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w. s. shaw & son Dealers In BRICK, LIME AND CEMENT. GENERAL -CONTRACTORS. Keystone Telephone 30 A 523 ELMIRA STREET Elwood, L. Chambers Jere E. Chambers Chambers Bros. dealers in Fresh Fish, Oysters, Clams and Crab Meat. 322 MANSION -STREET CAPE M VY, N. J. . Auto Delivery • , Keystone Phone 228D Bell Phone 17 W goto H. C. bohm 232 JACKSON STREET FOR FRESH FISH gjt_ Taken from his own fish pound daily ALL OTHER SEA FOODS IN" SEASON Both Phones Prompt Deliveries HAVE ALL YOUR LINENS WASHED AND IRONED FOR THE H lid AYS Sheets, Pillow Cases, Towels, Napkins, 1 able Cloths, 35 cents per dozen. Shirts, 12c each; Collars 2c each Columbia Laundry conbroadwayand Keystone Phone 74 Bell 103a For the convenience of our patrons we have established 1 an agency at Barber Shop. 403 Washingtoa Street = i

CATS BEAT ALi, THE RAT TRAPS IN THE WORLD In the current issue of Farm and Fireside appears a department called the "Head work Shop" in which contributors give practical suggestions based on their own experience. One contributor tells as follows how the got rid of rats on her farm: ' "We used to see- rats most any time ' making a bee line froai grain stack to ' lumber pile or pig pen. They elimb-.-d ' stalks of corn to feast on the ears, they ate the grain in the feed boxes (the j horses often standing back - waiting!, 1 ate grain in the field, got into th-; corn 1 cribs and granaries, and into the house. 1 "We shot them, trapped them with ' steel and wire traps, until we could ' catch only young ones. ? were ' afraid to use poison on account of dogs, ' chickens, and stock. At last a neigh- 1 bor showed me what a good cat she owned. This cat carried rata, mice, f squirrels, and rabbits to her kittens Our confab ended in my bringing home £ two kittens named Sambo and Peanut, . Tbey were fed at regular intervals, sy C had no excuse , for stealing. Pretty a bsm they began tossing Bike around

out in the yard. They would catch ! i seven or eight a day. Next it was young rats, and as the cats grew larger it was old rats also." LIFE DOESN'T WAIT FOR YOU In the December American Mag- - azine David Grayson, beginning his new novel entitled "Hemp- < field," comments as follows on life: i , "It is one of the provoking, but interesting, things about life that i it will never stop a moment for admiration. No sooner do you pause 1 to enjoy it or philosophize over it, ' or poetize about it, than it is up < and away and the next, time you glance around, it is vanishing over - the hill — with the wind in its gar- ! ments and .the sun it its hair. If do not go on with life, it will on without you." HEATERS AND RANGES. « Call and seo our line of Stove Boards. , Bpd*. Oil Cloths, Stove Blacking 1 and enamels. t •HESSE M BROWN. .

THE GRANGE Stone Harbor Grange No. 19V is now fully equipped in having a Past Master, and has even more than the quota in having a Division cf Home Economics and its Chairman to be voted for and duly installed with other officers. This new division was at the instance of Master-elect Eli Townsend and the first incumbent is Mrs. Reese P. Risley. The installation was in Harbor Inn Saturday night, County ra-putv A.' I). T. Howell ofiii-iatiiig, and Mrs. Howell ' was guest of honor. The officers ini tailed were: Worthy Master, Eli I Townsend; Overseer, W. L. Turpin; Lecturer, Miss St. L. Vnii Thuyne; Steward, S. -E. Herbert; Assistants. Leon Herbert and rs. Lloyd Seaina n ; Gatekeeper, Kennard Turpin ; Chaplain, Mrs. W. L. Turpin; Ceres, Margaret Townsend; Pomona, Esther Turpin; , Flora, Katheiine Townsend; Secretary. Mrs. S. E. Herbert; Treasurer, Mrs. Charles Webb; Chairman Home Economics, Mrs. Reese P. Rislev. The closing number was "eats." Officers of the Cape May Orang.Cbest known as the Was Creek or. Mother Grange, in having been the first j organised in the County, as installed for j the coming term, are: Master, Stanford j Vanaman; Overseer ,• P. L. Douglass;' J Lecturer. A- D. T. Howell ; Steward, T. I iH. learning ; Assistants,, Ellis Norton!

