Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-23
NORTH WILDWOOD

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Sanders were elected trustees. The
sum Of $4,000 was voted for general ex-
peDses and $1,000 voted last year for
purchase of land was transferred to be
used for repairs to building. The &C.
ment work on the building will be re-
paired among other things.
Victor Braid wood and his son have a
complete wireless outfit in their home
at Anglesea, which has been installed
some years. Messages can be received
from sea hundreds of miles away. In
the event of wal this plant might prove
of value to the government. There are
several other wireless instruments on
the island also.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Toppin, of the
Hotel Ridgway, of Camden, were
among the Sunday visitors. They are
thinking of renting Hotel Hilton for
the coming season.
Thomas Webster and family have
moved from Cynwyd, Pa, to the Stew
art brick cottage on 18th street, which
they have purchased. Mr.. Webster is
a painter.
D. r. Gibbs is down 10 his cottage on
18th street for the season. His family
will follow next week.
Miss Lizzie Larcombe, Of V%ineland,
has returned home after visiting her
brother.
Mrs. Kirby and family have been
spending a few weeks at the Simpson
home.
Robert Hansen, Miss Ida Wilson and
friends spent Sunday at their East 18th
avenue cottage.
Mrs. Thomas Gummey is down for
the season.
William Lowry and friends are down
in their 18th avenue cottage, oversee
ing some repairs being made by VIM.
Glenn.
Over Sunday visitors were [. Green,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Simpson and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Shaw, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Clayton, j. H. Snyder, G. Berkenstock,
L.. Hirst, George Conner, H. Brown.
A. Burton, Robert ShengIe, J. Estlow,
Emma Boone and her nephew, George
Walters.
Mrs. A. ]. Biddle has returned from
a visit to relatives at Newfield.
Mrs. H. Preston entertained her
brother over Sunday.
Thomas Mitchell has returned after
spending two weeks in the city.
Mrs. Earnshaw is at her With ave-
with friends in Philadelphia and points
in New Jersey.
Misses Margaret Bailey and Edna
Kay spent Sunday at the Feaster cot
tage.
Mrs. Friday and son missed the ex.
%cursion train Sunday night and were
entertained at the home of Officer H.
M. lowering until Monday afternoon.
A little son was born to MIR. and
Mrs. Henry Taylor, on Monday, March
10, 1917.
F. Schupeltz, E. Wolf and F. Rem
kuff, were Sunday visitors, as were also
Mr.. and Mrs. Goddard and friends.
Mrs. Joseph ScuIly entertained her
sister, Miss Ida McGraw.
Mrs. T. Wise has returned from a
visit to the city and this week enter
tanned Mrs. Lewis and daughters.
Frank P. Mattera has five men en-
ployed now in his gardening and other
operations.
A twelve DON addition is being built
to the rear of the cottage of J. F. Eng
lish by Contractor Warren Sayre.
The Wildwood Yacht club has re-
ceived word from Major Brooke, of the
United States Engineers office at Will
mington, to either send a delegation or
state its views in writing and If possible
do both, at a meeting to be held at At
lantic City, on Friday, April 18th and
later at Asbury Park on April 18th,
when the matter OF completing the in
land waterway from Cape May to New
York City with a canal connecting
Delaware Bay, so that inside motor
boating can be done from New York to
Cape May without venturing outside.
This is not a state matter it will be re-
membered, being a meeting called by a
government official. 1t would be we'll
If a few of the prominent business men
of Wild wood attended this meeting.
If the United States government, as
we'll as the State of New Jersey, COM
bine on the extension of the inland
water way from New York Harbor to
Delaware Bay. it will mean untold adj
vancement for the New Jersey coast,