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peau. in his original role Of the villain
u Trampas, are In the cast.

GUS Trampas, are In the cast.
Julie Hearne, who plays at the Or
ange Bijou Theatre next week, is one
of the four children of James A.
Hearne, the famous old comedian and
playwright. Miss Dorothy. now %
years old. has but recently gone upon
the stage. and is playing the part of
Pearl" the maid servant In Shore
Acres" one of the finest of her dead
fathers pastoral plays. 1t is through
chs same avenue that Miss Chrystal
Hearne came to her own upon the
stage, and she in turn was preceded by
Miss julie, the first Of the Hearne fam
lily Pearls" All of the Hearne chill
dren, save Jack, the youngest, have
played In the old comedy.
The Gay Masqueraders'' are sched-
uled to follow Harry Bryant's COM
pany at Waldmann's.
Equipped with the original cast and
chorus Of sixty and the scenic produc-
ton seen only In the Knickerbocker
Theatre IN New York. Conan and
Harris will present George NJ. Cohan's
musical play THE Talk of New York.
with Victor Moore. at the Newark
Theatre. the week of October s.
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THE USUAL HOLD.lIp.

Yes" said the man who had ha.,,
travelling in the far West. 1T saw ttrss
trains held up In n night
"You don't sayl" exclaimed The ,nnnz
cent bystander. WAS any one h,,rt W.
NO" answered the traveller. ~Tbev
were held up by women IL 4 ballroom.s
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BOWIE KNIVES THROWN AT
HEROINE IN COLUMBIA PLAY

A. II. Woods will offer 1.-THE Gambler
OF the West" as the Columbia Theatre
melodrama for next week. The play
has many scenic changes to help out the
sensations, including the prairie fire
scene, accomplished by electrical eg-
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TEMPTATION.

She has q saucy mouth
And-well,
He fell.
What 40 you 'spose that Won
Would do
= she should put 1t up
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HERE AND THERE IN THE
RANKS OF THE PLAYERFOLK

Andrew Mack's new songs. Some
WHERE 'Finnegan and His Flute"
Good Night, My Love" and The
Heart of The Rose" are sung In "Arrah-
na-Pogue.'' THE Wearing Of the
Green" sung as only Mr.. Mack sings 1t,
is a feature number Of the production
A production OF rrWhen Women
Love. under the direction Of Frank
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w. Mason. will come to the Columbia
Theatre the week of September q.

THE Virginian." as dramatized by
the author. Owen Wister. and the late
Kirke La Shelle, will return to the
Newark Theatre the week after next.
w. s. Hart, who lately appeared In
The Squaw Man. and Frank Cam
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THE u WAY.

Hix-Brown Is certainly an Oddly,
How does he strike you?
u7r-Fof IS. usd1ll2.-Cbjcafo News
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M&N

and ponies from his dancing school.
they are called the Tommy Atkin
Girl Cadets
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20

A number of North Wildwood people
met in the fire house on Sunday eve
ming, November Sth, and organized a
Christian Endeavor society, electing The
following officers: President Mr..
Townsend; vice president, Mr.. Ely;
secretary, Miss Gertrude Broadway;
treasurer, Miss Anna Larcombe, or
ganist, Miss Lillian Albertson. The
president took charge of the devotional
meeting which followed. The atten-
dance has been good aud the meetings
have been very interesting. Mr.. Wood
will lead next Sunday and everyone is
cordially invited to attend.
The North Wildwood Ladies' Aid
society has secured a lot of bingham,
toweIing and muslin from which they
expect to make aprons, towels, sheets
and pillow cases which they will sell.
the proceeds to go to the new building
fund for the North Wildwood Sunday
school. You can send your order by
phone to So d or by mail TO Mrs. Ely,
Ottens P. o., and it will be gratefully
received.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
Resolution
M .. IIEN DEE1
Borough Clerk.

