The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-08-12
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN.
lcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Smith and
children n Mrs. James Henderson
motored on Tuesday to Delaware Wa
ter Gap for a few days rest and rec
reation.
Mrs. Carolina Smith is entertaining
her sister, Mrs. Talitha Alexander, of
Swedesboro, a former local resident.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Farrell, of
Philadelphia, have been s%ojourning at
their summer home south of Absecon
Boulevard owe the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Kesler and Miss
Carrie Reed motored last Sunday to
Seaville to attend the camp meeting,
where they heard inspiring sermons.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Klein and chill
dren, of Philadelphia, are occupying
their summer home at North Absecon
during their vacation period.
Miss C. G. Black entertained her
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Curry and
daughter Eta, of Philadelphia, at her
w. Bolton e home the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. McElroy, nee
Miss May Adkisson, have received
congratulations over the birth of a
10h ID. daughter, Laura May, at their
w. Bolton avenue home a. fortnight
ago.
Three new dwellings soon will be
erected on E. Bolton venue Garnet
Reed has arranged for the early cree
ton of a home on the lot he recently
purchased there, while w. j. Pretty
man, Sr. and Jr., will build a twin
bungalow on the lot adjoining Fred
-Adkisson's property. The third build
ing will be erected, it is said, by a
Philadelphia on the lot adjacent to
the Prettyman premises.
Mrs. M. S.. DeHaven has written to
friends here this week from Reed City,
Mich, where she and her two chill
dren, Ada and Marvin, have been visit
ing relatives the past week. One of
her messages states: ut is lovely out
here. The air is so good and clear,
just like a tonic. We are just in time
for camp meeting. Have been to
three services. Mr.. Mckinney, of
Philadelphia, is the evangelist"
Miss Beatrice White has been enter
tanning Miss Alvena Nesbit, of Allan
tic City, at the villa of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel White, the past
week.
Miss Ethel Hammell was expected
home last Thursday from Madison,
Wis, where, accompanied by several
other Atlantic City school teachers
she had been taking a six weeks
course at a summer school for teach
ers.
Mrs. Edward A. Wilson entertained
the Absecon Art Club at her home on
Ohio avenue last Wednesday after
10 Following the needlework peri
cd refreshments were served. Present
were Mrs. r. L. Babcock, Mrs. A. L.
Hammell, Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin,
Mrs. F. F. Doughty, Mrs. R. A. Elwood,
Mrs. M. M. Townsend, Miss Hannah
Madden, Miss Alice MacIntyre, Miss
May Cordery, Mrs. Samuel Johnson,
and the hostess, of Absecon; Mrs. Le-
land Madden, Mrs. Charles s.. Adams
and Mrs. DeKine, of P~leasantyille.
Joseph Alexander and Mrs. Abbie
Alexander have been entertaining this
week Mr.. and Mrs. William Wilkinson,
of Philadelphia, who came down in
their automobile. On Thursday they
took Mr., Alexander over to Dorches-
ter, Cape May County, to see his
friend John Price, former proprietor
of the Hotel Rockingham, this city.
Motorcycle Upsets.
Striking a hole in the westerly side
of the Shore Road between Colorado
and Nevada avenues, where an exca-
walton had been made several days
before for the tapping of the street