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COUNCIL TILTS ON
Votes Not to Use Sinking Fund
Money For Loan.—Urges
Modern Repair Methods
ROLLER TO BE CARED FOR
Town Council engaged In n heated
debate, Wednesday evening, at the
regular meeting, when Mr. O'Brien
motion: "The treasuri r be
t<> purchase for the borough
Liberty Loan bonds, the
be drawn from the Broking
iin> bonds in be deposited
made the
lust ruoted
two $500
mom \ in
fttBd and
therein."
The motion brought forth a heated
debate In which personalities wore In-dulged
in. Mr. O'Brien's original mo-tion
was for the piireliM.se of a $500
bond and was ohanged to $10» on tho
suggestion id President Williams. Mr.
Hate objected lo the purchase saying
the sinking fund should not be touched
for any purpose other than the sole
purpose for which ii was established
to guarantee the repayment of the
borough bonds as they become due.
Mr. Qarrett sustained Mr. Hate and
said he would vote "no" on any propo-sition
to touch the fund for any pur-pose
other than its object.
Mr. O'Brien defended his moiion,
saying purchasing the Liberty 1.01 a
bonds would not take one Cent from
the fund but would strengthen it as
no better Security is obtainable than a
Government bond and the bonds would
pay the borough 3 1-:! per eent. Inter-est
while the fund Is earning 3 per
cent. He strongly Intimated that Mr.
Hate, being a director of the First
National bank, which institution has
tie sinking fund account, was looking
after the interest of the b.ink instead
of the borough, Mr. O'Brien further
stated that It was the duty of the bor-ough
to aid the Government and in
tills Instance it would not only be a
patriotic duty but would also be a
benefit to the borough by reason of tho
increased interest earned.
Mr. Hate strongly objected to Mr.
O'Brien's remarks saying that lie is a
director of the bank and has been for
many years, lie said that he has been
u Councilman for many years and in
Council represents no other Interest
except that uf the people. He said
ininy people believe he faithfully
Serves them and it Is possible some
people believe he does not, but the
people have rcclcctcd him to Council
many times. He also stated that the
bank la treating the borough fair as il
loins it money at I per cent while the
bunk can get a higher rate elsewhere.
He objected to the accusations of Mr.
U'llrien and .said that he would always
object to the use of the sinking fund
money for any purpose other than the
repayment of borough bonds and in
dulng SO, he was acting on the advice
of the late John (1. Johnson Ksip, and
former borough solicitor .1. Aubrey
Anderson. In speaking of tho Liberty
Loan, he said it was a good thing and
should be supported, He said, he was
going |o buy some of the bonds and
advised the CouBcllmen to subscribe
to the loan as Individuals but not to
touch the sinking fund.
Mr. O'Brien heatedly objected to the
statement that the fund should not be
touched. He said It is a Patriotic act
due tli« country and the boys who have
left here and joined the colors. Mr.
O'Brien stated that he would be In
favor of buying $10,000 of Liberty
bonds from the sinking fund account,
and was sure tin law permits such an
Investment.
Mr. Hamilton claimed the sinking
fund was established wrong in that
no ordinance was passed to raise the
revenue for the fund. Mr. Bate Im-mediately
read the lax ordinance pass-ed
ut the last meeting showing Mr.
Hamilton was in error in his state-ment.
A vote was then taken on Mr. O'Bri-en's
motion to purchase $1000 Liberty
bonds from the sinking fund account.
The motion was lost by the following
Vote:
Aye: Missis Hamilton, Kelly, O'Bri-en,
Williams-5.
Nay: Messrs Rate, Press), Qarrett,
Geiger, Jones, Kane, Stemplo—7.
Must Tear Down Houses.
Chairman Press of the streel com-mittee
reported the work of grading
West Third avenue was being Impeded
by reason of the owners of the two
dwelling houses within the street lines
not removing the houses. Mr. Proas
said no start has been made to remove
the houses and asked instructions from
Council. A motion was passed that
the clerk take up the matter with the
solicitor for Instructions.
