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TELL WORLD I YOUR WANTS IT WILL PAY TO ADVERTISE s II jm life Ust or FiuA < Aiyttiig, Wilt Help »r Wirt, Pit it Here tf OR RENT— A farm at Green Greek. ■ of: fourteen acre#, more or lew of ■hared land. Also meadow land from ■Ech all neceaaary hay can be ob- \ ■tidned. Shore privilegt on bay shore. Good botoe and bam, ice bouae and all .Tirnraaarj oat buildings. Apply to ' Harry Oooover, Green Creek, N. J. 2t i 'for- rent— An eight room bouse", 1 bath and other modern improve- ' Patents, corner Madison avenue and 1 (*Lafayatte street. Apply to Lewie S. Bennett at 6 and 10 cent store. tf ( '• FOR RENT— A new bouse having 1 three rooms and a lean-to first floor, three bed rooms second floor, gas, city water, nice porch and yard. Twelve JriollarB per month. Gilbert C. Hughes, 1 *#14 Ocean street. FOB KENT— Several furnished cot- ( tages for the winter, and unfurnished by the year. For particulars ' apply to J._H. Hughes, 410 Washington street. FOR SALE— Single driving team con- i » idating of bav h rees, 8 years old, safe for lady to drive. Rubber tired runabout, nearly new, harness, whip, robe etc. No reasonable ofler refused. Apply 1 .• lo IJtajr and Wave office for address. FOR SAfcB— A Grand Upright Piano, in first class condition. Apply at Star and Wave office. 9-4 tf Br' . COTTAGES TO RENT Four bouses with six to nine rooms; gas, city water, electric lights, baths, a 96, $11, $16 and $16. respectively. One of the hopses has a wall range, gas range ana open fire place. GILBERT O. HUGHES, tf No. 214 Ocean street H WANTED— Young man to solicit advertising vicinity of Cape May City, clean proposition. NATION PRESS, 20 Vesey street, New York. MONEY TO LOAN On first bond and mortgage in sums from $800 to $8000. . _ ..I* GILBERT O. HUGHES. No. 214 Ocean street IP YOU NEED SIDtWALKS OR If you have concrete and cement ► work -to do see Charles Jaquette •ontrac.tor. West Cape May. Paving ■wA curbing a specialty. Estimate | cheerfully *Iven. 8-6 52t j ML WEST CAPE MAY, Mr 'WATCH US GROW' ^^■eorge H. Reeves, real estate agent I^Hnding lots and homes. Will buy, PVnTront or exchange. Keystone phone 111-D. PLACE YOUR PROPERTY IN MY HANDS FOR SALE OR RENT. ALWAYS HAVE GUESTS. _ FIRE INSURANCE A SPECIALTY! SOL. NEEDLES, ■ CntfBll«UIMr.TnN STRItltT 6W WASHINGTON

KEYSTONE PHONE 114 M g PICTURES FRAMED 2T- 1 H. T. Hughes. 612 Washington Street. Or at 8mlth'a Studio. Beach Avenue. c BOAT BUILDING pairing! I f Railway on which to run out boats for (- examination or repair. Maify years of 1 iptperiencc enal es me to assure satis- ( JOHN PHAR0.1268 LafayetteSt 1 1 V9DR|SALE-Extra fide white potatoes ; ■ (er basket 80c. per bushel 80c. Mail ' I Foetal to frhn Speck Cape May, N. J. 1 Before ordering your winter clothing , call on Oharles Scberer and examine , his cboioe selection of new patterns and fabrics for winter wear. You will ' get more wear and greater satisfaction from the garments made by . 8c here r, because he mts to fit and builds the garment to suit the individual. Oare, skill and experience, oom- • bined with richness of fabrics, result in perfect-fitting clothes produced by ; I^Sdi^er^s113 Ladies' and Gents.' Tailoring Establishment la now thoroughly settled in hia new and convenv lent building on Decatur street, and be la prepared to accommodate hia _ customers in a skilfull and aatisfaeg tory manner. *•- Howt Call at the offioa of Swurity \jJgM FALL CLOTHING I I of tatost clothes Mli ^^rwg^tar your lu^strten at

