THURSDAY, MARCH 26. 1942

D. A. R. Chapter Represented At State Conclave

Cape May Patriot* Chapter wu represented by. Mrs. Ralph T. Steven* and Mrs. T. P< Hughes at the annual Spring ference of the New Jersey ciety, Daughters of the American Revolution which was held in thcf State House in Trenton last Thursday and Friday. Mrs. Hughes served as personal page to the State' Regent, Mrs. Raymond , C. Goodfellow, of South Orange, who presided. In the absence from Trenton of Governor Edison because of illness, delegates and members were welcomed by George Shay, executive aide to the governor, who told them that America is destined to be the medium by which all nations will usher in * new golden age in which all mankind will live in peace, happiness and security. He said, “Democracy is no stronger than its least intelligent citizen and the greatest insulation against the professional rabble-rouser is a deep and abiding knowledge of America and its institutions. - “We must do our part”, continued, “not only to preserve our spiritual' heritage but to initiate a new spiritual and moral rennaissance. Religion is —~ needed than ever before.” Extensive programs in support of the war and other phas America’s emergency effort indicated in annual reports submitted to Mrs. Raymond C. Goodfellow, of South Orange, state regent of the New Jersey Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. The reports were read by state chairmen and chapter regents at the recent conference in Trenton. Among the highlights are the following: The sending of 18,492 magazines and 2,230 books to Fort Dix, Fort Hancock, Menlo Park Veterans Home and other camps and hospitals. Sponsoring the defense training courses in conjunction with the American Women's Volunteer Service. Furnishing of recreational centers at various forts in cooperation with the U.S.O. Distribution of 12,865 D.A.R. manuals for Citizenship. Placing of 1,197 fire prevention posters throughout the state. Sending of 472 pounds of cancelled stamps to Queens Hospital, London, for the benefit of crip; pled children. Distribution of 6,998 pieces of literature and 4,098 codes concerning correct use of the flag. Organization of song festivals and choral groups for the advancement of American music. Development of a program of occupational therapy at the Marine Hospital, Ellis Island. Promotion of 125 clubs including 3S0^ members who have enrolled as Junior American Citi-

zens.

In accepting the reports. Mrs. Goodfellow urged still greater effort with a view to furthering civic and national interests during the next 12 months. Among other interesting reports was the one of Mrs. Frederick L. Ferris, state chairman of Press Relations who reported 24,193 inches of space given by newspapers to D.A.R. activities during the past year. This is the equivalent of 150'full pages. Mrs. Ferris displaved an enormous roll of single column newspaper clippings which contained only a part of the 1200 news columns sent her during the year by chapter press relations chairmen. Another interesting feature of the session was the presentation to the state regent by the state chairman of Real Daughters, of an afghan, crocheted by Mrs. Annie Knight Gregory, of Williamsport, Pa., from wool furnished by New Jersey Chapter regents. Mrs. Gregory, who is a real daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, celebrated her 99th birthdav on March 23. Membership in the New Jersey Society, D. A. R. has passed the 5000 mark according to the report submitted by Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens, state registrar. The net gain from March 1, 1941 to March 1st, 1942 was .clmost double that of thq- -preceding year, 226 new members being ac-. espted; 81^ received by transfer .lews—Gther states; 9 transferred from membership at large and 17 were reinstated. Seventy-four members were lost by death. Two prizes offered by Mrs. Stevens for the greatest percent of gain in membership during the past year were won by Signal Corps Chapter of Fort Monmouth in the class of less than 100 members and by Jersey Blue Chapter of New Brunswick iy the class of chapters having over 100 members. The former had a gain of 45 percent and the latter, 8.2 percent. Following the Thursday afternoon session, the Misses Myra and Alma Way, members of Cape May -Patriots Chapter, who reside in Trenton, entertained in honor of Mrs. Stevens. On Thursday evening a reception for national and state officers and their guests of honor was held at the Stacy Trent Hotel followed by the annual banS L Musk was furnished by ic Brannin, harpist, and Hazel .Burleigh, violinist. The speaker of the evening was Lieutenant Clifford A. Pourte, pigeon training expert .from Fort Monmouth, who brought four of his feathered charges with him. ■,

