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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
MAY PROMOTE JUDGE DONGES TO
SUPREME COURT

That Circuit Court Judge Ralph E.
Donges is soon to be appointed to the
Supreme Court bench is the belief Of
many lawyers in this section of the
state and something along that line of
thought is heard in Trenton.
1t is the common belief Of lawyers
in all parts of the state that there
will be two or three designations Of
Supreme Court justices Illness
has made serious inroads in the ranks
of the upper judiciary. designations
may occur this year.
The ability of Judge Donges, who
presides over Circuit Court here as
well as in four other counties, is re-
garded highly. That he is profess
sionally and personally we'll adapted
to the duties of a Supreme Court JUS
tice is quite generally conceded.
Should Judge Donges not be APP
pointed to a Supreme Court Justice
ship it is quite certain there will be
another Circuit Court judge named for
this district or, probably more cor
reetly, another district will be formed.
1t is we'll realized that Judge Donges
has been overworked for a long time.
Besides the volume of court business
that confronts him each term in this
county he has to look after the calen-
dars of Cape May, Salem, Gloucester,
Cumberland and Burlington Counties.
He has at all times many cases piled
on his desk awaiting adjudication.
By reason Of the heavy volume of
work that he has been shouldering for
several months Judge Donges has been
obliged to take a vacation. He left on
January 23d for the South.-Atlantic
City Press, January %, 1923.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
BAPTIST CHURCH CHOIR
ORGANIZES

The choir of the First Baptist
Church, of Wildwood, became an or
ganized body last week when they met
and elected officers. Harry Burkhart
was made president of the organiza-
ton with William Bond, vice presi-
dent. E. B. Weaver and Mary Shep-
pard are the treasurer and secretary
respectively. The choir is now under
the direction of Prof. F. H. Davis, of
Chester, Pa. Prof. Davis is giving
Wednesday and Thursday of each
week to the directing of the choir and
the results he is achieving are bring
ing him much praise from people who
have heard the organization sing. He
is also starting vocal classes here on
Wednesdays and Thursdays and al
ready has a class of nearly a dozen
pupils. Anyone wishing to join this
class may do so by notifying Harry
Burkhart. Pro. Davis is pleased with
Wildwood through the acquaintance
he has made, and he intends to make
this his permanent home as soon as
his services in Chester are ended.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02

please-bought extra copies for their
scrapbOoks. We were proud of Jimmy,
and assigned him to write up the fu-
neral. That was to be a "day of tri-
umph in Capua." There being no rela-
tives to interfere, the lodges of the
town-and the governor was known as
g "jiner"-had wed with one another
to make the funeral the greatest
roOster-feather show ever given in the
state. The whole town turned out,
and the foreman of our office, and
everyone in the back room who could
be spared was at the governors fu-
neral. We put a tramp printer on to
make up the paper, and told Jimmy to
call by the ~undertaker's for a paid
local which the undertaken had writ
ten for the paper that day.
Jimmy's face was beaming as he
Struggled up to his desk at three o'clock
that afternoon. He said he had a
great story. Trusting the foreman to
read the proof, Jimmy rushed out to
get from a United States senator who
was attending the funeral an interview
on the sugar scandal, for the Kansas
City Star.
The rest of us did not get back from
the cemetery until the carriers had
left the Office, and this is what we
found:
"The solemn moan of the organ had
! scarcely died away, like a quivering
sob upon the fragrant air, when the
mournful procession of citizens began
filing past the fiower-laden bier to view
the calm face of their beloved friend
and honored townsman. In the grief
stricken hush that followed might be
heard the stifed grief of some old COM
rade as he paused for the last time be-
fore the coffin.
"At this particular time we desire
to call the attention of our readers
to the admirable work done by our
hustling young undertaken, ]. B. Nor
gan. He has been in the city but a
short time, yet by his efficient work
and careful attention to duty, he has
built up an enviable reputation and
an excellent custom among the best
families of the city. All work done
with neatness and dispatch. We strive
to please.
when the last sad mourner had
filed out, the pall-bearers took up
their sorrowful task, and slowly, as
the band played the Dead March in
SAUL the great throng assembled in
the street viewed the mortal remains
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02

