The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-08-16
CONCISE NEWSLETS
ABOUT THE CITY
Interesting Local Occurrences
Briefly Told

Geo. H. Travis has sold his grocery
business at Third and Pleasant ave
nue. to Max Katz, who ssume con-
troll next Monday.
Charles J. Collins, of Somers Point,
has the backing of leading democrats
of Atlantic City and the county for
membership in the State Committee
of the party as the representative from
Atlantic County.
Mrs. Joseph Krewson wishes to
thank her friends for sending fruit,
flowers and other delicacies to her.
Mrs. Krewson is still confined to her
bed at this writing. We hope for a
speedy recovery.
The ladies of st. Margaret's Guild
will hold a Peach Festival in the base
ment of st. Marks Church this Friday.
evening, August 18th. The tickets will
be 25 cents, and the public is cordially
invited to attend.
Mrs. E. F. Morris received a tele-
gram announcing the death suddenly
on Tuesday morning of her father,
John Stanton, aged SO years, at New
vile, Pa. Both Rev. and Mrs. Morris
attended the funeral.
The Womans Home Missionary So
ciety of Wesley NJ. E.. Church will meet
Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock,
at the home of Mrs. Elias Campbell.
The meeting was postponed last We'd
nesday because of the storm.
Mrs. Sarah E. Samson, wife of Isaiah
/. Sampson, died at her home on East
Verona avenue, on Friday, August 8.
FrL1 fr,nAVo1 V-ac from hnp Lotto TnCi-
dence Tuesday afternoon and inter
ment in Pleasantville cemetery.
John P. Ashmead, of Pleasantville,
and Ira T. B. Smith, of Mays Landing,
were appointed on Wednesday by Di-
rector Doughty to represent the Board
of Freeholders upon the Board of Es-
Inmates of the County Vocational
Schools.
The Board of Freeholders, at their
regular monthly meeting last Wednes-
day, approved plans and specifications
for the paving of the White Horse
Pike from Absecon to Egg Harbor
City, with the changes suggested by
the State Highway Commission.
Ali boy scouts intending to go to
camp at Pitman mex Wednesday must
0dDO III % W IEN. Ii. OOACo nOl AdtCl
than the 18th, if they wish free trans
portation by truck, otherwise they will
have to pay their own railroad fare
in addition to the So to be collected
for camp expenses.
The Atlantic County Board of Elec-
lions has organized for the year by
~re-electing William Hauenstein as
president and Harry Lovett as secre-
tary. The Board will ley week name
the men who are to serve as members
of the district boards of elections and
also will select the polling places.
Charles Z. Banks, colored, charged
with stealing the typewriter from the
office of Lake & Risley Co. early Mon
day morning, August 4th, was given a
hearing by Police Justice Brown in the
Recorders Court in Atlantic City at 8
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. He was
committed to Jail without bail to await
the action of the Grand Jury.
William F.. Banks, former manager
of the Seaview Golf Club and resident
manager of the Ambassador Hotel in
Atlantic City since its opening, leaves
shortly for the Pacific Coast, where
he will be one of the managers of the
Hotel Huntington, Pasadena. Californ-
ia, during the winter and will return to
the Ambassador in the spring.
Mrs. George W. Leek, of Woodland
Avenue, has received word that her
son Ralph who received his commits
sion of Ensign during the war is at
present in Rotterdam supervising the
return of the Dutch ships to their own
arg and is slated for nromotion To
Lieutenant. His brother Roy has en-
tered the service and is now in train
ing with the Merchant Marines.
The Board of F~reeholders has Great
ed a new committee to be known as
the Tubercular Hospital Committee.
Director Doughty named as the COM
mittee the members of the Asylum