The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-11-26
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN-
lcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Miss Catherine Morris, of Devon;
Misses Mabel Bailey and Emily Reep,
of Wayne, Pa, and Miss Carrie E.
Saalman, of Egg Harbor City, local
school teachers, returned on Wednes-
day to their respective homes to spend
their Thanksgiving vacation with rela-
tives.
An interesting meeting of the Wo-
mans Home and Foreign Missionary
Society of the Presbyterian Church
was held at the home of Mrs. R. A.
Elwood last Tuesday afternoon. The
meeting was marked by the presence
of two visitors, Mrs. Maxwell and Mrs.
McClelland, of the same society of the
First Presbyterian Church, Atlantic
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steelman R.. Lee re-
turned home last Wednesday morning
from their six weeks trip to Cali
fornia. They had a wonderful trip, a
delightful time and came home feeling
fine.
Mrs. T. D. Shovel, Absecon post
mistress, went to Trenton last We'd
nesday to spend the rest of this week
with her father, Mr.. James Yelland,
and other relatives.
MI. III mis-. lClOg iithhihNs ~
son, Leroy, Jr., of Brooklawn, were
guests Wednesday night of the family
of his sister, Mrs. Harry Mattson, Jr.
On Thursday they went to New Gretna
to spend Thanksgiving with her father,
Joseph X. Mathis.
Robert White, head of the Concrete
Products Co, this city, motored on
Wednesday afternoon in his Ford
-1Io. a. Dl;l,Ia1DI;o ta eoio,,pp oun,,
Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Lemuel White.
Mrs. May Townsend entertained the
Madden family at turkey dinner at her
Shore Road residence Thanksgiving
Day. Present were: DR.. E. H. Mad
den, Miss Hannah Madden, Herman l..
Madden, Edward Madden, Mrs. r. A.
Elwood and son Russell, Mr.. n Mrs.
Edmund Townsend and son Edmund,
Jr., Allen Townsend and the hostess,
of this city; Miss Alice MacIntyre and
Mrs. Edward Hobbs, of Wilmington;
DIR. and Mrs. Leland S. Madden and
son Bertram, of P~leasantville, and Mr..
and Mrs. Hosea Madden, of Tuckahoe.
Fred Adkisson has bought a Ford
ton truck.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Joslin motored on
Tuesday to Bridgeport, N. j., to spend
Thanksgiving with relatives. They ex-
pect to be gone a week, and will also
visit relatives at Gibbstown and Pauls-
boro before returning home.
Mayor Harry Mattson, ST., on We'd
nesday of last week proclaimed to-
morrow, Sunday, Nov. 81, Better Citi-
zens' Day." and does recommend and
request that on that day the people of
Absecon, old and young, of every re-
ligious denomination, repair to the
churches n other places OF worship
to discourage those things in u pub
lie and private lives that are debasing,
and to uphold those things that tend
to exalt and elevate us in self-respect
and citizenship, and to acknowledge
our answering belief in those pat
riotic and unselfish principles of JUS
tice, morality and religion which on
stitute the rock base of American in
situations.
Mrs. Leona Hart Reed, a former
local instructor, has taken the place
of Mrs. Miriam r. Bennett, who re-
Gently resigned as teacher in the pub
lie school on account of ill health.
Miss Edith Wainwright, who is TAX
ing a course at PIERCE Business Col
lege, Philadelphia, came home last
Wednesday to spend her Thanksgiving
vacation with her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. J. w. Wainwright, at the M. E.
parsonage.
Mrs. Martha Clark is expected home
the last of this week from her extend
ed ~sojourn with the family of her
daughter, Mrs. Harry Collins, at Port
Republic.
Miss Josephine Cattani is out again
after being confined to her home five
weeks with illness.
John D. Wood, an employee at the
Absecon Pumping Station of the At