The Conshohocken Recorder, March 17, 1916

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CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1916.
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Work on Buildings is Delayed;
Duplex Metallic Co., Re-ceives
Machinery
GLASS FURNACE BUILT
The unsettled weather of the past
six weeks has been a serious handi-cap
to the new Industries now under
course of construction. The build-ing
of tiie U'eland Surgical Company
at Hector and l.ime streets should
now lie under roof but the weather
has hindered the bricklayers and held
them back. However, if the weather
conditions become more settled, the
brick work will be completed next
week and the work of building the
roof will begin Immediately. After
the roof is on the building will be
rapidly completed.
The company '.■ anxious to get Into
Its new bull) Ing as it has plenty of
business and is now handicapped in
that it is carrying on manufacturing
in two places.
The Ruth .Class Company is also
being held up with its new glass
tube factory. /Tiie principal part of
ihe factory is the melting fcrnace and
this is almost completed All the
foundations have been built and the
furnace proper is now ready for the
placing of the stack. The furnace is
what is known as a 10-pot crucible
furnace, it is built of stone and fire
brick. The furnace will contain 10
crucibles and during operations the
process of melting will go on con-tinuously.
The furnace will be coal
fired, The materials have arrived
for the construction of the building
and the plant will he completed with-in
three weeks if the workmen have
good weather.
The Implex Metalllic Company, the
purchasers of the Andrew iBbrecht
property, is busy getting the ground
in shape for its buildings. Superin-tendent
Pritchard is on the ground
every day gettlngs things in shape to
place men at work as soon as the
weather permits. Much machinery
has arrived on the grounds and the
work of building foundation will be-gin
as soon as possible. A road bed
for a railroad siding Into the prop-erty
is being prepared and the Head-ing
Company will have the siding
built, and ready for service before
the actual erection of the buildings
begin.
All the new concerns are anxious
to liave their plants rapidly complet-ed
and the first few weeks of good
weather will bring about a great
change in the industrial activities in
the east end.
MOOSE ELECTS OFFICERS
Dr. Pavlidis Named as Physician to
the Lodge.—Other Officers.
An election (or officer* was held by
Conshohocken Lodgi of Moose, -In
Minis.' Home, Tuesday evening. Dr.
Pavlidis, of West Conshohocken, was
elected physician to the lodge sue-n
edlng Dr. William M. Hall, of this
borough, who resigned.
Officers fur the lodge were also
elected the successful candidates be-ing:
Dictator, William Russell; Vice
Dictator, Walter Bchank; Prelate,
John Dundon; Outside Guard, John
Nally; Inside Guard. Michael Carr;
Trustee, Bdward Clark; Installing
Officer, tiarry Cunningham; Treasur-er.
John D. Hampton.
The lodge has commissioned archi-tect
Charles Miller, of Norrlstown, to
prepare plans fpra Moose Home to be
erected on the ground recently pur«
chased by the lodge on Spring Mill
avenue mar Poplar street, The build-ing
Is in be a three story brick struc-ture
84 by 80 feel ami will cost about
$10,000.
The lodge expects to have the plans
ready and all details settled thai bids
tor the construction of the building
may tie asked in the early summer.
SUDDEN DEATH
OF GATE KEEPER
Frederick G. Rauhood Dropped Dead
Tuesday Evening .After Report-ing
for Work at State Hospital.
Calvary Church Miisic.
The fifth Organ Recital of the pre-sent
series will be played in the
Church, after the evening service on
Sunday. Miss Dougherty will assist
Mr. Steele. as soloist of this Recital.
The program to be rendered, will
include the following selections:
l^argo Cantabile—Symphony I)
Haydn
Pastorale—F Merkel
Rove D'Amour Corbett
My Redeemer and My Lord ... Iluck
Miss Dougherty
Idylle Elsar
1-argo—New World Symphony
Dvorak
Mrs. Sarah L Ruth.
Sarah I,, wife of Frederick Ruth,
In her 43rd year, died Wednesday
afternoon, at her home, 234 Cast
F.ighth avenue. Mrs. Ruth had been
an Invalid for a year with a compli-cation
of diseases.
Before her marriage she was Miss
Sarah Wakefleld, of Philadelphia.
