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SECURITY TRUST COMPANY Southwest Corner Washington and Ocean Streets Cape May City, N-. J., December 31. 1913. RESOURCES. Time and Demand Loans $1,832,414.17 Bonds and Mortgages 286,806.39 StockB and Bonds 467,841.63 Overdrafts 162.14 Banking Honses, Camden and Cape May 130,000.00 Cash and Reserve 293)897.74 $3,010,622.07 LIABILITIES ""v~ Capital $ 100,000.00 Surplus 100,000.00 Undivided Profits 80,166.00 DEPOSITS 2,730,456.07 $3,010,622.07 ADVlSOBY BOARD.

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Henry C. Thompson, Secretary John B. Huffman Albert G. Bennett, Hon. Robert E. Hand Dr. Wilson A. Lake

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ii. H. snimi | Clothier | 608 Washington St. £ { ™ Opposite Reading St*. r 2 GAPE MAY N. J. $ Suite for |S aad upwarda ™ Overcoats from |T to |tl ^ ^ Hate, Capa, Trunka aad ^ Gentlemen's Furnishing Ooode V ( » at Philadelphia prloea. m "The Phivaie Tutor," a fareial comedy in throe acta, will ze given at Washington Street Hall, onApril 2, 1014, for the benefit of the Senior Claaa of the Cape May High SchooL Tickete on tale at Central Pharmacy. Read the Star and Wave.

The 1 1 Rough Weather ,* b Has undoubtedly cauied some damage v to your Tin Roofs and Rain Spouts. i Repairs should be made before the o . . ' storms cause damage to the building. ii J Stoves ; 1 For all purposes at right prices. Stoves j Repaired and Stored for the Summer. JESSE BROWN \ | 110 and 112 JACKSON ST. CAPE MAY WHEN FURNISHING A SDHNEfi HOME whether it be a cozy bungalow or a magnificent mansion, it is of first important to secure the aid of a reliable dealer. Your comfort and | pleasure depend on your selection not for a day only as with many purchases, but for years to come, and a large percentage of the cost can be saved by the advice and assistance of an experienced dealer. WENTZELL*S, 33 Perry Street. Refrigerators of tried and proven quality. New importation of (nuttings. New Linoleums, Crex Grass Rugs. Everything in house furnishings. Come in and see. Keystone Phone, 84M. i • G. VANAMAN Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting. HOT W.TBR HEATING AND HOT AB HEATERS, GAS APPLIANCES, RANGE WORK CHURCH STREET, OPPOSITE READING FREIGHT STATION.

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NOTICE. T. H. Taylor announces that at Ma Central Shoe Store, 6X6 Wackiagtoo street, he continues the shoe baaiaesa as before. > I hare tea nc the aasnsy ia Cape Map Clly for BALA BAND HUB BUR fouls 1 as. aad would call epeMM sttratloa to the new VAC Boot, made by this company. The best on the merfcel W1U SOU do all kinds of repair «oA Shoe findings ead flresslaps for sale. t. a taylor 4£6 Washington Bt_ Cape Map. M. J. 1646 1MI PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY INCORPORATED 1(M CHARTER PERPETUAL OFFICE, 508-510 WALNUT ST wur.inn.pmi PjL. CAPITAL $150,000 » ASSETS $8,002,982 2 $2,321 063 t DIRECTORS. R. Dale Benson, John L. Thomaoi J. Tatnall Lea, W. Gardner Crowel! Richard M. Oadwalader, Edward T. Stotesburj Effingham B. Morris, Edwin N. Benson, Ji R. DALE BENSON, President. JOHN L. THOMSON, Vic©- President. W. GARDNHR CROWELL, Secretary HAMPTON L. WARNER, Assistant Secretary. WM. J. - DAWSON, Seo'y Agency Department. SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE LOCAL AGENT Merchants NaUonal Bank Building. Cor. Washington and Decatur streets. Caps May, New Jersey. LUMBER AND Mill Work | GEO. OGDEN & SON,

Secretary Jcceph P. Tumulty Is a Real Censor Aj-ONG the mar- duties v hich fall to the lost of Joseph P. Tumulty, tbp president's secretary. Is that of censor. His right of selection is exercised on the president's m«u and on his visiting list. I" and his visiting list. 1

and one the president oocld not do without. If be saw everybody and read everything designed for his Inspection be couldn't get any sleep nor could he perform his duties. For that reason, If you have any personal business with the president of the United States, you had best see Mr. TumuKy. He la the easiest man in Washington to have a chat with. If you know a congressman or a newspaper correspondent, you can see and apeak with Mr. Tumulty within an And if the petitiooer's Mission is ace the president need know of personally, the president will see the petitioner or know of the petition within five minutes. But if it isn't — thee J. P. for all his blue eyes sad yellow hair and beautiful complex km. is a wall of adamant, million tnilea high. The white enameled door minion miles nign. ine wmve tammwou —

