The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

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Arrival and Departure of Mails

From Atlantic City-6.3o a. m. and 3.45
p. m.
Mails close as follows:
For Philadelphia-6.20, BIS and 9.45 a.
n; $50 and 6.25 D. m.
For Atlantic City-9.45 a. m. e.25 p. m.
The ONCE opens daily except Sunday at
Carrier leaves on Rural Delivery Route al
$50 a. m.
Nh. and Mrs. F. Fraley Doughty
leave on Tuesday for a three weeks
trip to New Orleans, La. They sail
from New York City.
Mrs. M. S. Munson, of Atlantic
City, in s%ojourning at the Pine View
Villa.
Miss Lena York spent Sunday at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Russell
Fenton, in Atlantic City.
Professor E. D. Riley and Mr.. and
Mrs. William B. Riley attended the
meetings conducted by Evangelist
Billy Sunday in Philadelphia last Sat-
urday.
The regular meeting night of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Soci-
ETY. of the NJ. E. Church has been
changed from the fourth to the second
Tuesday evening of each month.
A small fire last Monday afternoon
damaged one of the buildings on the
premises owned by Fillippo D. Alon-
20, formerly the Kendall property on
Ohio avenue. No one was at home at
the time the blaze was discovered but
it was extinguished before it had done
much damage.
Mrs. Josephine Adams was the
guest last Friday of Mrs. D. l.. AL
bertson at Pleasantville.
Misses Rose and Marion Price were
recent guests for several days of rel
atives at Linwood.
Miss Laura Adams entertained last
Sunday Miss Frances Doherty and
Miss Helen L. Beckett, of Atlantic
City.
Mrs. May Townsend is entertaining
Rev. Harold S. Rambo, pastor of the
Home Street Presbyterian Church,
New York City. Mr.. Rambo is held
in high esteem by the parishioners of
the Absecon Presbyterian Church, of
which he was the pastor several
years ago.
The severe wind and rain storm
Tuesday night did considerable dam
age in Absecon. One building was
unroofed, at least a dozen chimneys
were blown down, wires were broken,
trees of all sizes %uprooted, windows
smashed by broken limbs, fences laid
low, buildings shaken to an alarming
extent and streets and yards Uttered
with broken limbs and branches.
A very social afternoon was spent
by the members of the Absecon Art
Club at the home of Mrs. George B.
Conover last Wednesday afternoon.
Present were Mrs. R. A. Elwood, Mrs.
Samuel Johnson, Miss Hannah Mad
den, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Townsend, Mrs. P.
b. Reed Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin,
Miss Joanna Doughty, Mrs. Fraley
Doughty, Mrs. R. L. Babcock, Mrs.
A. L. Hammell, Mrs. C. NJ. Johnston,
Mrs. F. G. Turner, Miss Carrie Steel
man and the hostess.
Miss Joanna Doughty, of Atlantic
City, has been spending several days
at the home of her brother, F. Fraley
Doughty.
Leonard Bruckler has been confined
several days to his home at Absecon
Highlands with a severe cold. Mean
while his tailor shop adjoining the
post-ofice has been closed.
A meeting of the Absecon Ushers'
Union was held in the chapel last
Monday evening when the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President. Harry Weir; vice
president, Miss Ethel Hammell; secre-
tary, Leland Shovel; treasurer, Jo-
seph Smith, Jr.; chaplain, Rev. C.
M. Johnston; warden, Mrs. ~R. L. Bah
cock. Hereafter the union will meet
in the chapel on Monday evening
every two weeks. 1t is the desire of
those in charge that the young wo-
men as well as the young men will
unite with the organization.
Honor Roll of Absecon School
Honor roll of the Absecon public
school, names of pupils who were
neither absent nor tardy during the
month of December, is composed of
the following list:
Upper grades, Lareta 0. Scheuren
teacher-Adelaide Carly, Fred Carly,
Blanche Hammell, Eunice Risley, Ev-
erett Hammell, Leroy Hammea, Ken
meth Lutz, Alfred Shovel, Theon
White.
Fourth and fifth grades, Viola Boy
sen, teacher-Roland Hates, Leroy
Mattson, Edward Mccarthy, Harry
Conover, Viola Conover, Ethlyn Davis.
Third grade, Ada Logan teacher
Ladow Hammell, Emerson Shovel,
Ruth Reed, Edith Prescott.
First grade, Carrie C. Reed teach
er-Bertram Hammell, Jacob Reed,
Grace Prescott.
Fire Company Elects Officers
A meeting of the Absecon Volunteer
Fire Company was held in the fire
house on Monday evening at which
time officers for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: President,
Wesley c. Smith;v vice president, Am
brose L. Hammell; secretary, Frank
lin G. Turner; assistant secretary, Jo-
seph Smith, Jr.; treasurer, Edmund
Smith; chief, Charles NJ. Kesler; fore
man,C. Pitney Hammell; assistant
foreman, Ira L. Giberson; marshall,
John Suffers; trustees, w. C. Smith,
c. P. Mammell, 1. L. Giberson, Lee
land Shovel and Edmund Smith;
members of Investigating committee,
A. L. Hammell. C. NJ. Kesler and C.
P. Hammell. The fire compny meets
in the fire house the first and third
Monday evenings of each month.