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West Cape May Mrs. John W. Mybrs Walter Richardson^ is spending ten days’ leave at his home here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Richardson. Mrs. Charles Adams and Mrs. William P. Lloyd and Edith Ann Adams were Philadelphia visitors on Monday. Mrs. Clarence Lemunyon spent a few days at Atsion. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Hoffman had as their guest £o\ several days last week. Mrs. Edward Henderson, of Wildwood. Charles Shaw, of Philadelphia, spent the weekend here with ms family. Boatswain's M a t e 1 c and Sirs. Boyd Lafferty, of Atlantic City, spent the weekend here with Mr. Lefferty's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Lafferty. Jack Killeen, of the Mays Landing State Police barracks, spent the weekend here with his family. > Mrs. Irene Dorner left on Wednesday to spend the winter in Cedarville with her sister and . brother-in-law, ' Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Danzcnbodker. Mr. and Mrs. Evans Brown have returned after' spending a weekend in Washington, D.- C. with their son, Lyndell Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas • Hemingway entertained on Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Edward Reeves, of Millville, and Mrs. Emma Heminway, of Fishing Creek. Mrs. Howard Ewing, of Camden, spent a’few days with her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Springer. Dorothy Sand gran is spending several weeks in Wildwood. CapUin Walter Eager and his family spent the weekend here at their Broadway cottage. Mrs. Theodore W. Reeves entertained Mr. and Mrs. Orion Reeves, of Easton, Pa., and Mrs. Carl Rutherford, of Philadelphia, over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Phelps, of Louisville, Ky, are occupying the Reuben B. Reeves apartment. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rothouse have returned after spending a few days in Philadelphia. Mrs. Clement Newkirk spent Tuesday in Philadelphia. Reuben Reeves entertained Charles Mustoe, of Philadelphia, over the weekend. Malcolm McDucll and Richard Nece, of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, spent the weekend here with their families. Mrs. William Sitley is spending a few days in Camden with her aunt, Mrs. Elwood Cox.

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Cold Spring Mr*. Alberta Williams Mrs. Carl Rutherford, of Philadelphia, spent Saturday here with relatives. Mr..and Mrs. Michael McPheraon and their family were dinner guests on Sunday at the home of Hollis McPherson. Mrs. Charles Yonkers, of West Cape May, spent Thursday with Mrs. Maude Peterson. Mrs. Marjorie Repp and Mrs. Margperite Williams on Tuesday evening attended an Eastern Star meeting at the home of Mrs. Ruth ' Moon at Cape May. Gilbert Ewing is employed' at the magnesite plant at Cape

May Point

Mrs. Florence Halbruncr spent' Wednesday with her sister, Mrs. Lulu Robart, Ut Wildwood Crest. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cresse, of Avon, were here Sunday looking

over their property.

Mr. and Mrs. Otway Brown •pent Sunday with Mrs. Henrietta

Williams at Dennisville.

The Presbyterian Sunday School holding its sessions between 1 _.id 2 P.M. Sundays at the Red Brick Church while, the chapel

Is being moved.

Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and their family spent Sunday evening with Dr. and Mrs. William Sheldon at Wildwood Crest. The P.T.A. held a business meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the Consolidated School. Mrs. Marguerite Williams called on Mrs. Myra T. Hoffman at Dennisville on Monday. Mrt and Mrs. William Vanaman and their family spent Tuesday

in Bridgeton.

Mrs. Ida Fraley, of Pennsgrcve, called on relatives here Sunday, The S.T.R. Class held a pot-luck dinner and business meeting at the home of Mrs. Bessie Ewing

on Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McDaniel, of West Cape May, were dinner guests on Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Charles Sand-

gran.

David Huber, of U.S.N.R., Philadelphia Navy Yard, spent the weekend here with his wife. Mrs. William Hawley and her family returned home after spending a week with relatives

Michigan.

Mrs. Carl Kindberg and family called on her grandmother, Mrs. Albert Stiefel, of Cape May, who is in very poor health. Mrs. Evelyn Walker, of DelHaven. spent Thursday with Mrs. Clifford Wilson. Mrs. Bertha Corson, of Philadelphia, spent the weekend here with her mother, Mrs. Maude

Peterson.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Levergood, of Sharon Hill, Pa., spent two weeks at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Helen Walter.

Cape May Point Mia* Janet Bair Mrs. Honor Allen entertained „er son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meyenburg, of Philadelphia, over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pough and their little son, who have spent several weeks here, returned to their home on Sunday. Mr. and' Mrs. Roy Lindley and Mrs. Myrtle Levins, of Philadelphia, enjoyed the weekend at their cottage. Mr. and Mrs: Jack Sader and their children, ‘ of Philadelphia, opened their cottage over the weekend. Mrs. M. H. Bair spent several days in Philadelphia with relatives and friends during which she and her daughter. Miss Janet Bair, were members of a. party which attended the show, ‘"This Is The Army”. "Mrs. Herman Griesbach spent a few days in Philadelphia recently with her sister, Mrs. Gilbert Dermott.

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Mrs. Alberta Williams Felix Wuerker has returned home from the Atlantic City Hospital and is recuperating. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Hughes are now occupying the Yates home in Rio Grande. Mrs. Estelle Poulson spent a few days with Mrs. Sarah Jackson, who has been ill with pleurisy during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warner motored to Philadelphia on Thursday evening. Mrs. Lillian Hoffman, of Rio GraniTe, called on Mrs. Anna M. Sayre on Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Johnson and their daughter, of Chester, Pa., spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hoffman moved on Thursday in the tenant bungalow of Elwood Chester. Mrs. Leroy Hess and her baby, of South Seaville, spent Wednesday with her sister, Mrs. David

Hoffman.

