Ocean City Sentinel, 11 May 1911 IIIF issue link — Page 1

OCEAN CITY SENTINEL

VOL. XXXI.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1911.

NO. 6

OceariCity Sentinel

'JVC. HUTCHINSON. M. D llomaeoputhix't. 624 EIGHTH STREET

Out of a Total of 251 Votes, 148 Are Against Proposed Step. ■ majority of V>. the voter* of II City.at the opel-lal elect Uni beld lay. deckled aRaui.t the. proposed axe ay «tt m aod Ini proved Rutter-. t vote lit the t»o ward- waa'a.

$75,000 BOND ISSUE FOR DRAINAGE IS VOTED DOWN

MdSifavse*

It may be just barely possible that some ohier fellow may sell it a little cheaper, but a better quality—“IMPOSSIBLE.’’ ^ We have it and we have, it good.. Give us j our, order for the Sunday poultiy. We dress them. .. . ^Boyle’s Dependable Market S. W. Con. Twelfth St and AsbucyAye* Everything in Meats, Groceries and Alsgetables

v Interesting to Investors those who wish a desirable location lor £ Side Home. For sale in Section 6, Ocean City, in vicinity of State Road and Pennsylvania and Reading- !c»ilroad Sta’ions and Thirtyfourth street. Lots Nos TSS and TST WaHayava —orwan front 2S5 and SBfi Havca’aratiur T&6 and TM Caolral •vat>oa—trullay. "HtUfid 1». corurr, MlmpwMi aietiiw «U A-bury avenue. Alao a law meadow lota, i STS end *80. corner. Weat avenue— Prnuaylvaula Kallruad I rue. quoted upon appllcelioo to ARTHUR Du BARROWS, Guardian, 832 Central Avenue, Ocean City, N. J.

NO COMBINES

OPFICC: 123a WEST'AVENUE

H. STEELMAN Fresh Meats IMS, CottBs. Fint SrtMriK ill Pnwsieits POULTUY DRKMHEn TO ORDER FOURTH ST. aai AS8I@T WE. Cyan and Ta>erca Ortcn SellT

Consumer’s Tee & Coal Co. WMOLMBALM AMO MET AIL DEALERS II

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t»nd inaue. .’»i;iK»ln«l. 7«. riev Ay will be naeu, there were only - J lieople out of more lhau SUO who a paretilly fell tunicient inlereal to vn on tbl- Important matter. . Dr. t'barlea B. Kidcr. chairman CduDcll'a drain ‘conimltlee, w-1 -ironfly favored the bond l»-ne. w ■to vole, and Harry Headley, who op-l-i-ed the meeaure, appeared tu be daIng- hi- utmo-l lo have I he citizen* It I- -aid that many who opposed the bond t—ue, and voted a£«fu-l 11. did ao becaiue, av they staled, of the lack ofspcclfle Informal Ion as to where I tie drains were to be laid and the actual coal of the work. 8 peaking of the result of the election. M ay or I'tease said: “I bad considered the inailer very carefully end was llnnly convinced In my mind that the expenditure of (75.000 for brick gutlrr- and underId have beeiTT&r the very best Interests of Ucean I'jty, hut I was «|Ually conArmed In tlie opinion lhat II Involved an expenditure of llie people'- money, upon > hieh they -hould harea vole. They, have liad lhat vide* and are opposed lo the Improvement. 1 have dune whit I thought was my In the matter. believe that lu-tde of in City »III .ee lhat It has yuadl n Ignoring -» • here, uj-roi rellhood; but. In any event, crept the verdict of the voters believe •uch matters should be deeded by a vole of the people . The people have declded-agalnst II: iherefore. I am -si-

'll ed.

"Polllles should not have entered nto this question. • Appeals to prejuIce were msde. and there Sere mislatements as to the policy upon which the Improvement! were to be

id argument ' 3 Im

(ban combat the natural antipathy of the people toward a bond lasue, especially when this feeling Is tutcuained by •latemeuta that were false and had no' I be subject, aud ere made lo create political capital ” YOONG PEOPLE WILL GIVE PLAY Under Auspices of Ladies’ Aid Society of the First M.

