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VOL 65— NO. 48 CAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1920 ImMcSriot tm. a. leon EWING, MANAGER - - ■ > = — r

PERSONAL MENTION i Interesting personal para- £ graphs of the coming and a going of cape may visitors and residents. Mrs. George Settle left Cape May <] J| this week for Covington, Ky, where •] she will spend a few weeks with a - friends and relatives. jGeorge W. Settle is making a short visit to New York this week. j Mr. and Mrs. Norman Grey, 1830 ^ ■ r e street, Philadelphia, recently an. . r vjnoed the engagement of their j daughter Lucy B. to MacK night Black 5 of Eaaton, Pa. Miss Grey will dance in the pageant which will precede the , Charity Ball on December 2nd. j Miss Jeanne Walters has returned to her home after undergoing a slight , operation at St. Agnes Hospital, Phil- < adelphia. , Mrs. William Morris Cassedy, has ' as her guest for a few days, Mrs. t James Bir, of New Albany, Ind. Mrs. f Bir, whose wedding took place at the j Cassedy cottage sometime in June, was before her marriage, Miss Ells Hsrk- <j . er, of Cape May. < Miss Helen Moore spent the weekend with her cousin. Miss Margaretta 1 Lang, of German town, Pa. j Frank Hughes, Borough Clerk of , Cape May Point, arrived at Orlando, Fla., Thursday afternoon after an in- j teresting drive in his touring car. Miss Agnes Bennett spent the weekend with friends in Philadelphia. Harry L. Parkinson, who with his family resided at his home, 29 Perry street for nearly two years, left this week for the winter to occupy their home at Lansdowne, but expect to return very early in the coming spring, peihaps to remain permanently Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Jerrell are spending a fortnight with friends and relatives in New York. Mrs. Joseph Ward, on Friday aftermoon entertained a number of friends St her home on Franklin street. Edward Page closed his cottage on Stockton avenue this week and has motored to Miami, Fla., where he will spend the winter. After closing their Washington St. cottage, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Townsend have gone to Philadelphia where they will spend the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Rudolph Koch. Rutherford Baker left this* week

for Jacksonville, Fla., where he will ^ spend the winter. jj Mrs, William Rice and daughter, Anna, spent the week in Philadelphia, A where they attended the wedding of e Miss Anna Tagg. Mr. and Mrs. William Tobin have u returned to their Mt. Airy home after y spending two weeks here. 1 p We regret to be obliged to announce that our genial friend and most accommodating gentleman, Ronald Quidort, is about to leave his "Old Cape May" to entertain both himself and other audiences with his inimitable exhibit £ of good singing and characterizations. The Presbyterian choir will miss him ' most of all- The public, we are sure, all join with us in wishing him a most • enjoyable good time and much success 1 in his calling. 1 Mrs. Mary Miller, 641 Hughes St, is < entertaining Mrs. Mell Church for a • ' ■ fortnight. \ , Miss Sue Davis Spent Thursday with , ■ her mother, Mrs. S. S. Davis. Ernest Filer was in Cape May over Jc. Thanksgiving. Mr. Filer is a well known athlete. Harry Tenenbaum, who is a studetrt of Dickinson Law School, spent Thursday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Tenenbaum. The Misses Elizabeth Eldredge and ' Norma Hildreth enjoyed Thanksgiving Day in Philadelphia. H. E. Thompson, manager of the Security Trust Company, is enjoying a few days at rest in Philadelphia. Miss L P. Remington, of Philadelt ' phia, opened her Grant street cottage i for the Thanksgiving season. . Mr. and Mrs. E. P. B Warn*. of A Philadelphia, are passing the week- ■ at Ga^e May. I I Mrs Ma G. Johnsoe. of Mount ■ Bettsy. is • wtok-end riwter with her ■ parents. Judge ead Mrs. J. M. E. HilLnurenee Brieat. of Lateyette eelI >t* ** nM*«W—

