, 1903-03-27
Holly Beach.

JUSTICES lrlp 10 ullduelpnla last nlSn1
Mrs. Mary J. Riley, of Philadelphia,
has been down this week looking after
her property on Burke enu
Former Judge Harry S. Douglass,
who last week was appointed Prosecu-
tor of the Pleas for Cape May county,
was a Barker House guest this week.
The annual meeting of the West
Jersey Electric Co.. was held at the
company's office at the electric light
plant on Wednesday. There were
present Henry ID. Moore, J.. Alpheus
Vansant, Frederick Sutton and j. Filth
ian Tatem.
The show windows at the new store
of Mech & Co. present an attractive
appearance with the display of spring
millinery.
Centre House guests the past week
have been A. Miller, Miss E. e. Parker,
j. V. Hobby, Dorning Walker, Phila-
delphia; Mrs. j. e. Holme, Henrietta
Holme, H. l.. Restrick, Il. f. Rose,
Morris A. Cole, Camden; Mrs. Jane
Bate, Mrs. Emily Townsend, Cold
Spring; J. r. Gross, Galveston, Tex;
w. NJ. Spalding, Court House; A. NJ.
Fox, Norristown, Pa; +. A. Breck,
Vineland; Boyd Mcpherson, Fishing
Creek.
John Barker, of Melville, has been
down this week looking after his prop
erty here.
Mech & Co. invite you to inspect
their fine line of spring millinery and
dry goods at their new store. 4
TAKE NoTICE.-G. B. Blakley has
opened a new truck and fruit store on
Taylor avenue, Holly Beach, in the
old Spofford building opposite the Cen
tire House, and carries a line full line of
truck and fruit. Wagon on the street
rates. q. b. Blakley,
A regular meeting of the Holly Beach
Borough Council was held OF Wednes-
1ae--e@cniAs -1iFu Mayor smith presI-
ding and Councilmen Barnett, Culver,
Forcum, Lee, Lopez and Pinker pres
ent. The minutes of the last meeting
were approved as read. AT the sngges-
ton of the Mayor the bids for the bor-
ough hall and ~jetties were taken up as
the first order of business. There were
five bids for building the borough hall
as follows:
Robert Wright, S6250.O0
Harry S. Hewitt, 5S34.00
Joseph n. Costill, 5799.56
Chas. a. Norton, $4,000
Leonard Reeve, 5540.l7
As all the bids exceeded the appro-
priation to be spent on the borough
hall they were rejected and the build
ing committee instructed TO revise the
plans to come within the appropriation.
The following bids were read by Clerk
Hewitt for the construction of the sys-
tenn of five %jetties:
John NJ. Vance, Is j%etties) $5000.00
Chas. w Saul, Is %jetties) $4,000
John NJ. Vance, Is %jetties) 4550.00
Young & Taylor, (per jetty) ll49.0O
Chas. A. Norton, (per jetty) 949.75
Harry H. Hoffman, (per jetty) $500
Mr.. Hoffman was the lowest bidder
as the above figures indicate. The bids
were referred to the Jetty committee
with power to award contract upon the
production of a good and sufficient
bond for the faithful performance of
the work. The members of the Jetty
committee are Culver, Barnett and
Pinker. 1t will be noticed that Mr..
Vance submitted two bids. One was
for the construction of the jetties as per
plans of Council, while the bid of $4,000
was for the construction of the jetties
according to plans and drawings fur
nished by Oliver j. Leigh, who was
present and explained his idea of how
they should be constructed. E. Yen
ney and e. IL. Randolph were appoin-
ted as members of the Board of Health.
Quit-claim deeds were ordered executed
in favor of Oliver j. Leigh and +. A.
Breck. The collectors report showed
$7l1.42 on hand. Collector o. B. Smith
renewed his bond for the coming year
with George n. Smith and Gus Hilton
as sureties, which was accepted. w.
E. Forcum, as a member of the finance
committee, read a report of the proba-
BILE income and expenditures of the
borough for the coming year, which
was accepted. An order was drawn
for $50 in favor of the street committee
for the purpose of paying the bridge
tender. The regular meetings of Coun-
Gil were fixed for the fourth Wednes-
day evening of each month.
Beautiful Easter eggs at Lowe q Sons,
Parkside cottage, Pine II Name
put on free of charge. <