PERSONAL MENTION ! OF VISITORS SOU INTBESrafi NOTES I Star aid Vive Dealers are Ke- I quested to Scad ia 1} Pkeae er Otherwise Dr. S. E. Erring has removed from Gape May to Camden and is located on Broadway near Benson. Misses Hannah and Wilbelmina Kim- 1 who are wintering in Philadelphia, 1 spent the Christmas holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. | Ralph Oummings spent Christmas with his* parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- | liam Oummings. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bate, of Philadelphia, are spending.the holidays with relatives in West Cape May. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Rose spent OhAtmas with their parents, Mr. and ] Mrs. Maakel Ware. William C. Hall is spgpding New ( Year's Day with his mother and sisters. ( Missj. Louise Whitney spent .Christwith her .sister, Mrs. Joseph 1 Learning in |Washnigton. i | Miss Ida Church is spending the holi- ! days with her uncle, Horatio Church in Laurel Springs. A. Leon Ewing and Leonard /band- < '■ gran are among the Cape May people i who will witness the ."Mummers' " Parade" in Philadelphia News Year's . Day. Misses Ida and Edith Bush are with i their sister, Mrs. Charles Chase, of 8 Collingswood for the holidays. James Stites spent Christmas with , his mother. August Lengert visited Cape May over Christmas. | Edward and Lemuel Miller were home for the holidays. Logan Bockius, Mr. and Mrs. Elg wood Souder, Jr., spent the holidays witn |Mrs. P. Logan Bockius and Dr. and Mrs. James Mecray. Mrs. Eliza tioff, of Camden, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harriet Hughes. t Miss Julia Goff is spending the bolie days with Miss Mattie Schellenger. g Mrs. William Davis spent Christmas e with her parents, ar. and Mrs. J. E. - I Taylor, at their (Jackson street home. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. East wick have gone to Philadelphia for the t, winter. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lloyd spent >e Christmas at Bridgcton. - Charles Brownmiiler spent part of ^ the holidays at Pottsville,*Pa. r Merchant Tailor Van K easel was 'jBmong the snow bound in Philadelphia I Christmas night. t tt 1_ - 1~\ i ...

Miss Jesn of Darby, Pa , •' accompanied by a school friend, is vis- n iting her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. d L P. Hughes. Dr. and Mrs. R Walter Starr and daughter are guests at the Virginia 8 for a short time. Mrs. L. I.. Lewis and Mrs. Schuyler " are stopping for the winter in France, where their children, Oarmalita and Foster, are attending £ school. g Mrs. Isabella Damm, sister of Joseph . Wilson, will.spend New Year* Day ( with her brother. u Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Johnson entertamed uat their home over Christmas, t Miss Ida Cheston and Miss Josephine g Barcalow, of Frankfod, Pa., Mr. and g Mrs. Richard Holmes and Miss Anna ■ Holmes, of Cape May Court House, g Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Wilson, Mr. and ( Mrs. Jos K. Wilson and Leroy Wilson. An admirer of one of our doughty tiahermen requests us to publish the £ following : i "A Cape May man caught the biggest i fish c That ever swam the crick ; £ 'Twaa forty-seven inches long And 'leven inches thick. I , This mighty monster of the deep | Weighed forty pounds or more. He caught it right behind the stove ' In Mecray Brothers grocery store, 1 ■ I'll not give bis name in lulL it is not i • Sand, , I Perhaps they call him Oapt. Hand." i 1 NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS 1 Notice is hereby given that the ragu- 1 lar annual meeting of the Stockholders 1 of the Merchants National Bank, Cape j [ May. N. J., will be held at the bank- , 1 log house, comer Washington and De- , ; catur streets, on Tuesday, January ' 11th, 1910, between the hours of 11 a. ' m and II m. The purpoee of the meet- I ing is the election of directors to serve , , for the ensuing year and the traneac-

