The Conshohocken Recorder, August 2, 1901

              RVRRYTHING HE«_
P"AIN ARD CLEAR. eljc Consljdjockcn fUeocfcct.. "ALL THAT'S TRUE
WE'LL GIVE TO yon"'
No. 3038
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
CONSHOHOCKEN, v\ , FHIDAY, AUGUST 2, L901
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NOTES OF_OUR TOWN
ITEMS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
THE PEOPLE OK OUR
BOROUGH
Ml "'I Mis. \\\ II Zlmmci-imiii an'
anjoj hit ., vacation MI Buffalo,
rii'' Women'! Relief Corpi will mei I
nexl Monday evening, August 5th, in
G \ H. Mall.
Mr .in.i Mrs Edward Campbell, of
Jenklntown, were renewing acquaint-
■"■'i II, tbla borough mi Tuesday,
Mrs. Prank Harrison, Mrs. Harry
Hurra] ind Bthel Apple, ol this bor-ough,
hail i delightful trip visiting
Mrs. A. Apple, at Perkaale, Pa.
Mr. and Mis W. inbergi r who were
married in Qulgley'i Hall laat winter
and an- DOW living in Philadelphia
an iii, parenti ,,t triplets, three girl*
who were boi Wednesday ol but
week,
\iina i\ n, vim or Philadelphia
will assist III the mush at the rial,
batn evening service of the Presbyter-i:
'i Church, She will ting as aoloa
■•Calvary" ami alia "Nearer My Clod
t,i TI,,-
V i- Ion !,:■ running arbund the
■s at large are causing nun i, i on-
Mernation among our residents. There
has been three persons attacked in this
borough within two weeks ami while
the Injuries Inflicted by the canines
have not proved aerious it team the
people in constant fear An ordinanoe
should be passed compelling people t c ■
keep thelt doga munled or keep them
olT Hi,' sin , t.
On Momlay evening tin, Norristown
Opera House will open up their season
in,l tho much talked of oiiern house
which we were promised in this Isir-ough
a few months ago, has not been
nil ami from all appofarancei we
win have I,, go through another winter
without having any amusement in the
theatre line in our own town. A lu-ll,,
more effort ami less talk wonlil nn
doubt work wonders here.
How many know how to bang a ham
mock so that iii, bead will be at a
comfortable height ami remain com-paratively
itatlonary while twinging?
There is a "know-how" about ham
mock hanging besides merely trying it
so firmly that it cannot hn-ak down.
A hammock hung according to rule
should be si\ ami a quarter feel from
tin' "in i ai ih, head ami three ami
three quarter! above the ground at the
fool end. The rope thai secures tin'
Iliad end should ho loss than 12 In-and
that at the fool should
measure four ami a half taat Arrang-ed
In this way tho lower pnrt will
ring freely and tho head l>o kopt rom-foriaidi'
by being nearly stationary.
Miss Carrie Reenan ami Mr. .lohn
Btewart were married on Tuesday ev-ening
Iholr future homo No. 340
Hector street by Rev. Herbert J. Cook,
iin Hector of Calvary Church, in tho
presenci of ab IUI '-,, guests from I'hiln-delphla,
Pramkford, Royersford, Nor-ristown
ami tins borough. Tho bride
was dressed in white organdie with
white satin trimmings, ami carried
a bouquet of bridal roses, and v.
tondod by her sister. Miss Bessie K>,
■an, also gowned in whits. The couple
were the recipients of a largo number
of handsome ami costly remembrance!
from their hosts of friends in this slat,'
ami in Iowa Later in the evening the
couple were londorod a serenade by tho
i;.,,me Smith Drum Corps, of which
the groom is in active member, Mr.
btewart is engaged with his father in
Uie ii, business
Miss Mary liiindon. egad -'A years.
a weii-known ami highly respeotsd
voun ■ lady of this borough died it her
in an mi Wednesday. Tho death of
I liinilon was a meat shook lo I he
Ifljrge iininlii r of friends which she had
III this borough as it was rathor un-expected.
She had been ill but a short
time. suffering from an Internal dll
and while it was known thai her
eondttlon was serious it was not
thought that It was of sneh a nnluic
to bring death. She has for a largo
number of years i>oon employed in tho
Weave room of the H. ('. .Tones \- Co's.
woolen mill and her kind disposition
and pleasing ways mado friomis for
In i with all with whom sho oomo in
contact The funeral services will ho
held from her mother'! residence, cor-in
i id Klin and Poplar street, on .Mon-day
morning High Mass at st. Mat-thew's
Church. The Interment win be
made Hi SI. Matthew's N'ew Com li'l'V
The emnloyees of Hie [I. C. Jones' plant
are respectfully Invited to attend.
A strengthening liquid which an in-valid
s learns to dread, lint which
Is ofteneet prescribed by tho physician.
