The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-24

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Arrival and Departure of Mails.

From philadelphia and West@7.3 80 and 10
a. m. and 6.45 p. m.
From Atlantic City-6.30 a. m. and 3.45
p. m.
Mails close as follows:
For Philadelphia-6. 20, 9.25 and 9.45 a.
M. $50 and 6.25 p. m.
For Atlantic City-9.45 a. m. 6.25 p. m.
The Office opens daily except Sunday al
6.15 a. m. and closes 7.15 p. m.
Carrier leaves on Rural Delivery Route at
Sc a. m.
Mrs. Wallace Rogers is visiting re-
latives at Oak Lane, Pa.
Mrs. Samuel Smith, Jr., is i'll at
her home on New Jersey avenue.
DR.. T~heophilus Madden, of Ceilings
wood, spent Sunday at the home of
his father, DR.. E. H. Madden.
A beautiful monument has just
been erected in the Malaga Cemetery
by Prof. E. D. Riley, of this city.
J. Harry Adlor motored to New
York last week in his new Imperial
touring car and remained there sew
eral days.
Mr.. Peter Babcock, who has been
an invalid for several years, is in a
very p~recarious condition and is
growing weaker each day.
Mrs. Charles Mason entertained a
party of arbutus qatherers at her
home last Saturday. Present were
Mrs. Benjamin Somers, Miss Reba
Mason, Miss Faus, Miss Alberta Ad-
ans, Miss Elizabeth Guenther, Elmer
Eldredge, James Moore and Howard
Kelley, of Atlantic City and Pleasant
vile.
Mrs. Gustave Guenther, ST., has
gone to Baltimore, where her mother
is very sick.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Audrey are an
PERTAINING Mr.. and Mrs. Header, of
Scranton, Pa, and the formers moth
er, Mrs. Audrey, of Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Reed and dau-
ghter Helen, of Atlantic City, spent
Wednesday as guests of the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Reed.
Accompanied by Mrs. Harry j. Lee
Mrs. Reuben l.. Babcock and Mrs. A.
L. Hammell and children, twenty-five
members of the Loyal Temperance
Legion enjoyed a gala day last Satur-
day while on their first all day picnic
which was spent in gathering arbutus
in the woods just west and north of
the Doughty Mill Pond. Basket
lunches were eagerly partaken of dur
ing the noon hour.
Miss Hannah Madden entertained
the Art Club members at the home of
Mrs. May Townsend on Wednesday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Morris and
Mr.. Aaron Albertson entertained the
formers son and daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. R. Walter Morris, of Phila-
delphia, over Sunday.
Mrs. Richard Morris entertained the
members of the Elite Society at a
dinner party at her home on Shore
Road last Wednesday. Music and
games and much merrymaking helped
to make up the events of a day long to
be remembered. Present were Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Mason and son
John, Mrs. Horace Hawkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace Rogers, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gustave Guenther, ST., Mr.. and Mrs
Gustave G%uenther, Jr., and children,
Mrs. Lewis Kuhl, Mrs. William Guen-
Their, Mrs. Charles A. Guenther, Miss
Elizabeth Guenther, Louis Guenther,
Mr.. Aaron Albertson and Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Morris.
Rev. w. S. Ludlow, of Camden, was
a visitor here last Monday and Tues
day.
Miss Alice MacIntyre, of Whining
ton, Del, is the guest of Miss Hannah
Madden on Church street.
The annual election of officers of
the Absecon M. E. Sunday School was
held in the chapel last Sunday after
noon when the following selections
were made: Superintendent, DR.. Sam
uel Johnson; Assistant, Prof. E. ID.
Riley; Secretary, Joseph Tilton;
Treasurer, DR.. Johnson; Organists,
Miss Florence Babcock and Miss Ethel
Hammell; Librarian, Leland Shovel;
Assistant, Heyl Hartzell; Superin-
tendents of Primary Department, Miss
Carrie Reed and Mrs. Ambrose Ham
NELL; President of Missionary Society,
Miss Ethel Hammell; Secretary, Mrs.
F. G. Turner; Treasurer, Mrs. D. S.
Tilton. Miss Clara Conover and Mrs.
James Smith were elected as new
teachers.
Herman L. Madden, son of DR.. E..
H. Madden, was unanimously elected
by the congregation and ordained as
an elder by the Rev. R. A. E1wood in
the Absecon Presbyterian Church last
Sunday morning. Mr.. Madden was
elected to fill the vacancy in the elder
ship of the church which has been
existing ever since the death of John
j. Townsend, more than fourteen
years ago.
Mr.. Edward Jordan preached an APP
~propriate sermon on the "Sufficlency
of Christ"
Rev. R. A.. Elwood, Mr.. Jordan and
Mr.. Madden attended the spring meet
ing of the West Jersey P~resbytery at
Williamstown on Monday. Mr.. Jor-
dan, who has been filling the pulpit of
the Absecon Church for the last two
years, was examined and ordained to
the ministry at that meeting. He ex-
poets to be graduated from Princeton
Theological Seminary next month.
AbsecOn nj. E. Church.
Next Sunday, 1890 a. M, Rev. Clar-
ence M. Johnston will preach IN:
"Measuring Jerusalem" At 7.30 p.
M, there will be a spirited song-ser-
vice, followed by a sermon n "The
Fool in Absecon."