The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-11
Absecon

Mrs. Townsend Shovel, the Absecon
postmistress, has been very i'll the past
week from stomach trouble and has
been confined to her bed.
Miss Margaret Lang is rapidly re-
covering from typhoid fever.
Mr.. Arthur Conover is improving his
home with a coat of paint.
Mrs. Covert, of the Quaker City, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Conover.
Miss May Eta Conover, of Penns-
grove, is visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. Julia Conover.
John Falivene's ~Studebaker touring
car was badly damaged last Saturday
by being struck by a train or car at a
railroad crossing near Sea Girt. One
of the women in the machine was
slightly hurt.
Mrs. Albert Smith and daughter,
Ella May, are visiting Mrs. Smiths
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Ham
nell.
Miss Adoris Conover is visiting her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Willis
Conover.
Miss Mabel Matlack, of National
Park, N. j., and Mr.. Paul Marquasi, OF
the Quaker City, have been visiting
MT. anu MIS-. harry walk.
The Misses Mildred and Alice Stew
art, of the Quaker City, are visiting
their cousin, Miss Kathryn Walk.
George L.. Hackett, operator at the
local railroad station, purchased Lewis
Clark's Cadillac roadster two weeks
ago and on Monday last he traded
same with DR.. C.. C.. Allen for his
Buick-six equipped with the same
style body.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Hare have
been entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Faul and daughter Catherine, of the
Quaker City, the past week. Last Sat
urday evening the five went over to
Atlantic City to celebrate Mrs. Faul's
birthday anniversary.
Miss .Eunice Risley is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. John Ards, at her home
on Lancaster avenue, Philadelphia,
while enjoying her vacation.
Mrs. Ida RiSley entertained at her
home here over Sunday Miss May
Hefferman, the Atlantic City Hospital
nurse who watched over and cared for
Mrs. Risley during her prolonged con-
finement in that institution with ap-
pendicitis last winter.
Harry V. Miller purchased and re-
ceived his new Grant-six touring car
last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Smith, of
Philadelphia, and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Smith and daughter, Helen j., of HAM
monitor, spent last week as guests of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah
Smith, at North Absecon. Sylvester
Smith, formerly of this place, has been
interested in ships and shipping and
has followed the sea all his days. He
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Continental Ocean Tug Eureka; weighs
287 pounds and had not been home be-
fore in 20 years.
Leon Thomas, of Conovertown, lost
a 125 ID. pig which choked to death
n day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland were
over Sunday guests of relatives at
Trenton. Mr.. Yelland, who has had a
position in the freight department at
the railroad station the past year, has
resigned to resume work in the Capt.
tai City, his former home. They ex-
pect to move the last of this week..
Leaving home about supper time on
Wednesday of last week the eleven
year-old daughter of Albert Cordery,
who lives back of Lily Lake at Ocean
vile, Strayed down the Shore Road to
AbSecon, but it was not until twenty
four hours had elapsed that Mayor
Mattson found the young lassie stand
ing between two board signs that form
a triangle at the conveyance of the
New York and Philadelphia roads. The
Mayor took the girl by the hand, led
her up to the ice cream parlor, gave
her some ice cream and telephoned to
her father who came down I'D took
her home. The girl gave no plausible
explanation as to why she left home
or where she stayed during the night,
but thanked the Mayor for his kind
treatment.
The Clark Lumber Company is bull
ding substantial, c~ommodious coal bins
on its grounds adjoining the railroad
tracks.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D.. Joslin have as
their guests over Sunday MI. and Mrs.
Frank Beober and two children, of
Philadelphia.
. Interesting M. E. Parsonage Items.
Mrs. Clarence nj. Johnston had as
guests and visitors over the weekend
and on Sunday her brother and sister,
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Dob
bins, of Philadelphia; her sister, Miss
Florence Dobbins, of Salem, N. j., who
had been here two weeks, and David
Rose, Esq, of Camden, a noted Jersey
lawyer, who called at her home last
Friday.
On Monday of this week, Mrs. John
ston received a call at the M. E. Par
sonage from two distinguished gentle
men: Bishop Joseph F. Berry, d. D.,
LII. D., of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a friend whom he intro
duced as Mr.. Ford. Whether or not
the latter was Mr.. Fora of manufac-