I and Carrie . Cat brail; Chaplain, E. B. Scull; Secretary, E. B. Tuttie; Treasurer. Ella Vanaman; Gatekeeper, Johh Cook ; Pomona. Rita Sehelj linger ; Flora, Ida Norton ; Ceres, Edna Howell. A good attendance is being provided for by the South Seavflle Grange as ~ hosts of the Pomona or County Grange ^ , to meet with it the afternoon and evenI ing of Thursday, the 21st inat. Lecturer [ Howell promises the presence of the I State lecturer, who by the way, is , young, pretty and capable, and will speak in the evening or open session. At the Pomona session in the afternoon Mrs. Risley as vice president of the County Couneil of Home Culture Clubs and local representative of the new di•f Home Economics will have j The Grange Division* of Home Ecoj nomies was instituted at the annual , meeting of Die National Grange held j recently in Wilmington. Del., and with ' j Mrs. A. F. Hart, wife of the State Masj ter of Wyoming, Chairman, and given j $100 as a working fund, and to have one ' j entire session of the annual meeting — | next November in San Francisco, for the reports upon the work. The first * recommendation of the committee was I that each subordinate, Poinona and L State grange, give one period of each meeting to "Home Economics." This | differs from the old established Divisj ion of "Woman's Work" and which inrludea suffrage, temperance, ethical cul- , ture, education and more, in being supposed to keep to the home industries of Ihtaisekeeping. home making, child wel- [ fare and needle work and the like.. As ' the division started in the Stone Har- . hor Grange, is wholly new and the ap- < • nt unexpected, Mrs. Risley. the chairman says she must feel her way land will be plcasi-d to have suggestions' sent her to Box 24(1. Stone Harbor P. O., i j and which will be presented to the j ( grange as a cn---:!ffee of the whole' (land for action. Mrs. Risley has namedI Mrs. Starr us secretary of the division. I i j The rreation of this division gives to j I the Stone (larger Grange the honor qf j , being first to fall into line with the | National's purpose. First fruits of the new division wisi I the organization of,, the Acorn Circle ill j Mrs. Dull: eld's parlors on Wednesday and fhr the ).ur|s.se of establishing an' exchange for Wotn-j's Work and with; | these officers: President. Mrs. Eli j Townsend; viee president. Mrs. York Smith; secretary. Mrs. E. S. Starr;' ' treasurer. Mrs.' Charles Duffield. The ' membership will be limited but the op-

' I portnnity for selling home made arti- » cles of food and needlework will be r] alike for everybody. That is, offering worthy products for sale at a named Priced and having a percentage deducted from that price for the selling. Again r instructions will be given in home in- - dustries. at a small fee per leaaon; pat-. I ternR ,ril' be exchanged, or, loaned on ■ deposit. At the first meeting, inatruc1 tion was given in tracing a pattern on a Dutch collar and in the stitches for ; working it, and , Mrs. Smith gave the ; recipe for the, fudge which won tliej . Home and School prize at the Clover i Club's Circle over 18 competitors and , which will be printed in the next edition of the Star and Wave. At the next meeting Mrs. Townsend : to bring the recipe and instructions , for making her famous "Apple Sauce . Cake, " and with a cake and sample. If the sample is found worthy, the cake | will be priced and offered for sale and , orders taken for others. As was explain- j ad, the whole is a venture to meet a need especially of the summertime, and which our ladies may offer the leia- j ure our summer guests are here to find *»d gain wealth in the doing of it

What sort of .a growth will cume from this Acorn that , has been planted will •iepend upon the rare given it. The Circle's centre is at Mrs. Duffield's. r EMPLOYEES CAN BUY in TELEPHONE STOCK o> n l(] The American Telephone and Teleis graph Company announces that ar}f inngements have been made by whieh ,e | employees of the Bell System who have y. j been two years or more in the service, n suil who so desire may purchase stock 3>f the company for $110 per share on | II • asy" terms of payment, j. No employee can purchase more than 1 1 • ' share for each $300 of annual wages . I: receives nor more than teii shares I . v : ..tevi-r his wages. B, : The terms of. payment will by $2 per! -hare per month, beginning with •Msren, I i '" I •>. »nd the quarterly 'dividends paid! ,t - -i the stock will go towards paying for . it after deducting interest at 4 per cent ! ._ [i r annum on the unpaid balance. I , The American Company has paid 8 1 per cent dividends for seyen years and . it is calculated that dividends at this ' rate and the $2.00 per share per month ' payments by employees, will pay for ( - 1 he stork in fiill by November, 1918. ' t j Any employee who so desires can after ' March 1, 1917, but not before, pay in ' [(the balance on bis stock and receive his ' stock certificate. ' Should any employee leave the ser- ' [ i vice or die before his stock is fully paid ' j for, the amount he has paid in plus the * • : l.x . . t in,' - "