Social £viint& Ofjfli CJssL

ENTERTAIN FRIENDS Mr. and Mrs. John McDoell, of Madison avenue, entertained at a supper part* and cards Wednesday evening and had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Bert Coesaboon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shufaid and Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm McDuelL PLANS BRIDGE PARTY Mrs. I. J. Pocher will entertained at a bridge party tonight at her South Lafayette street home and will have as her guests Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens, Mrs. George S. Curtis, Mrs. I. Grant Scott, Mrs. T. Lee Lemmon, Mrs. William C. Mecray, Mrs. Harry H. Needles, Mrs. Charles Swanson, Mrs. Marie T. Nittinger aiM Miss Helen G. Smith. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Lehman. Sr. celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Saturday at their home, 276 Windsor avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lehman, Jr., their son, and Mr. and Mrs. William Lund and their son, Elma Lehman, and Mrs. John Burkhardt were guests for the eve-

HOSTESS AT LUNCHEON Mrs. Samuel M. Schellenger entertained at a dessert bridge Tuesday afternoon at her Michigan avenue home, having as her guests Mrs. I. J. Pocher, Mrs. William C. Mecray, Mrs. T. Lee Lemmon, Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens.

ENTERTAINS CLASS

Mrs. Frank D. Him* was hostess to the members of her Sunday School class Wednesday afternoon in- the social hall of the First Presbyterian Church. Attending were Mrs. Lida Van Winkle, Mrs. Samuel H. Moore

and Mrs. William Gibson. CLASS IN SESSION

Members of the Philathea Class of the Cape Island Baptist Sunday School held their regular monthly business meeting and so-

cial evening on Thursday at the avenue.

home of Mrs. William H. Stevens. Mrs. Robert D. Carrin, teacher of the class, presided over tha business meeting. Money received from the mite boxes that were brought in will be added to the

Easter offering.

Dainty refreshments were served to the following who attended: Mrs. Herbert Pharo, Mrs. Robert D. Carrin, Mrs. Arthur Cohen,

Mrs. George Bohm, Mrs. Char-that the' Art Department Perkms, Mrs. Harry T. Lu:}-' the high school would again

lam, Mrs. Herbert Hebenthal, Mrs.

Bessie T. Hazlett, Mrs.

Bohn, Mrs. W. A. Gmyr, Mrs. J. H. Downs, Mrs. H. Pierson, Mrs. Charles Hargis, Mrs. Albert Pierce, Mrs. Franklin Porch. Mrs. Harrison Shaw, Miss Mattie Weeks, Mrs. Elizabeth Shields, Mrs. Mary Means, Mrs. Frank Engman and Mrs. Charles A Swain, Jr. •

CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY

Miss Paula Schellenger, onughter of Mrs. Julia Schellenger, of West Perry street, was the guest of honor at a surprise party given Wednesday evening to celebrate her fifteenth birthday. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lundholm, Connie Dougherty, Nancy Hand, Helen Porch, Doris Eldredge, Donald Barber, Frances Krula, Bolton Legates, James Corson and John Kaighn.

ENTERTAIN FRIENDS

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Necc entertained Wednesday evening, haring as their guests Mr. and

Mrs. Richard O'Neill,

and Mrs. Donald Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs Edmunds, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lundholm, Miss Lillian Smith and Miss Edith

Cooper.

ENTERTAINS CLASS

Miss Betty Matthews was hostess to the “Thirteen Luckies", members of her Sunday School das, last Friday evening at the home of her parents on Sewell

Legislative Manual Ready 801*1942 Publication of the 1942 New Jersey Legislative Manual was announced today. The Manual contains information respecting the state end its various departments and institutions. Included in its more than 700 pages are lists of state and county officials, census and election tables, descriptive sketches of state institutions and properties, 250 biographies, Governor Edison's annual message, condensed reports of state finances, synopses of state school laws, and rules of the Senate and Assembly. Compiler of the Manual is John Dullard, who has been doing this work for the last 22 years. The publisher is Dorothy A. Fitzgerald, trustee of the estate of Josephine A. Fitzgerald, who published the Manual for years. The price of the Manual is 22 and copies may be had by addressing Miss Fitzgerald at Tren-

ton.

