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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-20
OBITUARY

Last Saturday evening, April 14th,
Mary Josephine Douglass, SO years of
age. passed away at the home of her
only daughter, Mrs. Cordelia McCourt,
III East Oak avenue. She had been
an invalid for a long time, but bore
her suffering with cheerful and patient
fortitude. B. C. Ingersoll & Son Ia
charge of the funeral arrangements.
The body was taken last Monday
morning to the home of the ~deceased's
granddaughter, Mrs. Harry Brown,
3O07 West Girard avenue, where SER
vices were held at 10 o'clock last
Wednesday morning, conducted by
Rev. Mercer, rector of the Protestant
Episcopal church of the Covenant,
9th and Girard avenue. Interment
was made in Fernwood cemetary, 10th
street and Baltimore avenue, West
Philadelphia. Mother Douglass is
survived by her daughter, Mrs. Cor
della McCourt and two sons, Charles
A. Douglass, Jr. and Joseph Douglass,
all of Wildwood. Five grand children
also survive her and three great
SIduu Cullul IL hS hbANOA HN
the deceased was Hathaway. She
was born in Columbus, Ohio, but
brought by her parents to Philadel-
phia, at an early age. For the past
eight or nine years, she had lived in
Wildwood at the home of her daugh-
ter, to whom she was much devoted.
Her third son, Walter Douglass, died
but a couple of weeks previous and
was inferred in the same bury1ng
ground, where. rests the remains of
his mother. Walter Douglass had
lived in wildwood about Is years.
He was noted for his skill as an ice
cream maker and assisted his brother
Joseph in the production of the well
known Douglass brand. Her husband
died at the age of q years.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-20

Charles D. Meschter, ct ux., to Will
liam c. Hunt, ct ux. $4,000. Lots
8 to IA, inclusive, block 81.
Samuel B. Gof, ct ais, to William
H. G. Gould. $1,000. Lots 10 and 20,
block Sc.
Charles H. Brelsford, ct ux., to Will
liam Walter, ct ux. Lots 81 and SO,
block 81.
Jenny Harper, ct vir., to Stephen
Girardi. Lots z and s, block 10.
Borough Of Wildwood Crest to Wild
wood Crest Realty Company. Lot 55
and S. E. half of lot 81, block liza.
Cape May City
jeremiah f. Mecray, ct ux., to
Laura M. Brown. $1,155. Lot 6, plan
J.. E. Mecray.
George F. Rutherford, ct ux., to
George William Firth, ct Tx. $500.
Lot 6, section 9, Cape May Land Co.,
with Hotel Villa Nova.
Ida M. Firth, ct vir., to George F.
Rutherford. $4,000. West part of lot
2, section 4, Mt. Vernon tract.
Samuel L. Burroughs, ct ux., to
Bertha R. P. Hickey. $4,000. Lot on
S. E. side of Corinthian avenue, 250
feet N. E. from Franklin street.
Borough of Cape May Point
Annie E. Jones, ct viz, to Ida Was
ser. $4,000. Lots 81 and SO, block A
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-20
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Charles Barnett, who formerly re-
tailed our product, and who now
drives a motor truck on which our
trade name is painted in a manner
calculated to deceive our customers,
has no connection whatever with u
business and is only using that meth
cd to deceive the public and sell an
inferior commodity under a name
that we have used for the past 20
years.
CRYSTAL ICE PLANT.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-20

