The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-06-22
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

A meeting of the Absecon Canning
Club will be held in the chapel on
Wednesday, June rs, 2 P. M. Every
one is welcome. Members bring some
fruit or vegetable to al also neces-
sary utensils for working, including
jars and new rubbers.
New subscriptions to The Pleasant
vile Press, renewals, advertisements
and news items are solicited by JOS
eph.S. Tilton, Absecon Correspondent.
How can you afford to do without
your own local paper When it's price is
so small compared to it's value? Give
yourself the benefit of a second
thought and have your subscription
entered at once for a year through
the local representative.
DR.. and Mrs. C. C. Allen have been
entertaining Mrs. Mamie Bradley, OF
Philadelphia, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hammell, of
Conovertown, have received word that
their son Charles has arrived safely in
France. He went to Camp Dix early
in the spring.
Herbert Allen and mother, Mrs. Re
becca Allen, of Bridgeton, motored last
Sunday in their Hudson Super-six car
to the home of his brother, DR.. c. G.
Allen, where Mrs. Allen has been visit
ing the past week.
The Peoples Sunday School of Abse-
con Highlands held their Children's
Day exercises last Sunday afternoon,
which was well attended. The pro-
gram was we'll rendered by the chill
dren.
w. Kelton Evans returned last Sat
urday to Oxford, Pa, to spend an in
definite period with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. James P. Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford Townsend
and children, of Atlantic City, moved
last week into the Townsend summer
residence on East Church street.
The annual picnic of the Absecon M.
e. Sunday School is scheduled to be
held on Wednesday, July 10, at Lenape
Park, Mays Landing. If plans work
out as originally intended t~ransporta-
ton details will be announced later.
Corporal Herman L. Madden, of
Camp Dix, came home last Friday eve
ming and remained here until Sunday
evening. He entertained a friend, Pri-
vate Hoyt, of New York State, Satur-
day night and Sunday. Friday eve
ming Herman entertained the Anxious
Club at his home. A dozen members
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time was had, as all greatly enjoyed
meeting together once more.
Benjamin Valester has resigned his
position as section foreman and has
secured another at the Bethlehem
plant, Mays Landing. He has moved
his family to their farm at Pomona.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland have
taken occupancy of the cottage at New
Jersey venue and Turner street, re-
Gently vacated by the Valester family.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Hedden returned
on Tuesday to East Orange, after pass
ing a sojourn in Atlantic City and with
her grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Ad-
ans, and aunt, Miss Laura Adams,
here. Mrs. Hedden will be remember
ed as Miss Leonora Lutts, a former
Absecon school girl. Her husband is
a halter engaged in business at New
ark.
John F. Berry, a member of the
Q~uartermaster Corps, u. S. A, at Bal
timore, visited his family here Sunday
and Monday. Since enlisting early in
the spring he has been stationed at
Camp Meade, Admiral, Md, Washing
ton and Baltimore. He enlisted in the
U. S. Army in preference to being
drafted into the British forces and has
a variety of duties to perform.
AbSecon Red Cross Notes.
officers of the Absecon Auxiliary of
the Red Cross are as follows: Chair
man. Mrs. M. M. Townsend; secretary,
Miss Ethel Hammell; treasurer, F. G..
Turner; chairman of the knitting de-
partment, Mrs. Samuel Johnson; head
of the sewing division, Miss Hannah
Madden.
Two weeks ago the local auxiliary
had completed 269 garments consist
ing of hospital shirts, pajamas, socks,
etc.
The officers are as enthusiastic as
ever in their endeavor to procure more
workers for the service period held ev-
cry Friday afternoon from 2 to 4.30,
at the residence of Miss Hannah Mad
den, and with this end in view ear
nestly request as many women as pos
sibly can to meet at the appointed
time II place as regularly as the ur-
eency of the call demands and domes-
tic events permit.
L. T.. Br0Wnley Wins Promotions.
Mrs. Lemuel F.. BROMLEY, of Phila-
delphia, has been spending the last
three weeks at her North Absecon
home. Mr.. Brownley is also here over
the weekend. He is one of the super
intendents in the tent making depart
ment of the %Schuylkill Arsenal, which
has been greatly enlarged. He is now
in charge of a larger force of workmen
than ever before. His department is
making quantities of mammoth hos
pital tents and tents for the commissa-
ry department of the overseas forces.
Military industrial operations there as
everywhere else throughout the coun-
try are being pushed with unprece-