Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-03

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up the great rally. Before plunging
into the heat of battle, Mr.. Bright, the
wheel horse of Americanism. Invested
himself Of all unnecessary trappings,
the better to give a good count OF
himself and the cause, which he gen.
orally does. He had scarcely uttered a
word before a number of the sailors
We're hopping around in glee. They
bad heard him before one said, and
seemed to be tickled all to pieces at the
hammer and tongs method which Mr..
Bright sails into things. AS one one of
the sailor lads put it: "He makes
things hum" And SO he did, and the
way that Liberty Loan went more than
twice over shows the speed of the man
behind the final push. A final word
to the men who engineered the CAM
paign: To Robert Bright, chairman of
the committee on arrangements, and
to all those who so ably assisted him,
many thanks are due. His committee
consisted of Freebooter Floyd Hewitt,
Charles F. Sanders, City Clerk George
Redding, Collector P. L.. Peterson,
Mayor James McLinden, Palmer M.
Way, John Heating, Councilman
Frank Larcombe. The splendid new
flag, eight by twelve feet, unfurled on
Monday night, 10 conjunction with the
honor flag, was the gift of the Beecher-
Kay Realty Co. The amount assigned
to be raised by the people Of North
Wild God was $50, 900. The amount
raised to date, we are informed, is
$50, 900, or l40 per cent. efficiency.
After the exercises a supper vas served
In the Methodist church to the band,
the speakers and other invited guests.
On Monday evening at the paTson-
age in wildwood by Rev. Fisher, pas
tor of the Baptist church, were married
Stanley Schellinger Holmes and Bessie
DOTS, both of Anglesea. The groom
is a son OF Mr.. and Mrs. William b.
Holmes, and grandson of the late Hon.
Daniel Schellinger, a member of As
sembly from Cape May county in 1879
Natalie Holmes, a sister Of the groom,
holds a clerkship In the Wildwood IT.
tie and Trust Co., and his other sister,
Linda e. Holmes, is a second year pu-
pill In the wildwood high school. The
bride is the daughter of the proprietress
of what was once known as Dotts' cafe,
but which was swept out OF existence
by the ruthless hand of the storm king
in his recent rampage. After the mar
rage ceremony had been performed the
happy couple repaired to the home of
the bride at Second and Pennsylvania
avenues, where a reception was held
and a supper of unexampled excellence
rendered them and a large number Of
invited guests. Many handsome pres
ents were given to them, and as a spe-
cial and a substantial token of their
friendship for the groom the Anglesea
fishermen handed him a fat envelope,
supposed to contain enough of The
necessary to buy at least one Liberty
Bond, maybe two. 1t pays sometimes
to have good friends. Social events
got a little mixed in this pleasant affair,
as the customary kitchen shower was
sprinkled over them on the Thursday
evening previous to the date of the
marriage.
The Anglesea fishing fleet, consist
Snn~ rf civ hS.w hnotn Gnf coil IN Nv an-
nesday for Hampton Roads, Va, and
the fishing grounds In that vicinity.
The names follow: John Leonard,
Clara, Leonora, Jacob Ockers, Edith,
Louise, and Elizabeth G.. Capt. Peter
Munson will start on Monday next
with the Harvey to join the advance
fleet.
Anglesea's new municipal dredge is
finished and ready to scoop out the fill
from Hereford Inlet.
Mayor McLinden has rented for the
season one of his New York avenue
houses to Mrs. Martha Taylor, of Will
low Grove, Pa.
William Starr IS working for the Ma
rine Freezing Co. and has rented a
house at I'd and Pennsylvania.
Mr.. aud Mrs. George Ackler, Of Oh
ney, Pa, motored to Angle.ea on Tues
day to visit Mrs. Shultz at Hotel Hill
ton, who is Mrs. Ackler's mother.
Fire threatened to destroy the cottage
OF J. w. Broome, 22d street, near the
railroad, on Wednesday. The fire COM
panies i%nterposed a veto to the flames.
; While this fire was not exactly of in
cendiary origin, 1t came very close 10
being classed in that category.
Grapevine & Wimley have painted
two houses on Walnut and Chestnut
avenues for Mrs. Gussie Morris.