The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-08-12
Absecon

ing Mrs. Moore and daughter, Miss
Florence. of Mt. Holly.
Mrs. Isabella Corson and daughter,
Miss Anna, of Mays Landing, visited
Miss Laura Adams on Thursday.
Mrs. Harry Lee and daughter, Miss
Lena, have returned from their trip
to the Delaware Water Gap.
Mr.. Charles Faul, a ieweler of the
Quaker City, enjoyed a fishing trip re-
Gently with Christopher Hare and Hor-
ace Leeds.
Mrs. Susan Glascoe and Mrs. w. J.
Smith, of Atlantic City, are spending
a protracted soiourn at the Pine View
Villa.
Harry V. Miller took a party of wo-
men from the Pine View Villa on an
automobile trip to Wildwood last We'd
nesday afternoon. Composing the ar
ty were Mrs. A. c. Fleming, her sis
ter, Mrs. Sarah Stout, of Berlin, and
Miss Ruth Anna Clement, of Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Borneman and
son, Walter, Jr., of West Bolton ave-
nue, are spending three weeks in At
lantic City.
Mrs. Edna Ristine and daughter,
Gladys, have been visiting the family
of Harry B. Boice at Longport the
past week.
Mrs. Harry Young, of Atlantic City,
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Conover at Conovertown for several
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Giberson have
as their guests this week Mrs. Lewis
Conover and daughter, of Mt. Airy,
Pa.
Mrs. Baker Bowen and sister, Mrs.
William Sixsmith and daughter visit
ed friends in Ocean City last Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Henry Smith is recovering from ILL
ness with which he has been confined
to his home the past week.
Mrs. J. H. Brown and son, Albert,
returned last Tuesday to their home in
Washington, D. c., following a two
weeks s~oiourn with the family OF u.
A. Coon.
Mrs. Ambrose Hammell was hostess
to the Women's Foreign Missionary
Society at her home last Tuesday ev-
ening. Owing to the threatening
thunder storm the attendance was
small. Present we're Mrs. Peter b.
Reed, Mrs. E. j. Austin. Mrs. Emily
Rosseter, Mrs. Edward Pennington,
Miss Mabel Pennington. Miss e. Z.
Black, Mrs. R. L. Babcock, Mrs. Wal
ter Dietrich, Miss Dietrich and Mrs.
Hammell.
Application of road oil made the
past week % the surface of the county
roads through the center of the town
has worked wonders in abatlng the
dust nuisance, evoking thereby favor
able comment from all residents.
Messrs. Frank Conover and Clar-
ence Conover, of Conovertown, made
a business trip to PHILADELPHIA onWed-
nesday.
Repairs being made to the Shore
Road paving between and along the
outside of the trolley rails have reach
ed as far as Colorado avenue.
Work has shut down at the plant OF
the Absecon Sand and Gravel Com
pany while repairs and replacement
of parts are being made to the ma
chinery.
Clarence Pierce and family have re-
moved to Atlantic City. s,
Miss Adelaide Carly has returned
home from a visit with Camden
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Blumner are
receiving a visit from her mother
Mrs. Neil Larson, of Philadelphia.
Miss Eunice Risley has returned to
n6r nome l1OIl d SOIO0Ih "AUA ~
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Ards, in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Peter B. Reed was the guest
on Tuesday of Rev. and Mrs. W. S.
Ludlow at the NJ. E. Parsonage, Mays
Landing.
Walter Adlor, an employee OF the
Dupont Works, Pennsgrove, was the
guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
H. Adlor, over Sunday.
Messrs. Ira L. Giberson, Gilbert
Smith. Townsend D. Shovel and Sam
uel Giberson motored in the formers
new auto on Friday to Sea Girt, where
they attended the Governors recep-
ton and luncheon. They went by
wav of Tuckerton, Toms River and
Lakewood, where they drove about the
famous Gould estate and covered 100
miles on the round trip. They reach
ed home a little after 8 the same eve
ming.
Miss Helen J. Smith, of Harmon
ton, is visiting her grandparents MI.
and Mrs. Josiah Smith. :,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Shovel and
daughter Mildred, of Camden, are
guests of their parents, Captain and
Mrs. Daniel Shovel.
Mrs. Enoch Adams, Miss Elsie Ham
ilton and Miss Ruth Adams expect to
go to Mays Landing this Saturday to
spend several days in camp along the
banks of Lake Lenape. Miss Adams
will be the guest Saturday evening on
a sailing party to be given by Leo
Lewis, clerk in the Mays Landing post
office.
Sixty-nine signatures were append
ed to the remonstrance read in Coun-
ell last Wednesday evening against
the granting of the renewal of the
liquor license at the Hotel Rocking
ham, for which application vas made
at the previous meeting of Council by
William ~Schoepfin, the present pro-
prietor. Council set Wednesday eve
ming, August 10th, as the time for the
public hearing in the matter.