mother asked him where he got a dol
lar that he was flourishing o. his
return with his father from Il visit in
Kansas City. The little boys answer
was that his father gave it to him
for calling him uncle when any ladies
we're around. 1t was merrily spun, and
knowing that it would not make John
Luck, the boys father, mad, we print
ed it, and Jimmy put at the head of it
a foolish little verse of Kipling's. Miss
Larrabee, at the bottom of her society
column, announced the engagement
of two prominent young people in
Town. The Saturday paper was I'M
usually readable. But when Jimmy
came in after the paper was out he
found Miss Larrabee in tears, and the
foreman leaning over the counter laugh
ing so that he couldn't speak. 1t
wasn't Jimmy's fault. The foreman
mad done it-by the mere t~ranspOsition
OF a little brass rule separating the
society news from Jimmy's story with
the Kipling verse at the head of it.
The rule tackled the Kipling verse onto
MISS Larrabee's article announcing the
engagement. Here is the way it read:
This marriage, which will take
place at ST. Andrews church, will
unite two of the most popular people
in town and two of the b%est-known
families in the state.
"And this is the sorrowful story
Told as the twilight fails,
While the monkeys are walking to.
gether.
Holding each others tails !"
Now, Jimmy was no more to blame
than Miss Larrabee. and many people
thought, and think to this day, that
Miss I.arrabee did it-and did it on
purpose. But for all that it cast
clouds over the moon of Jimmy's coun-
tenance, and it was nearly a year be-
fore he regained his merry heart.
But as the months rolled by he be-
came calm. and whea Governor Antro-
bus died, Jimmy got up a remarkably
good story of his life and achievements
and though there was no family left
to the dear old man to buy extra
copies, all the old settlers-who are
the hardest people in the world to
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
NEWS FROM THE SURROGATE'S
OFFICE

The will of John R. Groves, of Ocean
City, was filed in the Surrogate's office
on Wednesday of this week, naming
Edith R. Groves as administrators OF
the estate. Mr.. Groves died suddenly
on Tuesday, January 18th. For 20
years he was prominent-in the affairs
of Ocean City and was a director IN
the Ocean City Title and Trust Co..
On January 23d the will of William
A. Massey was filed, naming William
e. Massey as administrator. Massey
lived in Goshen.
On the 23d the will Of Anna E. Ma
han of Peermont, was also probated,
granting the office Of executor to Cor
nelium Mahan.
The inventory and appraisement OF
the estate of the late John W. Wilbra-
ham, of Cape May, was filed on the
goth, showing a total estate of $522,-
995. "a. The Wilbraham family sum
mered in wildwood 20 years ago.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
ARTISANS HOLD ACTIVE MEETING

An active meeting of the Wildwood
Assembly of Artisans occurred in the
City Hall on Thursday evening of last
week, at which time several new COM
mittees were appointed. A new en-
tertainment committee was included
in these and also a new publicity COM
mittee. Chas. A. RossKam, who re-
Gently has been serving in the latter
capacity was discharged with thanks
and a larger committee, consisting Of
H. F. Greaves, as chairman, and Lam
ming Myers and COPYRIGHT Smith, as
assistants, was appointed to handle
the publicity of the Assembly and also
to inaugurate an official organ of the
Association in wildwood. Advertising
for this new publication was fully
subscribed by the members present.
The Assembly is planning a drive for
members and several big entertain
ments for their members during the
spring months and getting ready for
the reception of the Philadelphia Ar
tisans on their annual outing next
summer.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
BERWIND CORNER SOLD

For the consideration of 100000,
Mrs. G. w. Matthews, owner of the
Berwind, southwest corner of Lincoln
and Pacific avenues, has decided to
part with this long established bust
ness corner and to give possession to
her successor on or about April LIST,
according to the agreement she signed
with this prospective purchaser. The
Berwind, a 22-room house, was built
in 1905, just Is years ago, by that once
popular contractor, William T. Gar
rison. 1t was named, Mrs. Matthews
stated, after a Mrs. Berwind, of Phila-
delphia, who, by the way, was Mrs.
Matthews first guest. Thus a bit of
romance hangs around the place, and
it doth appear that this method of Sc
lecting a designation for the cottage
augured we'll for it's success, for the
Berwind has always enjoyed a liberal
patronage. Prior to his death, about
five years ago, her husband, G. w.
Matthews, assisted Mrs. Matthews in
the management of the big cottage and
the restaurant underneath. Mr.. Mat
thews was a photographer and for IL
years conducted a studio on the board
walk in what was then known as Blak-
er's block. The Berwind property has
a frontage of SO feet on Pacific avenue
and 100 feet on Lincoln avenue. The
buyer is Lydia J. Mech. Miss Mech
buys the property as a location for
her dry goods store.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
HOWARD EVANS INJURED IN
CAMDEN

