Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-21
WILDWOOD
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Fields. clerk in the water office at city
hall, was dismissed by Commissioner
Brown. This left no III to do The cler-
ical work In the wa'er Office. Archie
Hendricks, one of the outside men, has
since been put In the office, and Walter
Trout has been promoted 10 take the
place of Mr.. Bennett, who has gone TO
Hog Island to work.
Duluth Imperial -four S13 barrel.
8 w Coombs, adv.
Mrs. Charlotte d. Stout died at her
home, 1912 Springfield avenue, Phila-
delphia, on Thursday, December 90
1917, of pneumonia. She is survived
by a son DIR. Edward d. Stout, a dem
fist in Philadelphia; Mrs. William Nc
Twain and Charlotte B. Stout, daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Stout was the daughter of
the late Edward Dolton, a well-know n
resident OF Trenton. Most of her life
was spent in Trenton, but she had
lived in Philadelphia for the past 20
years. The family became interested
in Wildwood several years ago aud
built a couple of properties on Pine
ven
Early service will be held In the
Lutheran church at six o'clock on
Christmas morning. The Sunday
school will hold its Christmas service
in the evening at 7:80 o'clock.
Joseph Douglass has bought the
Witie store property on Cedar avenue,
of Mr.. Mackal and will move his res
taurant there.
N. Diamond and wife left this morn
ing for Newark, where they will reside
this winter. Mr.. Diamond is travel
ing for a big lumber firm.
There were thirty-five members of
the Wildwood State Militia Reserve
present at the meeting at city hall We'd
nesday night and participated in the
drilling. The election of officers did
not take place, because there were not
enough present. The election will oc-
cur next Wednesday night if there are
Al present.
: Mary G. Young, who owned a cot
tage on Andrew avenue, next to the
Dowler home, dropped dead in Phila-
delphia on Tuesday, December 18th,
1917. Mrs. Young was a cripple and
used crutches for many years. She
was said to be the widow of an Epis-
copal clergyman.
A luncheon, at which the guest of
honor was Mrs. I. w. Bagley, was
given on December 10th, by Mrs. Har-
ry w. Donaghy at her home In PhiIa-
delphia. Those invited TO meet Mrs.
Bagley were Mrs. George Wood ward,
Mrs. E: A. vanHorn. Mrs. J. Fithian
Tatem, Mrs. H. H. Tomlin, Mrs. Geo.
Leathwhite, Mrs. s.. Dixon Mayhem,
Mrs. Harry McClelland, ST., Mrs. Wes-
ley Clayton, Mrs. Harry McClelland,
Jr., aud Miss Lydia Mech.
George Nichols, cashier OF the Court
House bank, was taken i'll on Tuesday
and hurried to a Philadelphia hospital
where an operation was performed for
appendicitis, and report is that he is
doing we'll. Assistant Cashier Dough-
erty was ill at the same time, which
left the bank short handed. Harry M.
Rice, of the Marine Bank, wen over to
help them out.
Rev. II. II. Halo we'll is disposiDg of
his household goods. Some w. G. T.
u. members have expressed a desire to
select some article to keep in memory
of Mrs. Hallowell. Mr.. HallowelI will
be home at the Hart apartments from
10 to IL a. M, 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. M,
daily except Sundays and Wednesdays.
He will also sell the piano. Mr.. Hal
lowell expects to leave Wildwood the
first of the year.
Information has just reached this
office of the death of the widow of the
late Charles F. Mcclure, which oc-
Cured in Philadelphia on Thanks
giving day. Mrs. Mcclure spent the
summe here for many years in their
Park avenue house.
Kelly was around Wild wood and
North Wildwood last Sunday acting
the part of Santa Claus, as has been
his custom for years. This time it WAS
necktIes, which were done up neatly in
boxes and piled high In his auto. He
has a regular list hal he remembers
every Christmas, Nprincipally working
men.
The express train service to Cape
May and Wild wood has been curtailed.
The corrected timetable of the Reading
will be found on page 2.s
Mrs. Sarah Pierson, a widow, aged
81 years, died at her home On Rio
GTande avenue on Wednesday. She
was the mother of Mrs. Herbert Shaw,
and was In good health until a few