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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
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American Commander Praised.

Through its ambassador to this coun'
try the British government has just
conferred exceptional honors upon the
commander of a United States navy
vessel operating in foreign waters. For
service in an encounter with a German
submarine the British admiralty has
recommended the decoration of the
Distinguished Service order for Lieut.,
Com. George F. Neal, q. S. N, who
was in charge of an American destroy.
er. This ship vas n of a number
escorting transports through the wal
zone when the quartermaster sighted
the wake of a periscope, 1880 yards
distant. General quarters were sound.
ed and the commanding officer at once
began to maneuver with the enemy. He
Immediately shot his ship head on al
the U-boat. Getting ahead of the peri.
scope he ordered a depth charge drop
ped. Nothing more vas Seea Of tbs
submarine and it was evident that her
damage had been serious. The British
admiralty credits the success of the
destroyer to the alertness of the COM
mander and the manner in which he
handled the attack. Lieutenant Com.
mander Neal is a native of Tennessee.
He graduated from the naval academy
in 1897. Under the laws of this coun-
try officers are not allowed to receive
decorations from foreign powers.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
Uncle Ned was Here

E. P. Wheeler, of 322 10Th st. N. E.,
Washington, d. o., arrived at Wild
wood last Friday, for a 3 days stay.
Mr.. Wheeler is a Civil War hero, and
it vas necessary for him to cut short
his visit here, in order to get up to Phil
adelphia in time to take part in the
Memorial Day parade. He is a mem
Der of g. A. r. Post No. 2, which now
can muster scarcely more than 200
mem bers. About 10 years ago, Post
No. 2 mustered as many as $50 men
for the annual May Day parade. Thus
we may see how the line sis fading
fast away" There are some ten or u
g. A. R. Posts in Philadelphia. No. 2
being one of the strongest, numerically
speaking, with headquarters on 18th
street, below Paramount N Mr..
Wheeler has come scars to show for
the brushes he had with the enemy.
He was a member Of the 18th regiment
Penna. Reserves, End Division, 18th
Corps, commanded by General John
w. Geary, afterwards governor of the
Keystone state. At Gettysburg, Gen.
eral Geary's corps occupied Cemetery
Hill, the extreme Union right position.
This corps sustained the shock of the
subtle attack of the fierce Louisiana
"Tigers," in the darkness on the night
of July I'd, 1858, at the base of Culp's
Hill. With their wild, weird SOUTH
ern whoop, the Tigers did break thru;
but the brave Union boys succeeded in
driving them back. Failing to turn
the Union right, under Reynolds and
Gesry, and the Union left under Sedg-
wick, Lee then hazsrded all on one
last desperate charge against the
Union centre, held by Hancock; but
the brave Confederate chieftan
went down to defeat, never again to
rise, and our glorious Union was saved.
After the dreadful struggle at Gettys-
burg, the twelfth corps was transferred
to Sherman's command, and became
known as the 20lh corps. Ifyou think
that Wheeler wasn't with Sherman
on his grand march to the sea, just
ask him, and see how quickly the old
fighting memories aud spirits are a.
wakened, and how enthusiastic he be-
comes as he tells you about even the
sweet-potatoes leaping from the ground,
"while he was marching through Geor-
gia'. After the cruel war was over,
Wheeler made an application for a pos
ition on the police force ofPhiladelphia;
he was chosen and served 40 years.
Thus he is twice a veteran. To Horace
Leidig, ex-postmaster of North Wild
wood, is due the fact of introducing
Wheeler to Wildwood's many charms,
which he is again seeking. firing Of
Washington, D. g. and wanting to get
away from the Senators and Represen-
tatives, Mr.. Wheeler may locate in
Jersey permanently, for he says he
Hloves Wildwood"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
SCOUTING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Boy scout training as a program of
education was given impetus at a re-
cent meeting of the Boston School
Masters association.
Judge Sullivan spoke of boy scout
training as a civic asset. The boy
scout movement, he urged, was show
ing grown-ups what real civic train
ing should be.
Superintendent Dyer advocated the
boy scout program as a complement
to the program of the public school,
because through it character is devel-
oped and leisure time employed, not
only to the advantage of the boys but
to the advantage of the whole com
munity.
Dean Russell described the boy scout
movement as ian agency well-nigh
p~edagogically perfect"
The Boston school committee passed
an order authorizing head masters and
junior masters of high schools and
masters and sub-masters of elemen-
tary schools to cooperate in the organ
ization and encouragement of troops
of boy scouts in the schools.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
Sherlff's Sale