Howard Evans, who for ten years
lived in this city, being employed with
the w. H. Austin Coal Company, and
who is at present in the service of
the Pennsylvania Railroad in Cam
den, received injuries in an accident
which occurred in the yards of this
company on Tuesday of last week. Mr..
Evans was working on a faulty signal
tower with a fellow employee. The
ladder on which they were standing
broke under the weight throwing the
two men to the ground. They were
discovered in the heavy fog that was
hanging over the city that night and
rushed to the Cooper Hospital where it
was learned that Mr.. Evans had suf-
fered a broken ankle while his fellow
worker suffered broken ribs and other
injuries.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02

feeling known to the human heart for
the sake Of getting a ribald laugh
from the unthinking." We were two
weeks explaining that the error was
not the boys fault.
The summer wore away and the dog
days came. The Democratic state
campaign was about to open in our
town, and orators and statesmen as
sembled from all over the Missouri
valley. There was a lack of flags at
the dry goods stores. The Fourth of
July celebration had taken all the
stock. The only materials available
were some red bunting, some white
bunting, and some blue bunting with
stars upon it. With this bunting the
committee on reception covered the
speakers stand, wrapping the canopy
under which the orators stood in the
solid colors and the star-spangled blue.
1t was beautiful to see, and the pride
of the window-dresser of the Golden
Eagle Clothing store. But the old sol
diers who walked by nudged n an
other and smiled.
About noon of the day of the speak
ing the city clerk, who wore the little
bronze button of the G. A. r., asked
Jimmy if he didn't want someone to
take care of the Democratic meeting.
Jimmy, who hated politics, was run
ming his legs off to get the names of
the visitors, and was glad to have the
help. He turned in the contributed
copy without reading it, as he had
done with the city clerks articles
many times before, and this is what
greeted his Mortified eyes when he
read the paper:
Under the Stars and Bars"
Democracy Opens Its State Campaign
Under the Rebel Emblem Today
A Fitting Token
Reasonable U%tterances Have a Proper
Setting
And then followed half a column of
most violent abuse of the Democrats
who had charge of the affair. Jimmy
did not appear on the street that
night, but the next morning, when he
came down, the Office was crowded
with indignant Democrats stopping
the paper"
Jimmy had a peculiar knack of get
ting up little stories of the town-not
exactly news stories, but little odd bits
that made people smile without anc
when they saw their anne in the
quantity turned items. One day he
wrote up a story of a little boy whose
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
OCEAN CITY ELECTRICIANS
WARNING

In view of the many radio sets that
have been and are being installed in
homes and business places and are
now being operated, City Electrician
Jos. higgins, of Ocean City, calls atten-
ton of owners to the fire hazard en-
tailed by these instruments.
There is a liability of fire by reason
of possible contact with high tension
wires and from lightning.
City Electrician higgins, therefore,
calls attention to the department rules
and the rules Of the Ere Underwriters
Association of the Middle District. The
rules of the Fire Underwriters Asso-
citation require that at the entrance
of wires to buildings there shall be
an approved single-pole double throw
500 volt switch designed for 251-600
volts potential. The wires inside the
building shall be of copper not less
than No. 16 B. and S. guage, must have
insulation and be supported the same as
would be required for an installation
of electric light or power wiring
$500 volts potential.
The instruments shall be mounted
on bases constructed of, non-combusti-
BILE, non~-absorptive insulating mate
rial. Holes for the supporting screws
must be so located, or counter-sunk,
that there will be at least one-half
incl space, measured over the surface,
between the head of the screw and the
nearest live-meta1 part. Wires from
entrance to buildings to protector must
be supported on porcelain insulators,
so that they will come in contact with
nothing except their designated sup
ports. The ground wire of the pro-
tective device shall be run in accord
ance with the following requirements:
Shall be of copper and not smaller
than No. 6 B. and S. guage. Must have
an insulating covering approved for
voltages from 0 to 900. Must run in as
straight a line as possible to a good,
permanent ground. This may be OBJ
tanned by connecting to a water pipe.
When the ground wire is attached to a
ground rod driven into the earth, the
ground rod shall be soldered to the
rod in a similar manne
Signal and aerial wires are not per-
mitted on electric light wires.
City Electrician higgins says he
will be glad to furnish additional in
formation to interested property own
ers.
The laws governing these matters
must be observed within the next 80
days.-Ocean City Ledger.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02

