The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-03-17
Absecon

cred from an attack of illness.
Mrs. Ida Risley has been spending
two weeks with relatives in the City
of Brotherly Love.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Weyerman
expect to leave the last of this week
for Chicago to visit his mother.
Miss Joanna Doughty has returned
from her s%ojourn in Florida and has
been visiting relatives here this week.
Members of the Absecon Art Club
journeyed to Atlantic City last We'd
nesday afternoon where they were en-
tertained by Mrs. E. A. Wilson.
Mrs. Annie E. Conover, of Phila-
delphia, a former Conovertown resi-
dent, has been sojourning with rela-
tives and friends here the past week.
Prof. E. D. Riley entertained the
members of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of the M. E.
Church at his residence last Tuesday
evening.
We are sorry to report that Mrs
Louise Yates is on the sick list again.
Mrs Charlotte Pitney is spending
an indefinite s%ojourn at the State Cap
itol.
Miss Marjorie Newton, of Allen
town, Pa, is the guest of Miss Helen
Lutz at the Absecon Inn.
Mrs. Harry Camp, of Philadelphia,
%sojourned last week with Nj. and Mrs
George Hackett.
Remelin Powell, the energetic young
Adams Express representative here,
has been transferred to Chester, Pa.
Mr.. Bush, a Princeton College stu
dent, occupied the Presbyterian Church
last Sunday.
Miss Ethel Giberson, Mrs. Olive
Smith and Mr.. Walter Conover are
visiting relatives and friends in the
Quaker City.
Mrs. Enoch Giberson was the guest
of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. James E. Sooy, in Atlantic
City, during the week that the New
Jersey NJ. E. Conference held its ses-
sions, which she attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Hare en-
%tertained yer Sunday their nephew
Mr.. George Robinson, and Mr.. Charles
Faul, of Philadelphia.
Franklin Davis, of Atlantic City,
spent Saturday with Kenneth Lutz
and Stanley Smith.
Large delegations of Absecon peo-
pie were in daily attendance at the
sessions of the annual New Jersey
Conference held in the First M. E
Church, Atlantic City, the past week
Mrs. Hosea Kendall has returned
home from Freeport, Pa, where she
had been the guest of her daughter
Mrs. John Shaw, for several weeks.
Mrs. Shaw accompanied her mother
here, but returned home a few days
afterward.
Messrs. Townsend D. Shovel, Ro.
ger Williams and Raymond Carton
spent Saturday and Sunday in New
York City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Conover at.
tended the funeral of their brother-in.
law, James Massey, in Camden, last
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Conover has
been staying at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Mary Massey, for two weeks
Mrs. Massey expects to make her
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Conover in
a short time.
Work was begun last Tuesday on
filling in the meadows between the
new boulevard -embankment on the
east and the railroad bank on the
west, the Absecon bridge on the north
and the upland near Reed road on the
south. A dredging machine is moor
ed in the creek near where the filling
in is being done and it is hoped that
in the course of a few days consider
able progress will have been made in
supplying the foundation filler for this
part of the boulevard.
The condition of that stretch of the
New York road between the golf club
grounds and the Oceanville school
house which has been barely passable
for weeks past on account of the deep
frozen ruts which constituted a SER
ious obstacle and menace to automo-
biles, has been greatly improved this
week. The frost having come out of
the ground the road there was scraped
a h~alf-dozen times on Tuesday. A
force of workmen filled in the ruts
and users of the highway are rejoic-
ing over the improvement.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Joslin had
as their guests the past week the
following relatives: Mrs. George
Platt and Miss Edith Platt, of Bridge
port; Mrs. Jennie Derrickson and Mrs
George K. West, of Paulsboro, N. J.
They attended the sessions of the New
Jersey NJ. E. Conference held in At
lantic City.
Absecon M. E. Church.
Rev. Clarence M. Johnston has beer
returned for the fifth year. The of
fetal board has voted to make the
salary $500. The year just closed
was the best in the church's history
and a fine year is anticipated. Next
Sunday morning the pastor will preach
on "God-C Called" All the men are
invited to attend the Bible class al
2.30. At 7.30 there will be a Greet
ing-Sermon." The pastor would like
to see everybody out. Object-talk to
the children and special singing.
Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Mails arrive at Absecon Post Office a,
follows
From Philadelphia and West-7.So and Ii
a.. m. and 6.45 D. m.
From Atlantic City-6.3o a. m. and Bar
Q. m.
Mails close as follows:
For Philadelphis-6.20, 9.25 and 9.45 a
m. $50 and 625 p. m.
For Atlantic City-9.45 a. m. 6.25 p. m.
The Office opens daily except Sunday a
! Is a. m. and closes 7.15 p. m.
Carrier leave, on Rural Delivery Route a
20 a. m