SOKE NEWS j c AND COMMENT ! — t BREEZY OPINIONS AND NEWS J (lathered bj Star aid Ware Repcrters aid Caueit 1 •a Carreat Events , — ; I Happy New Year. , • « « , Self reliance, self control and self , respect are the three things which , make a man, a man. « » « A modem philosopher Bays: "I ^ prophesy a day when business and edu- ^ cation will be synonymous, when commerce and education will join hands, when the; preparation for life will be to go to work." This is In line with the educational maxim, "Learn by doing. " e » ® A special service will be held in the Church on New Years' Day between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock in .the morning. The public is invited to attend this meeting. <0 (• 9 The Presbyterian Sunday school anniversary occurred Friday evening. (•(•(• Watch night services were held on Friday nignt, 81st inst, at the M. hi. Church, begining at 9 :30 and concludi at 12 o'clock. •> (• x , Senator Robert E. Hand has expressed his opposition to the proposition , that the half million-dollar bridge over ; the Great Egg Harbor River should be built from Somen; Point to Ocean City , instead of to Beealey's Point. He thinks that the bndge should be de- , signed to provide a crossing for the proposed ocean boulevard. " We want » Ocean City to get everything possible to promote its development, ' 'be said, ' ' but . this bridge should not be placed any- , where except where it will be a direct route to Cape May County in connection with the Boulevard. ' ' People throughout the county will agree with him. It is somewhat doubt- . ful whether the county is financially able to undertake the bridge enterprise i just now, especially if the estimate of its oost, as over a half million ia oorL root. The payment of interest and sinking fund charges upon the share of e the cost which would .have to be assumed by Cape May County, would t cause a large increase in the tax rate and Oape May County reaorta are ,f paying as much taxes now as many think they should. There is no doubt B of immense benefit to the entire county g by the erection of such a bridge and it will undoubtedly be built sooner or lator A State BDnronriatiac mieht A appropriation mighty (

make it possible now, without any tin- ( burden on any particular locality. » A 9 Oape May County is to have an assistant bill clerk, galley keeper and a committee clerk in the State Senate and an assistant secretary in the Assembly. • •) * With *,crusade for a better National 1 under full swing, there is a ' strong sentiment sleo in State mili- j circles for' a bigger National : as well. One of the suggestions - under consideration is the organization < of a corps of heavy artillery that could act as coast artillery as well in case of necessity and the formation of a sixth regiment, to tap localin the northern part of the State which at present are not represented in the guard. <k <k (• As a result of the meeting of the Highway Commission reoa-tly, > was decided to recommend to the inooming Legislature the construction of approximately. 800 miles of strictly 1 roads. Roughly, the plan is to devote the 1 received through the State automobile department to construction and maintenance of roads over which the State shall have absolute oontroL As a first step in thisf direction it is proposed o connect by the moat improved type of roads the various county seats throughout tie State. These would form main arteries of travel by. which automobilista could get to any point in the State upon roads equal or superior to any of which New Jersey now boasts The Highway Committee was appointed under authority of the last Legislature for the primary pur1 pose of furthering en ooeen boulevard frees Atlantic Highlands to Oape May. • • • •The ex-Mayor ef Philadelphia, John Weaver, eeema «e gvn himself s mis-

