Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-12-23
wildwood News Notes
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Mr.. and Mrs. William M~OOrhOuSe, OF
222 East Magnolia avenue. are leaving
wildwood today for Philadelphia to
spend the holidays. after which they
will go to Abbeville, Ca, to spend a
month with a brother. Abbeville is
about $50 miles due west of Savannah,
and is the county seat of Wilcox
County and has wagon and brick fac
tories.
John F. Brady was accompanied on
his weekly visit to Wildwood Wednes-
day by John F. Marshall, a friedrich
manufacturer, of Lock Haven, Pa.
Robert Mousley, a Philadelphia
business man, was down Sunday to in
spect his property here. Contractor
Z. T.. Fries has laid the foundation for
a fine cottage for Mr.. Mousley on
Glenwood avenue, adjoining the Mar
tindale property. It will be a two
story modern dwelling and heated.
Mr.. Mousley expects to locate in Wild
wood the year round in the neal flu
tur and occupy this house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheppard w. Coombs
arrived home on Monday from their
Western trip, being way a little over
three months.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Stubs, of East
Glenwood avenue, will leave Saturday
to spend the holidays with relatives
in Philadelphia. One year ago they
bought what was known as the Firmin
property and have since built a cosy
cottage in the rear in which an Arcola
heater was recently installed.
A committee of the Wildwood Civic
Club met at the home of Mrs. Roland
Corson last Wednesday afternoon. to
fill stockings for Christmas COM
munity gifts. About 900 pounds of
candy had been purchased and 1900
stockings were stuffed to the limit.
Mrs. Corson was named by the presi-
lent of the club to head this COM
mittee on entertainment. The distri-
button of these stockings will take
place next Saturday night at Oak and
Pacific avenues-the post Office n
The community tree is already in
place. The exercises will begin at 8
o'clock on the night mentioned.
The permit taken out by John
Bowen for the erection of an apart
ment house on Baker avenue, east of
Pacific avenue, calls for a $500
proposition.
1t is remarkable to note the large
number of apartment houses that have
gone up on this island lately and are
still going up. If this rate of build
ing keeps up much longer, the trans
portation companies will nave to hump
themselves in order to carry the peo-
pie here to fill the many places pro-
vided for them. Adequate transpor-
tation facilities is really our biggest
problem to solve.
John Werner, who bought the prop
erty at the corner of West Pine ave-
nue. and Park boulevard, about a year
ago from ex-Commissioner Hendee,
and Who has since been residing there,
is at present in a hospital in Phila-
delphia, where he underwent an oper-
alton two weeks ago for the removal
of a tumop or growth of some kind on
his chest. It is reported that he is
doing well and may soon be able to
return to Wildwood.
The State Department of Weights
and Measures has appointed w. H.
Austin public weighmaster for Wild
wood and vicinity.
Charles H. Ryan, representing the
Prudential Insurance Co. in the
county and located at Court House,
was in Wildwood on Wednesday. Mr..
Ryan came to this district from Pitts
burg a year ago.
While driving home from Atlantic
City recently Mrs. Max Mayors auto
collided with another, but no one was
hurt. Her two young daughters were
with her.
Councilman E. B. Pagan informs us
that at the union meeting of the COM
bined boroughs and Lower Township,
held on Thursday of last week, that
Frank McNeal, a Lower Township
farmer, was appointed a Freebooter to
succeed Joseph MacKissic.
Rev. I. H. Fisher is driving a new
Ford sedan, and he himself was car
penter enough to build a garage for it
in the real of the Baptist Church.
Ministers, as a rule, are handy men.
A regular meeting of the County
Board of Freeholders was held last
Tuesday afternoon at Court House.
An adjourned meeting is being held
today, Friday, in the reception room
of the Anglesea Association. The OBJ
ject of this meeting is surmised to
have something to do with affairs per-
tanning particularly to this section of
the county. Mr.. Norton will take his
seat at this meeting.