The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-08-14
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.


There will be no meeting this month
of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the M. E. Church, but the
August meeting will be combined with
the September meeting, which will be
held in the Absecon M. e. Chapel the
early part of next month. 1t will be
an all-day meeting and the exact date
and outstanding features will be IN
nounced later.
Robert Taylor and family motored
last Sunday to Atlantic City, ocean
City, Vineland, Millville and Egg Har-
Dor City.
Those making their home the past
week at Seldom In, Mrs. Mariner
Smith proprietress, include Mrs. e.
Bender, Misses Elsie and Florence
Bender and w. Wills, Of Philadelphia;
j. Conner, of Beach Haven, and ]. H.
Davis, of New Egypt.
Mrs. Clara Smith entertained Mrs.
Eva Gilbert, of Collingswood, several
days ago.
Mrs. John Sibley, of Swedesboro, is
staying with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Alexander. Mr.. Alexander still
is in a precarious physical state.
Mrs. Susan Hartzel is entertaining
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dren, Elizabeth and Harold, of Cam
den, who motored here last Sunday in
their Oakland car. They will remain
until Aug. 16. Mr.. Fox Is the buyer
of the purchasing department of the
- New York Shipbuilding Corporation at
Camden.
Mrs. Susan Hartzel and her three
daughters, Ruth, Frances and Dorothy,
and Miss Carrie Miller, of Atlantic
City, motored to Ocean City Wednes-
day with their guests, Mr.. and Mrs.
William S. Fox and children. They
all enjoyed the days outing.
Mrs. Samuel Hartley and daughter
Marie, of Bridgeton, who are visiting
relatives in Atlantic City and Pleas
antville, called on Mrs. D. S. Tilton
and family Thursday.
Miss Louise M. Immendorf, of Cam
den, was the guest last week of Miss
Ella Shovel, at North Absecon.
Albert Chapel visited his brother
Joseph and family, formerly of Abse-
con, at Egg Harbor City, last Sunday.
Harry B. Truax, local station agent,
has been assisting with the clerical
work at the Atlantic City office the
past month. His duties here have
been cared for by several extra agents
during his absence. Mr.. Truax Is
expected back in about another week.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Chilcoult at Pitney and Mill
Roads last Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. Fred B. Morley spent
several days the past week at the M.
E.. Parsonage here. Rev. Morley made
the opening prayer at the morning
service in the local church last Sum-
day. He is pastor of the Wenonah M,
e. Church.
Miss Ella Shovel is visiting rela-
tives in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Furman Horner is entertaining
a friend, Miss Hall, of Bridgeton, at
her home on Shore Road.
Mr.. Livernois has returned to New
York, after sojourning two months at
the Pine View Villa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Collins enter
tanned over Sunday at the Pine View
Villa, the home of his aunts, Mrs. A.
c. Fleming and Miss Emma Collins,
Mrs. Collins mother, Mrs. Clara Wat
son, wife of Prof. Watson, of Athens,
Georgia, who recently returned from
a trip to the battlefields and war torn
sections of Europe.
Messrs. MCGEE and Conner, of Phila-
delphia, are making their home at
the Pine View Villa, while working on
the artesian wells at Seaview.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Giberson en-
~tertained the last ten days her broth
er, Joseph Abbott, who will return the
last of this week to the Odd Fellows
Home, Trenton
Mr.. and Mrs. Giberson also enter
tanned from Wednesday to Sunday,
Messrs. Theodore Furgeson, of Bridge
port, Conn, and Bruce Furgeson,, bro
ther of the former, of New York, who
came here to employ their time in fish
ing. Their trip was we'll worth while
and they had keen enjoyment.
Miss Emily Snelbaker, of Philadel-
phia, has opened her summer home on
w. Leeds avenue for an indefinite Pc
riod.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis M. Clark have
been entertaining their aunts, Mrs.
Anna Johnson, of Port Republic, and
Miss Eva Clark, of Atlantic City, at
their residence near the Absecon Bou-
levard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steelman R. Lee enter
tanned her father, Joseph K. Mathis, Of
New Gretna, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Townsend are
receiving congratulations on the birth
Friday morning, August 9Th, of a ten
pound son, whose name is Edmund
Wendell Townsend.
Miss Josephine Cattani, assistant
postmistress here the past ear, who
went three weeks ago to Newark to
spend her vacation with relatives, was
operated on for appendicitis last Mon
day night at st. Mary's Hospital, New
ark.
Miss Alice MacIntyre. of Whining
ton, is expected here the last of this