wherever you place him. Almost t everybody agrees that he made e [ most ignominious failure as Mayor of Philadelphia, and who accomplished nothing and whose administration will be remembered for the number of petty things which occurred. He can be depended upon to bring up inappropriate b things at every' public gathering at 0 which be is permitted to speak, v Hia statements upon the appropriation g for the Cape May harbor given at tbe p Ventnor Yacht Club banquet at Atlantic City, . were uncalled for, useless t and not in a coord with the facts, but t they served to get his name into tbe i newspapers without coat to him, and t recall to the people of Philadelphia a that the self- opinionated, pompous c Weaver still exists, and may be I still haggling over nickel telephone fees 1 and similar great matters, or planning dire vengpance on telephone girls who : f displease him. ! t If Philadelphia or those interested in I the development, of the Delaware River t were to depend upon such energy as 1 Weaver has .put ^forth in suob a mat- t ters there would not be an appropria- t tion for it io a million years. It is al- i ways such characters as this who are ready to condemn enterprise in others. The Oape May harbor can stand all 1 the criticism which Weaver and l(is i like can make. Weaver is several days i behind tbe fair. Tbe appropriation i which he condemns was made several < years ago and apparently he has only i just now discovered it. The; harbor i will be a completed thing in a few ] months now and four or five years af- t ter this ia accomplished Weaver may i discover it. It ;is created to benefit . commerce not to antagonize Philadel- i phia or the Delaware River, and this < everybody excepting the Weavers or i ' like people understand clearly. s THE MAN ABOUT TOWN Samuel Doak was greeting friends 1 on the street Wednesday. 0. A. Merchant is passing his vaca- ' tion at hie home in New York. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Percy Rothell were guests on Christmas of their mother, Mrs. Harriet Hughee. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Benezet was a gflest of Mrs. Maurice Crease on Saturday and Sunday. James Stites took a run down from r Philadelphia to visit his mother, Mrs. "f M. Hughes. Miss Edith Richardson will pass tbe week end in Wilmington visiting j friends. Mrs. A. T. Haynes is a guest of her " sister at Atlantic,Oity. Mrs. Walter John (nee Bonm), of e Washington, D. C., was*n guest of e Miss Lottie Rutherford during Ohriat- ^ mas week. It would be well for some of our r business men in the center of the business district to remove the snow from r the sidewalks, for the convenience of

those going in and out of their places of i business. 1 1 Mrs. S. A. h ostvr has gone' to Can- i ton to visit Dr. Lewis j ] Miss Octavine Ware is a guest of i Miss Fannie Thompson. j I Dr. and Mrs. Hand were here as ] guests of Councilman Hand. t Among those that cheered the house- i bold of their parents from school, for ■ the holidays were: Letoy Wilson, i Bockius, Carrie Hand, Jennie 1 Hughes, Elva Hand, Bessie Mecray, : Anita Hand, Jeanne Hand and Edith Edmunds. - — i CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY Henry S. Rutherford celebrated his — th birthday on Wednesday of this week He had invited his relatives to partake of a bounteous repast in honor of the event. The guests were John Rutherford, Walter Rutherford, Mr. and Mrs. David Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Ware, Dr. and Mra. Frank Hughes and son, Mr. and Mra. Horace Church and son, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Loper, Mrs. Carl Rutherford and daughter. TWO GUNNERS DIE IN STORM One of the tragedies of the great storm was revealed late Monday afternoon when the bodies of Dr. I*wts 1 Kra utter, ;jr. , assistant professor ef botany in the University .of Pennsylvania, and Ernest J. W. MacFarlane, 1 eon of Dr. John M. MacFarlane, pro- • feasor of botany in tbe same institution, were found by clam diggers on 1 tbe bank of Swayne'e Channel, at Wildwood Crest, N. J. They had in1 tended to return to Philadelphia Men- • day from a gunning trip on which they ' started together last Pride#. Mixt Nuts 16c lb ; Fresh Pork & 10, 14. 16 cents. Sausage 16c; SarenAe 6c; Fey Mixtures l*o; Candy Tots 10c. . Plttahaxg Bf Ko., Jarkaoo and Mani a - .

