The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16
Absecon

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Mrs. Thos. ziser. of Sth Ave. Absecor
Highlands, has closed her bungalow fol
the winter months, and has taken ar
apartment in the Union National Banl
Building, Atlantic City, where Mr.. Zisel
holds a position at the Union Nationa
Bank.
The NJ. E. Sunday School will present {
fine %cantata, Foxy Santa in. the Public
School Auditorium on Friday evening, Dec
%. There is a large number in the enter
tainment and 1t promises to be fine. A sill
yer offering will be taken.
A new heater has been installed in the NJ
E. parsonage by the Ladies' Aid Society.
The Minstrels given one night last week by
the NJ. e. Ushers' Union was an exceptionally
fine treat. The singing and platform-work
was of professional class, and the entertain
ment was a credit to the city. Fred Henry
was chairman of the committee and he de-
serves credit for the clever management, and
his excellent work in the entertaining. Rog-
err Williams proved a fine looking, genteel
interlocutor. The Ambassadors of Fun"
were: Irving Rider, JOS. s.. Smith, Henry
Smith, Fred Henry, Albert Yelland. T. ].
Hamilton. Everett Salmons, Geo. Draper, A.
L. Hammell, Raymond Carton, Harry Weer.
F.. G. Turner. All of these men sang splen-
didly and were fine in their several parts.
Charles and Walter Burns gave a funny
sketch entitled, THE Automatic Doormat.'
Their acting was up to their usual high
class standard. Master Theon White render
ed a fine cornet solo. Herman Madden was
a fine accompanist for the entertainment.
j. Harry Adlor had a clever makeup, and
sang sPlendidly two solos. The Dixie Quin-
tette was heartily encored, as were all the
was very good and all did fine work. The
School auditorium was packed, and nearly
sixty dollars was cleared.
Mrs. Russell Fenton and children are Wis
iting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mariner Smith.
Russell has employment in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Samuel Johnson was hostess last
Wednesday evening to the members of the
Presbyterian Mite Society.
Frank CnnnVlr and family q re mnVinp infO
the Towers Townsend residence on Church
street. They have been living in ]. w. Cor
dery's house on Adams avenue.
The December meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the NJ. E.
Church was scheduled to be held last Tues
day evening at the home of Mrs. A. C. Flem-
ing.
MIR. and Mrs. George B.. Conover enter
tanned at their residence last Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert Conover and daughter, Miss
Clara Conover also Miss Emma R. Conover,
of North Absecon.
In lieu of their annual Christmas enter
tainment the Presbyterian Sunday School
will hold a Christmas party at the home of
the superintendent, Mrs. R. A. Elwood, on
Thursday evening, Dec. 2Sth. This innoya-
ton last year proved very interesting and
novel.
The quarantine was lifted last Wednesday
from the residence of Mrs. Josephine Adams,
where her granddaughter. Miss Ruth Adams,
has been i'll the past month. Miss Ruth is
down stairs now and in a few days she is ex-
Pected TO be among ner friends again.
The mouth of the Abseeon Greek and a
part of the bay were frozen over Thursday,
a condition which generally does not obtain
excepting in real cold weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend Shovel motored
to Philadelphia last Saturday.
Raymond Coon has returned home from a
months vacation spent at his former home
near Scranton, Pa.
Miss Anna Hutchinson, of Atlantic City,
has been the guest the past week of the
Schoepfin girls.
Miss Florence Kesler and Nellie Somers,
of Atlantic City, visited several young lady
friends here last Sunday.
John Falivene, proprietor of the Absecon
Poultry Farm, is spending a ten days vaca-
tion in Jersey City and New York.
Mrs. Oliver Strong has returned to her
home at Ridley Park, Pa, after spending an
extended sojourn at the home of her mother,
Mrs. S. A. Lutz.
Mrs. Charlotte Pitney will go to Trenton
this week to spend an indefinite period.
Following this she expects to sojourn in
Atlantic City.
D. Paul Smith, of Newfeld, who has been
located here the past year as a railroad sig
nal employee, has been transferred to Cam
den. Arthur, son of Henry Conover, has
just taken up the same line of work here
under the SUPPLEMENTARY of Steelman R.
Lee.
A horse and delivery wagon belonging to
a junk dealer was driven into last Wednes-
day noon as they stood next to the curb on
avenue, opposite the hotel property,
by a heavily loaded motor truck belonging |
to Wheeler & Dreher Co., of Atlantic City,
which was being used In hauling freight from
the station to the Seaview Golf Club. The
truck was being driven by a colored chauf-
feur who drove into the wagon from the side
and rear, turning the wagon over on its side,
its contents and damaging the rear