The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-23
Absecon

Rev. Clarence NJ. Johnston spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in New York
with his mother and sister. While
there Mr.. Johnston had a severe at
tack of acute Indigestion. He has
returned home, but not entirely re-
covered yet.
Mrs. Grace French, of Atlantic City,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
E. Sooy.
Mr.. Harrv B. Conover recently en-
tertained Mrs. E. Taylor and son and
Mrs. Frambes.
Mrs. Jennie Freas and son, Alton,
and daughter. Edith, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Freas and daughter, Mildred,
spent Sunday as guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Conover, at Conovertown.
Members of the Anxious Club were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Baker Bowen
at their Leeds Point home last Friday
evening. The party made the trip in
an automobile truck and passed a de-
cidedly pleasant evening. Refresh
ments were served. Present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Bowen. Mr.. and Mrs.
ans, Sara Martin, Grace Adams, Ethel
Giberson, Bertha Vincent, Sarah Nit
chell, Margaret Sparks, Ivory Beck,
Messrs. Carl Adams, Irwin Adams,
William Parsels, Jr., Herman Madden,
Walter Conover and John Bowen.
: A Conundrum Supper will be given
: by the Ushers' Union next Tuesday,
June Goth, from $50 to 7.3O p. M, in
the chapel. Each course will cost five
y cents, but it is not expected the whole
supper will cost more than twenty-five
cents each. A general appeal is be-
ing made to the public to ~patronize
this worthy undertaking by the Union
for the benefit of the pipe organ fund.
, Everybody is urged to go to the chap
ell next Tuesday between the hours
stated to get his or her supper. There
will be no meeting of the Ushers In
ion Monday night on account of pre-
pairing for the supper.
Postmaster Townsend d. Shovel
has been confined to his bed most of
this week with a severe attack of pleu-
risy and bronchitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Shaw, of Free
port, Pa, arrived on Saturday at the
home of the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hosea Kendall. Mr.. Shaw re-
turned home the first of this week,
but Mrs. Shaw will remain with her
parents until after the Fourth.
Harry Mattson, Jr., motored last
, Sunday to Pennsgrove by way of
Bridgeton. to which place he took Mrs.
Steller and daughter Edna. In the
evening he brought home his wife and
two sons, who had visited relatives
there for a week. Mrs. Henrietta Ad-
lor, formerly of Absecon, accompanied
them home and remained as their
guest until Tuesday.
Mrs. Hosea Kendall has an interest
ipn ovhihit II, n h1oo1r fn,,,. unable old
pup.J Jack, which she is nursing from a
bottle. The pups mother. a valuable,
priced. 1~2-year-old Spaniel, died when
the pup was born. since which time
the growing animal has taken milk
exclusively from the bottle. Although
it was hard for Mrs. Kendall to ac-
quaint the tiny canine with it's enforc-
ed means of taking nourishment at
the beginning, Jack now is as accus-
toned to it as n infant could be.
Miss Hannah Madden is entertain
ing her nieces, Misses Catherine and
Evelyn Madden, of Collingswood, for
an indefinite stay.
Mr.. James Henderson has been ill
the last two weeks with an alarming
rheumatic ailment at his home on
Ohio avenue. Mrs. Henderson also
has been confined to the house.
Services will be held as usual Sum-
day, the oath, in the Absecon Presby-
terrain Church, as follows: 9.45 a. M,
Bible School; 10.45 a. M, Preaching
service; 1.30 p. M, Junior Christian
Endeavor meeting; Z p. M, Senior
Christian Endeavor service. Thomas
d. Carey, Pastor.
Prof. E. D. Riley has sold his prop
erty consisting of an eight-room house
and an acre of ground OF Pitney ave
bnue near Mill Road to James j. Nc
Kenna, of Atlantic City. The new
owner conducts a hat cleaning estab-
lishment on South Carolina avenue.
IS He has a family of ten children and
expects to bring them here to live.
Miss Risley Has Anniversary.
Mrs. Ida Risley gave a party last
Saturday evening at her home in hon.
or of the fourteenth birthday ami
versary of her daughter Eunice.
Games were played, refreshments
were served and everyone present had
an enjoyable time. Following is the
list of those who were invited: Misses
Carolyn Smith, Edna Steller, Mae
Bell Hates, Leona Conover, Myra and
Margaretta Kesler, Rose and Marion
Price, Viola Shovel, Ella Emmons,
Ella Shovel, Carolyn Schoepfin, VIC
= let Conover, Alvena and Elizabeth
Nesbitt. Adelma Miller Helen Ware,
Kathryn Smith. Kathryn Miller, Mas
tiers Alfred and Emerson Shovel, Ed
mund and Mitchell Smith, Leroy Matt
son, Raymond Conover, Edward Tay-
lor, Edward Mccarthy, Robert Stra-
han, Fred Carly, Gilbert Barker, Lewis
!, and Haines Johnston, Roland Hates,