Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-12-12
Supreme Court Judge Black Grants
aFWritl Directing the Wildwood
Commissioners to Show Cause
Why the City Should Not
Defend the Culver Suit
In Asking for the Mandamus Charley Helnle Accuses
Two of the Commissioners of Having an
Interior Motive

coincidence appertaining to the life anC
distinguished services of the late Hon
j. Thompson Baker, nj of the found
ers of our city. This testimonial will
be presented at next meeting, Deem
Der 18th.
"Last scene of all" yesterday occur
red when the Mayor asked If there was
any further business to be brought be-
fore the commissioners. In response
to this In terrogatory John I. Byrne, q
citizen of the Second ward, arose and
stepping over to the legislative table,
he deposited thereon directly in front
of the Mayor a packet of papers which
he said he had been requested to serve
on the commissioners In open meeting.
One of these papers contained an aft
davit, duly sworn to by Charles L..
Heinle, Relator, versus F. E. Smith,
ct al Commissioners, etc., respondents.
The name of Hon. Clarence l.. Cole, of
Atlantic City, appeared as attorney
I'm PlhIb " q AAIO w IN ON01S
why a mandamus should not issue,
requiring the commissioners to direct a
defence in the ejectment suit instituted
by tone Culver against the City of
Wild wood" In his com plant the
s%'deponent says that he believes the
Mayor of said city and Commissioners
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have an Interior motive in refusing to
authorize a defence of said action"
The writ was granted by Chas.
G. Black, one of the judges of the Su-
preme court of New Jersey, directing
'tthe defendants, the commissioners of
Wildwood to show cause before the
Supreme court on the first Tuesday of
February next why a mandamus
should not issue requiring them to de-
fend the action in ejectment brought
in the Circuit court of the County of
Cape May by Ed ward s. Culver
against said city" While the city
clerk read the affidavit and the Su-
preme court order, a "solemn Stiffness"
stole through the chamber, and there
was a feeling of relief manifested when
adjournment was moved at 2.57.
&S0 -
Eddie Borrell, who is in the theat-
rical business, being a member of a
QUARTET and playing the leading
vaudeville houses throughout the west,
writes his parents from st. Louis that
booze is flowing over the bars there
like a river. W.
Building Association funds to loan
on first mortgage in amounts to suit.
Robert ]. Kay secretary, Wildwood,
N. J.-adv.
Mrs. M. Jones has been spending a
couple of weeks at Willard Hall, ac-
companied by her friend and neighbor
in Philadelphia, Mrs. George Elm
wechter. Mrs. Jones the
sale of the DeIwyn hotel property on
Glenwood avenue to Mrs. Carrie E
AHOuolCJ1 VI AlloOclpuIds
" Harry Wise has bought the William
Bechmann corner property at Poplar
and Pacific avenues, at a price said to
be in the neighbOrhood Of $4,000. 9
Will you help the tuberculosis fund
by purchasing Red Cross seals for
Christmas stickers? They are on sale
for the Red Cross at the Anglesea post
office, Becker's store, electric office and
Tribune office,
Mrs. Jack Myers, of Connecticut,
who paid a short visit to her brother,
Clarence Brewer, on Young avenue,
left a few days ago for Santiago, Calf,
where she will join her husband and
reside in the future.
VIM. L. Ewing, son of ex-Sheriff
Samuel e. Ewing, motor vehicle agent
for Cape May county, will sit at the
Wild wood city hall on Tuesday, Dec.
10th. from nine to four to issue 1920
automobile licenses.
The charter of the proposed national
bank at Sea Isle City was recently
refused.