The Conshohocken Recorder, October 27, 1916

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Discharged Employe of Bell
Co., Followed Truck in Early
Morning
POLICE MAKE ARRESTS
Allen J. Barber, IL'tiT William street
'Philadelphia, Is employed as a driver
of a truck for the Bell Grocery Com-pany
and delivers bread in the early
morning hours from the bakery to I he
various stores of the company in
nearby towns.
At 4 o'clock Wednesday morning,
he went to the local police station and
reported that two men had been fol-lowing
him and he feared they in-tended
to do him bodily harm, lie
said that as he was passing the
Whitemarsh Inn, at Barren Hill, he
saw two men standing along the road
sice. He recognized one of the men
as Grover Dunkelberger, 5928 Beech-wood
street, Philadelphia, a former
employee of the Bell Company as a
truck driver. Barber also said that
as he left the bakery he was warned
that Dunkelberger had threatened
that he "would gel somebody.
As Barber continued on his way,
he noticed an automobile was follow-ing
him. He pulled to the side of the
road but the automobile also halted.
iBarber then drove rapidly to this
borough, the automobile still follow-ing.
Upon arrivel here Barber
stoppec; at the Bell store First ave-nue
and Fayette street and noticed
that Dunkelberger and his friend had
stopped their car at Hector and Fay-ette
street. Then he notified the
police . Officers Ruth and Heald
made a search. Ruth saw a man loit-ering
about the Bell store on the First
avenue side. He accosted him and
asked his business. It proved to be
Dunkelberger. He said his car was
stalled byi a leak in the gas" line and
that he was hunting a garage, The of
fleer took him to the machine and
Dunkelberger got under the car to
show the officer the leak. He waB
seen to turn on a pet cock and leave
a little gasoline drip to the street.
Dunkelberger when questioned as to
whether he was alone said that he was
Officer Heald had captured a man
who proved te> be Hasold Broadbent,
1249 East Chelten avenue, German-town,
a relative of Dunkelberger.
When Dunkelberger was confronted
with this man, he admitted they were
together. The two men were locked
up. The automobile was taken to
Moore's garage and it was found noth-ing
was the matter with it. Early in
the morning Dunkelberger told the
police he wanted to go. to Ambler
and not knowing the roads, said he
was following the truck as he kjiew It
was going there.
Dunkelberger and Broadbent were
given a hearing before Magistrate
Light. Dunkelberger gave another
version of his actions, He then stated
tttat he was on his way to l^ansdale.
^As the men had made no threats
or had violated any law, they were
discharged. Barber caused the men's
arrest as he feard they would attack
him after he left this borough. Their
actions were suspicious and Dunkel-berger
told so mahy conflicting stories
that the police believed he intended
some harm to Barber.
FINE CONCERT
TO BE GIVEN HERE
Baptist Women's Social Union will
present Talented Musicians in
Concert
ANOTHER CASE OF
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
Ten-Months-Old Baby Was Stricken
Yesterday.—Case Is the First In
the First Ward.
Medrio Cottlnl, aged 10 months, waa
taken ill yesterday at the home of his
parents. 146 West First avenue. Dr
Philip Cardamone was called in t >
treat the child and he diagnosed the
case as infantile paralysis. He im-mediately
railed a Uermantown physi-cian
in consultation, who agreed with
Dr. Cardnmone's diagnosis. Tnis
morning. Dr. Knlpe, of Norrlstown, the
State phyBlcian for this district was
notified of the case and visited tlio
child. He found the case to be one of
Infantile paralysis. The house was
immediately quarantined by Health
Officer Roberts. This is the first case
of the disease to appear in the First
ward and is in a thickly built section
of town.
Health < Xficer Roberts received or-ders
this morning from the State
Health Department to quarantine the
house and to place a watcher on duty.
The borough will have to bear tin- ex-pense.
The orders are posiltve that a
watcher must be placed on every house
which contains a case of infantile par-alysis.
If a nurse is needed and the
family is too poor to engage one, the
local Hoard of Health is required to
supply a nurse and the borough is to
bear the expense.
A watcher will be placed at the
Cionettl home.
