Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-12-29
WILDWOOD NEWS NOTES

~ 49, - $500
employees. OF this sum $4,000 goes
to stockholders as a ten per cent semi
annual dividend and a Christmas pres
ent OF $50 to each director and en-
ployee. After all bills are paid for the
last six months there will be over
$200,000 in the surplus fund.
Hemstitching, Picoting. Mrs. Hip
pie, lis w. Maple ave Candy Store.
Many of the school teachers are
spending the holidays at their homes
in various parts of the country.
Messrs. o. L. DAILY and FELTON, Harlan
left last Friday for their respective
homes, Scranton and Conshohocken,
Pa. M. Mally is vacationing in Miners
VILE, Pa; Miss Airline Groves, in
Waynesboro, Pa; Mrs. Conover, in
Camden, and Helen Epps is making a
tour Of New York State.
Mrs. C. Williams is spending the
holidays in New York City.
Frank Albus and daughter, Vera,
spent the Christmas weekend with
relatives on the mainland near here,
coming down from Allentown, Pa.
Many of the graduates of the local
high school, now enrolled in colleges
of the country, are spending the
Christmas vacation with their parents
here. Among these are Ruth Goslin,
who is attending Goucher College;
Frances Shute, Hood College; Russell
Epler, University of Pennsylvania;
Charles Mcneil and Ralph Maxwell,
Drexel Institute, and Richard J.. An
derson, of William and Mary College.
Walter Richman a, graduate Of the
local high school, now residing in
Haddon Heights, and who was a MEM
Der of the Cornell football squad this
year, spent a few days this week at
the home of William E. White.
Maskell G. Maurada, who last sum-
mer was on the reportorial staff of
this paper, and who is now attending
William and Mary College in Will
liamsburg, Va, spent Sunday saying
merry Christmas to friends here.
The local Legion Post had 156 paid
up members for 1922. It is composed
of veterans of the World Wal which
ended with the signing of the armis-
tice on November IL, 1917, and is the
largest Post in Cape May County. An
effort is being made to bring the mem
bership up to ITS for 1923.
C. w. Saul has sold his home on
West Glenwood venue to Philadel-
phia parties and bought the property
now owned and occupied by Baker
Henry Hill, at 3O7 East Poplar ave-
hue, where he expects to owe in the
spring.
James MacMaster, chief of the
building and loan division of the state
department of banking and insurance,
will be the principal speaker at the
Board of Trade meeting, Friday even
ing, January 9Th, in St. AIMS Au-
ditorium. A general invitation is
tended to the public and the special
guests will be the Building and Loan
Associations. All the associations
are invited and we are taking this
means of making the invitation known.
Miss Betty Sellers was among the
Christmas holiday visitors here, the
guest of Mrs. Rose Schlichting and
daughter, Pearl. Later she motored
TO Richmond, Va, to attend a dinner
dance which her sister gave in her
honor. Miss Sellers was cashier for
Paul Jones during the past season.
Watch for date, time and place for
Citizens Mass Meeting, held on behalf
of the Citizens Cooperative League.
What does Wildwood want? What
does Wildwood need? And what does
Wildwood get? E. Yenney, assisted
L. Fouv oLTo c@aa110re 7 oli0c IN
vited.-adv.
Mrs. Florence Housman was grant
ed a divorce from Willard Housman
at the October term of court, State of
Georgia. Mrs. Housman was Miss
Florence Taylor before her marriage
and is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Taylor, of Wildwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Wallace are spend
ing the week with Mrs. J. Springer,
142 East Wildwood avenue.
John Jeffrey and father spent
Christmas in Wildwood with their
family on Glenwood They are
employed on road work near Pauls-
boro. Melvin Lennox is also en-
ployed on the same job.
Edmund N. Woodsum, of Camden, a
representative of the investment house
Of Graham, Parsons & Co., Philadel-
phia, was in Wildwood a few days ago.
Bond and White have begun the
erection of a large community build
ing on East Pine avenue, adjoining the
Abbey, for Mrs. Stein and Mrs. Law
renee, of Philadelphia, who will, them
selves, take charge of and manage
the enterprise.
A charter has been granted to the
Elmer Trust Company, a new bank
now organizing at Elmer, Salem
County. A group of men who started
the Pitman Trust Company a few
years ago have been assisting in or
canning the new hank CLAYTON s |