Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-27
New Owners Take
Over Journal on
Monday

Inc new owners OF the Five Mile
Beach Journal newspaper will take
charge of the plant on Monday. April
80, 1928. The old owner steps out
and the new ones step in on that
day. The purchasers are Percy H.
Jackson, Harry F. Greaves, Lanning
Myers andW. COPYRIGHT Smith, the
latter being Mayor of Wildwood and
for the past six years managing sec
rotary of the wildwood Board of
Trade. Mr.. Jackson has made a sue
cess of tho drug business and at pres
ent conducts, with his brothers, a
drug store at wildwood and Glouces-
ter. Mr.. Myers has been principal of
the Wildwood schools for many years.
Mr.. Greaves, several years ago was a
teacher in the Wildwood schools, and
for a year or so edited and managed
the Wildwood Leader, started about
two years ago by S. w. Coombs. Mr..
Greaves quit as teacher in 1917 and
went to France with the United States
aviation forces, winning several med
ais for efficient work in that line. This
group organized the Wildwood Pub
fishing Company and considerable
stock has been sold to Wildwood mer-
chants and business men. The editor
and manager will be Mr.. Greaves.
The sale includes the three story
Journal building located on a lot
40x100 on Wildwood avenue, all con-
tents of the plant, practically as is.
The Journal was conceived and start
ed by S. p. Foster in 1890. Mr.. Foster
was born at C%edarville and for a few
years drove a mill wagon through
Cumberland County. Journalistic
proclivities developed and Mr.. Foster
went to Camden and was employed
on the old Camden Temperance Ca
zette, owned by the Graw family.
About this time the Elmer Times was
started at Elmer, Salem County.
The Times was about to give up the
ghost in 1884 when Mr.. Foster and
late Rev. Samuel H. Ham bought it.
Mr.. Foster has lived at Elmer ever
since, soon buying out his partners
interest. When the Decoration day
excursion came to Wildwood in 1890
Mr.. Foster was on the train and as a
result of his first trip to Wildwood
the Journal came into being. He put
five years of hard work on the Jour-
nal and at the same time conducted
the Elmer Times. Until 1895 the
Journal was printed at Elmer and
Mr.. Foster made weekly trips to Wild
wood. Mr.. Fosters experience as a
country editor is one of the shining
examples of country weekly journal
ism. He is a forceful writer and COM
bined this talent with sound business
principles. He is or was n of the
very few editors that conducted a
personal editorial column which re-
flected his own views. In 1903 he or
ganized the First National Bank of
Elmer and has been president of the
institution ever since. The bank has
over a million dollars in deposits in a
town of about 1900 population. OF
late years Mr.. Foster, who is now ga
years of age, has broken awayto a
great extent from his newspaper work
and devotes most of the time to the
management of the bank. Yet he is
now usually at the Elmer Times Of
flee at z a. m every day attending to
his personal correspondence and writ
ing for the Elmer Times. His young
est son came on, Preston S. Foster,
and has relieved him of most of the
newspaper management. The young
man has also developed into a brill
liant newspaper man and is II of
the directors of the West Jersey Ty-
pothetae an organization of South
Jersey publishers and printers. For
many years Miss Theodosia Foster as
bookkeeper in the Elmer Times Office
has been of great assistance to her
brother and nephew in the Elmer
Times office, an indication that all
the brilliancy does not lie in the male
members of the family. When Mr..
Foster started the Journal in 1890
Jed Dubois was an employee of the
Elmer Times office. Until 1907 Mr..
Foster had an interest in the Journal.
AS employer, as partner and friend
Mr.. Foster was a model man and the
writer of these lines is a better man
for the contact. Perhaps we have
wandered from the subject in hand,
but it is a delight to do Sc. We be-
speak for the new owners of the Jour-
nal a successful career. The field is
growing into a large one and the OPP
portunities are coming strong.