Edward B. Arnett, ct ux., to First
National Bank of Sea Isle City. Lots
s to IL, inclusive, block IL, S. w.
section.
David A. Lennox to Charles A. Kohs.
1875. Part of lot IS, block 5, South
Point.
Matilda T. Lands to Frederick L.
Saunders, ct ux. $3.50. Part of lot
2, block &c.
Edward B. Arnett. Lot s, block IL,
S. w. section.
Borough of Avalon
Charles V. D. Joline, Special Master
Gland Avalon Development Company,
to Borough of Avalon. $2,100. Lots
%, 80 and 40, section 5; lots 81 and
A, section Z; lots 81, 25, 27, 20, 81, 33,
80 and 40, section ii.
Avalon City Building and Loan As
ISOLATION to Charles V. Baxendale, ct
al. Lot 35, section 81.
Charles V. Baxendale, ct al, to John
E. James, ct ux. Same as above.
Victor Durand, Jr. ,et ux., to Edwin
B. Bennett. $4,000. Lots 80 and 40,
block 81.
Borough of Stone HarbOr
Marguerite G. Kelly, ct vir., ct ais,
to Joseph P. Lodge. $3.50. Lots n
and rs, block 81, plan of 1907; lots
16 and IS, block 81, plan A; lots 10
to 2" inclusive, block SO, plan d..
Robert E. Long, ct ux., to Dorr E.
Newton. $S3.75. Lot in N. w. line of
Sd avenue, 10 feet N. e. from North
corner of SD street and Sd avenue.
Dorr E. Newton, ct ux., to Edward
L. Voorhees,, ct ais. $500. Lot 157,
block 81, plan G.
Middle Township
George H. White Land and Improve
ment Company to Elizabeth Timans.
Lots II, Is and 10, block SO, plan B,
Wildwood Junction Heights.
Same to Jack Pindre. Lots IL to
IA inclusive, block 70, plan B.
Same to Robert Hill. Lots 3S, 20,
"a, 35 and SO, block 95, plan B.
Mary A. Powell to Thurston Elmer
Wood Post, No. 1913, American Legion.
81, 500. House and lot on S. w. side
of Hand avenue, Court House, bind
ing lands of Robert S. Miller and
Blanche N. Bonnell, containing so
square perches.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12
OLD FAT HIPPO