Newest Drink Gets ABC Approval New Jersey drinkers have the full approval of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for their “Victory Specials”, newest drink served at licensed bars. In a ruling on a proposal add the “Victory Specials" to the list of usual drinks, Alfred E Driscoll, New Jersey ABC Commissioner, said this week: "Here’s hoping that more and more people will go for the ‘Victory Special'. If they do, there will be fewer headaches not only for the purchaser but for the ultimate recipient, namely. Uncle Sam.” The Victory Special is a Defense Stamp and a glass of water.

RICKER AT MEETING County School Superintendent Daniel J. Ricker, of Cape May, last Thursday was one of the group leaders at the annual University of Pennsylvania Schoolmen's Week. The round-table group which Mr. Ricker directed had as its theme, “School Supervision: A Challenge to Democracy”.

Auxiliary Has Meeting Here

The American Legion Auxiliary

neld its regular monthly meeting at the Legion Room, on March 17th. The President, Mrs. John J. Spencer, Jr., conducted the meeting, with Mr*. Paul Ensminger acting as secretary in the

absence of Mrs. Whitehead. After reports of standing com-

mittees, the Poppy chairman re-

that the Art Department high school would again

take up the poppie poster contest and that it would he conducted under the same ruldb as last year, and that material for poppies had been received and poppies were being made by widows of veterans from the local post.

A letter was read from Prose-

cutor F'rench B. Loveland thanking the unit for the donation to the paralysis fund. Another one from Mrs. C. Lawrence Jordan, of Falmouth, Mass., formerly of Cape May t stated that her daughter Betty had won the second prize in the Legion oratorical

contest. Mrs. Jordan is still member of the local unit After some discussion, it v

decided to buy 100 copies of “Fall In”, a small booklet, compiled and published'by the national organization of the Legion, containing many items of information acquired by sen-ice men in World War I. These booklets will be distributed to men leaving here for

any branch of the service. Mrs. Fox, the Auxiliary repre-

sentative of the U.S.O. Council, reported that the cookie jar ordered at the last meeting, had been purchased and placed in the U-S.O. Rooms. Also that four of the Auxiliary members were serving regularly as hostesses and that several others had acted as

hostesses.

Plans were made for the county meeting to be held here April

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Reports On Railroad Accidents In N. J. The Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines’ Division of Public Information revealed today the results of an exhaustive survey conducted by Charles E. Hill, president of the New York Central Railroad indicating how careless motorists are seriously delaying the nation’s war effort. The survey shows that as result of motorist accidents with trains, a monthly average of 460 hours were lost by 702 freight trains and 200 hours were lost by 435 passenger trains. In 82-percent of accidents, motorists entirely disregarded safety measures provided at grade crossings by either ignoring Warning signals of lights, guards or lowered gates. One-third of auto-train accidents were caused by automobiles crashing directly into the side of trains.

BEGIN BASEBALL SEASON FRIDAY The Cape May Agriculture baseball team, captained by Paul Parrinello, will meet the Middle Township Varsity squad in a practice tilt Friday. Ray Beck will pitch for the Aggies with Jim Dunne catching. Clem Reeves and Clarence Cooper are the mainder of last year's Aggies.

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Unite For Holy Week

to witness inch a sight and to know that we do not neglect church when we are * koine... leave here for home.” Commenting on the letter, Mr, Blair remarked: “They may have to rope them out down here, but we need a rope to drag some of our people in. Tkat ia bo of in the north.”

question which this tentatively approved

• • tbm of the Cape 1

Greeting worshippers as they enter the dimly lightly sanctuary will be a huge cross, situated in lone detail on a phantom hill, and on the cross a life-size silhouette of Christ. On the three evenings respectively, worship will be conducted by the Rev. Robert D. Carrin, Wednesday; Rev. Albert W. Lenz, Thursday; Rev. William Bullock, Friday. Three great masterpieces of re^ ligious art will be presented on the screen in the order named, “Christ Before Pilate”, “The Crucifixion”, both by Munckasky, and “The Return from Calvary", by Schlmalz. A devotional and appreciative interpretation will be given in the evening address by the host pastor. Churches cooperating are in addition to the Methodist, Cape Island Baptist, First Presbyterian and Cold Spring Presbyterian. The local clergy this week expressed the hope that merchants will again cooperate for the three-hour Good Friday service by closing their places of busi-

How a muskrat left its natural

marine habitat and moved to new quarters in the Cape Hay peet-

offloe ia r ^ * '

week has | naturalist* and sp

The muskrat was found this week in a nest built in one of the concrete window-wells of the postoffice basement, where it had apparently been living for some

time.