The Busy Bee Class held a Hallowe'en party at the social hall .. Friday evening with Mrs. Carrie Schellenger and Mrs. Vera Whilden as hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Johnson, of Cape May, were dinner guests on Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Church. The Epworth League will hold business meeting at the social hall on Tuesday evening. A. H. Swain and his son Howard .Swain attended a coal dealconvention at New York for a few days last week. Lieutenant Raymond Hickman, of Fort Washington, Md., spent the weekend here with his family. Dr. and Mrs. S. DeMatthaeis, of Wildwood Crest, called on Mrs. Carolyn Williams and Mr. and Mrs. John Y. Johnson last week. Mrs. Roland DeRosa and Miss May Hickman, of South Dennis, called on relatives here Wednesday evening. Mrs. Bertha Corson, of Philadelphia, was here over the weekend fooking over her property. Anna Lloyd spent the weekend

with Mrs. Laura Oliver at Cold Spring. Miss Keeler, of Philadelphia, spent the weekend at her home here. William Taffyn, of Eddystone, Pa., spent the weekend here with his family. Benjamin Pritchard, of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, spent the weekend here with relatives.

Cape May Dealers At Fuel Parley NEW YORK — More than 700 fuel dealers from ISO cities throughout Now Jersey, including Cape May, on Friday began the second session of a two-day war conference looking to clarification of some of the problems which all of them face because of wartime restrictions. The conference, which was conducted by the Fuel Merchants Association of New Jersey, was held at the Hotel Commodore with spokesmen from government agencies and leaders of the fuel industry supplying advice on adjustments which must be made in business mechanism to meet new regulations and analyses of transportation and priority requirements which bear on the necessary limitations in the use of both solid and liquid fuel. Among those attending were representatives of the Cape May Coal & Ice Company, of 512 Washington street, and the Polar Ice and Coal Company, of Broad and Jackson streets, Cape May.

SCREENING TEST LISTED More than 100 potential Cape May County selectees will undergo screening examinations on Friday, November 13, at Mace’s Hospital, North Wildwood, the Local Board announced today. Those passing the examination given by local Selective Service physicians will be sent to Camden for final Army examinations shortly, it was explained. The first oil burning battleship was accused of hiding ashes no one believed a ship could

“Twinkle-Jingle” Penned By Cape Mother To Son In War

Here is the way one Cape May mother will say “Merry Christmas, Soldier" to her young officer son who is in the Naval Air Reserve .... “Airman, have you time to fly, Into the days (at the moment)

gone by.

And thrill at a stocking filled

with junk,

Though it hang from no chimney (perhaps from your

bunk)?

Snowflakes, tinsel, turkey and

laughter

(Unescapable thank-you notes, following after); Packages, tea-dances, ribbon and tissue In' memory, glad “Merry Christmas” do wish you! Birdman have you a minute to And remember, there IS a Santa Claus?” That “twinkle-jingle”, which appeared on the editorial page of the New York Herald Tribune on Sunday, Will go to the young officer, pinned to a regulation black sock filled with the sort of nonsense (most of it from the dime store) that that boy has had each Christmas since he could toddie . . . pencil, note book, tube of paste, tube of tooth paste, cake

of soap, handkerchiefs (regulation khaki and regulation white), postal cards, postage stamps, etc. The Cape May mother who wrote the “twinkle-jingle” is Mrs. E. Clifton Thomas, of New York avenue, who, before taking up residence here in April, as Ruth Johnson Morgan, was a feature writer for the Wilkes-Barre Record, one of Pennsylvania’s important morning papers, brought into prominence more than half a century ago by her father, the late Dr. Frederick C. Johnson. “The boys ‘over there’, be it that or this side of the ocean,” said Mrs. Thomas, “want to remember, LIKE to remember, for all their matter-of-fact, hard-

boiled'stoicism.

“They want it and they NEED it, with joy and with laughter. “So let’s put a twinkle in it, as never before, we parents and wives and sweethearts!”

Miss Spare Named To College Committee CHAMBERSBURG, PA. — Miss Geraldine H. Spare, of 1045 New avenue, Cape May, has becit^ appointed to the student committee on academic affairs at Wilson College for 1942-43, it • was announced today. The committee of four seniors and tjw^ juniors meets at regular intervals each year to hear undergraduate suggestions concerning the curriculum and to pass on to President Paul Swain Havens those which seem to constitute valid constructive criticism. The committee was established in 1938 in accordance with President Havens’ belief that college students should .have a voice in directing their own education. Miss Spare, a junior, is making history her field of concentration with English as an allied subject. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Spare.

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NOVEMBER 12 th 1692 * * * 1942 jWO hundred and fifty years ago today, CAPE MAY COUNTY wis created by Act of Assembly, from land controlled by the West Jersey Society. We, the people of Cape May County celebrate two-hundred-fifty years of agricultural, industrial and civic progress. But, time marches on. We can not y rest on our laurels. We must set our faces toward a bigger and better community of varied interests. We, too, will make history. 1692 * * 1942 Board of Chosen Freeholders CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE

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