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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05
Pastor Fisher Marries

Rev Irwin III. Fisher, pastor of the
Wildwood Baptist church, was mar
ried in Millville on New Years day to
Miss Ethel Corson. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Louis Hofer,
pastor of the Wissahickon Baptist
church, and a clsssmate of MI. Fisher
at Grocer Seminary, Chester. The
bride is a twin sister of the Wildwood
clothier. The happy couple came to
Wildwood yesterday and Mr. Fisher
will occupy his pulpit next Sunday
as usual.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05

If the promoters of pork Will take
occasion to refer to certain platform
announcements, they will find in
them q statement to the effect that
the high cost of living has become a
serious problem in every American
home. Further, they will fiud that
since this statement was made the
cost of living has increased by not
much, if any, less than one-third,
which is to say, the problem has be-
come still more serious. And il they
look a little further they will find de-
nunciation of the profigate waste of
public money; also, a demand for a
return to economy. Another reminder
probably will not but should help a
little. The fact that the present Post
master General affiliates with the same
party as the promoters of pork did not
restrain him from saying hat public
buildings should not be erected in any
place where the Government could be-
come a tenant at a rental of less than
81 900 a year. On the other hand,
principal promoter Clark has said he
hopes to live to see the day when the
Government will not have an officer
or an employees in rented quarters.
Within the Limitation prescribed by
the Postmaster General comes a case
to which attention has been called by
The Eagle. 1t is that of a town in
which it is proposed that the Govern
ment shall erect a building al an esti-
mated expense of $4,000. The wn
has a population of 800 and the present.
p~ostoffice costs the Government $3.50 a
year. The yearly eXpeuces Of main
tanning a SAC $1,000 building will be about
So, 500. Add to this amount interest
on the investment of $40, 900 and the
proposition is TO substitute a yearly
outlay of 50, 1900 for one of $3.50.
Differing in degree, but not in kind,
are u large percentage of the appropria-
tons com Uprising the contents of the
present pork barrel. Not q few of
them fly in the face Of the provision
in the Public Buildings Bill that no
town shall be entitled to a public
building until it has $4,000 postal re-
ceipts or to a site until it has receipts
not less than Sc, 900. In the same
measure other restrictions were impos-
ed, apparently for no purpose other
than that they should be consigned to
announcements.
Until the present Congress goes into
history the raiders will have every
thing their own way with appropria-
tons. At the next session, as they
will not be members of a majority,
there will be obstacles in the way Of
their path to the Treasury. This Is
not necessarily their ''last chance" for
opportunities to deal and dicker will
come, but they propose to make the
most of it. They are all the more ra-
venous because of the change which
will make 1t difficult for them to feath-
er their polite al nests at the next SEES :
sion, Fortunately, there is a present
obstacle not easy to overcome. The
President has ideas of his own regard
ing the profiIgate waste of public
money, and they are not identical with
those of the promoters.-Brooklyn
Eagle
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05

Ladies, please notice that Miss Scott
has decided to close the Wild wood
Embroidery Shop Immediately after
Christmas, and will reopen on the
boardwalk on March 18th. 1917. In
the meantime customers car be accom-
modated with materials through Miss
Laura w. Hand, Cape May Court
House.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05
Death of Miss Frances X. Means

