Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-02

class OF the high school held q class
meeting In the JOURNAL hall last Fri
day night. After the business of the
meeting was transacted the balance of
the evening was spent in games and
amusements. A grafonola added to
the enjoyment of the evening. Re-
freshments were served at ten o'clock.
A Valentine Dance will be held at
the parish house of ST. Simeon's-by-
the-Sea on the night of February l4th.
Tickets will be on sale at Lowe's candy
shop on Pacific venue at 25c each.
Join the crowd for a pleasant night. n
Mrs. Isaac Robinson, of 119 west
Roberts avenue, has returned from
Boston, where the death of her sister,
Hannah Mara, occurred on Tuesday,
January %, 1917. Two other sisters
survive, Mrs. A. Moore and Miss Min
Meta Mara, both of Brooklyn. Solemn
high mass was held in Boston and also
in st. Paul's church in Brooklyn, Ny,
where interment was made at Calvary
cemetery. =
Special sale of mems shoes at w. M.
Beers big shoe store.
William Faunce, of west Burk ave-
nue., has gone to Millville to work.
Miss Eliza Marshall aud William
VanSciver were Sunday visitors at the
Marshall cottage.
The Fishermen's Association held
their first annual ball at the Red Mems
hall on Saturday evening, January 81.
A good time was spent by all.
Miss Anna Johnson, of west Burk
avenue, is greatly improved after her
recent illness.
Governor Edge paid a compliment to
Mayor Philip P. Baker, of Wildwood
Crest, by asking him Is accept an
appointment as one of the five men,
bers of the commission authorized by a
joint resolution of the Legislature, OF
which the Governor is to be a member.
The commission is to formulate plans
for remedial legislation in the matter OF
the State prison. Mayor Baker appre-
ciates the honor but bis engagements
are such that he felt it to be his duty to
decline the intended honor.
There were six bidders for the Sal 600
worth of City of Wildwood sewage dis
posal bonds last Monday, the entire
issue being awarded to r. M. Grant
& Co., New York brokers, who sub
mitted the best bid, the premium being
S1460. Grant & Co. have bought close
to a million dollars worth of Five Mile
Beach bonds in the past fifteen years.
Other bidders were IL. l.. Crawford
$1274; Ludwig & Crane, 1884; Free
man & Co, 1896 35; H%orhblower &
Weeks, 1878 SO; Marine National Bank,
$500.
Mrs. Martha Ingram, 101 west Pop
lar avenue, received a telegram yester.
day that her son Elvin was operated on
at a government hospital at Fort Doug
lass, Utah. The young man, who is
only seventeen years of age, was on his
way across the continent to San Fran
cisco, where he was going to do wireless
duty for the United States government.
A fire alarm last Saturday morning
took the firemen to the home of Harriet
Watson, a colOred woman Oh west
Spicer emu The small house was
badly damaged by flames and water.
Mrs. Watson is an aunt of Ben Baker,
a we'll known colored man.
Bright's Express. Hauling Of all
kinds, Garfield and Pacific avenues.
Storage warehouse and boarding
stables. Vans for long distance work.
Both phones.
Rev. Ira Evans Hicks, the evangelist
who is engaged to come to Wildwood
this month, is no~ doing e~vangelistIc
work at Norton, Wise County, IN the
mountains of southwestern Virginia.
Mr.. Hicks will be accompanied by his
wife, his brother, g. Wesley Hicks, and
his assistant, Rev. H. w. Maier. Mr..
Maier will arrive next Wednesday to
make arrangements for the campaign.
Mr.. Hicks home is at Browns Mills,
N. j., from whence he will come to
Wild wood in his automobile, on Satur-
day, February 10th Wesley Hicks is
the singer and will organize the choir.
q. Russell Stricken has gone to Flor
ida and obtained a position with the
Atlantic Coast Line railroad at Lake
Butler, Bradford county, about so miles
from Jacksonville. His wife and
mother-in-law, Mrs. j. Frank Tice, are
at st. Petersburg, on the west coast.
Mr. .Stricker's place at the Pennsy Wild
wood station has been taken by r. Ray
mond.