81 am a fat old creature and / don't
mind" said the Hippopotamus In the
zoo.
A sparrow had had q bath In the
Hippo's pool and now was sitting on
q bar Of the hippo's indoor zoo room.
I'm interesting for | belong TO an
old, old family. They can't think back
to a time when there weren't some of
our family about.
AT least none Of them can / know,
and I've heard them even say that
their grandmothers and great-great,
great Observation-Disclosures can't
remember the time when there weren't
some of us to be seen somewhere
either in Africa OF in a zoo.
For the members of Our family
lived a very, very long time ago. Our
name of HippopOtamus IN from
two words-two Greek words, I'm told
| don't speak Greek myself. Never did
and never shall. At least, l don't ever
expect to learn the language.
Fancy seeing Old Fat Hippo with q
Greek dictionary before him! In the
first place I'm too lazy to study it,
in the second place, it would all be sc
foolish.
"Hippopotamus talk is the same ev'
erywhere. we don't change our
speech from african TO American FOL
example. In that way animals are faI
more sensible than people, | think. In
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n part Of the country people speak
in n language, and in another, quite
a different language. Now, animals
have the same language. Lions speak
lion talk wherever they are! We
speak HippOpotamus talk wherever we
are.
But people! No, they're always
thinking of how to give themselves
extra trouble. But as | started TO say
our name comes from two Greek
words. We are given our name by peo-
pie, you see. can't tell you the Greek
words, and as | said before, Pm not
going to study Greek.
why, JUST to show you how hard
Greek is, people often say, why, that
would be Greek TO me- when they are
talking about something which they
couldn't possibly understand. Yes,
that Is just an expression, so it goes
TO show you how hard Greek is, that
even IN expression or saying of that
sort has been made up about it.
1.-THE two Greek words though, mean
river horse. That is what hippopot-
anus means. And it's not a bad name,
though it could be better. Still II
might be worse! / eat enormous guam
titles OF grass every day. I've a good
hippopotamus appetite and my keeper
says / do not need a tonic.
SIN fact, I'm almost growing too fat
I weigh several thousand pounds, ]
believe. 1t Is all because | eat a lot
and don't exercise. But l don't care
about exercising. I like t swim and
they say that my relatives when free
can climb up banks which are eve sc
high ana can swim magnifcently. But
/ don't care about exercising.
'Fd never care to do c~alisthenics ev
cry morning and evening, nor would
care TO walk around my yard several
times a day as quickly as could. No
/ wouldn't care for exercise.
II would rather be fat. Oh yes, TG
much rather be fat. How dreadful Il
would be to be a thin hlppopotamus
and moi have lots Of weight. I'd hate
to be called skinny and l make sure
there will never be any danger o.
that. Oh, l must have a nap now anc
shall lie in my pool and take 1t
Later / may have a little splash ant
then a good meal and another rest.
.Oh, It Is fun to rest and eat ant
dream hippopctamus dreams. The,
are dreams of more resting and NOR,
food by the way"
And the little sparrow few out then
while the hippopotamus did Just as h,
had said he would. He had a nap ant
he was In his pool. Then he had
little splash. Then a good meal ant
another rest. And IL yon had locke,
at him You would have been prett,
sure that he was dreaming Of mor'
rest and more food. de had that lool
on his hippopotamus face!
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soil, and the devil himself won't stop
them from sklnnlng you alive"
PlimsOli shrugged his shoulders, but
his eyes fiickered and for a second
his cowardly soul shrank.
"Iil look out for that" ne said. IF
you are delivered back to them as
damaged goods they'll never know II
til you tell them. Maybe you won't
be ~over-anxious TO do that" His eyes
grew moody, his manner sullen. tie
was passing into another alcohollc
phase. Molly sensed imminent danger.
"TIl take those kisses now" he
cried, and lunged for her, catching
her about the waist as she rose from
the chair. And more to boot" he
added thIckly as he drew her to him.
one hand AT the back of her head, nm
gers twinlng in her hair. twisting her
face forward, upward. She had both
arms inside Of his, her hands on his
chest. With all her strength she
strained and pushed away. her right
hand slid up to the holster, cropping.
ne sNu was hpA Nh'AN'
had reloaded 1t during the meal and
left II on the table. His breath sick
ened her. She got her arm clear and
struck him viciOusly on the mouth.
breaking the lips against his teeth.
Fighting like a cave-woman, she
scored his cheek with nails that dug
deep from the corner of his eyelid
and brought the blood, As he shifted
his hold she wrenched loose, leaving
strands of brown hair In his fingers,
and jumped for the door. In her
spring she saw, too late. the pistol
on the table. She drew the bolt, halt
opening the door before he caught her
and dragged her back again.
"You wildcat" he painted. "lll fix
you."
Like panther Molly fought,
matching her young muscles against
his, striking, clawing, biting. Her
riding coat ripped. the neck of her
waist was torn away. Maddened al
her resistance, he struck back. Once
he got her about the throat, but her
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fingers were at his face. tearing at
his eyes and he had to beat her of.
The girl fought with all the subli-
mated despair Of attacked woman
hood. the man like q gorilla. The
struggle was unequal. with more than
forty pounds In favor OF Plimsoll.
though II Molly had possessed the
puniest Of weapons, she might have
won. He held her at last, close 10
him. one arm wrapped about her. HIS
right hand forcing the heel Of the
palm under her tueked-!n chin. slowly,
inexorably forcing II back while his
bleeding. distorted face lowered. This
time her arms were locked In. bent
isouble. useless. Her kicks were flu
tile: she had only her teeth left and
she was going TO try those. But she
knew her strength Slapped. knew In
another moment or two she would be
at the mercy OF this brute who did
not know the meaning Of the word.
A shadow barred the half-open door.
low down. A pointed head appeared
with blazing eyes. with a neck-run
fiarIng high. White teeth showed as
red gums haired In hate. and. forget
ting the wounded leg that had held
him back. Grit hurled himself In a
staggering but magnificent leap. He
could not reach plimsolis throat. he
had lost much momentum through the
damaged leg, he lacked power from
loss Of blood. but fury gave him
strength for the spring that brought
his teeth within reach Of PlImsolrs
right wrist. exposed; the Gun half
way up the forearm. Grit's teeth
slashed like chiseIs. ripping through
flesh. tendon and artery. sending jets
| Of blood squirting before. PiImsoli. with
a yell or surprise and CONSERVATION
fung Molly into q orn dazed and
weak. and threw up his left forearm
to guard against the dogs secont
leap.
II feli short. PiimsoIrs right hand
scattering blood. grnped hlindly f"'
the gun on the table hehind him. liz
found the barrel and brought thu
heavy butt down with crash oI
Urit's head. hack of the ear. The doI
dropnsd like ! length o. ci.ain- Piim
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12
Something Like Oysters.

Giant fossil oyster shells. said by
scientists TO be more than 100000
years old. and some of them measur-
Ing more than three feet In length.
have been discovered In a clay bank
In Starr county, Texas. neal q petri-
fed forest.
The fossils were found In a clay
and shell bank about 1000 feet above
sea level. Some OF the : specimens
have been sent TO the Smithsonian IN
stitution and others to the public
health service.
Near the fossil bank are hundreds
Of petrifed trees, some Of them four
feet In diameter. In this forest Ia a
variety os OAK Ro~ extinct In this
part OF the country.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12

Tanlac Vegetable Pills are Natures
own remedy for constipation. For sale
Observation-Disclosures.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12
CHILDREN CRY
FOR "CASTORIA"
Especially Prepared for Infants
and Children of All Ages

Mother! Fletcher's Castoria has
been IN use for over 80 years to relieve
babies and children of Constipation.
Flatulency, Wind Collie and Diarrhea =;
allaying Feverishness arising there
from, and, by regulating the Stomach
and Bowels. aids the assimilation OF
Food; giving natural sleep without
opiates. The genuine bears signature
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12
Map Sea Floor in Contour.

