The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-06-22

denied energy.
He had been a tent and awning max
er for years before the war broke out,
and his special adaptation to this line
of work has won for him numerous
promotions the past yesz. AS an eff
cheney expert his services at this time
are peculiarly Invaluable and practical
ly indispensable at the Arsenal.
W. s. s. Campaign Starts Monday.
Under the direction of the local
chairman, Mrs. F. G. Turner, an ener-
getic Wal Savings Stamp campaign
will be waged throughout u city
from Monday until the last OF next
week.
Absecon quota is approximately
$21, 900, based on the population, S10,
at $25 per capita. Nearly $1,000 worth
have already been purchased through
the postoffice and school.
Absecon has been divided into dis
tricts and the following well known
women, beginning next Monday, Will
make a house to house canvass, In an
effort to secure pledges for the regular
purchasing of as large a number OF
these stamps as can be AID
secon's ~canvassers include: Miss Lo'
rine Boice, Mrs. Charles Mason, Mrs
Fred Audrey, Mrs. George Conoveri
Mrs. Walter Borneman, Miss Florence
Babcock, Mrs. R. L. Babcock, Mrs. Har'
ry Mattson, Sr., Mrs. James Hender.
son, Mrs. Walter Bates, Mrs.
Johnson, Mrs. Howard Payne, Mrs. h
A. Elwood, Miss Hannah Madden, MISS
Ethel Giberson, Mrs. Harry Miller and
Miss Flora Robinson. Mrs. Turner be
speaks for her solicitors a cordial re;
ception; a prompt and generous re
Spouse.
Death of Israel s. WO0lston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Steel, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Warren Tilton and Mrs. Anna
lLudlam attended the funeral last Fri
day evening Of Israel S. Woolston, ia
Their of Mrs. Steel and Mrs. Ludlam,
at his Somers Point home. They also
attended the services held on Saturday
afternoon at Cape May, where inter.
ment took place. Deceased succumbed
on Wednesday night to infirmities due
to his advanced age.
After passing several months with
Mrs. Steel's sister, Mrs. Ludlam, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton, Mr.. and Mrs
Steel and daughter, Roberta, left on
"Wednesday for H~olmsburg, Pa, where
they expect to make their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton have sub-let
their Lee avenue cottage and furnish
Iings to Raymond S. Stevenson, cashier
of the Absecon National Bank, who
with his family, of Atlantic City, will
shortly take possession.
Mrs. Ludlam will visit friends in
definitely at Hammonton, her former
home, and afterward will sojourn at
Cape May. Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton, both
former teachers here, will make their
home in the vicinity of Carney's Point,
where on Monday next he will assume
his new position with the Dupont
Company, his school at Salem having
closed this week.
Former AbSecon Resident Dies.
Mrs. Sarah M. Wisham, aged 54, died
at her home in Atlantic City, shortly
before l o'clock Friday morning, June
18th, after being i'll with heart trouble
less than an hour. Having been out
with her husband, Albert Wisham, to
spend the evening they returned home
about midnight. Soon afterward she
was seized by an attack of severe
coughing superinduced by faulty val
yular action of the heart and died in a
few minutes.
Mrs. Wisham was born and raised in
this locality. She was the daughter OF
Eliza and the late Clement Cordery.
old residenters of Absecon. Mrs. Cor
derry is still living, although aged and
blind, and had been making her home
with her daughter for a number OF
years.
Deceased was married the last time
only recently. Six years ago deatt
claimed her former husband, John L
! Clark, with whom she lived for years
at their North Absecon home now own
ed by Edward Heinzer. The family
moved to Atlantic City about ten years
ago. Funeral services were held a
her residence last Sunday afternoon
at ? O'Clock. Interment was made in
the Absecon M. E. Cemetery.
School Commencement Exercises.
The Commencement Exercises of the
Absecon Grammar School were hello
in the school auditorium Thursday
evening, June 10, at SIS, in the pres
ence of a representative audience thai
taxed the seating capacity of the room
which is as long as the building is
wide. The happy graduates gave a
| good account of themselves and great
ly pleased their relatives and friends
The exercises were very entertaining
and shows what ~commendable work
can be accomplished when special in.
terest is taken and close application
is made. The decorations are worthy
of special mention. The color scheme
was true to the class colors, Brown
and Cold and to the class flower, the
"Brown-Eyed Daisy" The decorations
were worked out with painstaking
care, with special regard to symmetri
cal detail, and represented much labor