The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-02-10
Absecon


over, of Conovertown, has purchased
a Ford touring car.
Mrs. Hannah Casio is recovering
from a severe attack of la grippe.
Mr.. Thomas Bowen, of North Abse,
con, who has been very sick with val
vular heart trouble the last two weeks
is slowly convalescing.
Harry V. Miller has suffered intense
ly the past week from assesses, five
on the legs and one on the throat.
Miss Lena Lee was BROUGHT home
on Wednesday from the Atlantic CITY
Hospital, where she was operated up.
on for appendicitis two weeks before.
Mrs. Louise V. Yates, who was very
i'll for two weeks, is able to be out
again.
Due to the severe cold one session
of the public school was held last
Monday.
Kenneth Smith, brother Of Mrs. I. L
Giberson, received his new Ford tour
ing car last Saturday.
Harry B. Boice is employed at the
Pennsgrove powder works.
Charles Nelson was ill the first OF
this week, but is convalescent.
MI. and Mrs. Darius Smith enter
tanned their children at dinner last
Sunday. Present were Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Smith, Jr., Absecon; Mr.. and
Mrs. Baker Bowen, Leeds Point; Mrs.
William Sixsmith and daughter Betty,
Ashland. Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Carton are en-
Pertaining Mrs. w. ]. Kirkland, of
BlackwOod, N. j.
Mrs. Thomas Draper, of Pitney ave.
nue., has returned from Middletown,
Conn.,, where she attended the funeral
of her father.
Mrs. Henry Earl and daughter, Miss
Clara Dumont, were recent guests of
relatives in Atlantic City.
Mrs. C. M. Kesler and daughter
Florence, of Atlantic City, were visit
ors here on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Valester are
receiving congratulations over the
birth Of a daughter.
Mrs. Hannah E. Babcock and ~nieces,
Misses Ruby Cordery and Emma
Fleming, expect to leave the last Of
this week for Florida, where they have
planned to spend two months. Their
headquarters will be at Palm Beach,
although many other places Of interest
will be visited.
Mrs. Richard Morris entertained the
following friends at luncheon on
Thursday: Mrs. Charles Mason, Mrs.
Gustave Guenther, Mrs. Harry Mason,
Mrs. Wallace Rogers and Mrs. Charles
Garrett.
Mr.. William Guenther, Of Atlantic
City, was the guest of his parents here
last Wednesday.
Mrs. Harry Mason entertained on
Wednesday her mother, Mrs. Edward
Cunningham. and a Mrs. Boyer, of
Atlantic City, at her new bungalow
opposite Water Works Drive.
Peter Bird and Horace Miller, of
Stone Harbor, were home over Sum
day.
The condition of John R. Steelman
remains practically the same, being
very critical indeed.
Mrs. Wallace Weyerman has return
ed to the Rockingham Hotel. after a
weeks stay in the Quaker City.
Extensive plans are under way for
the enlargement and rebuilding of the
plant of the Absecon Sand and Gravel
Company. A new siding north of
the present one already has been laid,
and an additional force of men is at
work carrying out preliminary details.
The company is very optimistic over
its future success and is planning for
much more extensive operations.
The condition of the county road
between the Seaview Golf Club and
the Oceanville school house is in a
very bad condition, having been frozen
while in a terribly cut-up state. The
thick layer of gravel applied last No
vember was softened by the rains,
freezing and thawing weather, with
the result that all travel has been di-
verified, both going and coming, to the
right hand side of the road going
north, where the ruts are so deep that
automobile axles have scraped the
road bed in numerous instances. The
Leeds Point road is said to be we'll
nigh impossible.
The new front porch built to the
home Of Franklin and Harry H. Gar
ton at North Absecon adds greatly to
the appearance of that structure.
Eels were speared by local anglers
through holes cut in four and five
inch ice on the Absecon Creek last
Tuesday and Wednesday,. Ice on the
creek and bay was clearer, more solid,
thicker and contained fewer air holes
this cold spell than for years past.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dayton Hendry, of
East California avenue, took occupan-
cy last Thursday of a bungalow on
Reading avenue, Pleasantville, and are
delighted with their new location.
Mr.. Hendry is the time keeper for the
Hill Dredging Company, builders of
the Absecon-Atlantic City boulevard.
A very pleasing birthday surprise