The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-09
ABSECON NEWS

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Tuesday evening, Dec. II.
Mrs. Caroline Smith planned to
leave on Friday or Saturday of this
week for Jacksonville, Fla, to spend
the winter with her niece, Mrs. A. l..
Brogden, who was formerly Miss
Edna Lee, of this city.
This being "Visit-the-Schools Week"
in New Jersey, the principal and tea
cheers of the public school sent writ
ten invitations by the scholars to
their parents, the middle of the week.
to visit the Absecon school. before
the end of the week set apart for that
purpose, to witness the work being
done by the several grades in the
different rooms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph S. Tilton and
Mrs. d. S. Tilton motored to Ocean
City on Thursday.
MIR. George Veal, of Wilmington, is
s%ojourning with the family of E. j.
Mccarthy, on Shore Road
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Little. of Phil
adelphia, who motored down the mid
ole of last week for a s%oiourn at the
s%eashore, spent part of Thanksgiving
Day with their friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew White and son Harry, east of
Shore Road, at Abseeon Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Collins cele-
brated their seventh wedding anniver-
sary, at their home on Boice avenue.
last Friday.
Mr.. Joseph Shields, of E. Bolton
avenue, is critically ill from enlarge
ment of the heart. at the home of his
daughter in Collingswood, where he
and Mrs. Shields have been STAYING
the last two months.
Mrs. William C. Kline passed the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. Eliza
beth Reed, on Iowa enu Atlantic
City. On Sunday they attended SER
vices in Christ M. p. Church, Pacific
and Belmont avenues, of which DR.. c..
d. Sinkinson is pastor. Mrs. Kline
and her sister occupied their memo
rial pews opposite each other for the
first time. Forty-two of these new
pews were dedicated that day.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Kline were
guests on Thanksgiving Day of their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Baner. at a fine turkey dinner
at their Absecon Heights home.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Joslin enjoyed
turkey dinner at the Absecon Inn on
OlllO avenue, AhoS lnS Ddy.
Rev. and Mrs. John w. Wainwright
and daughter, Edith, were guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis w Bowker at
turkey dinner, at the Absecon Inn.
Thanksgiving Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Mess and
family entertained the family of Mrs.
Mess sister, Mrs. James Ballantine,
this city, at turkey dinner, at their
new bungalow on Shore Road, South
Absecon, Thanksgiving Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel Conover and
daughter, Esther, entertained relatives
at a turkey dinner at their home on
Merton avenue, Pleasantville, on
Thanksgiving Day. Their guests in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Job A. Conover
and Mr.. John Conover, of Pleasant
vile: Miss Harriet Smythe, of Allan
tic City; Lawrence Adams, of Green
Bank; Mrs. Arthur Conover, Mr.. and
Mrs. ira l.. Giberson and children,
Carlton and Dorothy, of Absecon,
Miss Myra Smith, of Atlantic City,
passed Wednesday night with the fam
lily of her sister, Mrs. Ira L.. Giberson,
while on her way to Smithville to
spend Thanksgiving Day with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Smith.
Paul Wallace and family, of Atlantic
City, took occupancy last Saturday of
part of DIR. Waiter Sooy's double
dwelling on Shore Road, at North
Absecon.
Mrs. Pauline Short, of Abseeon
Heights, where she has been "a resi-
dent for ten years, left on Sunday
morning for New York, to spend the
winter with relatives. Mrs. Short has
three sons who have been in Uncle
Sans Navy for several years. When
on leave of absence they make their
headquarters in Gotham. Their names
and the positions they hold are as
follows: William Howard Short, cap
tain; Philip Joseph, musician, and
Haniel Edward, apprentice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darius X. Smith were
guests of their daughter and son-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Baker ID. Bowen, IA
Leeds Point, Thanksgiving Day.
Edward Prescott, ST., is having a
cellar built underneath his New Jer-
sey avenue residence. When finished
a pipeless heater will be installed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Rogers enter
tanned their nephew, Nevin Wike, of
Westville, a former resident here, at
llelf nOIle OH u. INGFdud dNthut, Jul
ing his Thanksgiving vacation.
Sacrament oil the Lords Supper was
held in the M. r. Church during the
morning service last Sunday, it being
the first Sunday of the last quarter
of The conference year.
The Absecon Concrete Company re-
ceived their new Fordson tractor last
Monday.
Rev. David Newell, of Ohio avenue,
addressed the Mems Bible Class in
the M. e. Church, last Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel w, Giberson
spent Sunday night with Mrs. Grace
French, in Atlantic City. Mrs. Giber-
son continued her stay there for a
season longer, while he returned
home on Monday.
Mr.. Louis Cattani has had his New
Jersey avenue home newly painted.
improvements, also, have been made
to the interior of the dwelling.
School Fire Drills.
Fire drills were held in the public
school last Tuesday and Wednesday,
under the direction of the principal
and all the teachers, for the purpose
of in~structing the scholars in the
proper way to leave the budding in
case of a fire. The alarm is sounded
by four taps of the electric bell, in
the hall on the first floor, which is
operated by a push button in the
school office. When an alarm is Civ
en-, all scholars at once leave their
seats and forming in line, march out
in single file as speedily as possible,
all pupils on the New Jersey avenue