The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-29
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
NEWS OF INTEREST IN AND ABOUT THIS THRIVING CITY
AS cHRoNcLEo BY LENA ROBINSON.

VIC. All WIN SudIdllteu. adv.
Miss Betty Conover visited friends
in Philadelphia the past weekend.
Mr.. e. L. Carolus and family enter.
tanned several friends from Atlantic
City on Sunday.
Mrs. E. l.. Carolus and daughter
Florence spent Monday afternoon with
relatives in Linwood.
Mrs. Harry Thomas was called to
the bedside of her father, who is very
i'll in Philadelphia, on Tuesday.
The Ladies Aid wish to thank all
who helped with the cake and pie sale.
About $3.50 was realized.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bewley were
Philadelphia visitors on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Hammell passed
Tuesday in Vineland.
Many of the children, who have had
w%hooping cough, have returned to
school.
Mrs. Leona Reed, who has been con
fined TO her home for the past two
weeks, has returned to her duties in
Pleasantyille public school.
Miss Carrie Reed, Miss Ruth Reed
and Jacob Reed have returned to their
home, after spending the winter
at AbSecOn Inn.
Mr.. Kenneth Kelley, head of the
music department in the Atlantic City
High School, was organist in the M.
E. Church on Sunday. Miss Florence
Draper will play the organ next Sun
day.
Mrs. Yard, wife of DR.. Yard, pastor
of Central NJ. E. Church, Atlantic City,
will meet on Friday evening with Mrs.
c.. K. Dilks and the Girls Club, to form
a Queen Esther Circle.
Martin Carly and son William. of
Camden, spent the weekend with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Spokesman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Ludlow and
daughter have moved to Newark, after
spending two years in Springfield,
Mass. Mrs. Ludlow was Miss Ruth
Adams, of this city.
Mrs. Harley Boice was the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Annie Fish, of Pleas
~antville, on Monday.
Edward Mccarthy and Herman Kel-
by have returned to their homes, after
a stay in Florida. They made the trip
by auto, which was very successful.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. C. Boice and Mrs.
Wilbur Adams were Absecon visitors
recently.
Mrs. J.. Alton Mitchell is spending a
few days in Philadelphia.
F. F. Doughty has been on the sick
list.
Mrs. Joseph Smith, Jr., and daugh-
ter Eleanor are both confined to their
home by illness.
Miss Ethel Hammell spent the week
end in Freehold.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry V. Miller and
Miss Adelma Miller were dinner
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Doughty, of
Atlantic City, on Sunday.
Allen Townsend entertained at a
luncheon Monday evening, Miss Arme-
mia Risley, of Pleasantville; Miss Lot
tie Denner and Miss Gertrude Muerer,
of Hamburg, Germany. After the lun-
cheon the party enjoyed 'I1l say She
Is, at the Apollo.
Mrs. Sara Madden has returned to
ner home in Tuckahoe, after a five
weeks stay at the Madden and Elwood
homes.
Rev. R. A. Elwood left Friday to
speak in the First Presbyterian
Church, Paramount, w. Va. He has
engagements at Niagara Falls; Allan
ia, Ca; West Point Military Academy
and Philadelphia, before he will finish
his lecture tour for the winter. Rev.
ElwOod expects to open the Board
walk Church about June Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Carton, Frank
lin Carton and Charles Carton visited
Vineland on Sunday.
Miss Emily Reep spent the past
weekend with her parents in Wayne,
Pa.
Russell Elwood has a bad case of
w%hooping cough. He was a little i'm
proved the past few days.
Mrs. Anna G.. Fleming, Mrs. Lewis
Clark, Mrs. ]. Alton Mitchell, Mrs.
Johnson and Mrs. E. J. Nicholas re-
Gently attended the meeting of the
Women's State Republican Club held
in Camden.
c. NJ. Kesler spent Saturday at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Douglas
Cavileer, Overlook, Pa.
Mrs. Julia Fenton recently opened
an ice cream parlor and restaurant in
the Sooy building. on White Horse
pike, near Station avenue.
Sunday School Adults Meet.
The adult division of the N. E. Sun
day School held its monthly social and
business meeting at the home of Prof.
and Mrs. E.. d. Riley, on Tuesday eve
ming. Mrs. Gussie Lee, president, pre-
sided. The Ladies' Class report show
ed large gains in attendance and
finance. The visiting committee re-
ported many calls and the flower ON
mittee had distributed flowers to the
c;olx nn1 dnaaocnl Friends Of tho
church. The Mems Class reported
progress-nothing for publication, IS
all OF their efforts are kept secret and
no records kept. AT the close of the
business, refreshments were served.
Present were: Mrs. Gussie Lee, Mrs.
Elizabeth Conover, Mrs. H. Mattson,
Rev. and Mrs. Dilks, Mrs. E. Herbert,
Mrs. A. Leeds, Mrs. Laura Shovel,
Mrs. NJ. Hoagland, Mrs. Anna Ludlam,
Miss C. C. Black, Mrs. Taylor, Miss
Mary Penhallow, Mrs. Sara Carton,
Mrs. Leland Shovel, Mrs. Arthur Con-
over, Mrs. Robt. Taylor, Mrs. R. R.
Richards, Miss Effie Smith, Mrs. c..
Bowker, H. Hoagland, Leon Conoyer,
Prof. and Mrs. Riley.
Sunday School Class.
Mrs. C. X. Dilks entertained her
Sunday School class on Monday eve
ming in the parsonage. The meeting
was postponed from the Friday eve
ming before due to the stormy weather.
The evening was spent in games.
Those attending we're: Reuben Bah
cock, John Bewley, Frederick Thomp-
son, Marvin DeHaven. Harlan Boice'
and Theodore Fox.
Art Club.
Miss Hannah Madden entertained