The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-11-13

o ABSECON.


lngS IN lnere are line du-
diences and the people are stirred.
Four were at the altar last Sunday.
The meetings continued this week.
Wednesday night some came from
Port Republic. Thursday night a load
went up from Absecon.
Mrs. Gustave Guenther, ST., spent
Tuesday with relatives in Egg Har-
Dor City.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Carton recently
entertained for a week Miss Carrie
Ryon, of Atlantic City.
A meeting of the Ushers' Union
was held in the M. E. Chanel last
Monday evening.
Miss Clara Conover was recently
the over Sunday guest of her aunt
and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. James Mas
sey, at Camden.
Mrs. H. Earle and Miss Clara Du-
mont have closed their home on
Church street and are s%ojourning in
Atlantic City for a month.
Misses Flora and Lena Robinson
were recently entertained vel the
weekend in Philadelphia by Mrs.
Susie Thayer.
The monthly meeting of the Ladies'
Aid Society of the M. E. Church was
held on Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. F. G. Turner.
Mrs. Joseph Lightner. nee Miss
Marguerite Lutz, formerly of this city
but now of Tyrone, Pa, is here IS the
guest of her mother, Mrs. S.. A. Lutz,
and other relatives.
Mr.. John Suffers, who has been very
i'll for several weeks at the home of
Jacob Seiferman, has been removed to
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank
Mulligan, at Woodmount, Pa. Mrs.
Mulligan spent several weeks in tax
ing care of her father here before
they went to her home.
Under the direction of Street Sup
ervisor Harry Mattson, Jr., that part
of Station avenue between New Jer-
sey avenue and the railroad tracks
has been ploughed up, regarded and
~regraveled the past week, greatly i'm
proving the condition of that stretch
of highway.
Mr.. A. L. Hammell spent a couple
of days this week in cunning at Tuck
erton.
Mrs. Clarence Nourse and son Phil
ip, of Washington, D. c., were guests
last week of the family of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose Hammell and Mrs.
Ida Babcock.
Mrs. Leland Madden was hostess to
the Absecon Art Club members on
Wednesday afternoon at her apart
ments in Pleasantville. Present were
Mrs. A. L. Hammell, Mrs. r. L. Bah
cock, Mrs. P. B. Reed, Mrs. Fraley
Doughty, Mrs. Joseph Chevney, Mrs.
GEORGE Conover, Mrs. Samuel john
son, Miss May Cordery, Mrs. May
Townsend, Miss Hannah Madden,
Mrs. R. A. Elwood and a visitor from
Atlantic City.
Thieves recently entered the barn
of John Leeds one mile up Ohio ave
nue. at night and departed taking with
them seven bags containing Fl bush
els of prime white potatoes, a quantl-
tv of onions and several bags of feed.
Mr.. Leeds, who was sleeping at the
time in the front of his house, which
is situated just across the road from
the barn, SAYS he is we'll prepared for
the second visit of the thieves which,
by the way, has not been made as yet.
Mrs. John Wadsworth, of Paoli, Pa,
visited friends here on Monday.
Mrs. Ida Risley spent the weekend
with relatives in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Jacob Seiferman passed Tues
day in Egg Harbor City, her former
home.
Mr.. Harry White, of Blackwood, N.
j., is spending an indefinite sojourn
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew White. Harry is here enjoyin"
a vacation spent in cunning.
Funeral services yer the remain of
Miss Nina Lee Smith, only daughter
of Captain and Mrs. Wesley c. Smith,
were held at the home of her parents
on New Jersey avenue last Monday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. G. M.
Johnston, pastor of the M. E. Church,
oficiated and prayers were offered by
Rev. J. w. Morris, of Medford, a for
mer local pastor, and by Rev. A. j..
Smith, a relative of the family. The
church choir, of which Miss Smith had
been a leading soloist for years, sang
in a touching manner the hymns en-
titled "In The Upper Garden" and
"Abide With Me-" The services were
very impressive and the funeral was
the largest n held in Absecon in re-
cent years. The many floral designs
were magnificent to behold and testi-
fled to the popularity and high esteem
in which the young woman was held.
Interment was made in the family
vault in the M. E. Cemetery.
Mrs. Harry Mattson, ST., DELIGHT
fully entertained the Methodist Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society last
Tuesday evening at her home on Ohio
avenue. Following the devotional pc
riod musical selections were rendered,
after which refreshments were serv-
ed. Present were Mrs. Peter B. Reed,
Mrs. A. c.. Fleming. Mrs. Edward
Pennington, Miss Carrie Steelman,
Miss Ethel Hammell. Miss Florence
Babcock, Mrs. F. G. Turner, Mrs. R..
L. Babcock, Mrs. GEORGE Conover,
Mrs. Joseph Smith, Sr. Mrs. Steelman
Lee. Mrs. 7. j. Hamilton and the hos
tess.
During the absence from the SER
vice of the pastor, Rev. c. M. John
ston, who is conducting a series of
evangelistic meetings in the Ocean
vile school house each night except