of Governor Antrobus start on their
last Journey"
Of course it wasn't Jimmy's fault.
The "rising young undertaken had
paid the tramp printer, who made up
the forms, five dollars to work his paid
local into the funeral notice. But after
that-Jimmy had to go. Public senti-
ment would no longer stand him as a
reporter on the paper, and we gave
him a good letter and sent him onward
and upward. He took his dismissal
decently enough. He realized that his
luck was against him; he knew that
we had borne with him in all patience.
The day that ne left he was instruct
ing the new man in the ways Of the
town. Rev. Frank Milligan came in
with a church notice. Jimmy took the
notice and began marking it for the
printer. AS the door behind him
opened and closed, Jimmy, with his
head still in his work, called across the
room to the new man: THAT vas old
Milligan that just went Out-beware
OF MIN. ne VIII IOdu YOU up WILL
truck about himself. He rings in
sermons: trots around with church So
cial notices that ought to be paid for,
and tries to get them in free likes to
be referred to as doctor; slips in mean
items about his congregation, If you
don't watch him; and insists On talk
ing religion Saturday morning when
you are too busy to spit. More thar
that. he has an awful breath-cut him
out; he will make life a burden if you
don't-and if you do he will go to
the old man with it, and say you are
not treating him right"
There was a rafting and a scratch
ing on the wire partition between
Jimmy and the door. Jimmy looked
up from his work and saw the spright-
ly little figure of Parson Milligan COM
ing over the railing like a monkey. He
had not gone out of the door-a print
er had come in when it opened and
shut. And then Jimmy took his last
ewing trip out of the back door of the
office, down the alley, toward the sun
sets purple rim" 1t was not his
fault. He was only telling the truth
where il would do the most good.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
summer.

Notice is hereby given that the counts
of the subscriber, the executor of the es-
tate of Levi F. Butts, deceased, late of
Wildwood, New Jersey, wills be audited
and stated by the Surrogate of the County
of Cape May, and reported for settlement
to the Orphans Court of the said County
of Cape May. on the twenty-first day of
February, 1928, at which time application
will be made for the allowance of COM
missions and counsel fees.
THE WILDWOOD TITLE
AND TRUST COMPANY.
Dated, wildwood, N. j.,
January II, 1923.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
News of the Clubs

WOmcn's City CIub.-A card party
will be given under auspices of the
entertainment committee Monday
for bridge and five hundred
The subscription dinner Of the busi-
ness and professional women's sec
tion will be held Wednesday. The
dinner, which Will be served in the
garden at $50 pm. will be followe d
by a moving picture show-the ro-
mantle, historical drama. "Cardigan." "
Mrs. Thelma Mills Trotter will en-
tertain with dialect songs. Mrs. Bes-
sic n. Wild serving as accompanist.
Mrs. Ada c. Mills Payne will preside.
Reservations limited to 100
The entertainment committee an
nounces dance to be given August
20. at $3.50 pm. Cards may be OBJ
tanned at the clubhouse.
a subscription supper. to be served
in the garden at $50 IN. is sched-
uled for August % A dramatic pro-
gram Will be given under the direc-
tion of Miss Adelaide +. Borah Mrs.
William +. Chamberlin will preside.
The Bible study class, DR.. o. Jose
phine Baird. leader. will meet Thurs
day at 1880 pm.
The evening class of the French
section will meet Tuesday at 6 O'Clock
for the diners at the French table.
and at Z o'clock for the members of
the cauSerie. The morning class will
meet Wednesday at II am These
classes are free to club members
Those interested please communicate te
with Miss H. H. Arnold. chairman of
the French section, % Jackson place.
"a ,;Y los
week days from 3 to 6 o'clock pm.
except Saturday, when the library
hours are from II am. to pm.
Anthony League.-Through the So
cial service committee, consisting of
Mrs. George Kicker, Mrs. E. c. Snyder
Mrs. NJ. L. Callison and Mrs. Charles
w. Fits. the league has contributed
to the Juvenile Protective Associa-
ton, the Social Hygiene Association
the Central Union Mission, the Gospel
Mission. the Children's Hospital. the
Near East Relief and other charities
Mrs. Kate Trenholm Abrams, as chair
man OF the committee working for
national representation for the peo-
pie Of the District. has done effective
work, and the president of the league
has spoken for the cause before a
number of bodies, both in Washing
ton and in other places, securing the
appreciation and encouragement to
continue the effort to secure the fran
chise for men and women in the Cap
ital city.
The American Naturopathic Associa-
tfOn. District of Columbia branch, met
at Ills Massachusetts avenue Tues
day evening.
The speakers of the evening. DR.
Joe Shelby Riley and DR.. Alfredo
Warsaw. paid tribute to the late Pres
ident, Warren G. Harding. Resolu.
Evening star., 1923-08-11

