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Five Mile Beach New Year's J Association Extend A Cordial Invitation To » Cape May And Her Neighbors To Participate In The j Mummers' Parade AT wild wood NEW JERSEY JANUARY SECOND, 1922 Forms at 1 o'clock— Starts at 2 o'clock • _ Special Excursion from Gloucester City via Woodbury, Vineland and Millville. Makes all stops at intermediate stations^ CTVIC, PATRIOTIC AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS, BANDS AND INDIVIDUALS IN FANCY AND COMIC COSTUMES *Hundreds of dollars in CASH Prizes There will be a crowd but you will be able to see all the parade in comfort at Wildwood THE FIVE MILE BEACH NEW YEAR'S ASSOCIATION 1 & SHERMAN S. SHARP 'v— — Contractor and Builder 656 Washington Street Caps May, N. J. ^ Estimates Given Keystone Phone 336 — ' J *■' I i I "ajMCLUB^l I i « f 1 ■ .}.: I No Entrance Fee to 5 J Join THIS Club J S JUST STEP up TO THE CHRISTMAS CLUB WINDOW AND M :fi: MAKE THE FIRST WEEKLY DEPOSIT (OF YOUR 9 "A OWN CHOOSING) AND YOU "BELONG" £: This Club like Christmas itself, is for "everybody — rich, poor, %• '■&. young and old. They all appreciate having some extra money iff j 9 when it is most needed, whicl^will be early next December. 9 i jg Plans to Suit Them All ft fi: Club now open and we extend a very cordial invitation to £: -jjr you to join. 5 I SECURITY TRUST Ca § * CAPE MAY, N. J. g

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•PROVOCATION , t<T THINK Kersmitb Is the worst | A grouch I ever saw." observed the | 'retired merchant. "I met him (Ms ' morning and remarked that It was n i fine day, and he told n»<i to go to j (thunder and mind my own business." • ' — "Kersmitb is a

fine citizen." pretestetl the hotelkeeper, "and as a general thing his j temper Is ■. like j sunshine- wtffi the. bark on It When a man says something disagreeable to yon without provocation. It Is pretty safe to as- | sume that he has a secret sorrow. "The other day

I met GooseI worthy and asked him how he was ! feeling, and he scowled at me and ; | said It was none of my business, and j .Intimated that I'd have more friends 1 If I wouldn't always be butting In. Had I tieen given to jumping to cop- | elusions,,, like yon, I'd have Insisted | that Goose worthy was a crank whose ' head should be bathed in harness oil. ! But I said to myself that the old man must have some trouble on Ills mind, which led him to forget the ordinary by-laws and. regulations of the gnme j of etiquette, and before I had gone • block I met Farthlngdale, who asked me If 1 had hear about Goosewor.hy. J "The old man bought a new automobile yesterday,' said Farthingale, 'and before he had owned It an hour he ran It Into a tree and crumpled it all up, so It wouldn't have fetched ffi at the junk yard.' / 'Then I was glad that I hadn't sot : Gooseworthy down ns a confirmed sore- j head. You may not know It, but Kersmlth was moving from one house to .another yesterday, and that job will ruin the disposition of the most en- • thustastlc optimist In the world. Unless you have moved, you don't know what a nerve racking experience Is. "When I wns younger I used to be moving pretty 6ften. having discovered. ; after much observation and research, . that it was cheaper than pnylng rent. | The moving Itself Is bad enough, but your experiences after the Job Is done j fairly drive you frantic. You can't ' , find anything you want for a month j afterwards. About .a thousand things seem to be lost for keeps, but the.v ( come bobbing up In the most unexpected places. You find your tooth | brush' In the toe of a shpper. and ( your watch in a jar of suuerbrnut. and your Sunday necktie In a stuffed dog. When you put on your Sunday . hat, yon find It half .full of carpet rags. There never was such n dog. ; gone business, and F hold that the i man who can move, and still smile a . saintly smile, Is yet 'to be born. "Featherly Is one of the sunniest i men ! ever knew. His face Just fair- ■ ly radiates witfthapplness, so It would i warm up an nVeaqge room quicker : than a furnnce coul(jn»-4tJ^I always i considered.lt a pleasure to meet him, i for his joyous demeanor braced 'tne i ' up for the day, and made me feel that i life was worth living. • i "Tt^o days ngo T overtook htm on < the -Street and_ slnppct^ him on the i back' and asked him how he stacked I up. I had done the same a dozen times [ before, and he had always nearly | wrung my hand off In thaKepthusias < tic way of his. And he had slapped i me on the back, and told me I was u bully boy with a vitrified eye, on many ( occasions. * i "So yon can imagine how I felt when • . he turned around looking as mad as ( a group of wet hens. He shook his t fist under my nose and danced around j and said. 'Yon blamed splay-footed, t sway-backed, knock-kneed Imbecile, II . you ever again take such a liberty with me, I'll wlkd your face around your neck and tie your ears togethei on top of your bead.' "At. first I was mad and Inclined tc 1 tell him what 1 thought of him, bui 1 just then a man came np and said 1 •Featherly, I'm sorry you didn't get J die appointment as postmaster,' and ' then I understood." ^ * Succeeded. The timid doughboy, on hts first dnj v L under "lire, left his company unceremo nlously and fled rearward. He had 1 covered a lot of ..distance before b« j ' pulled up at the command of a portly 1 soldier : "Halt, there : Where are yov I ' going?" "Oh. I'm Just going. Who are you?' >•' "I'm General Richardson." ' "Uqly , jsmoftes ! I didn't know I't j 1 run -as far. ns that I"— American Le 1 gjon Weekly. Abraham's Oak Tree. When Abraham was promised a pos ( session of - the land of Canaan, it h , recorded, fie was commanded to wall , through the land, whereupon he re ( moved hls-tgnt, and came and dwell t In -the plain of Mamre, wlil.ch Is 1i , Hebron, and built there an altar t< t the Lor<L It Is stated that this spots stl^I marked fiy n great oak tree f venerated alike by Christian, Jew .am , Mohammedan. Its preservation In , region cleared of almost all trees b*, , the Improvident Turks Is attribute , ' - to the protection by all religions. ,