WHEREAS, the report of the Engineer
shows that the sewer work provided for in
Ordinance number one hundred and twelve
has been completed and thai the expense of
the said work is S3,453 IL, the Engineers bill
for surveying and supervising is $l72 IS and
the hereby made the Commits
sioners OF Assessment for their services is
$40 90 each, or $780, 90, making a total of 81, 655. 70.
Be it resolved and enacted by the Mayor
and Council of the Borough of Wildwood, that
said report be referred to the Commissioners
of Assessment for the purpose of assessing
the benefits or damages received or sustained
by the property %abutting the streets so inn
proved. Be it further resolved, that a copy
of this resolution be handed by the Clerk to
each member of the said Commission and
that the said Commissioners sit on Monday
the thirtieth day of November instant, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon of said day, in the
Council Chamber, in the Borough hall to hear
those interested in the said assessment That
a notice of this meeting be published by the
Clerk in the sun and Five Mile Beach Jour
nal two newspapers published in the Borough
OF WILDWOOD, once each week for two success
sive weeks preceding the said time of sitting
of the said Commissioners.
Passed November 10, 1905.
VIM. c. HENDEE,
Borough Clerk.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
Resolution

WHEREAS.the report of theEngineer shows
that the sewer, cement sidewalk, curb and
gutter work provided for in Ordinances num-
bers IS and 100 has been completed, and that
the e. expense for the said sewer work is S6,7Il SIS.
the engineers charge for surveying and super
vision is S335.57 and the allowance hereby
made to the Commissioner is 5000 each,
making a total of S7,077.I2; the ex pense of the
said sidewalk work is Sll 1863. 70, the engineers
charge for surveying and supervision is 1868. 4S
and the allowance hereby made to the Com
missioners is $40 90 each, making a total of
Sll,960 q; the expense of the cement curb and
gutter work is S7,930.S0, the engineers charge
for surveying and supervision is 1896. "a and the
allowance hereby made to the Commissioners
is 5000 each, making a total of $3.50. "a.
Be 1t ordained and enacted by the Mayor
and Council of the Borough OF Wildwood, that
the said Engineers report be referred to the
Commissioners of Assessment of the Borough
of Wildwood for the purpose of assessing the
benefits and damages received or sustained
by the property abutting the streets SO inn
proved Be 1t further resolved that the Com
missioners sit in the Counc1 Chamber of the
Borough hall on Monday, the thirtieth day OF
November, 1908, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon
for the purpose of hearing those who may be
Interested In the said assessment and that the
Clerk hand to each Commissioner a copy of
this resolution and cause notice of said meet
ing to be published in The sun and Five Mile
Beach journal, two newspapers published
and circulating in the Borough of Wildwood,
once each week tor two successive weeks prior
to the said meeting.
Passed November 10 1908.
WIN. &. HENDEE,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that at a regularly
adjourned meeting of the Council of the Bor-
ough of Wildwood held on Tuesday evening,
November 10, 1905, there was introduced an
and directing the laying of cement sidewalks,
cutters and curbs on both sides OF Oak ave-
nue. from Park avenue west to Sunset Lake,
The said Borough Council will meet at the
borough hall in said Borough of Wildwood on
Tuesday, the first day of December, A.D., 1908,
at eight O'Clock in the evening, to consider
the passage of the ordinance above referred
to, at which time and place all parties interes-
Ted in the passage of said ordinance or affected
heard as to any objections they wish to
present, at which time and place any suck
objections will be received and considered by
the said borough Council.
BY order of Council.
WILLIAM G. HENDEE,
ROrOuoh Clerk.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
SHERIFF,S SALE

