The Conshohocken Recorder, May 12, 1916

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Decisive Action Taken in Mel-lon
Case After Heated
Discussion
HARRY ST. TO BE REPAIRED
Attorney Swartz was given II"
liege of the floor and spoke on behalf
of Mr. Mellon. He said that he agreed
'with the Solicitors opinion on the law
in the <■ UM. . le Bald the QUI
for Council tt> dt clde la the tearing
'down of the trees a reasonable act of
'council? Me Bald that the Mellon
case is a parallel case with the Pi rol
case .mil the ooun dec di • ■ that side-walks
may be obstructed tor ornam-ental
purposes and that the Mellon
trees should not be removed without
o lubstantial reason.
Mr, Swartz read rroni thi
the Recorder of June lOthj 191 -. an
BCOOUnl Of the action Of Town t'oun-cil
in permitting the laying of a
walk, on Ninth avenue from Faj
to Harry street, two and one-hall
out or line, to stive trees and make
the square ornamental He said
there are trem 50 to 100 trees obstruc
ting sidewalks la the borough am
no one desires tin m removed but if
one comes clown all must.
Council Responsible to Court.
Mr. Swart/ said Council would be
perfectly Justifiable In permitting Mr
Committcemen Object.
President Williams asked Mr.
Town K'ouncil took decisive action
in the pavement controversy between
the borough am: John T. Mellon, a
property owner of Tenth avenue and
Forrest street, at the regular meeting,
Wednesday evening, when a motion
was passes' by a vote of ll to ::. re-quiring
John T. Mellon to remove four
trees 011! of the sidewalk line in
Tenth avenue and lay a pavement In I |i»i-»wsuj JUMUMMUU ... i
accordance With the provisions of the 'M'-Hon's trees to remain le passing
borough ordinance governing side-' a motion, and Council need have no
walks The action was taken after lraI' of having this action become an
much heated discussion in which the ' embarassinent in the future. It does
members of the Trees and Pavements not follow that where an ordinance
committee aired their views and com- has been not applied in one case that
mittee differences and Chairman every one may violate it ae each case
Btemple gave hia account in forceful must be decided upon the facts.
if not parliamentary language. In speaking of newly c ned Streets
The Mellon controversv has cccup- ' Mr. Swartz said, if there are no i
led the attention of Town Council for, along a newly opened street or It
sevei.il months. Mr. Mellon desired j trees are planted citer tne opening
to lay a sidewalk oa Tenth avenue, of the street, Council could not give
along his property. In the line are ' permission lor a change in ordinance
four old shade trees. He desired to He also said in the pres-nt cse, a
save the trees. ,He secured permis- i motion to lay on the table would De
slon from two members of the Trees, regular and the matter could be drop-and
Pavements committee to lay the ped.
walk out of lino. Chairman Btemple,
of the committee, had the police stop ■ ■»'»"' -
the work until Council hut', passed on Swarf/, il lie believet. it to be reason-the
matter. Mr. Mellon suddenly re-, able to leave the Mellon sidewalk as
sumed the work and had the pave- it is when It is L'V6 feet out ol line
ment laid before , "ouncil could act. | with the adjoining sidewalk Mr.
The question was to he settled at'Williams also slated thai Mr. Mellon
a special meeting last month but was .laid his pavement In defiance of i oun-postponed
until tho regular meeting., cil. Here, Mr. Crimlan Interrupted
It was the principal matter before and said that Mr Mellon had the pel
Council and decisive action was tak- mission of two members of the Pave
en which may go to the courts for' ment committee, Mr. Kelly and Mni-fiTial
settlement. ! self.