Dr. Humphrey Swain, of Goshen, a was a recent visitor here, renewing £ old acquaintances. H. H. Parker, an extensive property holder here, was a recent visitor. Frank Mende, a summer cottager on Second avenue, has closed his house F and moved to his Philadelphia home. Rev. Walter L. Phillips, of , Lansdowne, and Dr. Snnfh, of West Chester, were recent gufests of L. C. Ogden. Laurence H.^dredge, who is a stu- 0 of Lafayette college, spent e Thanksgiving 'with his parents, Mr. g and Mrs. Iryin H. Eldredge, at their j on Corgie street. b Mr. and lire. Walter J. Fenderson, and sori. motored to Bridgeton „ this week. , 0 Miss Ida Edmunds and Miss Marion t Hughes are visiting Miss Dorothy \ Farrow, of Royersford, for a few days, f Mrs. Jesse Rutherford has as her It guests for a few days, Mr. and Mrs. : j Miller,.Jr., of Reading. I g Mrs Marie Krabo, of New York, s was in Cape May Wednesday looking „ over her property, corner Columbia t avenue and Franklin street I, George Stevens and T. Millet Hand, • y students of Dickinson Law School, ' r spent Thanksgiving with their parents in Cape May. Mrs. B. F. Johnson entertained on Thursday, Miss Emily Bennett/-, of Cape May Court House. j, Samuel W. Wile?, -a former Cape _ } resident, engaged in the contract- 1 1 ing business, was in Cape May this g week. j j Mrs. Samuel Burroughs, of Colum- j avenue, entertained friends from ] Atlantic City over the week end. Warren Arnold spent Thursday with j his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ar- 1 1 nold. Mr. Arnold is attending La- ; ( ' fayette college. Mrs. S. H. Moore had as her guest ' over Thursday, her sister, Miss Sallie . ' 1 Smith, of Atlantic City. I 1 Miss Rae Curtis is in New York for " a few days where she will attend the • Army and Navy football game. Miss Laura Hughes, of Newark, " spent Thursday with relatives here. | The Misses Sara and Jennie Hughes ' are spending a few days in Philadc]1 phia. j ' . Mrs. Phebe Kay and son were the 1 1 guests of Mrs Kay's parents, Mr. and 5 Mrs. David Rodan, over Thanksgiving, j ' Miss Elsie Spencer, of Philadelphia, 1 -is visiting friends in Cape May this • week. Mr. and Mrs. Spicer Harris, and ! daughter Dorothy, and Miss - Ruth j r Harris, of Germantown, motored to Cape May Wednesday. : Mr. and Mrs. S. B Taylor enter1 . «... J »i_. •

tained on Thursday. Mr. and Herbert Pettit, of .Pennsgrove. I r, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Richardson, of ^ Altoona, are visitors over the week-!> end. > Leland Sharp, student of the Whar- ^ School, University of Permsyl- y vania, spent Thanksgiving with his y parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Sharp. £ miss curtis entertains )j The guests attending the party , } given on Monday evening by Miss Rae } Curtis at her home on Delaware ave-. J nue are as follows: \ Mrs. Samuel M. Sshdlenger, Mrs. x John H. Mecray, Mrs. William M. C Cassedy, Mrs. Joseph Ward, Mrs. J. » O. Rutherford, Mrs. Lemuel E. Miller, J Jr., Mrs. Allyn T. Sayre, Mrs. George ) S. Curtis, Mrs. T. Lee Lemmon. j The Misses Helen Moore, Norma ^ Hildreth, Frances Thompson, Mat > Lional of Philadelphia, Martha Schel- i • lenger, Helen Smith, Hilda Ware, < I Marie Thompson and Rae Curtis. ; SISTERS OCCUPY CONVENT J 1 The Sisters of St. Joseph are now J occupying the convent ons Lafayette ( 1 street, which has been remodeled pre-. • paratory to their locating here. • ' The sisters have been coming over < ! every day from the Point to teach ( f school while the convent was being ( made ready for them. , t CAPE MAY MAN HOME t William Harris is baric to Cape May 1 - after a year's service with theFord 1 Motor Company, of Phoenix, Arisona. 1 t Mr. Harris will take his old position r with Foeer * Meerav at the Ford b Service Station. "Bill," as every - the beet Feed repairman in the Ml I ami act tea much can be said of his high ctaas work.