Mr. Ureas stated that the progress
of the grading work is very slow and
that It will not be completed In the
time prescribed by the rule of the
court unless the contractor hurries the
Job.
Asks For Improved Methods.
Mr. 'larrett suggested the street
committee try Improved methods in
street repair work. He spoke of the
bad condition of the streets and the
greater the cost for repairs will be If
work Is not done Immediately. He
suggested that the street committee
make repairs to the macadam and
asphalt streets with buthullthlc ma-cadam
Instead of loose stone as at
present. He also advised the road
roller be put In use Instead of being
left Idle to rust away.
Mr. Kroas reported the roller lo be
unfit for US until it has been given a
generay overhauling.
(fcoutlnued oa Page Twe)
Home Guard lo Organize
A meeting will be held nt 8 o'clock
this evening In the Council chamber
of the borough hall for the purpose of
organising a Home Guard. Spencer
L. .loins, Robert Cntwford and Bur-test
Bloomhafl are the organisers of
the guard ami now have about SO per-sona
enrolled.
Tonight the guard will organise,
James Cresson, county engineer, will
be present and will offer nil services
as drill master until the guard la well
01 ganlsed.
The purpose of the guard will be to
do poiue duty In cane of riot or cal-amity.
The members will be sworn in
as special police officers. They will
not be under the authority of the Na-tional
or Slate military authorities, as
It win be purely a local organisation
for borne protection.
Work Begun For New P. O.
A. Talone has awarded a contract to
Joseph Gravanese lor the grading of
the lot, mi Payotto street, and the
erection of a wall at the rear of the
lot. This is in preparation for the
new post Office building. Plans have
been prepared and accepted for the
building and Mr. Talone states that
in- expects ic award the contract nexl
Week.
Yesterday, Mr. Talone awarded the
contract for the post office fixtures to
il. 11. Bhults Steel Equipment Com-pany,
Towanda, N. v. The fixtures
will be of ihe most modern type ami
will be ornamental making the inter-ior
of tin- office comfortable, beautiful
and convenient.
AUTO TURNED TURTLE,
Tire "Blow Out" Caused Mach-ine
to Skid and Crash Into
Pole, InjurinR Charles Dun-fan,
at Gulf Mills.
loosing control oT his nutomobllo
on tho >laison Fodrroadnear iln-Guli'
Christian church on Wednesday morn-ing,
duo to it blowout- Charles Dun-can,
the well known grocer, of Me*
ehanicsvllle, sustained a broken arm,
contusions., of the head and many
bruises on the body, when thju mu-chine
swerved, struck a telegraph
pole. In th» roadway, and turning
turtle pinned Duncan beneath it.
Wm. Adams and Walter Miller, hap-pening
along the road assisted the
unfortunate grocerman from beneath
the car, and about that time Rev.
H w. Butler, pastor of the Gulf
Christian church, came along in his
Ford car. Bleeding profusely from
tlie wound in his forehead and badly
:■iaio'k up from the other Injuries,
Duncan was placed in Mr. Butlers
automobile and hurried to the office
of Dr. Pordyoe in Consholiocken. it
was feared that Duncan had sustain-ed
a fractured skull and internal in-juries
but on examination by the
physician dispelled this 'belief, but
the fact was disclosed that besides
having his right arm broken near the
wrist, he had sustained painful con-tusions
about the head and other in-juries,
jfr. Butler then took the in-jured
man tc his home and be has
since been confined to bed.
Duncan, who Is a careful driver,
never fig.ired In a previous automo-bile
accident, although he has driven
his machine many miles. On the
morning he met with the accident
he was proceeding along the Matson
I'ord road at an ordinary rate Of
speed, being engaged in making de-liveries
to I i:- customers. When the
|>low<Vut occurred he afftamjflted i<«
right the cat, but his elforts proved
Futile, and li> an instant it had shot
to the side of the road collided with
ii telegraph pole and turned turtle,
pinning Duncan underneath.
The car, one of the Ford type, was
badly damaged. The wind shield
was wrecked, the steering gear badly
twisted, and il was otherwise broken.
