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VOL. 15. NO. 20
(Atlantic CHar. N. J. P. a)
VENTNOR CITY. N. J.. NOVEMBER 23, 1921
SI PER YEAR
NOME CRIPPLES
' RECEIVE GIFTS
Inmates of North American Home
Remembered by Local People and
Others on Thanksgiving.
The little cripple Inmates of the
North American Home were not for ;
gotten on Thanksgiving Day, and a
number of packages received from
the children of the local schools as
well as a number of individual gifts
of delicacies were sent to the Home
for the little ones to receive addition
al pleasure.
- Local' residents were not the only
ones to bear these happy little ones
in mind for the day, as a number of
Atlantic City as well as residents- ot
other sections sent gifts for the chil
dren.
Miss Nellie Orr; who was the “Miss
Philadelphia” of the Atlantic City
pageant, after winning the beauty
contest conducted by the Philadelphia
North American, brought real cheer
to the crippled inmates on Tuesday.
Miss Orr visited the institution af
ter the shore carnival, and has not
forgotten her trip. On returning home
she never tii-ed of describing the won
derful place, and she came not alone
for the pleasure of a second visit, but
as a messenger from marjy friends.
Miss Orr was burdened down with del
icacies for the unfortunate but never
theless happy youngsters. In fact,
her offerings proved too heavy and
part of the packages were shipped by
cypress.
The 35 little children had an’ hour
not long to be forgotten. Miss'On
first distributed candy, then fruit and
lastly a surprise envelope which con
tained silver. Touching was the ap
preciation shown by the young folks.
Miss Orr herself Wits entertained by
the children, who demonstrated re
markable intelligence "in singing
songs, reciting poems and story tell
ing appropriate to the Thanksgiving
season. Miss Orr was given a hearty
farewell, which broke forth in unison,
and she promised to return Christmas
week.
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CLUB ENTERTAINED
IN OCEAN CITY.
The Ventnor Dancing Club journey
ed to Ocean City last Thursday eve
ning and h%ld their class at the beau
tiful colonial home of Mr. Pogg on
Tenth street. During the evening
little Miss Paula DeCardo favored
with a fancy dance, "Pavlowa Ga
votte”. Dainty refreshments were
served following the dancing, and htf
a late hour the class returned to*
-Ventnor. Those enjoying the hospi
tality of Mr. and Mrs. Fogg were:
Dr. and Mrs. Moore Stevens. Mr. and
Mrs. Paul DeCardo, Mr. J. Cunning
ham, Mrs. Robert Stillwell. Mrs. Alice
Sachse, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G.’
Sheen. \
TO GO ON FIFTH CRUISE.
V Rev. Alfred J. P. McClure, principal
of the St. Leonard's School-by-the-Sc^,
of this city, will go on his fifth cruise
with Mr. Flank C. Clark on February
11th.
t Rev. McClure has accepted the invi
tation of Mr. Clark to accompany him
on this cruise and to take charge ot
* the lecture course and the Sunday'
services.
Many personal friends of Rev. Me
Clure-will accompany the cruise which
• will last seventy-four days, many
points ol' interest being included In the
itinerary, as he is arranging for a
small select party.
AWARDED DAMAGES.
? v Verdicts in fa vie of two local women
who were injured last August in an
t automobile accident were returned
- during the week in the Civil Court at
Mays Landing when awards of $1000
each were giVen^Mrs. C. E. Miller, Jr.,
and Miss Bessie Burton, the sum of'
$200 being awarded to Mrs. Miller’s I
husband, well-known railroader, living
» at 7 Wyoming avenue, north. Tfie de
fendant in the suit was Joseph iupo
wits, who drove over the sidewalk at j
Troy Rnd Ventnor avenues, striking
the two women and injuring them.
> Thompson & Hanstein appeared for
> the plaintiffs.