By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias for sale
OF mortgaged premises to me directed. issued
out OF the Court OF Chancery of New Jersey,
on the second day of May, A. ID. 1918, in a
certain cause wherein Isaac Ferris is COM
plainant and Martha Spahr, ct al. are defen-
dants, will be sold at public vendue on
MONDAY, JUNE 10th, 1918,
between the hours OF twelve and five o'clock
p. m, to wit, at one O'Clock in the afternoon
OF said day, at the Sherif7s office, in Cape
May Court House, cape May County, New
Jersey:
All those certain lots situate in the City of
Wildwood, in the County of Cape May. in the
State OF New Jersey, bounded and described
as follows:
Beginning at a point on the northeasterly
side OF Cedar venue at the distance OF four
hundred and eighty 1880 feet enthusiastically
from the point of intersection OF the north
westerly side ofPacific avenue will the north
easterly side of said Cedar avenue, and ex-
northeasterly side OF said Cedar avenue a dis
tance of sixty 1907 feet to a point; and at right
angles to SAID Cedar avenue thereto, etween
parallel lines in length or depth northeast
wardly with a width of sixty teet) q distance
OF one hundred 400 feet. Containing six
thousand $1,000 square feet OF land strict
measure. Comprising lot number twenty.six
and the adjoining northwesterly one.half in
width or frontage OF lot number twenty-four,
in block number min (), OF the official map
of Wildwood, N. j., made by l.. M. Rice, Bor-
ough Engineer, and duly filed in the Clerks
Office of Cape May County aforesaid.
Note: The above property will be sold sub
ject to taxes for the years 1916 and 1917, and
subject to other municipal liens amounting
in all to about Two Hundred and Fifty Dol
lars, together with interest and costs.
Seized as the property of Martha Spahr, ct
al, and taken In execution at the suit OF isaac
ROBERTS. MILLER, Sheriff.
Nixon q Beckett, Solicitors.
Dated May 18th, 1918.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31

V%icksburg and Corinth, was now, due
to his malady, unable to even ask for
a cup of cold water, yet there are GER
tain sounds which to a soldier need Nc
Interpretation and quick as lightning
Grant recognized the heavy moving
step of columns falling in. He arose
feebly and tottered toward the window.
Notes Of martial music fQated out on
the spring air-"Yankee Doodle"
America" 1.-THE Star-Spangled Ban
'ner," marching Through Georgia"
The present fades from view-the
dying general sees again the smoke Of
Shiloh, the charge at Chattanooga. the
white flag of Lee at Appomattoxl
Tears come coursing down his cheeks
as with upturned faces and uncovered
heads he watches his old veterans file
by.
Grant slowly lifts his hand in salute.
1t is his farewell forever to the army
that had saved the Union.
All present realized that ere another
Memorial day dawned Grant would be
numbered among the nations immor-
tai dead.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31

epics of history decline for the most
part to give up their parade, the fea-
ture of Memorial day. They are de-
termined to show the younger genera
ton that if their bodies suffered from
the ravages Of campaigns and Of time.
the high luster Of their courage and
their devotion has not been furnished
by the years.
1t is fitting that the heroes in blue
should give to the soldiers in olive
drab this demonstration of their en-
durance of body and of soul. 1t is
well that the soldiers In olive drab, on
the eve of their own great adventure,
should salute the heroes in blue whose
spiritual descendants they are.
For the cause which the men of the
Grand Army OF Republic upheld is the
same as the cause which the young
men of today have rallied to uphold.
1t is the cause of America, in the six
ties as now, the champion of justice
and freedom.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
ONWARD FOR HUMANITY.