. ONE OF NATURE'S WONDERS ' Meal Gownnmid by Mstbsi Wbf M a Real Marvel la Its Absolute Perfection. ^ie solitary wasp called Enmenes ami-del attains great excellence alike lu the chase and in the craft of bulkl tng; It IS a '"Nlmrod and a. Vltruvlus t«> turns." With minute pebbles and sulvlnted uiortar It builds a finely tlnis'icil cupola about itnyequiirterof an Inch In height, ?be outside 01 IS . covered with gllstenlht:> j grains pf quartz or sometimes with ■ .;•> sttutl shells; the orifice at the top is "like the mouth of an . am j ph. rii. gracefully curved, worthy of a I potter's wheel." % Afteij1 the mother wasp has place. | uu egg In her well-fashioned nest 'si;, j adds' five to leu small caterpillar* | and It is remarkable that the egg iw. j the well-stocked nesl develops Into ■> J female wasp, while that In the metis .j crly provisioned nest . becomes the - much smaller male. It appears that the stung caterplllare tiiat form the living lurdfcr in side the wasp's cell are but Imperfectly paralyzed, and toss about when touched. Now, the least pressure would crush the delicate 'egg. .So it Is hung by a thread Mom the roof of the cnpola, and after the Euuienes grub hatches It makes the east shell of the egg.Tr!to a flexible staircase so that It can reach the caterpillars | und bite them, yet retreat If they are I too vigorously recalcitrant. This Is [ perfection. HOW LEGENDS "TAKE HOLD" One That Concerns George Washington Was Long Believed by Residents of New York. That there Is Dothing too Imposslj hie to forbid It being the basis of a legend that will find credulous belief . ers for generations is ugaln proved | by a story current In the Ramapo val- | ley, near New York. Like -so many i other tales known along the , cast ! coast. It concerns .George Washington, aud It was believed -by thousands of : tfie residents of the valley up to a j generation ago.It appears that Washington, when j the Continental army was encamped nt what Is now the Ramapo station : on the main line of the Erie railroad, i was uncertain as to the tnten- ; tlons of Lord Howe. In command of I the British fleet and army nt New i York. He used to climb frequently ! to the high peak of the Torne. a mile j north - of the valley, from which he could see a part of New York bay. ' and there spy on the fleet. In the upi per part of the peak Is a tiny stream. /-Hidden In the crevices of the rocks, and the dropping of the water sounds like a Watch ticking. • Legend has it that Washington dropped his watch In a fissure of the i Torne on one of his observations, and that the timepiece has gone on ticking ever since 1 Old Qulndaro Settlement. The old town of Qulndaro on the Missouri, rive? above Kansas City was . founded In 185C by free state booiu- | ers who came front New England to j help make Kansas free. Kansas City j and Leavenworth werft either neutral ' or were dominated by sympathizers of j The New England emigrants wanted a "port of entry" of their own. The was hullt up rapidly with a large ! hotel, great warehouses, a steamboat' ; landing, and other evidences of a "fitlure great metropolis." * During the Civil war. however, the men "till went 1 to fight. When they returned the • Pnclfie wns. building west- , through the Kii_w yaney4 nnd a little i Inter tbe Hannibal briilgX was fon- ! structed, foreycs-mffinhg Kansas City - 'the "port of entryV" . V i Qulndaro was abandoned; . Its ^Ji'tW tel and warehouses went th tlecny. and now all that remains Dre theTnlns and the memory of a struggle of a brave men who believed thev were right, but who were mistaken In tfielr judgment as to the geogrnphlcnl location of the "future great metropolis." •r-Kansas City Star. Grecian Shrine*. It was at Kalavrlta that the beginnings of the Greek war for Independence were made, and the tattered banwhich the Archhlshop Gerroanus took with htm from his celt when he sallied forth to begin the contest 1? still kept as the sacred war banner of Hellenism and was brought out In much state at the beginning of the war with Turkey. Another well-known shrine in I Greece, and one Which Is most frequently visited by tourists, Is that at Meteora, where the giant needles j of rocjj are. capped with extensive j buildings to which the venturesome Lmny ascend either-by rickety ladders F set in x-<he'' interior crevlcgs or by menns of a.net drawn up by a creaking ' and primitive windlass. Pound of Air Quite a Big Thing. Textbooks tell us that a pound of caibon (the preponderating ele in Ait In coal)., require?, the oxygen contained In 11.6 pounds of air to complete the combustion. Few of us any idea what 11.6 pounds of air The Popular Science Monthly It home to us as follows: "Imagine, a column of - air one Inch square extending forty miles Into the ■ sky and you will have a good (flea of \the amount of air required to burn n . single pound of coal. A pound of conl would occupy a column one inch square and only three feet high?

