The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-15

the monthly business meeting and So
cial at the home of Mrs. May Town
send last Tuesday evening.
A combined picnic of the Junior
Christian Endeavor Society and the
Home Department of the Presbyterian
Church will be held at Lily Lake Park
next Thursday, July Goth.
Miss May Cordery entertained the
following Art Club members at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Samuel John.
son, last Wednesday afternoon: Mrs
A. L. Hammell, Mrs. R. L. Babcock
Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin, Mrs. R. A
Elwood, Miss Hannah Madden, Miss
Alice MacIntyre, Mrs. William B
J Smith, Mrs. Walter J. Roberts, Mrs
M. M. Townsend, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs
William o. Roop and Mrs. John Nc
Mullin.
New Waiting Room.
Herbert P. Bailey, who, during the
past Is months has conducted a gas
and oil service station at the junction
of the Philadelphia and New York
roads, is erecting a combination wait,
ing room and service station at Shore
Road and Ohio avenue, on the site oil
the old trolley station, for the accom-
mediation of patrons of the trolley and
the travelling public in general.
Life Guard Named.
Joseph Lingelbach has been appoin.
ted by Mayor Mattson as life guard al
the swimming pool on the White prop.
erty near Absecon Boulevard, where
an increasing number of bathers are
Aai1y cnon toEino them lin onI o.iax,
ing an aquatic frolic. The guard was
appointed for two months from the
first of this week. He goes on duty
every day in the week at from $50 to
10 a. m. and remains until from $50
to 6 p. M, according to when the most
bathers are present.
Women Have Petition
Against Sign Boards
AS another means of checking the
wholesale erection of large advertis-
ing signs in the city limits, particular.
ly at the entrance to Absecon via the
meadow boulevard, where it has been
repeatedly affirmed they obstruct the
view OF motorists and detract from
the aesthetic beauty of the scenic
landscape, members of the Women's
Civic Club and Women's Republican
Club have signed a petition deprecat
ing the leasing of land, especially nat
ural beauty spots, for sign advertising
purposes, and have posted the petition
on the wall in the post office, where
residents n property owners, male
and female, are requested to affiX theil
signatures to same. The full text oil
the petition follows: "Inasmuch as
Absecon has wonderful natural scenic
beauty, which by improvement can moi
only add to the real estate value oil
its properties, but will induce desira.
BILE people to permanently locate with.
in its limits, we feel that billboards
are a Disagreement; also in many
cases a real menace to traffic, and we
endorse the work being done by oul
Civic Club. Furthermore we agree to
rent no space to sign or poster com
panies, and those of us who have al
ready done so will not renew con
tracts when present one expire"
Absecon Post Office Hours.
Opens 7.15 a. M; closes s p. m.
Mail received from Philadelphia and
all distant points: $50 4. m, $40 a.
m, 7.45 p. m.
Mail received from Atlantic City:
$50 a. m, SAP p. m.
Mail closes for Philadelphia and all
distant points; 5 a. M, $40 a. M, 7.2C
p. m.
Mail closes for Atlantic City: 9.2C
a.. m., 7.20 p. m.
Office closed all day Sunday.
20 ELLEN E. SHOWELL, p. M.