Won Trophy Cup
The stagnation in public entertain-ments
induced by the prolonged sum-in.
ir and the quarantine regulations
Is now over. The sccson of good
public entertainments of the musical
and literary varieties is at hand. The
first of these is a Concert which is to
he given in the Baptist Social Build-ings
on the evening oi' November the
2nd, Thursday1. The Woman's Social
Union of the church, through one of
Its members, has been fortunate in
securing talent which assures beyond
peradventure of a doubt a royal treat
for all who aie loversof the good in
music. There will be present that
night the Orpheus Male Quartette of
Philadelphia, composed of the follow-ing
members: .Mr. N. Kenneth Berry,
Fir3t Tenor, Mr. Gerald Tamblin Sec
ond Tenor, Mr.Alex.A. Brice, First
Bass, and .Mr. W. A. Crawford, Second
Bass. Mr. Jacob Garber, the famed
performer on the Violin, will also*
assist in the concert. Miss Rhea
Venner will serve as Soprano, and Mr.
Ronald O'Nell will preside at tho
Piano. As ;i musical event of the
highest grade, the Concert is attract-ing
much attention, and there Is
promise of the large audience which
Its character deserves. Tickets may
be procured at Mr. Geo. Wolf's store
4th avenue and Fayette streets.
Thoughti About Conshohocken
When the steam drives the piston
out of a cylinder the piston comes
right back. The pugilist who wins Is
the pugilist who, when he gets a hody-
Mow. comes rtghl back for more. The
town that becomes the leading town
of its territory is the town that doesn't
give up when It fulls to land some-thing
the town wanted, but comes
right back for the same thing again or
for something else Just as good.
Conshohocken will win by sticking
everlastingly at it. Lei us have some
movement on fool all the time for the
town's good.
Your pride In Conshohocken is the
best kind of pride you can have. It is
an unselfish pride. It is pride in your
neighbors and what they have done.
For they made Conshohocken, not only
paid for the pavements and built the
Hchoolhouses but planted the trees and
showed their faith in this pluce by
making it their home.
Rut pride In Conshohocken re-'
quires something from a man besides
pride. He ought to help it to grow
and to improve. He ought to do his
share by keeping his house In repair,
by aiding in movements for the town's
good lund by voting good men Into of-fice
who will best look after its inter-ests.
Then, and not until then, will a
citizen have a real right to speak of
his town with pride. It will be a town
iin the making of which he had a part.
Not only will he be proud of the town
but the town also will be proud of
him.
There isn't much difference between
n town und the people who live In it.
The man who has no desire to better
himself never gets much better. He
accumulates neither wisdom nor
Wealth.
Hut he man who studies how to add
to his knowledge and to his world's
goods ultimately becomes independ-ent
In purse and mind. So does the
town become Independent that seeks
to odd to Its wealth amd its means for
living in comfort.
One way to accomplish these things
for the town's good is through the
medium of an aggressive, forceful and
progressive commercial organization.
Everybody ought to be Interested In
such a body. The work of building tip
Conshohocken ought not to he delegat-ed
to merely one man or to any one
wet of men. It ought to be everybody's
business.
The women of Conshohocken can do
a lot for It. If they will. In many Am-erican
towns the women's clubs and
many other organizations of women
are found working for civic betterment
—cleaner streets and cleaner morals,
lint a woman can do much as an in-dividual
just as she can as a member
of a club. Sin- can encourage her hus-band
to Interest himself In movements
for the public good. She ciin exert an
inliuence where mere man has much
less inliuence than she has, for she
can leach the children of her own
home and of the whole neighborhood
pride in tho home town and an ambi-tion
to make It a clean and well-gov-eined
city. The town that becomes a
model of Its size Is the town where
both men and women are planning for
it nnd working for it nil tho time.
STREETEXPENSE
Lime Stone Covering Has Prov-en
Costly and Unsatisfactory
in West Conshohocken
NEED PERMANENT PAVING
A strong argument in favor of the
?]0.(l00 loan in West < onshohocken Is
to) thai much of the present debt
of the borough has been incurred by
the methods used in repairing and
maintaining the strews, which are now
and have been for several yean in a
deplorable condition, and which can-not
help but be a detriment to its
growth and progress.
The limestone covering which has
been the chief material used In re-pairing
the main thoroughfares for
several years has proven unsatisfac-tory
at any price hut when the amount.
spent for this covering is considered It
will be readily seen that it is most
expensive.