MACKISS1C ENTERTAINS t t freeholder celebrates his f re-election with a tig * roast * F Over one hundred and fifty friends t of Joseph McKissiq, county freehold- « er, from all over Lower Township e gathered at his summer home in South L MayviUe last Thursday night, to cele- - brate the re-election of the Freeholder. 1 Speeches were made by prominent * of Lower Township, but the hit of the evening was the speech made * Nat Newman, the eminent Dela- f warian, who is now farming on Price's 1 on the Delaware Bay shore. His 1 of how the battle was won by ' i McKissic and his friends brought forth ' ' great applause. Captain Carl Reeves of former sheriff John w. Reeves, 1 regular in the army, was cheered to | the echo. Everyone was loud in their 1 | praise of the County Board of Free- < holders for the excellent macadam 1 roads now completed in the county. 1 FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY < t The Cape May Free Public Library < open at the high school building « Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays be- 1 ' 8:00 and 4:80 o'clock in the ' afternoon, the librarian, Miss Edith ' Edmunds in charge. — i presbyterian church i ' | The congregation of the Presbyterian ctfurch are glad to welcome , j thkir pa*tor, Rev, C. O. Bosser- ( man, who appeared to officiate Sun-, ^ day last.' I The Ringing of Miss Cole, of Bel-, . fonte, was much enjoyed. This | young lady is a soprano of much prom- ! ise and good possibilities. | BASKET BALL SEASON OPEN On Saturday night, November 27th, the basket ball season will open with i a game played between the American I Legion and Cape May High School. . j The game will start at 8:30 sharp, , and will be followed by a dance. A CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION ' | Give her a year's subscription to her 1 . favorite magazine. See us. I Spencer's News Agency, 615 Washington St.

LIBERTY TATBONS ENTER- '1 TAINED TO A MUSICALE I The musical, program arranged for this week at. the Liberty was a real treat to all lovers of musk. The program ft Wednesday evening, both <- vocal and musical were indeed worth while. The appearance of Mrs. Mabel Hewitt, soprano, was indeed a pleasure many of her friends who were present In a very pleasing manner and exceptionally .good voice she rendered " good style that pleasing ballad, ^ Sunshine and You. For an enoore, 1 Lassie, another very pretty 9 number. h Sidney Homer, one of Philadelphia's v Cellists, and artist truly, <3 gave e. wonderful rendition of Ro- b mance sans 'Paroles, warmly greeted s and applauded and for an encore, n LeCygne, another very artistic num- 8 ber. Louis Ferrer*, Violinist, like Mr. ' both members of the Philadel-. phia Orchestra and who will be re- 0 memhered as part of the wonderful e which entertained the summer patrons of the Liberty, immedi- ' ately on his appearance on the stage was applauded -as only a favorite _ could hope or look for, anU to repay ' this warmth, gave an excellent account 1 of himself with Souvenir, by Drdla, admirably performed, his wonderful 1 technique at once apparent For an v encore Mr. Ferrara played Love Song 1 Sammartini, with this number he 4 was accompanied by Miss Helen Port- * er on the organ. Last but not least, Miss Helen Port- ' er, so well known to all of us, what . more can we say of her? In a fini ished and musical style did her part . as always — perfect. -j On Monday evening of this week I Mr. Austin Hughes, Cape May's popu- - , lar tenor, sang Mr John McCormick's . sjlatest, "Thank God for the Garden". , - Mr. Hughes dsayr sang to better adI vantage than on this occasion and de- ! lighted all those who attended. As we feel that many missed this concert due to the rain, Mr. Hughes will again sing Saturday evening when we will , also present Mae Murray in "A Mor- , nxm Maid." ^ , will spend winter IN FLORIDA Word has been received by friends 1 of Harry Woolson and family, of Cape . - May Point, of their arrival on Satur- 1 day, November 20th, at Lakeland, Fla., ' where they expect to spend the winter. The trip was made by automobile. u iu nuMuiiKwn ot. urc 'V — — J

KAYEM'S MUSICIANS: d TO COX'S NEW PALACE « THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2nd— t A PROGRAM WHICH EVERY n ONE SHOULD LIKE I It consists of popular and classical a musk presented in a novel manner. ( them is an excellent humorist. I boys are clean-cut, virile, ex- i service men, masters in their partku- 1 lines. Note the variety of their a work: a saxaphone quartette, a brass quartette, an instrumental quartette, I instrumental and accordeon ) solos, the marimbaxylophones, various i musical surprise features, flute solos, t stories and jokes. Louis Colangele, manager of the 1 was leader of the 56th In- 1 fan try Band 7th Division. He is one 1 of the best comet soloists in this country. ' Signor Grasse, flute soloist with the musicians, refused an offer with the ^ Chicago Symphony Orchestra to finish the season with this company. Be is a musical humorist; one of the funniest men on the platform. < Jack Li den, story teller, was in the < for two and a half years. He was known as "Duffy" in the navy by > the thousands of boy6 whom he enter* tained. . laden has roamed the Unit- 1 ed States from ocean to ocean, from 1 the Yukon to Mexico. He has enter- 1 tained in many states and under all ' circumstances. He presents stories ' in the Irish, Italian, Swedish, and < Jewish dialects. SCHOOL NOTES Thanksgiving was celebrated or. ' Wednesday, 25th inst., at 11:80 a. m. G rammer and "High School assembled in the Auditorium of the high school. The program was in ' charge of the Sophomores. Decorations consisting of pennants made by J the students of the high school were artistically arranged around the room. Eighty-six pennants k»re sold and there is call for more. On Wednesday monting the students who either played four games on the • Varsity team or won at least one point in track meet for Cape May i High School received their letters. 1 Awards were made to Lawrence Eldredge, Warren' Arnold, L. Dickinson*, , Ernest Files, Wilbur DeTurk, Russell Taylor, Edwin Ashburn, Harry Lemmon, Frank Moore, Arhur Hunt, Walt-