| tionS We're passed and a letter of
sympathy sent to Mrs. Harding.
National society, Daughters of the
American COIoniSts. A delegation
left Washington TO attend the presen-
tation of a circular stone bench TO the
town of Plymouth, Mass. yesterday
in commemoration of the three hun
dredth anniversary of the arrival of
the ship Anne. with daughters of the
American coloniStS (Who had arrived
earlier on the Mayflower) among her
passengers. The bench is the work of
Mr.. Fletcher Steele, the landscape
architect of Boston. and will be placed
beside t'le town brook in Elder Brew
ster G:tden, on the site of Elder
! Brewster's home. 1t is probably the
last of the tercentenary celebrations
in that section. which have been taxi
ing place during the past three years
This society is but two years old, but
has grown rapidly under the leader
ship of Mrs. George Thacher Guern-
sey. national president, and now num-
| bers nearly 500 members, with
| branches in operation in fifteen
states and others in process of organ
ization. Each year it expects TO mark
some historic sites or commemorate
tory.
sorcptimists' CIub.-At meeting
| held Tuerday morning in the offices
of the club president, Mrs. Ruby Lee
Minar resolutions of respect and sym
pathy as to the death of the President.
| Warren G. Harding. were adopted,
! copies to be sent to Mrs. Harding
and to Mrs. Bessie L. Edmonston,
relative of the late President and
| herself a soroptimist A floral piece
was voted to be sent to the Capitol
| Wednesday morning. In respect to the
! late President, the regular weekly
luncheon of the club was omitted.
| The MardeIle Social Club held an
| election of officers Tuesday at it's
clubrcoms, 1117 Buchanan street. as
| follows:
| Louis Tennebaum. president; Jack
! Schneider, vice president: Shea Cha
sen, treasurer; Harry Yaffy, secretary,
and Mary Witt, sergeant-at-arms.
Evening star., 1923-08-11

We are all familiar with the leaves
and fruits of the American holly,
though there are many of us, never
theleSs, who had never seen the
growing tree until we cal De to Wash
ington, where it is fairly prevalent
in our system of parks.
Usually a slender pyramidal tree.
1t grows to height of fifteen to
thirty and sometimes to forty feet
Its branches are slender and horizon
tai or dropping. The leaves. as we
know, are spiny, of deep olive green
and evergreen. The small, incon-
spicuous flowers appear in May and
their red fruits persist into the
winter
The holly ranges from Massachu-
Setts to Florida. west to Indiana and
Texas. 1t is a slow grower and seems
to thrive equally well in dry or
swampy soils, and equally well near
fresh or salt water. Those readers
who frequent Colonial Beach have
probably noticed small picturesque
specimens of the holly growing on
the banks of the Potomac where their
roots are exposed and undermined by
the washing of the salt waters. vet
they seem 70 flourish up to the last
moment of their anchorage.
There is an English holly also. and
Evening star., 1923-08-11

September Butterick Patterns, Fash.
ion Sheets, the Fall Quarterly Fash
ion Book and the autumn Needle
Art may noW be had. Pattern
Section, Second floor.
Evening star., 1923-08-11

the custom OF employing holly at
Christmas time which comes from
over there is one of considerable an
ftiquity. 1t has been considered by
historians TO be a survival of an old
Teutonic practice of hanging the in
teriors of dwellings with evergreens
as d refuge for sylvan spirits from
storms and inclement weather.
The American holly is really
handsome tree and were IT not for
it's slow growth would doubtless re-
ceive more consideration from land
scape gardeners.
There are other species of the holly
genus Hex. to be found in the east
ern United States, but only one OF
these others .attains the properties
Of a tree. This is the mountain holly
Hex monticola, which ranges from
the Catskill mountains southwark
along the Alleghanies TO Alabama.
Few would recognize it as holly
for its leaves are not of the Spiny
molly type, nor are they evergreen
but are deciduOus and resemble in
shape the leaf of our common wild
black cherry.
Fine specimens of the American
holly are grown in the Soldiers Home
grounds. on the Mall. and on Blair
road and Tflden street. The trees
illustrated are situated Immediately
west of the New National Museum.