Is a raw beaten egg mixed with milk
or wine Only those who have had
this Included In the dally diet for a
time can realize how quickly il be-comes
distasteful, and numerous do-mnsl
ho resorted to to make the
raw one palatable, for a change from
the milk and wlno prepare a Clip of
hot coffee, with cream and sugar, or
a- II bi -i liked by the Invalid. Have
an egg previously beaten very light,
and 11sdimlly stir it into the prepared
eofoe. standing the cup holding tho
cr. o in a pan of Polling water to
keep it very hot. This makes ;i
am change, as it is very palatable as
v.eii as strengthening, and if beaten
until thoroughly light ami stirred
quickly into the hot coffee the taste
of tho egg will not ho noti, calilc: in
fact, it will have much tho effect of
rich whipped cream added to thecoffoe.
John Crimean, Jr., kt spending two
weeks at Atlantic city.
Harry o,s, || is having his Fayetl
street store ami dwelling repainted
Daniel Redmond, who is si,-k with
fever, was Utken to Charily Hospital
yesterdaj
Mi- Btewart ami daughter, Miss
lift to-day for a vacation In At
lanti, city
Mis. Mary .lon.s died yesterday at
lei linn e on Maple street, she wa.s
"'"' "! " Ideal residents of the town
having come here when she was a girl
over sixty years ago.
Mi W 8 Harry and son. Benjamin,
are viewing the Can American fair at
Buffalo
Mr W. Anson Moser will conduct sat
in St Marks Church on Sun,kty
morning ami evening
Mi 1'i.ink Messmgei- hag had plans
prepared for the erection of ■ hand-some
home at Harry Street and Spring
Mill avenue.
Real lent! of Conahohocken believe
ilia' tin- war on Hie mosipiito in New
has caused the peat to emigrate
from that state ami to settle around
this low n
in Mr. Jones' sketch of his military
The Recorder should have
Printed Mr. .lame;, w Wood Instead of
John W Wood, as one of our cltlxetM
who s, i ved in the I lth Pennsylvania
Militia.
THE STREET IMPROVEMENTS
Contractor Noblel has a lame ion,
of men at work on tho grading of Third
avenue. The turplui earth ami stones
lie being rapidly taken off and the
surface leveled, getting ready for the
oeno treeti In the borough,
II:,Unwell street. Third and Spring
Mm avenues ami Poplar street all
coma together when- the grading ll l„'
•i,g (lime, ami when II is finished, with
ubaequenl curbing ami paving
Spring Mill .iv,mi,, win he one oi the
handsomest ami most desirable real
inet in the borough.
Third avenue Intersects Spring Mill
avenue about thirty feet easl from
Poplar street Unless Ghsnged this
would make serious trouble in draining
the different streets Bui the Jtreet
Committee is endeavoring to purchase
from Mr. .1. \V. Behllchter enough
ground so thai the water from 'Third
■venue can ho turned down I'oplar
street
Mr. Nohiu is making arrangement!
to erect his. rusher on Spring Mill ave-nue,
and hopes to have it in operation
next week. Iteforo the snow Hies he
'" in ( Is lo have all the stone on the two
avenues bach to the building line
crushed out and spread on Third ave-nue
and Rim street. Tho earth remov-ed
from Hie two avenues is being used
to till in the BI thl lepreaslons on Bum
$1 PER YKAK
NORRISTOWN LETTER
INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENT AT THE COUN-TY
SEAT
,11 Hie
,» ile
lone
Alice OTIonnell. aged BO years died | Street pi ■ | iving that street
in this borough yesterday. The funer-al
sorviies will he held tomorrow
morning at s o'clock from the residence
of her brother, Francis O'Donnel,Third
avenue ami Wood street. High Mai Tn* ow' •*Tln« "Be sure you're right,
of Requiem win ho celebrated in st •""' "" " 80 she i good maxlum
Matthew*! Church, the Interment tak '" f"n"» 0T ■" hast Mrs. Merkle, of
ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN
iiiB plan in si. Matthew'! New Ceme
tery
Clean up. During this hot weather
vegetable ami animal matter ,i--, ttyi
rapidly. Decay mean! death- not nly
to the matter thus dying but to living
ami breathing beings into whom the
death may enter. Filth of whatever
kind engenders dl
a necessity to health; ami watchfulness
'■ i isary to cleanliness at tin
son There is ;,,t t,, be careli -
Not only thl houses lint the yards and
alleys. hoiiM i,e kept cleafi fht '""* ' ' the prevention of cruel
Sixth avenue, thinks so. Last Priday
atti moo;, while .loin, Ni il a local
1 iter was serving his route along
sold avenue a doe belonging to
Merkle ra t and Jumped at
his horse, lie was accompanied by his
hrothor Robert, who. upon seeing the
canine plunge at the horse and ',, Ing
afraid that ti nlmal would he bitten,
iim w a i lam and struck the brute over
the eye Inflicting a slight wound. Mrs. i
Merkle Hading that the dog was hurt
pTooei,:, ,i I,, hand the ■-, tin
Not i islown. July SO iS|„ , lal l
while not directly within the scope
' I hi! Office DlStrtCt Attorney Hen-dricka
is anxious to secure some suit-aid,-
person to servo as Probation ,,in-eet
in carry out the work of the jn-ronlle
Court 'This tribunal recently
establishedJry law provides thai
young culprits, so as not to i„
meaned ami debs* -i ban be tppre
I' I'd by a Probation officer whoshaJI
hold thean in custody under his rare
Mil not ill lail until the Curt ,-oni-mitl
them |o the proper Institution
whore I In had that is In them shall be
eliminated by the latest ideas in coy-rectlve
measures At the rnte £
have been holding Juvenile Court hero
He Probationary officer would be ;,
ii i in> i, isy man whose home at times
would likely he taxed to tcoommodaie
wayward girls and delinquent hoys.