!t- 1 BOOOmu'*ted dividends (less 4 per cent ^ j interest) will be paid back, el- ! ^n,eT**n Telephone and Telena graph Company of the Bel! Telephone system, which operates or connects with , ' ight and a half million telephone ststions, throughout the United States. It has about 60,000 stockholders and Se 160.000 employees. Its issued capital | stock is nearly $350,000,000, and it is or j quoted .on the Stock Exchanges at about be 181 18 per share. The Company makes it plain that no employee is under obligation to buy any n- ! stock but it is believed that a consid>n j -Table number or employees will take '"* j advantage of this opportunity to save I a little money every month, and invest ''" it in the business. - | STONE HARBOR SCHOOL AVERAGES [). The new term of the Stone Harbor b1 | School No. 1 began on Monday and with 111 ' all- glqd to get back to routine work Ji ; and rgeular hours. But for the delay by g. ' Mi • Opposition last summer and fall, the •n se-siniis would without a doubt have le | »|»ti<i1 In the new school building, and, '8 1 **th "'o assurance that the teachers >r J vvnl pupils were to he comfortably hous<tjeil during the. winter weather. The ele18 I ue'il- combined to make this possible, id | hut the thing of evil halted progress h ; iu»« long enough for the ehanre to be is j lost. The probability now is that the j- j eighth grade may never know the ini- j (erior as students, and there is only the • 1. 1 possibility thut the graduating oxer- - >- rises will be within the completed strucif ture. However, parents and children j I- : know where the blame for it belongs.!: a ' Prizes are to be offered for the rest of - the school year and will in part at least!: i- bo announced at the month's meetinge - of the Home and School. The special: y Prize for the half year- closing with the! ..ihv Mrs. Reese P. Risley ."'for 'the best e • average n' tile term, deportment and at- , e (-teii.la.ic- to he counted, ami was aWard- ' i 1 , ed Ida May Herbert. The greenbaek I or-s. nte.1 by Mrs. Ida May Troxel for i ijtlie best December average was awarded! f j Elsie K. Mines. The term averages for ( e eoch of the several grades were: j Eighth — Ida May Herbert 89 1-2. El- [ sie E. Mines $8 3-4, Margaret K. Town- 2 f I send 88 1-4. Florence M. Hines 86 3-4, 6 | Edna M. O'Donnell. M4. Ji Seventh— Elsie Strutliers 84 1-2, Wm. | Y-l. Is-nnon 80 1-2, Frederick E. Toebe < 1 1 70 I -2. A. York Smith 70. j . Sixth— Emma Troxel 88, Marie E. ! I-ennon 871-2, Emma Toebe 80, Lan- j _ caster Turpin 77. Mariqn Mollenhopf 75, g Marian lungkurth 741-2. 5 •'■•ogKun.n <*i-z.

Fifth— Ruth E. Smith 80 1-4, Uwrf ence "Wliitehead 78 1-2, Franklin Klaverkampf 74 1-2, Thomas O'Donnell 74, a Papl I-ennon 731-4, Myrtle Richardaon 69 1-2, Ethel Cassaboon 69 1-4, Harriet a Griffin 68 3-4, Theodore Griffin 66. Fourth— Rudolph Klaverhampf 88 1-2, 1 Roland Bowers 821-2, Irene Rose 72. )' El best December averages were: I E. Hines 94 1-2, . Margaret E. j send 92. Ida May Herbert 92 1-4, ' Elsie Struthera 91. 1 | STOCKHOLDERS MEETING f> The annual meeting of the Stockhold- J ! I erR tlie Cape May Building and Loan I ' Association will be held in their rooms, j 506 Washington street on Monday I ' 18th inst., at 7.30 P. M„ when tho Aud-J' ' itors report will bo received and action ' ' taken thereon. The election of officers J will take place at that time. Two 1 Amendments to the Constitution will 2 taken up for consideration, and any ® ' other business coming before the meet- ' will receive cue consideration. Cape May, N. J., Jan. 4th, 1915. H. a RUTHERFORD, t-l-8-8t 1 *— tt. mm mt vm «