There are many hearts in Wild wood
that will be saddened to hear OF the
death of Miss Frances Katheryn
Means, the second and beloved daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert HI. Means,
who for about twelve years were among
Wildwood's most respected residents,
up to their removal to Philadelphia a
little over a year ago. The sad event
took place at the home of her parents,
1916 south 53i street, Philadelphia, on
Sunday, December 31st, shortIy after
the noon hour, in presence Of all the
members of her family. Miss Means
had not been enjoying very good health
for several months, but the end came
most unex pectedly. A week before
her death she was able to go down to
the shopping district. On the Setur-
day evening preceding Christmas, she
met her young friend, Herbert Reeves,
of Wild wood, on his arrival In the city.
On Sabbath she complained of a head
ache; on Monday her condition was no
better. Two doctors we're called, but
ave little hope OF her recovery. 15fls
fingered through the entire week in a
s-emi-conscious state, passing away on
Sabbath as stated above
Miss Frances Means was one of the
most beautiful characters we have ever
known; to know her was to love her,
and earth is poorer as heaven is richer,
because of her passing. Our loss is her
gain. She was received into the mem.
bership of the Holly Beach Presbyte-
rian church along with her sister Pris-
ella and brother Robert, over two
years ago and in her daily life adorned
the Christian profession which she then
publicly made.
She was bornin Lewistown, Pa, TWEEN
ty years ago and came 10 Wildwood
with her parents in 1905, where she re-
ceived nearly all her education, being
one of the High school graduates In
Juhe, 1914. A pathetic incident in
connection with Miss Means death is
the fact that she was betrothed to Her
bert Reeves, and the young couple so
~passionately attached to each other
from childhood, had been looking for
ward to marriage, and a long, happy
life together.
Earthly hopes just bursting into
bloom
Find like the rose full oft an early
tomb.
How often thus have sweetest day
dreams flown?
But, o! how sweet the thought
that far or high
There is a land where flowerets
never die y"
The funeral services, which were
largely attended, were held at her late
home on Wednesday evening, the min
listers taking part being DR.. Laird and
Rev. S. A. Hsrker, ex-pastors of the
Holly Beach Presbyterian church, and
Rev. Gamble, of the First UP. church,
Philadelphia. Two beautiful solos
were touchingly rendered by Mrs. Min
erva Kershaw Bowers. The funeral
took place on Thursday, interment be-
ing Lewistown, Pa, where she was
born. Miss Means is survived by her
parents. two sisters, Mary E. and
Esther Priscilla. and one brother, Rob-
ert H., Jr., to whom with all other sor-
rowing ones we offer our sincerest
sympathy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05
EDISON LAMPS
stand the Test
and ALWAYS BEST

Possibly you can better your lighting effects and
lower your Bills, we have many sizes of both
the newer lamps, regular Mazda and Nitrogen.
The socalled Nitrogen lamp contains a small
amount of nitrogen gas which permits the fila
ment to be heated to a higher incandescence,
giving a more brilliant light for a similar
amount of current; this means higher efficiency
more for ones money, SO to speak. Can we
show you these lamps? Also let us demonstrate
to you the "Dimalite." Oh yes, you can TURN
DOWN your electric light, and the nice part
about it is, less current is consumed each time
YOU turn it down. Get one and "dim it, see
how you like it.. We guarantee them of course.
West Jersey Electric Company
1906 Pacific AVenne
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05
Basket Ball

On Friday night last the Keystone
A. g. defeated the Rebel Stars in a
game of basket ball at the Colonial hall,
by the score of 6O-15. The lineup fol-
Inmc.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05

Field goals; Esling 10, Coombs 4,
Geisenberger 8, Moore 4, Baker q,
Rebel 2. Carol 2, Duran l, Brown l.
Foul goals; Moore, none ~ of 8,
Coombs, none out of l, Rebel, l out of
.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-05

On New YEARS. day the Konowitch
team, of the Wildwood City league,
went to West Philadelphia aud defeat
ed the strong West Philadelphia
Methodist church team. The playing
of Thompson and Randolph featured.
The lineup was as follows:
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
WESTERN.

Students of University of Montana
who work on farms will be given cred
its.
The question of saving the world
from starvation rests on the shoul-
ders of America.
More than 400 sons of Colorado and
Wyoming were added to Uncle Sans
fighting contingent last week.
Japan's ambition as far as the Unit
ed States is concerned is to buy what
she needs from us and to sell us what
we need. So says Y. Bryan Yama-
shita of Toxic, who is in Chicago in
the interests Of that ambition.
Saved from pauper's grave by the
generosity of friends in the theatrical
profession, Mrs. John w. Springer,
former wife of John w. Springer Of
Denver, was buried in Fairview GEM
etery, New Jersey.
approximately $4,000 acres of gov
ernment land on the Flat Indian
reservation has been made available
for farming this year, according to in
formation received at Butte, Mont,
from Cato Sells, commissioner of In
dian affairs.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
Snake Problem.

This is not new but it's worth re-
peating. A man in Zion City, ILL.,, sent
it to the News:
Two Zion City snakes, of which
there are abundance on the lake front
property, had a fight. One was gar
ter snake and the other bullhead.'
Each was three feet long and in their
ferocity they seized each other by the
tail and proceeded to swallow each
other whole. They both started at the
same time and at the same rate of
speed.
Now the question is, which of these
two snakes survived, or rather which
one was on the outside by the time the
other was swallowed, the garter snake
or the bullhead?
1t took five minutes for the two
snakes to swallow each other and they
both swallowed each other right to
the tip of the fangs. Which one was
on the outside when they were finished
or were they both ide?-Indianap
oils News.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
GEN ERAL.

