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Ocean City Sentinel

THE SENTINEL IS OCEAN CITY'S FOREMOST NEWSPAPER j"

VOL.. XLI.— No. 34.

OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1921

Price : Three Cents

Boardwalk Ordinance Was Passed By Commissioners To he Moved Oceanward from Fourth to Sixth Streets \ — 32 Feet Wide

i iuumissioner Campbell presided at ti. Commissioner]!' meeting Monday •in the absence of Mayor Joseph G. Champion. The ordinance calling for the relocation and rebuilding of the Boardwalk from Second street to Sixth street was passed on third and final reading. TbeHtoardwalk as re-^.s-ni.d will Ire moved Mean ward from Fourth street to Sixth strep tjn within -00 feet of the high water line and •..ill lie 82 feet wide. The ordinance calling for the redding and relocating of the 'walk com Sixth street to Tenth street wa» .. no-ruled slightly and pawl on second reading. This ordinance will be taken up for final action on December 5th." It calls for the relocating of the lioacdwalk from Sixth street to Eighth street where it will also fol-| low the high water line at a distance! of altout 200 feet landward. At Seventh street the new boardwalk will be 300 feet oceanward front , the present 'walk. It is contemplated to widen the 'walk from Sixth street , to Tenth street to approximately 52 1 feet, the decking to be arranged with.. ., railway in the center for roiling', chairs. This railway may continue . far as Second street. With this ordinance passing its third | and final reading there is every rea- ■ sou to believe that building on the , ocean front will be started immediate- j iv. Contemplated building operations along the 'walk aggregate in the ]•, neighborhood of a million dollars.

WEDDINGS Spaha— J agger Miss Katherinc Marie Spahn, daughter of Mr. John Spahn, of 170 llartholdi avenue, and Mr. John R. .luggers, of Paulsboro, N. J., were' married Sunday afternoon, October 2. 1 at the home of the bride's father by. Rev. Eugene p, Fuessie, pastor of -the j Salem Evangelist Church. Mr. Jag-; gcr is well known In tbis city where; h» re tided for a number of years. The bride wore a beaded gown of gray canton crepe; she Was attended by her sister, Mrs. Han'rietta Anderson ami Mr. Charles F.| Anderson was A reception followed the ceremony for the members of the immediate,1 families only, after which Mr. and Mrs. John . Jaggers left on a tour through South Jersey. Upon their re- ' turn they will reside in Palmyra, N. J. INSTANTLY KILLED On the eve of his twentieth wedding; — ^anniversary, George Spitx, 45, a baker. XSomers Point, was instantly killed nW« the delivery machine he was. driving crashed into a large truck. Spitx was well known in this dty. ferial Xuw Shuopooln* Scalp Honour- Mankurinc MISS MAE E. BENNETTS >!• AHBt'KY AVKNl'E I Ocean a Is. N. J. Maia-I Wavins ■Telephone

>■ _ - News of the o City's Schools •I L===_all________

n The teachera held their monthlv « -meeting last Wednesday evening call'. •I P'l by Superintendent Jame- M Stevens. After listening to an in- .- tere.sting talk by die Superintendent It upon the methods of teaching, came k refreshments served by the Eighth i Grade girls under the direction of u;Mi*s Ethel Niekerson, head of Doi. i mestic Science. The honored girls . e the best in the school jot one having a a demerit on record for the last six - i weeks. B ' Th« Junior Class, who held a cake •ado Saturday found it very successful - and cleared over $20. The chance 1 ' "*ke w«8 »<>n by Dr. J. Thoraley ' I Hughes, which was appreciated verv, ' much by him. j' The Senior Class and their friends •are patiently waiting for the coming of the evening of November 26, when ' ' tboy will have the privilege of rattling 1 ( their feet to the sweet melodies of newly organised orchestra, i ; dance will be given in the Hann Building anil will be given for the ' I "I 'he Senior Class. Tickets are now being sold by members of the Senior ClassT

Last Tuesday morning at the as- . semblv exercises. Superintendent Stev- . ] rns with his usual wit and humor present*) the tickets to the football team 0 fnr the Father ami Sons' dinner { which was held under the auspices ^ of the Men's Bible Class of the MethoU^iiist Church, on Wednesday evening. ' These tickets was the gift of Mr. Wil- I liam E. Maasey. j t.| Herman you are alright You as t p leailer and the mem bees of .your i orchestra are giving valuable assist- t ,f ance with the music at tt-. morning ' j assembly'' hall exercises. But we are a .. afraid that there are too many falling „ by the wayside anil leaving the sing- I ing all to Miss Corson. Wake up f j. fellow students and let us all sing c e | loud and try to convince Dr. Corson, i ,1 who doesn't live a thousand miles t r away that his services are no longer v ._ ^tailed in examining our music boxes. I_ Congratulations to our Ocean City t High. School football team! Ocean f City can well be proud of its foot- t g ball team as it 1s the champion team t •_ of the county. Their victory over h Wildwooil High School (6 to 0) last f s , Monday gave it the undisputed championsbip of Cape May County. Great credit is due Ewing Corson, who faith- r . fully coached the team. (| Up to date our team has scored 1 12 T ' points while their opponents have t scored 27. ; i. «0 say, has anyone seen Fergie, r 1 since he and his bike tried to displace c ; the telephone pole at the corner of t - ; Fifth street and Asbury. Weil, ff.t

