The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-27
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK IN THAT THRIVING CITY cHRoN.
lcLED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

session last Tuesday and organized
according to annual custom. by elect
ing the following officers: President.
Elizabeth Thomas; yice-president. ia
cob Reed; secretary, Sarah Boice:
treasurer, Carlton Giberson. Virginia
Babcock, Charlotte Louise Hammell
and Florence Bell were appointed a
committee to secure information on
class pins. Now that organization has
been effected, regular meetings of the
class will be held every other Tuesday
afternoon, at the close of school.
Missionary Society.
Present at the monthly meeting of
the Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Presbyterian
Church held at the home of Mrs. Sam
uel Smith on New Jersey avenue last
Tuesday afternoon were Mrs. Charles
Irelan, Mrs. Samuel johnson. Mrs.
Lawrence Beckley, Mrs. r. A. EIwood.
Mrs. Charles Kunkely, Mrs. Edward
Nicholas, Miss Hannah Madden, Mrs.
NJ. M. Townsend and the hostess.
Work Among Freedmen of the South"
was the subject discussed. Refresh
ments were served.
Teacher III.
Miss Clara Conover has been con-
fined to the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Gilbert Conoyer, this week.
with an attack of appendicitis. She
was taken ill while %instructing her
class in the Massachusetts Avenue
School, Atlantic City, last Monday
morning, and was brought home about
noon by her brother, George B. Como
yer, in his machine. The stricken
girls elder brother, DR.. Horace Como
yer, of Barnegat, was summoned. He
remained here over night and held a
consultation with a local physician.
who is treating the patient. Every
effort has been made to spare the sur
geon's knife. Her condition is said to
be slightly improved. Miss Conover
was feeling badly when she Started
for school that morning.
Autos Collide.
Blinded by the rain and the glare of
approaching headlights while travelling
north on the Shore Road Saturday
night, caused Harry Burd to drive his
Chevrolet sedan into the rear OF a
machine standing without a lighted
tail lamp in front of Leeds Garage,
neal Waterworks Drive. The coils
ion caused damage to the front of the
Burd machine, including the axle, fen
ders and wind shield. Mrs. Burd was
seated beside her husband on the front
seat at the time, but fortunately Meth.
er was hurt, although she was cata.
pulled into the windshield with disas-
trous results to the latter.
Firemen at Convention.
Edward N. Pennington, Lewis w,
Bowker, Charles NJ. Kesler, Horace E.
Miller, DR.. C. G. Allen, John Black
man and Ira L. Giberson represented
the Absecon Volunteer Fire Co. No. /
at the meeting held at, Egg Harbor on
Wednesday evening of last week, when
the Atlantic County Firemen's Asso.
citation was formed. c. NJ. Kesler
chief of the local fire company, was
elected vice-president of the Associa-
ton, while Edward Pennington, presi
dent of the Absecon firemen, was Sc
lected for freasurer-Mr. .RoMker was
made a member of the executive com
mittee.
Band of Mercy.
AT the Hollnly meeting OF Inc AID
secon Band of Mercy, held in the
school auditorium on January IS, flow
er committees for the following montf
were appointed, as follows: Presby
terrain Church, Edith Freas, Catherin,
Smith, Marie Moore and Doris Rem
Methodist Church, Dorothy Allen
Frances Smith, Luetta Rider and Ad;
DeHaven. officers of the Band O
Mercy are: President, Virginia Bah
cock; secretary, Elizabeth Thomas
treasurer, Catherine Mccarthy.