: * — — ■ — - -*■ — -r, -r, rrkTn.Tn.Tiri.cii.cw ! | H Melcome Christmas present § J I f MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS IN i^H ; I CAPE MAY COUNTY 1 *»—- j ________ S. -9 q To anyone whose name, is mentfoned in & this valuable historical and genealogical book this volume will be an appropriate | | and pleasing Christmas present, and will {'3 '# be valued more- as the years go on. M § .A present of lasting value for the 1 ' -fchildren; an ideal wedding present; a % .. tt birthday present of unusual interest, con- iff ff^taining in many cases the date of birth. ' ( I "MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS IN,*. * CAPE MAY. COUNTY" is in every large - I :§ library in the country and should be in ev- v : S ery house in Cape May County. 4 f ORDER NOW IN TIME FOR §\ J I CHRISTMAS ' jS ALBERT R. HAND, Cape May, Publisher M 4 ; K When you house'dean, don't forget the A 1 COLUPIA LAUNDRY I I X 314 CONGRESS STREET J? ' w BOTH PHONES H. E. SETTLE, Prop. W ' O CARPETS, QUILTS, BLANKETS, PILLOWS AND O J O CURTAINS GIVEN SPECIAL ATTENTION « ALL OTHER CLASSES OF LAUNDRY WORK §

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There's a certain "smack", to veal roast that gives small eaters big appetites. Roast your potatoes right with the meat and watch how- \ everyone enjoys the meal. • • ' j, * If you prefer a beef, pork or kidney roast, we can give you just as good value as we j: can in veal. But make your selection . early . I ' '

Every Sale Means a Satisfied Customer EDWARD P. NITTINGER LIBERTY THEATRE BUILDING. Keystone Phone 10 CAPE MAY, N. J.

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DELIVERIES IN ANY QUANTITY OF LUMBER La any length, width or thickkntoo far any purpoaa whatever — that's the offer we make yon today. We Mat have ample atoclu af seasoned/measured timbers in oar yard to ha able to Bake such a broad offer. Wo Havel And ear prices will save yon money. Ask for oetfaiaWm

GEORGE 06DEN S SON CAPE MAY, N. J.