Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-01-04
NORTH WILDWOOD

The North Wild wood City Council
met at noon on New Years day and
organized by electing its officers as the
law provides. A general law applica-
BILE all over the state provides that
most all municipalities do this. Com
missioned governed municipalities are
excepted, however, because in that
form OF government elections are held
only once in four years. Mayor Nc
Linden and six of the seven Council
men were present as follows: Hewitt
and Rauch, of the first ward; Ander-
son, Hughes and Larcombe, of the sec
ond ward, and Buck, elected at large
by the voters of the entire city. Chas.
Aspenberg is the only retiring mem
Der, whose place is taken by Elmer
Hewitt, manager of the Hotel Scott.
On behalf of the citizens of the town
Councilman Hewitt was presented
with a beautiful boquet Of roses by
James Taylor, who made a neat speech
of presentation. Councilman Hewitt
responded with a cordial thank you in
appreciation. The old officers were all
re.appointed as follows:
President of Council, Jason Buck.
Solicitor, j. F. Tatem.
Engineer, l.. M. Rice.
Overseer of Poor, Thomas CorsOn.
Street Supervisor, Charles Robinson.
Sewer Inspector, VIM. Streaker.
Janitor, Warren Gordon.
Under the law by which North Wild
wood is now governed the school trus-
tees are no longer elected by the peo-
: pie, but appointed by the Mayor, there
being,five in number, in consequences
of which Mayor McLinden named the
following to serve on the Board of Ed
ucation: Chas. f. Sanders, Richard
Larcombe, Frank Colson, Allen e.
Grace and Warren B. Gordon.
Board of Health. DR.. Margaret Mace,
A. Dare, Chas. +. Sanders, Frank Col
son and Jack Apologize. All these
apl ointments were unanimously con-
firmed by Council. The JOURNAL and
Tribune were designated as the official
papers. The regular monthly meeting
of Council was fixed as formerly, to be
held on the first Tuesday evening of
each month. The office of the Mayor
was made a salaried one and it was vo-
ted to make it $3.50 per year. Council
adjourned to meet on Wednesday eve
ming, January 2, 1918, in order to facil-
itate the authorization of the purchase
or building of the new city dredge.
Councilman Jason Buck came home
from Pitman New Years morning to
attend the organization Of Council. His
married daughter resides at Pitman,
the wife of Dr. M F. Lummis. Some
time ago DIR. Lummis enlisted In the
medical corps, and recently while In
camp on Long island he severely
sprained his knee, and also suffered a
slight attack of pneumonia. DR.. Lum-
mis- Is a first lieutenant and would
have sailed for France with his COM
pany recently had 1t not been for his
Injuries.
Fred Eckstrom has transferred his
membership in the Odd Fellows from
Sea View lodge at Long Branch to
Holly Beach lodge. Before coming to
Anglesea four years ago, Mr.. Eckstrom
resided at Long Branch for Is years.
The masked ball given on New
YEARS. eve by the Anglesea Fire Com
pany was we'll attended and some very
fancy and comic costumes were worn.
The Judges were Mrs. Woodford Ayars,
Mrs. H. q. Schlichting, Mrs. Joshua
Bowker, Edward Loeffler and Robert
Pierpont. Prizes were awarded as fol-
lows: Fancy dressed Japanee lady,
Mrs. Hurley Booye, a handsome silk
umbrella; fancy dressed gent, City clerk
George A. Redding, dressed as a Next
can bull fighter, a thurmos bottle; COM
ic lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Shredder. knit
ting bag complete: comic man. dressed
as a tramp, John Heating, pair of boots.
The BOBBY prizes went to Mrs. j. APP
plegate, as a male impersonator, and
Ernest Murray, as a colored gent. The
Chalmers Rappold orchestra furnished
the music.