By virtue of the writ of Fieri Faeias, to me
directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery
of New Jersey ,on the fourth day of November
A. ID. 1908, in a certain cause wherein Five
Mile Beach Building and Loan Association Is
complainant, and John N. Reeve, ct ux are
defendants, l shall expose to sale at public
vendue, on
Monday, December 14th, 1908,
between the hours of twelve and five o'clock
p. m to wit, at one O'Clock in the afternoon of
said day, at the Sheriff7s office, in Cape May
Court House, Cape May County, New Jersey.
All of those nine certain lots or parcels OF
land and premises situate, lying and being in
the Borough of Holly Beach City, in the Coun-
ty of Cape May and State of New Jersey ,boun-
ded and described as follows, 10 witt
Beginning at a point on the northeasterly
side OF Lincoln avenue, at the distance of two
hundred and twenty feet enthusiastically
from the point of intersection of the south
eastaTly side of Arctic avenue with the north
easterly side of said Lincoln avenue and rum
ming thence a. nor~theastwardly, parallel with
Arctic avenue, a distance of two hundred feet
to the sOuthWeSterly side of Schellenger ave-
nue.; thence (2) enthusiastically along the
southwesterly side of Schellenger avenue, "A
distance of one hundred and twenty feet;
thence (3l enthusiastically, parallel with
Arctic avenue, a distance of one hundred feet;
thence az enthusiastically and at right angles
with said last course, n distance of one hum
dred and twenty feet; thence t5J southwest
wardly and at right angles to said last course
"A distance of one hundred feet to the north
easterly side of said Lincoln avenue; and rum
ming thence (6) northwestwardly, along the
northeasterly side of said Lincoln avenue a
distance of two hundred and forty feet to the
place OF beginning.
Comprising lots numbers nine (9l. ten QOl,
eleven Q1l, twelve Q2l, thirteen (I3l, fourteen
QD twenty-five [22), twenty-three (23), twenty
four (24(, of BLOCK number one hundred and
forty-nine (l49l, of the recorded plan of Holly
Beach City. ROBERT r. C0RSON, Sheriff.
Dated November u, 1908.
ID. IL. voorhees,, Soi'r. lib, p 50 SO
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20

the deacon as he got on his over
coat.
The widow ate her Thanksgiving
dinner alone, but that turkey was
never carved to form a part of it.
After the deacon's departure she re-
turned to the carving knife and even.
tually managed to saw off a piece OF
the meat, but she had no sooner tasted
1t than she started for the kitchen to
interview the hired girl.
1t was three or four days before the
mystery was solved, for there was a
mystery. The turkey, which had been
killed three or four days ahead of time
and hung up to freeze, had been cut
down and devoured by cats, and to
save himself from reproof the hired
man had killed a peacock and hung 1t
In its place.
"And so you see l had to saw and
jab," explained the widow as the Wild
owe was sent for.
Eyes, l see."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
Our ThankfuIest Thanks.
BY LOVE.

copyright. 1905, by American Press Associat,on.l
an. we are thankful for manifold
blessings.
Thankful for life and for home and
for health,
Thankful for turkeys with savory dress
ings,
Thankful for progress and wisdom and
wealth,
Thankful for corn and alfalfa and clover.
Thankful for money and faith in the
banks,
Thankful, so thankful, election is over
That is the source of our thankfulest
thanks!
One year in four is a leap year. remember
This is one of EN-, and many a man
Sworn to stay single If this were Deem.
Der
Now you'd give thanks to be freed OF
the ban.
Yet there's a bother that's still more dis
One year in four-all the rest 1t out
ranks
Namely, election. which keeps us a-guess-
ing.
Now that it's over. our thankfulest
thanks!
Man can escape from the maiden pursu-
ing;
Man can resist the importunate miss;
Simply a system of shunting and shco-
ing
That will avoid matrimonial bliss.
Blu there is never a Ian SO evas4ve
He can escape the political tanks.
Always a-drip with palaver persuasive.
Now that they're quiet, our thankfulest
thanks!
Season of roaring and ranting and raving
Period when 1t is perfectly plain
Every mans uppermost duty is saving
W~ashington's country from ~bondage's
chain;
Time when you friend or your father or
brother
For his opinions you class with the
cranks.
Now for four years we cannot have an
other,
So let us offer our t~hankfulest ank
Maybe twas tariff and maybe twas labor
Maybe twas courts that so split Us
apart;
Maybe the trusts SO affected your neigh
Dor
That he discovered himself from your
heart;
Maybe injunctions or guaranteed banking
Any or all OF the partisan planks.
Well. 1t is over, so now for the thanking
Nov for reunion. our thankfulest thanks
Oh, we are thankful the nation is living.
Thankful the dear old republic is still
sure of a hand to proclaim a ~Thanksgiv-
Thankful. so thankful. his front name is
Bill
Thankful are we that Columbia is leabing
Four years away from political pranks.
Such a relief is occasion for ~heaping
Thus on Thanksgiving our thankf4lest
thanks.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20

