The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-05-10
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLEo BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

George Irelan, of Pennsgrove, has
been visiting his parents, Mr.. n Mrs.
Charles Irelan, the past week.
Mrs. Sarah Bradley, of Atlantic City,
was the guest of Misses Kathryn and
Marie Schoepflin at the Hotel Rocking
ham over the weekend.
City Council will meet as a commit
tee of the whole in the Council Cham
Der next Wednesday evening, to decide
on mercantile tax items and fees and
to take steps to prevent the erection
of signboards on each side of the new
Atlantic City boulevard to the boun-
Diary line between Absecon and Egg
Harbor Township.
The thirty-second anniversary of the
Mite Society of the Presbyterian
Church will be held at the home of
Mrs. R. A. Elwood next Tuesday eve
ming, May 18th. Appropriate exercises
will be rendered and a pleasant social
season will follow.
Mrs. A. l.. Hammell entertained the
Absecon Art Club at her residence last
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. May Townsend received a let
ter the first of this week from her son
Edmund, who is with the American
Army of Occupation in Germany, in
which he wrote he expects to be home
soon.
All members of the family of Rich
ard Giberson at North Absecon have
been i'll with the grip, but Robert and
Herbert have recovered and are out
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Giberson, Jr.,
have moved from the Strang dwelling
to one of the Hare houses On New Jer-
Sey avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenzo P. Leeds are
visiting the family of their son Willis
at Marlton.
Miss Kate Steelman, of Philadelphia,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Re
becca Tilton, at North Absecon.
Raymond Carton, formerly rural
mail carrier here but an employee of
the Chelsea P~ostoffice, Atlantic City,
the last eighteen months, is substitute
ing for two weeks on the rural route
for William Leeds, who is taking his
vacation.
Jonah Clark is in a critical condi-
ton at the home of Samuel Ashton on
Church street, and has been belfast
two weeks.
The city has been widening and i'm
proving a stretch of Pitney avenue
north of the gravel pit, and is widen
ing and graveling that portion of Illi-
nois avenue in the vicinity of the prop
erty recently purchased by Lewis M.
Clark, on which extensive improve
ments are contemplated.
Charles Booye's bicycle, nearly new,
was taken Thursday forenoon last
week from in front of the school build
ing and an old wheel of little value
was left in its place. Fortunately the
new wheel was recovered between one
and two o'clock the anne day by the
boys father, John Booye, at Harmon
ton, where the bicycle was in the pos
session of one of three nearly grown
youths who passed through here at
1890. When the school closed at noon
and young Charles discovered his loss,
a telephone message was sent to his
father, who got his auto out and with
his boy and Gilbert Barker made a
quick trip up the Philadelphia road in
quest of the bike.
AbsecOn Red Cross Has Picnic.
A very pleasant time was spent by
the members of the Absecon Red Cross
Auxiliary at Miss Hannah Madden's
on Friday of last week at their picnic
and basket luncheon. The members
assembled at 10 o'clock and remained
during most of the day. The eats were
said to have been great" and all pres
ent had the limit of a good time.
Present were: Mrs. James Henderson,
Mrs. Steelman Lee, Mrs. Joseph Smith,
Miss Lorene Boice, Mrs. Samuel John
son, Mrs. Edward Pennington, Mrs.
Ambrose Hammell, Mrs. Harry Matt
son, Mrs. Leon Conover, Miss Joanna
Doughty, Mrs. Martin Spokesman,
Mrs. Chas. Mason, Mrs. Emily Como
yer, Mrs. Louisa Carolus, Miss Flor
ence Carolus, Mrs. Frank Babcock,
Miss Florence Babcock, Mrs. Katherine
Mclaughlin, Mrs. Walter Bates, Mrs.