The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-08-30

ton boss here while his son-in-law
holds a similar position at his place.
Miss Mabel Pennington, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Pennington,
who attended the summer school for
teachers at Ocean City recently, ex-
poets to teach at Pennington, N. J.,
the coming term.
At the meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation held on Thursday evening it
was decided to open the Absecon
school on Monday, Sept. 18th, instead
of the 9Th as first announced.
Mrs. Ferry and Miss Betty Brown,
of the Hotel Princess, Atlantic City,
visited Mrs. Ida Risley last Friday eve
ming.
DR.. and Mrs. Howard Copover and
children, of Barnegat, spent Sunday
with his parents, MI. and Mrs. Gilbert
Conover. Their daughter Rita had
been visiting her grandparents here a
week.
Miss Emily Snelbaker, of the Quak-
er City, opened her summer home on
w. Leeds avenue last Thursday and
will spend her annual vacation there
for a few weeks.
Miss Annabel Babcock has been
elected to teach in the Atlantic City
schools this rear.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mariner Smith have
been entertaining Mrs. Anna Brown,
of Philadelphia, since Saturday.
Thomas Hutchinson, Jr., former po-
lice officer here, is chauffeur for a
wealthy woman from Fitchburg, Mass,
| who is sojourning in Atlantic City.
She makes frequent trips to the Sea-
view Golf Club in her new $1,000 Pack
ard limousine, which was purchased
three weeks ago..
Miss Gertrude Draper, a government
clerk at Washington, has been spend
ing this week with friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland are en-
PERTAINING for two weeks the latter's
sister, Miss Rose Hutmacher and Miss
Josephine Bloom, of Trenton.
Catching On fire on the interior as
it was crossing the meadows early last
Sunday evening an old style passenger
car filled with homeward bound ex-
c~ursionists was sidetracked here and
the frightened occupants made a quick
dash for the open from both exits.
Fortunately the blaze was extinguish-
ed before much damage was done. The
car belonged to the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis Railroad.
A broken axle on n of the heavy
duty freight locomotives attached to
a long string of freight cars bound for
Atlantic City on the s%outhbound track
between Pomona and Absecon last
Monday afternoon held up and longest
ed traffic over the road for about five
hours. Wrecking crews with repair
equipment were dispatched to the
scene and after several hours of hard
work the disabled engine and train
were moved on to Atlantic City.
Edmund Townsend, son of Mrs. May
Townsend, who returned a month ago
with the Marines in the American
Army of Occupation, expects to return
in two or three weeks to Detroit to
resume the position he held at the Cad
lilac Automobile Factory "a years ago
when he enlisted as a Cadillac chauf-
feur for official duty overseas.
August Meeting of City Council.
Numerous protests were made at the
meeting of City Council last Wednes-
day evening over the alleged poor,
miserable, rotten. stagnant city water
furnished through the street mains to
Absecon people,. The Councilmen de-
clared they were being besieged by
residents from all quarters who were
d~eprecating the condition of the quail
ty of the present water furnished,
which they declared is in need of pur-
ification. The condition of the water
together with the contemplated raise
in rates, it was alleged, had already
resulted in the installation by numer-
Gus residents of several different kinds
of private water supply systems.
With the object of lettering the con-
ditions for those who have no other
source of supply Messrs. Walter Bates
and Harry Carton representing the Wa
ter Committee, were instructed to on
fer with the superintendent of the
Pleasantville Water Co., and Elmer c..
Bates, chairman of Council, stated
he, too, would take up the matter with
the water company officials.
Passage of the Mercantile Ordinance
on second reading was deferred until
the text regular meeting.
Messrs. Pitney and Bates reported
they had personally inspected together
with the Street Committee of Pleasant
vile Council hat section of California
emu west of New Road. where the
street lines had been partly re-estab-
lished and approved of the changes
made. They said both sides of the
street needs clearing in several places
and the street supervisor estimated
that 800 would about defray the ex-
pense of clearing the road on the Alb
secon side, but a halt to the sugges-
lions resulted when announcement
was made that the appropriations
would ont permit an unforeseen expen-
diture of this kind at this time.
Present were Councilmen Elmer c..
Bates, Walter Bates, Martin Pitney
and Ferd H. Henry, Clerk Johnson,
Collector Turner andN Street Supervis-
or Harry Mattson, Jr.