Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-17
ANCLESEA.

unuer IL nau Deer awarded 10 Cnarley
Dugdale, but he was spared the trouble
OF even making a beginning, as a bolt
of lightning struck the toppled build
ing during the big storm last Friday
night, causing 1t to take fire and burn
up. Both North Wildwood fire COM
panies responded, but did not have
hose long enough to reach to the burn
Ing building. Dngdsle had been work.
ing in Wilmington all winter, but left
there for his summe home in Angle
sea on the very day of the fire in his
swift motor boat in company with his
wife. Little did he dream that while
he was Fastening home to begin the
Arctic club repairs, the flames were
%devouring the structure, leaving MOTH
ing to mark the place where once it
stood but a blackened spot. Nero fd-
died while Rome burned, and Dugdale
navigated while the same thing hap
pened to the Arctic club that happened
to Rome.
The Arctic Ice company has finished
all repair work on the plant and ex-
poets to begin making ice In a day or
two. The maximum output is IS tons
per day or 126 tons per week.
The city dredge built by Frank Lar
conbe has exceeded expectations in
the amount of work it has been doing
Ia opening up Hereford Inlet. There
are 5000 cubic yards of material to be
removed, and the dredge is working
ten per cent. faster, it is reported, than
it was guaranteed to do by the builder.
1t will pay for itself in a reasonable
time.
The Inlet Dock company and the
Anglesea Pier company report good
progress and expect to have all repairs
completed by Decoration day.
The Hereford Fish company's output
for the past two weeks has averaged
forty barrels per day. The Marine
Fisheries company, the North Wild
wood Fish company and the Neptune
Fish company did not succeed in get
ting their pounds ready until Monday
last, since which time the catches have
averaged 60, 80 and 20 barrels per day
respectively. The average daily output
for the four big pound companies, be-
ginning Monday last, is $50 barrels per
day. Included in the catches are butter
fish, porgies, founders, mackerel and
a few shad. Mackerel are about done
running now, and it will be several
weeks before the delicious blue fish
arrive.
Margaret Shultz and Edward Stan
ton went to Philadelphia on Tuesday
to visit friends and relatives.
Edward Shultz is employed at Longs
fishing pounds. He went south several
weeks ago with the fishing crews.
Palm Beach was the farthest point
south he ventured, and was glad to get
b.. lin to dear old Anglesea.
Vii .Smedman, sailing the Sea Fox,
and Martin Jensen the Jennie j., this
week headed for Chincoteague Island.
Captain like" Smith, commanding
the Leslie, took a large crowd of city
fishers out to the Five Fathom limit on
Sunday last.
Mrs. /. Hilb has rented for the sum-
mer her nice bungalow on Chestnut
venue
Deputy Coroner VIM. Dreizler, of
Philadelphia, has rented for the season
hisodouble apartment house on Central
avenue, opposite the light house.
Rev. Carl Wheaton Reamer, pastor
of the Anglesea M. E. church, went to
Melville, his home town, on Thursday
to attend a reunion of the trail hitters
who first struck the saw dust path
three years ago, to the number of 300,
during the evangelistic campaign of
George Wood Anderson, who is now in
France helping in Y. M. @. A. work.
minister was at Monroeville, formerly
called Jugtown In the old days before
the railroad was built. AT next Sun
day mornings service Mr.. Reamer's
text will be 1.-THE Good Samaritan"
In the evening his theme will be 'The
Two Builders" A warm welcome is
extended to all.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Quinn are down
from Philadelphia for their fourteenth
summer in their coy bungalow on
east Chestnut avenue.
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