It was removed to a garage fc:- re-pairs.
Duncan seems lo be unfortunate as
far as accidents are concerned. Ijist
winter he was confined to' his home
for about eight weeks with a broken
ankle, which he sustained while de-scending;
n flight ofstepsleading; from
a yard at a neighbor's home where
he had gone to deliver groceries.
Yesterday lie was still suffering
considerable pain, from the effects of
his Injuries, and il will be some time
before be will be able to be about.
Lodge's Patriotic Action.
Court Spring Mill, Foresters of
America, voted at the regular meet-ing,
last nighi to subscribe for a lion
Liberty Loan bond. The Court also
exempted firm payment of dues dur-ing
the war the five members who
are in the military service.
Louis F.h'.ingor, James McDade and
John McCrudden are the representa-tives
of the cotirt at the convention
of the Grand Court In session, this
week, at Poltsville.
The order will give a grand picnic
nt Wood.dde Dark, Saturday, July 28.
The members of the local court ex-pect
a large crowd to attend from
here.
$50510 TOlSlir
The Conshohockens Have Sub-scribed
More Than Double
Their Quota For War Fund
MANY SMALL APPLICATIONS
The Conshohockens- have done their
"bit" in providing Dncle Sam with a
wai" fund. The two towns with a
combined population (estimated) of
HI..".on have subscribed for (605,658
of the Liberty Loan bonds. The meat
number off small applications should
be particularly gratifying to the gov-ernment
and is proof conclusive that
the people ol the Conshohockens will
back the country in war with the
same enthusiasm and in the same
practical way as the appeal for re-cruits
was responded to.
The total subscriptions tire:
First N'tl. Hank $294,350.00
Tradesmen's \tl. Dank 188,400.00
People's Ml. Hank ... 12,900.00
John vVood Mfg. Co . . lo.nuii.OO
Grand Total 1505,650.00
The I'irsi National Bank will care
for $26,800 of the *..ti and $100 bonds
on the we-'klj payment plan. The
bank received 442 subscriptions for
IS.II bonds and IT for $lon bonds on
the club plan. The other subscrip-tion
applications amount to' $267,550.
The Tradesmen's bank reports club
applications in the amount of $16,250
and other subscript ions. $172,160,
The People's Hank, West Consho-hocken,
is not operating the club plan
and its subscriptions amount lo f>12,-
!)00.
The John Wood Manufacturing
Company employes subscribed for
$17,500, the amount to go to 262 em-ployes.
The company subscribed for
$10,000, making the total for the
plant $27,500.
The Conshohockens have made a
fine showing. The big boost was giv-en
by the $:.00,000 subscription of the
Alan Wood Iron a Steel Company,
the company subscribing for $:MI..
through the First National and $100,-
000 through the Tradesmen's bank.
The company also assisted the em-ii|
nyi# el the various plants to or-ganize
Liberty Loan clubs and many
of the me.i joined. Of all the plants
the Schuylkill Iron Works led and
combined with the employes of the
.1. Wood & Bros, plant the Consho-liocken
plants led the Ivy Rock and
Swedelan 1 plants, where the number
of employes greatly1 exceeds the num-ber
in the local plants.
Handling the Liberty l»an clubs
has placed B great amount ot extra
work .in the banks and both banks
have been compelled to employ extra
clerks. The banks make no charge
for their services and are doing the
work as a patriotic duty.
The Conshohockens have done their
"bit" in fino style.
CHILDREN'S DAY
SERVICE AT ST. MARK'S
Fins Program Will Be Presented.—
Aid For Orphan Children Will
Be Given.
THE LADIES' VERDICT
All nre in flavor of our Diamond
Rings, our Good Luck Wedding King*.
They recognize the distinction In qual-ity
and finish. Made to lit—made to
order. F. J. HI.oo.MllALL, Jeweler,
105 Payette street.—Adv.
The Children's Day service of St.
Mark's Lutheran Sabbath School will
be hold next Sunday evening, at 7.30
O'clock. The them.' of the program
will be praise and service for the
Children. The offering taken at the
service will be given for the support uf
the orphan children at Loysville.