Council has given plenty of idea Mr. Swartz replied that he agreed
for a prolonged discussion as Bor- that Mr Mellon laid a walk t.iat
ongh solicitor J. Burnette Holland shtfhlc: not be allowed to remain and
■submitted a written opinion on the that Mr. Mellon will lay a first class
power of Council to regulate tho pavement, but the trees should not be
building of sidewalks and the power torn down for personal matters. He
to remove obstructions and the prop- also said that a good walk could oe
erty rights in trees. j laid two feet out of line and the trees
Attorney Aaron S. Swartz Jr., for saved. .He cited the Meyers pave
Mr. Mellon, stated his case and gave i ment as being out of line and should
his opinion on the legal questions in- vCouncil Ueside to strictly eadorcetlie
volved in the case. I ordinance all the obstructing trees in
Solicitor Holland dated the exist- the borough will have to come down
ing facts In the case and said, tho! Mr. Giles gave the dimensions ol
action of two members of the Trees, the trees, the distances of the aide-and
Pavements committee in giving, walk being out of line and the dis-permission
for the laying of the side-' tance the trees extended into the
walk was Illegal and of no effect, walk. He also said Mr. Mellon bad
The ordinance governing sidewalks ' a force of men to watch the police
was adopted April 13, 1904 and there to get an opportunity to lay his side-is
no question but that it was within ' walk He said bad Mr. Mellon came
•the power of Council to adopt such an I before Council and stuicc. his case
ordinance and that it is legal. (This ' and asked permission, he believed
ordinance prescribes that where a| -permission would have been given
building is built back of the building; and the matter adjusted satisfactory
line, the sidewalk shall be five feet
in width and laiC midway between
the building and curb lines, and where
a building is built out to the building
line the sidewalk shall be paved
from the building to the curb line).
JHe said, a property owner has a
property right in his trees and Mr.
Mellon had this right, and if they are
not a public nuisance, they cannot be
removel without the payment of Cam-ages.
As to whether trees in a line of a
sidewalk are nuisances must be de-.
cided in each particular case, lie said,
to all. Mr. tn:es also stated that two
of the trees are rotten.
\lr Hamilton made a motion, sec-onded
by Mr. Kelly that Mr, Mellon
Iven permission to lay a five-foot
walk «n each side of the trees. Mr.
O'Brien objected saying the motion
was out oi order. He raised a point
of order and the chair sustained him.
Pavement Ordered Out.
Mr. Garrett said the question re-solved
itself into one of two things:
Council must either stand either for
or against the borough law. He made
1Ilotion: "Mr. Mellon be compelled
and the court has gone on record de-, ^ relU0Ve the present payment and
elding trees are a great benefit to ^ ft MW pavement in accordance
towns, and should the borough order I w{tIl ,.„, borough ordinance." Mr.
the trees removed and the orcer was j slCOndcd the motion. Mr. Car
contested in court, the question would
be decided upon the reasonableness
or unreasonableness of the ordinance
in applying it to the particular case.
He quoted the action in the case of
William I>erot and the Borough when
the borough ordered the removal of
the large tree at the corner of Fifth
avenue and Fayctto street, where the
court decided the tree should remain
as it was not a nuisance.
In the present case, should the
court decide the ordinance to bo rea-sonable
the removal of the tie s
would be proper.
The recommendation of the Com;
mittee lor the removal of the trees
was read. The discussion then be-gan
Mr. Crlmian asked: "Who has
authority to change a borough ordin-ance
" He asked if it was not neces-sary
to make a change in an ordin-ance
by adopting another. He said
the Seventh avenue -sit-ewalk Of the
High School was not laid according
to the ordinance. He cited the side-walk
at the property of George Mey-ers
adjoining the Mellon property and
said the Tenth avenue sidewalk was
out of line by four inches and the
building extends over the line by five
inches ant. the ordinance requires the
pavement to be laid from the build-ing
to the curb line
Mr. Stemple said the Seventh ave-
■nue pavement is in line from Wayette
to Maple street, and the sidewalk
was laid a few inches out of Hue to
preserve the-.alignment.
Mr. Hamilton said the sidewalks of
Fifth. Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Nintn
tind Tenth avenues are not In accord-ance
with the ordinance. He also
stated that he objected to the trees
the of Mellon sidewalk and
•Kane seconded .
rett said he desired to be fair and ex-plained
bis motion saying tlint if a
way can be found to obey the ordin-ance
and save the trees, they should
r< main and If later proved a nui-sance,
they should be removed.
Mr. O'Brien said it the borough
takes any action other than support-ing
the Ordinance the property own-er
Is relieved of all liability and in
•case of accident, the borough would
be responsible He objected to the
method pursued in laying the walk
mid said Mr. Mellon should have
come before Council and stated his
case as did other citizens. He said
the ens' .should be used as an cxatn-
Die He pa'd his respects to the law-yers
and said Council should not be
guided by their remarks. He sug-gested
that a friendly suit be mado
out of the case.
Committee Ignored.
