Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-03-19
WILDWOOD DEFEATSO
$4,000 BOND ISSUE
Baptist Church Filled 10 Hear
Excellent Musical by Direc-
tor Refer and His Choir
BOARD OF TRADE HARD At WORK

The school election on Tuesday eve
ming for trustees and to vote on the
proposition of bonding the town for
$25, 900 for a new school building
brought out a big vote and the prop
osition was defeated by a big majority,
there being 104 votes cast against it
and "a in favor of it. John Bright
was chairman of the meeting and
District Clerk Eldredge was secretary.
The tellers were w. H. Staples and
Sedgwick r. Banks. There were
v persons nominated for trustee,
three to be elected. The names present
ed were Chas. w. Saul, q. FL. Huppert,
Jed Dubois, Otto Koeneke, E. 6.
Slaughter, J. X. Tresher and B. V.
VanHorn. Messrs. Saul, Huppert and
Dubois receiving the highest number
of votes were declared elected to serve
for three years each, who each re-
ceived SO votes to 50 and 80 for the
other candidates.
The main audience room of the Wild
wood Baptist church was filled last
Sunday evening and an overflow into
the gallery to listen to the musical SER
vice by the large choir under the
leadership of Director A. FL. Refer.
1t was of unusual interest and ex-
c~ellence and the large congregation
enioyed it. The solo work in the
I--.-.:cI ez%LnAaa uyo vuoIl ran6nrp6
A choir of eighteen children also rem
dered q beautiful number with good
effect. A request has been made to
have the service repeated. The adult
choir was composed of Mrs. Gilbert,
Mrs. E. G. Slaughter, Mrs. Frank
Sheppard, Mrs. A. II. Refer, Mrs. b.
f. Miller, Mrs. Sara Johnson, Mrs.
Geisenberger, Mrs. Stanley, Miss
Cynthia Bradley, Miss Grant, Miss
Stella VanHorn, Miss Pauline Van
Horn. Miss Claire GosIin, Mr.Hunter.
B. T. fBond, w. B. Livezey, B. v.
VanHorn, Z. G. Slaughter, James
Wood, Mr.. Towser and Charles A.
Nc Williams. The musical was given
under the auspices of the choir and the
good collection received vas very much
appreciated. Rev. Hallowell gave an
address on the "Power of Music" and
Miss Buzby joined Mrs. Geisenberger in
a duet. Miss Eva Washburn was the
accompanist on the piano.
The Wildwood Board of Trade held
a meeting Tuesday night in Harbison's
store, with quite a number of members
and citizens in attendance. President
Philip P. Baker presided and secretary
Myers was present. 1t was stated that
the railroad company was preparing to
give the island good train service for
the Easter holidays, to include also
parlor car service. A special train will
come in on Saturday afternoon, April
10, and return the following Monday
afternoon. Letters were read from
Senator Hand and Assemblyman
Stille. At this meeting the fear was
expressed that by some possibility
the road to the mainland, which is
about to be improved, might be closed
to travel during midsummer by rea-
son of such repairs. To guard against
this and to confer with the Freeholders
on the subject a committee composed
of J. Albert Harris, l.. M. Rice, John
Taylor, T. g. Hamilton and V. g.
Reynolds was appointed to attend
the meeting of the Freeholders at
Court House tomorrow. Mr.. Slaugh-
ter announced that u banquet in
honor of Thomas jefferson was to be
held at Hotel Seacrest on Tuesday
evening, April 10, and asked the sup
port of the Board of Trade in the mat
ter which was given. The meeting
adjourned to meet in the borough hall
on Wednesday evening of next week,
at which time the auditors appointed
to examine the books and accounts of
the treasurer will have a report to
make. Over SIS, 900 of the public
funds have been handled by the
treasurer during the past year since the
last audit.
Following is the program as given by
the literary society of the Wildwood
high school last Friday afternoon,
March II, 1909:
Recitations, Ethel Evan; readings,
Marion Maxwell. Alma Huppert;
compositions, Gertrude Broadway,
Pauline Van Horn; local hits, Bruce
Long; piano solo, Mabel Campbell.
Debate: Resolved, "that it is safer to
travel on land than on water" AT
frmative speaker, Jean Allen; mega
tive speaker, Bessie Nickel. Decision
of the judges rendered 2 to l in favor OF
the negative.