The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-06-19
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.


| afternoon when Mrs. James Taylor,
of Camden, on her way to visit rela-
tives at South Absecon, came very
near stepping off a south-bound trolley
at California venue in the path of a
speeding machine, which did not stop
to allow passengers to get on and off.
Joseph Smith, Jr., is getting around
again after being confined to his home
a week with injuries received at 10 o.
clock Thursday night of last week
when he was knocked off his bicycle
on Shore Road a short distance south
of Faunce Landing Road, while re-
turning home from a lodge meeting al
Pleasantville. The machine which
struck him contained three Philadel.
phia men who were on their way to
Leeds Point. They picked up the in
jured man and took him home. A doc
tor was summoned, and young Smith
vas found to be suffering from shock,
two fractured ribs, numerous bruises
and Commissions. His bicycle was badly
smashed and the new suit of clothes
he wore was ruined.
Losing control of. his Studebaker
touring car at the entrance TO the side
street between the postoffice and the
Roger properties last Tuesday morn
ing, an Egg Harbor motorist knocked
down and smashed up a panel of Mr..
Rogers side fence after barely clear
ing the hitching post outside. The
car was finally stopped just before it
reached the side of the house.
Children's Day Exercises
Of M. E. Sunday School.
Children's Day exercises were rem
dered by the children of the Absecon
M. e. Sunday School in the church
last Sunday evening at 7.30 before a
large. audience despite the shoWery
lweathef@
The decoratIonss consisted 81 red
ss !, 6 as s'as.a g$sn1z sesss daisies s.
appropriately arranged at the rear OF
the platform. An electrical effect at
the base of the front of the rostrum
shed its light backward and upward
upon the flowers and greens, present
ing an admirable picture.
The program follows:
Singing, Seek His Courts"-School.
Responsive Reading led by the SUI
perintendent, DR.. Samuel Johnson.
Singing "Neath the Azure Wing
ing'-School.
Inyocation-Rev. R. A. Elwood.
Recitation, "Welcome"- Kenneth
Smith.
Recitation, 1--WE Welcome YOU
Helene Boice.
Duet-Ruth Reed and Catherine Mil
Ter.
Dnaifnfio, CIa-1N4Eo ~
nell.
Concert Recitation-Primary Chill
dren.
Singing, "Have Ye Not Heard"?-
School.
Recitation-Mazie F~airbrothers.
Recitation, Take Your Boy to Sun
day School"-Leroy Taylor.
Solo-Reuben Babcock, 3rd.
Standardization Giberson.
Recitation-Dorothy Giberson.
Singing, I'm the Gardens"-School.
Recitation-Ada DeHaven.
Singing, Summer Flowers"-Mrs.
Burns Glass. H.
Exercise with music and REGULATIONS
Primary Glass.
Singing, Lift Thine Eyes to the
Hills"-School.
Observation-Disclosures Miller.
MISUNDERSTANDING Adkisson.
Singing, 90 Holy Fields"-Walter
Burns, Misses Margaretta Kesler and
Ethel Giberson.
Notwithstanding Babcock.
Singing, Summers Glory"-School.
Exercise, Discomfort" Primary
Children.
Observation-Disclosures Finley.
Singing, Tokens of His Love-
School.
Recitation-Laura Sutton.
Singing, He Calleth to Victory
School.
Recitation, demonstrating how to
give-Edward Ballantine.
Address-Rev. John Reeder Reeves.
Offering, Closing Hymn, Benediction
Eleven Graduates Receive Diplomas
At Commencement Exercises
OF Absecon School.
The Commencement Exercises of the
Absecon Grammar School, held in the
Absecon school auditorium last We'd
nesday evening, were successfully rem
dered in the presence of a large num-
Der of admiring relatives and friends.
After the diplomas had been awarded
the graduates, especially the girls,
were presented with numerous % floral
tributes, including bouquets and bas-
kets of choice cut flowers.
The address to the graduates was
delivered by Rev. C. NJ. Johnston, of
Bridgeton, formerly of Absecon. Choos-
ing as his subject: 'Portent, Prophecy,
Purpose; the speaker declared that in
these unsettled times of social and in
dustrial unrest the youth of our land
must affirm their devotion to the prin-
ciples of loyal, untainted Americanism
and mothers should teach their babes,
he said. to be loyal and true to the
flag and what it stands for, as against