Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-09-02
WILDWOOD NEWS NOTES

Mrs. Helen ASnOH uled at HeI uOHlS'
1O7 West Twenty-third avenue, North
wildwood, on Monday morning, Au-
gust 29, 1921, following a stroke of
paralysis. Services were held at the
undertaking rooms of b. C. Ingersoll
on Wednesday evening and interment
was made in Greenmount Cemetery,
Philadelphia. Mr.. Ingersoll superin-
tended all arrangements both in Wild
wood and Philadelphia and Rev. N. v.
Sargent conducted the funeral SER
vices in both places. Mrs. Ashoff was
60 years of age and formerly lived at
1916 North Hancock street, Philadel-
phia. Four daughters survive. One
married daughter resides in New York
and two married daughters live in
Philadelphia. Florence lived at home
with her mother. A sister also sur
wives. Mrs. Ashoff was just having
a very nice bungalow built for her
daughter at T~wenty-third and Central
avenues by Contractor w. H. Wash
burn Mrs. Ashoff was born near Ber-
lin, Germany, coming to this country
at the age of IA. Her husband, who
died in 1902, amassed a fortune in
the manufacture of silk mill appara-
tus.
Miss Marion Lloyd, daughter of
Prof. and Mrs. F. S. Lloyd, of Young
avenue, left Monday for Cambridge,
Mass, to join her class from Sargent
GA1Iano ond than nrnnondnd fn p0f0r-
boro, N. H., where they will camp for
four weeks, a part of the course in
physical training of the school. She
was accompanied to Bridgeton by her
parents in their car and there she
Joined Miss Gertrude Ware, who is a
member of her class at the same
school, and together they travelled to
Boston and thence to Cambridge. Miss
Lloyd has always been active athleti-
cally, having been a member of the
wildwood High School Girls Varsity
basket ball team and last year was
sub of the Freshman tennis team of
Sargent.
An opportunity to hear Sousa and
his band is given our citizens by the
Reading Railroad by running a special
excursion to Philadelphia on Sunday,
September 18th. Sousa and his band
will be at Willow Grove and connec-
tions can be made with trains for Will
low Grove at the Reading Terminal.
Miss Gertrude Belmont, who. has
hano oH0rJin@ fhn ~ ~ ,or in Atlantic |
City, after a tour of the United States
and Canada, will spend September in
Wildwood. Miss Belmont was recently
voted by artists the finest American
poseur and has been the subject for
many of our most famous monuments
and is a popular favorite. At the time
of her marriage a few years ago to
F. j. Warner, prominent citizen of
Albany, Miss Belmont was considered
the greatest model in New York.
Former Finance Commissioner
Oliver Bright is able to be about again
after having been confined to his home
with neuralgia.
Both the Pennsy and Reading roads
will run late trains on the night of
Labor Day, the Pennsy at 9 and the
Reading at 9.15 daylight saving time.
A baby boy weighing ten pounds
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Pur-
dey, of East Wildwood avenue, early
Wednesday morning, August 81, 1921.
His name is Edward John. Both
mother and baby are getting along
finely.
Lester Evans, a former Wildwood
resident, was here this week.
Earl Hampton, the young man who
has been delivering special delivery
letters and packages in the lower part
of the island, will leave with his
mother for Colorado shortly. Earl is
well known in Wildwood, having at
tended school here for a number of
years. OF late he has been living with
his grandparents in Rio Grande. He
will be missed by a great host of
friends who wish him success in his
new surroundings.
Benny Katz, who lives at Lincoln
and Pacific avenues, suffered the tenn
porary loss of his bicycle when it was
struck and demolished by the Hotel
Beachwood automobile directly in
front of the post Office building on
Wednesday morning. Benny had his
wheel parked on the curb line.
Captain Cox, of the w. B. P, not
only cares for the life of bathers, but
of birds as we'll, having brought to
the guard house a fine specimen of
the kingfish family who has taken
kindly to the guards and makes no at
tempt to fly away, so well he is being
taken care of.
Samuel K. Singer raised a tomato
in his garden at Glenwood and New
York weighing 26 ounces. 1t
is al big one and Mr.. Singer is proud
of it. He was raised on a farm on the
outskirts of Philadelphia.
On Saturday afternoon, while de-
livering parcel post in West Wild
wood the small TInitnd States mail