■ 1ILI, i .—J 1 ; SHERIFFS SALE ie By virtue of a writ of Fieri Ffcciaa, to me directed, issued out the Cape May Circuit Court, on the 18th day of De? cember A. D. 1914, I shall expose to £ silr at public vendue, on " Monday, February i, 1915, between the hours of twelve and five . o'clock p. dl, to wit, at one o'clock in h the afternoon of said day, at the Shere iff's office, in Cape May Court House, s Cape May County. New Jersey : 1 1. All that certain lot of land or curtin lage situate, lying and being in the tSty of Cap-- May, in the County of Cape B May, New Jersey, being known as Lots 1 g 5953 and 5944, I'lan "A" of the Chp*! s I May Real Estate Company, duly filed 1 in the office of the Clerk of the County 1 r]of Cape May: Beginning at the corner | formed by the intersection of the South- i j j crly line of New Jersey avenue with the r Easterly line of Yale avenue, eontmn- ' 1 1 ing in front Northeasterly along the j Southeasterly line of New Jersey ave- J I j nue, eighty feet, and extending in length j I or depth Southeasterly at right angles j t to the said New Jersey avenue one hun- ' | dred and fifty feet i] Bring the same premises which Peter j and Cora I. Shields, his wife, by ] , deed dated May 4, 1903, and recorded in < the Cape May County Clerk's Office in j Book No. 179, pages • 393 etc., ] granted and conveyed to the said Oape , May Real Estate Company, In fee. IncludingMhe two-story, concrete, flat ' roofed dwelling having a front of thir- j ( ie

it ty-three feet and a depth of sixty-six feet on said lot of land or curtilage. Seized as the property of Nelson Z. e Graves, builder, and Cape May Real Esh tate Co., owner, defendants, taken in execution at the suit, of Jeremiah E. Mecray, plaintiff, and to be sold ijy d COLEMAN F. CORSON, Sheriff, j Dated January 7th, WIS. M J. M. E, Hildrcth, Atty. l-8,4tpf$10 ' PRICE LIST ON CAPE MAY BOND A Loft-Dried Paper of Unusual Quality in Three Styles with Envelopes j To Match. Each Letter Head is water marked t "Cape May Bond," a feature which keeps Cape May County in the minds of the readers of your letters. 3 Specify Cape May Bond for the next r older of stationery, j Star and Wave Stationery Department, c . .315 and 317 Washington Sts., j Cape May, N. J. „ SAMPLES ON REQUEST. PRINTED ONE COLOR j QUALITY NO. ao. . Quantity Size Price . 500 Note ncads (5%x8'/s) $1.50 , .,000 Note Heads (5%x8%) 2.50 1 2,00(1 Note Heads (5%xgy,) 4.50 - 5,000 Note Heads 5'/,x8Vi) 10.00 - 500 Note Heads (6x9%) 1.75 . 1,000 Note Heads (6x9%) 2.75 - 2,000 Note neads (6x9%) 5.00 3.000 Note Heads (0x9%) 11.00 500 Letter Heads (8%xll) 2.00 1 1,000 Letter Heads (8%xll) 3.00 1 2,000 Letter Heads (8%xll) 5 .50 3.000 Letter Heads (6%xll) 12.50 ! Cape May Bond Envelopes No. 20 Bond Finished Standard Size, 37ixtf','. • 250 Envelopes $ 1.50 | 500 Envelopes 2.t I . : uoo Envelopes 3.03 1 2,000 Envelopes 5.30 I j ,000 Envelopes 12.50 j PRINTED ONE COLOR - QUALITY NO. 24. Size Price 1 500 Note Heads <5%x8%) $1.05 1 Note Heads <5%x8%) 2 75 1 Note Heads (5%x8%).... 5.00 Note Heads (5%x8%).... 11.30 1 '500 Note Heads (6x9%) 2.00 1 Note Heads (6x9%) 8.00 2,000 Note Heads (6x9%) 5.-30 ' Note Heads (6x9'/,) 12.00 1 500 Letter Heads (8%xll).... 2. 1 Letter Heads (i%xll) 3.59 Letter Heads (8%xll) 6.,)« Letter Hoads (8%xll) 13.75

Cape May Bond Envelopes 1 No. 24 Bond Finished c J 260 Envelopes $1.05 j ^ 500 Envelopes 2.23 1,000 Envelopes 3.50 2,000 Envelopes 6.00 s '|6,000 Envelopes 13.73 h : j* ! PRINTED ONE COLOR ' ' | QUALITY LINEN FINISHED NO. 14 j g | Quantity Size Pric-- ' SOU Not-- Heads (5%x8%) $2.:*(|° 1 1.000 Note Heads (5%x8%) 3.-19 1 b . ; Note Heads (5%x8%) 5.00: 1 j 5^)00 Note neads (5%x8%).... 12.00 |C 500 Note*Hcads (6x9%) 2.00: Note Heads (6x9%) 3.25 J 2,000 Note Heads (6x9%) 6.00 Note Heads (6x9%) "13.25 A 500 Letter Heads (8%xll) 2.60 " Letter Heads (8%xll) 4.00 "Letter Heads (8%xll) 7.00 > Letter Heads (8%xll).... 16.00 1 pe May Bond Envelopes ' No. 24 Linen Finished £ 260 Envelopes • $1.76 60 Envelopes g.&0 1A00 Envelopes 3.7« iJK* Buvriopet 6.80 pi <N0 Snvdopse 16.0Q ai ■i": •.■Katy.l ..vi i

