The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
ABSECON NEWS. LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
,cLEp BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.


The shore was we'll represented in
the personnel of the ships crew on
board the U. S. S. George Washington
which took President Wilson and par
ty to France. Cyril Somers, of Ocean
Vile, nephew of Fred w. Somers, is
paymaster on the ship; a son of Rev.
E. C. Hulse, of Port Republic, was
dentist to President Wilson on the
voyage, and Daniel Ireland, son of
the late Reuben Ireland, of Absecon,
also has a position on the liner.
Mrs. Townsend Shovel and Mrs.
Richard S.. Price took the civil SER
vice examination at the Atlantic City
Post Office last Wednesday morning
for the position of postmaster at Abb
eco
Richard S. Price and daughter Mar
ion have gone to New York State,
hoping the change will be of benefit to
Mr.. Prices health.
Mrs. R. A. Elwood and son passed
the weekend at Tuckerton.
Miss Laura Coon has been i'll with
la grippe ten days.
Miss Rose Price has been confined
to her home this week by illness.
Mr.. Walter Borneman and family
n have recovered from their illness and
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are out again.
Mrs. Wesley C. Smith expects to
leave in a week or so for Jacksonville,
Ia, to spend the winter at the home
of her niece, Mrs. A. L. BrOgman.
Nicholas Dudley left last week to
spend the winter with relatives at
Brooklyn, Long Island and Connecti-
cut.
Mrs. Laura B. Reed, who has been
making her home with her cousins,
Fred c.. and Miss Lorine Boice since
last spring, expects to go to Camden
lex Monday to spend the winter with
her aunts, Mrs. Sallie Lee and Mrs.
Hannah Jackson.
Miss c.. Basshore, of Philadelphia,
te~legrapher at the railroad station, is
making her home at the Pin view
Villa.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Warren Tilton, for
mer local teachers, have taken up
their abode at Bradley Beach. He
has secured a position as teacher of
science in the Neptune Township High
School, Ocean Grove.
Fire early Saturday morning in the
woods heal Miss Carrie Reeds, burn
ed considerable underbrush and leaves
north of her home on the Shore Road
and for quite a while threatened to
develop into a serious menace. The
fire was discovered shortly after 3 a.
m. and the residents in that neighbor-
hood combined their efforts in subdu-
/ ing the flames. The fire is believed
l to have peer caused by a drunken man
Awho lay in the woods most of the night
And insulted passers-by,
Gunners hunting rabbits of late re-
Nort having come in contact with sew
T tal deer north of Absecon. One par
saw a buck, a doe and a fawn in
lie fields and woods back of Franklin
Arton's at North Absecon. Others
have been seen in the Johnson field,
the Hewitt field and along the right
of-way of the old Brigantine Railroad.
The supposition of sportsmen is that
the unusual activity and noise in the
vicinity of the Elwood Loading Plant
has had a tendency to drive the deer
in that section down this way.
Freebooter and Mrs. F. Fraley
Doughty returned home on Friday
from a s%oiourn in Philadelphia.
The Cattani family entertained
Newark relatives yer Sunday.
Some of the Absecon Councilmen
are anxious to see more taxpayers
present at the Council meetings. They
believe it would rebound to the good
OF the city because a greater oppor-
tunity would be afforded for discuss
inc civic affairs, exchanging views of
vital import to the community and ex-
pressing opinions hat would be help
full and designed to promote the in
terests of the citizens in general.
Moreover they assert the attendance
of more taxpayers would indicate they
are taking interest in the management
of their business and would cause
their representatives to take greater
pride in discharging their duties.
3 Mrs. A. E. Conover went to Philadel-
phia last Saturday to spend the win
ter with the family of her daughter,
Mrs. Eugene Klein.
A Christmas entertainment consist
ing of songs, recitations, exercises,
ETC., will be given by the Presbyterian
Sunday School in the church on Mon
day evening, Dec. 23rd. The follow
ing evening, Dec. oath, the M. E. Sun
day School will nave a Christmas par
ty in the Chapel. They expect to
have a large tree appropriately trim
med and laden with attractions.
Miss Lizzie L~ingelbach has returned
from Pennsgrove and expects to make
her home with DR.. Allen and family,
with whom she lived before going to
Pepnsgrove last summer
Clarence Conover and family moved
back from Belcoville last week and
will make their home at Conovertown
again.
It has been reported the past week
to owners of woodland in different
parts of Absecon and outlying dis
tricts that known parties are deliber-
ately going into their wooded areas
and helping themselves to fire wood,