Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-13
NORTH WILDWOOD
NEWS In PARAGRAPHS
Prof. DeReed at the Hotel Royal.
Geo. Firth and Family Back
From Old England
DOUBLE COTTAGE FOR PROF. LLOYD


phia, was master of ceremonies at a
birthday hop rendered Master Edward
Hewitt last Saturday night at Hotel
Royal. A grand time was enjoyed and
the professor showed his superior skill
as a master of dancing. Among those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. III. H.
Ottens, Mr.. and Mrs. H. III. Hoffman,
Mrs. f. M. Hess, Mrs. Augustus Hilton,
Charles Shick, Mrs. F. w. Dougherty,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Wagner, Mrs.
Hewitt, Charles Mace and others.
Mr.. Mace has engaged Prof. DeReed
for the coming season and he will
make the Hotel Royal his headquarters.
The professor was at Sea Isle City for
five consecutive years.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Firth and
daughter Lizzie arrived home from
England on Monday, after an absence
of nearly four months. Mr.. Firth isan
Englishman by birth, where his
mother and many relatives reside
His father died last July. This was
Mr.. Frith's first trip home since his
arrival in this country at the age of q
years.
Prof. Frank Lloyd is having a hand
some 5 5000 double cottage built on
Chestnut avenue, adjoining the new
cottage of George Reading. ContraAS
tor Frank Hess is doing the work.
The Ocean Fish Comranvs @.~-e
ting their poles and nets In readiness
for the spring catches of fish.
Come and see the Easter hats at
Mech & Co.'s Holly Beach store. =
Mrs. Robert Bright was badly scald-
ed about the face Tuesday by the burst
ing of a tightly closed coffee pot on a
stove. The boiling hot liquid spurted
to the ceiling and scattered in every
direction probably from the force of the
pent-up steam. DIR. Mace was immed-
lately summoned and the burns are
healing nicely.
The North Wildwood Improvement
Company has appealed from the action
of the county DO ard of taxation in
affirming an assessment by the assessor
of the Borough of Anglesea of $35, 125
on the property of the company. The
company appealed to the county board
to have its assessment reduced to
$50, 700, but the board sustained the
assessment. Former Judge Harrison
III. Voorhees, is at the head of this
company.
We have a fine lot of prints, ging-
hams, percales and other wash goods.
Great variety of patterns to choose
from. Mech & Co.
Miss Brooxxie Hewitt is visiting her
sister, Mrs. w. F Burns, at Paulsboro.
Among the Hotel Hilton guests OF
the past week have been G. s. Cochran,
John e. Craven, w. s. Garfield, L. l..
Schwartz, of Philadelphia, and L. e.
Mears, of New York.
The Cape May County Board of Tax
alton has asked the State Equalization
Board to remove from Office David p.
C~resswell, one of the assessors at Ocean
City. The County Board claims that
Cresswell has willfully dlsobeyed the
tax laws of the state.
Charles Mace, Jr., sails from Eng
land to day for the states and expects
to arrive here sometime next week.
Come and see the Easter hats al
Mech & Co.'s Holly Beach store. n
The Arctic Ice company have begun
a general overhauling and repairing O
their ice plant preparatory to thesprine
and summer work.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Eynon and John
r. Eynon, of Philadelphia, were
Saturday and Sunday visitors. They
stopped at the Seacrest.