B. Church.

Under the auspices of the Ladles' AM Society of the Find M. E-Choreb. comedy, "A Perplexing Situation." wUI be giveu here some evening during the latter part of this mouth or the beginning of June. - Tboaa wbo will lake part are Misses Alice and Olive ftlgglos. Blanche HofTJsne Slew art. Kite Harney. Adelia Powell and Berths Bbaldnn, Leonard I<ear. Luther Wallace, Jr; Maylln Koldnson. Alfred H 8mltb. omen Young and Jease Blepiienson. The proceeds will be for the beneBI of the Ladles' AM Society. Several of those who will Ugura In tbe cast of characters In this play have appeared In similar entertainments In the past aud have done well. Ibetr

rlcpds agreed.

BUY FINB COTfAGB L I- McKrosvn and Wm. Tinker r Hake Zneealnseni Here. /liobert J. McKeowsfr ttifWM. Tinker,of Pblla<Klphls: both of wl e .well-known summer residents .of

i-ed (be oBt-

Hallej on Ocean avebelow Fourteenth

the agency of E J. Hai .

The-e gentlemen. It Is elated, will make Improvements in Ibetr new prnpfupert/ - - «e«o, erlna Iron, o per a, I on. Mrs J. Ralph Wilson, of Phlladellila, was recfully operated on for ap. pendldlla at (bo Unlvrralty Hnepitai,

She Is apparently doing

BOSTON MACKEREL ARE CAUGHT HERE 107 Fine Ones Brought Out of Ocean in N. Hickmon's

Net.

Fortheflret time In years. Bnsten mackerel werecanghl hereon Monday The catch was made by Capl. tienrge M. Bt^ckley for "Nick" Hlckmon, of Twelflb street and Asbory avenue, aud numbered 107 beautle-. The tl-h weighed from -j fo4| pounda.Mr. Breckley caught the Dsh by of nets four or five miles In ihr

He 1

1 olfOcei

City.

M three goo

.Years ago, wbe c this secllon, Boston mackerel were occasionally caught here, but no one, ill) now. was engaged regularly In

« business.

THREE BAPTIZED A number of people saw two men id a woman baptized In the water at the steamboat Ikndlog last Sunday afrrnoon, by the Bev. M'llllam Kemp, sstor of- the Tabernacle Baptist 'birch, assisted by MV. Turner, a ■ember of the chureh. and the Itev. J. t’llllams, of Atlantic t'lty. The names of those baptized are amuel Wilson, Douglass'Hart and

wtlh*r.le

William- offered a most fervent r at the water's edge, aud hymus -ung by-the members of the eon-

Beat kd Id the Cky

gduction in Price.

•UVCtFTMC COMPANY THAT CAUSEKA REDUCTION TRADE MOTTO: "MHiARe ^BAL." Both PI

MONEY TO LOAN ON MORTGAGE. No watting for two waokaki know tfyooean get^lt; ws oan lall you at ST JUm"nm Mr tavsHmont and f-r^Us provcmanl-tb. cl3 Oeaaa Ctty. Apply to I. M. CHESTER &;CO., OceaniOtv, N. J.

Mrs. Elizabeth Uale* Dawes, wifi Edmund Dawes, was buried from residence, *8*^ Fraukford even Philadelphia, on FiMay. Hbe died Tuesday. Mrs. Dawes was kitowr ny resMeuls of this city, where *beud aud children.spent the si r seasons in Ihelr collage on I mouflT place *Mr. Dawes and member- of the family base Hie si pal l|y of all In Ihelr heavy loss.

COUNTY C. E. IN OCEAN CITY BOYS WIN CONVENTION HERE TRADE BOARD’S TftOPHY CUP

Interesting Program for 8cs v sions in Presbyterian Cbnrcb.

■god for

lug program has Iden 1

« Urn al

'ape May County Christian Knror Union to he held Ih the First ibyterlsu Church, Hits city, Thurs-

day, May 18

The Rev. Frank Sheppard, county presMebt, will preside, and Ihe eonveullou theme w ill be "Service." 'At Kl o'clock the morning meeting .will be opened with a song service and scripture reading, followed by an address ou "Training for Service” by the ev. George D. Jonex. of AtlaotieCHy, re president of Stkte Christian Eu•avor wotk for-the (Southern District There will be talks ou “School of Methods.” At-11 SO.o'clork there w ill tie ao open parliament. The program Mr Hie afternoon I- afollows: ' 2 —Devotional exercises, led by the Rev. Jame- Method. 2 I0v-8ecretary’s report. 2.15—Address of welcome, by the Kev. H. T. Casselberry, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Oceau City. 2.25—Response by county president, the Rev. Frank Sheppard. 2 S5—Address, "BlbleSIndy," by the *v. W. B. Ureeuway, Jersey City.

