The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-07-12
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
lcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Tvpical summer services will be held
in the NJ. E. Church next Sunday.
They will be short, snappy and soul
beneficial. In the morning the pastor
will speak on: "a Hawk in the Sky.
In the evening the sermon will be on:
spiritual Wireless. You are invited
to these services. Come heal the old
fashioned Gospel preached to help and
cheer.
Rev. Clarence NJ. Johnston, with
Adolphus and Tillman Johnson, Of
Smithville, will attend the State Sum-
mer school in Ocean City, this Satur-
day.
There is a helpful prayer meeting
held in the NJ. E. Chapel every Wed
nesday evening. Come and try it out.
Mrs. William Sixsmith and daughter,
of Ashland, Pa, are visiting her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Darius Smith.
Mr.. Sixsmith was here, too, over Sun
day.
George Irelan, of Pennsgrove, visited
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ire
Ian, several days the past week.
Freebooter and Mrs. Edwin Robin
son returned home the first of this
week from Millyille, where they visit
ed relatives five days. On the Fourth
they witnessed the monster parade
there in honor of Millville's returned
service men. Twelve bands were in
line and the other features were on an
elaborate and extensive scale.
Mrs. Albert Yelland visited relatives
in Trenton from Thursday until Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel F. Brownley,
-f DhiIoIo1nhin ronnannd Iocf Thnrc-
day their cottage at North Absecon for
several weeks. Mr.. BROMLEY is still
employed in the city, but will spend
his week-ends here. They entertained
over the Fourth at North Abseeon a
friend, Mr.. Redfern, of Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steelman R. Lee re-
ceived a call last Saturday from her
brother, Curtis Mathis, and son Don
aid, of Anglesea, who motored here in
their sedan. On Tuesday they enter
tanned Captain Jesse Cavilear and
daughter Jessie, of Egg Harbor City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland are en-
tertaining their niece, Miss Marie
Walsh, of Trenton, whom Mrs. Yelland
brought home with her from the State
Capital last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend Shovel en-
t~ertained at their Church street home
the past week their aunt, Mrs. Winsor,
Sr., Mr.. and Mrs. Winsor, Jr., and a
friend, of Trenton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard White and
daughter Frances, of National Park,
sojourned with Mrs. Whites brother
and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
A. Payne. from Friday. the Fourth, I'M
til Sunday, when Mr.. and Mrs. Payne
and daughter Marie took them home in
their motor car.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Farrell. of
Philadelphia, are enjoying their nnu
al s%ojourn at their summer home south
of Reed Road. They entertained a
large number of Philadelphia friends
including a bridal couple over the
weekend. Mr.. Farrell commutes back
and forth to the city each day. This
time last year he was a member of one
of the Philadelphia Draft Boards and
had but little time to spend here.
Edward Prescott, Jr., has purchased
from Martin Spokesman the property
on New Jersey avenue, formerly owned
by the late Marshal Strang, and, with
his wife. took possession this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Burns motored
to Cape May on Friday.
Mrs. A. L. Hammell. the superintend-
ent, entertained the visitors of the
Home Department of the NJ. E. Sunday
School at her residence last Wednes-
day afternoon.
Jonathan Jos1in Graded a field of
rye last Tuesday with a cradle 40 years
old, the property of Joseph Alexander
and formerly possessed by his deceased
father, William Alexander.
Mrs. Enoch Lyton Cordery and sis
terin-law, Mrs. P. J. Langford, of Flo
'rida, who visited the family of their
uncle. j. W. Cordery. three weeks, left
on Wednesday for Freeport, n. Y, to
visit relatives and friends.
Miss Florence Babcock writes home
from Washington that she is we'll
pleased with her position in the Treas
ury Department.
Mrs. John Post Hallowees, of Jack
sonville, Fla, who accompanied her
friend, Mrs. A. L. Brogden, three
weeks ago on her trip north to visit
the latter's aunt, Mrs. Caroline Smith,
left on Tuesday morning for Connect
cut to visit relatives and to meet her
husband, a captain in the U. S. Army,
who was returning from overseas and
whom she expected to meet at New
York or a downeast port, but word
was received here just 20 minutes after
she left that her husband had just
landed at Newport News, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Elliff enter
tanned relatives and friends at their
Pitney Road COTTAGE on the Fourth.
Their guests included their daughter,
Mrs. Henry Owens, and grandchildren,
John, Harry and Marguerite Owens;
another daughter, Miss Margaret Elliff,
of Philadelphia; their granddaughter,
Hilda May Elliff, of Long Branch;
their daughter, Mrs. Herbert Bowen
and family, Mr.. Bowen's mother, Miss