The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-16
CONCISE NEWSLETS
ABOUT H CITY
Interesting Local Occurrences
Briefly Told

The P~leasantville Fire Company
has nominated as delegates to the
New Jersey State Firemen's Associa-
ton in Atlantic City on Sept. 81 and
%, Walton Risley, Michael Lutz and
Charles Vincent.
At the Hammonton Field Day and
Exhibition held last week the exhibit
of photographs by Max H. Kirscht,
Personalities high class photogra-
pher, attracted a great deal of atten-
ton and won first prize.
The Presbyterians will have charge
of the meeting at the Almshouse on
Sunday, September II. Mrs. Harry
L. Lake will be the leader. The
Faith people will have charge of the
meeting the following Sunday.
The Board of Education of Pleas
antville has decided to further post
pone the opening Of the public schools
of the city, and they give notice by
advertisement in today's paper that
the opening day will be October End.
The interior r%enovations of St.
Marks Protestant Episcopal Church
on Verona avenue, is rapidly APP
preaching completion and when thor
oughly completed the church will pre-
sent a very handsome and eomforta-
Bile appearance.
Those who enjoyed John Cort's
Princess Pat at Nixon's Apollo
Thursday evening from Pleasantville
We're: Miss Laura Brush, Miss Mida
Blake, Miss Marjorie Thomas, Miss
Ada Thomas, Mr.. John K. Adams and
Mr.. Tillman johnson.
The Mems Bible Glass of the Pres
byterian Church will have a BANQUET
this Friday, Sept. 18th, at 8 D. m.
A representative from Alaska, also
Judge Endicott and others, will speak.
Men of the church and men not in
other organizations invited.
The Atlantic County Board of Free
holders held their regular monthly
meeting at the Asylum last Wednes-
day, after which they were entertain
de at dinner by the superintendent,
DIR. Munro. The wives and daugh-
tiers of a number of the members were
also present.
As the result of an automobile acct
dent at Woodbury. last Thursday, Her
bert Gardner, former ~Pleasantville
resident, and brother of Howard
Gardner, sustained a fractured skull
and punctured lung, and is now in
Cooper Hospital, Camden, where his
death is ~momentarily expected.
The supper at Christ C. NJ. Church
on Thursday evening upheld the repu-
tation of the ladies of this church as
being wonderful cooks. 1t was large
ly attended by friends from the vari-
u sister churches and from Allan
tic City. 1t was a success from the
financial as well as from a culinary
standpoint.
Those having placed orders with the
local Ford agency for cars to be de-
livered in the near future are: Mr..
Earl Fairbrothers, Mr.. Job Conover,
Mr.. Geo. H. Dix, DR.. L. S. Madden,
Mr. Mervyn Wilson, Mr.. A. Whitson,
Mr.. Wilbert B. Fenton, Mr.. Norris
R. Somers, Mr.. William Clements,
Mr.. A. j. Overpeck of Absecon, and
Mr.. William Busch of Linwood.
Mrs. Wilbert B. Fenton has decided
to equip her new Ford touring with a
Stewart-W Warner self-starter. This
equipment has been recommended by
the local agency and is also especial
ly desirable because it eliminates all
pumping of tires. This starter car
ries as part of its equipment a spec
tally constructed air-pump operated
by the engine, containing an auto
matte air-valve, to prevent over-infa-
ton, and can be applied to each wheel
in succession-the whole operation
not taking much over four minutes.