When Town Council resurfaced Ford
ami Proni streets with UmesU aboul
six or seven years ago. the repairs cost
several thousand dollars. In order to
meet this expense, other bills which
should have been paid wile necessarily
held up. The town was no richer at
that time than at present, and
result only those bills that bad to he
paid were met. As a result the bor-ough
was confronted with o!n electric
Unlit lull of several hundred dollars,
and the water company was also owed
a big bill. These bills, while they have
been greatly reduced, have never been
fully paid since that time and the mon-ey
which should be used by (he present
Council to place the streets in repair,
Is being used to pay off these bills
contracted years ago.
Had the streets been made perma-nent
at that time all would have been
paid but In less than 3 years after the
first covering several hundred dollars
additional had to in- spent to again re-pair
the same streets, and at the pres-ent
time both streets, for their entire
length are in a deplorable condition.
Within less than ten years the borough
has spent more than half the amount
asl-.c d for In the loan to make the
streets permanent, nnd they' are In
such a condition that should another
covering of the same material be used
at the same price the amount would
exceed the amount of the loan.
The great amount of traffic over the
main streets of the West Horough sim-ply
grinds the limestone Into dust and
It is carried by the winds In clouds.
The fact that It has lasted as It has
is due to the oil placed on it at the
expense of the property holders.
The present debt of the West Bor-ough
is a legacy handed down for
years back to the Councllmen, who,
rather than sink the borough deeper
into debt by fixing the streets tem-porarily
ask the voters to authorize
them to borough sufficient money to
make a lasting job and gave the town
the permanently paved main thorough-fares
which it should have hv.d years
ago.
There Is scarcely a borough In ex-istence
the size of West Conshohocken,
but has Its main thoroughfares perma-nently
paved.
Is the town to progress or is it to re-main
in the same old net and be the
target for the jeers and jibes of our
surrounding townsfolk?
Where is Winfield Clemens-
John I). Rlgg has won the champion-ship
of the North Knd Gun Club and
also a silver trophy cup. In the recent
trophy shoots RigRS was high man
with a score of 190 out of a possible
200. The cup will be placed on exhi-bition
In the window of Rurgess
BloomhalPs Jewelry store, Fayette
street abovo First avenue.
Luncheon.
.Mrs Abram T. Eastwlck, of No.
1109 DoKaii> street, Norrlstown enter-tained
at luncheon on Tuesday at her
residence in honor of Miss Eleanor S.
Major. Covers were laid for eight.
The guest included Miss Major, Miss
•Dorothy Fleser, of Columbus, Ohio;
Miss Hernice W. Walworth, of Cleve-land
Ohio; 'Miss Gertrude Morris,
Columbus, Ohio; Miss Gene Roberts,
Mrs. Charles Major and Mrs. Spencer
Ix>ch Jones, of Conshohocken.
DR. H. J. MEYERS
Dentist
75 Fayette Street
This morning Mrs. Irene Miller, of
Scranton, called upon Burgees Bloom-hall
in an effort to get information of
her brother, Wlnfleld Clemens and her
sister Jennie Lutrlck, who ran away
from ber home at Scranton and mar-ried
an Italian. The couple resided
here tor ■ time when the woman eloped
with an Italian barber several months
ago and no word has been heard from
her since.
Mrs. Miller said she received a let-ter
from her brother asking her to
come here. When she arrived, she
could find no truce of him. He had
been working at the Montgomery
Woolen Mills, at Gulf Mills, but left
thero several weeks ago without leav-ing
any word as to where he was
going.
.Mrs. Miller said she has made in-quiries
at all the industrial plants but
has been unable to locate her brother.
She is staying at the home of Mrs.
Herbert Graham, nt Gulf Mills, where
she would be glad to receive any In-formation
about her brother.
Mrs. Miller used all her savings In
making the trip here and is asxlous to
secure work.
Moose to Initiate Large Class.
At an adjourned meeting of Consho-hocken
Lodge No. 283, U O. O. M. to
be held at their home on next Sunday
a Inrg,. class of candidates will bo Ini-tiated
into the principles of Moose-dom.
This Is the first class taken In
under the open charter of the Order.
Together with the class initiation other
Important matters 'will be discussed,
also preparations will be made for re-ceiving
the election returns on elec-tion
night. A large attendance is re-quested
as it will bo of Interest to
every member of the Order to be pres-ent.
WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS
HELD CONVENTION HERE
The 123rd annual convention of the
:h District of the Women's Relief
Corps of the G. A. R. was held yester-day
in G. A. R. hall, this borough, and
about l"t> delegates were present.
