The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-09-07

northbound. They stood two and
three abreast and the line extended
farther south than the causeway. For
the time being it was necessary to
have more than one fiagman on duty,
in fact two extra men were required.
One operated the gates and one on
each side of the crossing stood on
guard with a red flag to stop the end
less procession while the gates were
being raised and lowered. Special
trains were passing in succession and
it was necessary to operate the gates
at short intervals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Payne enter
tanned last week his sister, Mrs. R. F.
White, and daughter, Frances, former
ly of Worcester, Mass, but now liv-
ing at Gloucester. Mr.. White, who is
employed at the shipyard there, spent
the weekend here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne and daughter
| Marie spent Labor Day with. Mrs.
Payne's mother, Mrs. O'Neill, at Ber-
lin. They returned home in their car
early Tuesday morning. Mrs. O'Neill
had just completed the harvesting of
a crop of 800 baskets of peaches from
her orchard.
Mrs. Experience Conover is recov-
ering from an illness of two weeks
during which she was in a critical
condition from an attack of ptomaine
poisoning.
Saturday night on the New York
road north of here a new Ford auto
mobile was driven too far off the road
into the sand along the side, which
1 yurocfnd tho ctnnrin0 uThnn1 f,.O,,o tho
new drivers hands and the car turn
ed over after striking a pole which
damaged the mud guards, running
boards and lamps, but did not break
the windshield. The occupants were
thrown out but escaped with minor
bruises and shock.
Passing over the Absecon bridge
late Saturday afternoon a touring car
proceeding south ran into the side of
the structure. The interference de-
mounted two tires on the right hand
side of the car and damaged the front
wheel, but nom of the occupants was
injured.
Ten feet south of this spot a Stude-
baker runabout Monday evening was
driven onto the sidewalk and crashed
into the electric light pole close to the
flag house. The forward right tire
was gashed and the front axle was Civ
Ell a severe twist.
At loon OF Monday a touring car
driven north on New Jersey avenue
collided with n passing the crossing
going west on Station avenue Fend-
ers, lamps, running boards and steer
ing rods were smashed and bent, but
no n was hurt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Collins, of
Philadelphia, have been so%journing the
past week at the Pine View Villa, the
home of their aunts, Mrs. A. G. Flem-
ing and Miss Emma Collins.
Mrs. May Townsend has in her pos
session the barrel of empty fruit jars
which she received some time ago
from the New Jersey Children's Home
Society at Trenton. She requests
those interested in the cause to kind
ly assist in filling the containers with
fruits and vegetables as soon as pos
sible.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mason and
son John spent Sunday with the for
mer's parents in Atlantic City. Labor
Day they entertained his uncle,
Charles Mason, ST.. of Merchantville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Kendall en-
tertained Mr., Maurice Shaw, of Phil
adelphia, last week. A few days ago
the three motored to within less than
a mile of Atlantic City on the new
Absecon boulevard. Mrs. Kendall
brides herself on being the first wo-
man to drive a ear on the new boule-
ward to the extreme limit on which
the gravel had been applied. She de-
scribes the trip as being p~erilously
beset with ups and downs because the
road isn't finished and says she had
to straddle the ruts many times and
bump ver the ties in places, but be
ing adventurous she sped on main
tanning a firm grip on the wheel and
enjoying the experience because she
realized her Ford is worthy and stur-
dy and more than equal to such an
endurance test.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Kendall are eX-
pecting the arrival this weekend Of
their daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Shaw, and daughter Ruth,
who recently moved from Freeport to
Swissvale, Pa. They are coming on
their vacation and will be here at
least two weeks. Mrs. Shaw probably
will remain five weeks.
At the September meeting of the
Absecon w. C. T. u. held last Tuesday
afternoon at the residence of Mrs. ].
D. Joslin all the former officers were
reelected for the ensuing year. Top
les of timely interest were discussed
and refreshments were servd.
Between Saturday and Monday night
some villain stole the Red Cross bank
containing three dollars or more in
change from the Cattani barbershop
on New Jersey avenue. When it was
taken or how is a mystery and Miss
Josephine Cattani, who was away over
the week end believes the rascal
watched his chance, sneaked in,