TO PREACH SUNDAY-:
The pulpit ol' the St. John's-by-the
Sea Church will be <»ceupied both
morning and evening on Sunday by
the RtJv. Henry W. Frost, director of
the China Inland Mission. The follow
ing Sunday Rev. Charles R. Watson,
president of the American University
at Cairo, Egypt, will be in the pulpit
for the last time before his departure
for Europe. Rev. Watson has deliv
ered some exceptionally strong ser
mons during his sojourn in our city,
and the church is sure to be packed
(or his last services. '
CHILDREN HOLD i
. ENTERTAINMENTS
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Kindergarten Claee of Both Schools
and First Grade at Troy
Entertain.
On Wednesday morning at ten
o’clock the Kindergarten at Oxford
Avenue School, under the direction ol
Miss Wiley and Miss Seaman, gave
the annual Thanksgiving party, which
was well attended and much enjoyed
both by outsiders and the children
themselves. Thirty-five Kindergarten
ers, dressed as Pilgrim boys and girls,
and eight more as Indians, formed a
profcessional, carrying /offerings ol
fruits of the fields—like those boys
and girls of long ago. They next gave i
rhythm work, songs and exercises pre
pared for the program. The wander-1
ings in Holland and the Settlement in
America were then portrayed. Build
ing of log cabins and churches, and
the first celebration of the Thanksgiv
ing ®ay were shown. The first grade
class of Miss C. E. Moyer then enter
tained the guests with songs; this was
followed by the partaking of a bounti
ful repast, in which visitors joined the
Kindergarten and first grade classes.
Miss Everhart’s class of first grad
ers at Troy Avenue School entertain
ed Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 22, 1921,
by giving, in the Auditorium of the
School, a dramatization of “Hansel
and Gretel.” The house in the woods
was built of blocks by Fordham Selby,
Robert Doty and Harold Peterson.
Hansel was played by Billy Nute,
Gretel was charmingly acted by Louise
Osborne, Florence Musson *vas the
Witch, while the Mother and Father
were played by Eleanor Scull and
Billy Houpt. The Sandman was the
part taken by Francis Sloan and Taru
and Akira Hayashi, Maurice Royal and
John Andreevs were the Gingerbread
Men. Angels were portrayed by Bar
bara O’Neal, Mary Waterer, Katie
Hugin, Helen Endicott, Helen Holmes
and Ruth Bradberry. Parents and the
first and second grades were guests,
and the program was much enjoyed
by all.
The Kindergarten at Troy Avenue
School, under the supervision of Miss
Vivian M. Taylor and Miss Dorothea
L. Meyer, gave a Harvest Festival at
the Kindergarten rooms,''Wednesday
morning, Nov. 23, 1921. . Appropriate
decorations were to be seen, and
rhythm work was indulged in. Re
freshments were served to -the class
and a few visitors.
RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest S. Albertson of
21 VVeymouthAvenue, south, are receiv
ing congratulations upon the arrival of
a baby daughter af the Waggoner Hos
pital in Atlantic City on Thanksgiving
morning. The little one will be known
as Celeste Mills Albertson.
§een and j'feard
Mr. J. J. O Keefe has broken ground
for a modern dwelling on Weymouth
avenue, south.
Mr. Wm, Stringer, who is attend
ing Dickinson Law School, is spend
ing the Thanksgiving holiday with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Stringer, in this city. j
Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Webb, 104
Sacramento avenue, south, are spend
ing Thanksgiving in Philadelphia
Councilman I. B. Sweigart has re
turned to his home from an extended
business trip which also Included a
visii to his daughter, Miss Ruth
Sweigart,- a student at Linden Haii.
Lititz, Pa.
Master S. Jackson Burns will spend
Thanksgiving with his grandparents,
Rev. and Mrs. James Burns, at their
home in Haddon Heights.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Vanderherchen
have returned to their home, 18 Wy.
ming avenue, south, having spent
some time in Philadelphia. '
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Evans, of
Philadelphia, who summer at 9 Wis
sahiekon avenue, south, and Mr. and
Mrs. James Nichols and son motored
from Philadelphia on Wednesday, for
a day in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Beyc iiave clos
et} their cottage at 104 Somerset ave
nue, south, and are spending some
time in Philadelphia, prior to leaving
for California, where they will re
main throughout the winter.