Corps 123 of this borough, were the
hostesses and a profitable and enjoy-able
time was hud by all present.
Thero were two sessions held, morn-ing
and afternoon. The District Pres-ident,
Mrs. Clara Woodward, of
Coatesvllle, presided over the meeting.
Mrs, BSlia MoSonday, of Coatesvllle,
Press Correspondent, and Mrs. Mame
Smith, of Lancaster, Department Con-troller
of the 7th district, ulso were on
the platform.
After the roll call, the visitors were
welcomed in an address by Mrs. Sam-uel
McCord, of Corps 123. Mrs. Julia
Anderson, of Corps 2, Philadelphia, re-sponded
on behalf of the visitors.
The regular business of the conven-tion
was then taken up and at Its con-clusion
remarks were made by a num-ber
of the Comrades of Post 79.
At the conclusion of the morning
Session the visitors were invited to the
banquet hall and 125 members of the
Corps und Comrades were served with
a fine, hot dinner.
At the afternoon session, it was de-cided
to hold the next convention with
Corps No. 2 at Frankford, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary 10. Stewart, of Frankford
was chosen president of the conven-tion.
A sum of money was donated for the
benefit of the home at Brookvllle.
Geiger—Campbell.
A pretty and quiet wedding was
solemnized Wednesday afternoon at
4 o'clock at the parsonage of the
Methodist church, when the pastor,
Rev. Thomas A. Armour united In
marriage Miss .Pearl Campbell and
Mr. Charles F. Geiger, both of this
borough. The ceremony was wit-nessed
only by the members of the
immediate families'
The bride and grcom were unattend
ed. immediately after the wedding a
reception was held at the home of the
groom on East Fifth avenue near well
street at which only the families and
Immediate relatives of tho contract-ing
parties were present.
The bride wore a brown poplin
suit with fur trimmings and a white
velvet hat. She had a corsage bou-quet
of sweet pegs and ferns.
After the reception the couple were
taken to their newly furnished home:
on Upper Ford street, West Consho-hocken
where they will make their
home.
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Cheston—Ellis
The marriage of Miss Sydney Ellis,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S.
Ellis, of Fox Hill Farm, Bryn Mawr,
and Radcliffe Cheston, Jr., took place
jtesterday at 3:lf> o'clock, at St. Da-vid's
Church Radnor. The Rev. James
H. Lamb D. D„ officiated.
The bride was gowned in soft white
satin with silver brocade. Her tulle
veil was trimmed with old brussels
lace and she carried orchids and lilies
of the valley.
The maid of honor, Miss Helen
Ellis, a sister of the bride, was attired
In Nattier blue brocade and a brown
tulle hat and carried pink roses.
James Cheston, 4th brother of the
bridegroom, was best man.
A reception followed at the Ellis
country place.
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Ryan—Irwin
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The wedding of Miss Anna Irwin,
of Hickory town, and William F. Ryan
of East Chestnut street, Norristown,
occurred on Wednesday, In St. Pat-rick's
Church, Norrlstown, with Rev.
Francis I* Carr, officiating. A sister
of the bride was the maid of honor,
while Lawrence Ryan, a brother of
the groom, was the best man. Fol-lowing
the ceremony the newlyWeds
left for Washington D. C. for a brief
sojourn. • -N ••• ill
Entertaint Bridal Party
Dancing Saturday Night, City Hall
Norristown, Rnshton's orchestra. Ad-mission
25c and 35c.—Adv.
Miss Eleanor S. Major entertained
her bridal party and a number of other
friends at dinner Wednesday evening
at the Plymouth Country Club.
Covers were laid for twenty-four and
the decorations were yellow chrysan-themums
and autumn leaves.
The guests Included Miss Gene I.
Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer U
Jones, of Conshohocken; Miss Dorothy
Fleser, of Columbus. Ohio; Miss Ber-nice
W. Walworth, of Cleveland, Ohio
Miss Gertrude Morris, of Columbus,
O.j Miss Sarah Scheetz, Miss Marjorle
Chllds, Bernard h. Morris, Portsmouth,
Ohio; Edward Morris, Columbus,
Ohio; Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Major,
Oak Lone, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. C. Her-bert
Wentz. William Waeonhurst,
Warren Irish, Robert Titus, Harold
Zimmerman. Edward Harley. Gilbert
Dannehower. New York city; and
Elgin I^nhardt.