Bach .Lutheran Sabbath School in
F.'.stern Pennsylvania is asked for cer-tain
amounts for the support of this
home each year and St. Mark's has
succeeded In the last Bve years in
paying live times over its amount and
as the number of children al the home
has been greatly Increased, it Is hoped
the offering al the service nexl Sun-daj
i veiling will equal the increase ot
the number to be cared for.
The reputation of the home at I«oys-vllle
is BUOh thai there Is always a
greater number of children wanting to
be admitted than can be taken for the
lack of room. A child leaving this
home at the age of 16 Is well prepared
to make his or her living In the world.
A Very pleasing program has been
prepared to be given by the children
of the school.
The following program Will be ren-dered:
Opening Song. ''Give Praise"
Responsive reading
I'raver Rev. J. T. Fox
Singing, "sing a Welcome
Today" School
Exercise by Primary Children.
Recitation, "The First Children's
I "ay" Minerva Xoblill
Singing. "Sing Jcrnh's Praise" School
Recitation, "The Sunbeams Mis-sion"
Anna Jordan
Exercise, "The June Time Queen" by
Fifteen Junior Girls.
Remarks, "Our Children" .. Rev. Fox
i iffertng.
Singing, "Hail Our King!" School
Lords Prayer and Henedlction.
Si henI
School
Hop Sing, the Laundryman,
wishes his palrons to ktiow that he re-moved
from Fayette street to Him and
I'm rest streets, where he will carry on
Just the same as at his former stand.
Ills address is NO. IS BAST BJLM
STREET.—Adv.
PARISHIONERS TO HONOR
BISHOP W|cCL0SKEY
St. Gertrude's Parish t« Hold Recep-tion
in Honor of Fornier Rector.—
Pontifical Miss.
i:t. Rev. James P, Mcfloski >. Bishop
..t" Zoambanga, I'. I. will celebrate a
Pontifical Mass In St. Gertrude's
Church. Sunday morning. June 17, at
10.80 o'clock.
Thus.' who will assist the Bishop
ne Monalgnor Eugene Murphy, of
Manayunk; Monalgnor Charles i'.
IN nagh, of Wayne; Hi vs. James P,
Parker, of si. Matthew's church, this
borough; Kiaeei- .1. CSOT, of Norrls-town;
Francis P, Dougherty, ol Darby;
William Grace, of Manayunk; Henry
I'. Naylon, of Philadelphia; Joseph A.
I gherty secretary ol the Bishop;
Monaignor Kavanagh will preach the
sermon and [rather Dougherty who Is
in accompany the Bishop to the Phil-ippines,
will act as Mas11 r of Cere-monies.
The newly organised choir will sing
RoseWlg*S First Mass in Q and the
proper of the Mass by Toser.
Toser
Rosewig
.. Rosewig
. . . Rosewig
Anna L.
Introit
EC] ii'- Eleison ....
Gloria
Gloria
Ft in terra Pax, Miss
MeTamney, Mr. James McTaln-ney;
Qratlaa Aglmus, Mr. ,\. M.
Hhart; Domine inns. Mis- Elis-abeth
smith.
Graduate Toser
1 'redo Rosewig
151 In I'lium, Mrs. Harry Cunning.
ham; El Inearnatuh Est, Mr.
Howard B. Hasinumi Cruciflxus,
Miss Sly via C, lloylo.
Offertory Tnzer
Venl Jesu Ama Ml Quartette
■~'"'ios Rosewig
Benediotus Gounod
Mrs. A. M, Bhaii and choir.
Agnus Del Rosewig
Miss Ail.le M. I'nx and choir.
Communion Toser
It will be remembered that Bishop
McCloskey was pastor of st. Ger-trude's
for several years. The parish-ioners
are preparing to (lo everything
possible to make this a memorable oc-casion,
one that will live both In their
minds and in the mind of their former
pastor.
