The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-21
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Rev. Clarence M. johnston maze an
address at the semi-yearly meeting OF
the County Boards of Education in
Atlantic City last Monday.
A very attractive Christmas service
will be held in the M. e. Church next
Sunday evening. Mr.. John Thoms, a
u. S. sailor, will give a pipe-organ re-
cital. There will also be an illustrated
sermon on "The Christmas Sunrise
thirty slides of famous pictures of ear
ly life of Christ. A cordial invitation
is extended to all.
At the recent fourth quarterly con-
ference of the M. E. Church, Rev.
Clarence M. Johnston was invited back
for the seventh year.
Charles M. Kesler has started a le-
gal battle to wipe out the only licens-
ed saloon in Absecon-the Rocking
ham. Supreme Court Justice Black
will sit at Mays Landing on Tuesday,
Jan. IA, at $50 a.. M, to consider the
petition filed with him to contest the
validity of the election held on o
5th, when the official result showed a
tie vote.
Mrs. Jesse M. Draper was the guest
on Wednesday of Mrs. Bertram E.
Whitman in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Clara Smith was the over-Sun-
day guest of Mrs. Harry Gilbert in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mariner Smith and
Mrs. Caroline Smith were guests OF
Miss Esther Baker for dinner last Sun
day, at her apartments in Atlantic
City.
Owing to the fact that the last We'd
nesday night of this month, the time
for the regular meeting of City Coun-
Gil, happens to be Christmas night, the
session will be postponed to Friday
night, Dec. 9th.
The Christmas Party for the chill
dren of the M. e. Sunday School will
be held in the chapel next Tuesday
evening, Christmas eve. Each class of
the school is expected to contribute
one or more numbers to the program
of Christmas songs, recitations, etc.
Half-pound boxes of candy will be dis
tributed among the juvenile members
of the school only.
Percy w. Smith, of Camp Humph.
ries, Accotink, Va, has received his
military discharge and was expected
home last Thursday.
Mrs. May Townsend received on
Thursday morning her first letter in
two months from her son Edmund,
who has been in France nearly a year
and a half.
Mrs. Laura B. Reed went to Camden
on Monday for the winter.
John D. Wedderburn and family
closed their Shore Road residence and
have gone to Washington, d.. C., to
spend the winter.
Mr.. John Booye was confined in the
Atlantic City Hospital several days
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himself internally while working on
his automobile.
Magistrate John w. Hughes and
family closed their residence at Shore
Road and Bolton avenue the first of
this week and returned to their Allan
tic City home, where they have decid-
ed to remain until April.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mason and son
John, Mr.. and Mrs. John Leeds and
James Leeds motored to Washington,
d.. c., last Sunday in John d. Wedder-
burns Hudson Super-siX touring car
to deliver the car to aim. They arrlV-
ed late in the afternoon, but remained
several hours in the National Capitol
viewing many of the points of interest.
Late at night they boarded the train
at the Union Station for Philadelphia,
where the party was divided, several
returning home Monday morning, the
others at night.
Mrs. John Sibley returned on Tues
day to her home at Swedesboro, after
spending several days with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Alexander.
Herman l.. Madden came home Sat
urday night from Camp Dix with a
cold which developed into influenza,
with which he has been confined to his
bed this week.
There will be no printed report this
year of the detailed contributions OF
members of the Absecon Branch of the
Needlework Guild, owing to the add1-
tional expense involved. Suffice 1t to
say $40 garments were received and
distributed as usual among the several
charitable institutions. Money mem
bers contributed $27.25.
Absecon Art Club members were
charmingly entertained last Wednes-
day afternoon by Mrs. Robert Nc
Laughlin at her residence on the Shore
Road.
The Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Society of the Presbyterian
Church. held its monthly meeting at
the home of Mrs. Harry Macaully, on
Bolton avenue, last Tuesday afternoon.
India was the Topic lOF ulSCuSSloH
and from a missionary standpoint
much valuable information was
brought out. The meeting was inter-
esting and was greatly enjoyed by all
present.
Miss Leira Conover, of Camden, WIS.,
tied relatives here several days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Smith, of North
Absecon, received word last Tuesday
from Mrs Sylvester Smith. stating
that her husband, their oldest son, had
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