A Hallowe'en Party.
Last evening William Flynn gave a
Hallowe'en party to a large number of
his friends, at his home on West Sixth
avenue. Games, music, dancing and
singing formed a very enjoyable eve-ning.
Refreshments were served af-ter
which the guests assured Mr. Flynn
that they had a grand timo at the first
Hallowe'en party of the season. The
vocal solos rendered by John Barry
were highly entertaining. He re-sponded
to many encores.
HON. H, W. WATSON
Corps 123 Were Hostesses for the 9th
District at the 23rd Convention.—
100 Delegates Were Preiewvt. E
Republicans Will Hold a Big
Mass Meeting in P. 0. S. of
A. Hall Tomorrow Night
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
The Republicans have arranged for
a big meeting to be held In the P. O. S.
of A. hall. Second avenue and Fayette
sreet, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening
at which Congressman Watson of this
district, will be the principal speaker.
District Attorney J. Aubrey Anderson
will preside and the other speaker
will be Thomas Ober, a former leader
of the Progressive party In this Con-gressional
district and Theodore I^ane
Bean Esq.. of Norristown. Another
speaker will be assigned by the Re-publican
State Committee, it was
hoped to have the Hon. Gabriel Moyer
of Debanon, who was the Fourth of
July orator here but Mr. Moyer is
campaigning elsewhere and it will be
impossible for him to be here.
Last evening a meeting of Republi-can
workers was held in the No. 2
fire house and was largely attended.
The woTkers were enthusiastic for the
meeting and In the work of getting
out a big Republican vote on election
day. It was decided to- engage the
Citizens' band and the band will
parade the streets tomorrow evening.
A large transperancy has been built
and will be carried about the streets
to announce the meeting.
Musical Organization Will Give
Annual Concert in January
Calvary Chorus has selected for the
annual concert, an historic Cantata,
entitled "Joan I>"Arc." The music has
been composed by. A. R. Paul, well
known for his "Holy City" nnd other
works.
The Cantata is descriptive, and viv-idly
tells the story of Joan D'Arc, that
Saint of France, from the time of her
inspiration by the heavenly voices—
until subsequent events, of her be-trayal
und death.
The subject und spirit of the theme
is auch that it has been thought a hap-py'
association of ideas, to promote in-terest
in this concert, by giving a
portion of the receipts, ofter defray-ment
of expenses, for the aid of the
people In Northern Prance, who are In
such desperate need at this time.
Rehearsals have begun and are being
held every Monday evening in the Par-ish
House.
A chorus of sixty voices is being
prepared, and is working with utmost
interest, and harmony, to make the af-fair
an unqulifled success.
Those who were fortunate enough
to hear the "Rose Maiden" sung last
winter, will be delighted to know, that
our local singers have a fine treat in
store for sometime In January next
year.
It is hoped that sufficient interest,
and support, as made last year's con-cert
possible, will be again be in evi-dence,
as it is the Intention to give the
Cantata on two evenings.
Demccrates to Have a Meeting.
The Democratic Club will hold a
meeting this evening at their head-quarters,
71 Fayette street, to arrange
for a mass meeting to be held either
on the evening of November 3 or 4.
The date will be determined by the
action of the Washington Fire Com-pany
which will hold a meeting to-night
to definitely decided whether a
hallowe'en celebration will be held
here on November 4.
The plans already made are: a mass
meeting will be held in West Hector
street. The speakers will bo Rev.
George Dutz, of Pennsburg: John J.
Cronin, candidate for the Assembly
from this district: William lAcey, of
this borough and a speaker to be as-signed
by the State Committee and
ICollector of the Port of Philadelphia,
Hon. William H. Berry.
To Decide Hallowe'en Parade
The members of the Washington
Fire Company will hold a meeting, in
the hose house this evening, to take
definite action as to whether a Hallo-we'en
celebration will be held onSatti
day, Nov. 4, as originally planned
or whether the whole affair will be
abandoned. The Co. 18 not receiving
the support of the business men
and the expense is too great to be
borne by the individual members of
the company. The members have
always furnished and paid for their
own equipment which amounted to a
good sum. Theyt have also done all
the work for the affair meaning that
they have worked night and day for
several days to build the exhibits.
