The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-04-28
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
WHO COME AND GO
PERSONAL CHRONICLE OF Do
INGS, SOCIAL AND OTHERWISE
GATHERED ABOUT THE CITY.

Miss Pearl Stafford is spending a
week with friends in Philadelphia.
Miss Myrtle Lake has been the
guest this week of relatives in Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. M. R. M. Fish has gone to
Washington, d. c., for a stay of sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard P. Bates and
son will occupy the house vacated by
Mr.. Holmes and family.
Miss Pauline Wootton spent the
weekend as the guest of Miss Marion
Shaner in Mays Landing.
DIR. Corson, of Ocean City, was the
guest of Rev. and Mrs. Pennington
Corson, Sr., on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Weber and
daughters, Kathryn and Linda, were
recent guests of Mrs. Charles C. Chain
at the Almont Inn, Barnegat.
Mrs. j. B. Westcott, Miss Edith
Jenness and Master Hugh Collins
Westcott have arrived from Florida to
spend the summer in Pleasantville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston B. Adams,
who have been spending the winter in
Atlantic City, will return to their
home on Verona avenue early in May.
The Clover Club was delightfully."-
entertained at the home of Mrs.
George M. Bates on Tuesday AFTER
noon. The hostess next Tuesday will
be Mrs. Francis H. Budd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas C. Tompkins,
Gerald Tompkins and Mr.. and Mrs.
xrnxyooI Mipf1or anioxyod ,a,otor
trip to Philadelphia the first of the
week in Mr.. Tompkins' car.
Rev. Wright Eckersley, former pas
tor of Salem M. E. Church, was in
P~leasantville last week and enjoyed
golfng at the Atlantic City Country
Club. He leaves at an early date for
California.
After spending seven months in
Philadelphia, Mrs. Frank Webb ex-
poets to return to her home in Pleas
a~ntville this week. Mrs. Arthur R.
Smith and son will accompany her for
an indefinite visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Hembery and
daughter, Mrs. E. Leroy Harrison,
who have been residents of Pleasant
vile for several years, left this week
to make their home at Cranbrook,
British Columbia. Canada.
George Bassett, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Milo Bassett, of Pleasantville, has ac-
copied a Civil Service position in the
Quartermaster Generals Department
at Washington and left the first of
this week to begin his duties there.
Mr.. w. B. Williams and daughter,
of Pittsburgh, have arrived in Pleas
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recently purchased home, the Doughty
c. Turner property on Verona avenue.
Mrs. Williams is expected to join them
next week.
The many friends of Rollin A. Gale
will be plad to learn that he has so far
recovered from his recent severe and
dangerous attack of pneumonia as to
be able to sit upon the porch. We
sincerely hope he will soon be COM
pletely well.
DIR. ]. Frank Wallis has returned
from a successful fishing trip along
the trout streams of upper New Jer-
sey. The weather was unfavorable,
still DR.. Wallis was fortunate enough
to catch forty rainbow trout and land
locked salmon.
j. S. Holmes, who has resided at
355 S. Main street, Pleasantville, for
two years, has leased the Burch cot
tage at II Oakland avenue, Ventnor,
by the year, and will make his future
home there, taking possession this
week. His son, A. R. Holmes, we'll
known Chelsea realty broker and his
wife, will also make their home there,
as will his daughters, Misses Bertha,
Edith and Dorothy Holmes.
A number of P~leasantville folk
%journeyed to Atlantic City on Monday
to hear a lecture in st. Paul's M. E.
Church on "How India Lost God" by
Mrs. Maude johnson Gilmore. Among
them were: Rev. and Mrs. Samuel
Stratton, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph B.
Thomas, Mrs. George Hill, Mrs.
Frank johnson, Mrs. Roland Lake,
Miss Rae Lake, Mr.. and Mrs. George
H. Adams, Miss Elsie Adams, Mrs. L.
R. Smith, Mrs. Mary Risley, Miss
Bertha Kewley.