She is survived by her husband, who
is superintendent of the Ruth Glass
I ompany, .and two children, Frede-rick
and Paul.
Funeral services will be held at
her late residence tomorrow after-noon,
at 2 o'clock. The interment
will be private.
Stricken with valvclar disease of
the heart, Frederick G. Rauhood,
night gate keeper at the State Hos-pital
for the Insane, dropped dead
shortly after he assumed his duties
Tuesday evening.
Kauhood had just relieved Henry
(Holland, the day gate keeper, and
was talking to the latter, when he
suddenly reeled and fell to the floor.
Holland hurriedly summoned a phy-sician,
and when, the doctor arrived
he was found to be dead.
Or. S. Met/. Miller, resident physi-cian
of the institution, after an exam-ination,
declared that death was due
to valvular disease of the heart ahd
Registrar of Vital Statistics Charles
K White, who was notified of the
fatality issued a certificate accord-ingly.
Rauhood was 70 years of age and
resided at r.ii:» Buttonwood street,
Norrlstown. He had been employed
at the State Hospital for a number
of years. He is survived by his wife
and several sons and daughters, In-cluding,
Charles, Albert, George A.
and Pauline.
THE BIGNESS OF THE PENNSY
Has Enough Trackage to Enclose the
Earth.
Wills Probated.
If the Pennsylvania Railroad Sys-tem
could take up all of its tracks
and re-lay them In a singles line, it
would have enough to build a stand-ard
gauge railroad around the world
and double track it from New York
to Kansas City. The annual Record
of Transportation Lines which has
just been issued shows that the
trains of this Railroad System are
now henig operated dally over 28,706
miles of track, which gridiron 13
states and the District of Columbia.
The exact length of all the railroad
lines In the Pennsylvania System,
whether single, double, triple or quad-ruple
tracked, is shown by the Record
to be 11,823 miles. Of these lines,
37C,i miles have two or more tracks,
si's miles have three tracks and 63,">
miles have /our tracks. In addition,
there are 9,G">6 miles of track in the
sidings owned by the railroad. This
excludes the thousands of connecting
sidings owned by industrial and other
plants.
The lines of the Pennsylvania Rail-road
System, east of Pittsburgh,
irve Delaware, the District of
r olunvbia, Illinois, Indiana, Ken-tucky,
Maryland, Michigan, Missouri,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Penn-sylvania,
Virginia and West Virginia.
In this territory 50,000,000 people live
—half the entire initiation of the
Cnlted States.
Chester Valley Hunt
Breakfast Tomorrow
By the will Of Daniel Hurley, late of
this borough, his wife, Catharine, re-oelvea
the estate and at her death it
is to be held in (rust by the Penn
Trust Company for the benefit of two
sons, James and Edmund. Henry I.
I'I.X and the wife are named as exe-cutors
The will of Charles A. I.ongstrcth
of Lower Merlon, makes a number of
cash bequests to near relatives, and
leaves the residue to his wife, Ellen,
who is also named as executrix.
Firemen's Bazaar to End.
The bazaar which has been con-ducted
by the Washington Fire Com-pany,
in the hose house, for the pust
three weeks will end tomorrow night.
The bazaar has been a most success-ful
affair and has been liberally pat-ronized.
Everything will be sold to-morrow
evening and late In the eve-ning
an auction sale will be held to
dispose of all the articles.
Spectacles and eye glasses adjusted
free of charge. JAMBS 9. RAT> Jew
Reynard will have a short breath
of freedom tomorrow, if warm weath-er
does not set in and melt the thin
coating of snow which Is spread over
tho Chester Valley, when members of
the Chester Valley Hunt Club will
set out from the historic King or
Prussia Inn in pursuit of the fox
which will be released at 2 o'clock.
A hunt breakfast will be served
by member** of the club to a number
of prominent PhiUdelphians, who
will be their guests. William C. Wil-son
If. F. H. will lead the hunt.
Prominent among those who will ride
will' he Congressman John K. »v.
Scott, Walter G. Slbley, Judge Joseph
P. Rogers and R. Penn Smith.
Addressed Bryn Mawr
College Students.
Miss Jean Hamilton, executive
secretary of the National league or
Women Workers, talked Wednesday
on "The Education, of the adult
Women Worker" at Bryn Mawr Col-lege.