8 2d—Offering.

8 80—Address, "Present Evangelism," by the Rev. Abram Duryee, North Hackensack. ■4JS—Ureettugs, Miss I. H. siepbena,

In the evening, at 7JO o’clock, the mg service w ill lie led by William G. ancock, presMeut of the local Presbyterian I'nlon, followed by the reading of scripture and a prayer led by Ihe Rev. Charles H. Jones, paslor of Old Brick Church, Cold Spring At ».<D o'clock Hie queMlon box w III opened. Al 8.20 o'clock John T. Mproul, Stale presMeut of Hie ChrtaHau Endeavor Union, will maki a. The cloalng hymn wl Be the Tie That Hinds." by the Mlzpah benediction.

_nk Mlchener. of Philadelphia, whom wile oooducts ihe Illloola-ou-Ihe-SIrand, lo this city, has bought from the Rev. S. Wesley Lake, through the agency of E J. Hanh, a half sqaare oLlaod south of Thirteenth street, bets ecu Haven aud Bay avenues. He plans to bolM a number of sommer; cottages aud bungalows tbercoo. ' I

WORK BEGUN ON CITY’S SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT

Philadelphia. Si as well as could In

to learn. Mrs. W.llsoo Is aecrataiy of tb* Ladies' Auxiliary of CAy Yacht Club.

W. C. T. V. ■eetlai

The mem’tiers of th. W. C. T. U will West avenue, near Fourth -ireet, tbM (Tbaradav) aJlantoen al I8B o'c It will be an avaogetteal maaflm by the aupermtaodenl, Mrs. J Boyle

‘U:L rm £Z ly, w. y-L.. ,

; OCEANFRONTLANDSOLD

Clarence S. Scull has sold 100 feet of mean front laud, with riparian right, extending out from Wesley avenue, near Seventeenth street, to out-of-tuwn parties. The price was (10,000 The land was owned by Samuel M.

Souder, of Millville.

3 save c*VeUsee to tl

county In coroners' cases lu future, the freeholders have elected Dr. I. N. Orls00m. of Ibis city, coroners' physician. In many tnalancea this will do away

with the boMIng of luquasta.

KENTUCKY GIRL TO BE HIS BRIDE John Pontiere Will be Married in Elizabethtown on Tuesday, May 16. s John Pontiere. of Ihe building firm of Polhamus A Pontiere, will leave this city tomorrow for Elizabethtown, Ky.. where, ou Tuesday, he will be married. The brMe Is Miss Mary Stella Davis, dsughler of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander T. Dayls, of Elizabethtown. The wedding will occur In St. James' Church ou Tuesday, May 16. Following the ceremony, the pair will visit Ixiulsvllle, Ctoelnnatl, Pittsburg, Washington and Philadelphia. They will reach here about June Land temporarily will reside at MS Aebury avenue. The young man will build a bungalow at Gleu Cove, where, later, they will take up their permanent Mr. Pontiere Is au'enterprislng, Industrious young man, and hla many friends are extending their best wishes tu him aud to bia future wife. Mlse Davis' father uwne one of Ihe finest tobacco plantations hi the district In which they live and Is extensively engsged In the cultivation of tobacco leaf. The Davis family h branch of Hie old Divls and 1 families uf the South. ANOTHER PRETTY HOUSE

JohuT. Saal, of this city, tuts begun (he erect Ion of a (55UU cottage on Delancey place, near the Boardwalk, for Horace F. McCann, a Germantown newspaper owner. The bouse will have two stories and a brick basement, asbestos shingle* anti aides. There will he two large porches. The house will have seven bedroom-,living room,

aod kllcben.

Saal la alao making extensive Vnprovemeot* to the collage 1, near Klulh street, owned by Dr. W. T. Wycoff, of the Philadelphia Dental College. Tesi Board Orsenters. The county board of taxation I organized for the year by the elect! of William E. Young, of Augleeaa, presMeut. aud Harry Headley, of t* secretary. Tbs other Michael H. Kearna, of Cape May, and Learning E.-Hughes,

of Cold Spring.

HUSKING BEE MADE BTG HIT

By Reqaes*, Performance Will be Repeated on Pier Saturday Night. "The Old-Nabtonad Hashing Bee." a* gl'-'jn by the Tuck a hoe Amateur AssoctatkMi, on the Oceau City Pier last Saturday night, highly pleased Hw large crowd, as was altesled by te laughter ami applause. All liking part dM very well, JtMcph Randolph and Mlsa Alya Kwlug appeared to make the great!