lake all offices where the wm k is oner-ous,
11,.' iay is extremely light ir,
fail there is no pay at all and travel
lln,t expenses ami other Incidents
'"" ' i "in i of the Incumbent's
pockets
Bo many persons apply to District
Mtornej Hendricka in reference to
refractory children thai Mr. Hendricka
Would lii.e to have some authorized
poison to whom he could refer all ap-plicant.,
in thai there t |s would lie
promptly Investigated, \w thinks that
it will ' vtremeiy dlfficuH to obtain
i person to meet the occasion foi Un-reason
thai the only recompense is
glory. II would form a moans, howev-er
tor iny person of Intelligence
meana and with philanthropic desires
•i, serve the present ami future genera-tions.
It Is ono of those offices In
which the recompense is far greater
than money and In which the motlv
;s its own hest reward.
gratulatory -• t< s of u, wa then
i admire the two men inn when they
only exploit one good thing th n
did it is iiki ly lo arm ,-i„,
thai it wns so unusual as lo demand a
lhall column write up you know the
old story of th, ni on,
daj tin lirst mill not drunk and ,,,.
captain had lo guide tin ship bli
That night he wr in the I,.; book
Man- drunk ail day when these
words nn t tin- i-a/.i of Hie male -, I |
following turn at tho helm i.-
inayeii ami asked the captain if Me in
1,1 id the
tainly," said the captain, "that'i
Hie log is for to note am tl
tal AbOUt a week afterwards the
i. iii i,»,iim- over thi
wa.s astounded to And thla , ntrj
mate captain s,,i„ ,- ah day
OBSERVER
CHINA AND BEB PEOPLE
or
i ail.,I pus
BASE BALL
health officer cannot I ■..-, ,-«,,. re
so that the householder! mual be on
the alert it i- everybodya concern
that an epidemic he avoided; and the
I il health of the eot unity de-pends
largely on the general cleanli-ness
of the whole town. Do your share
tj i" dut iii animals, with the result
that three warrants wen- sworn out tor
Hi' , i rest of .lohn Nell
He eluded all tin- wai rants anil. OB
Tuesday morning upon a request, went
to Magistrate l.enhardts office in Nor
listown Where the warrants wore Is-and
report oases of neglect to th, '""I Paid a fine of tlt.00, *■ ''
ihoritlos.
Horses anil cattle are now suffering
intensely from mes and mosquitoes.
The pastures swarm with Hies, and
when the horses ami cattle take to'the
woods In tho efforts to escape their
merciless tormentors, the mosipiitoos
alight upon them In oloiids. Milk cows
are worried constantly by three pestl-forons
Insects. During n recent trip
cows wore soon whoso shoulders and
sidi s wore black with flies. Tho COWS
were stamping and brushing off the
flics with their heads, hut the lilood-siiekers
would immediately alight
again and thrust their keen Mad/! In-to
the animal's hide Attempts have
lieen made-by some human owners to
clothe the cows In coats of gunny
sacks and Other material, hut In many
Instances the animals, not understand-ing
the purpose of the strange covet
ing. tear it off.
Many an ill-governed and unruly ur-chin
has heon mado a tolorahlo moni-ber
of the family or of the infant Com
aio'iweaith of tin- streets through Hie
Influence of the kindergarten, other
children who. If loft to Iholr own
Whim! and devices till they had n eh
< <! the ordinary school ago of T, or 7,
would hue become absolutely Incor-rigible
little loafers, truants, or oven
thieves, have been rosined by being
tain n into the kindorgaton before their
characters had received tile wrong set.
We may conclude, then. ' that the
present tendency toward wholesale
condemnation of the kindergarten is
as unjustifiable as the former
tendency toward wholesale praise;
that although the kindergarten has
not worked wonders, it has still made
a worthy contrihutlon to educational
methods There Is constant danger
I hat enthusiast! may attach too milch
\alne to mere names and lo men |
hanlam, and that they may carry too
far the idea of making lessons agree-able,
Yet. with wise tetiehers the
kindergarten will remain a useful part
of our educational system It will lie
especially serviceable to those chil-dren,
who. for ono reason or another,
arc not likely to leant the lessons of
juvenile citizenship through early con-tact
with playmates: that Is. to child-ren
Who aihouie have few or no play-inatis.