Her lecture is one of a series
on social work under the auspices of
the social research department of the
college.
Umbrellas repaired sue crrered at
SALOONS DUE 10
Dr. Homer W. Tope Declares
that Voting Christians are
Responsible for Hotels
SAYS NATION WILL BE DRY
•ler. Adv. KEHOE'S.—Adv.
In a stirring address before a fair
si/.ed congregation in the Holiness
Christian Church, West Conshohock-en,
on Wednesday evening, Dr. Horn
er W. Tope, a Nation-wide advocate
of the temperance cause, declared
that the voting Christians of the
country are responsible for the pre-sence
of the saloon. He declared
that I here are more than 300,000 vot-ing
Christians and only 14,000 saloon
keepers. He further declared that he
expects to see the Constitution of
the I'nited States so amended as to
make the entile Nation "dry."
Dr. Tope spoke at length' on the
temperance ([itestlon, depicting the
evils that have accrued through t:ie
use of Strong drink; he told of the
great work that is being carried on
by the No-Ucense l-eague, describ-ing
where and how the majority of
the good work bad been done.
In speaking of the liquor question
the noted speaker said that there Is
more rum sold In the <. it\ oi New
York alone than in thirty-six stair.
of the Union. More than Siuu.ui'
day Is spent in this great city for
booze. Dr. Tope said that there Is
|3800 per minute spent for rum In
this country. He said that a place
is known by Its output and that the
output of the saloon is no good
therefore the saloon is no good. He
said that the output of the saloon Is
only crime and misery.
The speaker said that the only way
to eliminate the saloon is to make
laws to prevent the manufacture of
rum. He said the only rea-jon that
such laws had not been made was
because the Christian people insisted
on electing men to the legislatures
who are opposed to them. In speak-ing
of the decisions handed down by
the Judges he declared that there is
no appeal simply because such
opinions are handed down verbally
instead of in writing. iHe further
declared that if the church would do
iis duty, a To bet" sign would be
hung on the front door of every sal-oon
within five years.
In .-peaking on the granting of li-censes
he said It would be just as
reasonable to license the itch and ar-rest
a man for scratching as it is to
grant a license to sell rum and then,
arrest a man for getting drunk. He
declared there is not a blight so dark
and dread on the country as the liq-uor
traffic. He is opposed to booze
because it is opposed to the home
and church and everything else that
Is decent. According to the speaker
alcohol is poisonous and both whis-key
and beer contain considerable of
it. Some people put up the excuse
that they never drink whiskey. Dr.
Tope dald that those who do drink
must get a certain amount of alcohol
before they are satisfied and the man
who drinks beer instead of whiskey
must drink a great deal more as beer
does not contain near so great amount
of alcohol as does whiskey.
In telling of the great work that Is
being carried on by the No-l.lcense
League, the speaker said that the
League owns a printing plant valued
at $200,000 in Ohio and not a cent
is owing on the property. From
here circulars and other literature are
printed and sent to all parts of the
country. He enumerated a long list
of great men who have enlisted In
the work and spend their time in
touring the country and lectcring in
the Interest of the cause.
Dr. Tope spoke of the bill that has
been prepared for adoi>tion by the
National House of Representatives at
Washington, offering an amendment
to the Constitution to prevent the
manufacture of intoxicating Uquoru.
He explained that it would take a
two-thirds majority to pass the bill.
If the amendment Is placed on the
ballot thlrtyisix states will have to
vote favorably on it. At the present
time there are nineteen different
stateB that have gone dry and Dr.
Tope is very optimistic over the out-look
for a dry Nation, which he de-clares
will come, if not within his
day, will come In the day of the
younger generation who listened to
his address.
At the close of his address cards
were distributed through the audience
to be signed pledging to give a cer-tain
amount each year to assist in
carrying on the work. A number of
persons signed the cards.
Triplets Born In Wilmington.
Mrs. Ida Senlx, of 100 East Seventh
street, Wilmington. Del., Tuesday be-came
the mother of triplets, two boys
and one girl. She is a widow, her
husband having died four months
ago. All the babies are sound and
healthy. The mother Is doing well.