Mrs. Harry E. Smith and son, Har
ry E. Smith, Jr., have returned to
their home, 6003 Ventnor avenue, from
a -visit with fridnds in Baltimore.
Mr. Roy H. Cochran has returned
to his home, 9 Weymouth avenue,
north, from a trip to Schwenbsvilie
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Susquehanna—The Quality Coal
Phoni 9—Borton Coal Co.
OF
Everybody Not To Be Interested in
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Church, But Church in
Everybody. *
Things are moving with dignified
haste at the Community Church, ac
cording to Mr. Poulson. i He -says,
“since the night when forty men put ]
their feet under our tables and ate
that wonderful supper the ladies
served them there seems to be a
clearer idea as to what we are trying
to do. Our church people have never
cherished the idea that every one
would be interested in our church.
That kind of a community church will j
not soon be anywhere, I fear. But the I
public is beginning to see the differ-1
ence between a church in which every
body is interested and a church thai
is interested in everybody,”
He went on to explain tiat, “just as
the various names of church bodies
are indicative of some outstanding
characteristic in polity, creed or*em
phasis, so our name is indicative ol
our outstanding emphasis. We stress
our relations to the local community
and invite into membership all who
are willing to study community needs,
discover community problems, and
help carry out a program of commun
ity welfare backed by Christian mo
tives.” ! '
In last Sunday-night’s sermon, Mr.
Poulson spoke at length upon the ob
jectives of a community church as he
sees them. He made the statement
that “it is too much to expect every
body to be interested in any one thing,
but it is not too much to expect every
Christian to be interested in every
thing that makes or mars character'.’’
“The name Community Church, as
we use it,” he said, “is indicative of
our relation to the community- and not!
of the community to us."
He added, “a community center is
the place where community interests
are given right of way; where citizens
become acquainted with each other
and with civic conditions; in the par
lance of some adept user of words,
words, where ‘unity is put into com
munity.’ ”
Mr. Poulson -said that when some
one . asked Socrates how to get to
Mount Olympus, the answer was, by
doing all your walking Jn that direc
tion. “That is the way to build up a
community church or anything else.
We must have ideals even when we
are practical. The ideal furnishes the
direction we take, the practical is the
step we take in the direction of the
ideal. Our ideal, from the community
standpoint, is child welfare. If we
concern ourselves with things that af
fect our children’s bodies and minds
and characters, we will be giving color
and significance and spiritual values
to common place things in which
everybody should be interested, and
that-is no common place.”
“I insist,” he added, “that simply
calling ourselves a Community Church
no more makes us one than building
a churchly looking building makes us
a church. We can be, and are, just
as much a church in this little room,
as we ever will be in a more churchly
place. But, unless we take into the
larger and more churchly edifice an
.increased zeal and a willingness to as
sume larger duties because of in
creased opportunities and added equip
ment, it were far better for us never
to build a building that would be a
church in name only.” •
SURPRISE PASTOR AND WIFE.
Members and friends of the Ventnor
City Community Church gave Rev. and
Mrs. M. S. Poulson a genuine surprise
on Wednesday evening. More than
one hundred assembled in the church
proper immediately under the apart
ments of the surprised one on the pre
tense of holding the regular weekly
choir- rehearsal. The pastor was pre
sented with huge basket of fruit as
a token of the high esteem in which
jjre is- held by his many local admirers.
■ PAYS TWO FINES.
Arrested by Slate Motor Vehicle In
spector Loveland charged with driving
without a license, end for failure to
aisplay a rear light and cap license
tag, Anthony Macrie, of 2324 Atlantic
avenue, was fined ?15 and costs by
Police Justice Endicott. State inspec
tors have been instructed to enforce
the laws touching all violations and
drivers are being closely scrutinized
to determine their legal right to op
erate a car.
