Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-06

site Tor a lire house. Borough COuncll
is considering the purchase of a
chemical fire engine for the new COM
pany. Officers were elected asfollows:
Henry IL. Ottens, president; Arthur
Ely, vice president; Charles Glenn,
secretary; Harry lowering, treasurer;
H. HI. Hoffman, George Albertson,
Frank Becker, trustees. The company
expects to be all in readiness to attend
the firemen's convention to lie held at
Wild wood next September.
An adjourned meeting of the North
Wild wood Borough Council was held
in the borough hall last Friday eve-
ming. Mayor Hilton and Councilmen
Coapman, Shivers, Turner, Wheaton
and Young were present. The minutes
of the last meeting as read by Clerk
w. e. Young were approved. I'M
provement certificates were ordered
issued to cover the cost of sewer extern
sion No. 7. The clerk reported that
the 1880 worth of refunding bonds
were here, and their execution was
authorized. The gas company was
given permission to erect a gas light in
the street for the purpose of demon
strating its merits for street lighting.
The bond of James McLiuden to the
amount Of s. Q
was read and accepted with Harry q.
Wheaton and John M. Vance as bonds
men. Letters were read from Henry
H. Ottens and the North Wild wood
Land company asking for fire protec-
ton, in the tract below ixteenth%s street,
where the houses subject to taxation
equals If not exceeds the old part of
Anglesea. The letters stated that a
fire company had been organized there
and a request was made for a chemical
engine. By motion of Wheaton,
seconded by Turner, it was ordered
that a fire engine be purchased for the
old fire company and a chemical
engine for the company just organized
at the Ottens tract. The Mayor named
the whole Council as a committee to
purchase this fire apparatus. Council
adjourned.
George HI. Lawson, local agent for
the Quaker City Laundry, will canva
Anglesea next Monday for work. Save
your laundry for me and have it done
up in excellent shape. \
,OWhile digging up an old stump in
the vicinity of Twelfth and Central
last Friday the workmen of
Contractor John w. Young unearthed
a bunch of 80 black snakes. Most of
them were from three to five feet in
length, but not very active. They
were killed and buried.
The decision handed down by the
Supreme Court on Feb. 25th in the
case of Harrison II. Voorhees, We. Bor-
ough of Anglesea, effected the general
taxes on one lot only, and did not on
Germ the assessments as reported in
these columns. Mr.. Voorhees, has a
suit pending concerning the payment
of street assessments upon which no
opinion has been rendered as yet.
g. s. Cochran, Red Bank; John E.
Craven and w. S. Garfield, of Phila-
delphia, were guests of the past week
at Hotel Hilton.
Miss Minnie Glenn is spending some
time with friends in Vineland.
Mrs. VIM. r. Lester, who conducted
the Graylock cottage last year owned
by Carl A. Peterson, has taken a five
year lease on the new hotel being built
by Frank Floyd, and will keep it open
the year round.
John A. Pew, a department store
owner of Gloucester, is having built a
combination cottage and boat house on
the Ottens canal. Gloucester carpen-
tiers are doing the work.
Contractor James McLinden has
started buying pipe for the private
sewerage system of the Ottens' canal
section. 18th, 18th and 10th streets
from Delaware to Virginia are
included in the contract let by III. IL.
0ttens.