The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-08-19
Absecon

renewals, new subscriptions and news
items solicited by Joseph S. Tllton,
Absecon Agent and Correspondent.
Mr.. Daniel Conover is on the sick
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walk enter
tanned the formers brother and fami-
ly from the Quaker City. but who are
spending two weeks vacation at SOM
ers Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Conover are
receiving congratulations on the birth
of a son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walk visited
the Quaker City this week, where Mr..
Walk bought a steamer for the Sea
View Golf Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walk motored
to Ocean City one day this week,
where they visited Mr.. Walks broth
er and family, who are spending a
month at the Ocean apartments.
The public school will reopen on
Tuesday, September 9th.
Edward Prescott. Sr., of Chester,
spent the weekend with his family
here.
Mrs. J. w. Tilton has been the guest
this week of friends in Perth Amboy.
Avis Louise Blumner, six weeks
old. daughter of Nh. and Mrs. Frank
Blumner, Northwest Absecon, was
baptized by Rev. C. M. Johnston at
the morning service in the M. E.
Church last Sunday.
Mrs. Bowman Tilton and daughter,
Miss Bessie, of Camden, visited rela-
tive3 here the first of this week. Miss
Tilton returned a fortnight ago from
an extensive trip through Canada.
Among other places she visited Wat
kins Glen, Niagara Falls, Toronto,
Alexandra Bay, Montreal, Quebec,
Lake Champlain, Lake George, Ausa-
BILE Chasm, and Thousand Islands.
Mrs. Maier and daughter, Miss Mar
garet, of Bronx, N. Y, are guests at
the Absecon Inn for two weeks.
Miss Emily S%nelbaker, of the Quak-
err City, is passing the summer at her
villa on West Leeds n
Miss Ethel Hammell, of Absecon,
and friend, Miss Mary Roselle, of
Freehold, have been spending two
weeks in the Catskill Mountains.
Mrs. R. l.. Babcock and children
have been spending this week at Mt.
Gretna, Pa. Next week Mrs. Babcock
will visit relatives at Harrisburg.
Returns for the newspapers and
magazines collected several weeks ago
by the Ushers Union for the pipe or
gan fund have been received from the
Trenton Paper Company. They re-
mitted S2S.05, from which S6.57 has
been deducted for transportation char
ges, leaving a balance of S21.48. The
shipment was forwarded by freight
and 395 pounds of the magazines was
lost or stolen in transit. A claim
for their value has been filed with the
railroad company.
Zephaniah Hackett Barely Escapes.
Zephaniah Hackett had a narrow es-
cape from serious injury or death last
Monday afternoon, when the right CYL
inder head of one of the largest en-
gines on the road drawing a twelve
car train was blown off with a con-
cussion that could be likened only to
the firing of a cannon, as it vas pass
ing the Shore Road crossing where he
is the fagman. The cylinder head, a
heavy piece of metal. was blown off
with terrific force when the train,
speeding at a mile a minute or more,
had passed him by less than ten feet.
The flying missile was hurled against
one of the gates beside which the
1agman stood with such force that it
broke off several feet of the gate at
the end and demolished the cover of
the standard in which the chains OPP
crate and landed itself several feet
away in the meadow. Hackett was so
deafened by the thunderous report
that he has not fully recovered his
hearing as yet.
Police Chief Takes Bride.
Absecon was without police protec-
tion for "a whole day on Wednesday
and no n was able to explain the
cause of the absence of the Chief-of-
Police, Thomas Hutchinson, Jr., until
Thursday morning, when the news be-
came widespread that he and Miss
Catherine ~Schoepflin, second daughter
of William Schoepflin, proprietor of
the Rockingham Hotel, and Mrs.
Schoep1in, had quietly slipped down
to Elkton, Md, Wednesday morning
and had the knot securely tied while
friends at home, even the relatives of
the contracting parties, We're not only
in ignorance of their intentions but
were entirely unsuspicious.
Friends say the happy couple miss
ed their train returning home and that
they in consequence had to journey by
auto to Newark. Del, whence they
boarded a B.. & O. train. Presenting
their Pennsy tickets to the conductor
they were refused and the story goes
that the doughty preserver of Abse-
cons peace and safety then had to
"come across with a ten spot" Of
course the happy bridegroom is loath
to admit the statement, but neverthe-
less, judging from the merry twinkle
in his eye, there is at least a SEM
blance of truth in the report.
Here is to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Hutchinson, Jr., congratulations and
best wishes for a long and happy
welded life from The Pleasantville
Press family of readers and their
friends in general.
County Sunday School Activities.
The Atlantic County Sunday School
Association will celebrate its Fiftieth
Anniversary in the Absecon NJ. E.
Church on Tuesday afternoon and eve
ming, October 18th. The history of
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