GOVERNOR FORT - ON WATERWAYS le el Governor Fort's administration will 81 distinguished for tbe development 8 of the public.'roads and for the inland waterways movement, as particularly ' great and beneficial events to the oeopie of the State. In hia address Tuesday night before the Ventnor City Yaobt Club, he asked the support of yachting men for seaur- ™ ing a larger appropriation for inland 1 waterways and suggested a sea canal w at Manasqoan to connect tbe upper end of the inland waterway with the oceanIt ia full of information and we give it u full. "I want to see New Jersey the w | greatest state.in the Union. I want ?' to see the cities gand towns on tbe Atlantic Coast tbe greatest cities and ^ on any sea coast in this country. I want to see tbe New Jersey coast on ( Atlantic Ocean, the most attrac- 8 tive summer and winter resort In tbe world. ALL MUST COOPERATE How shall this be accomplished? ^ It can only be donc^in one way, that is by doing everything possible for this u result. In the doing of it, the state 0 and the localities must cooperate. It will require work on tbe part of all of r us. It will not do itself. We must see to it that everything ia done to cause people to realize that we have great advantages here. The building up of one part of the state is not ajmatter of ; local concern only. That which in- ' creases values, brings people and l i causes an influx of wealth, to one part a ■ of the state, carries advantages to all ii parts of the state. Our greatness can 8 never be taken away trom us if we t are true to ourselves and act from 1 i broad motives. Get the personal out t the state in, in all we do. t VALUE OF INLAND CHANNEL 8 The inland waterway project, started ' s by tbe act adopted in 1908, and which ( , carried an appropriation of $800,000. ^ is one of tlie best enterprises ever un- ] t dertaken by the state. Its value to I - the whole state is beyond estimation. ' It is doubtful if lOs generally known j i that^bere are eighteen thousand var- j . ioua kinds of craft plying on the Inland i waterways of tbe four counties >n ' i South Jersey. The system of great Z lakes and arms of the sea and bays j which lie long the one hundred and ( r twenty-five miles of the New Jersey , cosst is not equalled on any other U f coast with which I am familiar. These | , f have not been of easy access, the one | 1 - with tbe other, because of the fact | j that low places exist in the channels I < r and thoroughfares and small bays ; I - which connect them. a WILL BRING THOUSANDS ' f The purpose of this inland water- 1

is to make a uniform channel of : at least one hundred feet in width and £ six fset in depth at all points and | | places . between Bayhead in Ocean 'Uounty and Cold Spring Harbor in Cape May County, thus connecting ' Bayhead with Oape May City. The £ attractiveness of this undertaking to those who sail the smaller craft will be u very great. It means tbe bringing to 0 our coast of thousands interested in V this kind of pleasure, and the increas- 3 ing of the already ;iarge patronage 8 which the coast now receives. My ' ambition goes even further than this. ^ WANTS ROUTE TO NEW YORK £ I would connect Cape May City with £ the City of New York by opening a J 1 canal from Bayhead to the Manasquan J 1 Inlet, a distance of only about a mile, [ 1 by digging a canal between those two C ' points, which would let the ocean in *■ 1 through tbe Manasquan Inlet and the j canal to Baroegat Bay at Bayhead. { 1 This would enable all the smaller craft c ■ to run down from New York City, ! through Kill von Kull|and Arthur Kill \ 1 and Raritan Bay and the Atlantic t ' Ocean, to Manasquan Inlet and thence c through tbe canal and tbe inland ^ waterway to Oape|May City. No such \ t inland waterway witn so much of var- C . iety and eo many splendid resorts on its j i coarse woald exist in this ooontry. It j [ would add to oar coast in every w-, , • and to oar state in interest and importance. 1 ! CHEAPER THAN EXPECTED « We have already spent, or will have ' j so done when tbe present oon tracts , t are completed, $186,000 oat of tbe < . $800,000 approprUt>oo. We have done i . more work because of tbe low price of ( r oar dredging contracts tnan it was tbooght We coald from the estimate 1 originally made. Another $100,000, ' ; and probably ieaa will bare eofar com- | pleted the coarse as to make it entire- - It practical for any craft drawing not « mora than foarfaat of wator, to ge$tha <