One theory advanced bj office employees and amati turalists was that the muskrat had been chaaed by dogs and bad finally taken refuge in the win-dow-well, where it established ha

Weddings.. BROWN - WHISONANT A quiet wedding took place Tuesday afternoon at the Church of the Advent, Cape May, when Miss Bernet Whisonant, of Rock Hill, S. C n became the bride of Corporal William L. Brown, eon of Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, of Belmar, N. J. The Rev. Benjamin B. Brown, rector of the church, officiated. Those present were a number of the couple's friends, including many of the Marines from the U.S.N.A.S., where Corporal Brown has been stationed for the last eight months. The bride wore a simple tailored suit of dusty pink with black accessories and the bridegroom was in full military attire. A small informal reception was given the couple immediately after the wedding. Corporal Brown is now station- . I in New River, N. C., leaving shortly after the ceremony. His bride will join him in the near

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. 1*801 A. Willcox, of Roselle, are receiving congratulations unon the birth of a son, Wayne Ralph, bom Sunday, March 22. The baby weighed 9 Vi poundsc-MTs-. Willcox will be remembered as the former Miss Helen Liechty. Miss Iris Liechty, of Erma, is now spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Willcox and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Liechty plan to visit them this week at their home in Roselle.

Mnkrat Fuad la Nest At Postaffice

Speaks On Church

-— it last „ ‘What the Church Owes to the Community”. The Mayor’s address was in the nature of a round-table talk, participated'in by the Rev. Benjamin B. Brown, rector, and file ladies attending the luncheon.

—For Victory: Buy Bonds-

State Aid for t ough road impr The funds designated are to be obtained from the autotnobffiata* license fees and gasoline but the definite allocation w

The Freeholders proposed to Uae the money for the following projects: Cape May, New Jersey avenue and various streets. Avalon, various streets. North Wildwood, varioua

City, First, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Eighteenth streets and Simpson avenue. Sea Isle City, Central avenue. Stone Harbor, 104th street Wildwood, various streets. Wildwood Crest Atlantic ave. Woodbine, Adams avenue, section 2.

The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis opened October 10, 1845.

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EXPECT MANY AT USO CLUB DANCE SATURDAY A large crowd is expected to attend the regular Saturday evening dance at the Cape May USO Club this week, at which time music will be furnished by a seven-piece orchestra provided by the WPA under the sponsorship of the Cape May Civilian Defense

Council.

Last week’s dance, first at which the orchestra played, was attended by 125 service men and dub hostesses and was considered i outstanding success. Tuesday evening was observed . Music Night at the club, and the program was arranged by Miss Edith Back man. Arthur Cohen, Jr. was guest soloist on the

program.

PARTY FOR SERVICE MEN SUCCESSFUL Another in the series of Hospitality Nights for sen-ice men was held Tuesday night in the Social Hall of the First Methodist Church. The sponsoring group, the Youth Fellowship of the Church, feels that the attendance of 82 amply attests the growing popularity of these sodal affairs. Committees on program, sociability, games and refreshments functioned efficiently, according to Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Blair, adult advisors. Chaplain Cyril E. Bentley, who assisted with arrangements and mustering attendance of the personnel, was present, as were a few other friends interested in the welfare of the service men.

ATTEND OPERA Miss Joan Reddy and her aunt, Mrs. Norris Stanley McDowell, were guests of J. F. Smith, tour director of the Philadelphia LaScalla Opera Company, at a box party on Friday evening, March 20th, for*the performance of “Lucia”. Miss Reddy then spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly at Manhasset, Long

Island.

New American bombers will carry up to 20 tons of bombs, says a War Department statement, which should eventually prove a weighty argument against the Japs.—Enid, Okla., News.

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