Mr Crlmian, ■ member of the Pave
nirnl committee, objected tp be criti-cised
for signing the notice giving
Mr. Mellon permission to lay a waW.
He said lie has been a member of the
committee for two years and no meet-ing
was ever called by the chairman,
Mr Stemple. and that the chairman
was the whole committee. He salt.
Syou do not agree with the chairman
you were entirely wrong. In tOT*
ing his signing the permission, la
said he understood the walk was to
be laid inside the trees. He said M .
Mellon should have the same treat-ment
as any other citizen. Mr.
Stemple objected to his remarks
about committee meetings. Mr. C rim
can said he received a notice for one
meeting at 7.15 P.M. for a meeting
-to be held at 7.:t0 the same night
Mr. Stemple was immediately on
Baptists Will Celebrate
Church's Birthday, on
Sunday
RALLY SERVICE AT NIGHT
Sunday next the First Baptist
church of this town will celebrate its
■I .".til anniversary. May lltii, 1871,
the church was constituted. That
date fell on ■ Sunday of that year
and also falls on the same day in l'.llu"
BO that the Anniversary' Is an exact
i..,- The notable event is to be
marked In the following manner:
WORK STARTED
in flip line til the MClton BHt-'nuft """ ..... .— -—
i, the trees caE be kept outside the - his feet and sale a number o meet-line,
he said they should remain. { (Continued on Page I- ivc)
At the morning service on Sunday,
Pastor Davies will preach the 40th
anniversary sermon, taking at his
text John I: ::s; -Other men labored,
and ye are entered Into their labors."
It is hoped to have present at this
i nice the four persons still surviv-ing,
and sdll members of the church,
who were present on May I I, 1871,
when the church was started. They
are: Mrs. Susanna Jlentz, Mrs. Mercy
lleywood, Miss Mary Matthews and
Mrs. Anna I,. I,ul.be It is believed
that seven other persons who helped
found the church still survive, but
arc not now residents of the borough,
and are connected with other church-es
by their removal from the town.
There are: Mr. and Mrs. Kugene Mag-nin,
Mrs. Annie I'arvin, Mr John
Stanley", Mrs. K. S Montgomery, Mrs
Klmir-.i uss and Mrs. Amelia Crank-shaw.
The church would be glad to
have some word from these in con-nection
with the anniversary and cor-dially
invites them to be present, if
possible,
The pastor, Rev. A. J. Davies, has
ministered to the congregation since
February '-', 1908. He was ordained
here and shortly after the ceremony
received a call to begin his labors
here. Hie accepted, lie was young,
energetic and filled witli enthusiasm
for his work Inning his pastorate a
strong men's society lias been or-ganized
and with the other organiza-tions
working faithfully and harmon-iously,
the Baptists were able to
leave their old church and build the
line edifice they now occupy.
The church and Sunday Sciiool and
the various organizations are pros-perous
and strong in members and
finances. The pastor and congrega-tion
have always been in accord and
the harmony that has continually pre-vailed
has made the Baptists one of
the strongest congregations of the
church.
Rally in the Evening.
The event is to be marked in a
unkfue way at the evening service, at
7.o0 There is to be held a Baptist
Bally of the three Churches of the
Conshohocken District. Invitations
to this Rally have been accepted by
the Balllgomingo Baptist church, of
West Conshohocken, which Is the
Mother Church to the First Baptist,
having contributed 48 of the first
66 members who made the start; and
also by the Spring Mill Baptist church
"The Worth and the Opportunity of
the church in the present Day," will
be the key note for the speaking in
the evening. Addresses on this gen-eral
topic will be made by Bev. II D,
8, Coates, pastor of the Balllgomingo
Church, Rev Harry L. Clouser of the
Spring Mill Church, and Rev. A. J.
Havies of the first Baptist. Miss
Marion C. Walker, presiding at the
Organ, and her efficient Choir, will
add appropriate music to the joy of
the day.
Rally of Young People.
The Young People or the three
churches will have an Anniversary
Rally Service, in the upper social
room at 6.46 P, M. The young iieople
of the three churches are cordially
invited to be at this service.
DR. A. J. DOUGHERTY,
Dentist.
JACOBSON BUILDING,
M Fayette Strest
Umbrellas repaired au* covered at
KEHOK'S.—Adv.
