Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-03-05
ANCLESEA

me MOTH via WOOO Borough OOur-
ell met In regular monthly session last
Tuesday night, with Mayor McLinden
In the chair and Councilmen Anderson,
Beecher, Buck, Rauch and Sayre, and
Clerk Redding and Borough Engineer
Rice present. The minutes of the.last
regular and an intervening meeting
were read and-epproved, the monthly
bills were read and ordered paid, fol-
lowing which Collector Peterson's
monthly report, showing a balance ON
hand of 5 1,844.SO. was read, accepted
and ordered filed. A resolution was
adopted authorizing the collector 10
pay certain moneys in his hands, re-
ceived by him from the commissioners
of adjustment, into the sinking fund
A communication was read from the
local Board of Health, stating that 1t
was In need of funds and asking that
the appropriation Of last year be turned
yer to the board. and at er a short
consideration of the matter it was laid
yer to the next meeting. Two ordi-
nances were passed on third and final
reading, one being the appropriation
ordinance for the present year, and the
other an ordinance providing for the
issuance of bonds for the extension of
the sewer system, after which council
adjourned to meet on the evening OF
the sixteenth instant.
Several friends OF George q. Conner
who tarried over Sunday with him
we're Edward Muschamp, a Phila-
delphia ne wspaper man, who now has
charge of the boys sales and a advertise
ing department of the Saturday Eve
ming Post; Paul Hanna, editorial writer
of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
and Herbert Norris Conner, a literary
man of Philadelphia. Also in the
local party were Curtis Mathis, the
AngIesea pilot and H. A. johnson, the
sturdy bank skiff fisherman, the latter
bringing our friend Conner two splen-
did sea trees, two feet high from Fem
wick Island shoals lighIship section,
some thirty miles below the Capes.
The newspapermen took photos of the
thirty-seven year old wreck on the
North Wild wood beach, the whale
skeleton on Msce's pier and a smack
load of Goldfish.
On Friday evening last at their
home on First avenue, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Smith were rendered a surprise
party the occasion being the Both ami
versary of their marriage. No one
knew a thing about it until the proper
time when the residents of the borough,
laden with refreshments, marched into
the Smith home. The evening was
spent in playing games and in the wee
small hours OF the morning, after In
dulging In refreshments, all left for
home. Those who participated were
Mr.. and Mrs. Jason Buck, MI. and
Mrs. Charles Robinson, Senator and
Mrs. Harry G. Wheaton, Leon Whea-
ton, Mr.. aud Mrs. higgins, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Epler, Mr.. aud Mrs. Allen
Grace, Mrs. George Epler, Mrs. Annie
Young, Mrs. Thomas Mollet, Mrs.
VIM. Stewart, Mrs. Josh Bowker. Mas
ter Walter Smith, Master Russell Epler,
Miss Ruth Epler.
Frank B. English, proprietor of the
Rosewood cottage, spent Sunday visit
ing friends here.
Ed ward Rudolph left on Wednesday
for Georgetown, North Carolina, where
he will stay until April.
James Boyd returned on Monday
from Ferndinia, Florida, where he was
purchasing fish for a New York house.
Adolph Anderson has secured the
contract for the painting of the new
buildings being erected by Chas. Glenn
for the Weisbrod & Hess company.
James L. Kelly, from Camden, gave
a contract to Frank P. Mattera, land
scape gardener, for filling his lots on
west Third avenue, Anglesea. Work
has started and will be finished in ten
days.
Miss Amelia higgins spent the week
with her grand parents at Lin wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McAlpine spent
Sunday in their Fourth avenue cottage.
John Murnin was a Sunday visitor.
Herbert Williams spent a few days
with his family in the Mack cottage.
Harry Firth is confined to his First
avenue home with a complication of
diseases.
Mrs. Elizabeth Schroeder is spend
ing a few weeks with her parents, Mr..
aud Mrs. George Firth.
Mrs. Frank Smith spent several days
visiting her children in Philadelphia.