The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-05-04
Absecon

Come to two helpful services Sun
day in the NJ. E. Church. AT 1870 a.
M, sermon 1.-The Love Imitator."
7.45 p. m, sermon, "a Paradox-Pe-
teri" We want everybody to come out.
Come sing and help and be helped.
The Civic Club held it's regular
monthly meeting in the auditorium of
the public school building on Thurs
day, May End. This being the annual
meeting for electing officers the follow
ing were chosen: President, Mrs. Geo.
B. Conover; vice-president, Miss Flor
ence Babcock; recording secretary,
Mrs. Emily Roster; treasurer, Mrs. R.
A. Elwood; corresponding secretary
and press agent, Mrs. Fred. Audrey.
Beginning on Monday, May 9Th, we
will have a Cleanup Week in Absecon.
We hope everybody will take an inter-
est and see to it that all their indie
structible rubbish is collected, placed
in receptacles and set out on the curb
to be collected on Friday, May 10th.
A team will start out at 7 o'clock on
Friday morning to collect the rubbish.
1t is earnestly requested that every
body burn such rubbish as car be dis
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only the indestructible rubbish. No
ashes will be hauled away.
Harry White has secured employ
ment in an agricultural implement fac
tory at Glenlock.
Miss Sara Mathis, teacher in the
New Gretna public school, was the
guest over Sunday of her sister and
brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Steelman
R. Lee.
Mrs. John Ards, of Philadelphia,
was the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Smith, ST., and her sister,
Mrs. Ida Risley, the first of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin S. DeHaven
were guests over Sunday of relatives
and friends at Lansdale, Pa.
Martin Carly, Miss Gertrude Metzner
and Raymond Gatchel, of Camden, we're
entertained over Sunday by Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Spokesman, Miss AIDE
laide Carly and brother Fred.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry J. Lee had their
sister-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Johnson,
of Mortified, as their guest several
days this week.
John R. Steelman has given his resi-
dence a coat of paint the past week.
Arthur D. Mckenzie, of Philadelphia,
a Naval Coast Defense Reserve at Cape
May, was the guest over Sunday of
Miss Helen Lutz.
Albert Yelland, of Trenton, is filling
his former position as freight clerk at
the railroad station. Leon Conover,
son of Arthur Conover, of Conover-
town, who has been holding that job
since last fall, has been transferred to
the telegraphy department and has
been doing duty at Hammonton part of
this week.
A Ford touring car displaying a
Pennsylvania dealers Identification
marker, containing the driver on the
front seat and two automobile truck
wheels, two springs and a heavy iron
bar in the tonneau crashed into the
sidewalk curbing head-on between the
bridge and Shore Road railroad cross
ing at 2 o'clock last Sunday afternoon,
badly damaging the machine. Both
rear wheels wei broken off at the
hubs and the forward part of the chas-
sis was bent and battered. Coming
down the highway at a lively clip the
driver lost control in en~deavoring to
clear the telephone pole on the far side
OF the bridge and the car skidded
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ing.
Dayton Hendrey, who received his
new Ford Sedan last week, drove the
a down himself from the Ford Buffa-
10 City assembling plant, a distance of
more than 500 miles, in an actual rum
ming time of 29 hours.
George L.. Hackett, telegrapher at
the Absecon station for a period of
years, has been transferred to Atlantic
City, and a young m from there
has been placed in charge of the oper-
ating here.
While MeSsrS. Irwin Rider, Daniel
Reed, Leon Thomas, Henry Tucker and
Horace Miller were on their way home
from work On the government opera
lions at Elwood, Thursday evening of
last week, a highpowered Buick auto
mobile containing two men on the
front seat, ran into the left real wheel
on Mr.. Riders auto, in which his COM
panions were seated, when they were
between Egg Harbor and Pomona, and
cut his hub cap partly in two. Con-
t1nuing its veering course from one
side of the road to the other, soon after
passing the Rider car the speeding ma
chine finally came to a stop in a field
beside the road. The speed maniac
and drunken driver wanted to fight the
Rider party, but finding them also
ready, changed his mind.
Following a long and tedious illness
covering a period of several years, Mrs.
Aananias Carton succumbed last We'd
nesday morning to general complica-
lions at her home on East Bolton i've
nue. She had been in a helpless condi-
tion for four months, during which
time her death had been expected at
almost any time, and had not taken
any nourishment for a week previous
to her demise. She is survived by her
husband; two sons, Raymond Carton,
OF Absecon, and Mark Carton, of West
vile; and by two grandchildren Of the