Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-01-23
Mrn. carl Hansen. Of the Hotel Ham.

Mrs. Carl Hansen, OF the Hotel Ham,
let, Lincoln avenue, is planning a trip
to California, where she once resided
for four years. She will accom- pany
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Thompson and
their daughter Mabel. The party will
go by water to New Orleans, sailing
from New York on board the ship
Creole on Wednesday, February 18th,
1920, thence by the Sunset route to
Los Angeles. For the past few seasons
the Thompson family have summered
In Wild wood. Last July Mr. Thomp-
son, who is the we'll known Philadel-
phia tailor, went TO Denmark, and I'M
able to rent a house, bought one In
Copenhagen for $40, 900. Later in the
summer his family followed him to
Europe and one of his daughters was
married there to a Dane. Mr.. Thomp-
sou is fond of the water and keeps a
yacht in Denmark. Last summer the
family occupied the Connolly cottage
on Glenwood mi
The girl twins born to Councilman
aud Mrs. William H. Campbell, of the
Crest, are doing fine and thriving &C
cording to Or. Cohen. For years the
father has been employed in the Kono-
witch store. The twins are now three
weeks old, having been born on jan
uary 3, 1920.
Thomas s. Goslin went to New York
Wednesday to see his son, reported Ill
with the mumps. When he arrived at
Manhattan he found that Omar had
Just left for home. Both father and
son arrived in Wildwood Wednesday
evening.
The alterations and Improvements to
be made to the southwest corner prop
erty at Oak aud Pacific by
Bank Director Roland Corson, the new
owner, are underway, and rapid pro-
gress is being made in the reconstruc-
ton of this building, the frontage of
which is twenty-five feet, with a depth
of fifty feet. A section of thirty feet
10 depth, including an eight foot porch,
is to be added in the rear. This re-
modelled structure will have a plate
glass front and sides. There will be
two entrances to MI. Corson's clothing
store, one on Pacific and one or Oak.
The carr enter work is in charge of
Walter Hand, of Rio Grande, and the
contract for the concrete foundations
and other cement work has been awar-
ded to Frank p. Mattera, Of North
Wildwood. 1t was Mr.. Corson's orig
inal intention to tear down the present
building and erect on this site a new
and up-to-date edifice, but owing to
the high cost of material his plans
were changed, and nov he wants to
facilitating the old landmark. The
building was erected in the closing
days of the nineteenth century by the
late Captain Edgar Brown. DR.. Co.
hen was the first tenant, who moved
his drug store there.
For Sale-Two stove ranges, good
condition. J. Beach, west 26th street.
Under date Of January 18th Samuel
P. Leeds, president of Atlantic City's
Chamber of Commerce, addressed a
letter to the Wildwood Board of Trade
expressing regret that he could not
come to Wild wood on Feb. 5. He is
expected to make an address at the
March meeting.
1t has been a week of slippery pave
ments and streets. The mercury has
ranged from 20 to 35 degrees. Yester-
day there vas a drilling rain most all
day, freezing as it fell. 1t has been a
condition of weather that seldom exists.
Today it is raining and it is mighty
close to freezing.
The Wildwood tax rate this year will
be pretty close to $500 on the $500
valuation.
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