Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-10-28

With the growing popularity OF the
~year-round seashore resorts, from At
lantic City southwark to Cape May,
the Pennsylvania Railroad has en-
larged it's passenger traffic force by
the appointment of James S. Murphy
to the newly created position of Dis
trict Passenger Representative. Mr..
Murphy's territory will embrace all
that portion of the seashore south Oh
Atlantic City, He will look after the
southern New Jersey seashore travel
from and to Ocean City, Wildwood,
Cape May and Atlantic City. Mr.. Muir
phv has been the City Ticket Agent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Allan
tic City for the past is years. He
started to work for the railroad as a
clerk in 1884. In January, 1898, he
was a Tourist Agent, and on August /,
1903. he was sent to Atlantic City and
placed in charge of the City Ticket
Office at the Northwest corner of Pa
cilc and South Carolina avenues. Mr..
Murphy's appointment as District
Passenger Representative will date
from October LIST. He is succeeded by
Robert Keown, an employee of the
Passenger Department, who for a num-
her of years has been assisting MT.
Murphy in the Atlantic City office.
C. B. Smith, who for thirteen years
was district manager of the Bell Tele-
phone Company with headquarters az
Atlantic City, has been transferred to
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, effective october
Is, 1921. He is succeeded by w. w
Britain, who comes from Philadel-
phia. Mr.. Britain was in WILDWOOD
ON Wednesday.
Contractor Frank McAlarnen is a
busy man these days. He is building
a SAC 0 apartment house for Joseph
w. Thurman on Twenty-frst avenue,
near Central, and two bungalows on
West Montgomery avenue, one for
Oscar olson and one for John Kloo.
He is also building a fine garage for
Mr.. Fitzharris on Orchid road at the
Crest. All the contractors and lum-
Der dealers on Five Mile Beach are
busy men.
A meeting of the Cape May County
Republicans will be held in the Wild
wood high school auditorium on Fri
day evening, November 4th. The
speakers will be Ex-Governor Runyon,
Senator w. H. Bright and others.
Robert ]. Kay, candidate for the AS
sembly, has been invited to make an
address. Chairman Laurence Chalmers
and Lydia ]. Mech, vice chairman,
are arranging a program of entertain
ment. This meeting was arranged for
last Friday night, when in addition to
these two chairman being elected, Ed
ward Fox was elected secretary and
Willard Campbell treasurer. The OBJ
ject is to get a big vote out for Bright
for Senator and Kay for Assembly.
Miss Dorothy Finn, of the City Hall
clerical force, and Miss Mary W Shep'
pard, of the Beecher-Kay Realty office
have returned from a vacation in New
York state and other Places Miss
Finn and her aunt first went on a triI
and Miss Sheppard met them at the
Hotel Pennsylvania, where they
stopped for awhile. Dorothy and her
aunt spent two weeks in the Cats
kin mountains in the vicinity of Mil
lerton, Duchess County, near the Con-
~necticut state line, and about 80 miles
Northeast of Poughkeepsie. This is
good farming country with iron mines
in the vicinity. From their h%eadquart.
ers in New York the two girls visited
the great City of Newark and the
Oranges, and made the hike up the
famous Eagle Rock in that vicinity
At this point they were near Cald'
well, the birthplace of Grover Cleve'
land. The girls had a glorious time.
The audience at the Angel Visit Bap
fist Church last Saturday evening was
disappointed in the proposed evening
of song. The Ivy Leaf Concert Club
of Chester, Pa, did not arrive in Wild
wood until about eleven o'clock tina
evening, because of a breakdown o
their automobile on the way iron
Chester. Mrs. Alice Fortune, Pastor
Stewart and the other members of thu
committee regretted the incident yer.
much. They hope to have the singers
here at another date when the sam
tickets outstanding will be honored
The interior of the little church hai
been improved and looks very attrac
tive.
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