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VOL. 67; No. 37

CAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922 ~ . I APHTFiinrn t

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PERSONAL NEWS C OF ACTIVE PEOPLE INTERESTING PERSONAL PARA- Si GRAPHS OF THE COMING AND GOING OF CAPE MAY VISITORS AND RESIDENTS Mrs. H. B. Walford, of Camden, N. J., is at this resort for a mpnth's so- ^ journ. j Mrs. John Claypool entertained on . Thursday afternoon for her son Jack, 1 who celebrated his first birthday. . Daniel J- Bishop, of Philadelphia, who is connected with the D- L. Ward , Paper Co. of Philadelphia, was greet- . ' ing friends here on Thursday. Mrs. J. O. Rutherford will entertain _ at cards, Thursday afternoon at her home on Michigan avenue Miss Margarette Lang, of Germantown, accompanied by her neice, Miss w Mildred Lang, are spending sometime in Cape May yas guests of Mr. and n Mrs. S. H. Moore. . i, Harvey Green and wife, of Willow ^ Grove, Pa., have been visiting J- w' „ Corson, Cape May Point. Albert Atwood Fenderson, of Washington, D. C., has been with his mother, Ida W. Fenderson for ten days. Mrs. Mae Letts and daughter, Lina „ Margaret, of Newark, N. J-, have re- f turned borne after spending a month q with her brother, Mr- Allan Bush. b Mrs. J. M. Wlalton, after spending g a delightful summer at her Ocean <; street cottage, returned this week to a Philadelphia, where she will remain B for the winter. 1 Mrs. Martha McDade and her f daughter Miss Rae MdDade, of Phila- , delphia, have returned to their home after spending two months in Cape < May as guests of Mr- and Mrs. Hairy | C. Scott at their Lafayette street ( tome. . , 1 Mr. and Mrs. James West who , have made their home at Cape May , for the past four years, are leaving , this week for Washington, D. L., where they will remain indefinitely. , CHEERFULNESS A BUSINESS SUCCESS Anything useful and worth while which is rather scarce is sure to be extremely valuable. There should be plenty of good cheer in the world, for there is such • an abundance of fine and splendid things to make us all happy, and yet cheerfulness and bubbling laughter and deep content and true happiness " are far scarcer than they ought to be. A cheerful comrade is better than a water-proof coat and a foot warmer. — Henry Van Dyke- __ _ . Henry Dyke- p

Perhaps that's whv Van Dyke t thought he would rather have a cheer- E ful comrade even if he were soaked t to the skin and had cold feet than to a be on a hike and be dry and warm t with a grouchy individual at his sn.e. We all know people who are un- r hanpy and rarely smile or have a gooa e time, who live in the midst of luxur- ^ ies of all kinds; and others who have ( little of this world's goods, and our- { dens to carry, and yet, who are rich t because they can laugh and pi"" and ( see the jdy in everyday life. £ A great deal has been said lately £ about efficiency and thrift, vet cheer- ' fulness and a hopeful attitude toward j life are the very first planks in the i platform of better things. The man' who groans, "What's the use, and . the woman who gets up' and bids the devil "Good morning," the first thing ^ upon arising, are the people who keep their eyes on the ground and the trou- - blesome ruts and rocks in the pathway and who never look up at the sky and smile and laugh for. joyNewell Dwight Hillis says. The , three arch enemies of happiness are hurry, worry and debt." To hurry habitually is to be lacking in thoroughness and to fail to get as much out of each opportunity as is possible- To worry is to lower our mental and physician integrity. And if ^e worry enough, we can paralyze effort and execute ourselves slowly. Debt is a burden which will drag any conscientious self-respecting person down. The cure is to keep out of debt.. WIe can all find happiness where we are- There is nothing like the joy of the job, whether we are tending store,, or making shoes, or baking brtau or — pies, or -wrapping candy , or putting up prescriptions to make people well, or dressing furs and making clothing to keep them warm, or manufacturing or selling implements and tools to till the soil, to build houses, or to shelter happy families. And when we are cheerful and keep on being cheerful, the people around us will fall into the same habit in spite of themselves. "God has given us tongues that we may say something pleasant to those about us, we are like Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, when she remarked: "I believe in gittin' as much good outen life as you kin — not that 1 ever set out to look for happiness; seems like the folks that docs, never find it. I jes' do-rthe best 1 kin where the nd Lord put me at, an' it looks like >t a happy feelin' in me most all th When' we have a happy, glowing, radiant feeling within us, we are pretty sure to be in good physicul condition and to be eager to do something for somebody and to do it wellRight there we have the seeds of efficiency, for Olive Screiner tells us that "happiness is a g*enr love and much serving." , Happiness is a duty— a duty to ourselves and to those about us