The kindergarten may also
save thOM children who. for one n-a-
IOII or another, are not early lironght
under steady and intelligent discipline
the neglected children of the very poor
and tho very rich
was Robert and not John who hit th
Mis Merkle had to return the
money to lohn and on Tuesday even-ing
paid him the $16.00 which Magis
Irate l.onhardt fined him in the morn-ing.
It is right and Just that diimh ani-mal!
he protected and that any one
who ill treats them should ho prose-cuted,
lint it Is also just as right thai
tin- guilty person he arrested as the
njBoV! ease plainly illustrates
Republican organization expect!
to con'rol ai least 7:i delegates in the
, on,ing county Convention, Then in
'To morrow afternoon th.- Union
II t,"im ,.! C||, ..I,.| ,vi|| |„. ||,,. |,,
■ Ill's Opponi ills and a la, at BOI I
anticipated, 'This team is
having defeated Chester and son,.- , i
tho other tnp-noti hers ,,f the a,,
type. Proser howi rer will he on n,.
flab for Hie locals and We have no fesi I
of tho home team going down |
inglorious defeat; ihey an- going in tor
nlnod.
The lino up of the lenins will
follows
Union League—Peters 2b Smith it
Lord, ce.; llusey. Jb.; Draper. II, , i
lesby, if.; Taylor, if.. rVrgua. , .
Iliiney or Cinniy. p.
Conahohocken Rsmbo or F Bi
c.i Proser, p ; Hussard, in. Baylor oi
H. Bulger, lb. Baylor or F B ilgi
Brown lb.; Murphy. If.; s. Bulgi
' I , - », rf.
I'OUTiOAI. ITEM8.
Joseph c. Jones, of Consbohc
Republican candidate for County
Treasurer was in Sklppack las) i
ami nailed at th, Traniorlpi ' office.
Mr .loins says ho is in th,- Bghl lo the
lllllsh and Is covering a mil, h of the
those within the fold who hold that the Iconnty * lll-,:"1 * !■ an Intelligent
NO FARMER FOR HER
.lames While ilrvnnlsvlllo. Ind..
DoWllt's Witch Hazel Salvo heal-ed
running sores on both legs He
had suffered 6 years Doctor! tailed
to help him. (id DeWltt's. Accept no
Imitations.
For sale by Wm. Nevlllo, and Clark's
drug store, West Conshohockcn.
s.iniuel Bowera has taken possession
of the Keystone Hotel at Hws-n l.nno.
Thi- Friendship Hose. Hoot and Lad-der
Company, of Royersford, win soon
secure a i hemli al i ngtne.
While he was at work at a Joining
machine in a planing mill at Royers-ford,
Harry Latlhaw'i lingers were out
off.
iii He' presence of four generations
of their ile.i i in I.mis Mi- and Mrs. Fran-els
Walter celebrated their golden wed
ding at C.roeti Lane.
A former resident of tills horough,
now living In Now York, in writing
ahOUl the average Now Yorkers aver-sion
to the country, wrote as follows
Tho cause? Well, it Isn't lack of
money, for her husband mnkos good
wagis. hut it's lack of knowledge of
hOW to spend tho money; it's tho liv-ing
in rinse. ,'ramped rooms; il's the
having greasy, badly cooked food, tin
being badly eared for when her ehlld-lon
were horn and tin- utter lack of
ambition. Sh! knows nothing, and
doesn't cars to know anything. Ami
she Wouldn't take the euro for ho-- Ill-ness
ii sin- could get it And the cure?
It's the gelling out of the great big
City; it s the going lo some of the
sinallei and newer places, when the
can ha\o ,i hous- of her owt ind ,ake
ptlde in if ami where she will be mat-foilahle
and happy I can't resist lalk
lug to her. So. after a word or two
about the baby, i ask her: "Are you >
New Yorker'.'" and she snys. "Yes.
and then I ask her If she wouldn't
rather live in the country, and she
says: "No, I wouldn't; there ainl't
nothlii goln' on there. My man, he's
always talking ahoiit gelling a little
place, and he gets the children all
worked up ahonl digging and the Mow
ors they'll see there; hut I ain't P ivln'
New fork." The determined tone in
which she sisiko convinced me that
she didn't want the remedy for her
trouble; that she was perfectly satis
Mi il to have a dirty, untidy room In a
liig tenement house for "her man" to
call homo, and that she wry. t|iilto will-ing
to breed children who, having had
sin-el educations, would ho In a fair
, help llTl the penitentiary.
Airs R. II. Allport. Johnstown, Pa.,
"D'n little girl all,a,si strangled
t,, death with croup. The doctors said
she couldn't live inn she was Instant-ly
relieved by One Minnie Cough Cure.
For sale by Win. Neville, and Clark's
drug store. West Conshohocken,
Iii v .1. T. Hi llilth. D. D.. has resigned
i'|| of th" Baptist Church al
l.ansl'ord.
W Kulp, of Suinneytown. was over-come
by hea. while loading his house-hold
g Is on a ear. and Ills condition
I i noil time WB1 serious.
