Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-12-14
CURRENT GOSSIP
AND Personal NOTES.
Items that uill Interest," the
Home Circle.
/ pEnEI Of The LOCAL HIPPEHIAGs
BRIEF NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST TO
PIEAsANrvnIE PEOPLE, WITH ODDS
AND ENDS TO ENTERTAIN DUB FRIENDS
AMI VISITORS
Mrs. J. W. Cox is quite i'll.


Mr.. Ezra Lake was a Phila. visitor
Tuesday.
James Ryon was an Atlantic City
visitor Tuesday.
The Misses Tomlinson were Atlantic
visitors Saturday.
Mark Simpkins is recovering from
severe spell of sickness.
Capt. William 81. Mathis was New
York visitor last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Scull were
Phila. visitors last week.
Miss Myrtle Collins has returned from
q visit with Phila. friends.
Mrs. Charles Allen was an Atlantic
City visitor on Thursday.
There was lots of clear, cool, crisp
bracing weather last week.
Mrs. w. Cox has recovered from a
few days illness of week ago.
The gossips and scandal-mongers have
had feast for few days past.
Many pigs have been assassinated in
the Borough during the last two weeks.
The Current Events Social met at the
home OF Mrs. John Ryon Monday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Collins were the
guests of Atlantic City friends on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ashmead and son
passed Sunday with Atlantic City
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Zane are receiv-
ing congratulations on the birth of a
daughter.
Mr.. Joseph R. Moore butchered very
fine porker of s months weighing 265
pounds.
Hon. and Mrs. W. 1. Newell and Mr..
and Mrs. Will Newell were Phila. visi-
tors last week.
Miss Mary Bonner, of Atlantic City,
spent several days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph r. Moore.
ST. Johns NJ. P. Church congregation
will hold services at the Smiths Land
ing School House.
Harry Collins has erected q very ella
borate and modern pigeon house over
one hundred feet long.
Pleasantville's petit jurors are William
B. Adams, Andrew Ireland, Frederick W.
Eve, and Mark Sanders.
a Krduu supper CJupiSt tiu6 Vi AOooo
pig, turkey and chicken will be given
on Friday evening, December 18th, 1898
at st. Pauls' A. M. E. Church. Admis-
sion, 25 cents.
Norris Ingersoll caught a live Opossum
in bis chicken house on Sunday night.
The same is now decorating the carpen-
ter shop of Charles Bowen, who is an ex-
pert at dressing such animals.
Godfrey Fairbrothers, well know
and deserving young man of Pleasant
vile. has acquired the management of a
very fine three-masted schooner OF 1000
tons by the name of James ID. Dewee, and
halls from New Haven, Conn. BE took
charge of her last Saturday, and left
Boston for coal port.
Capt. Charles Risley returned home last
Saturday evening to participate in the
business of j. E. Blake & Co. He has
discontinued following the sea, greatly
to the satisfaction of his own family and
parents. The second-story of the store
is being fitted up as q dwelling. where he
and bis family will reside.
The Fire Department boys are build
ing a new shed for the Hook and Lad
der truck and getting ready to vigor-
pusly fight future fires. One of these
DAYS we shall see Frank Reinar coming
q forty feet ladder with feather
bed In each hand and pretty girl
astride of his shoulders-just the same
as the firemen do in big cities.
Once more the wisdom of purchasing
q fire engine for the Borough has been
demonstrated by the saving of st.
Johns Parsonage when the church was
burned Friday night. 1t was too late
to save the big wooden building, all
ablaze in q gale of wind when the engine
arrived, but the new parsonage would
surely have shared the same fate if the
<schemical'' hadn't been there.
The st. Johns Church congregation
will hold regular prayer meeting at the
Parsonage, Wednesday evening at 7.3O.
Class Meeting at same place and hour on
Friday evening. As soon as plans are
completed for the future, due notice will
be given in these columns. The Rev. Mr.
Darnell and congregation combined ser
vices of worship with the Salem congre-
CATION, by request of Rev. F. l.. Jewett,
on Sunday last, and q grand good time
was enjoyed by all. Rev. Mr.. Darnell
preached an able sermon in the morning,
and in the evening Rev. F. L. JsweJt
preached an eloquent sermon on the SUBJ
iect of Temperance"