"And you would also have had .
saw and iah," -R~
Yes"
"And though you went away you
didn't miss Your turkey"
"N-o."
"And all things c~onsidered'-
"Yes, all things considered
The deacon's fur had to be rubbed
the right way for a time, but he purred
at last, and on this Thanksgiving day
he will do the carving and his wife
will pass the cranberry sauce
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
"THERE-YoU ARE JABB1NG AaAINp'

as you must know interrupted the
zkeacon,-Tith considerable asDertE.
"Don't jab the fork into the bird like
that. That's like a hired man jaibing
a pitchfork into a heap of hay"
Il was not jabbing. In order to
start carving you must get a firm hold
Of the bird"
"Then take 1t by a Leg
"Neverl How would you look hold
ing the bird with II hand while you
sliced away with the knife? If you
have always carved that way
81 have, and it's the only way to
carve. There-you are jabbing again.
One would think you were a soldier
~bayoneting an enemy"
Deacon Silas Lapham, you are talk
ing like a child! When | think ! need
to be told how to carve a turkey l will
call on you for advice. simply get d
firm hold with the fork and them
"And then jab. jab, jlb. A woman
has no business with the carving knife
and fork when there is a man present
/ will carve this turkey"
81 beg your pardon, but you will sit
there and see me carve 1t. Don't for
get that | anu in my own house and
that l I'm still my own boss"
You invite me to dinner and then
huniiliate me, do youY" shouted the
deacon as he showed back his chair.
Nov, don't be a schoolboy," chided
the widow as she tiourished the knife
around. Having got a firm hold with
the fork, | now proceed to cut around
the thigh joint-thus.'
'But you are saving instead of cut
ting"
mo, I'm not"
"Widow Henderson,"
"Deacon Lapham!'
eff l was a swearing man
"You'd get off n swear word ON this
occasion. Yes. you look as if you were
swearing to yourself this minute,
II hain't sworn a single swear, but
when a man has to sit here and see a
Thanksgiving turkey jabbed and poked
and stabbed and sawed and b%utchered
the Lord would surely forgive him for
one or two swear words"
Deacon Silas Lapham," she replied
as she rested from her labors. 81 said
l could carve a fowl"
'"Then why don't your"
81 am doing 1t. and If you would
keep quiet for five minutes r.
"This Is too much, widow-too
muchv' said the deacon as he started
for his overcoat and hat. you invite
me here and then insult me. l heard
about your obstinacy'-
"And | heard about yours"
"And your wretched temper
"Same to you"
"But | thought 1t a SANDER. Now.
however, l can no longer doubt"
Neither can l."
at was my place to carve that fur
key. In your obstinacy you continued
to saw and jab and butcher without
regard to my feelings. My only re-
course is to bid you good day and
take my hat and leave.'
IF you will act like a boy. | can't
help it,"
"And never come again." finished
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
> THE WIDOW es THE WHOEVER :
= III W. <
A THANKSGIVING By Caspar Dullon
y EPISODE Copyright 1903 BY American Pres" <
\ 4 Il Il 4 + Il Il 4 4 4 Il Il (
. EACoN sILAs LATHAM, Wild

~ EACON SILAS LAPHAM, Wild
over, had been paying atten-
~ tons to Aunt Sarah Hender-
son, widow, for two years.
Each heard that the other was stub
born, and each was watching and wait
ing for the other to exhibit the trait.
Thanksgiving brought the crisis. The
widow invited the deacon to dinner.
There was no question about the dea-
con taking the head of the table, but
when the matter of carving came up
the widow took knife and fork in hand
and said:
81 can do 1t so much better than you,
you know"
II fail to see how or why" he re-
piled.
Because l have always carved. 1t
was an eccentricity of mine ven when
i was a girl. No doubt you can slice
ham or pork, but when 1t comes to
carving a turkey
81 have carved thousands of them.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
The Rev. IrI R. Hicks Almanac