BOW TO ' ATLANTIC Gin COLLEGIANS CLASH IN £ ANOTHER TIGHT GAME, LOCAL DIAMOND STARS TAKING THE COUNT IN TENTH. In a finely played and hotly contested game lasting through ten short, snappv innings, Cape May was defeated by Atlantic City here Saturday by a score of 2-0. ' Bullet-like base throwing, pape and trick plays abounded, and coupled I with air tight pitching when runs 1 threatened, was responsible for the £ dearth of runs. . .. In the first of the tenth Atlantic " 1 City gathered in a brace of drives « r and taking advantage of one or two a trifling errors, a sacrifice fly and an £ erratic throw, scored twice. The Capes J1 were unable to make it up. , Lemmons and Schmidt proved a 1 masterful batjtery, and were splendid- e . backed by their teammates. Filer ^ r particular, starred afield, playing ' nearly a perfect game at shortstop- 0

REPUBLICAN MEETING An interesting Republican mass ® meeting, presided over by J. Albert chairman of the Republican , Executive Committee, was < held on Wednesday evening at the , SDectatorium Theatre Cape May r Court House. The audience was large , and enthusiastic. The speakers were , all county men, but in every case de- , livered their messages with a forceand ability which indicated a ( revival of public speaking effective- ( nes3 among the public men of this , county. The "Clean government and . business efficiency" ticket was emphatically endorsed by all speakers:, and by the audience if their vigorous , 1 applause was any indication of their ' sentiments. The first speaker was ' Judge Harry Douglass who dwelt • upon the national and state candidates • and their record and reviewed the public careers of all the county candidates on the "Clean Government ticket shown that in integrity and business efficiency in their own business and that of tjie public when they . have been in the public serviceHe was followed by Rev. .G. 1. B Hand, who expressed similar sentiments very eloquently and felt that I a ~reat crisis in the afairs of the II county had arisen calling for the very 1 best men we have to serve and for 1 the active cooperation of all good citir iens. State Committeeman, Hon. s Lewis T. Stevens reviewed the situa- '• tion very ably with regard to the u. 1 S. Senatorial campaign and referred "• to the sterling chaiacters of gubernatorial candidate Runyon, U. S. SenaRunyon, U. sena-

Frelinghuysen and Congiessman — Bacharach, and the great services they have rendered state and nation, and also the excellence of .ne county ticket. ' _ C. Mrs- Anna H. Steelman, State Com- y mitteeman was also among the speak- c ers and dealt most eloquently upon the interest of the women voters and sy the efforts which thev are putting b, forth to investigate and understand the political situation. Hon. A. L- w Boswell delivered an enthusiastic pi speech in support of Champion, Kay tj and Vanaman for the board of free- e| holders and the whole ticket- ti ! Luther C. Ogden made an informative and eloquent speech on the situa- C( tion and expressed the opinion that c ; it would be hard to present a 1 brtter a . ticket for the suffrages of the legal e , voters of Cape May County. Rev Dr; b ' Fisher of Wildwood, was another very i( ! effective speaker and these were foV e ! lowed by the candidates who made 0 , br^eatieketewhich all advocate fol- \ , , Assembly AARON W. HAND , Cape May Sheriff I JOSEPH DOUGLASS ; Cape May Court House Surrogate IRVING FITCH Sea Isle City r Small Board, 3 Years JOSEPH G. CHAMPION ? Ocean City f Small Board. 2 Yeara ROBERT J. KAY r Wildwood 3 Small Board, 1 Yeart. CHARLES P. VANAMATT 3 Dias Creek II State Committee t LEWIS T- STEVENS Cape May p State Committee d ANNA H. STEELMAN n Ocean City n — " m e SAVES DOG FROM BAY ;e Max Beiberback, son of Dr. Bieber1.1 back, a Philadelphia dentist, while on :r the beach at Cape May Point, with a IS pet dog was amusing a crowd of t- friends throwing sticks into the Dela!e ware Bay for the animal to bring :t ashore- He threw the sticks once too 11 often and the dog was drawn into the ebbing tide and was being rapidly g- taken out to sea. Beiberback plunged r® into the water and after a tcn-ntunite d battle succeeded in landing ;on — the jj; beach with his pet. > , ^ CELEBRATE 56TH ANNIVERSARY 1,1 i Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Little celebrated r- | the 56th anniversary of their wedding I on Wednesday of this week. i