Five-year-old nohori Miller, of Green
I,am- fell into a drop pool while sailing
a In-, boat and Mas n s- in-d by his
mother who lumped into the watei I
iMe risk of her <>«n life
Rev, W, I Fret! and wife and sever-al
members of his Spring City ami Roy
ersford congregation! an attending
the camp-meeting of the Mennonite
Brethren In Christ at Mohnsvllle,
number will exceed, thai hv 11 ills-
I liets. Despite the elafms that certain
persona are slated for various offices]
I know three candidate who only began'
active operation! this week ami they
are not of the slated variety. Thai
County in a short while will resemble .)
huge ' in "is tent by the way it is lioliig
canvassed over.
\ county paper said last week that
.lohn Shoemaker of Upper Dublin will
ho a candidate for Assembly next year
Pact, I feel sure that he will nut only
lie ■ candidate bul also a aucceaafuJ
one lie eame near supplanting I. It.
Haldeman on the ticket last year. Ho
came out this Summer for State Dolo-ciie
to again win his spurs for the
campaign of OL'. Mr. Shoemaker Is at
present a clerk in the Auditor Qener
als ofnoo at llarrlslinrg.
—:o:—
Something la going on in tho rtomn-cratlc
party that will knock the har-mony
si-hume in Montgomery county
higher than the blue dome of the unl-
AI ready factions are at work lo
Secure control of the state delegation
next Monday. There Is really no Is-sue
at stale All the delegates that
lean here will go in the Interest of
in,:.', xerkea and to he under his ab-solute
sway. Chairman Mosoniiorry
Hint is his purpose. Ho Intends
lo ho a practical leader of the whole
party. He says his plan is to lirst Hint
Hi" sentiment oi his community and
develop n instead of antagonising it.
Ho little cares tor the personnel or the
lion so long as they are reliable
Democrats and men of probity. Mr.
i;, s, ni,iny aaya that ho is not going
to he distracted by factional strife as
ho win not engage in it but ho win
leave those who start It to have their
"(foils for their pains. Ile says It Is
no time to renew animosities when no
Issue Is at lake. If any poison wauls
n, pose as controller of the state dele
'.afioit they arc welcome lo all the
barren glory in it.
It is cvih ni that while Mr. Itosen-iierry
is honestly striving for harmony
that thorc la some one or another evi-dently
at work to foster an oft boston
• Itque into the appearance of revivlcii-iion.
Aiiiieeht Knoiiio, editor or the
Register saes this ami has oome out
I.oh ly for state delegate as an Hide
pendent Democrat free of any class or
elan within within his party's linos.
-mi v ipactacle tor Demoeracy
,■ In n veteran leaders who while they
held preeminence in its councils the
party was nearly always victorious
should now he compelled to use a word
lilie "Independent" to qualify their
OOune In striving to attain mere dole-gat
osh I p.
man ami makes a very favorable lin
pic-sion. The other oandldal
Treasurer lo Conshol ken is Edward
('nine, who also visited Sklppai H
linn ago. There will l„ ., arai in i on
best in thai town tor i-sets
win run in each ward Bklppai i
Trim script.
— :o:-
Josoph c. Jones, of Conshohock
Republican candidate for Countyl
Urer ea||e,l it fM|s office m. Tin.
He Is a very pleasant gentleman, full
of i-enilnlsi .,.- Civil V, ,
which ho look an acllvi put. 11
prominent and h a,linn buslm asn t
the imn borough ami baa a large num
l.or of ti nnds who wi.-.li him si,,,
his canvass He is well fitted for 'in
office in- aspires tor —Bchwi nk
Hem.
Rev, Thomas C. nini. of Brook!; n
has accepted a call from the First
list Church of Nonh Wales am! nil
i ii<e up his new duties Beptembei i
Thousands of lish I,.,.
lontly ; • i in i in ihe M
11 filer 'al"
Wallei Wagner frustrated a robbei
at Oreland station by thi ;>i omi I u ■
of a pistol.
\ ours- of ton entertati nta will
lie given in PottStown lo aid th-lie
library project
Three recruit! were obtained 111 a
month -it Norristown by officer!
' the United Stale, Mam,.
An underground passageway
Hiii"- i.ssim- of i'. I
Railway in Pottatown i i--
iy urged,
By a flash of cinders from a fun
H '- Oxenford, a Pottatown
worker, was severely burned In the
face, ami will probably lose tl
one i-ve
III a runaway accident c
in,I s n were thrown over ;. I -
llelll Collel-eville The hov had
iirokeit. iimi ihe father aeverelj cut and
bruised,
l*> Michael I Kehoe
"" China
III! I,
Hen on i .
I e,
""I ,n lie- W0I
Dial Ion oi i
■ haa ,-M-I been
' undem d
'''"" ' in color and
I '"I' Ill.l,
""'" >'■ ■"'■' "" i'." ope .,
■
eorld in,i has treated hi
cordlnglj ;:-, ry .-,
na i.ni II.