Snow-white and rosy-fingered morn
Speeding the hosts of night,
Heralds a new Memorial Day,
Its cohorts armed for right
Out of the dawnlng's mists come wraitha
OF those who our standards made,
And find a nation, grim and set,
Ready n unafraid.
Shame that the morns must come blood.
red
Shame that men still must die,
But the fight for peace is a world-old
fight,
And the price of freedom, high.
Then onward No time now for stacking
or tears,
Till the cause of humanity's won,
Till oppression is sunk in the bottomless
sea,
And the need of all warfare is done.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
MONDAY, JUNE oath, 1918.

between the hours of twelve and five o'clock
ID. M, to wit, at one O'Clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the Sheriff sc office, in Cape May
Court House, Cape May County, New Jersey:
All that certain mortgaged premises, with
the a-ppurtenances, in the bill OF complaint
in the said cause particularly set forth and
described, that is to say:
All that certain lot or parcel OF land and
premises, situate, lying and being in the
Second Ward OF the City OF Wildwood, in the
County of Cape May and State of New Jersey.
on an island called the Five Mile Beach,
bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a point on the outhwesterly
side of Spencer avenue two hundred and
ninety feet enthusiastically from the south
easterly side OF Holly Beach avenues; thence
running a along the said southwesterly SIDE
of Spencer avenue southeasterly forty feet TO
a point and at right angles to said Spencer
avenue thereto, between parallel lines In
length or depth with q width OF forty feet
southwestwardly one hundred feet. Contain
ing four thousand square feet OF land, strict
measure. Comprising lot number twenty
three (28) OF block number one hundred nine
teen Ql9) of the recorded plan of Holly Beach
City. Being the samep premises which Robert
Bright and wife, by deed dated October 9Th,
1911, and of record In the Clerks office of Cape
May County aforesaid in Deed Book No. 269,
pages 147, &C., granted and conveyed unto the
above named Georgieanna M. Wright in fee.
ROBERT S. MILLER, Sheriff.
Dated May 10Th, 1918.
John Bright, SoPr. 5-3l,4t,pfSl0.80
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31

vt rs fifty years now that the Ameri-
car people have every year laid
aside their tools for a day to re-
member their noble dead.
This year they again lay aside their
tools. This year they again gather
roses and llacs and apple blossoms
and cherry blossoms and wander out
to the cemeteries to decorate those old
but W forgotten graves. This year
they decorate them with apprehensive
hearts.
This year, as in other years, they re-
fresh in their memory the heroic deeds
and sacrifices of their fathers; but
they do something besides this. Re
calling those deeds and those sacrifices
in the bright light of new heroism and
the shadow Of new sacrifice, they dedi-
cate themselves. their hands, their
minds, and their spirits, to the new
struggle on which their country Is EN-.
barked.
They remember American men who
died fighting on old battlefields, but
they remember more wildly American
women and children who died on the
Lusitania.
They remember Gettysburg, and
Charlottesville, and Fredericksburg,
and Chickamauga, and the Wilderness;
but they remember. more wildly what
happened in Belgium, and France, and
Serbia, and Armenia, and on the open
seas.
They remember the Lost Cause and
the Cause that was victorious. With
high hearts they remember them, and
with grateful hearts they remember
the men who fought and died defend
ing them. and the men who fought and
lived and were great enough, for the
sake of a united nation, at last to for
give and forget. They remember these
things. But more wildly they remem-
Der that the nation which Washington
created and Lincoln preserved is face
to face with the most sinister foe that
has yet threatened its liberty. They
remember that this foe, with sly and
Insidious cunning, sought to confuse,
corrupt, and hamstring the energy and
moral will Of the American people
ever while he sank their ships and
slaughtered their fellow-citizens. They
remember that by the force of his arms
this foe has beaten down great Russia,
subjugated Serbia, Roumania, Belgium,
northern Italy and northern France.
They remember liberty, and they re-
member that where this foe has trod,
liberty has died.
In the midst of a great war, the
American people give a day to their
heroic dead. They honor them In
speeches and p~arades. They honor
them with flowers and music. They
are doing them no more than justice
when they so honor them.
But they honor them best If with firm
will and fearless heart they resolve
that humanity's foe shall die; but that,
by the strength, the courage, the en-
durance, the spirit of devotion and sac
rihce not only of the men in khaki or
in blue in France and Flanders and Oh
the sea, but of the fathers and moth
ers and wives, the sisters, the sweet
hearts, the brothers, who work and
wait at home in the Great Republic Of
the West, Democracy shall triumph,
Right shall triumph, and Liberty shall
live, bringing to the world a peace
that shall endure, and to men and wom-
en- everywhere a happiness that shall
have foundations.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
INSPIRATION TO
BOYS IN KHAKI
Country's Defenders To-
day Learn Lesson From
Thin Blue Line.
"HE veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic furnish always

