The Pleasantville press., 1912-11-27
IDLEwOoD.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. Grail had the plea
sure last week of entertaining two
old Baltimore friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Bushe, over from Atlantic City.
The autumn woods were at their love-
liest and the walks through them
with the stopping here and there to
greet friendly neighbors, was greatly
enjoyed by the city folks. Their two
thoroughbred bulldogs were brought
along for the visit, and they enjoyed
the walks even more than their own
ers. Chummy neighboring dogs join
ed in one of these walks, until it be-
came quite a parade, but was finally
broken up in a general skirmish, by
one of the thoroughbreds resenting
too much familiarity. During Mr..
and Mrs. Bushes visit Mrs. Grail en-
tertained Mrs. J. j. McDevitt and
family as a mark of esteem to Mrs.
McDevitt and her 65th birthday.
AS was expected the Ice Cream and
Cake Social proved a success. Many
lakewood people who had never been
to our church here before, came and
seemed to enjoy themselves SO much,
that they were pleased to accept an
invitation to the annual Sunday
School entertainment, which usually
takes place in January. The last two
years verdict has been that the en-
tertainment has been extremely good,
and we hope to have this years like
wise, and more so, and are already
starting to practice for it. We must
add that one of the other big reasons
that our Ice Cream Social was sue
cess was because of the assistance
given by many outside of lakewood
buying tickets merely as a contribu-
tion. Mr.. Jos. Bridges MIR. H. Sheele
and many others in lakewood are also
thanked for their kind assistance. We
appreciated the attendance from Nc
Kee City and the singing.
Among our Sunday School visitors
lately was one we were particularly
glad to welcome-Miss ]. Trout, an
ex-resident of lakewood and one of
the first members of the lakewood
Church by baptism. We would be
glad to have her take up the work
again with US, if it were possible.
Another pleasing feature Of this Sum
day School service was the simple,
sincere talk given by Mr. David
Booth. Quite a number of pleasant
occurrences have taken place lately
for the welfare of the First Baptist
Church of lakewood. The most re-
cent one has been the decision of the
New Jersey Baptist Convention to
meet half of the Building and Loan
dues of the past few months, and in
the future, pay insurance and other
small Indebtedness due. TO this end
check was sent us for $500. Mr..
McDeyitt, who has been paying any
deficiency of B. & L. dues from his
own pocket, has cancelled this loan he
gave, including it with his many 9TH
er donations. The $8100 was depos-
tied in The First National Bank of
Pleasantville to the credit of the
First Baptist Church Of lakewood.
| This statement is made for the bene-
| fit of those, who giving information
generally and church news, ard that
| Of those connected with it, in particu-
lar, will be enabled to give it truth
fully. Correctness in this respect is
positively advised as being safest in
! the future. Also it shows that the
Baptist Association, which takes in
all the State of New Jersey, has the
evident opinion and knowledge that
the conditions at the First Baptist
| Church of lakewood are thoroughly
trustworthy.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. S. Walker have
returned from a thoroughly pleasant
two weeks with their two daughters
| in Philadelphia. Each day of their
visit brought specially planned ar
rangement for their entertainment by