May City and at high tide wOi give us over eight.feet of depth the entire way and at mean low tide we shall have at six feet. Already regular lines steamboat transportation have sprang up between Tuckerton and Atlantic City. A similar line will no doubt run from Bayhead and another line will unquestionably ran from Cape May City to Wildwood. Angleeea and Ocean City to Atlhntic City. WILL BOOM THE OOA8T What this wil! mean to the coast no man can predict. If tbe canal be built between tbe Manasquan 'Inlet 1 and Bayhead, the salt water from the ocean will change the character of the water in Upper Bamegat Bay at and below Bayhead and will make it more than thirty per cent salt water so that about nine thousand acres of oyster land will be .developed. This industry will produpy by proper rental by tbe state, a rey Ate of not less than hundred df "As an acre, whioh sum will more- A an compensate the state for the maintenance of tbe inland waterway department, and insure the support and proper dredging and staking of the way for all time to thus adding to New Jersey another great advantage to our already unusually attractive state. " ON THE BASKET BALL FLOtR Cape May A. A. again Defeats Bjgh School Vineiand H. S. Defeats Cape May fl. S. and West Cape May A. A. Tbe deciding game between Cape A. A. and Cape May High School teams was played on Saturda> evening at Excelsior Skating Kirik, and resulted victory for Cape May A. A by a score of tin to lo. The High School put up a game fi^ht but tbn A. A. was to much tor them. Although it was stormy and rained continuity throughout the evening a large and enthusiastic crowd was present to witness the game. /The lineup: May H. S. Cape May A. A. Mecray F Boerner Shields F Yanzant Bobbins C Benckert Hinea G Tenenuaum Needles G McDonnell Field goals— Boerner 7 ; Vantant 8 ; 4; McDonnell 1 ; Mecray, 1; Hines 1 ; Shields 8 ; Needles 2. Foul goals— Boerner 2 out 4; Shields 1. — Nichols * »' '• On Tuesday evening at Excelsior Vineiand High School defeated May High School in a one aided j contest, by a boo re of 48 to 8. The j Oape May boys were not up to their i usu^ form and could do little with Vineiand, the latter team being strong all points of the game The lineup : 1 Cape May Vineiand : Shields F H. Morris Mecray F — 0 limit! I Hines O Hay j Stevens G G. Morris ■ Little G Cunningham ' L\„M n..l, U Unvrl, X* QKaard ft- w Field goals— H. Morris 4 ; Sheard

Hay 7; G. Morris 2; Shields 8. iXST goals— H. Morris, Hines 4 ouynf 8. Referee— Nichols. J On Wednesday evening" dl Excelsior Rink the /Vineiand High team elated by their decisive viotory over Cape Mw» High School, very ungraciously repeated the performance of the previous night and defeated Oape iiJy A. A. by a score of 80 to 18. West Cape started in at a lively clip asd looked as through they would put it over their opponents the lanky boya from Vineiand hit their stride and from then things their own way. The lineup : Vineiand West Oape May Sheard. DeMar F Faust H. Morris F Boerner Hay O McPhereon Cunningham G Greaves Morris * G Channels Field goals— DeMar 2 ; H. Morris 8 ; Fauat; Boerner 3; McFnerson. Foul goals— H. Morris 2 out 6. Greaves 8 out of 7. Referee — Nichols. Manager Doemer endeavored to get Vineiand High School team while here play tbe Oape May A. A. on Thursday evening, but was unsuccessful. It is safe to say that apotber round in May weald have been disastrous Lbem. Vin land had it on Weet May and Cape May High School both weight and reach, oat jumping tne boys continually, but with Oape Hay A. A. it would have been an entirely different proposition. Miliville High School will play Cape May High School on -Saturday evening, January 1st, at Excelaior Skating Ri-k. This wUl undoubtedly be a good game. Oape May A. A. five will go against Wooastde A. A. team of Bridgeton , on Saturday, January 1st, at Auditorium, at 8:80 p. m. Wood aide is without doubt the fastest team in Sooth Jersey. "The little Savings Bank in. the is a greater guarantee for the of tfaa children of the family, almost than all the advice ia tbe — dollar gets one of those silver nickel