Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03
WILDWOOD NEWS NOTES
WOOdfOrd AyarS Drops
Dead i'm Street

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cream factory and had also a retail
department. With the valuable assist
ance of his wife he carried on this
business for several years, and it
seemed to be a profitable enterprise.
He was born at Harmersville, Salem
County, on March %, 1853, son of the
late William Ayars and Sarah Nixon.
For several years he was employed as
solicitor for the Prudential Insurance
Co. in Salem and Bridgeton, coming to
Wildwood eleven years ago and engag-
ing in the ice cream business on the
boardwalk in the Heinle block. Two
years later he became connected with
Mr.. Mills in the manufacture of ice
cream and a year later he purchased
the interest of Mr.. Mills and has con-
tinued the business at lat East Gar
field avenue, where one of the most
sanitary and best equipped plants in
South Jersey is located. He was a
member of Wapella Tribe of Red Men
and Fraternal Order of Eagles; also
a member of the Order of Elks of Mill
Vile. The deceased is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Katharine Ayars, a
brother, Charles, of Greenwich, Cum
berland County, and a grandson, Harry
Ayars, residing in Davenport, Iowa.
Services were held at his late
home on Thursday evening and inter
ment is being made today at the Can
ton Baptist Cemetery, located a few
miles south of Salem. Undertaken B.
C. Ingersoll had charge of the funeral
and services were conducted by Rev.
L. H. Fisher, pastor of the Baptist
Church. His body rests beside the
remains of a formerIwife and also the
body of an only son, Harry, who died
in wildwood in November, 1917.
Prof. Fl. C. Chalmers, supervising
principal of the Wildwood High
School, has been in Chicago this week
attending the National Education AS
s~ociation convention, department of
superintendent.
! The new electric sign erected at the
new Chinese restaurant, adjoining the
Ruric Hotel, was built and put up by
the South Jersey Electric Supply Co.
WdnI W hnOW WndI LAS OplluS
styles are? Look at Fox Bros show
windows.-adv.
The Hotel Ivy, Oak avenue, near At
lantic, has been rented again for the
season of 1922 by Mrs. F. c. Lawton, of
Frankfort, Pa.
E. Sommer, the Andrew avenue tai
lor, will move into n of the new
stores under the Hotel Colonial about
April LIST.
Leedom's Astringent gargle for sore
throat. Leedom's Pharmacy, Burk and
Pacific avenue.-adv.
Jerome Miller, of st. Petersburg,
Fla, father-in-law of E. Sommer,
spent a few days here this week. Mr..
Miller reports business in st. Peters
burg as being very poor.
Palmer M. Way is laid up with the
grippe. He was taken i'll last Satur-
day.
The Logan apartments at >220 East
Magnolia avenue, owned by Robert
Young, looks respondent with a new
coat of paint. The work was done by
Robert Crop and Son.
Want to know what the spring
styles are? Look at Fox Bros show
windows.-adv.
The fire department was called out
n day last week to quench flames at
124 w. Lincoln venue, when a small
house was partly burned. 1t was oc-
cupied by William Wfgans, a driver
for Loefier's express.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Haslett, of Phila-
delphia, paid a visit to Wildwood last
Sunday to look over their apartments
on East Lincoln avenue, the OSPREY,
which are owned by them.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Brownback, OF
Philadelphia, have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Jessie
Stott Brownback, to Arthur H. Jacobs,
formerly of Wildwood.
George J. Reed, of Dias Creek, was
in Wildwood Monday night. Mr..
Reeds farm extends back to the Della
ware Bay shore and he is arranging to
make a landing place and wharf to ac-
commodate fishing parties. He has
organized the Delaware Bay Fishery
Association and he was elected presi-
dent; Thomas Douglass. vice presi-
dent; Harry Ericsson, secretary. The
association is having a card printed
embracing the map of Cape May
County and featuring Reeds Beach
Want to know what the spring
styles are? Look at Fox Bros show
windows.-adv.
Miss Ethyl Ozmon and mother, of
lis West Twenty-sixth avenue, have
returned after spending two weeks in
New York City, where Mrs. Ozmon's
two sons now reside.
Mrs. Charles Kantz and daughter,
of Englewood, Bergen County, are in