ON NEW GARAGE
Fifty Thousand Dollar Building to bo
Ready for Occupancy by Septem-ber
First.
Advertise In "THE RECORDER."
Ground was broken on Monday for
the Commercial Garage which is to be
1!. i ted on the Read property by James
8, Boud, the Republican candidate tor
Assembly of the Second Legislative
District, at a COS) Df about $50,000.
The building will have a frontage of
BlXty-eighl fee! (..i .Main street and
will extend tWO hundred feel to 1'enn
street, Norrlatown. The garage will
bo on the first Moor, while the Main
street front will lie used as stores and
apartments. When completed the
building will be a Ug improvement to
that portion of the town. The work
will be pushed as rapidly as possible
by Contractor Danfel Daub, it is ex-pected
to have the building ready for
occupancy about September first.
Mr. H«.yd will take chaise of the
garage as soon as completed, lie says
that he will have employment for at
leaal twenty-five men, the majority of
them mechanics.
Bight years ago Mr. Boyd built the
Keystone Garage mi West Main street
Norrlatown, which gives employment
to twenty-tlve persons.
USHERS' ASSOCIATION
TO BANQUET
Beneficial Association of the M. E.
Church Will Hold Annual Ban-quet
Tomorrow.
The annual banquet of the Ushers'
Beneficial Association of the Metho-dist
church will be held In the social
rooms of the church tomorrow eve-ning.
Many friends of the members
will be present and already accept-ance
have been received from 186
.persons. The banquet will begin at
S o'clock and will be prepared by the
wives of the"' officers and stewards
and will be served 'by the stewards.
The Association now has a mem-bership
of about 100 and has been
very successful from both a -social
and financial standpoint. During the
year 175 has been paid in sick bene-fits
and the organization was fortun-ate
in that there were no deaths.
The officers of the Association are:
President. Thomas White; Vice Presi-dent,
I .eon Solomon; Secretary. Wal-ter
Rowland; Treasurer, Howard Bed-rick.
CAMP FIRE GIRLS TO GIVE PLAY
Organization Will Present "A Ken-tucky
Belle" in Parish House To-night.
liansliowehonne Camp Fire Girls,
the local troop of the national organ-ization
will present play, "A Kentucky
Belle" in the Parish House of Calvary
church, this evening.
The play has been faithfully rehear-sed
and a fine petformance will be
given.
The following is the cast:
Miss Mariali Douglass-
Dorothy Venner
Isabel Douglas Rhea Venner
Marie Van Harlengcr ...Mary Albright
Mrs. Gordon Carrie Elliott
Miss Gordon Margaret Murray
Miss Madden .. Frances Hefenfinger
Dr. Blake Ethel Dodswortli
John (ason Gorden .. l»is Wentling
Coloned McMillen Ethel Ferrier
Cindy Marcello Met Icy
Henry Margaret Hell
Linesmen—Margaret Murray, Esther
Shoemaker, Carrie Eliott.
It'horus Girls—Margaret Murray, Es-ther
Shoemaker, Carrie Elliott,
Frances Hefenfinger.
Songs between Acts
Miss Alice Katharine Sayilor.
Apartment Houses.
To the Recorder:
Why dees not some one with Capi-tal,
some one interested in Consho-hocken
und its progress, get busy and
build an Apartment House? A pretty
attractive little town and not even a
respectable boarding house, no place
for any one to ge In these times when
i here are so many tourists and auto-mobile
parties, so many" traveling peo-ple
that frequent a thriving manu-facturing
town would like more at-tractive
places to lodge and satisfy
the inner man. This would bring
more people to the town, advertise it
in a way, but the nearest place to
have comfort is Norrlstown
I cannot understand why an old
town does not see the need of this
and Is not more progressive. Ask
yourselves and do something.
Servants are scarce and wage*
high, under these conditions times be-come
a burden and tax to many while
an up to date apartment house would
be a haven of rest and comfortable re-sort
to most people. Many little
towns and villages in Europe are full
of apartment houses, they are every-where-
Conshohocken get busy.
A FORMIER RESIDENT.
Don't Fail to Inspect the New Chan-dler
Roadster, Model 17
at Chandler Motor Agency. Show-room.
Main and Mill Sts., Norrlstown.
Phone 2145.—Adv.
14K Case, 1* Jeweled Howard
Watch, 195.00. J- B. RAY, Jeweler.
