The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-04-22
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Leeds several days this week. Mr..
Faul is a prominent diamond mer-
chant and jeweler of the Quaker City.
Paul Lutz, of Trenton, spent several
days last week at his home here.
HENRY Smith has taken a position
with the Acme Tea Company at Pleas
a~ntville.
DR.. and Mrs. C. C. Allen are enter
tanning Mrs. Mary Kimmel at their
residence.
Mr.. D. P. Smith, a railroad employee
here, passed the weekend with rela-
tives at Newfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Seiferman were
guests of relatives and friends at Egg
Harbor City over Sunday.
William A. Cannon, of Philadelphia,
was the ~uest of the family of Rev. C.
NJ. Johnston for several DAYS last
week.
Harry V. Miller sold his Ford auto
mobile to his brother-in-law, Philip
Bowen, and on Saturday purchased a
new touring car of the same make.
Thomas Alloway resigned last week
as fireman at the Absecon Pumping
Station of the A. C. w. D., a position
which he held for several years and
with his son Edward went to Philadel-
phia on Saturday to enter upon new
duties.
John Scully has gone to Riverside
where, it is said, he will work on the
large Dreer seed and bulb farm.
MI. and Mrs. Walter Bates have
taken occupancy of their pretty new
bungalow on Ohio avenue.
John ID. McMullin, Esq, of Philadel-
phia and Moorestown, N. j., passed
Wednesday in Absecon surveying his
realty holdings.
William H. Addison, local agent for
the Adams Express Company, has
adopted the use of a Ford car to pro-
mote more rapid delivery service.
Miss Olive Hammell, a teacher in
the schools at Chatham, N. j., came
home on Thursday to spend a weeks
Easter vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. c. P. Hammell.
Miss Mildred Smith, who has been
taking a commercial course at the
Hardcastle school in Atlantic City,
entered Upon her duties as clerk at
the Absecon Bank last Monday.
Mr.. Richard Price, principal of the
public school at Absecon Highlands,
left on Wednesday to spend the rest
of the week in Camden, Trenton and
Jersey City.
Mrs. George V. Draper soiourned in
Camden last week as the guest of her
mother, Mrs. M. Rogers, and daugh-
ter, Gertrude Draper, who is attend
ing a high school there. =,
Mrs. Samuel Johnson pleasantly en-
tertained the Christian Endeavor Soci-
ETY. at her home last Thursday eve
ming on the occasion of the regular
monthly business meeting and social.
Victor Wrey, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. Wrey. of this city, who left home
soon after the holidays on a tour of
the New England States, has been in
the vicinity of Springfield, Mass, the
past week. He is representing a
Pittsburgh firm manufacturing auto
m%atically operated children's toys and
has written to his parents here that
he expects to do a 100000 business
before he returns home.
Mr.. Frank Blummer has returned
home from a s~ojourn in Philadelphia.
Bodine C. Reed, of Atlantic City,
sojourned at his home at Oceanville
from Tuesday until Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Valester
are entertaining the latter's mother,
Mrs. Davenport, of Brooklyn.
Master Nevin Wike, of Oak Lane,
Pa, is visiting his aunt and uncle,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Rogers.
A joyful evening was passed at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Steelman r.
Lee last Thursday evening, April 20,
by a jolly crowd of young people who
assembled to tender Miss Sara Mathis,
Mrs. Lees sister, a pleasant birthday
surprise party on the occasion of her
seventeenth anniversary. Many pas
times were INDUCED in, after which
refreshments were served. Those
who made the occasion a merry one
were the Misses Mildred Smith, Elsie
Hamilton, Helen Lutz, Florence Kes-
Ter, Clara Conover, Elizabeth Conover,
Lena Robinson and Messrs. Harry
Weir, Delbert Adams, Louis Guenther,
Percy Smith, Henry Smith, Walter
Adlor and Edward O'Donnell.
Miss Hannah Madden is entertain
ing Miss Alice MacIntyre, of Will
mington, as her guest over Easter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Irelan enter
tanned their daughter and ~son-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Mccoy, of At
lantic City.
Mrs. Reuben L. Babcock charmingly
entertained the members of the Abse-
cOH ArG OluU dt her TeSIuenCe, 1llluolS
avenue, last Wednesday afternoon.
Among those present were the follow
ing members and guests: Mrs. May
Townsend, Miss Hannah Madden, Mrs.
F. G. Turner, Miss Carolyn Steelman,
Mrs. William B. Smith, Mrs. C. M.
Johnston, Mrs. Samuel Johnson, Mrs.
A. L. Hammell, Mrs. F. Fraley Dough-
ty, Mrs. P. B. Reed, Mrs. Robert Nc
Laughlin, Mrs. ]. w. Carton, Mrs.
George B. Conover, Mrs. Walter Bor-
neman, of Absecon; Miss Alice Mac
Intyre, of Wilmington; Mrs. John F.
Ryon, Mrs. Charles S. Adams, Mrs.
Halvor Harley and friend, Miss Schuy-
Ter, Pleasantville.
DR.. and Mrs. C. C. Allen entertain
ed on Sunday the formers brother,
Mr.. Herbert Allen, of Bridgeton.
Double Birthday Anniversary.