The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-06-18
Absecon

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for a week.
Mrs. Henrietta G. Ray entertained
neighborhood lady friends at her
Shore Road residence this Friday af-
ternoon in honor of her friend, Mrs,
Off, wife of Frank B. Off, of Atlantic
City, who recently purchased the for
mer Peter B. Reed property on Shore
Road from Harry Cook. the last pre-
vious owner
A Junior Christian Endeavor Social
will be held at the home of Miss Han
nah Madden this Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Samuel Smith, Jr., was hostess
to members of the home department OF
the Presbyterian Sunday School at her
home last Thursday afternoon.
The following Art Club members
were guests of Mrs. M. M. Townsend
at her Shore Road home last Wednes
day afternoon: Mrs. r. l.. Babcock
Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin, Mrs. Laura
B. Reed, Mrs. Samuel Johnson, Mrs
Lewis NJ. Clark, Mrs. Leland Madden,
Mrs. R. A.. Elwood and Miss Hannah
Madden.
Mr.. Lewis Bowker and mother, Mrs
Charity Bowker, of the Absecon Inn
attended the Sunday School Institute
in Central NJ. E. Church, Atlantic City
last Tuesday afternoon. He divided
the time between the church and the
hospital, where he visited Rex Carson
and Robert Taylor, of this city, who
were principals in the sickening auto
accident on the boulevard last Sunday
Young Carsen died Wednesday. Tay
1or is badly injured in the hip and
spine. Carson had been a boarder al
the Absecon Inn eight days. He came
from near Los Angeles, California, and
was an expert on gasoline engines.
Mrs. l.. L. Johnston and grandson,
Lewis Johnston, of Bridgeton, formerly
of this city, have been guests the last
ten days of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Con.
over, Shore Road and Church street
They were entertained at dinner Mon.
day evening by Miss Nettie Alexander
at the residence of Mrs. May Town.
send.
William j.. McElroy has broken
ground on the north side of West Boil
ton avenue for the erection of a home
John Conover, of Beach Haven and
Camden, registered at the Seldom Inn
over Sunday.
The Absecon Inn has been full to
overlooking with boarders and tran.
sient guests this week. Tuesday might
a party of tourists slept on their owr
six cots in the sun parlor there. Had
they not possessed their own beds they
would have been turned away. The
management states they are doing 6
very satisfactory boarding house bust
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wick, Of
Church street, are mourning the loss
of their son, Charles, Jr., aged SO, who
died last Friday in Jefferson Hospital
Philadelphia, after a partial operation
for spinal trouble and internal all
ments. He had been i'll five weeks
He is survived by a wife and two chill
dren. The funeral was held last Tues
day from his parents home in Phila
delphia, where he was a resident.
The June meeting of the M. e. Wo
mans Foreign Missionary Society was
held on Tuesday afternoon at the home
of Miss Cordelia Black, on Bolton ave
nue.. The president, Mrs. Laura B
Reed, presided and gave an interesting
account of the recent Missionary Guild
Convention in Philadelphia. After
the devotional and business session
refreshments were served by the host
ess to the following guests: Mrs. Lau
ra B. Reed,/ Tilton, Mrs
Morris. Mrs yer. Mrs e
Carolus, Miss Florence Carolus, Mrs.
e. Robinson, Mrs. Anna c.. Fleming,
Mrs. r. L. Babcock, Mrs. Harry Matt
son, ST., Mrs. j. S. Tilton, Mrs. John
S. Lewis, Mrs. Frank Babcock, Mrs.
Louisa Huntington.
Benjamin Foster, night Waterman at
the Absecon Sand Plant, one mile
north of the center of town and several
hundred feet east of the White Horse
Pike, vas knocked down by two mask
ed bandits while taking a short stroll
on the newpaved road opposite the
plant at 8 o'clock Thursday night. They
felled him with a blow over the left
eye and would have gone through his
pockets for the purpose of extracting
his wallet, but being of a pugilistic
turn he quickly regained his feet and
walloped the pair with his two fists in
short order, after which the pair beat
a hasty retreat in the darkness. Aside
from a blackened eye he was none the
worse for the encounter.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M. e
Church cleared $71.40 from the straw.
berry festival held in the chapel Fri
day evening, June 8.
The Epworth League Society of Con,
overtown realized from the strawberry
festival held in the Bayview Chapel
Wednesday evening of last week $54.25
which will be applied to the fund for
repairing and painting that chapel.
John Falivene, proprietor of the Alb
secon Duck Farm, has a new Fordsor
tractor.
Under the auspices of the Bayview
M. b. Sunday School, the annual Chill
dren's Day exercises will be held in
the chapel at Conovertown tomorrow
Sunday, evening at 7.45. The evening
service in the M. e. Church here will.
begin at $50 so that any who desire
to may attend both services.
The present staff of school teachers
has been reelected by the Board o.
Education to teach in the Absecor
school the next term, as follows: Prin-
cipal, Miss Nettie L. Alexander; teach
er of primary department, Miss Carrie
c. Reed; second and third grades, Miss
Carrie e. Saalman; high fourth and