Harbor History*& Recalled as { Development Rpmors Grow of Dollan Spent on Waterwey Will Eoentaally c be Returned, is Belief, Though Shipping is Slow to Come. Halshaw Lines Are a Starter. >■ .its enormous rock-pile jetties and the s

By iE. P. Stites, Jr. |« Breams of Cape May as an important and flourishing seaport, which ? had quite a vogue fifteen years ago, are again agitating the residents of that quiet seashore resort- The fact that Henry Ford holds a considerable . acreage where the Wissahickon Barracks stood during the war period and • report that the Reading Railroad is contemplating the extension of its j trackage and dock facilities at Schell- j enger's Landing, on the north side of ' Cape May Harbor, are being exploited to the full are signs that the revival ^ of its ambitions is at band. a • a It was in January, 1007, that the s enticing picture of Cape May as an f ocean front haibor was spread before c the public in an alluring prospectus. . Under the skillful guidance of ex- \ Senator Flinn and Peter Shields, well , in Pittsburgh politics, Chair- < Burton and his colleagues of the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the at Washington were so captivated by the project that they favored i an appropriation of $1,200,000 for the ] construction of jetties 4,300 feet long | . and the maintenance of a channel into the harbor. Although not a ton of ; freight was at that time handled at •Cape May, the promoters urged that ithey had spent $3,000,000 in dredging ' |700 acres of tidal flats; that the harbor was the only one directly on the ! ocean between Sandy Hood and Nor- : folk, and that, given a deep water en- : trance, commerce would inevitably flow into this artificial port, rather I. than go 100 miles further on to Philai delphia. Both the Pennsylvania and Reading y railroads interests were said *o have , extensive holding in the Cape May ' Real Estate Company, and much was t made of their reouted plans for great p classification yards to handle the tre- .. mendous volume of exports and lmr ports which would be attracted. The i. more timid of the maritime concerns of this city were, for a time, alarmed ' over the magniloquent prediction of 1 the boomers that the days of Plula ,{ delphia as a port were numbered. ,But while Cape May eventually got

AGRICULTURAL CONTEST The- Ninth Annual Agricultural and Exhibit of the County ' Vocational School v as held at the " Faif, Septenhei 7, 8 and 9. J The fruit and produce dismayed 1 the excellent results secured • the instructors in agriculture. ' In the Vocational Schcol tent, there • over 150 entries of fruits, corn, : potatoes, etc. In the county exhibit, there were over 50" entries bv stud- " ents who received instruction from agricultural teachers. ■Among the corn entries in the " county exhibit were several Johnson 1 White. This type cf corn was ^ awarded first prize for tie 10 best ears; first, second and thgd for the best ear; and first for the best stalk f including the root, stem, tassel and ear. This variety won first and sece ond prizes in the vocational exhibit- ■ This variety was improvei by Mr. Windsor of Monmouth Coaitvjindjni

Federal Government has biennially q I appropriated considerable sums to keep the channel open to ships of deep draught, commerce still passes be- ° tween the Delaware Capes, strangely jcold to the o"en door- As a base for t the coast guard cutters, the Cape May } Harbor anchorage is strategically located; its land-locked waters afford (■ a welcome haven of refuge to the e Down East mackerel fleet and a popu- V point of departure for the devotees s of deep-sea fishing, but the two boats r in the New YorkiPhiladelphia service j the only ones that use it habitu- * ally as a port of call. Meanwhile the j affairs of the Real Estate Company, j so glowingly launched under the 1 smiles of Congress, have drifted from I one receivership into another, kept alive chiefly by the receipts from the of its holding to the Govern- 1 ment during the war. — "Phila. Bulle- ( tin.",* . « r- i Ir/the meantime, rumors have been j 1 revived concerning harbor develop- i i ment- It is again whispered among j | business men that Mr. Ford is really f goin-r to build a factory on the Wissa- j t hickon tract, employing one thousand , menj and using the harbor as a port. r Alai these rumors, like the dome of ! thejky, are constantly around us, yet , can. it seems, never be reached. I Yet, let us dwell for a moment in our dreams. This single act of Ford's .. would bring to Cape May, in workers r and their families alone, five thousand i people, which -would more than double Cape May's size — and that's not $11. One project of this magniK tude brings others — land commercial e Cape May is made, y "H«pe we will— hope that Caipe May „s Harbor will eventually grow to be :t more than the important fishing port >- it is) now. Needed — a leader to dei- fleet ships from their habitual course; ie needid— interest of men with capital is and i rains; needed — advertising, id Eventually, somebody's going to >f take that pet harbor and boom it. ^ch a harbor is a chance but few towns possess. A shame it is that its immense potentialities should be dor>t mant. _