Mrs. Senix, was before her marlage
Miss Ida Werts, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Werts, former residents,
of Conshohocken. She is the niece
of Mrs. J. A. Crossmore and Mrs.
Howard Rigg. of this place.
Advertise in THE RECORDER.
SCHOOL DIRECTORS ASSO'N
Meeting Will Be Held at Pottstown
and New School Topics Will Be
Discussed.
The 54th meeting of the School
Directors Association of Montgomery
County Will be held in the auditorium
of the Pottstown High School, Tues-day,
March 80th. Sessions will be
held both afternoon and evening and
the sessions will be of great Interest
to every School Director and district
as the discussions will include such
topics as New School legislation, it
being the outcome of the workmen's
compensation act and the continua-tion
schools.
The following is the program for
both sessions:
Morning Session.
10 o'clock
Pottstown High School Orchestra
Music-invocation
.. Rev. I. B. Kurtz, D. D.
Address of Welcome—
Mr. II. M. I.cssig, President Potts-town
School Hoard.
Mcsic—-
Girls' Glee Club, Pottstown High
School.
Reading and Approval of .Minutes.
Reports.
Soprano Solo Anna I#ssig
Miscellaneous Business.
Music-
Girls Glee Club, Pottstown High
School.
Discussion:—"Leaks In Our School
System," Mr. Amos H. Shultz, Wor-cester;
Mr. C. L. lohn, Cpper
PottBgrove; Mr. Harvey Tagert,
Douglass.
General Discussion.
Question Box.
Afternoon Session
1.00 o'clock.
Music—
Pottstown High School Orchestra
and Glee iClub.
Discussion:—"New School Legisla-tion"
(a) Workmen s Compensa-tion
Act, Mr. William A Schnader,
Member of Philadelphia Bar. (b)
"Continuation Schools," Mr. Mlll-ard
B. King, Director of Industrial
Education, Harrisburg, Pa.
General Discussion.
Music-
Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs, Potts-town
High School.
Tenor Solo Wilfred Daub
School Buildings of the State—
Dr. J. George Becht, Executive Sec-retary
State Board of Education
Mr. U til. Dennis, Director of Agri-cultural
Education.
Music—
Pottstown High School Orchestra.
Organ Recital.
The following will'be-the program
of the music at the services in the
Baptist church' on Sunday evening,
beginning at 7.30 o'clock:
Organ—"Processional March
F. Frysinger
"Minuet in A" L. Boccherlne
Solo—"Fear Not Ye, O Israel
Miss Ada Eldridge D. Buck
Organ—Jubilate Deo A. Silver
"Meditation In 1). Flat"
C. W. Cadman
Offertory—Traumerel and IJttle Ro-mance
R Schumann
Postlude—March from Tannhauser
R. Wagner
Watch Your Pronouns.
To the Recorder:
In the issue of March 14, was a
most illuminating article on "He care-ful
of your pronouns." A more time-ly
and important adomitlon could not
be made to the people, old and young
of this immediate vicinity.
To those people accustomed to
hearing others say—"Where are me
gloves?" instead of "where are my
gloves?-' the glaring fault w.ill be
past wholly unnoticed but will those
same people declare they know bet-ter?
Does one have to have a High
school or college education to know
the proper use of the simple personal
pronouns (me and my).
It is astonishing that such faults
in the English language can be pass-ed
by but one hears their misuse
everywhere here—from the Primary
children—the Grade pupils—the High
School pupils—to the gray haired men
and women.
One can not help but wonder why
the teachers, who are supposed to be
instructors in the English langcage
do not "stop and listen" and correct
It while the habit Is not permanently
fixed in the minds of the young. To
the older people accustomed to its
use, to break them of the habit would
be like pulling teeth, or "teaching an
old dog new trlckB," so doubtless
through a long period of time shall
we have to hear It from them; but
to allow young children to acquire
such a habit of the misuse of words
Is simply unpardonable.
Does no one but a stranger notice
it
Do not the teachers notice it? If
not, why not?
One may have the education of a
savant, but his influence will bo
greatly diminished if he misuses the
simplest word* of the English langu-age—
for the misuse of such Is in it-self
a badge of ignorance.
