. to West Perry street ; r Madison avenue, both sides, from Wash- . ington street to Beach avenue ; Benton i avenue, both sides, 'rom Sewell street . to Franklin street ; Oorgie street, both • sides, from Franklin to Madison ; avenue. i And your petitioners will ever pray, > etc. ' Dated February, A. D., 1909. i Names Location of Property i Isaac H. Smith, Jr., Oorgie street ' C. Earle Miller, Washington street I Edgar Holmes, i R. H. Fadeley, i Alfred Hand, : Mrs. Helen H. Curley, 205 Ocean at. Joseph H. Hanes, 206 Perry street I James T Rice, 539 Elmira street. ' EL J. JerrelL 911 Queen street ; W. R. Sheppard, Decatur street ' K. H. Barton, Washington Btreet Joseph B. Hughes, Jr., 915 Queen st , Daniel Focer, Dr. S. F. Ware., Cor Decatur and Lafayette street . Sol Needles. Cape May. : • David O. Crowell, Cape May. George O. Baldwin, 6 , Frank B. Mecray, ; J. W. Mecray & Bro., M. E. Heine, ; Wm. He' eu thai, Thomas Stewart. Wm. Porter, , Charles T. Campbell, Jackson street. Harry Hebenthal, 509 Franklin street. Ellis C. Eldredge, ■ Zachary Taylor, V. M. D. Marcy. I Received, accepted and ordered pub- | lished at a regular meeting of City | ' Council held March 2, 1909. JNO. W THOMPSON. , City Olerk. PUBLIC NOTICE ' Public notice is hereby given that on the twentieth day of March, A. D., 1909, the Wildwood Waterworks Com- ' pany, a corporation of the State of J New Jersey, filed a petition with The J Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Cape May in the State of New Jersey, requesting itc£consent ana - permission to lay water Mains and ' Pipes beneath the surface of a certain portions of the County Roads or High- ' ways in the County of Cape May, for the purpose of supplying the dwellers j along said roads or highways with ' water, and over whioh said roads or highways the said Board of Free- ) holders have control. The time for which said consent and ) permission is asked is for a period of ) twenty years. The uses in detail for which such ) consent and permission is asked is to ) lay its Water Mains and Pipes beneath the surface of certain portions of the ) County Roads or highways, for the ) purpose of supplying the dwellers ) along said roads or highways with water, said portions of the County 1 roads or highways being as follows: — • First. From a point known as Ross' Mill Pond on the road leading from • Rio Grande to Green JCreek to a point ' where the said road intersects the Main ' Sea Shore Road at Rio Grande . Sec- ' ond. From the last namedjpoint along ' ' the Main Sea Shore Road to a point I ' whe.-e the Meadow Road from Holly 1 ' J Beach City intersects aairi Main Sea ' Shore Road; Third. From 'he last J narn-d point along the said Meadow | ' Road leading to Holly Beach City to a ' point where 'he said road intersects : i " the boundary line or Borough Limits of . 1 J Holly Beach City. 1 The said petition will be considered i by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of j : the County of Cape Ma*, at the Court! House, at Cape May Court House, 1 1 New Jersey, at the hour of two o'clock I . p. m.. on the 4th day of May, A. D. , • ) 1909. ) SAMUEL TOWNSEND. - 3-7 3t Olerk. I The New Paint Store 8 John Little has openod up the bus'- 1 fless of selling paints at the corner oi Jackson and Washington streets and it | , • is just the place to buy fresh paints. ' 3-23- tf | Strings for all kinds of stringed in- i strumente and large assortment of ! music at Star and Wave Music and - Stationery Department, 817 Washing- ; ton street. t If you want anything form a paper of pins to a pair of good gum boots | , Thos. Soults. Cold Spring, can servo y you. Local 'phone. tf ; New Malay Opium Cure Being Distributed Free by a New York Society. B Cooperating with missions in Malayt sia, the Windsor Laboratories of New 3 York have secured a supply of the wonn derful combretum plant, which has done h so much to revolutionise the treatment 3 of the opium habit. - together with fu& ^instruct! oris for its . use, and United States consular reports o bearing on tbe subject will be sent to o amy sufferer. To obtain a free supply of this remedy and the consular reports, . addressWindsor Laboratories, Branch 20, - U4 East 26th Street, New York City.

SIM A10 WAVE Music and Stationery Department FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE We are now offering the following BLANKS on sale at tbe Star and Wave Office and others will be added from time to time : Agreements for Buildings. Agreements to Convey Lands. Assignments for Mortgages. Bill of Sale Bond and Mortgage. Chattel Mortgage. Administrator's Deed. Executor's Deed. Warrenty Deed. Three Days Notice to Tenants. Thirty Days Notice to Tenants. Release of Liens. Powers of Attorney, Proxies. Complaints Warrants Nomination petitions Also Typewriting Papers / I Mimeograph Papers * Carbon Papers j Backing Paper 1 Box Paper Pound Faper * Music Paper - Drawing Paper Photo Mounts ' Photo Covers Foolscap, legal cap, bill cap, letter aud note paper. Blotting paper in full sheets or cut I usual size, 10 pieces assorted colors, | Many other kinds of papers. Sole agents for Edison Phonographs, records and supplies. Stationery of all kindB. All the popular music Banjo, violin, guitar strings, and other musical supplies. Edison records can be beard before ' purchasing. HIJW AND WAVEl Music and Stationery Dep't. 317 Washington Street Gape May, N. J. AND I tin] , full of picture*. S»m985$ I

A GAS RADIATOR IS JUST THE THING THESE COLD MORNINGS We Have a Fall ! Line i i Come in and See 1 Them CAPE HAY 1LLD1INATIN6 CO. ' AM Wasbingtsn Street It will do yon good and keep money in yonr pnrse if you will get the habit of buying yonr DRY GOODS FURNISHING GOODS and CLOTHING at LAVENTHOL'S 1 3 19 Washington Street W £. BRIGHT. Fire Insurance I Id any part of Cape May County HOLLY BEACH. N. J. ^ E Trade Marks Designs ' rrvv* Cory rights Ac. .ASKSSBlfAt'SglS'ASKSSKfK Scientific American. A handsomely Ulnetrmted wMklr. / i Te*r"0|oar monthfc'fl^Bc^byah newedealera. mjjnn s; j prk

W. S. SHAW & SON General Contractors. Dealers in Brick, Lime and Cement ( !BOTH PHONES S23 F-l.MIRA STREET Wall Faper. Bi§ reduction in spring styles 626 W ashington stI Belore decorating your rooms look at my new stock of Wall Paper | Burlaps, Lincrusta Walton. W. LENOIR A. CGILE^— house and Sign fainter and fiecorator. Office- ttHOlr* in KR4B oi 105 Jackson st, Cape May City Oleiiwoocl Hotel I _j Everybody is invited to compare THE CAPE WAY FARMSTEAD BY THE SEA , i with the leading Dairy and Poultry farms of the world. Such comparison will establish its supremacy. No finer aggregation of healthful, cheerful and well groomed cattle is possible. No finer collection. of Leghorns and Wyandottes oLpu/er strains can be seeji aiywhere. The homes of tnese cattkjfcand chickens are 'celebrated for their cleanliness andflhfort. Such a combination can but offer to the interested public the most sanitary and enticing products. One visit will more than satisfy the most fastidious. So please makej the Visit and compare us with othets. THE FARMSTEAD BY THE SEA J. P. MACHISSIC. Manager.

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