'ouch "'it, km conduct to
ii is a well I'-
'iiai nn language of China baa no al
' It is made „p ,„
I formerly were rough plctui
named, hul now do i
■''I in Hi II ie a ,i" iranci
■ ol Thee. , ini.ois „, n ,
mi ii is probable
could
"'!'■ I'ciief. China is as r.,i ,-,
the United Btates, as thi
' '■' ! ' not men i- In
u
, Hi- r i
..- I., perva I •
although ii,, governmeni of ch
I" nit'" 111 tic. II
til 111 Ihe a-,: |,| ,,
' 'I' is stnall. its In wjl|,
de nominal
of iniiulii,
■ truth is i
" ' ' ' ' 'I' ■ -
H'" I'nlted States an both buill ,
foundation that ihe people .,,,
Ii ■-• I,, the
lf I'i'idi '•lll.i! ,|„. ',.,11,,,
In in, chi
' I -'It the ,
hall In this , on,,!,,
I,.- lowest ,|
"h° h ' ' I Vice of his
"'■:i m the man wh
On pap
I one roti Ph
'" '
', ,
■ .
rned. The (
road
II,..
'"i '" .ii Ai d -II them examtn il
and on an
no of sue
:■ of pas
Inatlona on,- at ti
' tl tpttal
a ii- that ti„- gra i,i
expe taut official
ami If aft
fill in
Hi, discharge of ids duties he is ,,,,,,1,
lal,
Uthl null th
WF.ST C0NSHOH0CKKN
phe publics chool win re-open on
■ . '■ i M.
'I'" regulai meeting of the School
"fill be h.ld on Monday evi Bin
Am.onla 11. Ml and Ih i,
1 """"<> are rialUng al Boo h
ly.
-Tbomaa P Dougherty, of Brook-
: Ii is- w...I, ,| I,,,;
in Hns borough.
I meeting of the it„s,. Social Club
hold in Bell's Grove on Satur-
"" i' Tin ,,l, |... | ,„• ,|„. „,,.,,,.
' Pl«* arrangsmenti t.„
hid t. held i
, list IT
-1"1 I' iy leavi
fork in.,., .vi„-,„,. Re
"' '■ morrow morning at s ,,'-
"|" na" in I:,, [land.
iccompanled bj he- dough-
THR CONSHOHOCKEN
PROPHET
PREDICTS
•""'HP Ol IJ 'in- dispel,...,! with llis
' ' Hotel and will, on Mon
hold a II i,i, tor
'' 'h (''';il Ii endeavoring i
'to manufacture Ice
'II' Ring subs, ripUons among
capitalists He thinks
,h" natural supply is VerV uncertain
and believes thai an Ice manufacturing
"ssiiv i„ Conshohocken
URGED PAYING OF DEBTS
i- Hyde wsa in charge
' meeting services al Blmp-
!" i " T day AI the Bible
moke nn "Penteoost," when
"■ pointed hinis about peo-thOh
hon. st del,I,, |(,.v
1 "' Conahohocken, preach
sermon, on Ihe "Sons
' ' Hi Burns, by request, made
HI "The So,,,mi Blessing."
Id it consisted In loving Qod per-
Rvangellst Hyde Instructed the
a with , talk „„ "Th- Tongue."
in i Minnie Shay continued her lecture
II "llolinens."
NATIONAL BANKS
'That dressmaker lead a, modiMe ex-
Istence ^
♦
rhal ,,u op,-,, hearted man usllly
< i sd in,,,,th.
••
Thai '"any a girl gits soasi.k frum
Hier rocks ,,r a chair,
♦
Thai many a man of good address
In a tumbledown house.
♦
That thor man without a soul kin git
' ■" orlashim frum ther shoemaker.
♦
Thai ther feller thlta alwuz short
'•■•■is big who,, he's goi a ii.tie money,
♦
Thai a fellow lingers for a, rich girl
beltawa sbea worth bet wait In gold.
1 I"" when a tgllOW o.-ills a girl a
'""'' •-'""• wnrlUy the a „ ..f his
eye
' hal l girl don't like a feller whose
close when ii ,-omos tor apendln mon-ey.
DEATHS
STQP COLDS
when yon feel one coming on hv tak
ing Kran e'l Cold Cun Prt pared in
convenient capsules that cure while
you work. 1'riee :::„•.
Wm. Nevlllo and J Kiifus llarr. W.
Conshohocken.
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There was aueh I dreadful similar-ity
in the eoiitomporoiis accounts in
the till,,' daily papers hero of Se.ialor
itiei "s and Senator Wcnlz's aclion In
Hie discarded desks and chairs episode
as to had an observer to think that
perhaps these worthy senators nine/
hav,- employed a press bureau In ex-ploit
their virtues or Issued the self
In eases of cough oi croup give the
little one on. Minute Cough Cure.
Then rest easy and have no fear. 'The
Child will he all right In a little while.
It never falls, Plsaasnl to take, al-ways
safe, sure and almost Instantan-eous
in effect.
For sale by Wm. Neville, and Clnrk'r
drug store, West Conshohocken.
