The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-09-01
Lewis and Haines Johnston are
spending a vacation in New York.

spending a vacation in New York.
Beginning next Sunday night spec
ial attention will be given to the chill
dren who attend the M. E. Church.
The pastor will tell them a story or
give an object-lesson each Sunday
night. Send your boys and girls to
church.
The M. E. Twilight services have
closed. Next Sunday night the SER
vice will be held at 7.30.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G.. Turner motored
to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting
for over Sunday and Labor Day.
William H. Adkisson has sold his
Bolton avenue bungalow to Atlantic
City people who expect to move over in
2 near future.
7iss Emily Snelbaker, of the Quak-
s. 1y, is spending the summer at her
e.. Dry villa on West Leeds avenue.
Sur. and Mrs. Oliver B. Johnson have
zen entertaining Miss Ida Smith, a
I5chool teacher, Of Camden, the past
ffortnight.
Z Mrs. Edward Prescott, Sr., and son
} Theophilus were guests of friends at
Higbeetown last Sunday. Having been
crippled with rheumatism this was the
first time in two years that Mrs. Pres
colt was able to leave her home.
Three new Ford automobiles will
soon make their appearance in Abse-
con and will be the property of Messrs.
Christopher Hare, Edward Brand and
Howard Payne, respectively.
Mrs. Louise ". Yates recently enter
tanned for a week Mr.. Harry Mcneil
and Arthur Mcneil, of West Philadel-
phia. Mrs. Edward M. Roche and
daughter, Dorothy Marie Louise, re-
turned to their home at Logan, Pa,
last Sunday, after spending a delight
full weeks visit with their aunt, Mrs.
Yates. Her guest on Tuesday was
Miss Lizzie Slack, of West Philadel-
phia.
Miss C. c. Black and Samuel c. Nc
Cambridge returned home a few days
ago from a most pleasant fortnightS
s~ojourn at the home of the latter's
daughter, Mrs. Wilson A. Lands, at
Baltimore.
Tax Collector and Mrs. Thomas ORA
per have as their guests for a month
his sisters, Misses Ethel and Lillian
Draper, of Richmond, Va.
Miss Florence Draper has gone on
her months vacation, which she will
spend with relatives and friends at
Flushing, l.. l., and Lebanon, Pa.
The condition of Elmer Hammell,
oldest son of City Treasurer and Mrs.
Harry Y. Hammell, who has been con-
fined to his home with a fever the last
two weeks, is improving and he ex-
poets to be out again in a few days.
Mrs. Townsend Shovel was operat-
ed on to remove a growth in the stom-
ach at the Atlantic City Hospital last
Monday. While in a serious condition
the operation is believed to have been
a success. She will be obliged to re-
main in the hospital for an indefinite
period.
Miss Cordelia Black and Mr.. Nc
Cambridge entertained over Sunday at
their home on Bolton avenue, Mrs.
George F. Whitney and Miss Norma
Pritsch, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Louise
Huntington, of Germantown, and Miss
Adele Bishop, of East Orange.
Miss Lizzie Conover, daughter of
Harry B. Conover, expects to enter the
State Normal School next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Ireland received
word from Bridgeport, Conn, several
DAVIS ago that their son Hosea had en-
listed in the Army and had been
TRANSPORTED to France two months ago.
IT1OI " Ills 0HllOllllCllt liz hoo o@N
employed in an arms factory in Bridge
port for a year and a half. He has not
peer heard from since his departure
for France.
According to plan the Absecon pub
lie school will reopen neXt Tuesday,
Sept. 4th, for the fall and winter term
with the following teachers in charge:
Principal, Prof. E. D. Riley; teacher
of grades six to nine, Miss Lillian
Hart: grades four and five, Miss Leona
J Hart. grades two and three, Mrs. }.
w. Tilton; first grade, Miss Carrie c.
Reed.
After spending the last six weeks at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Matt
son, Jr., Master Betron Adlor returned
on Wednesday to the home of his
mother, Mrs. Henrietta Adlor, at
Pennsgrove.
Mrs. Samuel ]. Smith, Jr, entertain
ed the following relatives and friends
at a party dinner on Wednesday, at
her New Jersey avenue home: Mrs.
William Brooke, Mrs. Daniel Pillsbury
" and son Daniel, Jr., Mrs. Mary G. Kun
4 kelly and Mr.. John Kunkely, of Phila-
, delphia: Mrs. Rose Rutter, of Atlantic
City; Mrs. Daniel Shovel, Russell
Shovel, Mrs. Edwin Robinson, Misses
Flora and Marcia Robinson and Mrs.
Charles Kunkely, of Absecon.
William Prettyman and family have
moved to Elmwood, near Chester, Pa.
Miss Clara Conover expects to begin
her studies at the Trenton Normal
School next Tuesday.
Miss Marion Miller, of Philadelphia,
was the Sunday guest of the family of
her aunt, Mrs. Susie Hartzell.
Mr.. sEnd Mrs. Harry Mason are re-