Men of the parish will meet the
Bishop at the station tomorrow eve-ning
ami escort him to .the Rectory,
After the Mass the people will hold a
reception to welcome and congratulate
the new Bishop, to kiss his ring and
renew old acquaintances and then to
bid him farewell for many years and
wish him Godspeed on his long Jour-ney,
The Bishop will leave* Philadelphia
Monday, June 85, and will sail from
San Francisco July i;7. After a six
week's voyage, Bishop McCloskey will
arrive at Zamboanga and will be in-stalled
in his see about Si ptember 1.
FATHER BURIED;
I SON OPERATED UPON
Oliver Lampkin Buried on Same Day
as Son Was Operated Upon in
Philadelphia.
The funeral of Oliver Lampkin took
place from his late home. Ford add
Church si nets. w,st Conshohooken,
yesterday morning at !< o'clock and
was attended by a large number of
relatives and friends. High Mass Of
Requiem was celebrated in St Ger-trude's
church, with Rev. Father
Quinn as celebrant. Father Quinn
paid a tribute to the deceased and
pointed out many of the characteris-tics
of principle and right living so
often shpWn during his lifetime. The
pall hearers were Joseph Nones, James
Boyle, John Mulkay, Thomas Cuddy,
Michael Clinton and James Hayes.
The Interment was made in St. Mat-thew's
new cemetery.
'Hi the same day that the funeral
of hut father was held Waller I.nap-kin.
Hie youngest son and who resides
in Philadelphia, underwent a serious
opi ration for stomach trouble. The
young man has ben in' failing health
for some time past and his condition
became such that it became necessary
to operate on him immediately, conse-quently
he was taken to the Stomach
Hospital, V0J Gcrmnnlowii avonuc. on
Wednesday and the operation was per-formed
yesterday, The operation was
Successful and Mr. Lampkin was rest-ing
as well as could be expected this
morning.
FOOT EXPERT AT
JACOBSON'S DEPT. STORE
"Brighten Up" old floors and new
onos with Floorlac. KEHOE BROS.—
Adv.
C. H. S, WILL AWARD
DIPLOMAS T019
46th Annual Commencement
Will Be Held Next Tuesday
Evening in Auditorium
ADDRESS BY DR. J. G. BECHT
•I. Jacobson, proprietor of Jacob-son's
department store, (W Fayette
si reel, has noticed that many of the
patrons of his shop department suf-fer
with corns, bunions and other
ailments of the feet an;', consequently
those patrons have difficulty' In seeur-ing
shoes thai tit snugly and are
comfortable. fPot the benefit or bis
patrons and the public in general, he
arranged to havo a foot expert come
here. Today and tomorrow, a spec-ialist
will be at the store. He is not
a corn dector. lie performs no' oper-ations.
The expert will examine the
feel of tiny one who calls at the store
and will tell how to gain quick relief
and permanent comfort by uiecnani-cal
means.
The shoe department has noticed
that many children suffer from de-fects
in the feet and these defects
will Increase and become a serious
matter in years, the expert will give
free advice as to how these del eels
can be remedied and the child be giv-en
quick relief and in most cases a
permanent cure.
Mr JncobEOTi has secured the ex-pert
for the benefit of the people of
Conshohocken and his services are
free to all He will be at the store
ail of today nud tomorrow.
The 46th annual commencement of
the Cotv-holiocken high school will be
held in tin high school auditorium
next Tuesday evening at vi.'. o'clock.
Diplomas will be awarded lo the class
of '17 composed of I boys and IS girls.
This is the second class to complete
the four-year high school course.
An excellent program has been pre-pared.
Dr. J. George Becht, execu-tive
secretary of the State Hoard of
Education will deliver the address to
the graduates. The music will be by
the school glee club and Knecht's or-chestra.
A special feature of the program
win be the presentation of B gold med-al
to a male member of the class for
the best work In mathematics and
science. The medal is given by the
Pittsburgh Alumni of the Iiensselaer
Polytechnic institute.
