Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-26
WILDWOOD WINS IN
SCHOOL DEBATE
High School Pupils of Cape May
and wildwood Argue on Pub
lie Ownership I'm the Bap-
list Church
MERCHANT HARRISON A BANKRUPT

the Cape May high school occurred.
Although but few were present never
theless the contest was an excellent
one in all respects and the result re-
fleets great credit on the winning team.
The Cape May debaters were Willie
Mecray, Claude Philips and Emily
Sharpe; the Wildwood contestants
were Pauline Van Horn, Leon Whea-
ton and Mabel Campbell. Mr.. Mecray
the first speaker for the affirmative
argued that the government should
control the railroads, to do away with
the corruption and oppression existent
today. Miss Van Horn showed that
such a measure would be dangerous,
leading to enormous taxation and po-
1itical corruption. Mr.. Philip stated
that the government has carried on en-
terprises successfully and cited the
post office for an example. MI. Whea-
ton contended that the railroads have
been successful under private owner
ship and that government ownership
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roads. Miss Emily Sharpe maintained
in closing for the affirmative that
there was precedent forsuch a measure.
Miss Campbell in summing up for the
negative explained that government
ownership of the railroads would dis
turb the relations of nation and state,
that arguments from example do not
apply here and that men versed in ma
tional affairs are opposed to the meas
ure. Miss Campbell and Mr.. Mecray
summed up the arguments in rebuttal
for their respective sides. AT the con-
clusion the judges, Curtis I. Baker,
Prof. Henry Chalmers and Robert
RSight caves 1nanimous decision In
favor of the negative.
Lewis Stevens. of Cape May, referee
in bankruptcy, has sent notices to the
creditors of William j. HARRISON, that
the latter was adjudged a bankrupt on
February II, 1909, and that the first
meeting of creditors will be held at
Cape May on Tuesday, March 8, 1909,
when creditors may attend, prove their
claims and appoint a trustee. Mr..
HARRISON came to Wildwood in the
summer of 1906 and bought out the
grocery and dry goods business of the
Weller-Cotter Co., which the latter
had bought a few months before of r.
w. Ryan, who conducted a highly
successful business at the stand for
about fifteen years. A year or so after
Mr.. HARRISON assumed control he put
in a line of hard ware and later sold the
grocery department to the Oak grocery
company, since which Mr.. HARRISON
has devoted his attention to the dry
goods and hardware line.
James M. Firth, Mayor of Wood
Lynne, Camden county, with his wife
has been visiting his nephew, the past
week, Chief of Police Lockwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex M. Taylor, OF
Vineland, who own q cottage here on
Wildwood avenue, were down on Mon
day.
Go to Bryant's restaurant for Maur-
ice river cove oysters in all styles. \
J. Parry Lukens, of Philadelphia,
representing the American Sewer Pipe
Company, Of Pittsburg, was here on
Tuesday. Mr.. Lukens has sold a large
quantity of terra Gotta pipe here in the
the past few years.
Prof. VIM. Noelsch, the Philadelphia
music teacher and cottager here, was
down on Monday and paid a visit to
his sister, Mrs. S. Siglinger.
DR.. Edward Stout and mother, of
Philadelphia, were down on Wednes-
day.
H. A. Spencer, who has been spend
ing the winter in Trenton, has return
ed from a trip to gainesville, Ohio, and
expects to remain in Wildwo now.
Miss Edna Simkins, of Aldine, has
been spending a few days with her
sister at the Pines.
Lawyers Jonathan Hand, VIM. E.
Zeller and ex-Judge H. I'll. Voorhees,
were in Philadelphia last Saturday
night and attended the annual dinner
at the Union League of the Camden
County Bar Association given in honor
of Chancellor Mahlon Pitney. Justice
Charles Garrison, a Holly Beach sum-
mer cottager, was POSTMASTER.
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made cigar, wholesale and retail.
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