The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-03-09
Absecon

1OOhI1lS LCpChC1s IL heeh PtN
-fey refreshments for this meeting, us
ing the different warbreads she has
given recipes for in her classes.
The Ushers Union, which was to
meet next Monday with Miss Florence
Kesler, will be postponed for two
weeks, or until Monday, Mar. 25th.
Next Friday night, Mar. Is, is the
time, the public school auditorium is
the place, and the Peach Blossom Min
strel Show is the attraction. Good
singing. good jokes, lots of fun. Ben
eft of Absecon Ushers' Union. Don't
be a Stacker.
Percy Smith left on Monday for Flo
rida. where he expects to spend a
month with his grandmother, Mrs. Car
oline Smith, at the home of her niece,
Mrs. A. L. Brogden, at Jacksonville.
Irwin Rider and Leon Thomas went
to Pennsgrove the first of the week to
engage in construction work at the
powder plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland, former
residents, of Trenton, were guests last
weekend of the family of his sister,
Mrs. Townsend Shovel.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Absecon w. c. T. U. was held last
Tuesday afternoon at the residence of
Mrs. M. M. Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin
went last Monday to Philadelphia,
where on Wednesday afternoon they
attended the funeral of their nephew,
Samuel H., son of David and Elizabeth
Mclaughlin, aged % years.
Mark Carton, Of Westville, passed
the weekend at the home of his pa.
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ananias Carton.
He came home especially to see his
mother, who has been critically i'll for
several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustave Guenther re-
turned to their home on Main street,
at California avenue, last Wednesday,
after passing the winter with their
daughter, Mrs. Elmer Weaver, at Plea.
S%antville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mason and son
John entertained at dinner last Satur'
day, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Guenther,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mason and
son Harry, Jr., of Atlantic City.
Mrs. Steelman R. Lee, of Harmon.
ton, was the guest of friends here last
Sunday.
Mrs. Charlotte Pitney is expected
home in the near future from Trenton,
where she has been sojourning during
the winter.
Last Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Gustave
Guenther, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Wea-
yer, of Pl%easantville, and MI. and Mrs.
Louis Gtenther, of Philadelphia, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mason.
Mrs. David H. Page has been very
ill for several weeks, during part of
which time she has been confined in
the Atlantic Civ HOSDita1
A. J.. Overpeck, a resident of Absecon
Highlands for several years but recent.
ly employed in Atlantic City, has been
very i'll from stomach trouble the past
month at the home of Mrs. Carrie
Kraft, Bargaintown.
The family of Peter Bird is prepar.
ing to move into the Taliferro cottage
on New Jersey venue in a day or two.
Councilman and Mrs. George L.
Hackett are occupying their residence
on Eighth street again, after passing
the winter with relatives at Pleasant.
vile.
Under the direction of the Principal,
w. Kelton Evans, pupils of the public
school have cleared of the wild growth
and unsightly objects the land adjoin-
ing the school grounds or New Jersey
avenue recently acquired for school
purposes.
Mrs. Hosea Kendall has returned
home from Freeport, Pa, where she
soiourned at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. John Shaw, for six weeks. She
was accompanied by her daughter and
granddaughter, baby Ruth, aged two
months and two weeks, who expect to
remain here until after Easter. Mr..
Shaw, also, was here over Sunday.
There will be no services in the M.
e. Church tomorrow. Sunday, owing
to the New Jersey Conference conven-
ing in Atlantic City, but Sunday School
will be held as usual in the chapel at
2.30 O'Clock.
John ]. Nolan, a former resident and
for several years local agent for the
Adams Express Co., of Atlantic City,
was a town visitor last Wednesday.
Formerly of Philadelphia but a resi-
dent of North Absecon for twenty
years, Edward Brandt, aged 81, sue
cumbed last Tuesday afternoon at $50
to Bright's Disease, from which he had
been confined to his home for a month,
the last two weeks of which he suffer
ed intensely. He was a membe of
the Absecon M. E.. Church and OF the
Volunteer Fire Company. He lived on
his farm and had been engaged in ag-
ricultural pursuits. Deceased is sur
vived by his widow, Mary A., two
DAUGHTERS, Mrs. Lizzie Bastian and
Mrs. Emma Strahan, and several
grandchildren, of Philadelphia. Fun
eral services were held yesterday (Fri-
day. morning at 1880 at his late resi-
dence and interment took place in
Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, at 4
O'clock in the afternoon.
IT. d. Sh0WeH Returns From Trip.
Townsend D. Shovel returned home
last Sunday from a five week tour of
the United States. He left home the
latter part of January and spent most
of the time near Phoenix, Arizona,
where he slept out-of-doors every night