The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-08-28
CONCISE NEWSLETS
ABOUT THE CITY
Interesting Local Occurrences
Briefly Told.

DElcllJ AOlus
st. Margaret's Guild will meet at
The home of Mrs. Henry Crawford
on New Road, Thursday afternoon,
Sept. End, at 2.30.
Congratulations were received on
Tuesday by James Lewis Risley, Pres
ident of the Pleasantville Trust Co,
that being the occasion OF the 64tn
anniversary of his birth.
The Sunday School classes of Mrs.
Guy Wilson and Mrs. VIM. Naglee
will hold an ice cream and cake social
in the dining room of Wesley M. +.
Church Tuesday evening, Aug. 31st.
The Christian Endeavor Society OF
the First Presbyterian Church will
give a sailing party from Somers
Point next Tuesday evening, leaving
Pleasantville on the 7.35 Suburban
a
The fixtures for the new postofice
arrived this week and have been IN
stalled. Everything will be ready for
upa early in September, when
Pleasantville will have an u~p-to-date
postofice and one in keeping with the
size and Importance of the town.
On Sunday morning, Aug. 20, at
II o'clock, Rev. M. ]. Hoffman will
oficiate and preach at st. Marks
Protestant Episcopal Church, corner
Verona and Franklin Sun
day School at IL o'clock. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attend.
Oscar Holmes, of Smiths Landing,
was held under 5000 bail for the
Grand Jury on the charge of stealing
truck, preferred by Harry Collins, a
local farmer. Cantaloupes and corn
are said to have been taken and
Holmes was held by MagistraS
Martz.
Thanks to the mechanical genius
of Chief of Police Krewson, the in
tersection of Main street and Wash
ington avenue now has a crossing
signal, operated by the traffic officer
stationed there which informs mo-
tosists when to stop and when to
proceed.
Some individual or individuals Wis
tied the dog pound on Saturday night
and by tearing away part of the fence
liberated 81 dogs which had been i'm
pounded there. This is a deliberate
and malicious act and the offenders
should be identified, if possible, and
punished.
The Atlantic County Suffrage Club
was organized in Atlantic City on
Tuesday afternoon, when officers were
elected as follows: President, Mrs.
Mary North C~henoweth, of Atlantic
City; Vice-President, Miss Abbott, of
Atlantic City: Secretary. Mrs. D. w.
Macmillan, of Pl%easantville.
Frank Wootton, eleven-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Wootton, was
knocked from the ~fre-plug at the cor
ner of Washington and Main streets,
upon which he was sitting, when an
automobile in turning the corner got
too close in. His foot was damned
against the plug and painfully
though not seriously crushed.
On Sunday morning, Aug. 20, at
1890 o'clock, Mr.. Stanley U. North
will address the congregation of the
First Presbyterian Church upon the
subject, 1.-THE Greatest War" Mr..
North has recently accepted an offer
from a large Congregational Church
at Omaha, Nebraska, to do institu-
tional work and will begin his duties
about Oct. LIST.
The many friends of Capt. Charles
w. Blake of the u. S. Tug Gushing,
stationed at Galveston, Texas, were
relieved to receive word that he and
his vessel were safe and u~ninjured
during the recent terrible storm. The
tugs Gushing and Fitzpatrick were
both fortunate, but the McClelland
was beached high and dry. The
transport Beaufort did valiant work
in rescuing flood victims from second
story windows.
Justice of the Peace Richard G.
Brown, Of Pleasantville, presided at
the hearing in Atlantic City of eight
amusement men for whom warrants
had been issued under what are
known as the "old blue laws" of the
State for conducting their places of
business on Sunday. The Law En-
forcement League were responsible
for the warrants. The defendants
were released upon bail to await the
action of the Grand Jury.
The Absecon Anxious Club is at
Bridgeton and enjoying it's annual
outing in the City Park, spending the
greater part of their time on Race
way and lakes. Each year, for sew
eral years, the Club has been going
to Bridgeton about this time in the
season, and they have always had a
delightful time. They stop with Eli
Lopez, at Seven Gables, take several
canoe of the Bridgeton Pleasure
Boat Company, and are day and night
upon the waters. There are some
sixteen ladies and gentlemen compos-
ing the party.