Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-02-10

Next
Sunday
Is Saiut
Valentines
Day, and the
Mails on Satur-
Day and Monday
Are liable to be loaded
With various kinds of
Missives. Some of them
Will contain the picture of a
Heart pierced by an arrow and
A little Cupid, without any clothes
Ga, standing near by with a bow
And arrow wondering how it happened.
Others will be of the funny" variety,
And the comic pictures thereon will
Re calculated to make the people
Who receive them "feel to
Swear" Ifyou find an old
Maid, unusually cross, ora
Mean aud sneaking old
Hypocrite with a face
Longer than usual,
Then you may know
That he has received
A comic valentine.
Amen.
MISS hdUtie iliSicy - Ou eHC sim hoO'
Mr.. Daniel Iugersoll was in Atlantic
City Thursday.
Mrs. Richard Risley is on the sick list
at this writing.
Mrs. Z. T. Adams has been quite ill for
several days past.
Mr.. Schellenburg was an Atlantic City
visitor on Thursday.
Miss Edua Rlsley was an Atlantic City
City visitor on Friday.
Mrs Florence j. HaIlam and son spent
Monday in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Samuel Sooy was in Atlantic City
on business on Thursday.
Mrs. Levi Larew is rapidly recovering
from an attack of La Grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Smith enter tain
ed Absecoa friends on Sunday.
Capt. Frank Robinson who has been
seriously i'll is greatly improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fish visited rela-
tiyes in Atlantic City on Sunday.
Miss Minta Andrews was the guest of
friends in Atlantic City on Friday.
Mrs. Lima Horton was the guest Of
friends in Atlantic City on Friday.
Miss Gertie Risley was the guest of
Atlantic City relatives on Friday.
Miss Bertha Ireland spent Friday and
Saturday of last week at Cologne.
Mr.. Lewis Ryon of Atlantic City was
the guest of his parents on Thursday.
Capt. J. E. Blake left town Monday,
to Join his vessel after a week at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stebbins enter
tanned friends from a distance last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zane Rose of Linwood
visited Capt. David FairbrOthers on
Sunday.
Rev. Levi Larew was Philadelphia
visitor on Monday, for the purpose of
having his eye treated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Martin and son
visited Mr. and Mrs. John Hackney of
Atlantic City on Monday.
The remains of the late John S. Taylor
OF Atlantic City were inferred in the
Pleasantville Cemetery on Monday.
Revival services are still in progress at
the various churches in town. A great
work has been done in all of them.
Mrs. Eva Champion, of Ocean City,
and Godfrey Ang, formerly of this place,
are visiting the family of Martin A. Hill
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Fairbrothers have
returned from Tuckahoe where they
have visited relatives for several weeks
past.
The turnpike over the meadows was
mass of ice and water on Thursday and
some who started to drive across turned
back in disgust.
The youngest son of Mark Martin de-
dress of As minutes dnra tiOn at St. Johns
church on Monday night.
There will be services in the Presby-
terlan church every afternoon this week,
at half past four o'clock, for the school
children or any one who can come.
Salem NJ. E. congregation listened to a
rare treat on Monday night consisting
of a talk from an old resident of former
years. Mr.. Benjamin Collins, at present
of MillvilIe. A good season in general
was experienced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Zane were called
to Tuckahoe, on Wednesday last to at
tend the fuheral of Mr.. Z.ne's mother.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Zane. Mrs. 2 ane was u
years of age. She leaves four SONS, three
10 Atlantic City, and Robert Zane of this
place.
DR.. J. Fl. North says there ''is no peace
for the righteous, or those who have the
gout." He might also add that there
ought to be no peace for man who
will punch holes in the ground with q
crowbar, and put onions in the holee,
and then try to make newspaper people
believe they are lilies.
A delegation of the Freeholders of
Cumberland County visited the County
Asylum here, on Thursday last, for the
purpose of inspecting it and to obtain
some knowledge of its interior manage
ment. Cumberland County is consider
ing the proposition to build en- Asylum
for the care of it's own insane. and the
committee came here to find out how
Atlantic County's worked before finally
deciding the matter.
While driving from Port Republic on
Thursday last Jos. Thomas received q
disagreeable surprise when his horse ran
away with him. After an attempt to
stop his steed, he gave up and fell under
the wheels. Perhaps he thought this
would stop the horse. but both wheels
passed over him. The horse was stop
ped by man little farther on, but in
the excitement Joe forgot that he had a
hat, and after q few NalDutes he re-
membered that there had been seat in
the wagon. After awhile he got
Strengthened out and got home O.. K.
He had been told to be careful or the
horse would run away with him. but he
did not heed the warning.