The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-31

hire out in transporting passengers to
and from the munition plants in the
county, and others doing a transporta-
ton business who had not acquainted
themselves with nor complied with
recent rulings affecting their business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Lee, Joel A.
Tilton, his son Henry and a friend of
Washington, D. c., who are spending
a half-month's vacation in Atlantic
City, visited relatives here the first of
this week.
The City Clerk was instructed at the
regular meeting of City Council last
Wednesday evening to advertise for
bids for the laying of cement side
walks and concrete curbing on j. w.
Cordery's blacksmith shop property
fronting on Church street. v
A representative of the Electric
Light Company was present and dis
cussed with the city officials the street
light outage question. 1t is the pur-
pose of the company, it was stated, to
reduce the number of lamps not light
ed to the minimum.
A check for $35 was received for
automobile fines collected through the
Police Department.
The Absecon Public School is sched-
uled to open next Tuesday morning,
lSept. 3rd.
Miss Ruth Ristine is i'll with typhoid
fever at her home in Conovertown.
Walter Conover was home last We'd
nesday. He is now on a submarine
chaser; has a position close to the
captain, and is eager to engage in
naval operations in foreign waters.
l Miss Ethel Gihorcop ao+or+o;pod -
Sewing Circle, of Atlantic City, at her
home last Wednesday evening.
After spending the summer at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Con
over, at Conovertown, Mrs. Hudson
and another daughter, Mrs. Osborn.
and two children, have returned to
their home in Philadelphia.
The writer received a letter last
Friday from w. Kelton Evans, of Ok
ford, Pa, who has just resigned as
principal of the Absecon school be-
cause of having to leave on Wednes-
day with the other Atlantic County
boys for Camp Meade, Admiral, Md:
In the letter he extends best wishes
to all his Absecon friends. whom he
thanks for all past k~indnesses and
faVors and adds that he hopes to re-
| al " ApoCCOA again, alter lne war
ends.
The September meeting of the Abse-
con w. c. 7. U. will be held next
TUESDAY afternoon at 8 o'clock, at the
residence of Mrs. ]. D. Joslin. on
Shore Road. A devotional period will
feature the early part of the meeting;
election of officers will then be held
and routine business will be transact
ed. A special invitation is extended
to all members and friends of the local
Union.
W. Kelton Evans made a flying trip
to Absecon last Tuesday afternoon, af-
ter reporting for check roll call earli-
er in the day at the Court House,
Mays Landing. He shook hands with
many of his friends here, bid them
l goodbye and said he is anxious to
see service at the front.
Reuben Babcock, 3rd, celebrated his
sixth birthday anniversary on Monday,
Aug. 18th, at the home of his parents.
Master Reuben, Jr., is militarily in
cllned; hes a patriot and a loyal
American. He's both a soldier and a
sailor. He wears first an army suit
OF Khaki, then a white navy suit.
When his uncle, Dr.. Roop, tells him
General Pershing would like to have
him for an army officer, he quickly
puts on his U. s.. Field Suit, but when
his uncle again tells him Secretary
Daniels would rather have him for a
naval cadet, he soon appears in a
white duck naval uniform.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Babcock enter
tanned last week her brothers, Emmett,
of Philadelphia, and DR.. William o.
Roop, who, in the service of his coun-
try as an army medical specialist, has
been examining men in the various
camps and environments as far south
as Louisiana. He is now on his way
northward to the New England
States.
Mrs. Babcock since Tuesday has
been receiving a visit from her sister,