The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-01-10
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
lcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.


Mrs. James Morgan entertained her
nephew, Mr.. George Johnson, and his
friend, Mr.. Raymond Frame, of Phila-
delphia, from Saturday until Monday.
Mrs. Jennie Freas has the sincere
sympathy of the community, having
lost three of her family by death In
less than eight years. First her hus-
band, then a boy of nine by accident,
and now the grim reaper has again
entered her family and taken her eld-
est daughter, who leaves a husband
and three small children. May b
be able to bear her sorrow, as God has
wi1led it.
DIR. and Mrs. Elmer Hancock left on
Wednesday morning for New York
City for a ten-day sojourn.
Mrs. Gustave Guenther and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles Mason, were dinner
guests last Wednesday of Mrs. James
Hamilton, at her new residence in
Ventnor.
Mr.. Gustave Guenther celebrated his
Sind birthday anniversary last We'd
nesday.
MI. and Mrs. Charles Mason enter
tanned at dinner New Years Day, Mr..
and Mrs. John Mason, Miss Reba Ma
son and Arthur Hansen, of Atlantic
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry B. Boice and
sdaughters, Anna Lorine, Dorothy and
Helene, Fred. c., and Miss Lorine
Boice were guests New Years Day of
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Sims, at Ocean
City,
The Quarterly meeting of the visitors
of the home department of the M. E.
4H%t<4A1.@r Caho1I will he hold fhfc Cot1Ir.
HzdaK afternoonr at 3 o'clock, at the. home
az the kuperintendent, MrsyA. Il. Ham
4ueiJ. which time the visitors will
fRr. &<er tosthe superintendent their
tdnorfs 1T lessons studied and motley
Contributed during the last three
months of the old year by the mem
hers in their districts.
THE monthly meeting of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society of
the M. E. Church will be held at the
residence of Mrs. Harry Mattson, ST.,
on Shore Road, next Tuesday after
noon, Jan. 18th, at 2.30 o'clock. All
members and friends are invited.
Prof. E. D. Riley left on Tuesday for
Jacksonville, Fla. He expects to be
away several weeks and during his
sojourn in the South, he has planned
TO visit quite a number of the popular
resorts.
Mrs. A. c.. Fleming entertained at
supper Sunday evening Mr.. and Mrs.
William Nolan and son, William, Jr.,
of ~Pleasantville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Hare en-
tertained over New Years Mrs. Charles
Faul and daughter Kathryn, of the
Quaker City.
The monthly meeting of the w, c.
T. U. was held at the Pine View Villa,
the home of Mrs. A. C. Fleming, last
Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Walter M. Burns has embarked in
the real estate business with his ia
ther-in-law, Harry j. Lee, in Atlantic
City.
Contrary to plans made at the time
of their marriage here a month ago,
Mr.. and Mrs. William ]. McElroy, nee
Miss May Adkisson, are making their
home in Philadelphia.
Harry Mason has severed his con-
nection with Mason Brothers, Central
Garage and Machine Shop, on Shore
Road, south of California avenue, and
has moved his family from their new
home opposite W~aterworks Drive to
the home of his wife's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Cunningham, in Atlantic
City. Mr.. Mason will become al cleo
trical foreman for a large concern Ell
Their in Philadelphia or New York. He
is the graduate of an electrical school
in Washington, d. c., and was the
student of this science in several other
large cities. Fol several years previ-
GUS to establishing himself in the gar
age business here he was employed by
a large New York electrical construc-
kioD aonononU in India Tho rnmain-
ing brother, Charles M. Mason, will
continue in the garage business at the
present location on his own account.
Local ice-house owners filled their
storage plants last Monday and Tues
day with 8 and 9 inch ice, harvested
from the upper Doughty pond, North
west Absecon. The product was of ex-
~ceptionally fine quality, clear and solid
as a rock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Magno and chill
dren returned home to Newark last
Saturday, after spending the holidays
with Mrs. Magno's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Cattani.
The paving contractors improving
the State and County highway between
Egg Harbor and Absecon nave pro-
crossed with the ~excavating to a point
well this side of Pomona, it is stated,
and they expect to reach the city line
here by or during F~ebruary.it is under
stood, if not hindered by excessively
bad weather. Frozen ground does moi
prevent the operations, because explo-
sives are then resorted to to disinte-
crate the surface. The contractors are
counting on having the ~eXcayating and
grading entirely finished the entire
length of the highway between Egg
Harbor and Absecon by the time the
weather will permit the laying of the
concrete base. By the use of labor