CW1CI »» y YIB8T BAPTIST CBURCB Pastor, William Djn tUOntj. 0 Preach lag on Sunday at 10. » mi the evening at 7.10, Monday pM •t 3 p.m.; Wednesday evsniag Prayer s Meeting at 7 30( Men's Union " a Saturday evening at 7. SO. FIRST M. E. CHURCH ! Bev. W. E. Lake, Paster. Preaching Sunday 10.30 a.m., T.go r p.m.; Sunday school 2.10 p.m., Snaday Praise Rervloe, 0 a.m. and 6 p.m. 5 Oaas Meetings on Thursday and Iri- » day evenings at 7.45 p.m. Prayer 1 Meeting, Wednesday evening 7.49 p.m. — FIRST PRESBYTERIAN flHTTRfgy Sunday services, 10.29 a.m. and 7.30 1 p.m., Sunday «ehool 300 p.m.. Midweek. Wednesday. 8.00 p.m.: 3". P.S.C. : E., Fridayt, 8JXI p.m.. Junior Endeavor, Fridays, 3.45 p.m. CHURCH OF THE ADVENT EPISCOPAL. [Lafayette Street. between Jackson and Decatur Streets. Service 10.30 ■ | Sunday School 2J0 p.m. service . . 7.30 p.®. Early Communion service ah announced. HOURS OF DIVINE SERVICE at the Church of Our Lady, Star of [the Sea: X ' Masses — Sundays at 7 and 9 o'clock

: A. M. g'i "Week days at 7.30 A. M. ^ ; Sunday School at 2.30 p. m. Evening devotions, Sunday* and Fridsys. at 730. . f. o — SECRET SOCIETIES 10 ~ Cape May Lodge No. 30, F. and A. M. — Communications second and fourth Tuesdays of eac'i month at lodgt room, y Washington and Franklin street*. Adonirum Chapter, No. 39, Royal Arch Maaons — Convocations third Mond day of each month at lodge room, Wash- ^ ington and Franklin streets, is Mayflower Lodge, No. 258, Independent Order of Odd hello w* — Meets 1 each Friday at Auditorium, Jackson street. E> Ckpe May Encampm<-nt. No. 6B, L 0. O. F., meets the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at the Audi- . torium. Ogallalla Tribe, No. 167, Improved Order of Red Men. Meets each Tuesday evening at Auditorium, e Columbia Lodge, No. 23, Independent 0 Order of Mechanics — Meets each Mon0 day evening at the Auditorium. 0 Patriotic Sons of America — Meets 9 each Wednesday evening at the Auditor5 ium, Jackson street. 5 Cape May Lodge No. 21, A. O. u. W., 1 meets first and third Thursdays of each 3 month at Ogden's Hall. Perry etreet. J Cape Moy Council, No. 1691. Royal 3 Arcanum- Meets first and third Thura1 days of each month at Auditorium. I Cape May Conclave, Nb. 183. Improved Order of Hepta sophs — Meets at I Ogden's Hall, Perry street, on second and fourth Thursdays of each month. 1 Cape May Camp, No. 8772, Modern 1 Woodmen of America— Moots first Wed1 nesday of each month at the Audi1 torium . 1 Cold Spring Council. Jr. O. U. A. M. No. 135 — Meets in Hall nt Cold Spring every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Cape May Fire Department meets on , first Monday evening in each month at , the corner of Washington and Franklin , streets. , Friendship Council No. 27, D. of A.— on Tuesday afternoon of each week at 2.30 in Jr. 0. U. A. M. Hall. The John Mecray Post, No. 40, (y A. R. — Meets on the first Monday of sach month at 7.30 o'clock p.m., at Fraek- ; lin street school building. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS Notice is hereby given that the regu10 uwuj given uuii uie regu-

annual meeting of the stockholders of the Merchants National Bank, Cape N. J., will be held at the banking house, corner Washington and Decatur streets, on Tuesday, January 12th, 1915, between the hours of 11 a. m.. and 12 | M. The purpose of the meeting is tho : election of directors to serve for the enI suing year and the transaction of such I other business as may properly come | the meeting. E. J. JERRELL, Casnier. 1 Dated, December 12th, 1914. CASTORIA For IniCBtS Oiilihi-n Un For Over 30 Years CALLING CARDS fisgnved and printed. Prompt service at the Star tad Wave BtatfeMW