The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-07
Absecon

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Press. Subscription price One Dollar
a year in Advance. Advertisements,
renewals, new subscriptions and news
items solicited by Joseph S. Tilton,
Absecon Agent and Correspondent.
Harry Mattson, ST., and F.. Fraley Dough-
" were among the visitors to the Mt. Holly
Fair on Thursday.
John Allen is suffering from a sprained
wrist.
A new front porch is being added to the
residence of Franklin Carton.
George Irelan, of Pennsgrove, is spending
his vacation at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Irelan.
Miss Alma Shovel left on Monday for
Trenton to pursue her final years course at
the State Normal School.
The box-bush hedge and the shrubbery on
the Van Hogan property, formerly the Will
lam E. Lee premises, South Absecon, are
being dug up, packed and tied in burlap and
roped fast to board foundations preparatory
to shipping same to Seabright, N. j., and
Yonkers, N. Y.
Mrs, Albert valester spent Sunday and
Monday with relatives in Pomona.
Mrs. Benjamin Valester is entertaining
her mother, Mrs. Davenport, of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Estel Disbrow, of Orange, and Mrs:
Charles Craster, of Newark, were guests of
Miss Laura Adams last Tuesday.
Mrs. Nina Rogers has returned to her
home in Camden, after visiting the families
of her son and daughter, Wallace Rogers and
Mrs. George Draper.
Mrs. Joseph Lightner. of Tyrone, Pa, for
merly Miss Marguerite Lutz, of this city,
Il tuG guest L 1ti hOlliS Mio ~ ~ 1A'N'
at the Absecon Inn, for a month.
Miss Helen Lutz, the popular assistant at
the local post office, left Yesterday for Moore,
Pa, to spend her vacation of a week or ten
days at the home of her sister, MRS. Oliver
Strong.
ter Adelma and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Bowen
enjoyed an automobile trip to Tuckahoe last
Sunday.
MT. and Mrs. Gilbert Conover spent the
weekend at the home of the ~latter's sister,
Mrs. James Massey, at Camden. Mr.. Massey
is confined to his bed in a helpless condition.
The annual meeting and exhibition OF gar
ments of the Absecon branch of The Needle
work Guild will be held in the Absecon NJ.
E. Chapel on Thursday afternoon, OCTOBER
26, at 8 o'clock. Members and frlends are
Mrs Charles Addison has been confined
to her home by Illness the past week. ~
byterian Church was held last Tuesday eve
ming at the home of Mrs. NJ. NJ. Townsend.
Mrs. w. T. Keen and children, Harriet and
Walter, have returned to their home at
Flushing, L. l., after spending a week mere
as guests of the family of the formers sis
ter, Mrs. Thomas Draper. =,
Mrs. Jacob Seiferman entertained several
friends and relatives at her home on We'd
nesday afternoon in honor OIL the seyenan
birthday anniversary of her granddaughter
Miss Tizetta Taylor. Dainty refreshments
"A public demonstration of efficiency was
made by the local fire company last Wednes-
day evening at New Jersey and station ave.
nues. Stream tests were made by the use OF
the fire engine and by use OF the hfe pug az
that corner. By the former means one and
two streams were forced higher than the
Rockingham Hotel, the highest building in
town, while the force from the city Migrant
sent streams fully as high as the hotel.
Miss Gertrude Draper has gone to Camden
to take up her second years high school
work.
Job A. Conover, Absecon's enterprising
butcher, has just instituted automobile dellv-
cry service. He received his new Ford car
on Friday a week ago and on Monday last he
had mOuOtpd. on the chassis q commercial
body of the most improved type, having the
front enclosed with glass.
Mrs. Caroline Champion, formerly of Abb
secon, is in Cooper Hospital, Camden, where
she is not expected to recover from a broken
hip which she received several weeks ago as
the result of a fall on her face IN a trolley
car, which she was about to alight from at
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, while en-
route to Washington, D. G., to visit relatives,
driven down New Jersey avenue collided with
the Winton Six car having the same style
body and belonging to the seayiew Goid oIup
nue.. at the intersection of those two streets,
shortly before noon last Thursday. Fortu-
nately the damage to both machines was
slight, the first mentioned receiving a smash
ed windshield and the latter a damaged mud
guard. Failure to hear the warning signals
of the two cars was said to be responsible
for their coming together.
Better Postal Facilities.
In it's new quarters the Absecon post office
is much more conveniently arranged AFFORDS
more room and better tacllltleS tof the trau-
saction of postal business, and is much more
attractive and pleasing on the Interior.
Postmaster ShowelPs private offiee Is 10
Gated on the north side of the building ana
is separated from the main room by a partl.
tion, the upper part of which is composed OIL
plates of stained glass furnished by j harry
Adlor, Absecon's stained glass artist. the
postmasteris department is admirably equip
ped.
At the rear of the room stands the postal
cabinet facing the entrance of the building,
while the public desk is located on the south
side of the room.
An American flag is conspicuously display
ed from the front of the outside Of the build
ing.
Sunday will be a big day in the NJ. q.
Church. Harvest Home services will be held.
There will be a display of fruits, vegetables
and flowers. In the evening there will be a
very novel and attractive service. Rev.
Clarence NJ. Johnston will give an object ser
mon on "The Productive-Life, illustrated by
1.-The M~agical-Organ." All the parents and
children are urged to come. out. The pipe
organ will be used. the choir will sing spec
ial music, and the Mems Glass will sing
1.-The Church in the WILDWOOD
Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Mails arrive at Absecon Post Office a.
follows
From Philadelphia and west-7.3o and II
From Atlantic City-6.30 a. m. and BAR
p. M.
Mails close as follows:
For Philadelphia-6.20 9.25 and 9.45 a
N. $50 and .25 p. m.
For Atlantic City-9.45 a. M. 6.25 p. m.
The Office opens daily except Sunday a
6.15 a. m. and closes 7,15 p. M.
Carrier leaves on Rural Delivery Route a
20 a. M.