The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-06
Absecon

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the M. E. Church. Next Sunday will
be Rally Day. In the morning, Rev.
Clarence M. Johnston will preach on:
"The Step and Song of The Conquer
or" Every member of Mems Glass
urged to come out at $50. The Cover
nor of New Jersey has urged all to
attend Sunday School on this day. In
teresting service at 7.30. The Sunday
School classes have been invited to
attend, and the scholars and teachers
will sit together. The pastor will
preach on: "Life's ~Cantonment."
Mrs. F. J. Fitzgerald and two chill
dren, OF New York, are visiting Mrs.
Fitzgerald's brother, Rev. c. M. John
ston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Conover en-
tertained at a quot party last Tues
day evening. Those present were:
Miss Ethel Giberson, Mrs. Edna Ris-
tine, Mrs. F. j. Fitzgerald and chill
dren, of New York; Mrs. L.. L.. Johns
ton, Rev. and Mrs. c. M. Johnston
and Lewis and Haines Johnston.
A local Teachers Institute will be
held at Absecon on October goth. A
very instructive as well as entertain
ing program will be arranged. Prof.
Spencer Bennett, head of the Depart
ment of Physical Training, will dem
onstrate some of the drills, games,
etc., with a selected class of pupils
from the Atlantic City schools. From
present indications the day will be re-
plete with good things. The people
of Absecon and Prof. Riley have al
ways done their share in making
these meetings successful.
The Presbyterian Mite Society met
at the home of Mrs. Thomas Draper
last Thursday evening.
Mrs. John B. Smith,, of Smiths
Landing, spent Sunday at the home
of her sister, Miss Lorine Boiee.
Miss Marguerite Elliff is spending
an indefinite sojourn with the family
of her sister in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Laura B. Reed was the over
Sunday guest of her aunt, Mrs. Han
nah e. Babcock, in Atlantic City.
John Hates and family moved last
Saturday from Ohio avenue to the Boil
ton avenue cottage formerly owned by
Daniel E.. Steelman.
Miss Bertha Irelan, of Philadelphia,
and George Irelan, of Pennsgrove, Wis
tied their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Irelan, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry j. Lee entertain
ed last Sunday his father, Mr.. Thomas
Lee, of English Creek, and their sister
in-law, Mrs. Margaret Johnson, of
Mortified.
DR.. w. L. Zane and family have re-
turned to Atlantic City, after spending
the summer in the residence formerly
occupied by the Colloty family at
Shore Road and Bolton venue
Mr.. and Mrs. George V. Draper en-
tertained the middle of last week Mrs.
Joseph Crandall, of Atlantic City, and
Misses Edith and Ada Hancock, of
Camden.
Lemuel F. White, of the Quaker
City, was here last week taking a sur
vey of his realty holdings east of Reed
road, where same are traversed by the
new trans-meadow boulevard.
Mrs. Oliver B.. Johnson is teaching
in the Friends School, Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin So
journed for three days last week on
her brothers farm at Tuckerton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Mccoy, of
Ventnor, were guests of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Irelan, last Sat
urday and Sunday,
Mr.. and Mrs. John F.. Berry have as
their guest fer a month the latter's
sister, Mrs. G. Balmano, of Rincon,
New Mexico.
Harry White has returned home
from a pleasant two weeks motor trip
with a friend through different parts
of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Laura B. Reed vas the guest of
Rev. and Mrs. w. S. Ludlow at the M.
e. Parsonage, Mays Landing, several
days the past week.
A meeting of the Standard Bearers,
the young peoples missionary society,
was announced for last evening at the
home of Mrs. r. L. Babcock.
Percy Smith, who has been seriously
i'll with scarlet fever at the home of
his grandmother, Mrs. Caroline Smith,
the last two weeks, is slowly ecove
ing and hopes to be out again in about
ten days.
Messrs. Isaac Nelson, James and
Henry Conover went up the Little Egg
Harbor River in their sail and power
boats the first of this week to fill their
boats with seed oysters. The oyster
season opened last Monday.
Mrs. Joseph Lippincott, of Port Re-
public, was the guest last Sunday of
Mrs. Josephine Adams.
MIS-. cora COnoVer, OF Hanmonton,
has been spending the last ten days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Boice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Kendall enter
tanned Mrs. M. Zeikman, of Camden,
last Tuesday.
Mrs. Louise Yates entertained for
ten days her sister and brother-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Mcneil, of West
Philadelphia. She also received a visit
last week from Mrs. Jennie Gayett, of
the Quaker City, and Mr.. William V.