Discovery of new comet is report
ed in dispatch from Australia
The 1916 net income of the South
ern Pacific railroads and subsidiaries
was $35, 5,422,514.
American Ambassador Henry Fletch-
er was Kissed in the Chamber of Dep
uties when he appeared for the open
ing of the Mexican Congress, accord
ing to a report received at Ell Paso,
Tex, from Mexico City, by govern
ment agents.
Through flag-draped Fifth Avenue,
where the Stars and Stripes flOated
beside the colors of France and Eng
land, nearly $4,000 men and women,
boys and girls, marched in a parade
of patriotism that was cheered by a
million or more citizens of New York.
Offices of internal revenue collect.
or at San Francisco closed, fon ac-
count of arrest of collector for frauds.
The receivership recently estab-
lished in Boston for the supreme
council of the Royal Arcanum, a fra
ternal order with more than 1000
members in Denver, was dissolved.
The United States secret service
has within the last few days brought
to light a. gigantic German propa-
ganda in favor of separate peace for
Russia, which has been launched in
American newspapers printed in Rus
sian
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
SWAMP-ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE

Whsn your back aches, and your blad-
der and kidneys seem to be disordered, re-
member it is needless to suffer-go to your
nearess drug store and get bottle of DR..
Kilmes's Swamp-Root. 1t is a physicians
prescription for diseases of the kidneys
and Bladder.
1t has stood the test of years. and has
a reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This prescription was used by DR.. Kill
mer in his private practice and was SO
very effective that it has been placed on
sale everywhere. Get bottle, SOC and
$l.0O, at your nearest druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
SPORT.
Standing of Western League Clubs.

Within the last week 2,750 applica-
tions have been received at the Chi
cago headquarters for membership in
the aviation reserve corps.
The first full week of the 1917 base
ball season ended with New York
leading in the National League and
Chicago in the American.
Douglas Grant, 1916 title holder,
won the 1917 northern California golf
championship at San Francisco, de-
feating Jack Neville on the Ingleside
links, one up.
Twenty-three shooters took part in
the shoot of the Denver Trap Club at
the Aurora grounds. Jesse H. Keyse
was high amateur with 90 per cent,
and William Bowman was high profess
sional with the same score.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
1T GETS THEM ALL IN END
BeIated Speed Germ Manifests Its
Presence in Centenarian About to
Take First Auto Ride.

Kitty Goetz, one hundred years old,
and her brother, Igny Karisch, only
ninety eight, resolved that they would
never go to an institution for the aged.
True, the wind that had blown the roof
from their squatters' shanty was
sweeping coldly over the meadows
near Rosedale, L. l., where they lived,
and they had nothing to eat. But they
weren't going to leave their homes just
for that. Spring would be coming soon.
Kitty left her nightdress on all day
to fool the police, for she reckoned
they wouldn't take lady through the
streets in her nightdress.
Then they heard purring sound,
which grew louder, then seemed to stop,
just outside their door. They tottered
out and saw large, sleek automobile.
1--WE come to take you for ride"
police sergeant announced. "We're
going to Kings County hospital" Kitty
had never been in an automobile be-
fore, and as she looked at the big car
belated speed germ infected her soul.
"Say," she demanded, show fast can
we get to that placeT-New York
Tribune.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
NEW LIQUOR LAW SIGNED.
horton Bill Places Rigid Restrictions

