The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-08-21
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
IcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

sion of the barrel of empty fruit jars
from the New Jersey Children's Home
Society, Trenton. She requests all
who will help fill the jars with fruit
and vegetables, as formerly, to call or
send to her home for the glass jars.
I Mrs. Harry w. Smith and daughter,
Helen j., left or Monday for Cedar
brook, where they will spend several
days with relatives, after which they
will visit friends at Hammonton.
Mrs. Caroline Smith and grandson,
Percy W. Smith, have moved from DR..
E. H. Madden's Church street resi-
dence to the Ohio avenue home of her
sister, Mrs. John Alexander. They
are comfortably quartered in apart
ments on the second floor.
Louis Cattani and daughter Mary
went last Sunday to Newark to see his
elder daughter Josephine, who was
operated on there two weeks ago for
appendicitis. Her condition is said to
be much improved.
Mrs. Joseph Tilton went to Wash
ington Crossing, Pa, last Tuesday to
spend a week with relatives. She will
also visit among the hills of Eastern
Pennsylvania.
hlSS N1dly NCMullcu, VI AlldoCl
phia, has been visiting the family of
her brother, John D. McMullen, this
week.
Mrs. F. G.. Turner has been visiting
friends at Woodbury. the last two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Draper, Jr.,
and daughters, Florence and Louise,
returned home last Friday from a de-
lightfuf three-days' automobile trip
through the Lehigh Valley section of
Pennsylvania. They visited friends at
Allentown.
John M. Draper, of Bridgend, Wales,
arrived here on Tuesday to spend a
lengthy period with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Draper, Sr., on Pit
ney Road. He came to America for
the benefit of his health and to visit
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew White and son
Harry entertained from Thursday I'M
til Saturday Philadelphia friends, who
are summering at their cottages in
Ocean City. They motored here in a
Cadillac sedan and on Thursday en-
ijoyed a sumptuous oyster supper In
the party were Mr.. and Mrs. Carl De-
shew. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter J. little,
Jr., Walter J. Little, ST., Isaiah Little,
Owen Neill and William Buchanan and
son Elwood. Walter j.. Little, Jr, is
vice-president of the Atwater Kent
Electrical Works, Germantown.
While filling the ice box at Como
ver's meat store on Wednesday, the
driver OF. a Warren Marshall ice wa
gon, came out of the store to find that
his horse had taken fright and bolted.
The animal went up New Jersey ave
nue. to Shore Road and cut down he
back entrance to the %postoffice, where
it was headed off by the driver. Con
tinuing its journey, it ran into the
platform of the freight station and
was captured. No damage was done
to either animal or wagon, but a guam
THY of ice was lost in transit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Townsend
are receiving congratulations of their
many friends upon the arrival of a
bouncing baby boy, who tipped the
scales at 10 pounds. The proud father
is superintendent of repairs at the
States Garage, Atlantic City, and dur
ing the war served as a sergeant in
the U. S. Marines. He will name his
son Edmund Wendell, taking the Sec
ond name from Gen. Wendell Neville,
commander of the brigade to which
he was attached.