"HE veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic furnish always
an inspiring spectacle to the in-I
tervening generations. These young
men, who so many years ago marched
southwark to the call of Abraham Lin
coin, march again today. Their line Isl
thin. The feet which advanced Wig
orously to battlefields for the republic
are uncertain. The weight of the
years drags them down. Backs are
bent by the burdens Of wal and of life.
The eyes which once flashed to the
call of duty gaze dlmly upon a sunlitI
world.
But the hearts of these heroes In
blue-these men who offered the last
measur of sacrifice. to their country
more than half a century ago-are asI
sound as they had been in the remoteI
period of their youth. They beat asI
high to the inspiration Of the crisis
through which the country and the
world are living. These men who|
played a manly part In one Of the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
Sewer Ordinance

Notice is hereby given that an ordinance
entitled "An ordinance authorizing the con-
struction OF a sewer in Seventeenth street
between Ocean avenue and the boardwalk
County, New jersey was introduced at a
regularly adjourned meeting OF the Common
Council OF the City of North Wildwood on
Tuesday evening, May 2lst, 1918, and that
third readings and final passage at a regular
meeting of Council to be held on Tuesday
evening, June Attn, 1918, at eight O'Clock at
Cape May County, New Jersey.
GEORGE A. REDDING,
City Clerk.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
HIS LAST SALUTE.
Gen. Grants Pathetic Farewell to
the Brave Men Who Saved
the Union.

TIME magnanimity of General
Grants soul viii live forever
Recently the question was
put to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons,
'What Is civilized warfare?7 Immedi-
ately came the reply: "The war be-
tween the States" And then the aged
prelate added Suppose General
Grant had compelled General Lee and
the captive Southerners to have gone
to Washington and built the Union
a triumphal arch, what would the
world have thought? And yet. that
was exactly what happened to the Jews
at the fall of Jerusalem which Titus
arch commentaries"
When In the spring of 1884 the vet
Grams Of the Grand Army of the Re
public knew their beloved ehieftain
was MORALLY Ill, the soldiers, n and
all, felt 1t would be a great privilege
If once again they might see Grants
face. They wished to pay him some
homage of sympathy. since. "a rose to
the living Is more than countless
wreaths to the dead"
This expression of love materialized
in a plan to march by his home, on
Memorial day, as General Grant was
then In New York city. Early on the
morning Of May 30 these old soldiers
were awake, Furnishing aceoutre-
ments and medals Of honor; unfurling
old battle flags.
] The quick ear of Grant heard COM
motion In the street. His voice that
had cheered on the Boys in Blue at
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31

1t will be news to most persons that
q great many former Confederate sol
dlers draw pensions from the govern
ment. Some of them were deserters
who enlisted In the Union armies; 9TH
ers were prisoners of war who did the
same thing. Six regiments of so-called
''penitent rebels" were organized by
the federal authorities from the prison
camps at Point Lookout, Rock Island.
Alton, Camp Douglas and Columbus.
They took the oath Of allegiance, and
the men were credited to the quotas
of the states they elected to serve.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
VIII Be With Us Many Years.

Although their ranks r steadily,
and even rapidly, diminishing, the old
soldiers have many a march yet TO
make before the last Of them departs
for that bourne whence there Ia NJ
return.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
Deaths Terrible Toll.

At a moderate calculation there
were sent into eternity during the
Civil war more than a million of men
who left home in the prime of life and
in health and in strength.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the Five Mile
Beach Electric Railway Company, having
filed its petition for cave to increase the rate
OF fare charged upon its street railway in
Wildwood, North Wildwood and Wildwood
Crest from five cents to six cents, the Board
of Public Utility Commissioners have fixed
Monday, June Sd, 1918, at eleven a. m, at the
State House, Trenton, N. j., as the time and
place tor hearing upon said petition. Parties
interested therein will have al opportunity
TO be heard at the said time and place..
FIVE MILE BEACH ELECTRIC
RAIL WAY CO.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31