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LEAGUE TO PARADE Will Attend Wildwood's New Year > ( i-lrhralion The By-ljiws of the Young Men's Progressive League we're amemle.1 at their regular meeting . last Monday I night to read: 'The annual dues of the league shall be $6 a year, paya- ; hie in advance on January I of each j year ." The reason for this amendment is to give the Finance Committee an opportunity to apply the budget system to the League's finances and also to .lessen the work of the financial secretary, Dr. J. Thornley Hughes. Dr. Hughes has been an advocate of this amendment to the By-Laws for a considerable time. He is also very " ; much in favor of the budget system, y The league has accepted the invita- - tion extended by the Angiesea Fire Company to participate in Wildwood's - New Year's celebration. It is the idea t of the league members to parade as e an organixation with juxt as large a li delegation as it is possible to get to-, f gether. The signs painted on the roadway k at the entrance to the automobile r bridge at Somers Point and also on! < this side that read : "Of course you ;. are coming to Ocean City's Hallowe'en f celebration. October 81st, 1921," will 1 be changed to read "Of course you are , coming to Ocean City's Hallowe'en , celebration, Saturday, October 28th, 1922." The signs will be repainted, at intervals during the year so that 8 ! it will ever 1* a reminder to the motorist that he may expect a good , time in Ocean City on Hallowe'en of ; DINiER DANCE GREAT SUCCESS of Three Social Events Held in Philadelphia Last Thursday I; , !• The Ocean City Yacht Club gave 1 the first of the three dinner dances '■ planned to be held during the winter ' i season of 1921-22, on Thursday evc- ■ ning of last week, at the Manufar- 1 . tuiers' Club, Broad and Walnut : • streets. The two" other dances will < ar held in January and March. From every possible angle the af- 1 fair was a splendid success and re- ' i credit upon the soda! activities ' ■ committee of which Alex Colville, Jr.,' 1 , is chairman; and the Spedal commit- < ; John E. File, Jr., chairman. I which had it directly in charge. 1 The dinner and dance were held in i the ladies' dining room on the eighth ' floor of the club house. The decorations of flowers and bunting were in I the best of good taste; the music was I ' ftitieism; and the ilandng ' was excellent. i About sixty couples sat down at l 7 AO oclock and it was close to mid- ; ] night when the last fox trot was 1 to "Good Night Ladies." The | = included a soup, a fish entree,' spring chicken and vegetables, ' j cream, cakes and coffee. The at- . . mosphere ami environment were ; charming and the committee received the most glowing and complimentary i congratulations. .An unexpected and pleasing feature | 1 of the evening was toe dancing by a j young woman secured for the occasion ' who, with her dancing partner, gave ; two very clever exhibitions. you havent and would like to know what happened, just read tip: little poAi in the joke column which was particularly composed for him. From the percentages which have > lieen attained by the Health Club teams of the various rooms for the past two weeks they have been doing excellent work. After finding the percentages of a number of the teams so close. It was thought best not to publish them until the end of the contest. If they were published to date, a number of the teams might become dls- | rounrfcxi and would not do their best i work in carrying out the health rules. We are all glad to see Miss English , hack with us after a two days' absence. Tuesday and Wednesday. Rev. M. M. Lewis taught her classes during absence.