LANGCAGE
"Chic" Lucas the Most Thought of
Man Among the Women. Why? Be-cause
he beautlfys their kitchens, par-lors,
dining rooms, halls and bed
rooms with his Spring Patterns of
Wall Paper. "CHIC LUCAS. Paper-hanger,
20 East (Hector street.
P.HSECTION IDS
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All Laborers and Work Train
Crews Between Pottstown
and Wynnefield Ave. Out
GANG THREATENS MASONS
The section laborers and work train
crews of the Schuylkill Valley Divi-sion
of the Pennsylvania Railroad be-tween
Pottstown and Wynnefield
avenue are out on strike demanding
a raise In wages from 11.78 to $2 a
day of 10 hours. The men made
their demands and the officials of the
road offered an advance of l^ cents
per hour or 15 cents perday but the
men refused and held out for their
demand of $.', an advance of 27
cents per day.
The strike began yesterday morn-ing
at 11 o'clock at Pottstown when
the men there quit work. The news
soon spread along the line to Phoen-ixville
and the men there quit. This
morning the men from the up-river
towns walked to Norrlstown and had
the laborers there join them. There
was now in the band about 40 men
and they came to this place. While
journeying along the highways near
the railioad they saw five masons
laying brick on the railroad embank-ment
between Forrest and Oak street,
this borough. They approached the
masons and ordered them to quit
work and join them. The masons re-fused
to join them and were told if
they did not quit they would have
to fight. The odds were too great
against the masons, they quit and re-turned
to their homes at Norrlstown.
The strikers came to the passenger
station here and loitered about the
streets near the railroad. They tried
to persuade the crossing watchman
at Harry street to join them but he
refused. Agent Garrett immediately
notified Burgess Hloomhall of the
presence of the strikers and the Bur-gess
and police were soon on the
scene. The Burgess ordered the
strikers to leave the town which they
did. They left here for Manayunk
intending to walk to that place and
encourage the men there to hold firm
for their demands.
One of the strikers said the labor-ers
will hold firm and must have an
answer to their demands before April
first as on that day the answer will
be given the Brotherhood of Train-men
as to whether their demands for
an 8 hour day will be granted or re-fused.
The striker said If the de-mands
of the Brotherhood are grant-ed
the laborers will get nothing.
There are but 6 men residing in
this town who are employed as sec-tion
laborers.
MR. WATSON EXPLAINS VOTE
Vote on McLemore Resolution Not
Against President but Against
Procedure.
Congressman Wntson's vote on the
Mcl-emore resolution taken on the 7th
ins!., is explained by the following
taken from the Congressional Rec-ord:
"Mr. Speaker. I shall vote against
laying the Mel.emiire KSOlutlOD on the
table, not to embarrass the Preadent,
but that every Representative may
have the privilege of fully dlsCUBSlng
the direct issue. This is 8 Democratic
procedure. Presumably the resolution
would have rested in the committee if
the President had so ordered, but, to
the contrary, he wished in knew the
sen 11mem of the House relative to his
policy touching the expediency of Am-ericans
traveling upon armed bcligcr-ent
vessels. Why, then, could not the
resolution have been placed before the
members with thai usual and equit-able
manner which heretofore has
been the precedent of this House? I
regret that the committee fallde to re-port
this resolution with the. spirit
of confidence which this grave ques-tion
demands. I clo not approve of
such a course, and I believe that the
American people would not concur
in this manner of representaiton. I
can not sustain any measure or rule
which attempts to abridge the rights
of Congress from the privilege of de-hating
upon any issue. Should the
vote be in favor to lay tho resolution
on the table, the measure may rise
from its own ashes In a more serious
form, to be eventually debated under
a far different international compli-cation
which now confronts us."
Bicycle repairing at KEIIOES.—Ad.
K. of C. to Move.
Conshohocken Council Knights of
Columbus have leased the third floor
of the Hell building. First avenue and
Fayette street, for their lodge and
club rooms. The Council Is now .occu-pying
the building adjoining the new
St. Matthew's church and this build-ing
is to be torn down and will be re-placed
by a rectory attached to the
church.
The Council is now making altera-tions
In their new quarters and will
have fine, comfortable quarters.
• •*••••• • •••*•••
* Have your Teeth examined free *
* of charge.—DR. MEYBRS. Den- •
* tist,' 75 Fayette Street. •
IETH0DIST CONFERENCE
Refuses to Agree to Limit of Pas-torate.
