Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-01-08
Councilmen Albig, SculIy and
Pinker Named on Finance Com
mittee. Presbyterian Church
In Good Condition. Voting
Machine Knocked Ont.
MOVE FOR ANOTHER BANKING CONCERN

two new members are Messrs. Collins
and Leaning. Immediately after the
old Council adjourned the new Coun-
Gil convened with Mayor Smith in the
chair who made the following appoint
ments which were confirmed:
Clerk-H. s. Hewitt.
President of Council-William r.
Pinker.
Solicitor-H. H. Voorhees,.
Street Supervisors. l.. Crawford.
Chief of Police-Lester w. Smith.
Sewer Inspector-Charles f. Hall,
Engineer-L. M. Rice.
All rules of the old Council were
adopted except the meeting night
which was set for the last Tuesday
night in each month. Following are
the committees appointed by the
mayor:
Finance-Albig, Scully, Pinker.
Street-Scully, Pinker, Albig.
Light-Albig, Leaning, Pinker.
Sanitary-Collins, Wright, Pinker.
Police-Albig, Scully, Pinker.
Law and Ordinance-Collins, Albig,
Scully.
Fire-Scully, Collins, Leaning.
Boardwalk and jetty-Pinker, Albig,
Scully.
A vote of thanks was extended to the
two retiring members and Council adj
journed. q
DR.. Brace, of Blackwood, was pres
.ent atGhe Congregational mig held
Msssk - .ss'sE'ss sna'sl! EssS'
Yenney was reelected as elder. Mar
tin Long was also reelected as trustee
and Andrew J. Biddle was chosen as
new trustee. The treasurers of the diff
faent organizations connected with
tie church gave interesting reports of
he money taken and expended, and
showed that a considerable gain had
been made. DR.. Brace complimented
the church on its fourishing condition
at the present time.
The voting machine received another
hard knock on Tuesday when the
special election held to decide whether
or not to keep the machine resulted in
a total vote of 154 against it and IS in
favor. 175 votes were polled and three
were rejected.
Negotiations are now being made to
organize a trust company in this place.
The representative of several capitalists
will be here in the near future to study
conditions and begin the initial features
at once
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Pearson invited a
number of their friends to a real Christ
mas dinner on December 25th which
was served at two o'clock. A good
time was enjoyed by all, realizing that
Christmas but once a year
Those present were Mrs. B. Anderson,
John Kloo, A.Kloo, John Nelson, John
Lorenson, Harry Johnson, Annie
Lindham and Kris Kloo and family.
A members meeting of the Holly
Beach Yacht Club will be held at the
club house on Friday evening, Jan. 8,
1909, at eight o'clock.
The Oakley String Band, of Philadel-
phia, of which Harry Heating, Jr., is
a member, won first prize for string
bands in the New Years day parade
in Philadelphia last Friday.
H. B. Woolston, of Camden, was
down Tuesday.
Contractor William T. Garrison was
awarded the contract on Tuesday for a
cottage on Leaning venue west of
Pdcifc, for Philadelphia parties. Work
will begin at once.
The beginning of the New Year was
,ce lebrated last Thursday at mid night
in front of the borough hall by fire
works and lots of noise.
School opened on Monday after being
closed since December % for the holi-
days.
William A. Thompson has just
finished a house at the Crest for Harry
l.. Nickerson, and returned to his
home in Camden.
Ell. S. Hewitt has the contract for the
rebuilding and renovationg of the cot
tagh ON Taylor avenue, formerly owned
by lCharles Shaw, but now owned by
JOHN Spuhler, a Camden real estate
AGENT.