The first successful contour map Of
a deep sea zsne has just been COM
pleted by photographers of the United
States government. 1t shows the sub
merged hills. valleys and lifts over
$4,000 square miles of the bed of the
pasific ocean.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12
Safety First for Raymond

When Raymond took his school re-
port home TO his father he was very
angry. and scOlded his small son for
being at the bottom of the class.
"But there's no need to worry,
daddy" Raymond said calmly. II
think It's the best place, because
you're safe there. You cant get any
lower"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12
keller, AT 80,
GOES To WORK

After fourteen years Of enforced
idleness because Of Ill health. J. IL.
Keller. widely-known Maryland cit-
gen., has gained forty pounds at the
age Of eighty years and gone back to
work every day. Mr.. Keller, who re-
sides at 37O6 Thirty-Second ST., Mt.
Rainier, Nd, gives entire credit for
his extraordinary rehabilitation to Tan
lac.
MY stomach was In such terrible
condition I could hardly digest a
thing" says Mr.. Keller. 1T would
swell to nearly twice its normal size
and | would have frightful pains
through my stomach and back. | felt
so weak, dizzy and miserable work
was out Of the question. In fact, my
friends gave me up on three or four
occasions.
Five months ago | began taking
TanIac and improved from the very
first bottle. | now eat anything on the
table, have gained forty pounds, and
am back at work every day. Actually,
|. feel like a boy again. Ii would be
lac"
Tanlac Is for sale by all good drug
gists. Accept no substitute. over 81
million bottles sold.
Tanlac Vegetable Pills are Natures
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12

Too often q lawyer gets more credit
for freeing q guilty man than the
prosecuting attorney gets for convict
lng q criminal
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-07-12
RIDDLES

What has teeth but cannot bitter a
saw.
What water grows on a bushs Rose
water.
What bird does a hungry nan Hkei
A swallow.
When Is a boy kind to birisi When
he Is fond Of a lark.
When Is a ship like q toori When
she L. boarded
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
A PLUNGER

Plungers are very useful and most
essential in many things. For IN
stance, the plunger on an air tube, or
the plunger used in cleaning the kit
chen sink, but beware of the plunger
in business. He is the most danger
Gus character which we have at this
time A plunger is usually the type
of person that doesn't give a damn
for anybody except himself. He is
ready and always on hand to take a
chance with everybody else's coin but
his own.
Plungers are usually found and
were in great numbers on the stock
exchange, but many of them have had
their lessons in the last few months.
We also find many of these so-called
plungers at the head of many or
ganizations, but as they plunge they
usually plunge into deep water and
eventually drown themselves. They
usually make the most noise and have
nothing but their mouthpiece to back
them up. We think these past two
years have been the example of the
lasting qualities of these so-called
plungers. There are still a few more
left but we notice they are dying off
day by day.
Every day we read the death notice
of some of these plungers. Plunging
days are almost over with. First of
all the water is too cold and the next
thing many people are beginning to
realize that earning the almighty dol
lar is harder today than it has been
for a long time and the harder it is
to earn a dollar the harder it is for
the plunger to extort it from his vic
TINS. Money easily earned is spent
the same way. 1t is another one of
those cooperative games which we
continually preach.
AS we said before the plunget is
having a hard time, the suckers are
not born every minute any more. The
people are getting wiser and as peo-
pie get wiser the plunger gets poorer.
Some more cooperation only working
the opposite way. Never waste your
time on these plungers, they get no
where themselves and no one getting
anywhere himself can be of any help
in furthering the. other fellows well
fare.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
Would Abolish the
Rail Labor Board
(By Federated Press)

hington-Abolition of the y. S.
rail labor board and substitution of a
federal board of mediation and con-
ciliation has been recommended to
President Coolidge by representatives
of the National Industrial Traffic
League. According to the league the
labor board has been functioning in
defiance of the laws of supply and
demand which it believes should ap-
ply to labor as to any other COM
modify.
These representatives of big bust
ness seemed chiefly troubled by the
wages which the board has set for
common labor. They contended that
the establishment of such wages has
forced other employers including
farmers to pay more for unskilled
workers than would otherwise have
been necessary.
In establishing the rates of pay
condemned by these employers the
board admitted that it was influenced
in part by the law of supply and de-
mand, it gave the various manage
ments specific permission to adjust
rates upward whenever the socalled
labor market compelled them to, it
said these underpaid men must wait
for consideration of their request for
a living wage until the owners were
satisfied with profits, and it estab-
lished average earnings for hundreds
of thousands of able bodied men at a
figure considerably under $500, about
half subsistence wage.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
CHANGE STAGE COACH SYSTEM

