The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-08-23
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
~IcLEp BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

bhlo WIN IN Al6 IL INV 9otOo $1,000
several feet to clear the walk. The
gates had peer in their former location
1914 years.
Samuel McCambridge and Miss c. c.
Black entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Buck, Mr.. and Mrs. Krause and daugh-
ter Marguerite, of Williamstown, N. j.,
last Saturday and Sunday.
Prof. E. D. Riley has been on a mo
tor trip up the State this week. He
has taken several trips in his machine
thern part of Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Kendall and
daughter, Mrs. Mamie Shaw, entertain
ed Philadelphia relatives and friends
at different times the last two weeks,
their guests being Miss Marion Shaw,
Messrs. Walter Bennett, John Shaw,
ST., and Maurice Shaw. Mrs. Kendall
took the guests out for a ride to differ
ent parts of the county in her new
sedan, which they greatly enjoyed rid
ing in because of the comfort it afford
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall expect to en-
terrain mex week Mr.. and Mrs. James
Devlin, Jr., of Philadelphia. Jim,
as he was formerly known, lived here
ten years ago.
Mrs. Mamie Shaw has sold her boat
house at Barnegat Pier and will move
some of the furnishings to the home
of her parents here. 1t formerly be
longed to her deceased husband.
Uncle Joe Abbott, as he was al
ways known among the employees of
the Absecon Pumping Station of the
Atlantic City Water Department,
xrhara ho bod ahorno of Tho Journc
trees, hedge, etc., for a number of years,
has been down from the Odd Fellows
Home, Trenton, the last two weeks, re-
newing acquaintance and visiting rel
atives here and at Port Republic. He
is the brother of Mrs. Samuel Giberson,
this city.
Unable to find garage accommoda-
tions in Atlantic City Sunday night, a
party of Ohio motorists, four in num-
Der, found their way off shore and into
Robert McLaughlin's back yard, where
they pitched their tent against the side
of their machine and slept during the
night.
Counsellor John D. McMullin, of
Philadelphia and Moorestown, formerly
an Absecon resident, spent Wednesday
in. town, calling on friends and in TAX
ing d oul FCy VI HIS realty uOluluSS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben L. Babcock
have been entertaining her sister, Mrs.
Walter Dietrich, and son Walter, Jr.,
of Harrisburg, the past week. Mr..
Dietrich has been here, too, part OF
the time.
Misses Adelaide Carly, Pearl Spiek.
erman and Fred Carly are planning to
visit over the weekend friends in
Philadelphia and relatives at Wood
lynne, Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Carly
From there Miss Spokesman will re
turn to her home in New York, after
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Spokesman, here the last
two months. She will be accompan
led on the homeward trip by her cous
in, Fred Carly, who will visit his un,
Gle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Spokesman, for an indefinite period.
Mrs. M. S. DeHaven entertained the
members of the Atlantic City Branch
of the P. R. R. War Relief at hel
home on Lee avenue last Thursday
afternoon. During the war these wo
men were very active farthering the
interests of the several Libe.ty Loan
campaigns and in making garments
for the men overseas. The meeting
on Thursday afternoon was in the ma
ture of a reunion and those present
passed a pleasant time together.
Miss Olive Hammell returned home
last Saturday from Washington, D. C.
where she had been filling a position
in the Congressional Library two
months and will remain here until hel
school opens the first of September a.
Ardmore.
Mrs. Jesse G.. Ferry and three chill
dren returned on Saturday to theil
home at Claymont, Del, after s~ojourn
ing two weeks with her mother-in-law
Mrs. Anna G. Ferry, on the New York
road. Mrs. Ferry accompanied then
home and will probably visit her sol
and his family several weeks.
Walter Borneman, Jr., left on Mon
day for Boyertown, Pa, to spend his
vacation with his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. G. Houck, until school
opens.
Buick car a week ago.
William Armstrong, aged IA, nephew
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ashley Garrison, o.
Port Reptile, suffered a severe con
fusion of the left leg below the knee
last Saturday morning at 9 o'clock al
the Absecon freight station when his
uncle's motor truck was backed
against the loading platform, trapping
the youths leg between the tail board
of the truck, which he was adjusting
and the platform. The flesh was badly
bruised and mashed and the boy
shrieked piteously with pain and sob
bed loudly. The frightened lad was
placed in another automobile and g
quick trip was made to P~leasantville
where the injury was dressed. For
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