The program:
Music Orchestra
Invocation—
Rev, J. Kennedy Moorhouse
Music. The Forrest liance arranged
from Hungarian Dance No. 6 by Jo-annes
Brahms
Glee Club and Orchestra
Salutatory and Oration . Lee Wontllng
Music, ta) The Army i from "Ermine"
Jakabowske); lb) The Navy I from
"Boccaccio," l-'l'anz von SUPP< I
Glee i'luii and (irenestra
Valedictory and I 'ration
Esther Shoemaker
Music Orchestra
Presentation of Diplomas
William Cleaver
Presentation of Gold Medal (for best
work in mathematics and science by
a boy of the senior class—given by
Pittsburgh Alumni of Kensselaer
Polytechnic institute)
L, n. Earhart, Principal
Music Orchestra
Address Dr. .i. George Becht
Music. The Angel's Serenade
(iiee club and Orchestra
Benediction .. Rev, John F. Sheppard
M nsie Orchestra
The following is the class roll:
Bmanuel Abraxas, Ella Bell, Lenna
Bell, William Carroll. Olive Campbell,
Elisabeth Forrest, Esther Gilbert, Jos-eph
Larklh, Robert McCoy, Margaret
Marks, Clyde Moser, Klla Ramsey, Lil-lian
Roulston, itose iiakosky, Esther
Shoemaker, Helen Bteen Nellie Speak-er,
Lee Weniiing, Margaret wilkins.
FIRST PARALYSIS
CASE PROVES FATAL
Thirteen-Mo'nths-Old Polish Child
Succumbs to Disease.
The dreaded Infantile paralysis,
which prevented the opening of the
schools for live weeks last year, has
again made ils appearance in this
vicinity and the first case has proven
fatal.
The victim of the dread disease was
Benny Kopooenaki, a thirteen•months-old
son of Prank Kopccenskl, a Polish
family, residing In the "Yellow How,"
West Consholiocken.
The child had been ill for several
days, but no symptoms of the paralysis
WHS In evidence until Wednesday.
The case, although ii was not certain
that it was paralysis, was Immediately
reported tO the Hoard of Health of
West Consholiocken and the house was
placed under strict survoilanco, yes-terday
the case was diagnosed as par-alysis
and the child died about 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The funeral was held this morning
and was strictly private.
About the Red Cross.
Gulf Mills is doing their bit in aid
of the war sufferers and during the
past few days have organized two
units of ten members each. They
have affiliated themselves with the
West Consholiocken Branch of tho
Red Cross.
CELEBRATE GOLDEN
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. John Pugh Were Married
50 Years on Wednesday.—Friends
Surprise Them.—Rule For
Married Happiness.
TAXPAYERS DEMAND
1
Mr. and Mrs. John I'ligh celebrated
the 50th anniversary of their marriage
at their home. Fifth avenue and Harry
street, Wednesdo] evening. They had
planned that they would hold no cele-bration
but their fricmis planned oth-ei
wise and throughout the evening
man) friends called a ml extended their
congratulations. Many beautiful Hoi 1
remembrances were sen! them.
John Pughv upon ins return from
tin war, came lo <'oi,.-holiockcn and
entered t he fei d and coal bu
forming n partnership with ins broth-er,
Samuel Pugh, March 28, 1864,
June 18, 1867, Mr. Pugh ami Miss
S. Katharine I.eedom. of Cull' Mills,
were married In Philadelphia. The
Wedding was held at the '.il'ierre ho-tel,
in South Broad street.
phia. afterwards the LaFayette hotel.
The ceremony was performed by lion.
Minion MeMioiiaei, Mayor of Phila-delphia
Upon their return from their
honeymoon they resided at Hector and
Forrest streets until 1S7H when they
removed to their present home at Fifth
avenue and Harry street, which Mr.
Pugh built.
A few months ago Mr. Pugh sold his
coal business, but continues in tho
feed business, being one oflthe town's
active business men. lie U a director
of the First National baiuK a member
of George Smith Post, No. 79, C. A. It.
and is a leader in every public move-ment.
Mi. Pugh is and always has been a
strong supporter of the party of Lin-coln.