Our president doesn't go into office
until four months after election, be-
cause in the days of slow communica-
ton and stage coach transportation
it took that long to find out who was
elected and get him to Washington.
Now the votes can be counted and the
President rushed by airplane to the
White House almost overnight. So
it's sound sense, the recommendation
by American Bar Association, that
our political system should be changed
to put the president and congressman
into office Immediately after election.
We have many other stage coach sys-
TENS in politics that need correction.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
MUST WORK TOGETHER

No town can grow as it should un-
less it's people work together in its
upbuilding. The history of every city
that has had rapid and substantial
growth will show that united and
enthusiastic work of its people had
the greatest part in making it grow.
In towns where a few live men boost
and work the towns upbullding and
many are Indifferent and do nothing,
the work of city building is exceeding
ly difficult and the results slow in
coming. If all boost and help to build
up the town it is an easy matter to
make the town push forward.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
BRITISH SLUMP IN PIG IRON

Pig iron production in Great Britain
has been declining for three months.
Output still is much higher than the
1922 average, but the setback is en-
phatic nevertheless. Pig iron produc-
tion is the weathervane of general
business conditions. What's happen
ing to the iron industry in Britain
looks as if Europe is due for halt,
if not reverse, in its recovery from
the war
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
GIVE THEM A SQUARE DEAL

In the last fiscal year 522, 2,919 immi-
grants arrived to make the United
States their future home. Treat them
kindly when you meet them, for I'M
migrants early treatment in their
new environment in most cases large
ly determines the kind of citizens they
make. Americanization is more OF a
matter of neighborliness and brother
hood than of night schools and propa-
ganda.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19

Jimmy Davis, the Secretary of La
Dor, is about the busiest man in the
country these days, and he's having
most enjoyable time showing David
Lloyd-George the United States and
vice versa. The fact that both men
are natives of Wales is a tie that binds
them closely. The former British
Premier will be entertained at the
White House before his return to
London.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19

Henry Ford insists that he is not a
candidate for anything. That may be,
The best public job in the country
would pay him about $180,OOO,OOO a
year less than he's making now. II
he keeps on few years, he can buy
a country of his own and run it as he
pleases.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19

Recent refusals of Great Britain to
help the United States stamp out
liquor smuggling along the Atlantic
Coast has not dampened the ardor Of
Secretary of State Hughes in getting
some kind of an international agree
ment to help the prohibition officers
dry up the seaboard. His latest effort
was made through Ambassador Har-
vey, who grasped the opportunity af-
forded by the conference of British
Premiers to make new plea for CO.
operation with the biggest dry coun-
try in the world. Next month nego-
tiations will be opened at Ottawa to
draw up a reciprocal anti-smuggling
treaty between the United States and
Canada.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
FOREIGN TRADE CUSTOMERS

Canada now is our best foreign
trade customer, England second, Ger
many third. Germany lately has beer
the largest buyer in our exported cot
ton and copper. Which sums up the
most important features Of oul
present foreign station.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19

Recent reports might indicate that
Henry Ford's plan to operate Muscle
Shoals in the interest Of the farmer,
had gone glimmering. When Secre-
tary Weeks sold the Gorgas steam
plant to the Alabama Power Com
pany, it looked as though the latter
had won out in its long fight to keep
Ford out Of waterpower development
and out of Alabama if possible.
"When the fact becomes known back
home that Muscle Shoals is being sold
piece-meal to private interests to de-
feat Mr.. Ford, there will be trouble
in store" says a prominent official of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. 1t is known that Mr. Ford has
thought of carrying his case direct to
the people whenever sufficient evi-
dence accumulates to make it plain
that he is being treated unfairly.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-19
KEEP YOUR EYE ON HENRY

Presidential candidates had better
look to their laurels. Ford-for-Presi-
dent clubs have been established in
eighteen states and the clubs already
have a membership of 10000 so they
cannot be brushed aside as of no con-
sequence. Ford may, after all, be a
factor in the next presidential cam
paign-he may be nominated by some
party.