The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-20
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLEp BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

while the afternoon was given over to
recreation and pleasant enjoyment.
Each one took a box lunch which had
a tempting effect on the appetite. Be-
fore the guests departed the hostesses
served ice cream.
Present were: Mrs. Laura B. Reed,
Mrs. Charles Mason, Miss C. C. Black,
Mrs. Frank Babcock, Miss Florence
Babcock, Mrs. A. l.. Hammell and
daughter Charlotte Louise, Mrs. R. L.
Babcock and children, Virginia and
Reuben, 3rd, Mrs. Joseph Smith, Sr,
Mrs. Harry Mattson, ST., Mrs. James
Henderson, Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Lew
is, Miss Ethel Hammell, Miss Carrie
Reed, Mrs. Edward Pennington, Mrs.
Rebecca Tilton, Mrs. Leon Conover,
Mrs. A. ]. Craven and the Carolus
family.
Walter ConoUer Home Sunday.
Walter Conover, U. S. N, who is at
tending The Edison Listening School
at New London, Conn.,, was home last
Sunday. Arriving in Philadelphia too
late Saturday night to make connec-
lions for his home here he remained
over night with Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Klein, who Brought him down in their
motor car Sunday morning. Mrs.
Klein was formerly Miss Sara Conover,
of Conovertown. Mr.. and Mrs. Klein
spent the day with her mother, Mrs.
A. E. Conover, while Walter Conover
spent the time with his father, Harry
B. Conover, and his sisters.
He soon expects to go aboard ship,
but does not know where he will be
sent. For several weeks he has been
at the school. He is studying there
the secrets of an Edison discovery and
invention which he says will pul an
end to Germany. The new process of
humiliation he declares will complete
ly destroy every kind of life, human,
animal n vegetable within a pre-
scribed radius, and is so terribly dead
ly it a be controlled and operated
only with the utmost accuracy and
precision.
This was his first visit home since
his enlistment early last spring.
Sends German Helmet Home.
Last Friday Mrs. May Townsend re-
ceived a letter from her son Edmund.
who has been in France a year, stating
that his Cadillac car, in which he had
been transporting the American off
GERS, had been struck by a bomb and
that parts of the machine had been
blown to bits.
He says where he is the roar of guns
is ever present. The air is surcharged
with bursting bombs and flying mis-
siles which are whirling and being
hurled in all directions. At the time
his automobile was wrecked he writes
the battle waxed so intense and fero-
cious that it was necessary for him to
lie in a ditch two hours in order to
save his life.
He is daring as a diver, but very
unlike one because instead of going
down he would like to go up, since he
has expressed a desire to join the Avi-
alton Corps of the Allied forces, if at
any time a change of militaristic poll
cy should favor it.
On numerous previous occasions he
had sent home trinkets, battle relics
and souvenirs. Some of these consist
ed of parts of German airplanes. A
week ago he sent a German shoulder
strap, which proved to be quite an
attraction and has been going the
rounds on an exhibition tour, but on
Tuesday morning he delivered the
goods, for Mrs. Townsend received
from her son through the mail a Ger
man helmet and waist belt.
The helmet weighs three pounds,
displays battle scars, but is not bent
nor denied. The leather head band is
intact and the forehead cushion pro-
tector is also included.
Covering the buckle on the leather
belt is a metal cap displaying these
words: Colt Nit Uns." The outfit
is for a large man and has seen con-
siderable service. Edmund was for
tunate in being able to get this much
equipment through this soon. 1t is
presumed the wearer lost his life in
quarters close to that occupied by the
Absecon youth. Sometime ago he
wrote to his mother he expected to
send a German helmet at the first op-
portunity, but she didn't think it
would be this Don