The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-08

There will be an unusually attrac-
tive service in the M. E. Church next
Sunday night. Rev. c.. M. Johnston is
celebrating fifteen years in the minis
try, and Sunday night will speak on,
"The Gospel at Fort Hancock" About
fifty lantern slides will be shown, COW
ering Mr.. Johnston's first charge. Pic
lures of several Absecon boys who
served their country will be shown.
Everybody is invited, especially he
boys and girls.
Rev. C. M. Johnston and family were
guests of C. M. Kesler and family, last
Sunday.
William B. Riley has purchased a
Ford sedan.
Mrs. Baewis, sister of Mrs. John
Handley, wife of the prominent New
Jersey clergyman, and son Arthur
Brown Barwis, member of one of the
late Trenton Draft Boards, returned
Tuesday evening to their home in the
State Capital, after sojourning for a
week with Mrs. A. c. Fleming at the
Pine View Villa.
Samuel G.. McCambridge and Miss
C. c.. Black lave moved into the Hare
cottage, formerly owned by Daniel
Steelman and recently vacated by Au-
gustus Young, on West Bolton avenue.
Mr.. Gilbert Conover returned home
on Thursday morning from a ten days
trip to Virginia, which he took in the
interest of his oyster business.
Fred Carly has returned from Pleas
antville and is making his home again
with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Spokesman.
Miss Leira Conover, of Camden, is
sojourning with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Boice, while r%ecuperat-
ing from illness.
Mrs. A. L. Hammell is the owner of
a Ford sedan, bought last week.
Herman l.. Madden, of Camp Dix,
was home again over Sunday.
For the first time in eight months
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry COnover received
word the middle of this week from
their son Arthur in France. The card
informed them in his own handwrit-
ing that he was alive and in perfect
health. His parents and friends had
been very much alarmed over his
whereabouts and their failure to re-
ceive any word from him for so long.
All efforts to locate him up to this
time had proven futile, so the card at
hand greatly relieves their stress of
mind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Prescott are
much joyed over receiving word this
week from his wife hat their oldest
son Edward had arrived at New York
from France. 1t is expected he will
be discharged from the service soon.
He, too, had not been heard from since
last fall, and the long delay had caus-
ed his relatives and friends great con-
Germ.
NT;11 n DnechAno Of hi1o6OJnhio iC
filling her position again as telegra-
pher at the railroad station.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Draper leave
the last of this week to visit relatives
at Middletown, Conn.
Captain J. Alton Mitchell, who has
been very i'll with kidney trouble the
past ten days, is reported as being
some better.
Mrs. Steelman R. Lee is recovering
nicely from the operation she under
went at the Atlantic City Hospital on
Friday of last week. Her sister, Miss
Sara Mathis, of Pennsgrove, and ia
Their, Joseph X. Mathis, of New Gretna,
were visitors at her home over the
weekend.
Mrs. S. A.. Lutz is expected home
the last of this week from Florida,
where she has been spending a month
with Mr.. Lutz. She will be accompa-
MED by her son Kenneth, from Savan-
nah, Ca, where he has been doing
railroad work for several weeks.
William B. Smith and family, who
had been visiting relatives here a
week, left on Thursday for Pennsgroye
to visit friends.
Jack Foster, of Pittsburgh, neighbor
of Samuel Chase, has purchased part
of the latter's property at Absecon
Highlands, it is reported here, and
will likely make improvements there
in the near future.
A. H. Cremona, owner of the Ideal
Farm" formerly the Krause premises
on Ohio avenue, is at Pasadena, Cal,
where he is sojourning for a short
time before continuing his trip to
Japan. After returning he will man
age a large new hotel in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Harriet Nelson Laid At Rest.
Mrs. Harriet Nelson, Familiarity
known as Aunt Had, wife of Charles
Nelson, aged 73 years, died from drop
sy combined with other ailments, at
her home on Shore Road, last Satur-
day morning. For many years she
conducted a store on her premises I'M
til several months ago, when she re-
ceived a fall which impaired her health
generally, and from which she never
fully recovered. She was one of the
most jolly persons n could come in
contact with and always radiated joy
fulness and good cheer. She possess
ed a sunny disposition and was full of
kind thoughts, kind words and noble
deeds. Mrs. Nelson will long be re-
membered by a large circle of friends
who held her in high esteem. She is