Resolutions urging the unification
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
with the Methodist Bplscopal Church
South, and instructing the Philadel-phia
delegation to the General Con-ference
tO be held at Saratoga. N. V.,
to give this movement support, were
adopted Thursday by the Laymen's
Association of the Philadelphia
Methodist Conference, which held all-day
meetings In Krio Avenue Church.
• • •
A resolution seeking to restore the
time limit on pastorates was defeat-ed
yesterday at the 129th session of
the Philadelphia Methodist Episcop-al
Conference, being held at St. James
Church, Tabor road, oiney.
The resolution, submitted by the
Kev. Arthur Oaks, of Spring City,
I'a., was a request to the General
"onferenee, meeting in May at Sara-toga
Springs, N. Y.. to fix such a
limit, though the length Of the pastor-ate
was not specified. The measure
lost by a vote of !)6 to 81.
Wednesday, Mr. Oaks introduced a
resolution calling for a discussion of
the subject at the session Thursday.
For several years Mr. Oaks and sev-eral
other men have been trying to
push through the plan to restore the
time limit, which was abolished six-teen
years ago. Before then, the
limit iiad at various times been two,
three and five years. At the last
conference, in Norrlstown Mr. Oaks
brought the question up, but action
was deferred until this year.
When Mr. Oaks arose to speak
yesterday morning, he was applauded.
"The removal or the time limit," he
declared, "was caste legislation- It
was mischievous and dangerous,
more so than any form of city. State
or national government. And the re-moval
of the limit failed In its pur-pose.
It was said many notable fea-tures
would be brought about, but
there has been no sign of them."
It is absurd to say a minister has
to stay fifteen or twenty years in one
place to build up a church. It is a
reflection on our Methodist fathers.
They didn't have to do it. And their
sons are as able as they. A church
can be built and paid for in a certain
number of years. No church is in
peril when the pastors move on and
on. The church itself goes on just
the same.
Makes Pastors Politicians.
"The removal of the time limit
left a ]»erilous temptation for certain
pastors. It makes them temporising
politicians, and they shock! be asham-ed
of it.
"When a man moves on, of course
he often does so at a salary loss of
from *:'00 to 11,000 a year, so some
pastors wish to hold on as "prophi i
of God." And under the present
system, It is a loss to a man's minis-terial
standing when he must leave
a church where he has been a long
while, It hurts his reputation.
People want to know why he has to
go. But under the time limit, there
would he no reflection. Everyone
would have to move.
"The old-time limit was the Metho-dist
Church's plan to promote the
Kingdom of Cod The best time of B
man's pastoral life is the first and
second year In the ministry. This
Is shown by statistics from the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
which has a four-year time limit,
such a limit makes every pastor liis
own evangelist." Here Bishop Berry,
presiding officer of the conference,
pounded his gravel.
"Time's up," he announced. The
vote was then called for. . It was BO
hard to tell how the vote stood that
the ministers were asked to rise.
Then a head count showed the resolu-tion's
defeat.
NAVY LEAGUE SUIT
COMES AS SURPRISE
R. .B. Strassburger Accused of Being
in Empley of Germans.
Members of the Navy l-eague were
astonished when they learned yester-day
that Ralph Beaver Strassburger of
Philadelphia, a director of the league
had began legal action to restrain it
from making any further payments
to DabO and Helm, publishers of
Seven Stars, the official organ of the
organization.
Scott Dabo, or Dabo and Helm,
said that his concern had a contract
with the Navy l-eague to furnish the
members' with the magazine, lie
said that Strassburger had been
trying to drive the Seven Seas out
of business ever since he had been
a director in the league.
"For every dollar the league has
iput in the magazine," said Mr. Iabo,
"we have put In two or three We
have absolute knowledge that Mr.
Strassburger is in the employ of the
German Government, which will be
brought forward at the proper time."
The charge contained in the suit
brought in New York by Ralph Beav-er
Strassburgegr, a director of the
Navy league or the I'nited States,
that an improper use has been made,
of the funds of the league in con-nection
with the contract with the
New York firm of Dabo and Helm,
was denied at. the office of the league
in Washington Thursday.