traduced into Cape May County bv the Vocational School- It has given 1 very satisfactor- results and the acre- ' age has increased each year, j There were <71 prizes awarded for the various exhibits 'in the vocational 1 work. A detailed list is published in 1 the county papers. : FIGURED HIM 1 , Seth Hemingway had a reputation] , far and wide as a person who would • not pay his debts. l Grocer Bilkens one day sent his new clerk to collect a bill long overdue, e "And don't come back unless you n get it!" was the grocer's parting ins structions. A half hour later the t clerk walked in and handed ovdr the e full amount. k "How in heaven's name did you get 1 all that money out of jthat old dead- - beat?" asked the grocer, t. "Huh, I told him I would tell every- -. body he owed that he had paid me, if £ he didn't."^_

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TERM ( INSESSION COURTS OPENED BY JUSTICE s BLACK, WHO INSTRUCTED GRAND JURY— SUPREME CT. ISSUES TRIED BY JUDGE DONGES. The Fall term of Court commenced c last Tuesday, when a Grand Jury of g twenty-three men empanelled were in- d structed in their duties by Supreme * Justice Charles C. Black. * After a general instruction as to the ordinary duties devolving upon a i Grand Jury, Justice Black suggested i that the body as a whole, or commit- s tees thereof, inspect the public build- t ings of the county- In so suggesting, t the court said, "I have not the slight- t est evidence that the conditions of the i public buildings are not what they s should be, but their condition is a j matter which the public has a right know, and of which they may learn , thru their representatives in such ] matters, the Grand Jury." This an , important function of the Grand Jury . is one which is not familiar to the j public at large. Issues Referred to Donges After the Court Heard one ex- parte matter relating to the appointment of ex-Judge J. M- E. Hildreth, ex -Prose - cuter of the Pleas, Eugene C. Cole ■ and Mr. Feaster as a committee of Road Appraisers on the Five Mile Beach road, the issues for trial were referred to Circuit Court Judge Ralph W. E. Donges, who it sitting at Court , House this week. Next Tuesday, the trial of Common issues and Common Pleas Ad- ' peals will proceed before Judge H. H- ; Eldredge, and on Wednesday, followt ing, Criminal Court will convene. PRIZES AWARDED i ' A large number of visitors to the j County Fair registered at the booth of ' the T. S. Goslin Lumber Company for 5 Hie three prizes that were awarded by this company. The first prize, a j coupon worth 825.00 when presented to the Goslin Co. in payment of material was won by Mrs. WSlliam Gary diner of Rio Grande. Second prize. B an assortment of paint, valued at t $10.25 was won by Mrs. Greathead, of ~ Anglesea- The third prize, an assort- ! ment of tools and household equip1 ment, valued at $7.29, was awarded to o Mrs. Joseph Scrivani of Wildwood. ^ AN UNUSUAL PICTURE f. James Oliver Curwood has given the screen some wonderful pieces of ■m fiction, but in "God's Country and the Law," which is to be shown at the

v Liberty Theatre next Saturday. Sepr> tember 23rd, he outstrips all previous - efforts- There is something about these James Oliver Curwood pictures r that appeal to the movie fan and this il picture especially is one that will hold n your interest from start to finish. LEIGHTON-CURTIS n I On Saturday, Sept. 9th, Miss Rae d Curtis, daughter of Mrs. Electa Curtis of this city, and James McGregor .v Leighton, were united in marriage at the Methodist parsonage, the Rev. u George T. Hillman performing the i- ceremony- After a brief honeymoon ie Mr. and Mrs. Leighton will make their ie home at Palmyra:t Even the light under the bushel bas1- ket has become known through advertising. if Advertise in* the Star and Wave. The results will be most satisfactory.

