Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-05-25
CURRENT GOSSIP
AND Personal NOTES.
Items that ui11 Interest the
Home Circle.
REVIEW OF THE WEEKS LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
BRIEF NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST TO
PLEAsANTvILLE PEOPLE, WITH ODDS
AND ENDS TO ENTERTAIN OUR FRIENDS
AMI VISITORS.
Snow-Balls are in bloom.

Snow-Balls are in bloom
Capt. A. Lake spent Monday in Phila.
Charles Bowen shot quite large pine
snake on Monday,
Mr.. Daniel Ingersoll is recovering from
her recent illness.
Mrs. Tobias Mcconnell entertained
friends over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ryon were Atlantic
City visitors Frinay.
Capt. Richard Willis is spending few
days with his family.
Mayor Higbee and wife of Somers Point
were in town on Sunday.
Mrs. Enoch C. Price was an Atlantic
City visitor en- Monday,
Mr.. William Stetzer, of Dennisville,
was in town on Thursday.
J. L. Risley and Harry Parcels took
trip to Philadelphia this week.
Mrs. Job Risley had as her guest on
Friday her daughter, Mrs. Martin.
MIR. and Mrs. J. F. Abbott enjoyed
short visit to Philadelphia this week.
Capt. Jno. M. Hilton's wife is visiting
Henry Hilton Jr. at Chincoteague, Va.
Mr.. Stephen D. Pierce of Atlantic City
was the guests of friends in town Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Faulkner Willis were
Atlantic City visitors on Wednesday.
The Presbyterian Sunday School
held q picnic at Bakersville on Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randolph Adams were
the guests of their parents at Bakersville,
Sunday.
Mrs. Arthur Winner enjoyed the presence
OF q large number of friends at her home
last week.
There is a rumor that a fashionable
wedding will take place in town in the
near future.
Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Jewett and son
have returned from pleasant visit with
Camden friends.
Mrs Steelman and her daughter, Miss
Carrie were the guests of Pleasantville
friends on Sunday.
Messrs. Leeds & Lippincott of The
Haddon Hall, Atlantic City were in
town Wednesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Hemsley
and daughter of Atlantic City were
Wednesday visitors.
The Shore Road is rapidly wearing hard
and smooth and will soon be a model
highway for wheelmen.
Mrs. John Andrews, of Atlantic
City, was the guest of her sister Mrs.
Ashmead on Thursday.
There will be a flag raising at St. Johns
Church, Saturday afternoon at 80. The
public is invited to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Hackney of Cape
May Co. are spending a few days with
their father, Mr.. jeremiah Hackney.
The Excelsior Loege, Jr. o. II. A. M.
visited an Atlantic City lodge in body
on Friday night last and enjoyed good
time.
Rev. Father Petri will say Mass on
Thursday, June I'd, at 80 A M at the
house of DIR. Wallis. All are cordially in
vited to attend.
Doctors White and Starr, the foremost
doctors OF Philadelphia. were among the
visitors as guests of Mr.. Fredrick Hemsey
on Sunday at the Country Club.
Mrs. Caleb Matthews Jr. was received
into Salem M. f. Church on Sunday last
by Rev. f. l.. Jewett. Also Mr.. Job
Smith recently ol Atlantic City, was re-
ceived by letter,
Messers j. Haines Lippincott and Ii.
W. Leeds played two games of golf on
Monday, Mr.. Lippincott breaking the
record SO Tar, making the nine links in
forty-nine strokes.
The Y. P. s. E ofSt. Johns will hold
their Second Anniversary next Friday
evening. Al interesting program is being
prepared. All young peoples societies
cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. Joseph Ell. Borton, chairman of the
Grounds Committee together with Mr..
j. ID. Southwick and FL. W. Leeds, men,
bers of same committee, inspected the
Country Club grounds on Saturday.
Sunday Evening there will be special
service in the Baptist Church. The Pastor
will preach sermon to the old veterans.
A cordial invitation is extended to the
old soldiers and to patriotic and other
Orders to be present.
The doll show given by the young
girls of the Presbyterian Church was
great success and they netted the snug
little sum Of thirty-seven dollars. There
was a great variety of dolls some of
W hich were half century old.
The many friends of R,v. John M.
Ferguson, former pastor of the Presby
terian Church, will be pleased to hear
that he is rapidly recovering his lost
health, and will leave the Sanatorium at
Wernersyille, on or abeutthe first OF July.
Persons requiring medical treatment
are invited to the article in another
column extolling the merits of the Electro
Medical System. The doctors of the new
method will be at Scull's Cottege, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, May 26th,
9th and 2Sth.
james Boice, who was found dead in
the Masonic ante-roOm at Atlantic City,
last week, was buried in Pleasantville
Cemetery on Sunday. A large number of
Masons and Odd Fellows came over in a
special train, and the funeral rites of the
respective Orders were observed at the
grave
Last Friday brought sudden touch of
Summer weather, and the mercury
jumped up to ninety degrees before any
body had q chance to get their thick
clothing of. 1t didn't last long however,
for heavy thunderstorm and rain during
the evening, cooled the atmosphere and
brought the wind back to its normal
Observation-Disclosures.
The gnats have come. likewise the mo-
eouitos, the fsas and the hot-footed
bumble-bee. All these insects probably
have some useful part to perform in
Natures wonderful drama, but thus far
we have never been able to discover what
1t vas. It has always seemed to ns that