The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-06-04

day and we're entertained on Monday
by the family of his sister, Mrs. Harry
e. Mattson, Jr. They returned home
that evening.
When a motor car near the end of a
temporary line ran into the rear of the
next car ahead on the Pitney road at
9 o'clock last Sunday morning, the
first named machine received bent fen
ders, broken headlights and a dam
aged radiator. The accident was caus-
ed by the sudden stopping of 25 ma
chimes in a row, when the driver of
the auto at the head of the procession
stalled his engine near the chapel cor
ner on Church street.
Aged 65 years, Samuel Smith, ST., a
life long resident of Absecon, died at
2 o'clock last Saturday afternoon at
his hone here. Death was caused by
general debility. He had been in de-
Ginning health more than a year al
though able to be around part of the
time. However, his condition had been
considered serious. the last three
months. The funeral service conduct
ed by Rev. C. M. Johnston, OF Bridge
ton, former local pastor, was held at
his late home at 2 o'clock last Tuesday
dlltli lOOh. III Z was lildut Ill Int
NJ. e. Cemetery. In addition to his
wife he is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. John Ards, of Philadelphia, Mrs.
Ida Risley, Absecon; two sons, James
and Samuel Smith, Jr.; n sister, Mrs.
Emma Shovel, and one brother, JOSH
III Smith, all of this city.
Former Pastor Visits Friends Here:
Soon to Appear in Motion Pictures.
Rev. Clarence M. Johnston, of Bridge
ton, for seven years pastor of the Abb
secon M. e. Church, spent Tuesday and
part of Wednesday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilbert Conover, after which he vent
to Atlantic City to see his wife's pa
rents, who returned from Florida some
time ago Since returning from the
South her father has been very i'll.
Rev. Mr.. Johnston soon will appear
in moving picture scenes. He deliver
ed the address when Memorial avenu
in the Bridgeton park was dedicated
last Monday afternoon. Memorial ave-
nue. is a drive bordered by trees set
out by the P. O. S. of A. in honor of
the 81 First District boys who did not
come back. The city has just erected
a handsome stone marker there with
1t ldDltI Dtdll III Nv iOCo bulliNS
Memorial Day was a great day in
Bridgeton from a military and patri-
otto standpoint. The former Absecon
pastor took a leading part in the exer-
cises and demonstrations, and was
snapped" many times in his charac-
t~eristic poses as a gesticulator by the
camera men who took the pictures for
the production of movie reels to be
shown especially in the Bridgeton
moving picture houses.
Mrs. Anna G. Ferry, Aged
70 Years, Dies Of General Debility.
A resident here for the last ten,
yyeSafs, Mrs. Asi1s G. Ferry, aB&u 10
years, died at her New Jersey avenue
home at 6 o'clock last Sunday evening.
Her death was due to general asthenia
incident to her age. She had been in
declining health for a year and during
the last three months had been con
fined to her bed. She had been entire
ly helpless for several weeks, being
enfeebled in mind as well as body.
Mrs. Ferry came here in 1910 from
NicetOwn, Pa, and made her home at.
Shore Road and Colorado avenue,
South Absecon.
In addition to her son Robert, who
lived with his mother, she is survived
by two other sons, Jesse, of Chester,
Pc, and Frank, of Detroit, Mich, and
by a niece, Mrs. Frances r. Morrison,
of Cleveland, Ohio, neither of whom
was able to attend the funeral on ac-
count of illness or distance separation.
Jesse Ferry was here on Decoration
Day, but had to return home in two
hnnrc hpan1cp his xuifa uoc uorxr i'll
The funeral service was conducted
by Rev. John w. Wainwright at her
late home at 8 o'clock last Wednesday
afternoon. Interment was made in the
Presbyterian Cemetery.
Fred II. Henry'S Ford Damaged
By Collision 0n Nelo BouIeUdrd.
While driving his light Ford deliv-
cry car into Atlantic City shortly be-
fore noon last Sunday, Fred II. Henry
noticed a Pennsylvania licensed ma
chine containing two men, one woman
and a child coming toward him from
the rear at a rapid pace when he was
between Ohio and Tennessee avenues,
on the Absecon Boulevard, where that
highway is the widest. Seeing he was
in danger of being telescoped by the
oncoming machine, he tried in vain to
clear the path of danger, but his car
was hit by the Pennsylvania auto
which damaged the rear of his Ford
chassis and body to the extent of $40.
Following the impact the Absecon
councilman accosted the driver of the
ill-driven machine as to the cause of
the accident and received the answer
that he did not see Mr.. Henry's car
and asserted "it is impossible to take
ones eye from the road for an in
stant". Christopher Hare, this city,
who accompanied Mr.. Henry on his
Sunday trip, asked the mar at fault il
he applied his brakes. To this inter-
rogation he replied, mo, he couldn't
find them.
While both machines were considera-
bly, damaged no one was hurt. Mr..
Henry was without the use of his Ford
three days.
Commencement Exercises.
Following is the program for the
Commencement exercises of the Abse-
con Grammar School, to be held Thurs
day evening, June 49,
Professional, March from Tannhau-
ser, Wagner; Invocation, Rev. j. w.
Wainwright; Salutatory, Adelma Mil
Ter; Music, Grammar Grade Pupils;
Class History, Dorothy Hammell; Rec
i%tation, Ruth Hartzell; Class Prophecy,
Russell Elwood; Class Will, Emerson
Shovel; Music, Grammar Grade Pu-
pills; Advice to Seventh Grade, Emer-
son Shovel: Response, James Balen-
tine; Valedictory, Emily Gaskill; Mu-