CHINA INLAND MISSION.
Rev. Henry W. Frost, director of the
China Inland Mission, will be (he
speaker at the meeting of the Mission
this afternoon at the home of Rev.
Neale, 6506 Ventnor avenue.
TOTS GET JUMP
ON GROWN OPS
They Will Have Full-Fledged Band
With Instructor. Older Ones
Still Thinking.
For some time past it has been the
thought of many that Ventnor City
should have a band all its own, and
this was proven more than ever on Ar
mistice Day, when the entire demon
stration was the city’s own with the
exception of the band.
The probability of having a local
musical organization has been dis
cussed in different bodies, but it has
not proceeded any further than this,
many feeling that some one else
should take the initiative.
This has been taken by the local
school children, as thirty-two have an
nounced themselves as being willing
to strive for one of the seventeen co
veted places in the organization, which
will be known as the Ventnor City
Educational Band.
.Prof. Charles M. Fry, of Philadel
phia, director of both orchestra and
band, will instruct the youthful mu
sicians, training quarters having been
assigned to the band at the Troy Ave
nue School building.
Musical instruction will be a part of
IJie curriculum for those selected to
play in the band, the plan being to
later organize also a fife (and drum
corps and a bugle corps in conjunction
with the school band.
Miss Anna L. Williams, lady mem
ber of. the Board of Education, has
been active in the matter of organ
izing the band, having the endorse
ment of the other members of the
board, and the hearty co-operation of
the parents.
Limited funds in the school budget
at first precluded the proposal, but
Mayor A.- vW. Brehman, who in his
youth, was a cornetist in a band at a
military school when confronted with
the financial barrier, promptly volun
teered to personally provide the funds
for the costly instruments.
Fortner Mayor Godfrey, who is en
gaged in the musical instrument busi
ness, was given the '-order and the
shipment is expected1 to arrive daily
now. v •
Prof. Fry will come to the city and
instruct the boys in the preliminaries
of band music and will select the play
ers according to ability displayed.
NOT NECESSARY TO PUT
RUBBISH ON SIDEWALK.
Residents of this city who have been
in the habit of placing their rubbish
boxes along the sidewalk and adjacent
to the street need not do this any
longer, and are requested to refrain
from causing this unsightly condition
by keeping them in the sideyard
where the rubbish collector will get
thfim ill fit thfi samp.
Personal (Jaf
Mrs. Alida Cope Kiefer is making
extensive improvements to her prop
erty at 15 Baltimore avenue, south, in
the form of the addition of a bedroom,
bath and sun parlor.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. McHale have re
turned to their home, after a delight
ful motor trif) to Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. M. J. Kelly is now residing at
5251 Winchester avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Weaver, of Bur
lington, N. J., will be the Thanksgiv
ing guests of Mr. J. G. Shreve at his
home, 105 Weymouth avenue, south.
Mr. Weaver is prominent in financial
circles in his home city.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Kline, 2 Newark
avenue, north, are receiving congratu
lations upon the birth of a baby girl
at the Waggoner Hospital. Atlantic
City.
Mrs. S. Levin and son, of Philadel
phia, are the Thanksgiving guests of
Mr. and Mrs. M, B. Leventlial, 14 Vic
toria avenue, north. -
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Benson, of
the Surrey Apt., and their nephew,
Mr. Jos. Hoff, of the University of
Pennsylvania, leave on Friday for
New York, whero'-thry «riii -‘tend the
Army and Navy game. They will re
main in New York over the week-end.
Mrs. M. -S. Beach has returned to
105 Weymouth avenue, south, after an
extended visit to Berlin, N. J.
Dr. and Mrs. H. A. ijeller and Mr,
and Mrs. Ladner have removed to
Philadelphia, having closed their cot
tage at 17 Weymouth avenue, south.