Its.

Following Hie entertainment, there

by request, will he repeated next Saturday night, when vaudeville act in addltlou'to. the moving pictures, aud tbe eduitmlon will be only 10. 2D aod

•uatbr, will ba on* of (he w The pier la ^>|ieu e ■els.of pictures, wit

L. Lake baa aoM tbe southeast traud lot adjoining at Haveuteenlb ; autf Aebury avruue, owned by Mrs. DarM Smith and daughters, of Edgewater Park, to John L. ‘ Bowker, of Millville. Mr. Bowker will build a and dwelling ou 'the same.

Tb# Rev. E. K. While. M. C. Fife nd t.eaades 1 iwsno Ml attend the Baptist Convention et HeddonlDM 00 May-81, when.aetlbii tuward recognizing Immanuel Baptist Cburrh. of this "T, as a regularly organised church

III be taken.

Intersecting Pipe to Go on West Avenue, Above and Below Third Street. Work waa begun tbla week ou tb* sewage dispoeal plant for this city, nd K will be pushed rapMly, oRlclale f the company eay. Tb* pumping station will beat Third street and West avenue. The luter ceptlng pipe Hue will be laM south to Slxtcenih and West avenue aod 1 north aa North street. Mncb of the materia! arrived here tbe fader part of laat week. Nearly all of tbe dirt will he handled by means of a steam crmt A.ir 288 feet In length, tbe Brat of Its kind ever used lu work lo South Jersey, aod tbe street will be kejd aa dear and dean as slide at all tlmea. Tbe Ireocb will be four feel w Me and thirteen feet deep. w hen tb* plant Is established, tbe ejedor* will he operated from Hie company’s pumping Hal Ion. At tbe present time, Supt W. L. Gibb la ou* of tb* hualeat men in tbe city- ' . CLOCK WITH HISTORY

Clayton H. Brick, who will have es-pecially'attractive-looking nfflcaa In :be be lid lug 00 Eighth street, oppoitte the post untie. uov In course of reconstruct lou a odo*« ring completion tea brtglug lu tbe oflics a large dock rlth a history. For years It was; the time-dock lo tb* Dtaatou saw milts lu Taeooy.

When later

AGED SUMMER VISITOR DIES Mrs. Mary J. Bddowes Pint Came to This City in the

Year 1881.

Mr*. Mary J. Eddowev, one of Ocean City's oMaat and warm rat adm and wMow of Thomas J. Eddowaa, paaaed away at th* borne of her son, Edward K. Kddowra, ITU North Tweoty-flflb street, Philadelphia,' on Saturday, aged 82 year* and 15 daye. Funeral service* were held at ber i's residence at 2 o’clock Tuesday

In tbs mills,.tbe d

Fog Hals —Two lot*. Sta . b 688. Sac 4., Wesley arena 11*0 Apply H , Hcwyimu. el

r. Brick's, Who raratitly

■ Two family furnished house, four bad room* and moder-. lot WxiOn. Seventh .aud Atlactle arena*, aa — Investment will pay 14 per cent. A corner lot Nineteenth aod Central •venue, and two eoraer tax* Thirtieth and Asbory avtDut.'hargalna for quick

lurownea; tot wxmu reel. Apply Wm GIMemeyer, 1480 Asbory av*., Foa SAl-a.—s'MIages and lob In net desirable lenetlen* m Oceau City. SS2SS;«ri2£“'’"’"'

m Aabnry Avtow

In Athletic Meet They Overwhelm Tothe Institute’s Second Team. Ocean City High School's track tram >n Saturday afternoon captured the second of tbe beautiful trophy cups presented for lb aerie* of dual athletic ‘ this spring by defeating, without much trouble, tbe second team of 'ome Institute, Port Deposit, Md. Ocean City scored a total of 58 point*, while Tome rolled up a total of only