• 'Have your Teeth examined free •
• of charge.—DR. MEYER8, Den- *
• tlst. 78 Fayette Street. •
NO WORRY IF
EFE
State's Executive Makes Slight
Reference to Stern's
Charges
COMES OUT FOR AMBLER
"Let UK not be deceived by specious
statement! of sordid men; let US stand
up like men ami fine the facta Some
people may blow slander..us words and
statements at us, but that does not
matter when We live With our con-science.'
In a 30-minuto speech before an
audience that Oiled the auditorium of
City Hall, Norrlstown, last night, that
was the only reference Governor
Brumbaugh made !.. the latest charge
brought against him ii> Representa-tive
Isadora stern, of Philadelphia.
lie discussed the tariff, preparedness,
local option and other national und
State issues, but he avoided any fur-ther
intimation of what he might have
In mind In relation to the alleged Kolli
•contribution.
He refused to talk to interviewers
upon the subject. Immediately after
the meeting the Governor was asked
if he had any statement to make in
reference to Mr. Stern's charges, to
the threats tie impeachment and ru-mors
of additional blasts from the
Penrose-McN'ichoI wing of the Repub-lican
organization.
"I. have absolutely nothing further
to say," he replied. "1 have said all
that is to be said."
Colonel Louis .1. Kolb accompanied
the Governor to Norrlstown. lie, too,
refused to discuss the subject of the
reported contribution.
"Have you anything to say of the
outcome of May 16'.'" the Governor
waB asked.
"I have only pleasant thoughts of
the outcome," was the reply.
K-.—- Governor Warmly Greeted.
The Governor was warmly greeted
In Norrlstown. lie motored from
Philadelphia, and was met by a Recep*
tlon Committee of the Ambler Cam-paign
Committee. Congressman-at-large
John It. K. Scott and Charles A.
Ambler, the Varc-lirumbaugh-Smith
candidate for Auditor General, made
the trip together by train from Phil-adelphia.
Political speaking, it was a mixed
audience the Governor faced. There
were Progressives. Republicans of
both factions and not a few Demo-crats
in the auditorium. The Gover-nor
has seldom spoken in Norrlstown,
and the crowd th.it turned out was
rather disappointed, for, after the
meeting, comments were made that he
had said little indeed upon the char-ges
mado against him.
In fact, the audience decided, Con-gressman
Scott made the speech of the
night, for he denounced Penrose and
everything pertaining to Penros.ism
in energetic fashion. Time and again
the audience shouted and applauded
when Mr. Scott hissed out the name
of the senior Senator In dramatic
manner.
Speaker Ambler, too, a native son of
Montgomery, candidate for Auditor
General, got a great ovation when he
took the floor. He spoke only ft few
moments, urging support for the Gov-ernor's
light and pi.icing himself be-fore
his neighbors as their candidate
"content tO abide by their decision."
The Governor's reference to "spur-ious
statements by sordid men" was
bis opening. Having disposed of that
be plunged into what he declared to
be the greatest issue of the moment,
the need of a protective tariff to as-sure
continuous prosperity not only
in Pennsylvania, but in the nation.
"In asking you to support the dele-miles
we have placed in the Held," le
said. "1 am simply asking you to send
to Chicago men who will lie unbossed
und untrammeled, who will do the
will of the people and not the will of
the boss.
Asks Support for Ambler.
"I am standing here tonight pleading
that issue with you. I am pleading
with you to assure a great Republican
victory in order that continuous pros-perity
may be ours. Then there Is
another thing I want to ask you to
do and that is to support Mr. Ambler,
who aided me in putting great hu-mane
legislation upon the statute
books of the State. And I also plead
with you to help me put unotber law
upon those books—a local option law
which will give the people the right
to decide the liquor question in their
community for themselves."
Mr. Scott preceded the Governor
nod confined himeelf almost exclu-sively
to asking support ifor the Exe-cutive
and his legislative slate. Ex-cept
when he declared he would rather
be defeated than return to Congress
"branded by Ponroseism," he made
only scant reference to his own can-didacy.
"Four years ago," Mr. Scott said, "a
great many Republicans left the party
and connected themselves with a great
American who formed a new party.