Horton Bill Places Rigid Restrictions
on Amount and Shipments.
Denver.-The chief provisions OF
the Horton liquor bill, which became
a law Immediately after being signed
by Governor Gunter April 23d, are
Shipments are limited to two quarts
of liquor other than wine or beer, or
six quarts of wine, or twenty-four
quarts of beer a month. The order
must be for one kind of liquor only;
that is, it cannot call for part beer
and part wine or whisky.
No two persons in the same family
may order liquor in one month.
Liquor may not be kept in stores
shops, clubs, roadhouses, railroad cars
places of public resort, hotels, board
ing houses or any other place except
in the home.
Liquor may be shipped into the
state only through railroad companies
Or express companies.
Wagons, utensils or other property
used in transporting liquor in viola
tion of the act may be confiscated.
In order to import liquor the appli,
cant must make application for a per
NIT in which he sWears that he is
over q years of age, that no member
of his family has ordered liquor dur
ing the calendar month, and that he
desires the liquor for medicinal OF
other lawful purpose. On payment OF
a fee of 25 cents the permit is issued
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
CONDENSED RECORD or TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o IN q 8, ACHIEVE,
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Heavy fighting reported in Mace
donia.
Berlin admits loss of two destroy
ers in raid on Dover.
Cuban President asks his Congress
for appropriation for war purposes.
Bombardments have become intense
again on the Austro-Italian front.
British anG French air pilots drop
many bombs aon German city of Frei-
burg.
Work on battleships is temporarily
suspended to speed up work of mer-
chant ships.
Strikes have broken out in various
munitions factories in Germany, in
cluding the Krupps.
Two British hospital ships sunk by
submarines with loss of sixty-three
persons, fifteen of them Germans.
The German destroyers which es-
have been the vessels which bonn
barded Calais
Berlin says the French suffered
heavily near Braye and the Hurtebise
farm when moving up infantry into
position to- attack.
German torpedo boat destroyers
fired 100 shells in the region of Cal
ais. Some civilians were killed. Twelve
persons were slightly wounded.
'Seventy-seven square miles of
France had been reclaimed from the
invader by five days continuous,
steady smashing by the French.
In the Champagne district Germans
launched a series of counter-attacks,
which have been repulsed with Sc
we're losses, according to the London
and Paris war statements.
Southern pivot of Hindenburg line
crumbling before repeated attacks of
French. German reinforcements of
250,00O men fail to stop drive. Strong
ly fortified German positions near
Auberive captured.
One hundred Villa followers were
hanged, 200 killed and wounded and a
quantity Of ammunition and horses
captured when fighting between the
Villa forces and the command of Gen:
Francisco Murguia was resumed in a
rugged canon in the Babicora district
of western Chihuahua.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
WASHINGTON.

will H. Parry of Seattle, vice chair
man of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, died at hospital from the eff
fects of an operation.
Holland has formally notified the
State Department that it will main
tain a strict neutrality in the war be,
tween Germany and the United
States
Coincidentally with the arrival in
Washington Sunday of the British
Commission of twenty members head
ed by the Right Honorable Arthur J.
Balfour, for a series of war confer
ences with the American government,
it became known that President Will
son intends to offer voluntarily his
assurances that the United States will
make no separate peace with Ger
many.
AS a part of the program to en-.
courage nationwide growing of food
stuffs, every employe of the Treas
ury Department throughout the Unit
ed States was requested by Secretary
McAdoo to cultivate all the land in
his possession or control
Formation of a new state, through
secession from Colorado and Utah of
all territory between the continental
divide and the Wasatch range is the
object of campaign just launched by
the Grand Junction Commercial Club
and the Duchesne, Utah, Commercial
Club.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
FOREIGN.

Citizens of Nome, Alaska, passed
resolutions in favor of war with Ger
many.
The Duchess of Brunswick, Emperor
Williams only daughter, has given
birth to a daughter.
Premier Lloyd George returned to
London after a series of conferences
with the French and Italian govern
ments.
A London Daily News correspond
ent states that the prime minister
will propose a settlement Of the Irish
question.
Nicaragua aligns herself with other
Latin-American nations endorsing en-
try of the United States in war with
Germany
An impressive ceremony was held
in Paris at the Sorbonne by the
French Maritime league in honor of
the United States
United States Ambassador Elkus is
seriously i'll at Constantinople with
spotted typhoid, according to a dis
patch from Berlin.
Brand Whitlock, United States min
lister to Belgium, arrived to assume
his duties at the present seat of the
Belgian government at Havre.
Report that the Brazilian steamer
Belem had ebeen torpedoed by a Ger
man submarine in the Mediterranean
aroused further excitement in Rio
Janeiro.
The entrance of the United States
into the war was celebrated in Dublin
by the flying of the Stars and Stripes
and the union jack on government
buildings and business houses.
A cipher message received by the
Spanish legation at Rio de Janeiro de-
clares Russia and Germany hame
signed an armistice, according to a
dispatch from the Brazilian capital
An appeal to the German people not
to give in for the sake of a mouthful
of bread but to "hold out only lit
tie while longer is printed in the
Norddeuthsche Allegemeine Zeitung
at Amsterdam. 50
The new Cabinet at Madrid had it's
first meeting and issued a note an
nouncing that it will maintain strict
neutrality toward all the belligerents
and that constitutional guarantees
will be restored.
A dispatch to the Central News
from Copenhagen says an official
Norwegian communication announces
that the steamer Bergengut has been
sunk by a German submarine and
that eight of the crew were killed.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph from The Hague says: accord
ing to frontier reports, German muni-
tion factories at Iserlohn, Krefeld and
Barmen are idle owing to strikes.
About $4,000 workers of both sexes
ceased work as a protest against the
lack of food.
Antonio ]. Almeida, president of the
Council, presented to Bernardino Ma
chado, the President of Portugal, the
resignation of the entire Cabinet.
Premier Almeida's action followed an
adverse vote in the Chamber of Depu-
ties on the question of the govern
ment establishing a national econom.
ic council.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
Fiqurative.

