The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-13

CnuTCu ldSL MOuudy nlSuL IOllOWluS
the Ushers' Union lecture.
Mrs. Martin Spokesman left last
Saturday on a months trip to visit rel
atives at the following places: Cam
den, Geneva, N. Y, Boston, New York
and Philadelphia.
Little Virginia Fairbrothers, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl F~airbrothers,
burned both hands badly last Saturday
when she laid them on a hot stove
while her mother was baking with a
wood fire.
William Bottom has succeeded Har-
ny Macaulay as M of the managers
at the Absecon Sand Plant.
The monthly meeting of the Absecon
Tennis Club was held last Tuesday
evening at the home of Harry Weer,
P~leasantville. Members present in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Harry V. Miller,
Misses Flora and Lena Robinson,
Ethel Giberson, Elizabeth Lingelbach,
Clara Conover, Herman L. Madden
and the host. The next meeting will
be held at the home Of Mr.. Madden
on Tuesday evening, Oct. 14th.
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas S. Brock and
daughter Dorothy, of Vineland, motor
ed here on Thursday of last week and
called on several friends. DR.. Brock,
as he is now known, was pastor of
the Absecon M. E. Church from March,
1908 to 1909, and during his years
pastorate here made many warm
friends. The Brock family is at Ocean
City for a month. They have taken a
cottage there for their vacation period.
Rev. Clarence M. Johnston will con-
duct revival services for Rev. DR.. J. B.
Haines at Pitman sometime in Octo-
Der.
After spending the summer at Mrs.
A. C. Fleming's on Shore Road, Mrs.
M. L. Munson returned last Monday
to her Pacific avenue home, Atlantic
City.
Rev. C. M. Johnston has been hob
nobbing with army officers. On We'd
nesday night he was the guest of Col
onel Clark at the Officers Club at
Camp Merritt. The following evening
Mr.. Johnston attended a dinner party
given in honor of two ~lieutenants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mattson, Jr.,
and sons, motored on Thursday to
Carney's Point to visit Mr.. and Mrs,
Daniel Steelman. Returning home on
Saturday they brought Mrs, Mattson's
sister, Mrs. Steelman, with them. She
and her daughter Catherine visited rel
atives here until Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward A. Wilson and
son, who have been spending the sum-
mer at their cottage on Ohio avenue,
are preparing to return soon to their
home on Delaney Place, Chelsea.
Nicholas Duley returned home last
Monday from New Keene, Conn,
where he visited relatives and friends
for a month. He went up with Nick
Carmen in the latter's machine the
first of August.
Miss Annabel Babcock entertained
from Saturday until Tuesday Mrs. Hell
en- M. West, an employee of the U. S.
Government in Federal Grain Super
vision, of Boston. Miss Babcock and
Mrs. West have been friends for ever
al years, having first met at Cheyenne,
wyoming, where Miss Babcock taught
school seven or eight years. Mrs.
West left here for Washington, D. c.,
and Norfolk, Va, to spend the rest of
her vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. Boice took their
three children. Esther, Durham and
Harlan, to Camden last Sunday to en-
roll them the following day in the
schools there. Mr.. Boice has been in
the oyster and clam business on South
Front street, Philadelphia, the last
two years and expects to have his
family live in Camden during the fall
and winter months.
Charles Mathews, the Atlantic City
police officer who was drowned last
Saturday near Brigantine while on a
Grhinn Trim with a fpiOn6 vvac tho cnn
Of George Mathews and brother of
Goodwin Mathews, of Oceanville, where
he was engaged as an oyster planter
and shipper until a few years ago
when he went to Atlantic City to join
the police force. While a resident of
Oceanville he was a frequent visitor
here. He leaves a wife and three
small children. He was also the bro
Their of Mrs. A. J. Perkins, wife of the
Sheriff.
Alfred Shovel and Leroy Mattson
spent three or four DAYS last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Steelman. at
Carney's Point. On Thursday they
went to Gloucester where they visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Conover until
Tuesday. when they returned home.
Harry H. Carton, Suburban trolley
motorman, recovered last Wednesday
morning his Ford touring car with
glass enclosure which was stolen be-
tween 9.35 and 10 o'clock last Satur-
day night from Ohio avenue, on which
Il was parked 20 or 80 feet from the
Shore Road while he was operating a
trolley car on the Somers Point end.
The car was found on Tuesday on the
Leeds Road. Absecon Highlands,
where il had been abandoned. A sign
tackled to the back of the car read as
follows: Return to Harry Carton, Alb
secon, N. J.. Reward 800" The pa
per used for this purpose had been