STATE FJUR VARIED EXHIBITS, AMUSEMENTS, FREE ACTS, RACES, CONVENIENCES, WIl(L BE COMPLETE. A wealth of exhibits of all kinds has been booked for the Big Garden State Fair which opens at the fair grounds in Bridgeton next Wednesday, September 20th. Every day there are additional entries coming in and the continual increase has made much additional tentage necessary. The automobile display will be an unusual one. There are now about per cent more dealers with space at the Fair than have ever . possible at the famous « Bridge- - ton Auto Show and one enormous will be filled entirely with pleascars, while several track exhibits and accessory displays are to be found another place. Farm machinery, ele<tnc lighting 1 and power systems, water systems, 1 household furniture, conveniences ana 1 novelties will be in profusion- Es- ' pecially interesting will be the do- ! mestic science, count v club wort poultry, bees and hone, dahlias and flo\yers and similar exhibits. ^ • ! Fk>r the entertainment and amuset ment of the crowds there will be a " regular carnival midway with its ati tractions, including an alligator show f which will have dozens of of live alli- ! gators from 6 inches to 7 feet in 5 length. Ferris wheel, carrousel, 1 ocean wave, swings; a Wild West 1 Shov,-, with buffaloes and bucking bronchoes, which will give a free per1 formance twice dail'-: "Reckless - Johnson, the daring balloonist, who [- will do death-defying stunts hundreds - of feet in the air; and parades of hvestock, including the South Jersey buffalo herd with the only baby buffalo ever born in South Jersey. The races are another big feature e with 75 horses, 40 ponies and drivers f that will include boys and girls, men r and women, and even a race for some d of the oldest horsemen, men wno a were prominent in driving a irenerad tion ago. The racing urogram will be i- enlivened by little Margaret Brubak- ■- er the nine-year-old pony rider. it IMPORTANT TO VOTER3 t - Everybody in Cape May, West Cape )- Mcy, Cape May Point, South Cape •° May and the Townships, knows that the lower end of Cape May County received scant attention f^pm the old board of freeholders before the investigation while in other sections of the m county hundreds of thousands of dolif lars were bein" spent, almost all of ,e the bonded debt of the county is for J expenditures in other sections of the

■ county- A majority of votes in the s board of freeholders was secured by I means of legislation cutting down to s one the representation from each s township and making that for each ' city two. A sufficient number of new cities was then created and enough votes secured in the board of freeholders which by various combinations could vote huge sums to favored e sections for road and street improve- '■ ments in all other parts of the counr ty except in the municipalities named, 't Every proposition to the board of '• freeholders for betterments or aids e to progress in this city and adjacent n territory has been deliberately balked r and mocked at. The might of a majority vote in the board has been declared right- Cooperation was preached but bare-faced " favoritism was Jk r" practiced against the lower sections. W The people have voted against the . continuance of the old board of freee. holders and for the substitution of a '• small board of three to.be elected by 5 the votes of the peo^'e from the county at large. . It is vital to the interests of the people of this city and lower section as well as to all sections of the countv which believe in fair plav, that three fair-minded men shall be elected to constitute this board, men who will parctice no discrimination, men who shall have the ability to manage skillfully the affairs of the county and get it out of its great debt and these men have been nominated in the persons of Charles P. Vanaman, of Middle Township, a man of broad experience as a sea captain, as a farmer and as a valued man in the employment of the Bethlehem Steel Compny during and after the war period. Mayor Joseph G. Champion of Ocean City, elected Mavor the're'for four terms and one of its most successful builders, lumber dealers and promoters of the prosperity of the resort; Hon. Robert J. Kay, present member of the House of Assembly, City Treasurer of Wildwood, and one of th'e most successful real estate and insurance men, with a wide experience in financial mattersMany of our most substantial citizens declare that this ticket cannot be improved upon. If elected it will be a guarantee of fair ^l"- to all sections of the county and a fulfillment of the desire of the people for honest management of our county affairs. If the Republican voters of this city have any regard whatever for their own interests and those of th? city and resort, thev will vote for these men despite the frenzied factional cries by which they are being __ I (assailed. The scheme to secure all three freeI holders from any one resort with 4 view to concentrating all county expenditures in one section will thus be frustrated. Split. un the vote here and those who have shown so clearly in the past their desire to crush Cape Mav will be aided and encouraged.