The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-09-18

Cedarbrook, only a short distance from
her home. Every bone in her body
was broken. She had been to a store
to make some purchases and was on
her way home when she met her UNI
timely END.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Yelland went to
Trenton the middle of last week to
stay with relatives on account of the
illness of Mrs. Yelland.
Mr.. William Carl and family, of
Mays Landing, motored here last Tues
day in their new Buick car to see his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Furman Horner.
Mrs. Jacob Seiferman spent Tuesday
and Wednesday with relatives and
friends at Egg Harbor City.
John F.. Barron left on Sunday for
his home at Worcester, Mass, after
visiting his friend, Walter Conover, al
~Conovertown, ten days. He will enter
the New England Conservatory, Bos-
ton, to study music. Mr.. Barron and
Mr.. Conover were members of the
crew of the Inflated submarine chaser
which blew up from a gasoline ex-
plosion in San Diego Harbor, Cali
fornia, in May of last year. The eX-
! plosion nearly cost the lives of all on
board including Walter and his friend,
who were frightfully burned and LAGER
ated, as the result of which both were
confined several months in a naval
hospital on the Pacific Coast.
Miss Mabel Pennington left on Fri
day for P~lainfield, N. J., where she
has been engaged to teach in the pub
lie school the coming year.
Alfred J.. Roger received his new
Ford Sedan last Saturday.
Harry Kobler, of Colorado avenue,
had the back of both hands burned
last Friday while working at the Alb
secon Sand Plant, which has been
leased, it is reported, for three months
for the purpose of supplying materials
for the building of the new Ritz-Carl-
ton Hotel, Atlantic City. When hot
tar was being poured into troughs Fri
day morning part of it s%plashed from
the c~onveyors onto the back of his
hands, burning two holes in one and
taking skin and part of the flesh off
the other. For two hours afterward,
until a doctor could be procured, he
suffered intense pain.
Harry B. Truax, Absecon station
agent, who has been filling his former
position in the Atlantic City freight
office the asst two months, resumed
his work here last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace. Rogers re-
ceived word on Wednesday from Riv,
erside, N. j., that Mr.. Rogers sisters
husband, George V. Draper, formerly
paperhanger here, is ill with lung and
kidney trouble, and is not expected
to live longer than a few days. His
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home the middle of this week from
Washington, where she has a govern
ment position. The Draper family
lived here several years, until a year
ago when they moved to Riverside.
Miss Margaret Hartley is spending
a week as the guest of Miss Ava Ma
RE Schlachter.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Joslin entertained
last Saturday Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Huntingdon, of Philadelphia. Mr.. Hut.
fington is a civil wal veteran.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Conover
have been entertaining her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Frymire, OF
Philadelphia.
The Standard Bitulithic Company
completed Wednesday afternoon the
execution of its paving contract at the
conveyance of the several highways
at the Absecon Bridge. The first half
of the paving operations was finished
six weeks ago, delay finishing the
second half at the entrance to the Alb
secon Boulevard being due to the ina
bility of the contractors to procure the
necessary materials. The boulevard
was opened again to the public Wed
nesday night after being closed at its
Absecon entrance five days.
James Conover, son of Harry B. Con
over, Conovertown, suffered a scalp
wound in an automobile accident last
Wednesday afternoon on the New
York Road almost opposite his home,
He was treated at the Atlantic City
Hospital. He was driving n of the
Seaview Golf Clubs Ford town cars
up the Conovertown hill near the turn
when he observed a farm truck driven
by a Pomona farmer coming toward
him on the left hand side of the road
where he thought the truck driver was
planning to stop. Instead, when the
truck drew nearer, it is alleged, its
driver suddenly swerved the machine
to the other side of the road. Not
having enough room to clear the two
machines crashed together injurine
young Conover on the head and dam
aging the machine he was driving.
Miss Alice MacIntyre returned last
Wednesday to her home in Whining
ton, after spending several weeks
with Miss Hannah Madden.
City Clerk Samuel Johnson states
that the polling place in the Second
Ward will be in the j. T. Townsend
dwelling facing the mill and railroad
and not in a room in the Hotel Rock
ingham as enormously reported about
town.
City Clerk Johnson received a letter
on Tuesday from Secretary Lovett OF
the County Board of Elections, stating
that the Democratic election officers
in the First Ward this fall will be
Everett Ambruster and Ira l.. Giber
son, as formerly, while in the Second
Ward Benjamin Conover and Lewis
Griffith had been selected. The City
Clerk also received word from County
Judge Ingersoll that, understanding a
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