The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-13
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Mrs. Harold c. Eveland and daugh-
ter, May Belle, of Verona, N. J., have
been the guests of Captain and Mrs.
Daniel Shovel the past week.
A party of four from Absecon went
into Atlantic City on Thursday eve
ming and put their automobile in a gar
age for a couple of hours. When ready
to come home they were surprised
when told that the charges were $1.5C
whereas on previous occasions they
had been but 75c. This kind of profit.
eering is an outrage and should be
stopped by the authorities.
Mrs. Estella Shovel and daughter
Hannah, who have been spending the
summer with Captain and Mrs. Daniel
Shovel, have returned to her fathers
home at Verona, N. ]. Mrs. Shovel
was accompanied home by her mother
and sister, Mrs. Harold C. Eveland and
daughter.
Those present at the evening service
in the M. e. Church on Sunday, Aug
81, declared Pastor Johnston delivered
one of the best of his sermons in his
six and one-half years pastorate here
His subject was, "They Shall Not Pass
a Spiritual Verdun," and his discourse
was a practical, ethical, spiritual hoTi-
letical treatise of the scriptures pre-
sented in a forceful, free flowing
straight from the shoulder in
which oratory, %eloquence and gesticu.
lation emphasized the message of the
Gospel.
Miss Eunice Risley, who received a
broken collar bone when she was
struck by an automobile at Pleasant.
vile a month ago, is rapidly recover
ing and is able to be out again.
Haines Johnston has a new bicycle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Pitney closed
their ice cream and confectionery store
last Monday.
Carlton and Dorothy Giberson, chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. |. L. Giberson,
have been visiting their aunt and un-
Gle, Mr.. and Mrs. James E, Sooy, in
Atlantic City, the past week.
Christopher Hare made a business
trip to New York last Wednesday.
John Booye has sold his commercial
car and purchased a Ford sedan.
Several blocks of cement pavement
and curbing approaching the new
Shore Road bridge were torn up this
week because they were set too low.
John R. Steelman has been ill at his
home on New Jersey avenue several
days.
A carload of heater coal arrived the
middle of this week for Lewis M.
Clark.
The Watson R. Lewis property on
Shore Road tenanted by the Benjamin
Sparks family, has been sold to Pitts
burgh parties according to report here.
An apple tree on the premises OF
Hosea Kendall has been in bloom this
week for the second time this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Carton have
been entertaining Mrs. Kirkland, OF
Woodbury., this week.
Mrs. William Wyand, who has been
ill several weeks, expects to have an
operation performed the last of this
week.
Mrs. John Ards, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Smith, Sr.
There will be a special sermon to-
morrow, Sunday evening, in the M. e.
Church on: 1.-THE Story of a Prisoner
Lost" Everybody is heartily invited
to come and heal this Gospel message.
Henry Conover visited at Oceanville
ON Sunday, his father, Benjamin Con-
over, who has been very i'll.
Cyril Somers, of Oceanville, an as
sistant paymaster in the U. S. Navy,
was in town Saturday evening. Mr..
Somers may be discharged soon or
sent to Guam or the Philippine ISL
ands.
At the communion service in the M.
E. Church last Sunday morning the
pastor an bounced a quota of so people
to be converted this fall and winter.
The NJ. z. denomination is aiming for
one million converts by June next.
Isaac Stone has purchased the Hack
EFT property at North Absecon, where
he has made his home several years.
Mr.. and Mrs. John j. Elliff went to
the Mt. Holly Fair last Thursday. Re-
turning home that evening, Mrs. Elliff
stopped off at Philadelphia to visit the
for several days.
Edmund Townsend took out on a
fishing trip at Great Bay last Tuesday
General Neville, of Washington, with
whom he was intimately associated
during his two years stay in Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Kendall, Mrs.
John Shaw and daughter Ruth expect
to motor to Barnegat Pier tomorrow,
Sunday.
Mr.. Samuel McCambridge and Miss
C. C. Black have been entertaining
this week his sisters, niece, and their
husbands, who have been attending
the convention of the National Funeral
Directors Association held in Allan
tic City. Their guests have been Mr..
and Mrs. William Eckenbrine, of Phil
%adelphia; Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Buck
and Mrs. William P. Buck, of Will
Jamestown, N. j.
Rev. Alexander Corson, Camden
District Superintendent, conducted
quarterly conference in the M. e.