The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-06-10
Absecon

chapel on Monday night. Tickets will
be fifteen cents.
Interesting Gospel Bright Hours"
are held Wednesday evenings, 7.45, in
the NJ. E. Church.
Some members of the Pipe-organ
Committee of the NJ. E. Church visit
ed Philadelphia on Thursday and
heard some organs. Those going were
Mrs. R. L. Babcock, Miss Florence
Babcock. A. L. Hammell, and Rev. c..
NJ. Johnston.
J. Harry Adlor has been on a bust
ness trip to New York this week.
Reuben l.. Babcock has been suffer
ing since Tuesday with a severe at
tack of lumbago. which has confined
him to his bed most of the time.
However, friends hope for a speedy
recovery.
Miss Sara Mathis was the weekend
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Jesse Wilson,
at Clayton.
Mrs. Charles D. Krause is spending
a couple of weeks at her villa on Ohio
avenue.
George Spokesman, of New York,
is visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Spokesman.
Mr.. j. w. Marsh, of Mariners Har-
Dor, Staten Island, sojourned with his
family here over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry V. Miller have
presented their daughter Adelma with
a new juvenile bicycle.
William Schoepfin, Jr., of Atlantic
City, visited his father, who is the
proprietor of the Rockingham Hotel,
owe the weekend.
Miss Ruth Adams is expected home
today from the Trenton Normal
School to spend a week prior to taking
part in the commencement exercises
of the graduating class.
Mrs. Ida Risley has been sojourning
at Hayre de Grace, Nd, for several
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Newell, of
Pemberton, are visiting DR.. and Mrs.
C. C. Allen.
Rev. C. NJ. Johnston and family en-
tertained William A. Cannon, of Phil
adelphia, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland, of
Trenton, are residing at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Townsend D. Shovel.
Mr.. Yelland has just accepted a posi-
ton at the Absecon railroad station.
Mrs. Emily Rosseter and Mrs. E. j.
Austin are entertaining their sister,
Miss j. Davis, of Beverly, N. j.
Mrs. Elmira Addison and family
had as their guests over Sunday Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Forbes, of Philadel-
phia.
William H. Addison has resigned
as local agent for the Adams Express
Company. Pending the appointment
of a successor William Nolan is filling
the vacancy.
Miss Elsie Hamilton was the week
end guest of Miss Ruth Adams at the
State Normal School. She is now
spending an indefinite s~ojourn with
the family of Mr.. and Mrs. o. NJ. La
Rue, at Pennington, for the benefit
of her health.
Miss Nina Conover, of Philadelphia,
has returned to the home of her moth
er, Mrs. NJ. H. Conover, at Conover-
town.
Edward Prescott, ST., and Jr., have
gone to Chester, Pa, to work in a mu-
milton factory it is understood.
Postmaster and Mrs. Townsend d.
Shovel are planning to spend several
days next week in Washington, D. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Giberson and
Mrs. Frank Conover and son attended
the Commencement Exercises of the
Pleasantville Grammar School at
P~leasantville last Tuesday evening.
Activities of the w. F. M. S.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of the NJ. E. Church will be held at the
home of the president, Mrs. Peter B.
Reed, next Tuesday afternoon, June
18th, at 2.30 o'clock. There will be
an interesting program of music and
mission study and a glad social hour.
Dues for the first quarter will be re-
ceiEed. Owing to a full program
members and friends are requested to
meet promptly.
This society is preparing and re-
hearsing a Pageant Entertainment"
entitled "Glimpses Along the Kings
Highway, which it will present in
the Absecon M. E. Church on Friday
evening, June 23rd. The list of char
acters is a long one and those taking
part will appear in native Oriental
costumes. A very pleasing and in
structive entertainment is assured the
public.
Public School News.
Miss hSOlld L.. I1dIIs VI IldIIIIlOllIOu
one of the newly elected teachers of
the public school here, spent Wednes-
day in the school acquainting herself
with the work.
The public school has paid in full
for the piano which it purchased the
first of this year. All efforts hence
forth will be directed toward raising
funds with which to build a platform
in the school auditorium.
Miss Ida MacMahon, principal of
one of Trenton's public schools and
treasurer of the State Teachers Asso-
citation; MI. Ross Hood, of Philadel-
phia, and Ma. S.. Gee, of East Orange,
were among the callers on Prof. E. D.
Riley the past week.
The public school will close on Mon
day next, June II, and in the after
noon of that day a school picnic will
be held in the grove adjoining the
building. Certificates of honor will