In speaking of his busy life, he told
hlS gtiests that his married life has
been A\happy one. He said, he follow-ed
the advice of Mayor McMichacI
which was given him at the time of
his wedding: "The Mayor said lo us:
'Never both talk at the same time.' I
have followed that advice. I always
did my talking then went to the stable
while my wife did hers."
"Mr. I'ugh comes from a long-lived
family. His father and mother lived
64 years of married life, and his
grandfather and grandmother 64 years.
His grandfather was born In 1776,
married In 1800 and died j„ 1864; his
grandmother surviving her husband a
number of years.
Residents of Spring Mill Op-posed
to Dropping Principal
of School
OTHER DIFFICULTIES TOO
IT.
Meeting of Last Year's Commit-tee
Called For Sunday to Ar-range
For Big Patriotic Meet-ing.—
Usual Athletic Carnival
May Be Held.
SPRING MILL BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor, Harry L Clouser. Jtible
School :!.:'.(> Snmlay afternoon. Prea-ching
service ".!."> in the evening
with sermon by the pastor. We ex-tend
a cordial Invitation to every-one
to worship with us.
K. of C. Outing.
The ("onshchocken Council K. of C,
No. HiOl! will hold their first outing
of Hie season at Uynch's Manor, next
Sunday. A baseball game will be
the main tcature of the outing.
Enlisted In Ambulance Corps.
Samuel Gordon Smyth, Jr., ot West
Conshohooken. yesterday enlisted in
the Jefferson Ambulance Corps. Mr.
Smyth expects the corps will be Ord-ered
to the front In the near future.
Mntsonford B. * L. Association new
series of stock July 2, 1917.—Adv.
For baby's croup, Willie's daily cuts
and bruises, mamma's sore throat.
Grandma's lameness.—Dr. Thomas
Electric Oil—tho household remedy.
Consholiocken will have a big patrio-tic
meeting and possibly a carnival of
athletic events as its celebration of the
Fourth of July. Lieutenant Governor
Frank B. McClain. of Lancaster, one
of the most popular anil able ollicials
of Pennsylvania has accepted the in-vitation
of Burgess flloomhall to come
here in the morning of the Fourth and
deliver a patriotic address. The Lieu-tenant
Governor Is one of the Stale-able
orators and while pressed to visit
a number of communities, he decided
In favor of Conshohocken on account
of the town's great contribution of men
and money to ihe Government and war
sufferers.
The BurgeSS also arranged to have
District Attorney .1. Aubrey Anderson
to make the opening address ami in-troduce
the speakers. The Burgess is
also arranging for another speaker of
prominence.
The Burgess has arranged for the
speakers In order to assure the suc-cess
of the meeting as no call of the
committee had been mad.' and the time
is very short.
Chairman John Pugh has Issued a
call for all the members of last years
committee to meet at 2 o'clock next
Sunday afternoon in the borough hall.
The committee will be asked to take
charge of the patriotic meeting and to
decide the other features, if any, to be
embraced in the celebration.
Many persons desire that the annual
spoits carnival arranged by the Spring
Mill avenue residents be a feature this
year. The sports have been greally
enjoyed in the past and the interest
is widespread.
A great many persons, who have
been talked with upon the subject, aro
not in favor of hnvlng a fireworks dis-play.
They are of the opinion that the
cost of such a display should be put
to a better use as during the war the
Red Cross will need much money and
materials and Conshohocken will be
called upon to do her bit throughout
the war.
However, the general committee will
decide and work out the details for tho
celebration.
There Is blood on the moon in
Spring Mill and from present indica-tions
surprises galore will be sprung
at a Joint meeting of the members of
Hi S liool Hoard of Whilcmarsti]
township and the residents oi 3prln(
Mill to be held In the Spring fMill!
school bu Ming tomorrow evening at!
8 o'clock.