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• iHave your Teeth examined free
• of charge.—DR. MEYERS, Den- *
• tlst. 75 Fayette Street.
F
FOB FREE LIBRARY
Circulation for Month Was
Greatest apd Reached a
Total of 3162
INCREASE IN NEW PATRONS
While cities and towns are com-plaining
thai the use of the public
libraries Is Calling off and the movies
are being blamed tor it. Conshohock-en'.--
Free Library is constantly adding
new patrons to Its already large list
and the little month of February just
passed has broken all records for the
sami month In the years of the li-brary's
< Kistence. Last February
showed the highest circulation of
hunks of any previous February. The
total circulation for the month was
8162. The daily average circulation
was 182. The highest daily circulation
Was 198 and tin- lowest 84. I uiring the
month is new borrowers applied for
cud. and there wen 752 readers at
the tables,
The library now contains 4488 books
The,-,, books have been selected with
great care In eider to provide for the
nre,is of every class of readers. T
is plenty of g I Action, technical
bunks. iex( books for the use of those
who are working and wish to further
educate themselves. Care has also
been used In selecting books for school
Children that may pursui n course of
reading thai will aid them in their
school work.
lulling the month 73 new I ks have
added, All this Information
e.mn i,m last night when the Trus-i
i id a regular meeting. The re-port
was received with much gratifi-cation
as it shows thai the local i pie
will let nothing Interfere with their
reading.
The library is in good financial con-dition
and the Trustees and Librarians
are keeplnR the Institution modern and
comfortable, and the people are en-ted
to use it to the fullest.
STORE CLOSING P'EITION
Grocers Cill Be Asked to Close and
Public Sentiment on Question is
Desired.
The movement on foot to close the
grocery stores on Friday evenings
ai :< o'clock and on Saturdays at 7
I'. M. is .now taking definite shape
and P. 1,,,-Oeary, proprietor Of l.ear; ..
grocery^ fs preparing a petition
which will be presented to each store
proprietor and it is expected that all
the grocers will be favorable.
A number of grocers, have already
expressed themselves as favorable
and desire to close early on Satur-days.
All the clerks, without excep-tion,
are heartily in favor of the
movement and If it goes through they
will he contented with their jobs.
Many persons have expressed them-selves
to the grocers as favoring the
movement and recognize the present
hours of labor are excessive.
It is. hoped to place the closing
oilier in effect Saturday, April 8.
WARNER'S FORMAL
SPRING OPENING
Big Department Store in Excellent
Trim; Fashion Show, Last Night
Spning Is most assuredly in the at-mosphere,
at Warner's. Bvery nook
and cranny of tho big department
store nas taken on a gala appearance,
as it in celebration of the happy sea-son.
For yesterday was Warner's
Formal Spring Opening.
The decorative color scheme of tho
opening is black and white. The in-terion
of the store is literally out-lined
In southern smilax, arranged
on white lattico work. Black and
while silhouette ipanels add an orig-inal
touch.
Especially attractive is the display
of the newest summer dress goods.
So dainty and pretty are the variety
or organdies, voiles, tissues, flaxlnes,
which are shown, that it is, indeed,
hard for one to leave them.
The window display is another at-tractive
feature. The hand-painted
panels form a beautiful background
for I he costumes. The panels are
the original work of Mr. \V. Ander-son,
the decorator.
Among the many improvements in
the Winner Store, this spring, are
the new cash current and the indi-rect
lighting systems.
The spring fashion show, last eve-ning,
at Marner'B, was one of the fin*
est displays ever seen in Norrlstown.
A spring wedding party was one ot
I he features. •
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. T. A. Armour, Pastor. 9.00 A.
M. Sunday School, Or. Robert II. El-zey,
superintendent. 9.15 A. M. I!i-ble
Class, Dr. J. Hufus Barr, teacher.
10.30 A. M. Preaching service, ill
charge of Dr. J. Wharton llradley.
6.46 i'. M. BJpworth League. 7.:so P.
M. preaching service in charge of
Dr. J. Wharton Bradley. Wednesday
evening at 7.416, regular weekly pray-er
service, in charge of the pastor.
DR. A. J. DOUGHERTY,
Dentist.
JACOBSiiX Rini.DING,
CO Fayette Street.