The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-07-28
Absecon

Everybody will find a hearty well
come at the M. e. Church next Sun
day. There is a fan for you, and the
services are not lengthy. The men
are allowed to remove their coats if
they so desire. Rev. Clarence M.
Johnston has planned two interesting
and helpful sermons. In the morn
ing: Lots Leaning Crowd-ward"; at
$50 p. M, Speeding Past the Signal"
The pastor will give an object-chalk to
the children: 1.-THE Lords Prayer in
Colors." Please do not forget your
church next Sunday.
Rev. Clarence M. Johnston and Rev.
DR.. ]. B.. Haines will go to the noun
tains of Virginia next week. They
will visit Washington, Harper's Ferry,
Spottswood, and the beautiful Shen-
andoah Valley. The preachers will
drive eleven miles up in the Blue
Ridge mountains, and hold preaching
services On Sunday in a mountain
church. Mr.. Johnston will take a
Gamer along and the two men will
some time later give illustrated talks
of their interesting trip.
A rousing farewell was given Henry
Smith and John Cramer on Tuesday
evening by the local tribe of Red Men.
These two boys enlisted in the Atlantic
City Battery. Walter Burns had
charge of the program and Rev. Clar-
ence M. Johnston made the farewell
address to the young soldiers. They
received suitable gifts from the Red
Men.
Miss Florence Dobbins, of Salem, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. c.. M. John
ston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Thilens and
daughter, Mildred, of Philadelphia,
are sOjourning with the family of their
cousin, Mrs. Susie Hartzell.
Mrs. Carrie Miller and daughter,
Marion, and son, Raymond, of Phila-
delphia. were Sunday guests of Mrs.
Hartzell and children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Audrey are en-
tertaining her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Boakes, of the Quaker City.
Dr.. and Mrs. G. C. Allen are receiv.
ing a visit from his mother and broth.
er Herbert, of Bridgeton, who motored
here in the latter'S new auto, a Hud-
son Super-six Sport Model.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Carton have been
sojourning at Delaware Water Gap the
last ten days.
The Presbyterian Sunday School
picnic was held last Thursday at
Doughty's Mill. Automobiles and wag.
Ons conveyed the grown-ups and chill.
dren to and from the grounds. The
start was made from the church about
9 o'clock.
Miss Ethel C. Hammell, of Absecon,
and Miss Mildred Randall, of Atlantic
City, are spending two weeks in New
York State visiting relatives of the
latter.
Towers Townsend and family, of
Ventnor, have moved into their resi-.
dence on Church street for the remain
der of the summer.
Mrs. Ambrose Hammell and children
are so%journing for two weeks in their
cottage at Wildwood.
A cake and pastry sale will be held
by the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the M. E. Church from 8 to
5 o'clock this Saturday afternoon at
Franklin G.. Turner's, for the benefit
of the support of the Bible woman in
India.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Reed and
daughter, Helen, Of Atlantic City, are
spending the summer with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Reed.
Miss Ruth Adams entertained last
week a school friend, Miss Edith Ad-
kinSon, of Paterson. On Sunday her
guest was Mr.. Edwin Pollock, of the
Quaker City, a reporter for the Phila-
delphia Press. This week Miss Adams
is sojourning with Miss Beatrice AID
ans at Lower Bank.
Miss Leona Hart, teacher in the
public school, left last Friday to spend
the rest of her summer vacation at her
home in Mansfield, Pa. After the clos
ing of school she made her home with
Postmaster and Mrs. T. D. Shovel,
and for several weeks assisted with
the clerical work in the p%ostoffice.
Mrs. Sarah Rutherford entertained
on Tuesday her sister, Mrs. Annie
Mcbride, and daughter Annie, of Phil,
adelphia.
Miss Gertrude Draper has accepted
t bposition of assistant in the Abse-
cOn postOffice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph I. Townsend
are entertaining Miss May Davis, of
Woodbury., at their home on Church
street.
Mrs. Sarah Rutherford has a son,
William E. Rutherford, who has been
in the United States Navy the last
nineteen years. Last December he was
the Chief Q~uartermaster on the U. S.
S. Cincinnati and was stationed at the
Philippine Islands. Soon afterward
he was transferred to another ship and
was ordered to China. Just where her
son is now Mrs. Rutherford does not
know. After another year he had ex-
pected to be retired on pension, but
what effect the present war will have
on his retirement is not determinable
at this time.
Mrs. Laura B, Reed Is making her
home for the present with her cousins,
Fred G. and Miss Lorine Boice, on