They left the Republican ranks be-cause
of the coercion nnd bosslsm of
the leaders of that party. In this
State those that remained in the par-ty
joined with those who l.tt II and
weni in the Legislature determined to
enact great legislative measures. The
Governor aided them, and the men he
la lighting tonight toughl thai legis-lation
in the Senate'.
Scott Tells of Factionalism.
"Factionalism sprang up, and now he
is felling the lash, i le Is > M" rii
things he never knew of In hia simple,
scholarly life, lie ha- in.-l a force be
never knew existed. He never knew
there were thugs and assassins who
would defame a man to accomplish a
purpose, ii. n knew II was B crime
to keep hia word to the people. But,
nevertheless, he Is bones) enough t"
stand up now and fighl them. He Is
hones) enough t.. stand up like a man
and flghl them in the interest of a n
united party and a Republican victory."
Mr. Seoii recited Mr, Ambler's legis-lative
record al length. Me told Of his
Hghl for the Governor's bills, and de-clared
absurd the rumors' that the
Speaker is a Illcml.er Of a "contractors'
ring."
The Governor was given a cordial
and warm-hearted reception al the i nd
of the meeting, Theodore Lane Bean,
chairman of the Ambler Campaign
Committee, stood beside him and in-troduced
prominent residents of Nor-rlstown.
Maxwell straw-bridge, secretary of
the Ambler Committee, predicted las)
night that Mr. Ambler would carry
every legislative district in .Montgom-ery
County.
STATE HEALTH DEP1
COURT GRANTS
SEVEN DIVORCES
Conshohocken Woman Ran Away
With Alien—Other Causes.
Seven more divorces were granted by
the Montgomery County Courts this
morning.
The couples who separated by legal
annulments of their marriage vows,
the reasons, and the gist of the-testi-money
before the respective Master la
appened:
To Anna R. O'Neill, of Norrlstown
from iOdward O'Neill to whom
was married on June 12, 1909 They
lived together until October II, 1914.
Cruel and barbarous treatment were
the grounds upon which the divorce
was recommended by the master,
Samuel Borton.
To Samuel Neville, of Conshohock-en,
from Katie M. Neville, who be-fore
her marriage on June 20, 1S96,
was Katie Metzgar. The grounds are
desertion. She left their home on
April 8, 1911, according to the testi-mony
before the master, George '.
Corson, she had previously been liv-ing
a loose life, going with other
men and drinking and that she ran
away with an alien, Nicholas Cove.
A neighbor. Margaret Wacker. testi-fied
that she had seen Cove enter the
Neville house during the husband's
absence, on numerous occasions and
remain for hours at a time. Once
the visitor's horse fell from exhaus-tion
from ill-usuage. "The whole
neighborhood knew and commented
about it," but nothing was said to
Neville to hurt his feeling. Mrs.
Neville, Mrs Wacker said, "used to
be a good housekeeper and I don't
known what ever brought lier to that,
unless it was bad company." The
day Mrs. Neville left Home she saw
her little boy on the street and kissed
him goodbye Her daughter, a n-si
dent on Willow street, Noiristown,
testified that she had received letters
from her mother from Philadelphia,
Chicago and other places Neville
was at work at the time his wife left.
To Mabelle I. llun.-berger, of
Moreland. from Arthur D. Hunsber-ger,
to whom she was married on
April 10. 1909 Desertion, according
to the testimony before the master,
occurred on October 2, 1913, The
couple were married at l'-agleville.
To Mary K. Schmoyer of Bast
Greenville, from Harvey 1! S. Schmoy-er.
The couple were married June ii,
1886 and he, according 10 her testi-mony
'before Thomas Hallman, mas-ter,
deserted here the following April.
To Hugo O. Winner, of Glenside,
from Daisy H Winner Their mar
riage occurred on August -'-, 1906,
and it was testified before the mas-ter,
that she deserted him 00 July
19, 1913,
To Grace S. Errickson, of Coll gi
vllle, from Carl Krickson, to whom
she was married on April ,"., 1913, by
Rev. James Dougherty, a Presbyter-ian
Clergyman, of 2018 North arshall
street, Philadelphia. She is the
daughter of II. L Baylor, of Collcgc-ville.
Her father, in his testimony de-clared
that Krickson was an athlete
and seemed to take football as a Ive-
11hood, lie had been playing football
at the State Normal School, Iilooms-burg.
Pa, for five years, 1 under-stand."