Kidd have just purchased abso-
lutely the last word in automobiles.
Kidder-That so? What are some
of it's specifications?
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. motor; sew
en-passenger accommodation, and one
man top.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
Ashes of Roses.

"Why don't you marry Mathilde?'
asked the friend. "She loves you and
would make you happy. What's the
trouble with herr"
"Her past"
"Her past? And what fault do you
find with her past?"
"The length of it,"
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
New Mexico Militia in Service.

Washington.-The first regiment Of
infantry and battery of field artillery
of the New Mexico National Guard
was ordered into the federal service
for purposes of police protection.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
Naturally.

Minnie-Do you think that the good
die young?
Joseph-If they don't, where are
they?
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
Dynamite Placed on Railroad Track

Silver City, N. M.-The discovery by
a track walker of eight sticks of dyna-
mite on a Santa Fe branch between
Hurley and Santa Rita baked pos
sible attempt to wreck a train. The
sticks were sewn in a sack.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
Ten Million Loss in Alaskan Flood

Juneau, Alaska. - Machinery and
equipment valued at $10,000,O0O are
believed to be total loss, due to the
flooding of the great mines of the
Treadwell system, on Douglas Island,
opposite Juneau. All the miners es-
capped without injury.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

Pimples, boils, carbuncles, dry up and
disappear with Doctor Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. In tablets or liquid.
ADV
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

Twelve-hour, Neutrality-suspicious. and
ship time can be told simultaneously
by a new clock dial.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

and allow the time of the farm aborer who has filed the land to
apply as residence duties the if he actually had lived it
This special concession the reduction Of one year in the time to
copte de Two residence instead of three as heretofore
working the farms for at least months in 1917
This appeal for farm help is in connected with enlistment
military solely agricultural output won
deul farm and draw good
mile Spokane Canadian destination Information to low
railway rates may be had on application to
wv BENNETT, Room A, Bee Bldg, Omaha Nebr.
Canadian Govenm Agent
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

Makes the laundress happy-that's Red
Cross Bag Blue. Makes beautiful, clear
white clothes. All good Rrocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

Though he is often derided, 1t is well
to- bear in mind that everybody's
friend is nobOdy's enemy.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

Deposits of tungsten ore have been
discovered in COrea and mines are be-
ing opened.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

Some men have courage only when
they lose their tempers.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-28
.HA|C INITIATES
new OFFENSIVE
CRUSHES HlNDENBURG LINE IN
CONTEST FOR POSSESSION
OF LENS COAL FIELDS.
R0UT TURKS ON TIGRIS
BRITISH CAPTURE VILLAGES AND
STRATEGIC POSITIONS SOUTH
OF THE RIVER SCARPA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, April 25.-The United
States has given it's word that it will
fight in conjunction with the allies
until the Prussian autocracy is crushed
and Americans at home and abroad are
safe from the ruthlessness of the Ber-
lin government.
) This was the outcome of the first
conference here Monday between
President Wilson and Right Honorable
Arthur j. Balfour, British secretary OF
state for foreign affairs. The only 9th
er participant in the conference, which
lasted forty minutes, was Secretary OF
State Lansing.