The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-08-26
Absecon

renewals, new subscriptions and news
items solicited by Joseph S. Tilton,
Absecon Agent and Correspondent.
Miss Clara Dumont is visiting rela-
tives and friends in Atlantic City.
Paul Smith is spending the week
end at his former home at Newield.
Miss Hannah Madden has returned
nome from her extended sojourn in
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Farrell and
children left on Tuesday for Philadel-
phla, where they expect to spend sew
eral days.
Charles NJ. Kesler and family have
returned to their North Absecon resi-
dence, after living in Atlantic City
since last fall.
Miss Mildred Smith entertained for
several days Miss -Irma Gilbert. of
Philadelphia. who left on Wednesday
to visit friends in Ocean City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Ireland enter
tanned last week their sons, Messrs.
Garfield and Venice Ireland, of Nor
folk, Va, both of whom are employed
as stationary engineers by the N. Y.
P. & N. Railroad.
Mrs. Hosea Kendall has purchased a
new Ford touring car and on Monday
procured her license to drive.
Postmaster Townsend D. Shovel is
awaiting the arrival of a new Ford car
OF the new model which is just being
placed on the market.
Five of the children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward P. Prescott ranging in ages
from v to seventeen years are re-
covering from whooping cough, of
which they have all been victims at
the same time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Shaw, of
Freeport, Pa, are expected here to-
day to spend their vacation with the
latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea
Kendall. Mrs. Shaw will be away a
month, while Mr.. Shaw will return
home in two weeks.
The Board of Education is greatly
improving the appearance of the
school grounds by filling in and lev
cling off where the old building was
removed from, by trimming up all the
trees and by cleaning up along the line
bounding the Higbee property.
Miss Ruth Adams entertained Miss
Bessie Morse. of Mays Landing, over
the weekend.
Clarence Conover has purchased the
Chalmers runabout formerly owned by
Delbert Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Emmons en-
joyed a spin to Green Bank. Mrs. En-
mons former home, on their motor
cycle last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Farr, Jr., of
Hartford, Conn. have returned and
taken up their abode in Pleasantville.
Mrs. Farr is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Wyand. this city.
Miss Clara Conover returned home
last evening, Friday, from a six weeks
vacation spent with her aunt and I'M
Gle, Mr.. and Mrs. James Massey, at
Camden; with relatives and friends in
Philadelphia and with the family of
her aunt, Mrs. Annie Tomlinson, at
Shiloh, N. J.
Jacob L. Weber and family, of New
ark, took occupancy last week of a
cottage at Absecon Highlands.
The Absecon Highlands Public
School, of which Richard S. Price is
the principal, is scheduled to reopen
on Tuesday, Sept. 9TH.
Nj. and Mrs. j. Harry Adlor receiv-
ed a very pleasant visit recently from
his sister. Mrs. l. j. Stone. of Santa
Barbara, on the Isle of Pines. Mrs.
Stone, who spent several days here,
also visited her daughter in Rochester,
N. Y. She sailed on Saturday last
from New York for her home on the
island situated close to Cuba.
Richard w. Morris entertained last
Sunday three members of the Goth
Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel Peter
Lyle. of which he was a member for
three and a half years during the Civil
War. His comrade-guests were Can
tain Jacob Davis, William Weissisen
and the third whose name could not be
a~scertained, all of Philadelphia. Mr..
Morris says the surviving members Of
this regiment are now very few.
Captain Wesley c.. Smith and family
motored to Beach Haven last Sunday.
Mrs. George B. Conover is enter
tanning Miss Esther Steck, of the Qua
ker City.
Mrs. Anna Ludlam left on Monday
for Blue Ridge Summit, Pa, to spend
a fortnight with her sister, Mrs. Rob
ert Steel, and daughter Roberta, of
Hammonton, who are there for the
benefit of the latter's health.
Messrs. A. L. Hammell, j. Warren
Tilton, of this city, and DR.. j. c. Cur
ry, of Woodbury., went On Wednesday
on a two-day fishing trip, spending
the nlgUl dCTOSS Tile Jay Ill GuS large
house boat owned by several local
men.
A lawn tennis tournament has been
held the last three days, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. on Mr.. and Mrs.
A. L. Hammell's court. Seventeen en-
tries were listed, eight men and nine
women. Many interesting games have
been played in which great skill was
manifested by several players.
Mr.. George Wilson, of Clayton, is
spending a week with his cousins, Mr..
and Mrs. S.. R. Lee.
Mrs. S. R. Lee, treasurer of the
Ushers' Union, has received $63.75 as
the proceeds from the various enter
prises conducted by the union of late.
Of this amount $3.50 was handed
over by the social committee of which
J. Harry Adlor, Mrs. Harry Miller and
Mrs. Ida Risley were members as the
proceeds from the strawberry festival,
box social and the sale of silver polish.