This morning it was stated that It
1s almost assured that the members
will decided not to have the cele-bration.
Removing.
John Pollock is removing with his
family from Plymouth to Fourth ave-nue
and Harry street, this borough,
where he will have charge of the milk
depot to be established by the Peo-ple's
Sanitary Dairies.
DEATH CLAIMS
LOCAL RAILROADER
John Kelly, For Many Years Section
Foreman on the P. R. R. Died Yes-terday
Morning.—Funeral on
Monday.
John Kelly, aged about 70 yens,
died at his home, Kim near Ash stre.-is
rday morning. Mr. Kelly had
been ill for several months. Several
times his life was despaired of, but he
was possessed of a strong constittil ion
and wonderful vitality and rallied from
each attack until several days ago it
was apparent his illness had overcome
his strength.
Mr. Kelly was an employe of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and possibly
one of the oldest on contlnous service
on the Schuylklll Valley Division. Al-most
since the road was built he had
been engaged as u track foreman and
was considered to be one of the most
expert track layers on the division.
He is survived by the following chil-dren:
Margaret, wife of Michael Ke-hoe;
Mrs. Cecelia McCarty, Miss
Frances, James and John Jr., of this
borough.
The funeral will be held from his
late residence Monday morning at 9
o'clock and the interment will be at St.
Matthew's new cemetary.
The members of Court Spring Mill.
Foresters of America, are requested to
meet at P. (). S. of A. hall. Sunday
evening at 7 o'clock and will proceed
In a body to view the remains of their
late member.
DECIDED lELLIS INSANE
Evidence That He Shot Himself
Hours After Killing Wife
Evidence that William H. Ellis had
waited many hours after shooting and
killing his wife, Jtfrs. Augusta W.
Ellis, at their country place near Fort
Washington, on October 8, before fir-ing
the bullet that ended his own life,
was brought out at the inquest yes-terday
by Coroner Knight. Ellis died
In the Chestnut Hill Hospital on Mon-day,
and for that reason the inquest
was held in Philadelphia.
Coroner Grant R. McGIathery, of
Montgomery county, appeared at tho
hearing and testtried that when he ar-rived
at the Ellis home he found the
man lying in a semi-conscious condi-tion
on the bed, while the body of his
wife who had evidently been dead
many hours lay on the floor in anoth-er
part of the room. The revolver
with which the shooting was done lay
on the iloor beside Ellis.
"On the floor of the room," said
Coroner McGIathery, "I found bloody
footprints, evidently those of Ellis,
leading from the body of Din. Ellis to
a closet In the hall, where he hung up
his blood-stained shirt and donned a
clean one."
'Squire William Devine, of Upper
Dublin, who also investigated the
tragedy, said Ellis had evidently
waited many hours before shooting
himself. A verdict of suicide while
temporarily insane was rendered by
the jury.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER.
The parable of the Prodigal son is
one of the most familiar and one. of
the most admired In Scripture. Every-body
knows it; everybody under-stands
it; and everybody approves
it heartly. Millions of sermons have
been preached from it; and, whenever
such a sermon was preached, some
father has turned his gaze on some
son who by some miracle had been
lured to church and has said with a
glance if not with words, "Now, my"
son, you see what comes from riot-ous
living."
This is not Intended to be a de-fense
of the son: He deserved to be
made to eat wheatstraw while he
was away and veal when he gotliome
But not all the wasting of the sub-stance
is being done by the heir of
the family; sometimes father is guil-ty
of a little wasting himself.
Father also has a patrimony In
which the son may be pardoned for
having some Interest. IHe may have
a farm that is growing good crops, a
skill that pays him good wages; and
he has a part ownership in the town
In which, or nearest which, he lives.
He may have contributed much or
little to that town or that community.
But, no matter how much or how
little, his residence in that neighbor-hood
entitles him to reap those bene-fits.
The town and the community are
as much a part of his estate as his
farm or his house. Money has but
one value, after all; its only value is
to provide us with the necessities and
comforts and pleasures of life and to
insure our old age. Mkewise the
community provides us with many of
those pleasures and comforts. When
a man hurts the town or the com-munity
or does nothing to help It, he
is wasting his substance just as much
as the son who wasted it in riotous
living.