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THANKSGIVING DAY Appropriate and strictly religious services were held in the Methodist church at 10:30 a m., Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian congregations assembled en maaae and entering Mo the celebration with fervor and aaatiThe ministry were represented by G. Hillman, Rev. C. O. Bcesannan and Rev. P. Slawter. The last gentleman preached the sermon. Forceful, diacritical, conservative, and strict accord with the occasion. A most enjoyable exhibition of oratory and religious dessertation. The music was rendered by the comchoirs under the direction of Mr. Bodes and the Principal of the High" all the singers entering into the work with spirit The soloist for the oocasion was Mr. Ronald Quidort who sang very well and acceptably. A young man with a voice of much promise Mr Reuben Reeves presided at the WILDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATS MIDDLE TOWNSHIP Wildwood High School conclusively demonstrated its football superiority Saturday when it defeated Middle Township in the final game of the seaby a score of 25 to 14. Aside from a run the length of the field by Howell after a kick off hi the first period, Middle Township like a real foot ball team but^ 1 once in the game and that was when i they scored a touchdown in the last I quarter. Wildwood's boys were outweighed but had been splendidly coached and were able to take advantage of the mistakes o ftheir opponents, whose - magnificent physiques were futile because they had not been trained in the . fine points of the game. ; Livezey, Cross, Paoli and Pinker , starred for Wildwood, while Scull, . Beaman and Ben Cresse excelled for 7 Middle Township. , The Wildwood High School Football team, with a record of five games won j out of six played, has made good its claim to the championship of Cape ; May county and stands in line for the . class C championship of South Jersey. . Its only defeat was by the Ocean . City team by a score of 12 to 6, but that blot is effaced by the feet that it . has a victory of 18 to 0. over the same school and that in the last gante of the [" 'Season it defeated Middle Township . 26 to 14, and that team had two . weeks before defeated Ocean City 39 to 14. j er Rea, Oscar Springer, Donald Doug5 lass, Cecil Miles, Jean Douglass, Laura . Church, Annie Johnson, Ruth Hines, ' Dorothy Johnson, Elizabeth Stevens, ' Mary Homan, Eva Hoffman, Julia » Hoffman, Rebecca Reeves, Ida EdJ munds, Rose Fay, Edwin Cummings, j Geo. Meyer, Ottier Howard, and Edk gar McPherson. ' 'he program per sen ted was approf priate and well done, r Salute to the flag. r Singing, The Star Spangled Banner. 3 President's Proclamation, read by * Rebecca Reeves. v Court Scene, 1620. £ Court Scene, 1920. f Song by School. • ? Courtship of Miles Standish. f Song by th School, i Pilgrim Interlude— The Spinning j Song. Miss Agnes Bennett, Soloist. °v Song by Freshman Class. A America. ^ The sale of thrift stamps on Wednesday amounted to 105 stamps, exceeding all previous sales. 5 Thanksgiving offering for the whole i school and for the benefit of the ■v French orphans amounted to $80.00. t On Thanksgiving Day Cape May S( High School conducted a cross country gf run. It was an inter-class affair but rf when the start came only three classes 5 appeared to take their places. The J course was three and a half miles long * and was covered in 21 minutes, 40 4-5 Efc seconds. The winners in their order CC were Ottier Howard, Senior; Cornelius < Palmer, Senior; George Meyer, Senior. rf A prise banner will be awarded the > ' winning team in the near future. A CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION Give him a yew's subscription to his favorite magazine. See «* " Spencer's News Agency. (16 Washington St.