To Sadie E Given Davis, Norrls-town,
frow Harry B. Davis, to whim
she was married on July 2<.i, 1906.
Desertioa on the husband's part, oc-curred
on July 21, 1909.
High School Alumni.
At a meeting of the illlgh School
Alumni Association held last evening
it was decided to hold the reception
to the graduates, in the high school
building, Thursdays evening, June 15,
the evening before tne commence-ment
exercises. A committee was ap-pointed
to make arrangements for
the affair A report was made or the
recent musical given by the Citizens'
Band under the auspices of the
Aluimni and Treasurer Willis Baldwin
requested that all holders of tickets
return them to him BO that the ac-counts
may be closed.
West Conshohocken's Wstcr
Supply is Being Examined by
State Authorities
ODOR ARISES FROM WATER
The West Conshohocken Board of
Health, in response to complaints of
the uses of water supplied by the
Water ompany and alter personal
investigation, called upon the State
Department of Health for assistance
testing the water supplied to the citi-zens
and inspecting the supply and
water system Ol tin borough. ■
The water gives forth a noxious
odor and is unfit for drinking pur-
The local Hoard of Health re-ported
the conditions to the State De-partmenl
and six hours later Mr.
I'i-her ol the analylnal i.epartment
of the State Department of Health
was on the ground and with the
Health Cllicer ,). Kiil'us Harr made an
inspection of the water supply, the
filter beds, pumping station and pipes
and alto took samples of water from
the resetvoir and many taps located
in different sections of the town. The
samples of water were yesterday sent
to the Department's labratories in
Philadelphia to be analyzed. Mr.
Fisher Is again In West Conshohock-en
today.
The water gives forth a bad odor
but from the investigation already
made it is believed the odor comes
ironi vegetable matter in the water,
and it is believed that it is not ser-ious
but very anno;.
In 1912 there were many complaints
Of the water supplied and the State
Department ordered many changes
among which was the Installing of a
filtering plant. The plant was ap-proved
by the state Department!
The result i,i the i the water
will be known within a few days and
the Health authorities will then bo
able to find the cause and hope to se-cure
a speedy remedy. ,
WORKMAN BADLY BEATEN.
Was Attacked by Fellow Workman at
Steel Plant and Claims Without
Cause
At 6.30 o'e'ock this morning 1-higene
Savarlo, married, aged .".0 years and
residing here, and Orlando Tosti,
single, aged 2."> years, were at work
in the open hearth mill of the Ivy
Hock steel plant when Savarlo was
suddenly attacked by Tosti, and with-out
cause, he claims. Savarlo was
knocked down and badly beaten.
When Tosti as pulled off his victim
it was found Savarlo hud received a
severe cut on the head, a pair of
black eyes, numerous bruises and a
bite on one of his lingers.
Chief McCullough and Officer Met*
gar of the steel plant police took
charge of the men. Savarlo was giv-en
treatment and came to this bor-ough
and secured a warrant from
Magistrate Light for Tostl's arrest.
Constable Itegirro arrested the man
and he was given a hearing before
Magistrate Dighl and is now in jail
in default of Cno hail for a further
hearing next Monday.
Savarlo presented n pitable appear-ance
with Ills bruised face, black
eyes and the bandages on his head
blood stained ironi his wounds. He
claims that he was attacked suddenly
and without cause. He also said
that he did not know whether his
assailant used any weapons or not.
He knew little of the case except that
his injuries hurt.
Tosti resides on West Fourtii ave-nue,
this borough. i IJ.Jj
John Neill's Condition.
Assessor John .Will, of the Fourth
ward, who is a patient in the llahne-niaiin
Hospital recovering from an op-eration
for the amputation of the leg
will be brought to his home early this
week. He stood the operation well
and his condition is such that his
physicians believe he will be fully re-stored
to health.
STRAW HAT PANAMA TIME!
Some very good men are mak-ing
themselves look rather
RIDICULOUS already by wear-ing
Straw Hats that do not suit
them at all.
Come in! and let me assist
you in choosing from my new
stock of Straw Hats and Pana-mas.
Straw Hats $1 to $3
Panamas $3 to $7.50
Snellenburg Clothing right in
your home town.
Prices $8.50 to $20.0C
WILLIAM KATZ
Guarantee Shop.
53 Fayette St. Conshohocken
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