The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-05-08
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Notice Is hereby given that the Civic
Club of Absecon has designated the
week of May II to 81 as Cleanup
Week for the town. Friday, the 21st,
will be collection day, when all rub
bish which cannot be burned on ones
premises will be taken, if placed at
the curb. All such rubbish must be
out by 7 o'clock the morning of Friday,
the 21st, and no ashes will be taken
away.
The Civic Club went on record as
opposing the erection of signs in the
town limits, and moved to commend
Council for it's action in placing a tax
Upon signs, which should prevent their
erection, and urging that the ordinance
be Strictly enforced, and where sign
rentals are not forthcoming that the
signs be removed. The Club is very
indignant about the matter, and does
not intend ito sit idly by and have the
beauty Of the town married by these
u~nsightlX signs.
Charles Henry Shovel has sold his
East bolton avenue property to John
Myerss, OF the Wellsboro Hotel, Allan
jonathan D. Joslin won the Good
year A1lWeather Tread 30x3h Auto
mobile Tire CHANGED off last Monday
evening by the Absecon Volunteer Fire
Co No. /, at the fire house for the ben
eft Of the fire company. The firemen
sold $50 chances at 10 cents each, $95
worth, and cleared 5000 from their
Undertaking.
Peter Lashley is carrying the mail
again between the Absecon and Port
Republic postoffices.
o. Harry Conover, son of James Como
and George Kendall were placed
TIL 3Eg the first of this week as street
$s4t6& tenderS at the Shore Road rail-
acr0ssing.
Ssex n ave of the Absecon school teach
&f4 been reelected for the next
M MI. and Mrs. Charles Mason have
sold their Shore Road residence prop
erty adjoining the garage to Philadel-
5phl3tf. paffies and will move in with her
ffa&Mr. and Mrs GustaEezGaenr
4 s63oar55d over
the home of his wife,s pa
41 H133Aadeaphfa, where his mother-in-
Mrs Frymire, is still very ill.
sReys r. IA. Elwood has had his Pit
41kyearenue bungalow newly painted.
Mrs II. A. Elwood expects to leave
{he Iast of this week for Lexington,
Ky. to Join Mr.. Elwood for a ten days
stay. He has been there a week.
Mrs. James B. Townsend, of Long
port, entertained the Absecon Art Club
members at the home of her sister,
Miss Lorine Boice, or Shore Road, last
Wednesday afternoon. Present were:
Mrs. A. L. Hammell, Mrs. r. L. Bah
cock, Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin, Mrs. F.
F. Doughty, Mrs. R. A. Elwood, Mrs.
M. M. Townsend, Miss Hannah Madden,
Mrs. L. S. Madden, Mrs. Harry Boice,
Mrs. l. G. Adams, Mrs. John B. Smith
and Mrs. Floyd Sims, of Ocean City.
After calling on friends here, Rev.
John Moore, a returned missionary
from Japan, spent Wednesday night at
DR.. Samuel Johnson's. Thirty years
ago Rev. Moore was the student pastor
of the Absecon Presbyterian Church.
Several officers and directors of the
Absecon Branch of the N~eedlework
Guild attended the sessions of the
National Needlework Guild Convention
held in the First Presbyterian Church,
Atlantic City, last Thursday and Fri
day.
An Absecon w. C. T. U. delegation
attended the Spring Institute of the
Atlantic County Woman's Christian
Temperance Union held in Central M.
e. Church, Atlantic City, last Thurs
day.
Mrs. Caroline Smith and niece, Mrs.
A. L.. Brogden, of Jacksonville, Fla,
who had been visiting her aunt for a
month, left last Saturday for Washing
ton, D. c., to spend a week with Mrs.
Brogden's sister, Mrs. Frank B. Biggs,
formerly of this place. Mrs. Smith
expects to return home shortly, while
her niece, Mrs. Brogden, will journey
on to her home at Jacksonville.
Death OF "Uncle Chdrley'' Nelson.
In his 18th year, Uncle Charley"
Nelson, as he was Familiarity known,
died suddenly at his Shore Road home
last Sunday morning, at 2.15 o'clock,
from heart trouble. Death came with
out a struggle or emotion. One long
breath and he naScnd ont and hovond