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fine portrait of Prof. Hicks in c%olors,
all the old features and several new
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the only reliable.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the Commits
sioners of Assessment of the Borough of
Wildwood, in the County of Cape May and
State OF New Jersey, John N. Reeve, Oliver
L. Blackwell and William c. Hendee) will sit
at the borough hall in Wildwood on Monday,
November 10, 1908, at ten O'Clock in the fore
noon for the purpose of hearing anY persons'
interested in the assessment OF benefits for toI-
extension of a sewer system in or ON GN93or
lowing streets or parts of streets in thede O.
9 oaL Of
and on Hudson Avenue from Cedar avey
Wildwood avenue, connecting with tN
outlet on Wildwood avenue, as providedW
in Ordinance No. ll2, passed september l, l90SN
At the above time and place the Commits
sioners of Assessment will also hear any
persons interested in the assessment of bene-
hts arising from an extension Of the sewerage
system oft Borough of Wildwood to Juniper,
and Wildwood avenues. west of Park avenue
and to Hudson avenue between Wildwood
and Maple avenues and on Twenty. sixth street
from Park avenue to the northwest borough
line, as provided for in Ordinance No. vs.,
passed April 9th, 1907.
AT the above time and place the Commits
sionerS OF Assessment will also hear any per-
sons interested in the assessment of benefits
arising from the laying of cement sidewalks
and curbs along that portion OF Twenty-sixth
street lying within The Wildwood borough
line enthusiastically from Park avenue to
the northwesterly line of said borough along
Juniper, Poplar, Magnolia, nv and
Maple avenues on both sides OF said avenue
from Park avenue west to Sunset Lake along
Pine and Wildwood avenues, on both sides of
SAID avenues west from Park avenue to Hud-
son avenue, along both sides of Hudson ave-
nue. northeast to Twenty.sixth street and
along both sides of Lake avenue northeast to
Twenty-siXth street, as provided for in Ordi-
nance No. 100, passed April 9TH, 1907.
BY order of Council.
WILLIAM G. HENDEE,
Borough Clerk.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
Notice to Limit Creditors

ESTATE OF AARON G. ANDREW, DECEASED.
Pursuant to the order of Chas. p. Vanaman,
Surrogate of the County of Cape May, made
on the 18th day OF September, A. d., 1908, ON
the application OF the subscribers, executors OF
said deceased, notice is hereby given to the
creditors of said deceased to exhibit to the
subscribers under oath or affirmation their
claims and demands against the estate of said
deceased within nine months from the 18th
day of September, A. d., 1905, or they will be
forever barred OF any action against the sub
scribers.
Dated September 18th, A. D., 1908.
MARY ETA STILL,
CHARLIE A. NORTON,
Executors.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
NOW Fo' DE POSTUM DINNERw

LIE saize he don lax possum meat an him a son o mine!
- Now, honey tuhn to all desc folks an knowledge up yos lynn.
Mex out tuz js' a lii joke to aggervate yo' ma,
Or, 'clar' to goodness, Abs js' boun' to whup y5 till yGs raw!
Yo' speak de trufe, yo hP imp! Den whas yo doin' heah
A-settn' up wifi niggah folks to mex yosef appeah
A niggah, too, when ebry one kahn tell, in spite youah black,
Dat tuhnin' way FUN possum meat yo. amt de homes fack9
XAYELL, dere, yo' pa saize nebbah min, bekaze yGs such a mite;
w Dat faint youah fault yo sundays missed youah nachul appetite
HoI out yo' plate; deres plenty mo- to fill a chile lax 20.
De good Lawd mex yo suhtain ways, All spose, dats got to do.
But, lam! Abs feared y' grow up wrong an mebbe be a shame
To all de cullahd circle an de 'spected family name,
Fo' ebbah sence Abs OF enough to stan upon ma feet
Abs spishoned any niggah dat would tuhn FUN po@um meat.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
TAFT'S PLURALITY
IN JERSEY, S2,3SO
Official Returns of State Show
That Republicans Carried All
but Three Counties

From the philadelphia Press
Tabulation Of returns of the late cleo
ton has been completed at the Secre-
tary of States office, showing the
pluralities by counties as follows:
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20

Look in Harbison's windows on
Wildwood ave. and see how easy you
can obtain free a $40 White Sewing
Machine.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20

Taft's plurality 1850.
The popular vote for the different
presidential tickets follows: Repub-
lican, 265, 1879; Democratic, 1872, 500;
Socialist, 10 249; Prohibition, 4,930;
Independence, 2,911; Socialist Labor,
1875.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-20
PROPOSALS

Bids will be received by the Wildwood Board
of Education up to November 30, 1908, for
furnishing and delivering 20 tons Of No. / Lee
high Pea Coal.
c. q. ELDREDGE,
district Cuerk
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