The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01

Councilman Fred H. Henry is re-
ceiving congratulations upon his en-
gagement to Miss Lillian Hart, OF
Mansfield. Pa, a talented young lady
and teacher in the Absecon School.
Mr.. Henry has been prominent in po-
litical and social circles for some time
and is also very well known in con-
nection with the large poultry bust
ness in which he is engaged. The
wedding is to take place in the early
spring.
M. S. DeHaven and sol spent the
weekend with relatives at Harrisburg.
Miss Ethel Hammell sojourned from
Friday until Sunday with her sister
Olive, at Chatham.
Elmer .Hammell, son of City Treas
urer Harry Hammell, caught five
skunks alive Sunday night in steel
traps set in different places.
The Bayview M. E. Sunday School,
of Conovertown, has raised $25 during
the past year for missions. Their col
lections for this work last veal was
S24. Their contributions for the past
year totaled the largest amount they
have ever given for the missionary
cause and they have every reason for
taking Christian pride in their accom-
plishment. Their last meeting of the
conference year was held last Sunday.
Martin Pitney is having his Shore
Road residence painted.
Mr.. John Boice is recovering from
an attack of the grip.
Howard A. Payne is planning to en-
bark in the automobile business, which
he will conduct in addition to his 9TH
er lines.
Fred B. Audrey, second ward asses
sor, has purchased a Ford touring car.
An important meeting of the Abse-
con Civic Club will be held in the
school auditorium next Thursday after
noon, March 9Th, at 2.30 o'clock. All
Absecon are urged to come to
this meeting and identify themselves
with the movement which has as it's
object the improvement of the appear
ance of Absecon and other laudable
aims.
Mrs. George B. Conover was hostess
to the Absecon Art Club, at her Shore
Road residence, last Wednesday after
noon. Present were Mrs. Edward Will
son, Mrs. Ridout, of Atlantic City;
Mrs. ]. T. Townsend, of Ventnor; Mrs.
Leland Madden, P%leasantville; Mrs.
William B. Smith, Mrs. R. A. Elwood,
Miss Hannah Madden, Mrs. R. l.. Bah
cock, Mrs. A. L. Hammell, Miss Joanna
Doughty, Mrs. F. F. Doughty, Mrs.
Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Harry Macaully.
DR.. e. H. Madden received a visit
the first of this week from his brother
Hope, of Tuckahoe.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. D. Shovel enter
tanned over the weekend Miss Helen
Lutz, of Absecon, and Mr.. John Man
nix, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Martha Clark has returned
home from Mortified, where she visit
ed her daughters, Mrs. Mark Reeves
and Mrs. Harry Rankin.
Edmund Townsend wrote that he
was well in two letters received last
Wednesday by his mother, Mrs. May
Townsend, from Nieder-Bieber, Germa-
ny, where he is with the American
Army of Occupation.
Mr.. Steelman r. Lee expected to go
to the Atlantic City Hospital the last
of this week to have an operation per-
formed.
Mrs. Lewis Clark and Mrs. Amanda
Johnson are expected home the last of
this week from Florida, where they
have been s%ojourning for a month.
The M. E. cottage prayer meeting
was held last Wednesday evening at
the home of Capt. James Conover.
William B. Smith and family, of
Penniman, Va, are visiting his aunt
and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. James Hen
derson, on Ohio avenue.
Charles A. HammeH Dies in France.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hammell, of
Conovertown, received last Saturday
morning from the Wal Department at
Washington a telegram announcing the
death of their son, Charles A. Ham
nell, from pleuro-pneumonia, in France
on February 10th.
He had been serving with the Medi-
cal Corps in France several months
and was a member of the 18th Diyis-