Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-29
WILDWOOD NEWS NOTES

evening" MISS SOuHSDSAS NOA mS'
prize; Mrs. J. Hand, second; Mrs.
Peters, third, and Mrs. Mount, fourth.
Mrs. Campbell will have a 500 each
Monday and Friday evenings the bal
ance of the season.
George P. Dougherty, wife and son,
Of South Philadelphia, are spending
their vacation with his mother, on
East Magnolia avenue
Nine Boy Scouts returned from Gull
yer Lake in Sussex County with Scout
master King on Tuesday evening.
A large weasel was killed in Scott's
bar Monday morning after being
chased there when it was seen eating
a young duck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Filler, Of New
York City. are spending a few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. Linwood Filler at
their residence on Twenty-sfxth ave-
une.
Miss Jennie Proud. formerly in the
Journal Building, is spending the week
in wildwood.
Lawn mowers, knives, saws, cutlery,
ETC., sharpened and repaired. Sing
ley's Repair Shop, West Seventeenth
e Both phones.-adv.
The wildwood Civic Club will hold
its next meeting Wednesday afternoon,
August Sd. at three o'clock at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Thomas Martindale. The
club house on the boardwalk, which
was formerly the Office of the North
Wildwood Land Co., and where the
club had enjoyed so many successful
meetings and entertainments, has been
sold and Mrs. Martindale, with char
acteristic generosity, has offered her
home as a meeting place. Mrs. Mar
tindale, chairman of the Entertain
ment Committee, has prepared a fine
program. Mrs. Francis D. Maxwell
will give an address on 1.-THE New
Citizen" and Mrs. Herbert E. Marston,
soprano, will sing. A matter of great
Importance to the club will come up
for discussion and it is hoped there
will be a large attendance.
Be sure-to visit the Bathing Novelty
Store and see the ladies' white pumps
and oxfords. Actual value, $500; sale
price, $2.65.
What might have been a destructive
fire was narrowly ayerted by young
Stuhltrager on Sunday afternoon last,
when a small awning had caught fire
from a burning match carelessly
thrown from a second floor porch of
the Brooklyn-Hart building. Stuhl-
TRACER was asleep in a rear oom Of the
ground floor, when some one from the
Dayton, across the street., seeing the
blaze, yelled fire. and quick to act,
he carried a tub of water from the
rear, putting out the fire just as the
fire department arrived upon the
scene.
DR.. Scott w. Law, a Philadelphia
physician, who has occupied Mason
Jess cottage for the past few seasons.
has bought the new house erected by
Bonham Brothers in North Wildwood,
on Twenty-first avenue, nea Surf
avenue.
Charles H. Donley, an employee of
the gas office, is operating the Casino
rolling chairs, with headquarters on
the boardwalk at Cedar avenue, OPP
posite the Jack Rabbit. This was the
first line of chairs to operate on the
new boardwalk now being erected on
the ocean front of the Holly Beach
section of Wildwood. Mr.. Donley has
riding horse which was brought to
him some weeks ago from his old
home at Harrisburg, Pa. A number
of Wildwood young ladies are learning
to ride, including Mrs. Gus He'll and
Miss Catherine Hansel, both of Wild
wood avenue Mr.. Donley lays a
watering trough is needed in Wild
wood.
William J.. Forbes and wife, of
Philadelphia, are spending their vaca-
ton at the Borrell apartments, corner
Of New York and Magnolia avenues.
Mr.. Forbes is connected with the H. K.
Milford Chemical Co. This has been
their first time in Wildwood and they
are very much enthused over the ISL
and. They are also accompanied by
Miss Dolores Winslow, of Philadelphia.
A large electric sign has been placed
on the top of Hotel Arlington by Elec-
trician Ralph J. T. Carter. This is the
first sign of its kind on a hotel here.
Mrs. Edward Bacon, of Millville, who
is spending the summer here. returned
last Sunday night with her niece and
nephew, Louise and Charles Page, Jr.,
from a visit in that city.
The will of James Gemmell was pro-
bated in Philadelphia a few days ago
leaving an estate valued at $11O,0 900 to
his widow and six children. Mr.. Gem
NELL was an official of the General
Engineering Company, and he was a
Wildwood commuter for many years.
Mrs. Gemmell is spending the summer
at her Aster road home, in the Crest.
George Grant and Leon Wheaton
left for Chester, Pa, on the lit this
afternoon on the Reading with Tall
Cedar booklets, which they will dis