Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29

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%, 1916, by the way of a birthday
party. Mr.. Mace was IL years old and
his many friends and business aseoei-
ates planned a surprise party for him.
1t was first arranged last October and
the whole pleasure derived from the
affair, was the fact that Mr.. Mace is
confident that 1t was a complete sur
prise. A banquet was served IN an
elaborate manner, the banquet hall
being one solid mass of flowers, ipclud-
ing II Am erican beauty roses, II car
nations and a large wicker basket about
8 feet high, which contained an assort-
ment OF fiowers all growing in the earth.
Judge Voorhees, was POSTMASTER. Ed
ward Blizzard, Of Philadelphia, pre-
seated every guest with a CLAIM shell
decorated with a ribbon bow and to
Mr.. Mace be presented one with a
painting of the Hereford lighthouse on
it. Blizzard, being somewhat of ar
artist, painted a bouquet of flowers
and In the centre OF each flower
he placed a new Lincoln pen
ny, which he had obtained at the mint
in Philadelphia. The painting was a
fine piece Of work aud contained II
flowers with II pennies. Fred
Loeffier baked a huge cake upon which
were II candles. Mr.. Mace received a
ported fern from one of his friends and
1t now occupies the centre OF his con-
servatory. 1t is an enormous plant
and about the largest fern ever seen on
the island, being about eight feet In
circumference. Among those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hanson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed ward Blizzard, MI.
and Mrs. Thomas Bailey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Hardenbrook, Henry H. OF
tens, Mrs. Lille MacFarland. Mrs.
Annie Young, Of Philadelphia; Mi.
and Mrs. Frank Toppin, Cape May
City; Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Harris,
Chester, Pa; Mfr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Weed, of Bridgeton; Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard G. Buck, Mrs. Frank Smith,
Miss Francis s mith, Miss Bessie Smith,
VIM, Pinker, Walter Craythorn, Of
Wildwood; Harrison H. Voorhees,,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry H. Hoffman, Of
North Wildwood; Senator and Mrs.
Harry Wheaton, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Rauch, Mr.. and Mrs. George Firth,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Griffith, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Emf, Mr.. and Mrs. Ber-
nard Long, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mace,
Jr., DR.. Margaret Mace, Mrs. Annie
Hewitt, Mrs. Thomas Corson, Mrs.
Agnes Doherty, Miss Mae Doherty,
Mrs. Mary e. Taylor, Mrs. Shivers,
Jason Buck, George Redding, of Angle
sea.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. r. s. Yewdall are
spending the winter in Miami, Fla.
They, with their guests, Mr.. and Mrs.
Goakes, Of Cleveland, Ohio, started on
q ten days' cruise along the west coast.
Many OF Capt. Yewdall's friends will
be pleased to know that he is in the
best OF health.
Charles Carlson has returned from
a fishing trip to Long Island.
The fire company has organized q
basket ball team and are preparing a
schedule which 1t Is said will comprise
teams representing the four fire depart
ments Of the island.
George and Edward Rudolph have
returned from a cunning trip up in
the great sound, bat they say no game
vas bagged.
Mrs. Annie He witt has awarded the
contract to Frank e. Smith to place a
new roof on Bishops Inn.
The Eta K, while enroute for Long
Island last week, broke her engine and
was compelled to lay up four days at
Atlantic City.
Charles Mace, Jr., is engaged in plac-
ing a new roof on his uncle's scow and
overhauling the machinery.
Local contractors are figuring on a
large warehouse to be erected at Chest
nut avenue aud The railroad for Weiss
brod & Hess.
While taking guests from the Hotel
Royal to the station on Sunday last,
during the sleet storm, DR.. Mace's Ford
car skidded and collided with a trolley
cal, breaking a wheel and the wind
shield. A telegram to Philadelphia
soon had repair parts here and the doc
tor was able to use her car Wednesday.
Charles Mace has repaired his dock
along the basin. A new track has been
laid and as a result word has reached
here that the Jacob Ockers, Elizabeth
G., Lenora and the Alberta L. will
hereafter land their Goldfish at this port
instead of Atlantic City.
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