The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-22
Absecon

Mrs. Samuel Barton has been i'll
this week.
Mrs. Experience Conover has been
confined to her home by illness.
Charles @. Barker has a Ford Sedan.
Mrs. Frank Babcock and daughter
Florence were Philadelphia shoppers
last Wednesday.
Mrs. George Conover has been en-
tertaining her mother, Mrs. William
Frymire, of Philadelphia.
Reuben l.. Babcock went to Phila-
delphia last Tuesday to meet his mo-
Their, Mrs. Ida Babcock, who returned
from Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Kesler went to
Philadelphia or a business trip last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Smith and
children were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
T. D. Shovel at dinner on Sunday.
Mrs. Edward Brandt, of Ceilings
wood, a former resident, spent part of
last week with Mr.. and Mrs. c. M.
Kesler.
Miss Florence Kesler sojourned over
the weekend with Mrs. Robert Stra-
han, at Collingswood.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. ". Gosline, of Tren-
ton, have been so%journing at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. F. G. Turner.
Mrs. David Trusty returned home IN
Saturday from Hot Springs, Va, where
she went two weeks before to attend
the funeral of her brother.
Leon Conover has purchased the
property at Northwest corner of Shore
Road and Bolton avenue, recently va
Gated by the Hughes family, who re-
turned to Atlantic City.
The monthly social of the Presby-
terrain Christian Endeavor Society was
held last evening, Friday, at the home
of Mrs. May Townsend.
Nicholas Duley returned home last
week after spending the winter with
relatives and friends in the States of
New York and Connecticut.
John J. Elliff, florist and landscape
gardener, of Absecon Highlands, deliv-
cred on Friday to n of his customers
in Atlantic City a daisy plant which
measured four feet across it and con-
tanned more than 500 blooms.
Contractors Samuel Smith, Jr., and
Irwin J.. Rider are making decided
changes in the appearance of the form
er Baker Doughty property, on Shore
Road, recently purchased by Mrs. Hen
| rietta Ray, restaurateur at Tennessee
and Pacific avenues, Atlantic City, who
is having the residence modernized in
every respect. The ear of the dwell
ing is being RACED and a two story six
room addition will be erected, making
the building an eleven house.
Cost of the contractors work is esti-
mated at $4,000. When the addition is
completed and the improvements have
been installed Mrs. Ray expects to use
the residence as a home for her fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Joslin were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. e. Carolus and
daughter Florence at luncheon last
Wednesday.
The Wedderburn family returned
last week from Washington, where
they spent the winter, and re-opened
their Shore Road residence.
Frank Payne, in his 29th year, son
of George Payne, of Worcester, Mass,
and brother of Howard A. Payne, of
Absecon, died last Saturday morning
in Cooper Hospital, Camden, from
poisoning of the stomach. He was i'll
six days, his condition being critical
from the first. Since receiving his
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al weeks ago he had been making his
home with his sister, Mrs. Daisy
White, at Gloucester, and had been
employed on government work at the
| shipyard there. Previous to his in
duction into the service of his country
he spent several months here assist
ing his brother Howard in the barber
business. His father came on from
Massachusetts the first of this week
and completed the funeral arrange
ments. MI. and Mrs. Howard Payne
were in the hospital to see the dying
young man at midnight on Friday, only
a few hours before he died and they
made several trips to Camden in their
auto the first of this week, also to
Gloucester to confer with the relatives.
Solemn Requiem Mass was held at 8
o'clock Wednesday morning in the I'M
maculate Conception Church, Camden.
Interment took place in the new Cath
Ole Cemetery on Marlton Pike.