OTtONNBLL. in Conshohocken, on
August I ISO] Mice I III,,ni,, II
BOth ye i,
The relatives ami ft i, nils it ll,
lly are respectfully Im Ited to itten I
the funeral on Saturday n, ll
o'clock from tho residence of I
brother Ft di 0'Donnell, 'Third svi
iiue ami wo,„i street, Conshoh
High Mass of Id- |Ull n.
church. Interment al St. Man
Now Cemstery.
DUNDON 'in July "I 1901 Mm
M.. daughter ,,r Mary and tin late Johi
Ihindon, In her 23rd years.
The relatives and friends Of the fan,
lly, also the employes of II. C. I
are respectfully invited lo attend the
funeral, on Monday morning, al i i
■Jock, from her mother's restdenn
Kim and Poplar streets Conshohookai
High Mass at St. Matthews Church
Interment ai st Maul-, i Mew ' leme-tery.
Nobby Shape Straw Hats for Young
Men In Milan, Itongh-nn'1-Ready and
Entillsh Split Dralda. 50c. 11 and $1,50
«t Tracey, the Hatter.
CALVARY CHURCH
Sunday Schools ami Bible Class s.U
\ M Morning service Sermon and
Holy Communion, LO SO Bt
vice at 7 instead of live ,,', I ,
of tho Transfiguration, Tuesday
list 11. Service at |l n. ni.
Cblm - -
manners and custom
"><• far from being the mo
'-' all-,,is In the
the] had lour-
- - and
iatl
enki
Thl [hful of arts hav.'II,an
sim nourish, wiiii, far
',- ing the best lean-,
' ,I. they were
fOI 111--,, , | ,.,,.,
those of other
One of tl
' ■ nntalnsd a libra
priceli college was vi ry
neat the H
to drlvi out the foreigners, the Bo
burnt Hi, college and destroys-) the
•v'"1"' thai they alone
are ch iril ble that they alone hind
■ he poor, the ol I
fall of all
ini's. mutual ins,,,'
I , aid lie
ad sex
1 China, ami
,n ' nit,,i, ah,,,,, then are twenty col
lot, ,i thai so many
i political
In Ch ,,, bode
. |
, IS
r any
do
Hi '■- ii, :■,-. n ,
inevah and
■ bUl led lo a wide
Chlm
i
that Ii past, hav i
, mighty i i,e. |n ma
hty lami.
1-MIAN CHUBCB
, i 1001
' ;,. in
Ing honor
ii
morall I , i:, ,, m
■a the 1. P s. c
R '- 16 p. in.
NatlonalCit] Bank
if N'i-« ■> .„ I, is now 110.000,000 and its
10,000 additional,
■ bout two yean ago iis capital
! M ,000, pins asurplua ma
i as rii-- share capital
■ i He- policy having been thi
■ Chi mtcal. The absorption
'hll I ITatlona] was made an ex-
| hang! in policy, and the
innltlpllcatlon ,,r the capital by the
numeral 10, Now an ambition to fur-ther
expand Iris seized upon the man-
' n and the programme is t,, In-another
110,000,000 or 120,000-
Ith a corresponding! enlargemenl
of surpltm
\S matters stand, there are tn-,, oth
'i banks in the city with heavier cap-ital
capitalisation than the National
• ly, the First National with
"" in capital and surplus com-bined
and fie National Hank of Com
■ e ni which according to a lags offlo-
,1 statement, had more than f'.'.000-
" in Surplus and undivided profits..
'in.•inn,imn share eapital It
• to the liking „f the National
" '," Hois outclassed oven by the
m of a point, and (he plan to el
to i" hastened.
i hi expansion purpose of the mil-rea
behind the National City
"•ill be incomplete even With the lll-i
contemplated. That will i„ ,„,
|"P in the development of the
-aid to hav, bean matured for
"" fi'H'i thai great Institution.
ly limitless money be-hind
it. The countless millions of the
ni nil Combination arc at Its
land, The men ill control of its
Ii -i ,r, financially ambitious to
make Hie institution pre-oniinont in
HI finance! and a domlnal i
in the money markets of the
wot Id.
The haul.ill" laws Of tl Ill ,v. as
ihnj - afre a bar to its becom
Government ally in the sense thai
,i Rmgland is the fiscal head
i th ci II lth Umpire, bnl the laws of
'lie United Stales are n,,| like those of
' de i ami Persian! in their Inflex-ibility,
and Congress may see light
day along the path the National
1 i" > mild like to illuminate.
Mi II time there is nothing to pre-
Ihe bank from getting big in capl-t
,1 ind going so far into the fore-
It that respect thai competit-ion
f, r first plane will cease. That
-viii he the Initiatory itep and i' will
-. very Boon, according to cur-
• ■ v ill I'tc,, talk gossip, by the
much emphasised sin,, the senm-leparture
toward expansion
by the l-'i, t National II wna
i-niiou to delay action until the
bank gets Into its new hull,ling, hul
i di i, three years hence, and tn
m ,- three years is an eternity
That thor man thil talks lo himself
is usllly too poo,- ter buy a phonny-graff.