If you are a son and yaur father
sends his money away to the mail-order
houses, to the detriment of the
town; If he does nothing for the
town and the community and Is not
interested in movements for their
upbuilding and welfare; if he is de-voting
no time to making this a more
pleasurable and more comfortable
town to live In—then father Is a prod-igal
father who is wasting his sub-stance—
and the first duty of the
prodigal after he gets home is to take
the prodigal father into the front
room and give him a heart-to-heart
talk about it.
TEAM TO PLAY HERE
First Team From Famous
Indian School to Play Con-shohocken
on Nov. 4
WILL PLAY RAIN OR SHINE
The greatest fool ball attraction that
has aver been brought to the Schuyl-klll
Valley will appeal al the Twelfth
Avenue grounds in this borough, on
Saturday. November I. when the Var-sity
team of the Carlisle Indian School
will meet Conshohocken, the cham-pions
of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Secretary Hyde in answer to a com-munication
to the Carlisle management
relative to a game received a letter
this morning Stating the terms on
which the team would com.' lore and
he has wired accepting their terms.
The game will be played rain or
shine. w^f
The bringing of such a high class'
attraction to this borough has set a
precedent in foot ball in this Valley,
and the game is being arranged In the
belief thai it win establish <i new at-tendance
figure in Independent ranks
In this vicinity.
It has been the custom for years for
some of the bigger teams In the inde-penl
ranks to secure the reserve team
of the Indians for an attraction but
tins is the lirst time in the history of
the famous school that their varsity
team has played in this section eXC< pi
on Franklin Field. Philadelphia, and
only then as the opponents of the I'ni-versity
of Pennsylvania Varsity team.
Carlisle was always one of the most
faVOXite teams to play ill Philadelphia
and the Penn-Indian gome was looked
upon as one of the most largely at-tended
games On l'enn's schedule.
The Indians have one of the best:
teams in their history this season and
the real strength of ("onshohocken will
now be determined when compared to
a regular college team
Tho expense of bringing the Indians
to this borough la extremely high and
while it is certain that with favorable
weather conditions that a mighty
throng will witness the contest it is
nol even hoped by tho local manage-ment
to make any money on the yaiia-,
but simply to give the patrons of tho ..
Kome here an opportunity of seeing the
Red M'11 play.
• 'or.shohocken will play Atlantic Re-serve*,
Carlisle' Indians, Hoimesburg,
Union Club, Blue stars and Btllikeq
in the order named, which should
about satisfy all of the fans for one
season.
AWARDS BUILDING CONTRACT
The Cooper's Creek Chemical Com-pany
has awarded a contract to tho
Pomeroy Construction Company for
alterations and additions to it brick
chemical labratory at the company's
plunt Just outside of West Consho-hocken.
Tears Down Fence; Pays Costs.
Joseph Organski, of Plymouth Meet-*
Ing, was arraigned before Magistrate
Frank Clark of Norristown, on Tues-day
evening, on the charge of mali-cious
mischief and disorderly conduct,
preferred by Mrs. E. Kephart, a neigh-bor.
It was shown that the defendant
had lorn down a fence on the property
of the prosecutrlx, and that when she
reprimanded him he called his small
sister, and together they created such,
a disturbance a si oalarm Mrs. Kep-hart.
The defendant, who is about 17
years of age, pleaded guilty, but asked
that his sister be discharged. It was
shown that the girl had but litlte to
do with the disturbance, and after Jos-eph
had paid for the damage and the
costs of the prosecution, he secured
his discharge.
No; the Democratic party will not be
saved by the European war. If you
would kuow whnt our condition will
be when that war ends think of what
our condition was before that war be-gan
if you think these nations ore so
impoverished that they cannot again
turn to work. Those millions of men
now lighting are better able to work
than ever before In their lives. • • *
Their factories are there; their plants
are there; they know themselves better
than ever before. They are better dis.
ciplined, more alert, keener, stronger,
better physically, thun ever before in
tho main, ami they are ready to turn
greut natioual energies into the pur-suits
of peace to pay their war bills, to
produce up to the limit, to send their
goods throughout tho world.
I propose that we shall study this out,
applying n principle that we believe in,'
and secure Intelligently und honestly
adequate protection to American Indus-!
tries iu every part of this land.
• DR. H. J. MEYERS *
• Dentist. •
• 75 Fayette Street. •
Itching, bleeding, protruding or
blind piles have yielded to Doan's
Ointment. BOc at all stores. Adv.
Read the Recorder, $1 a Year.
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