Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-12-21
CURRENT GOSSIP
AND Personal NOTES.
Items that ui1l Interest the
Home Circle.
BRIEF NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST TO
PLEAsANTvILLE PEOPLE, WITH ODDS
AND ENDS TO ENTERTAIN OUR FRIENDS
AMI VISITORS

Miss Minnie Ireland is quite ill.
Archie Willis has been quite i'll.
Robert L. Race is erecting barn.
John Lake is home for few days.
Miss Laura Leech is on the sick list.
David Stetzer Jr. has the pneumonia.
Mrs. George Leech spent Sunday in
Phila.
Mrs. Davis passed Monday in Allan
tic City.
Mrs. John Ryon was Phila. visitor
Friday.
Capt. John Burroughs is home for the
winter.
There are several cases of pneumonia
IN town.
Mr.. Arthur Ryon was in Atlantic City
Monday.
Mrs. Jane Homen returned home on
Saturday.
Mrs. Preston Adams was in Phila.
Thursday.
Miss Alice Horton was Phila. visitor
Thursday.
Mrs. Job Stebbens was Phila. visi-
tor Friday.
Arthur Ryon is recovering from his
late illness.
Miss Clara Adams spent Sunday at
Bakersville.
William Newell Jr, was Phila. visi-
tor Thursday.
Mrs. Ingersoll was an Atlantic City
visitor Monday.
Miss Lizzie n Risley was Phila. visi-
tor the past week.
Capt. Wesley r. Smith goes away on
his vessel on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ryon were Atlantic
City visitors Monday.
Daniel E. Lake. of Ocean City, spent
Sunday with L. c. Lake.
Mrs. Allie Willis and daughter passed
Monday in Atlantic City,.
The fog, Tuesday morning, was thick
enough to cut with knife.
Mrs. Abbie Lake and Clara Adams
took spin on their wheels.
Mrs. William Willis and little son were
Atlantic City visitors Friday.
Rev. Samuel Steckel passed a part of
last week in Washington, d. c.
Mrs. K. Risley and Mrs. Japhet Price
passed Monday in Atlantic City.
There will be lots of happy family re-
unions on Sunday, Christmas Day.
Mrs. Isaac Collins aud Mrs. Robert l.,
Race were Phila. visitors Tuesday.
Miss Lena Shinn spent Sunday with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Bartlett
Mrs. OIenschIager and daughter, Mrs.
Caste, were Atlantic City visitors Mon
day.
Mrs. Elizabeth Humphreys will pass
the winter with her brother in Atlantic
City,
Mr.. Kreuger of the firm of J.EE. Blake
& Co. has gone to New York for few
days.
Salem M. E. Sunday School will give
their Christmas Cantata on Friday
evening.
Mrs. Edward Ryon, of B akersville,
was the guest OF Mrs. Ezra Lake on
Monday.
Rev. Mr. Darnell and Mr.. John r.
Price were Atlantic City visitors on
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Brown Halbert will
pass the holidays with their parents in
Baltimore.
Miss Alice Horton entertained party
of friends at popcorn party on Thurs
day evening.
Capt. Loveland of New Gretna, the
Ocean County oyster commissioners was
visitor last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Babcock, of
English Creek, spent Sunday with friends
and relatives in town.
Mrs. Nathaniel Risley, of Ocean City,
was the guest of her daughter Mrs. In
gersoll the past week.
Mrs. L. C. Lake has returned home
from New York where she has been visit
ing her neice, Mrs. Tatem.
Mrs. Frank Webb held social at her
home on Thursday evening for the bene-
fit OF the Presby terian Church.
Mrs. George Thompson of Brooklyn,
N. Y. is visiting her parents Mr.. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Ingersoll.
Richard Collins the Ice King of Bakers
vile, has harvested over 800 tons of 5A
inch ice cold ice during the past week.
Rev. s. W. Steckel returned last week
from Washington D. G. where he had
been in attendance of Christian Asso-
cidtiOn.
Mr.. Geo. Adams, the Phila. Hardware
Merchant, who is one of our best citizens
shipped very handsome Christmas tree
tast Saturday nsght.
The Hook and Ladder House was
moved by the Fire Department, last
weeh, and has been placed on its new
lot, and the truck properly housed.
The Musicale given by MIR. and Mrs. A
P. Risley, last Saturday evening, proved
q grand success, Sc, being the amount oi
the Silver Collection for the Church.
Mr.. C. G. Snowman, one of the most
popular conductors of the Atlantic City
r. r., was taken seriously ill on Sunday
night, while on duty, and his brakeman
was compelled to complete the run.
Mrs. Lizzie Humphreys, widow of the
late May Humphries, received, last week
$4,000 from the A. 0. U. w. and $3OOt
from the Royal Arcanum, the orders te
which her deceased husband belonged.
Capt. l.. C. Lake is spending q few
days at home. They say he is as busy
as a bee in tar barrel when he comes
home. We hope to see him around
among the people as he don't come
home often.
DR.. James North, of Atlantic City,
brother of DIR. J. b. North, of our town.
Is 8 very ine poet and scholar. He com
posed the words for an lcelandic Miilen