Ocekn City i! Tbe boys of tbe Institute were about 1 a class with tb* locals, so far aa age nd bulM were concerned, but they were eclipsed as athletics. They were floe, gentlenuuly set of young fellow*, and look tbelr Waterloo gooduaturedly. They bad no one to compete against Maylln Robinson In the pole-vault, Harvey aud Steveoaou were put forward to make the try. After Har- ■ ey made effort to go over tbe borfzoDtal bar, aud abowed that be wa* not In that class, tbla avaot waa called ofl. Robinson bad god* over once at a.height of 6 feet 10 Inches. A coin was tossed by Prof. J. Elmer Sandt, of the Ocean City High School, for place for Harvey and Stevenson, and tb* laat named iron. All of th* Ocean City boy# dM particularly well. HehneMer, Hancock aud "oreom starring. As usual, SchueMer had a runaway match Id tbe mile run. Smith, Urouecker and Shoemaker abowed up well In running. Benlbam Is a “comer" In Ihe hurdle*. Bt'MMXKV: 75-yard daab—Pint, Martin,- Tome lostltute; second, Smith, Ocean Oily; third, Harvey, Tome Inatltute. Time, 8 8 5 seconds. 1—First, SchueMer; second, Sharp, both Ocean CUy; third, Stalu. I, Tome Inatllute. Time, 5 minutes 8 25 seconds, High jutif^—First, Hancock, Ocean City; eecond, Harvey; third, Stevenson, both Tome Institute. Height, 5 feet | Inch. 2JD-yard dash—First, Hancock; second, Smith, both Ocean City; third, Clark, Tome Inatltute. Time, 25 14

rcoods.

Shot-put — First, Hancock, Ocean Uy; second, Hall; third, Handy, both ome Inatltute. Distance, 82 foet 4

Inches.

Half-mile run-Ftrat, Beb□ elder; second, Cronecker, both Ocean Ctty; third, Martlii, Tome Inatltuta. Time, Smloutra IM seconds. ip—First, Noroom, Ooran City; ncond, Harvey, 7 I, Haucook, Ocean Ctty. I 18 fort 1} Inchn. 25-yard hurdle-FIraLKorcom, Ocean City; second, Stevenson, Tom* loaUite: third, Benlbam, Ocean City. I me, 11 14 eecoode. Pole-vault—FIrat^ Robin*00, Ocean Ctty; aacood. Stevenson; third, Harvey, both Toms Inatltuta. Height, 6 fart 10 Incbra. Relay, 44 mile—Woo by Omen Ctty. Time, 8 mlnotra. Tbe teams were made up aa follows; Ocean City—CrooaCker, Shoemaker, Smith and Schneider. Tame Inatttata—Clark, Stavapaon, Harvey and Martin. | ri TEACHERS ACCEPT'

Mr. and Mrs. Kddowes first ca Ocean City about tbe year 1881. They built here lu 1884 and were regular uer resident* up to tbe dea Mrs. .Kddowra being ben year. In ber laat lllneas Mrs. Eddowra d for tbe time to come to Oct City, for ebe saM It would do ber much good She always watched tbe rowtb aud progress of Ocean Ctty 'Ith tbe greatest Interdst and pride, aa though Its Interest* were ber Interra Mrs Kddowa* had a large ctrcl# friends to tbl* ctty. particularly among I ho** who were early settler* hefe, and they heard,.with regret of ber deml To« h-r sons lr extended the *y palby of tbelr large ctrel* of friend In thlaclly, «!>*•* they Irave lived during th* summer seasons for m IN NEWSOME

1

Dr. and Mrs. Allen Corson yesterday moved Into tbelr reoently-purcbaaed cottage. SI6 Wesley avenue, 1 •low where Ibky have

They bought tb*

William D.«bWTHd, through Masray

A Edwards.

Tlie xittsge has been greatly tws-

At tbe meeting of tbe-Bpard of Edu-

Lrwla E Smith reported that aU gf4|>e teacher, elected for tb* oomtqtfrmie at tbe Iprt meet log of tbe bowfd tmis wrllUti Utters of acceptance, eom»# adding tbelr thanka. Tbe lett r of PrloelpaU J. Elmra Sandt waa the only one noil. It was as follows: L. E. Smith, Secretary Board of Education— Dear Sir:—Your notiflcatloa of my

school received In accepting tbe position for the ensuing year, I wish to I bank thrOserd for tbe Increase in salary. . I’ll be frank lu saying thatUss salary paM the high achool priuclpal k Insuffletont. That position should rank next to tbe aoperintoodeot..,! do net believe there k one school lo New Jae*ey outsM* of Ocean Ctty where thk k not tb* csss- La* yaa* II etood third on the Ikt. There k au Uwplratloo In koosftsg lhat tbe board appradalra your labors

isae gVoThTprtR fovara, aod isi (ba comiag yaw may b*