MONDAY JUNE 24th, 1918,
between the hours of twelve and five o'clock
p. M, to wit, at one o'clock in the afternoon
OF said day, at the Sheriff's office, in cape
May Court House, Cape May County, New
Jersey:
All the said mortgaged premises, with the
appurtenances, in the bill OF complaint in
scribed, that is to say: "All those certain
tracts or parcels OF land and premises. here
matter particularly described, situate In the
City OF Wildwood, formerly the Borough OF
Holly Beach City,, in the County OF APE May
and State OF New Jersey, bounded and de-
scribed as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a point in the southwesterly
side of Schellenger avenue at the distance OF
ninety feet enthusiastically from the point
of intersection of the northwesterly side OF
Atlantica avenue with the said outhwesterly
ide of said Schellenger avenue, and extern
ding thence northwestwardly along the said
side of said Schellenger avenue the distance
OF eighty feet; thence at right angles thereto,
to said Schellenger avenue, between parallel
lines of a width of eighty feet, southwestward-
ly, in length or depth, the distance OF one
hundred feet. Containing eight thousand
square feet OF land, strict measure, and COM
prising lots numbers twenty-seyen and TWEEN
ty-eight of block number one hundred and
ffty-one, as shown on the recorded plot or
of the Clerk of Cape May County aforesaid.
Being the same land and premises which
Harvey l.. Roberts, Trustee, &C., by deed ia
ted October sixth, 1898, and OF record in the
office of the Clerk aforesaid In Deed Book
No. 143, at pages 7, &c. granted and conveyed
unto the party OF the first part hereto in fee.
ROBERT s. MILLER, Sheriff.
Dated May 18th, 1918.
j. Fithian Tatem, SoIr. 6314t, pfSl2.00
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
BOY SCOUT FIRE LIGHTER.

The best fire lighter for scouts In the
woods, says 'Pine Tree" James A. VIII
der, Is a pry-can full Of sifted ashes
soaked with kerosene. A t~easpoonful
of these ashes will burn for fully
thirty minutes and ignite the wettesH
wood. even large wood.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
SIGNS
Glass, Wood & Cloth Signs
DESIGNS SUBMITTED
JOSEPH HENRY
11o East Schellenger Avenue
WILDWOOD md MIAMI, FLORIDA
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the West Jersey
Electric Company having filed its petition
Tor leave to file a new schedule of rates Tor
electric service In Wildwood, North Wild
wood and Wildwood Crest, the Board of Pub.
lie Utility Commissioner have fixed Monday,
June 3D.. 1918, at eleven a. IN. at the State
House, Trenton, N. j., as the time and place
for hearing upon said petition. Parties in
terested therein will nave an opportunity to
be heard at the said time and place.
WEST JERSEY ELECTRIC co.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
MUIIons Of Men InvoNsd-

When peace was declared the mum
Der of troops engaged had mounted to
2,77e, 4os, of which the North Furnished
something over two million.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
Sheriff'S Sale

BY virtue OF a writ of Fieri Facias, for sale
OF Mortgaged Premises, to me directed, issued
out of the Court OF Chancery of New Jersey,
on the 18th day of May, A. ID. 1918, in a certain
cause wherein James w. Robbins is COM
plainant, and Georgieanna M. Wright, ct vir,
ct ais, are defendants, l shall expose to sale
at public Vendue, on
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
Sheriff'S Sale

By virtue OF a writ of Fieri Facias, for sale
of Mortgaged Premises, to me directed, issued
out OF the Court OF Chancery OF New Jersey,
On the 18th day OF May, A. d. 1918, in a certain
cause wherein Caroline III. Beecher is COM
plainant, and Elmer T. Pinker, ct ais, are
vendue, on
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-31
THIS MEMORIAL DAY
Nations Tribute to Its Heroic
Dead Has a New and Greater
Significance.
BY HERMAN
OF the Vlgllantes.

TT rs fifty years now that the Ameri-
a people have every year laid
aside their tools for a dav m re-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-15
TODAYS ANNIVERSARY

The first movement for the colon
ization of American negroes in Africa
was agitated in Nova Scotia in 1871,
and early in the following year, just
126 years ago today, fleet of fifteen
transports with 1,190 negroes on board
sailed from Halifax for Sierra Leone,
in the west coast of Africa Most OF
the colored, people were the slaves OIL
British adherents who had fled from
the United States and settled in Nova
Scotia after the revolution. The pro-
posal of the Sierra Leone company
rlet with much opposition from white
Nova Scotians, and the London gov
eminent finally agreed to give lands
to those willing to settle in Nova SEQ
tia. This offer came too late, how
ever, and the. negroes sailed away for
the Africa of their ancestors. In 1876
the American colonization Society was
organized to transport liberated slaves
to Africa, and these, largely recruited
from the Southern states, founded the
republic of Liberia, bordering on the
British colony of Sierra Leone.