Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-05-18
CURRENT GOSSIP
AND Personal NOTES.
Items that uui11 Interest the
Home Circle.
REVlEH OF THE TEErs LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
BRIEF NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST TO
PLEAsANTvILLE PEOPLE, WITH ODDS
AND ENDS TO ENTERTAIN OUR FRIENDS
AMI VISITORS.

AND ENDS TO ENTERTAIN OUR FRIENDS
AMI VISITORS.
Decoration Day comes on Monday
this year.
DIR. J. Fl. North spent Friday in Ham
monitor.
Mrs. Nettie Race is recovering from a
recent illness.
DIR. Crosby, of Atlantic City. was in
town Saturday.
Mrs. Charles Horton spent Saturday
in Atlantic City.
Rev. F. L. Jewett was Williamsport
visitor this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l. Newell were Phila.
visitors Saturday.
Mrs. Wesley McGronigle is visiting her
mother Mrs. Halsey.
There was picnic party from Allan
til City on Thursday.
Mrs. William G. Adams was an Attain
tic City visitor Saturday.
Mrs Caleb B. Matthews, Jr., was q
Phila visitor ON Monday.
Miss Laura Reeves is stopping for q
few weeks in Atlantic City.
The carpenters flushed the interior of
the Country Club last Friday.
There were lots of bicycles and fine
turnouts in town on Saturday.
Mrs. F. L. Jewett and son spent the
early part OF the week in Camden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles s. Adams paid
Phila. friends an official visit last week.
Mr.. E. J. Halbert is improving his cot
tage with the addition of another room.
Mrs. Herbert E. Freeman will leave
soon for her new home in North Caro-
lima.
Mr.. and Mrs, Daniel Collins, of Allan
tic City, spent Sunday with relatives in
town.
Miss Bertha Ireland entertained Miss
Midie Collins, of Port Republic, over
Sunday.
Mayor Frank E. Adams was in Phila.
on Monday looking after his oyster
business.
Mrs. Preston B. Adams and Mrs. Geo.
Adams were among the Phila. shoppers
last week.
Alvin P Risley has built new fence
around his property-now occupied by
Mr.. Pearson.
Mr.. M. Daley has commenced work
on a new cottage on his lot opposite
Peter B. Risley's.
Rev. and Mrs. Jlmes Luffbarry are
enjoying weeks visit with friends and
relatives in Phila.
Mr.. Isaac Collins, of Phila. was a
guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph Collins on Sunday.
Our fishermen are so patriotic that
they won't catch any Spanish mackerel
as long as the war lasts.
Mr.. Richard Van Syckle, of the
Press compositOrs' force is quite ill,
and confined to his bed.
The Atlantic County Sunday School
Convention was held yesterday and to-
day at the Baptist Church.
The schools closed on Friday and the
youngsters are delighted with the pros
pect of a summer vacation.
Mrs. DIR. Lake, Mrs. Joshus Lake and
Mrs. George Adams attended the W. c.
T. q. Convention at Egg HarbOr City
on Thursday.
Messrs. J. Fl. Lippincott, Walter Edge
and Harry Wooton of Atlantic City
went several rounds in the game of
golf last Saturday.
The Junior League, of Salem Church
will be given a picnic, by their Supt.
Mrs. Hugh Collins, at the old English
farm on Friday next.
The first quarterly love feast will be
held in Salem M. L. Church next Sun
day morning at 8 AZ a. m. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
Mrs. S. W. Leeds and Mrs. 81. W. Seeds
were among the number of Atlantic City
ladies who took lessons in the game of
golf at the Country Club last week.
There will be given in ST. Paul's
A. M. Z. Church May 30th, an oyster
supper, and other delicacies will be
for sale including fruit and ice cream.
Miss Minnie Ireland, daughter of the
late Capt. Griffith Ireland of this place,
was married at her home in Atlantic
City last week to Mr.. Charles Bowen OF
Atlantic City.
Rev. James Luff barry will preach a
sermon to the g.. A. r. next Sunday
week, May 90, in the evening A general
invitation is extended to all the lodges
in the Borough. None are excepted.
The pulpit alterations at the Pres
byterian Church as well as other inn
movements by Messrs. d. s. Lacy
and S. S. Carton seem to meet
with general and hearty approval.
An esteemed CITIZEN who came across
the meadows one day last week, filled
to the chin with Atlantic City "bug
Juice, was badly frightened by the dis
charge of the guns of some bird-shOOting
sportsmen down the bay. He thought
they were the thirteen-inch guns of a
Spanish battleship.
Our fellow citizen B. J. Sibley SAYS
he is going to open recruiting office
and raise a company to help click" the
Spaniards. Mr.. Sibley knows what war
is, having served three years in the
Union Army during our civil war, and
tie at Cold Harbor.
On Sunday evening Rev.F. L. Jewett
referred very touchingly to Lieutenant
= Bernado who was wounded last week
at Cardenas, Cuba, on board the torpedo
/, boat Winslow. Lieutenant Bernado
\ was born at Winslow Camden County,
u Just across the line of Atlantic County
il and was a echoOlmate with hey
ot Jewett.
iii For the benefit of the Building
1rF Fund" of the Presbyterian Church
Lii -he children of the Church and Sun
4 lay School will give at the church
NJ, next Friday and Saturday after.
a loons and evenings at 2.30 and 7.3C
10 Nav 20 and 21, doll exhibition, foI
which an admission of 10 cts. will be
wd charged. Refreshments will be
{ eryed g