Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-09


the Young Mems Christisn Associations
OF the United States is making a big
drive to raise 30 million dollars to carry
on until July l, 1918, the work of the
Y. M. q. A. among the American sol
diers and sailors at home and overseas,
among the IA million troops of French,
italian and Russian Allies, and among
prisoners in Europe and Siberia. Com
mittees have been appointed 10 every
town in thecountry TO assist In the rails
ing of this money. The local commit
tee has arranged for two meetings in
Wildwood, the first to be held In the
Baptist church next Sunday afternoon
at four O'Clock. This meeting will be
addressed by Rev. G. P. Kulp, of the
Bound Brook Presbyterian church, who
is also spiritual director at the Cape
May Barracks; and Luther g. Ogden,
of Cape May. The other meeting will
be held in the Wildwood High School
auditorium on Wednesday evening
next and will be addressed by Mr.. Kulp
and Judge H. II. Eldredge. j. Fithian
Tatem is also expected to be present
and speak. All are good speakers and
have a fund of interesting information
for the public. A quartette of sailor
boys from the W~issahickon Barracks at
Cape May will be present at both meet
ings and sing songs. This quartette
will make a tour OF the churches In the
lower part OF Cape May county on SUM-
day next. They will be at Dennisville
in the morning, Seaville at two O'Clock
in the afternoon, two hours later by
means of a flying automobile they will
be at Wildwood, and at Court House
10 the evening. On page six OF the
JOURNAL the reader will find an inter-
esting article reciting the usefulness
and the comforts provided the boys in
the army and navy. The local COM
mittee is composed of Philip P. Baker,
r. w. Ryan, Robert J. Kay, James E.
Whitesell, q. g. Eldredge. J. Albert
Harris. Charles l.. Nickerson, Reuben
T. Mount, William IL. Austin, George
N. Smith, Abraham Konowitch, Floyd
Hewitt.
At Miss Carey's School of Music az
other busy ihontn hasjast passed-fhe
"Honor Roll' for October has more
than doubled itself. There is q pecul-
lar coincidence, the highest average in
the class is not a double but q tripIet
this month, three pupils having the
exact same average. Winifred Brown
"a, Ruth Johnson "a, Oleta Pagan "a,
Beatrice Parks 93}, Celeste Foster SO,
Isabelle Corson 923, Winfield Inglee
Oh, Octavine Douglass 81, Elwood
Sayers 80, Evelyn johnson so. Hy-
man Baker deserves mention, as his
average is 894 one-half below the re-
quIrements of the "Honor Roll.u Just
a word for the boys, while the girls out
number them on the "Honor Rolln
only two boys In the class are below 80.
Such a months report Is surely a great
delight to the parents of the pupils at
tending the school.
Right now is the time to get your
Christmas cards and booklets for your
soldier boys, at Funck's, 246-4S Oak
avenue, wholesale and retail. adv
Auguste Faure, of Baltimore, who is
residing in John Bright's house ON
Magnolia avenue, a native of France,
goes to Cape May three times a week
to teach French to the officers aud men
at the Wissahickon Barracks. Mr..
Faure was a French scholar in his
younger days, but spent most of his
life In the railroad service as secretary
to the president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Castor have re-
turned from a trip through Pennsyl-
vanis, visiting Reading and Allentown
and Mrs. Castor visited her father at
Venerable, the celebrated mountain
resort. Their daughter, Miss Easel Cas-
tor, is now employed in Philadelphia
as court transcriber for O.. M. Logan,
a court stenographer. She makes week
end trips to her Wildwood home.
joseph Brothers, of Vineland, con-
template starting a factory in Wild
wood for the making of linen busters
and mems office coats. Mr.. Joseph
was in Wildwood last Saturday and
talked with a number of people on the
subject.
A Halloween party was given in the
honor of Mics Ethel Rose, POS East Rio
Grande avenue, on Monday night Octo-
Der 20, 1917. They played many games.
sang songs and then refreshments were
served. There were about ten boys and
girls present
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kershaw have