The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-04-14
Absecon

Next Sunday night there will be an
interesting service in the ME-. Church.
Rev. DIR. j. S. Burnett. of the Univer-
sity of Chattanooga, will speak on
"F rom Mountain Cabin to Manhood"
The address will be illustrated with
go stereopticon slides. DR.. Burnett is
a Southern Mountaineer and the SER
vice will be worth attending.
Mrs. Frank Conover is on the sick
list, but is better at this writing.
Miss Clara Dumont, of Smithville,
has been visiting Miss Alice Conover.
There was a large attendance at
the Ushers Union Meeting on Monday
night. 1t was in the nature of a rally
and President A. l.. Hammell was
pleased with the interest. The COM
mittee, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Tilton and
Miss Leona Hart had prepared a very
fine musical program as follows: Piano
duet, Mrs. A. L.. Hammell and Miss
Hart; Vocal solo, Mrs. R. l.. Babcock;
Cornet solo, Theon White; Vocal solo,
Walter Burns; Musical Love-Story;
Vocal solo, Mrs. Weyerman; Piano
solo, Mrs. A. L. Hammell; America;
Musical Guesses.
Mr.. Duke Bakley, of Berlin, has
been visiting his cousins, Mr.. Harry
Conover and Mr.. John Conover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mason and
son John and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ma
son were guests of their parents in
Atlantic City over Easter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Rogers enter
tanned over Easter the latter's mother,
Mrs. Albert; also her sister, Mrs.
Christman, and son William, of Oak
Lane. Pa.
Two of the victims who were killed
in the disastrous explosion Tuesday at
the plant of the Eddystone Ammuni-
ton Corporation were nieces of Ed
ward J. Mccarthy, this city. Their
names were May Mccarthy, aged 81,
and sister Elizabeth, IS, of Crum
Lynn, Pa.
Miss Clara Dumont spent a week at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Tomlin,
in Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wyand, ST.,
entertained his mother, Mrs. Engel, of
Collingswood, last week.
Raymond Ludlow, of Mays Landing,
a student at Lehigh University, visit
ed Miss Ruth Adams over the week
end.
Miss Marguerite Weber, of Atlantic
City, visited the Misses Schoepfiin at
the Hotel ROCKINGHAM last week.
Miss Salome Bradshaw returned
last SUNDAY to Philadelphia, after be-
ing the guest of DIR. and Mrs. C. C.
Allen.
William B. Smith, a superintendent
at the Pennsgrove Powder Works, So
journed with his family here over the
weekend.
Philip Romer, of Camden, formerly
an Absecon youth, sojourned with Mr..
and Mrs. Steelman Lee and Miss Sara
Mathis over Easter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland enter
tanned over Easter at their home, the
Pennington bungalow on Faunce ave-
nue., Mrs. Yelland's sister, Miss Rose
Fetmacher, and Miss Helen Murphy,
of the State Capital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Hare re-
ceived an Easter visit from Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Faul and daughter, of
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hates and fam
lily entertained at their home during
the Easter holidays Mrs. Hates moth
er, Mrs. Albert Young, of Pennsgrove;
also her sister and brother-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Reed, of Camden.
Mrs. Emma Thompson and brother
Charles Alloway, of Philadelphia, for
mer residents, called on friends in
town last Sunday.
The primary and junior departments
of the M. E. Sunday School rendered
an appropriate Easter program con-
sisting of an anthem. duet, singing,
recitatfons and dialogues in the chapel
last Sunday afternoon. They also
rendered an Easter anthem and spec
ial singing during the evening service
in the church.
Z~ephaniah Hackett, street gate ope-
rator at the Main street railroad
crossino, came into the possession last
"Wednesday of a demountable rim and
Tire lost by an enclosed Ford car at II
o'clock in the morning. AS the car
passed the crossing the spare tire
dropped off and rolled toward the flag
house where the f1agman was sitting.
George L. Hackett, local station te-
legrapher, made a business trip to
Philadelphia on Wednesday.
MI. and Mrs. Edward Brandt had as
their guests over Easter their daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Strahan and children, of Phil
adelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shaw, Of Free
port, IA, were gueSIS ol ner parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Kendall, over Eas-
ter. Mr.. Shaw returned home the
first of the week, but Mrs. Shaw will
prolong her stay indefinitely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Prescott, Jr.,
formerly of Chester, Pa, are making
their home with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Prescott, on New Jersey
Edward. Jr., is an Absecon
boy who went a year ago to Chester