The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-09-06

pulpit in the M. E. Church Sunday
morning and presented much informa-
ton concerning the work, accomplish
g~anization.
former resident, has been visiting Miss
Caroline S%choepfiin the past week.
Duke Bakely, of Berlin, is visiting
Edward Mccarthy.
Willard Thompson, of Camden, a for
mer parishioner of Rev. c. M. john
ston, called at the M. E. Parsonage,
Thursday of last week.
Daniel e. Steelman, of Carney's
Point, a former resident, visited his
aunts, Mrs. Rebecca Tilton and Miss
Kate Steelman, at North Absecon, last
Saturday. He is employed in the du
Pont Dye Works. For three years he
helped make powder.
Rev. Daniel e. Clair, of Wesley Me-
mortal Church, B%ridgeton, spent Fri
day in town and stayed over night at
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Hammelps. Rev.
Clair was pastor of the M. e. Church
here from 1905 to 1908.
Don't forget the missionary lantern
slide lecture to be given in the M. e.
Church this coming Monday night, un-
der the auspices of the Ushers' Union.
Sixty beautifully colored slides on
Mass Movement In India" will be
shown. Everybody is invited. A sill
yer offering will be taken. This lee
ture will be the third in the series of
the Centenary programs educational
campaign.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland are en-
tertaining Benjamin Covert and son
Charles, of Trenton, for a week or two.
They are here on their annual "a
ton.
A course of special sermons will be
preached in the M. e. Church begin
ming tomorrow Sunday night and
continuing for four Sunday nights
thereafter. The general subject is:
Some Story-Sermons From the Old
Book" These messages will be text
less. Rev. C. NJ. Johnston will tell the
stories and make modern applications.
All are invited to hear them. These
are the themes: l. "The Story of The
Thistle and Cedar" 2. THE Story of
A Prisoner Lost" 8. "The Story of
The Eve Lamb" 4. 'The Story of
The Woman of Tekoah." 5. 1.-The STD.
iy vi AL Olu flnCy dIu.
T. Bowman Tilton, of Audubon, is
visiting his brothers and sisters here.
He came down last Wednesday.
Mrs. Harry Mattson, ST., Has been
suffering from rheumatism of late.
Miss Leona Conover played the pipe
organ for the first time publicly in the
M. E. Church, at the Sunday evening
service, Aug. 81. She played credita-
bly, and well.
There is a "star knitter" in town.
Eddie Smith is the chap. He is a skill
full manipulation of the knitting needle
and has just completed a girls black
sweater!
John Booye sold last week his prop
erty on Shore Road, consisting of a
residence and 5h acres of land, to
Ventnor people, who in turn sold it to
Philadelphia parties. The Booye fami.
ly will return between now and Oct. l.
to Atlantic City, where he will engage
in the roofing business.
j.. w. Cordery has been cleaning out
his blacksmith shop on Church street,
which he has rented to William Schoep-
fin, Jr., who will conduct that bust
ness there.
A helpful prayer meeting is held ev-
cry Wednesday night in the M. E.
Chapel. Pastor Johnston expects to
try for a record attendance during the
present month. A card showing the
attendance each week will be posted
in the church. Everybody is invited
to attend these mid-week services.
A new flag pole is to be erected on
the public school grounds and the
doors on both sides of the building are
to be reprinted and re-varnished be-
fore the opening of school.
Hitting the crank pin on the fly
wheel of his marine engine with a
shovel, the latter part of last week, for
the purpose of tightening that part,
caused the balance wheel to turn over
against the compression of the engine
which it resisted, and the wheel turn
ed back, quickly lifting the shovel and
causing the handle to strike Gilbert
Conover in the nose and under the eye,
bruising the flesh and discoloring his
face.
Announcement has been made by Mr..
and Mrs. John Spencer Horton of the
marriage of their daughter, Edith Nc
Clong. to Mr.. Wilmot Kelton Evans,
on Saturday, August 10th, at Millville,
N. ]. Mr.. Evans is very well known
here, having been principal of the Alb
secon school from January until June,
1918. He has been engaged to teach at
Shiloh, N. j., the coming school year.
He married a school teacher, a Mill
vile girl, whose company he had been
keeping quite a while. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Evans, of Ok
ford. Pa.
Fred c.. Boice has sold more than
1900 baskets of tomatoes this summer
from his farm on Shore Road, and has
had an abundance of other vegetables.
Lewis Johnston, eldest son of Rev.
and Mrs. C. M. Johnston, was taken ill
on Thursday of last week, and his tenn
~perature rose rapidly. He was threat
ened with typhoid fever, which was
only averted by an early diagnosis OF
the case and careful and %unceasing
watchfulness and nursing on the part
of his parents, who were up with him