That manya feller thinks hen away
up. an In his imuginashun looks down
on others
Thai when a fallen to,, soft he's
"'S'li.v crushed be thor girl with a
heart ,,r stone.
Thai If women would only talk in
ther sloe,, ,„en would go round with-
"" that worried look.
Thai cod lookin men with lots o'
greenback! an thor most popyerler
with ther summer girl.
COUNTY POLITICS
A boom to travelers. Dr. Pot
Bxtract of Wild Strawberry, i
dysentery, diarrhoea, stasleknes ;
- ■ Pleasant to take. Perfectly I
4esa.
The Lower Providl
ll lli'l
16
II () BUCk llelll'" \lk ..■
troubled with constipation until 1
tl, 10,, h- i;
then have I ly cured oi
Did complaint, I recommend
I hem.
Por tale by Wm. Neville and Clark's
drug store. W. Conshohock, n
Crown Prince Bul, of Corea, was on
lay a visitor to Perklomen Bern-
, burg, where ho showed
, lively Interest In acquainting blm-
,|f with American educational meth-
' ■ mpllfied tl that insl itiilhili.
,o".,, Prince was accompanli d by
1 of Seoul. Corea. who grad-uated
from Perklomen Seminary with
leal honors al the recent eoin-
I
A .1. Coiiinghain wen) to Washing-h
n ' lonnty, Ark . to see Ins slater and
while there wa taken with Hut fdya
' was very had off. He <|o-to
try Chamberialn'a Colic
i;,i Olarrhoaa Remedy and
10 niueli pleas,',! with tile prompt
are which it effo, tod, that ho wrote
the manufacturers a loiter in praise of
Iholr medicine, Mi Cottlngham re-aides
al i.ocijand. Ark. This remedy
Is for sale by Wni. Neville.
BYom to-day's Philadelphia Ledger.
Donnelly-Ryan Demo, rats and those
[nembsn of the party generally who
hav- proved recreant are scheduled for
a broadside of condemnation in the
County Convention on Tuesday, when
eleven delegates to the state Conven-tlon
"111 I looted. Tho party in
Montgomery feds keenly the shams
that has fallen „n the organization in
the State by reason of open traffle
with the very worst element in the ite-puldican
parly for the sale of public
offices, the gagn and th verting of
hundred! of acquisition of public prop
erty for private thousands of ,1, n
from 'In- Commonwealth Treasury at
""• expense of the state's wards In the
insane hospitals, and it Is purposed not
'" *PBIV ""' '-"'l i "ling with those
"' i i"'rats who made possible the vil-lainy
thai wai practiced in the Logisla-
""'" l""1"'' '!"■ guise of psrformanes
"I public duty.
Iherc is a disposition In some quar-tan
to hav,-the Convention declare for
a fusion stale ticket, but those who
' herlen this idea sill not, it is under
Stood, push for such an advanced step
|| to do so might precipitate the sllght-
■ i ' 'infusion, as It is desired to main
'"in the harmonious condition! tfpvt
have prev;,i|,.,| siluf.p Bonjsmln 1ms
1 " disposed of as an issue County
I nali-man Roaonberry says ho favors
tin fusion pun, hul ex-Governor Pnt-
Uson, notwithstanding be has lost ma-ny
friends at Norristown hv his evi-dent
Intention t<> ignore the ory for
reform, Still has n numerous following
thai may Intervene to prevent the Con-vention
committing the party to any
plan that does not have th,. machine
stamp. It is a safe prediction, however
",:" Colonel Onffey'a right to keep
Judge V.-i kes off th,. ticket for Supreme
( omi Justice will not he recognised
It will ho some weeks hofore tin-
Dsmocrsta nominate a county ticket,
and little is beard ,,r oandldatea except
for the Orphans' Court Judgeshlp ami
for District Attorney. Por the ph,,-,-
on Ihe Bench Nevlllo I). Tyson, a in, m
ber of Ihe liar thirty years, much of
whose practice has been in the Or-phans'
court, is most promlnentlymen-noned
He is willing lo enter Ihe race
against Judge Soiiy. whom ihe Repub-licans
are bound to name, and It is un-lentood,
will aseept the nomination
with tin- understanding thai should
the nest Leglnature repeal the law
renting Ihe court, h„ would. In the
•vent of his election, vacate without
offering the sliKutost resistance. For
District Attorney Ihe names of .1. II.
Hillegass. K |." Slough. Samuel High
and .1. II. I.a.r/.elere are under dismis-sion.
,
Bruptlons, cuts, hnrns. scalds and
"f 'II kinds quickly healed by
Hewitt's witch Hotel saiv, c rtain
cure for pitas. Bew of Connter-felts.
He sure von g,.| the original
Hewitt's.
For sale by Wm. Neville, and (^Inrk'B
arof "tore. West Conshohoc":. n
/
Dr. Mason K. Moyer, DentlatlClst ave.
ammml ■■ ■■