The ontire rumpus was started
Phil I- \w'"'n a' the ,ust meeting ofthe school
board all ol the teachers at Spring
Mill were re-elected with the single
exci ption of E. Johnson Uonter, who
has for several years been the super-vising
principal. Not only did the
board lail lo re-elect Mr. Uonter, but
the secretary was Instructed to write
to him asking that he withdraw his
application.
it is claimed that Mr. Uonter had
made application to the County Su-porintenlem
for a position in some
oilier part ol the county and for that,
reason the Board claims that they
were only protecting the interests of
their district by refusing to consider
his application lor his former school.
Some years ago one of the teachers
had been re-elected and in Septum-ber
she notified the directors that
she had bean chosen to teach in the
Drexel Inst'tute in Philadelphia and
that she Intended to resign. The di-rectors
were put about in selecting
a successor and as a consequence the
grade suffered all term. At that time
a resolution was adopted that a teach-er
making application elsewhere could
not be considered by the directors.
When it was learned that Mr. Uon-ter
had not been elected and that his
tor hud not been elected and that he
was requested to wlthdarw his appli-cation
tax payers of the district began
to make an Investlgtion. A meeting
was held al the home of one of the
promoters in the investigation pro-ceedings
and was largely attended. A
committee of five men was appointed
to draw up a petition requesting that
Mr. Uonter be re-elected and that his
salary be increased. The petition
was circulated and in less than no
time more than 160 taxpayers had
signed it.
The committee went to the home
of Mr. Vci'kh, Mi Bailey, Mr. lx>ck-wood,
Mr. Potts and 11. Oscar Young
directors and demanded that a pub-lic
meeting be culled for tomorrow
evening in the Spring Mill school.
While the trouble had its begin-ming
in the failure to re-electMr. Bon-ier
as principal, there are other dif-ficulties,
and grave ones too. that are
io be brought before the notice of the
taxpayers at the meeting and It now
begins to look as though the village
is on the threshhold of a fight that
will beap ;i lot of unfavorable criti-cism
on tho school district.
No district its size in the county
can boast ol a more commodious or
more up-to-date school than Spring
31 ill. Built in an ideal location, on
a little knoll close to the famous
"Bubblng Springs,'' the two- story
sioni Btruclure commands a roman-tic
appearance in a well-shaded and
inviting spot. The interior of the
building is elegantly equipped with
all the modern and sanitary equip
inent. A ham.some piano has been
Installed as well us a high-priced
victrola with hundreds of dollars
worth of records. These musical in-struments
have been installed with-out
.i cent of cost to the district, and
lnainh through the efforts of Mr.
Bonier, who has the solid backing ol
the pupils and their parents.
Entertainments and socials have
bet n held at regular intervals and
the residents of the village have tak-en
a wonderful interest in the school.
Never was so much interest shown
In the welfare of an instructor as is
being shown in Mr. Uonter-and
the taxpayers claim that he has
been done a rank injustice and prom-ise
some most interesting develop-ments
at th" meeting.
BE
Club Smoker
I Advertise in The Recorder.
The Penn Club will hold a smoker
In the club rooms, in the Murray
building next Monday evening. The
club will also discuss, at that time,
the proposed new club house. The
club owns ground at Second avenue
and Fayette street and has received
bids for the erection of a club house.
It is expected a decision will bo reach-ed
as to whether the club will let a
contract for the building or defer the
matter to the. future,
Elastic Hoisery Workers Strike.
The elastic hoisery workers at the
Iceland Surgical works on Fast Hec-tor
street are still out on strike.
The men r.re affiliated with the
Flastlc Hoisery Weavers Union. A
demand was made by the union for
a ten percent, increase but the de-mand
was refused and as a conse-quence
the Strike was ordered. The
men at the local plant have been out
ifor the oast ten days.
For staining r.nd vnrnisning floors at
one operation, use Kloorlac. KEHOE
BROa.—Adv.
Matsonford I;. & L. Association new
series of stock July 2, 1917.—Adv.
• "COME AND SEE"
• Christianity Invites a Fair Teit.
• The
• FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
• of Conshohocken
• Invites the unattached for next
• Sunday.
• Morning, 10.30:
• "Our Gardens and Our God."
• Evening, 7.30:
• "Mockers and Makers of Men."
• Rev. Abner James Davies,
• Minister.
•
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