The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-04-03
Absecon

"A 1SNSPtiOh was
Rev. Clarence M. Johnston by his new
charge, Trinity M. E. Church, Bridge
ton, on Monday evening, during which
he was presented a hundred dollar
bill for a boutonniere. Mrs. Johnston
was presented with a basket of flow
ers. A duet was sung by William L.
Naglee and John F. Lamar, both for
mer Pleasantville' men. The lecture
room of the church was crowded to it's
capacity.
Charles M. Kesler has a new Ford
truck.
Fourteen juvenile friends of Fred G.
Boice rendered hin a surprise party at
his home on Shore Road last Monday
evening.
Robert, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Zepha-
niah Hackett, of Philadelphia, spent
Saturday and Sunday with his parents
here. He has just bought the property
opposite his parents home near East
California avenue, and he and his wife
expect to come here to live the last of
May.
Mrs. John B.. Lewis protests the ac-
ton of certain citizens in hauling rub
bish to and dumping it on her proper
ty at Pitney and Mill Roads.
While Zephaniah Hackett was on
duty as fiagman at the Reed Road
cross OF the P. R. r. last Sunday after
noon, he tagged nineteen trains. Be
tween these 81 automobiles and one
wagon passed over the crossing. Reed
Road, otherwise known as Illinois av-
enue, is the cross street connecting the
Shore Road with the Absecon Boule-
ward.
Mr.. Gilbert Conover, local oyster
II .DxYo aud chinnor xuont 70 pridoo-
port, Conn.,, last Wednesday to purch-
ase seed oysters for spring planting.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Cordery and
daughter Ruby are expected home in a
days from their Florida trip. They
been south two months.
wis Johnston, son of Rev. G.. M.
lston, won first prize in AbSecon
oil for the competitive essay enti-
The BENEFITS of Enlistment in
-B. s. Amy The second prize
wv ~ Nyra KesIer.
afI, Of State College, Pa,
6f IL middle Of this week with his
1kef and brother-in-1aw, Mr.. and Mrs.
s. <ffed H. Henry. The young man was
! member of the debating team of
State College, which a few days ago
We'd with a similar team at Princeton,
the State College team winning the
laurels.
Anxious to collect as much mercan-
tile tax as possible, the city officials
are cooperating to ascertain the num-
Der and names of owners of all the
large advertising signs within the city
limits, and to compile a list of all resi-
lent and nonresident proprietors of
mercantile establishments and. dealers
doing business in town, so that mer-
camille tax notices can be sent out
soon.
j. Warren Tilton, of Bradley Beach,
a former teacher here, now an instruc-
tor III the High School at Ocean Grove,
visited Absecon relatives last Sunday.
Miss Clara Conover left on Friday
for Barnegat to spend her Easter va
cation with the family of her brother,
DR.. Howard Conover.
Mrs. e. H. Madden, wife of DR.. Mad
den, this city, was removed last Tues
day to the Atlantic City Hospital,
: where she was operated on that day
for the removal of an internal abscess.
Latest reports were to the effect she
was convalescing as well as could be
expected.
Mrs. Edward Miller, of P~leasantville,
spent Wednesday at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Irelan.
Pound keeper William S%choepfin,
Jr., that from this date on
all CANNES not licensed and tagged,
running loose on the streets, will be
shot on sight.
The lighting committee of City
Council planned to inspect last eve
ming (Friday), under the direction of
Superintendent Jesse Bowen of the
local company, the present type of
electric street light used on Atlantic
avenue, Atlantic City, it being the in
tention to replace the arc lights here
with the tungsten type as used there.
The new style lamp planned here, it
was stated, will produce a more pow
erful yet softer light; requires less
care and is more efficient.
For failure to send his three children,
James, Margaret and William, to
school after being formally notified to
do so, John Petriano, of Ohio avenue
and New Road, last Saturday morning
on complaint of Truant Officer William
S%choepfin, Jr., was hailed before Com
mon Pleas Court Judge Robert H. In
gersoll, in the court room in the Guar
antee Trust Building, Atlantic City,
who, after hearing the facts in the
case released the father with the I'M
d~erstanding that in the future should
the children be absent from school
without just cause, Petriano will be
required to a five dollars for each
DAYS absence. The truant officer re-
ports he has four or five similar cases
in mind, but hopes in the face of this
official warning it will be unnecessary
to have any more warrants issued.
Alfred Ramsey, of Smithville, placed
a large new REQ bus in commission
last week for use in his public trans
pOrtation business.
Mr.. Frank Cakes, formerly at Ma
sons Garage on Shore Road, has Sc
cured a fine position with the South
New England Film Company. He will
have the supervision of five new Rec
Cne-tOn trucks which will be nlaced in