The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-24
NEWS

Mrs. J. r. Waddams and daughter
Anna left on Wednesday for Niagara
Falls and n~eighboring places to spend
a two-weeks' vacation.
Emerson Irelan is the owner of a
new Ford touring car.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel F. Brownley,
OF Philadelphia, %sojourned owe Sun
day at their summer home on Shore
Road, North Absecon. Mr.. Brownley
returned on Monday to his work in
the Quaker City, while his wife re-
manned here several days longer for
the benefit of her health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Sorden, nee
Miss Mildred Smith, have taken occu-
pancy of Thomas Diapers new bun
galow on Pitney venue
Fred c.. and Miss Lorine Boice en-
tertained DIR. and Mrs. Elmer Han
cock, of Merchantville, former resi-
dents, at their Shore Road home over
the weekend.
j. w. Cordery is having an orna-
mental concrete block fence and re-
tanning wall erected in front of his
Shore Road property, north of Church
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry ]. Lee and Mr..
~ Ah1o. W JULIE Il p1dln1uS
to leave mex Monday on an auto trip
for rest and recreation. Their route
and destination have not been decided
on yet, but they are expecting to be
way two or three weeks.
The breaking of two trolley poles,
which snapped the main feed wire
when they fell at Colorado avenu
early last Thursday morning, delayed
traffic over the line until the arrival
of the repair crew, which brought the
damaged wires together again, COM
pleting the circuit and allowing the
cars to proceed.
Mrs. j. w. Wainwright went to
Camden last Saturday, on receiving
word her mother, Mrs. Hunt, was
quite ill. The latter passed several
months at the M. E. Parsonage here
until February, when she was taken
to the home of her other daughter,
Mrs. Galloway, in Camden.
Simultaneous with the closing of
school, the Junior Epworth League
Society of the NJ. E. Church, Mrs. j.
w. Wainwright superintendent, dis
banded for the summer
According to the proceeds received
to date the Absecon Volunteer Fire
Company cleared $12S.50 from the
benefit dance given at Lily Lake Park
on Wednesday evening of last week,
to help raise funds with which to pay
for the chemical engine.
School Teachers Reelected.
AT a recent meeting of the Board of
Education all the local school teach
ers were reelected for the 1922 fall
term, as follows: Principal, Nettie L.
Alexander; assistant, Blanche /. Ack-
erman, who also are teachers of the
6, Z and s grades; grades IA and 5,
Cordelia G.. Turner; grades 3>and 4,
Carrie E. Saalman; grades 2 and 3B,
Leona E. Reed; first grade, Carrie C.
Reed.
Under the direction of the above
named corps of teachers, the Absecon
school made wonderful strides along
efficiency lines the past year The
percentage of attendance was higher
than formerly, greater interest was
manifested in the work and from a
general educational standpoint the
school had one of the best, if not the
best, years in its history.
New Filling Station.
Walter j. Roberts and brother have
leased the plot they recently purchas-
ed on the east side of the Shore Road
between Absecon Boulevard and the
railroad tracks to the Co-Service Oil
Company, with main offices at Texas
and Atlantic avenues, Atlantic City,
which is having erected one of the
most modern and up-to-date filling sta
tons in this part of the county. The