between the secretary's big room and the president, s office seems a poor ana barrier that a humming bird might demolish with his bin until Tumulty, raising his soft Irish voice a little, remarks to *n Importunate "No. sir. you cant see the president Then it becomes the great wall of China. The president, in the simple Bucolic days when he was a governor o f Jersey and Just fixing to be chief executive' of the nation, thought ha would have that door open all the time. But he has changed his mind. And it wasn't because of anarchists or lunatics, either. It was because he Just naturally hasn't time to fuss with the people and the things that confront him" every day. It Was Her Debut Into Public School Circles IF you had been In Washington the ltd. of September you might have sees tawney-haired Victor Murdoch of Kansas, militant, eager and optimistic - - - jarty in the boose of represents tlvee. on his way

to the Henry D. Cooke school with his little seven- \ year-old daughter by his aide, j it was the first day of school and little Miss Murdoch was going to enter the first grade. It was her debet into public school circles. Now. the Henry D. Cooke school ts an Imposing edifice, said to be one of the finest examples * of school structure In the country. Everything ■ shout It is Imposing — the broad front stape, the H entry, the assembly hall. But moet Imposing of W all wea the gentleman whom Representative Muri dock queried about the requirements of a little I stranger getting a seat In the first grade. • Letter Mr. Murdock found the teaober of the first grade. ' Isn't it too bad a person has to go through un mnrli red tnm tn ent & child in the mlbiic <di so the

school T" asked Mr. Murdock. "There Isn't any red tape. All you bawe to do is to bring the child ana leave her. We do the reab" -But I was talking to the principal, and h® totd me I would have to get Mil davits and oerUflcatea and a doaee other things.- said the Progreeslva leader. "He told you'" exclaimed the pretty teacher in surprtae. "Our principal lan't a man; lfs * Mrs. C. B. South." Just then the Impaling -looking man with whom Murdock had talked walked by. ^ 'Isn't that the principal T" be inquired. "He was the man who told me." "No. Indeed. Mr. Murdoch!^ laughed the teacher. "He is DO* the prla-^ Stamps Licked to Order During Christmas Rustl CHRISTSMAS fcfft givers this year wltl not be forced to Dcfc their own- ' stamps whensthw affix the proper postage to their parcels tor mailing ' uniess'Urey wish to, for .the poetoffice department announced the other day J that its postmasters • and their aaafalsnts would ( mat IIS p wuuumo BUU uxcii — — — ™ -

attend to that duty-it required. ( The Innovation Is put in force In the interest* j of better mall service during the holiday rush and ia expected to facilitate the_movement of the . vast crush of matter that will tax the resources - of the department's many employes. 1 Orders were iaaaed to postmasters to affix 1 - postage when required on mall matter of the sec- | ond, third and fourth daae, the latter being parcel 1 poet matter. The stamps will be precancUied and - the plan is expected to prevent the great waste " ' of time experienced by poetoffice patrons while [ watting In line to buy postage sod mall their packages. "Under such authorization," declared Postmaster General Burleson, "when a parcel is presented for mailing, the clerk receiving It, after collecting t_j required postage, may

Indorse on the parcel the amount of the postage, which later will be affixed by an employe of the poetoffice." \ The postmaster general believes Us {dsn will result hi a great saving ia time to the department a* well a* to tha people. Flip of the Dice Wins Rich Oklahoma Oil Land KANSAS CITY, MO.— A Kansas City business man who Owes at the Hotel Baltimore — he says he wouldn't have his identity known for anything • — ■' « — x *«-- day a big brown envelope. It contained tha

deed to 40 acres of land down tn the oil belt tn Oklahoma, worth between tLOOO and $4/M>0. There are witnesses at the Baltimore who arq willing to take oath that It happened thus: The Kansas City man. who is weatern reprepresentative for a large furnishing goods house, and a wealthy otl operator, who baa h«idin|pi at Paoll. Kan, and Muskogee, OtLa-, owned Jointly the 40 acre*— each a half Interest. On a recent afternoon they met at tha Hotel Baltimore. The oil operator wanted the Kansas City nan to sell his half Interest to him. While no ofl has been found yet on the land, it is in the middle of oil belt, and the Kansas City man didn't want to let go. He proposed that the oil operator sell him his half Interest. ^ tno on operator sen mm on iolu mieraiu

The two adjourned to the bar and had a glass of buttermilk. And that was all, too, ao one of the principals of the story said. Til shaksl you for the land." the oil man said. "That's a go," the f'nm City man said. The oil Tu«n flipped the dice box first. Out an the counter rolled the .five ivory cubee. Two fives! The Kansas City man rolled next. Four sixes! ft ' The land's yours," the oil man said. ADVERTISE In the Star find Ware.