MUCH INTEREST ; SHOWN IN CONTEST I Last Week Was the Last f of Sentinel's Silhouette h Contests i- . t l-i-t week closed the Silhouette ConI tests that have been running in the Senj tinel for several weeks and from the t number of answers that have been rof eeiveil at this office, have created B much interest among the Sentinel's t. readernt The answer to last week's silhouette j was Charles B. Powell, well known : B local merchant and was won by Lewis ! s Edward Smith, 623 Wesley avenue. , Ocean City, N. J. ; PRAISES TEAM Coach Corson Tells of Work of Local Boys " One year ago the Ocean City High I 1 ( School boys banded together anil de- ! • termine,! to have a football team to _ ! compete with nearby schools. At first they received very little support and \ it was a hard struggle for them to get ' enough money together to even buy ^ ' uniforms, however, they closed last ] season with more than a fair record " against schools that had been playing j. football for a number of years. This fall the team, under Captain 1 George Gardfter, started its second year and I am sure there is no one who can say the toyvhave not come ] ! through with flying colors. To date I the boys have defeated the Wildwooil I I High School team twice; lost one . | game to Cape May C«rt House but \ later defeated them by such an over- | whelming score that there is little ; I doubt as to the superiority of the local : ! team. They romped away with the , ; Atlantic City High School Reserves , I to the tunc of 39-0 and later played 1 Plcasantville High School a tie game, i Already Ocean City has won the t . championship of Cape May County i i 'and stands in line for the champion- t ■ ship of Class "C" High Schools. The < . success of the team is due entirely to ' - . ' the ability anil aggressiveness and un- , ; selfishness to sacrifice individual honI ors for the glory of their school. j ! Starting with Capt. Gardiner— . j George is an all round athlete and ( . ! a true sportsman. He has been a main j I I stay in almost every activity that our f High School has had. for the bdyS. ( ; George holds down second base on the . baseball team; is a member of the ; Gymn team and doffs his hat to no i one in wrestling. In fact, a few of i the boys rather like George. r Ross Ferguson, who Tuns the team , his position at quarter-back has ( 1 1 "the terror" to every school thai c we have played this year. This grin- r : ning line plunger also grins behind ( the mask on the baseball team and , ' plays a Stirling game of basket ball ■ | : | whenever it is possible for the boys ,

GAME SATURDAY 1 • D. I'. A- A. To Play Mays tending I The Ocean City Athletic Association's football team will play their first game under the association colors ' Saturday afternoon against the fast Mays Landing eleven; This will be the first appearance of the team in \ Walter Dittrich is manager: K. 1 Long, assistant "thqnager; anil Leu ! Murphy, captain. The probable lineup for Ocean City is as follows: -1 1 ! L. E.-H. Ferguson i j L. T.— E. Sharp ' L. G.— J. Adams ' I C.— T. Niekerson ; ' j R. G.—R. Williams 6; R. T.— E. Long !■ I I R. E.— G. Haines • < 1 ! y. B.— G. Tuttle • 1 ! ' | L. II. — Freeman j • | R. H.— H. Marts | F. B. — L. Murphy (captain) ^ 1 j Substitutes — E. Wallace ' R. Ferguson . Taylor ' P. Kutchcr oJt ( MRS. M. W. ADAMS SUDDENLY STRICKEN ; i Deceased Had Been a Resi- J ! dent of This City for > 24 Years \ ' ! Mrs. Annie Adams, the wife of ' ' W. Adams, died suddenly at j • A. M. last Friday at her home, ' I acutedilatinn of the heart. Mrs. B ! Adams, who was 67 years of age, i born at New Gretna, and had a resident of Ocean City for 24 ' Her maiden name was iiuiler. I She is survived by her husband and " ' daughter. Mrs. Berhl Scull, the wife v of City Treasurer Clarence S. Scull. ' Services were held at one o'clock in * ■ the First M. E. Church here Tuesday 0 ' the 15th and at three o'clock in the ' M. E. Church at New Gretna. In- ( termcnt was at Hilside Cemetery, New

: find a hall in which to piay. ' I Phil Kutcher, the boy who never < his temper for more than four , 'I periods during a game is usually , found at the bottom of the pile fol- f lowing a line plunge. Phil is also a . member of the "Lightning Quintet" which have suits but no games. ^ o t ATTENDED RALLY t Led by Commander John E. Trout. 'r members of Morgan-Ranck Post, t | American ,Legion, 10091 strong, left i j City last night "to attend the \ j county rally held at Wlldwood. Com- t ! mandcr -Trout, who was a delegate to t ' i the Kansas City Convention has given I I member* of the local Post an interest- i | ing account of his experience as a i delegate. ' - II

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Taxpayers' League Wants All Properties Assessed Also Favoring; the Grading of Camp Grounds and Freeingji^idge of Toll