Mrs. Alfred Harris has returned
from Pennsylvania to her home, 25
Oakland avenue, north. >«•
Mr. and Mrs. E. Bertram Wright,
of 21 Wissahickon avenue, north, and
Mr. and.Mrs. liesore motored to Phil
adelphia on Thursday to witness the
annual game between Penn and Cor
nell,
CIHII OBSERVE
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One Community That Will Grant Ex.
emption of Taxes on New
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Dwellings.
Many of the municipalities Of the - ,
County seem to be of the opinion that
the recent law was made for effect
only and not to be observed, but this
city feels different about it.
As long as the law has been placed
on the statues they believe that it has
been placed there to be enforced, and
therefore the local assessors are pre
pared to obey the edict.
P.* E. Howard, chairman of the
Board of Assessors, announced that
the officials have solved the problem,
to its own satisfaction, and to him the
logical way.
The Assessors will make the assess
■Tient of new dwelling, enter them on
the books, but will omit the assess
ment of such property in the. total
■ valuation returned to the county and
state. The valuation will be on the
books if the court upsets the act at.
unconstitutional. It can be collected
as a delinquent tax in the future. If
'the law is upheld there will be no re
fund to make. The other Assessor.-,
who hold the same opinion as Howard,
are Byron Jenkins and E. Steelman
Royal.
“I think the exemption should bo
granted," said Chairman Howard, “it
is a pledge and should be kept. It
stimulated building and relieved hors
ing shortage materially so far as Vent
nor is concerned.”
Garages erected in conjunction with
cottages will be subject to the tax, ac
cording to the interpretation placed
upon the law, which is claimed by
many to be unconstitutional.
That an attack will be made upon
the law is virtually assured, in view,
of the general agitation throughout
the State. In some cities the Asses
sors are planning to disregard the law,
and will file the amount of assess- -
ment on the building together with the
land. Owners of new buildingB in
many localities are planning to take
the matter into court in the hope of
having their houses exempted.
In some cities where the dwellings*
are exempted taxpayers are planning
to force the issue by demanding that
all property be taxed in accordance
with the provisions of the constit >
tion, it being claimed that tho la1 -
exempting new buildings for five
years Is In the nature of class legi
iation and in violation of the organ,®,,
law.
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HAVE YOU FILED YOUR
APPLICATION FOR BONUM
In all probability there are some
men in Ventnor who have not as yet
filed their application for their State
Bonus, and they as participants in the
World War, either on the other side
or in camps in this country are enti
tled to the same. :h.
The Atlantic City Chapter of the
American Red Cross is very actions
.or all New Jersey Bonus applica
'ions to be completed and turned into
their office not later than November
as all applications must be in.
Trpnton by November 30, or they will
not^ be paid. All residents of tha
State of New Jersey are entitled to
this bonus whether they enlisted in
New Jersey or not, provided that they
gave a New Jersey address as their
home address when enlisting. It is
not paid to those who were drafted .
outside^of the State unless the soldier “
requested his induction card trans
ferred to his home in New Jersey ,
and he was finally Inducted from this
State. The local Chapter has all the •
necessary forms, and the services of
a Notary Public will be given free of
charge. For further information com
municate with Red Cross Headquar
ters, 305 Guarantee Trust Building,
Phone 471.
RAID PUNCH BOARDS.
A number of the stores in this city
have had punch boards, and had a fair .
patronage with these, but no more, as
they were raided on Saturday by
County Detective Harry Fulmer anil
Patrolman Magee. The punch hoards
were confiscated by the authorities as
well as the various prizes that were to
be drawn on them, consisting of jew-:'
elry, fountain pens, boxes of candies,
etc.
Prosecutor Gaskill had issued the ™*
order for the boards and materials to ;i
be confiscated, as they were all games •>'
of chance, and are termed by the law
as gambling and are therefore for
bidden.
Deliveries at any time desired daily
and this insures Ventnor householders
the best service for an kinds of sea
foods, if orders are given to the *
CHELSEA FISH MARKET, 2707
Atlantic Avenue. Phones—Bell 2180
and 2181