The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-23
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Christmas at church All are cordially
invited to attend the Services in the NJ. e.
Church on Sunday at 1890 A. M. Rev.
Clarence NJ. Johnston will preach on "Heav-
emily Radiance From The Bethlehem STALL"
The choir will render a beautiful anthem in
the morning. At $50. Mems Bible Glass,
taught by the pastor all the men are urged
to come out and talk about the Xmas lesson.
At 100 p. m. a special Xmas service will be
held. The pastor will speak on The Christ
mas Spirit, and tell Dickens's story of The
Christmas Carol" The choir will sing, and
an old Xmas hymn will be sung in a novel
and effective manner. The "Go-To-Church
Band" will have a part in the service, and
awards will be made for church-attendance
Rev. and Mrs. Clarence NJ. Johnston are
entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. Fitzgerald
and children. of New York. Mrs. Fitzgerald
is Mr.. Johnston's sister. Mr.. Fitzgerald is
connected with one of the largest advertising
concerns on Fifth avenue, New York.
The Loyal Temperance Legion held an
Xmas service on Wednesday and the children
we're given a treat.
Mrs. Henry, of Bolton avenue, has been i'll,
but is now convaleScing.
The annual Christmas entertainment of
the Bayview NJ. E. Sunday School was held
in the Conovertown chapel last Thursday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. James E. sooy, of Atlantic
City, were guests last Sunday of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch w. Giberson, at Como
vertown.
Mrs. Frank Conover and sons Ralph and
Stanley Will ~ L IullduGlplid lulS SATURDAY
to spend the Christmas holidays with her
mother.
Miss Bertha %Irelan, of the Quaker City.
has been visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Irelan, the past week.
Miss Clara Conover has been i'll with the
grippe for several days.
The public school closed at one O'Clock
Friday afternoon, Dec. 22nd, for the annual
year-end holidays. 1t will reopen Tuesday.
January End.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baker, who have been
I ,y;,r - = Dnp,opo tha nacf uaar hoxFa loo cod
the farm formerly owned by L. p. Leeds on
New Road.
Miss Olive Hammell, a teacher at Chatham,
N. j., is expected home this Saturday to
spend the Christmas holidays with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Hammell
Annual Christmas exercises will be given
by the Primary Department of the Nj. E.
Sunday School ON S unday afternoon, Dec.
Gath. at 3 o'clock, in the chapel.
More than a week ago Mrs. James Como
yer was brought to her home here, after UNI
~dergoing a delicate operation at the Atlantic
City Hospital a month previous. She is
eonvaleseing very slowly.
William H. Adkisson and family have
shipped their furniture to Philadelphia pre-
~paratory to going there to live. Their home
here will be occupied in the near future by
his mother, Mrs. Elmira Adkisson, who has
partly recovered from her recent illness.
Mrs. S. A. Lutz and daughter Helen left
last Saturday morning for Florida, where
they expect to spend a month or six weeks
with Mr.. Lutz, who has been at st. Angus
biit Il las W VI hAt 9R1Ao' my pAAh
ned to stop-off en- route at Washington and
Jacksonville. Before returning home they
anticipate a visit to Cuba.
Mrs. Anna Ferry, who has been visiting
the family of her son Frank, at Detroit,
Mich, the past month, has returned to
Cleveland, Ohio, to pass the holidays as the
guest of her niece, Mrs. Francis r. Morrison,
whom she visited on her trip west. Follow
ing this Mrs. Ferry will return to Detroit
and from the middle to the latter part of
February she has planned to return home.
Pnunand q rtOp rura1 mail Parriar has
presented his wife with a handsome new
Vietrola as a Christmas gift.
Miss Alma Shovel, who is pursuing her
final years work at the Trenton Normal
School, arrives home this weekend to spend
the holidays with her parents, Tax Collector
and Mrs. Jesse S. Shovel.
Messrs. Harry White and Samuel Addison
returned home last Wednesday, after enjoy
ing camp life for ten days on the banks of
the Mullica River. They lived in a warm,
comfortable army tent and had a complete
cooking outfit including a camp stove. Life
in the open, getting close to nature, tanning
the wilds, cunning and trapping of which
they are fond devotees, was interfered with
this time by the succession of snow storms.
Nevertheless they report having had lots
of sport. After breaking camp Wednes-
day morning, they carried their equipment
on shoulder poles until they reached a wait
ing automobile that conveyed them to Egg
Harbor City, whence they boarded a train
for home.
~latter's mother, Mrs. Anna Ludlam, leave
the last of this week to visit during the hol-
idays the family of the latters sister, Mrs.
Robert Steel, formerly of Hammonton, but
now of a suburb of Scranton, Pa.
A horse and sleigh said to have been the
property of Daniel Edwards, of Pleasantville,
became stalled during the binding snow
storm last Monday evening on the Shore
Road railroad crossing. With the aid of
assistants the animal was dragged off of the
northbound track, on which it lay for a half
hour, and by persistent effort the half-fam-
ished beast was raised to its feet and led
away two hours afterward. A man and wo-
man occupied the sleigh.