The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-08

on Sunday. At 1890 a. M, Sermon
on: Moths, Rust, Thieves" At 7.30
p. M, evangelistic message on THE
Scandal of The Cross"
Monday night, Nov. 10, there will be
a musical in the M. E. Church. Miss
Laura Coon will play the %pipe-organ
and Walter Burns the violin. There
will also be an illustrated talk on
New York City" Silver offering.
Rev. C. M. Johnston is busy giving
missionary lectures under the direction
of Presiding Elder Corson. Wednes-
day evening Mr.. Johnston gave. a Ian
~tern-address at the Group-Meeting in
Wesley Church, Pleasantville, and this
Friday night, Nov. 7, lectures at group
meeting in Hurffville.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin
P. Reed, together with all its furnish
ings, was completely destroyed by fire
Thursday afternoon. Except for the
prompt action of Mr.. Pete Ireland,
who was working in a field nearby.
Mr.. Reed, who was sleeping at the
time, would have persisted in the
flames. AS it was, he was badly burn
ed.
Mrs. Townsend Shovel, who has
been very ill the last ten days, is
gradually recovering.
p. Harlan Boice, of Camden, vas
here Election Day.
David Lingelbach, former mechani-
clan with William Wyand, has secured
a position in Atlantic City.
Alfred ]. Shovel, who lost his pet
Airedale dog Peggy" the first of last
week, recovered same last Sunday
through an advertisement inserted in
the Cent-a-word column of last weeks
Pleasantville Press. The canine vas
in the possession of a P~leasantville
a who upon reading the advertise
ment, promptly restored the lost ami
NAL to it's rightful owner.
y The monthly meeting of the Wo
mans Foreign Missionary Society of
the M. E. Church will be held at the
residence of Mrs. Leon Conover, Shore
Road and Bolton avenue, next Tuesday
afternoon, Nov. 18th, at 2.30 o'clock.
IAll members and friends are invited to
be present.
As the delegate of the local society
Mrs. Walter Borneman attended the
West Jersey Presbyterial Meeting of
the Home and Foreign Missionary So
ciety in the Presbyterian Church at
Vineland last Wednesday.
The Presbyterian Mite Society meet
ing was held last Tuesday evening at
the home of Miss Edna GUSTS on Shore
Road.
Mrs. Anna G. Ferry has returned
= home from her extended stay of sew
eral months with the family of her son
/ Jesse G., at Claymont, Del.
The regular meeting of the Absecon
Art Club was held on Wednesday after
Z noon, at the home of Mrs. R. A. Ell
. weod, on Pitney avenue.
Under the auspices of the Absecon
Ushers Union and for the benefit OF
that organization the Peach Blossom
Minstrel Show will be given in the
school auditorium next Friday eve
ming, Nov. 14th, at SIS o'clock. Tick
cts IS cents; reserved seats SO cents.
1t is said a rare treat is in store for
those who attend and all should avail
themselves of this opportunity to see
and hear local talent in its GROWING
production of the season.
The Woman's Civic Club held its
Regular meeting in the school audito-
rum last Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Carly, of Wood
lynne, N. j., formerly of Absecon, are
the proud parents of a Glib. son, Mar
tin Francis. born on Sunday, Oct. 10Th.
The new arrivals great grandmother,
Mrs. Martin Spokesman, and aunt,
Miss Adelaide Carly, of this city, have
been visitors part of this week at the
Carly home near Camden.
Mrs. Louisa Doerchner left on Mon
day for East Orange to spend the win
ter with the family of her daughter,
Mrs. Lilling. :
Mr. ond Mrc ITOmar1 A Daunn on.
tertained her mother, Mrs. Martha o.
Neill, of Berlin, N. j., and aunt, Mrs.
Margaret Keech, of Coatesville, Pa,
from Thursday until Sunday.
DR.. Talbot Reed, Atlantic City
Health officer, has purchased the
Simpkins bungalow on Faunce Land
ing Road and is having it put in first
class condition. DR.. Reed and family
have been occupying it several months.
, Raymond S. Stevenson and family
moved their furniture last Friday from
their cottage on Shore Road to Allan
tic City. They expect to live in Phil
adelphia during the winter.
City Tax Collector Franklin G.. Tur-
ner calls attention of local taxpayers
to the fact that the second half of the
1919 tax is payable up to Dec. LIST, on
which date instead of Dec. goth, as
formerly, unpaid taxes become delin-
duent and in default of payment there
of he is compelled by law to report
such delinquency to the County Clerk
and the report results in a lien being
recorded against the property. He
advises all to pay their taxes before it
is necessary to make such a report.
Halloween was celebrated here this
year in an orderly, quiet ann and
with a minimum of interference and
damage to property. The night before