Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-23

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wood and Holly Beach avenues, and
she is now occupying the first floor.
George Shaw, who conducts a printing
Office in the city, whose wife is the
daughter of Mrs. Halligan, has been
stopping there this week.
Harry Cinalli, the tailor on Pacific
avenue. between Andrew and Burk
venues is building a cement block
house on Taylor avenue, opposite the
John Reese property. The lot was re-
Gently bought from Senator Bright.
The adjoining plot is the corner pre-
scented to the Odd Fellows lodge by
Senator Bright, and upon which the
odge hopes soon to erect a lodge
building.
Three hundred employees of the
H. O. Wilbur and Sons Company, OF
Philadelphia, came to Wildwood last
Saturday on their annual outing,
DESPITE the rain which fell during the
forenoon the crowd of Merrymakers
went bathing and held field and rack
contests. In the afternoon the excur-
sionists played baseball and visited
fine Ocean Pier and other attractions
long the boardwalk. The employees
were greatly impressed with WILDWOOD
and many expressed the wish that they
could come here on their excursion
next year.
Roland Kitchens, of Millville, mas
come tn wildwood for the summer ana
is the pianist at Hunts Comlque me
atre. He attends high school in Mill
Vile and during the winter plays with
the Metropolitan Orchestra there.
Thomas E. Willis, Jr., son OF MI
and Mrs. T. E. Willis, of the La Mar
guerite, Glenwood avenue, was ten
dered a party on Monday, June 18TH
in honor of his third birthday. Many
were present and spent an
ENJOYABLE afternoon playing games. A
collation. was served and Master VIII
lis was given a large birthday cake
bearing three candles. He also re-
ceived many useful gifts.
John J. Sweeney and family are
down for the summer as usual IN thelr
cottage at 2O7 East Twenty-fourth
street.
Charles Mcdonald, of Wilkes-Barre,'
Pa. arrived in wildwood last week lor
the summer. He has taken a posltloh
with F. E. Geiger, manager OF tne
American Railways express business
here. Before coming to Wildwood Mr..
Mcdonald worked for the same COM
pany in his native city. He saw ser
vice for two years in France during
the world war, having been stationed
at the big regulation camp at lssur-
tile. Sergeant Mcdonald expects to
ioin wildwood Post, American Legion,
while here. In September he Will
gain ioin a travelling musical comedy
company, the Greenwich Village FOL
and make a tour of western cir
,uits. Mcdonald is a baritone singer
and was with the Greenwich players
when they appeared last season at
Shubert's Theatre in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Kingston
came down last week to spend the
summer at Wildwood as usual in their
Crosse avenue apartments. In the
winter Mrs. Kingston conducts a mil
linery store in the city on German
town avenu Her name appears
upon the metal plate imbedded in the
in front of St. Simeon's Church,
in whose lawns and shrubbery she is
particularly interested.
William w. Willetts, proprietor and
manager of Willetts' Express, pur-
chased a short time ago from the
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
Co., a piece of ground on Holly Beach
rel at the apex of the triangle
formed by the conveyance at that
point of Schellenger and Cedar ave-
nues. The size of the plot, of irregu-
formation, is so X rs feet. The
price paid was somewhere in the
neighborhood of $1,000. Mr.. Willetts
has erected a temporary Office on this
plot and has had plans drawn up for
a brick building to be constructed
later. The Gulf Refining Co., with
headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa, has
installed one of their oil and gasoline
supply units at this location. "That
good Gulf is the alluring way in
which this company advertises it's
products. On this lot was located the
building in which the Five Mile Beach
Journal was first printed. 1t was
printed on that spot from 1895 to 1902.
The old Journal building now stands
on Schellenger avenue, next to Jim
Days hotel. 1t is now owned by Mrs.
Kelly.
japanese art store is open all year
round, at Pacific and Davis avenues,
carrying a great variety of Oriental
goods. Your inspection invited.-adv.
L. Blom, a Vineland merchant, was
in Wildwood on Friday of last week
and was a caller at the Journal office.
He has engaged apartments for his
family in the new building on the
boardwalk front at Montgomery ave.
The petit jurors of Cape May County
have been called for Wednesday, June
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