The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-08

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. and Mrs. John ]. Devine, of Ocean
", spent the last of the holidays
her former schoolmate, Miss Ad-
Carly, of Absecon.
/" Mary G. Kimmel has gone to
Of la to s%ojourn for the rest of the
az or.
Miss Salome H. Bradshaw, of Phila-
..phia, %sojourned last week with DR..
d Mrs. C. C. Allen.
Joseph S. Smith, Jr., has taken a
erical position in the Lehigh Rail-
bad station at South Amboy.
Miss Hannah Madden. has been
pending several days with friends at
Wilmington and with relatives in Col
ingswood.
Nj. David Paul, of Princeton Theo-
|ogical Seminary, passed his holiday
vacation at the home of Mrs. M. M.
Townsend.
Raymond Ludlow, of Camden, a
student at Lehigh University, South
Bethlehem, Pa, spent several days of
his holiday vacation at the home of
Edmund Townsend.
Edmund Townsend, ni~neteen-year-
old son of Mrs. May M. Townsend,
left on Monday morning for Detroit,
Mich, to enter the Cadillac Automo-
bile School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steelman R. Lee and
Miss Sarah Mathis recently entertain
ed their father, Mr.. Joseph K. Mathis
of New Gretna, also their aunt, Mrs.
Jesse R. Wilson, of Clayton.
Charles M. Schwab, the Bethlehem
Steel King, came down in his private
al attached to the New York train
which made a special stop here Tues
day moor to let off the multi-million-
aire, who has been the guest of the
Z Seaview Golf Club at the spacious
club house.
Benjamin Endicott, aged so years,
died of pneumonia, at 5 o'clock We'd
nesday morning last following a
weeks illness at his home in Conover-
town. He contracted a cold which de-
veloped into the grip and then into the
dreaded disease which resulted fatally
in a few days. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Susan Endicott, and by
several brothers, who live at Ocean
vile.
Mrs. Elizabeth Babcock has been
confined to her home the past week
by illness.
Mr.. Alfred Shovel, Sr., has return
ed home from a weeks s~ojourn in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Charlotte A. Pitney is spend
ing the winter at the Champion Ap-
artments in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Alfred Shovel, ST., is visiting
the family of her son, Charles H.
Shovel in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Edmund Smith and son Stan
ley are recovering from a severe at
tack of inflammation of the throat.
Mrs. Clarence M. Johnston has been
sper ing this week with her mother
at the Mullica Hotel in Atlantic CITY.
Fred H. Henry's valuable brown
and white pointer dog strayed from
his house last Monday, since which
day he has not seer nor heard of the
animal.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Babcock enter
tanned at their residence last Sunday
Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Johnston and
son, Mrs. Ida Babcock and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose Hammell and children.
Mrs. Charles Mason entertained at
her home on Wednesday Mrs. Leon
ard, of Trenton, and Mrs. Shinn, of
Margate City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Lord have
returned home from Philadelphia,
where they were guests of their chill
dren during the holidays.
Mrs. William SiXsmith and daugh-
ter, of Ashland, Pa, are enjoying a
visit at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Darius Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Carton were
guests on New Years Day of the lat
ter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Angus
tus McKeer, in Atlantic City.
The qua erly visitors meeting of
the M. E. Sunday School Home De-
partment was held on Wednesday af-
ternoon at the home of the superin-
tendent, Mrs. A. l.. Hammell.
Suddenly stricken i'll the middle of
last week, William Hackett was re-
moved to the Atlantic City Hospital,
where an operation was Immediately
performed. His condition is gradual
ly improving according to latest re-
ports.
The Christmas entertainment, con-
sisting of singing, recitations and ex-
ercises given by the children of the
primary department under the direc-
ton of Miss Carrie Reed and Mrs.
Ambrose Hammell in the M. e.
Church last Sunday afternoon was
very successfully rendered despite
the fact that several were detained at
home on account of illness. Quite a
number of parents and friends were
present.
Mrs. Edward Gosline has been very
ill with the ~r~ - - /. e Of er
daughter, Mrs. F. G. Turner.
John Ireland, the Elwood section
boss who was seriously nirrd a
fortnight ago by being struck with
a mass of clinkers tn oV. o a
passing locomotive while he was
standing beside the tracks was re-
moved on Wednesday afternoon fir n,
the Atlantic City Hospital, where he
had been since the accident. to the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
David Ireland, Absecon. His wife
and family are here with him. HIS
jaw bone, which was broken, has been
encased in a metal plate and his con-
dition ranoro11u ic coid 70 he no,,ob