j Thoma.- R. Fort, Jr., hre«i<lcut i'.f t the Ocean City Taxpayers' League, i in his opening address to that imdy at > the meeting held in the Chamber of • Commerce at Philadelphia on Tucs- t j.lay. November 15th, said that the I j league had no thought of ereating i I mischief or obstructing the city's gov- t emment. It was their aim to aid and . I assist the Mayor and the commission- '• ( jers in every way possible. "There i I are. a number of matters that should : ! brought to your attention for your I consideration in a broad way. These I ' have ticcn named in the call of the . "Many of us are not voters in ' Ocean City although we arctaxpay- I : ers and are entitled to some voice ' in the city affairs. Mayor Champion ' has recognized this and will cohsult c I with our officers from time to time, t We are working -in perfect harmony v with the other organizations of Ocean t i We are working in the beat 1 : interests of the resort by honest, " helpful methods and not by knocking i methods." • j f The first item of business for con- ii siile ration was taxes. A letter was read by Mr. Fort from Mayor Joseph r . G. Champion, who outlined proposed j o will in all proba- t; bility take place lieforc another sea- C rolls around, at the same time c outlining where the money to pay v for these improvements would come n from. Among the improvements men- '.c tinned in the letter were the filling . j anil grading of the Camp ground ami ; s widening of Asbury avenue from ! s Eighth to Tenth streets. It was th<j p sence of the meeting that they wenl h opposed to an increase in taxes other! than would be necessary to fill and j 1 grade the Camp Ground. They were not in sympathy with the j proposed non-taxation of newly cortv! structeil properties covering a period : of several years and passed a resolution favoring the assessment of all ; new properties rcgnrdless of the exist- j t ing law which they felt was not con- o stitutional. r\. After some diviikwow-the meeting !g indorsed the plans as presented in j # regard to rebuilding ami relocating the Boardwalk and also indorsed the plan of uniform hulkheading along I c the Bay front. The subject of water ; v .'mains and the inaccuracy of the pros.ient service was touched upon lightly . ,| . and the information given that a sur- 1 ( i vey of conditions had been made by j ,] the Board of Underwriters, whose rec- j oinmendations woald have considerabearing upon bringing the water * mains to a state of efficiency that is ' i required in a city of this size. This question was disposed of by referring | it to the Municipal Committee. s Regarding the question of complo- 1 j tion by the City Gas Light Company of improvements planned it was re- ( ported the Gas Company are going ^ steadily ahead with their improvements ami during the past season there were few, if any. complaints | registered against the Gas Company's i ! service. - The Taxpayers' League is opposed to i any increase in the present water rates I and there was some discussion on the present method of taxation for sewer ( rentals with no action taken. The question of railroad fares; com- ; mutation, etc., for the coming season was answered by J. Clark Moore, ' chairman of the League's committee on transportation with the explanation 1 1 'of the activities of his committee, what ; . they had accomplished nod what they i , expected to accomplish through the in- j creased popularity of Ocean City and, the gradual lengthening of the season. . ^ The automobile bridge sad the con- ; tinuation of the toll thereon kept cropping up during the entire meeting] .

ing the discussioqjT this question was allowed by the" chairman with the re- ' 1 sOH that they passed a resolution that the City Commissioner,, work for the interests.* «.f Cape May County : by lining ull in their power to free the bridge .from toll. One member ! said he had noticed that the Bridge | Company was offering $100. for the ■ road sip! leading tn Ocean City I and he was goinj- to submit the fol- • lowing: "The ' Smile Knad— Free 1 to Ocean City." Music was another item not in the call of the meeting. Mr. Fort outi a plan for next season's music ; tmit would come within the City's i music appropriation. His idea was to , tnitlce the music pariliog a community to the interior that would conform with the community idea. He felt . that at the end of the season everybody would be just as happy and there would not t* the continual iligging ; one's pocket to meet ileficit*. He that his idea was worth considerfor at least one season. Citp Solicitor Andrew C. Boswell represented the Mayor, who is away | his vaeatioj). On the question of i taxation Mr. Boswell remarked that City could live without increased taxation if the 'taxpayers ware •willing to live with them. "Improve--jments necessarily mean a slight inin taxes. The question is 'Do you want improvements or not 7* " said Mr. Bosweil. He gave a brief sketch of the activities (hak bail been 'put forth to free the automobile i

HEARD ALONG THESHORE ' v » i Prayer meeting of the Baptist Church wil) be held at the home of C. V. Corson, tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brooks spent 'Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.' Elton Cor- : Mr. ami Mrs. Frank Ypung and two ' I children spent last week-end in Milijville. Mr. an<l Mrs. Carl Cramer ami daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Learning Godfrey, of Atlantic City, spent Sun- ! with Mrs. Awilrta Clark. Dr. and Mrs. Haines, of Ocean City, entertained Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Corson. . Miss Cameron and Mr. and Mrs. Ho- | hart Sapp at dinner Thursday. Mrs. Alice Walker, of Philadelphia, spent the week-end with her cousin, V. Corson. Mrs. Elizabeth WTaplcs is spending few weeks with her mother Bt Dennisville. I Miss Charlotte Brown, of Philadel- ; phia, was the week-end guest or Mr. , and Mrs. R. F. Smith. Mr. Wm. Taylor, of National Park, >! is. spending a few days with his siai 1 firs. Ella Corson. . - Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Miller, have r gone to Philadelphia for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young and , i family, visited his sister, Mrs. Walter Champion at Mulliea, Hill, x ' ' Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Darby, Mc ' ; Bramell, Mr. Gilbert, visited Clarence 1 ! Smith. While there they enjoyed the j Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Smith at- > tended the funeral of Dorothy Mae ] i Cray, at Tuekahoc last Tuesday. tj Mrs. Stillwill Young was very »ick [ a few days this week.

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