The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-12-08
COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ENGAGED IN RESEARCH WORK.
Now Making a Collection of Bible Res
ords of the Older Families.

oiy tNNliIlSs 4NONtll1D0l OVlu. III
President, Mrs. Charles Blake, was in
he chair. Notwithstanding the storm
the large room was filled with the en-
thusiastic members interested in this
good work.
Many historic topics were discussed.
Miss l.. J. Price read a sketch of the
first three months work of the Soci-
ETY.. the first records having been de-
stroyed when the home of Mrs. Lear,
the first secretary, was burned.
Miss Risley requested that her paper
on the old cemeteries of the County
be deferred until the next meeting, be-
cause of stress of other business and
because some data was still to be filled
in. With this paper Miss Risley pre-
sents to the Society the records On
the head stones of over fifty old GENE
teries throughout the County. Gene
ologists will appreciate the value of
access to these authentic records.
The Society is also forming a collec-
ton of Bible records. All having old
Bibles, whether members of the Soci-
ETY. or not, are requested to copy such
records, exactly, and send them either
to Mrs. Charles Blake, 612 S. Main ST,
~Pleasantville, or to Miss Harriet l..
Frambes, Il States Avenue, Atlantic
City. Miss Frambes presented the So
4,l4r~ .-;4I I.,,I-. g., l~1ls,N~ -
records. If convenient to have the
copies typewriter it will be appreciat-
ed. Geneologists and all interested in
family history will understand the
value of placing these records where
they will be preserved for this and
future generations.
1t was also decided to keep a record
of the contemporary history of our
County. The members are particular
ly interested along this line at this
time of history making. Records of
all the boys serving their country are
to be kept, with all data concerning
them. The families of these boys are
requested to assist in every way posi-
BILE by sending all information to Mr..
T. George Middleton, Somers Point, or
"a N. Main ST, Pleasantville. Already
one boy from PIeasantville has lost
his life in France. At the close of the
war these records will be published in
book form and will be cherished pos
sessions of many families. It is in
teresting to note among the enlist
ments the number of boys whose
grandfathers served in the Civil War,
as we'll as the number who are of Rev.
o%lutionary ancestry.
Few people know that the great Cat
erpillar Tank, in use in France, is a
P|leasantville invention, being invented
by Jesse Lake, and first used by him
to haul gravel in building the old Turn
pike between P~leasantville and At
lantic City.
Capt. NJ. w. Blake is preparing a
paper on this subject, which will be
read at the next meeting of the So
ciety on the last Friday evening of
January. The meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. DR.. Barbash, Ohio
one time Jesse Lake thought of per
ating a trackless trolley line between
Somers Point and Ocean City, using
this machine, and through it to cross
the small ravines without bridging.
Instead it is being used to crash
through barbed wire entanglements,
es, compelling the enemy to ONE out
of what the cartoonist aptly calls their
rat holes, and fight in the open as
clean American men fight. Let us let
our P~leasantville boys know that not
only is a Pleasantville machine going
before them in the form of the giant
caterpillar tank, but also that Pleas
antville is solidly back of them, will
ing to make every sacrifice for them
and our country.
1t is interesting to note that neither
the submarine nor this self-laying
tractor, from which has been develop
ed the caterpillar tank, were invented
for war-like purposes.
Incidentally it is interesting to note
the important part P~leasantville is
playing in the world at this time
through these two inventions of the
Pleasantville Lakes, for Simon Lake.
the inventor of the submarine, was
also a P%leasantville boy,
1t is said, mo Lake ever Uses alco-
hol or tobacco" Has that fact contrib
uted to their wonderful brain power?
Pleasantville should also remember
that our present Governor vas a
~Pleasantville boy and was educated in
the Public Schools of Pleasantville.
Two names, those of Mr.. and Mrs.
John S. Weaver, of Pleasantville, were
added to the membership roll of the
Society