The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-06-21

Miss C. C. Black, of Bolton avenue,
recently visited Miss Mamie O'Toole at
the Atlantic City Hospital, where she
has been confined since receiving inju-
ries in a trolley-auto accident several
/ weeks ago at Shore Road and Iowa
avenue.
Miss Elizabeth Bowler expects to
leave soon for New York City to at
tend a summer school for teachers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Kendall, Mrs. j.
L. Shaw and a Pleasantville friend
motored last Sunday to Barnegat Pier
and returned home that evening, hav-
ing motored on the trip 10 miles.
Mrs. Kendall has had her Ford car
nearly three years and is still using
the original set of tires. She has
driven the car herself exclusively, but
has never had a puncture nor blowout
and says that during her period of
ownership the only outside expense
she has had on the car was for a new
fan belt and a minor adjustment.
Nevertheless she expects to part with
the car the last of this week, when
she expects to receive her new Chew
rolet Sedan, with latest equipment,
which, she is told, will be driven down
from New York by the Pleasantville
agent.
Mrs. Samuel Barton, who has been
in a weakened state for some time, is
gaining strength slowly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch w. Giberson
attended the Commencement Exercises
of the Vocational Schools in Atlantic
City last Tuesday evening. Their
granddaughter, Miss Remalda Conover,
of Atlantic City, was one of the grad
yates.
Frank Trumbore, superintendent of
the Absecon Pumping Station of the
Atlantic City Water Department, re-
turned home last week from his vaca-
ton of two weeks spent with relatives
near Bethlehem, Pa. During Mr..
Trumbore's absence Hosea w. Madara
was acting superintendent at the
pumping station. Mr.. Trumbore's am
lily accompanied him and they went in
his Ford car, but coming home they
met with a disappointment. The car
came into contact with a telephone
pole damaging the machine and slight
ly injuring several of the party. They
continued the trip home by train.
At the morning service in the M. E..
Church last Sunday Rev. c. M. John
ston baptized Dorothy May, infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Dob
bins; Ethel Marguerite, infant daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Shovel,
and Jennie Estelle, widow of Leonard
Shovel, who died from the influenza
at Pennsgrove last fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Morris enter
tanned over the weekend their daugh-
ter and ~son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Fur
nan Horner, of Havre de Grace, Md.
On Sunday Mrs. Horner's son, Mr..
William Carl, proprietor of the Mems
Shop, and family, of Mays Landing,
visited his parents and grandparents at
the latters' residence on Shore Road.
Mrs. Frank Conover has returned to
her Conovertown home after spending
two weeks with her sister at the Phila-
delphia home of her mother, Mrs. R.
A. Hudson, who has just returned
home from a Philadelphia eye hospital,
where her eyes were successfully oper-
ated upon for removal of cataracts.
Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Sooy have
rented their Ventnor cottage and have
returned to- their ~Conovertown home
for the summer Mr.. Sooy, who is a
letter carrier in Atlantic City, will go
back and forth each day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira L. Giberson gave a
"Welcome Home Party" last Sunday
at their New Jeresy avenue home in
honor of the safe return form overseas
of her brother, Kenneth Smith, who
was a member of Battery D, which
was demobilized a fortnight ago. Ken
meth expressed himself as being dou-
bly, pleased over the homecoming cele-
bration because he is so happy to be
home again and because his relatives
welcomed him back with such profuse
expressions and acts of sincere kind
ness and genuine gladness. The
young mans parents, brothers and sis
ters and uncles and aunts were pres
ent, as follows: Mr.. and Mrs. A. Gil