The Conshohocken Recorder, February 11, 1919

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TUESDAY AND FRIDAY CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1919. $1.50 PER YEAR
THINK BUILDING WAS SET
A FIRE
BUDIfflf DEATH
William Sturges Died After
Short Illness —Joseph Con-nelly
Died Suddenly.
MRS. ANN HIGGINS IS DEAD baw's new cemetery
William Sturges died at four o'clock MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
yesterday morning at his homo. 109 ALFRED Y. HENDRICKS
Forrest street, after a short illness. A service in memory or Alfred Y.
He had been 111 about a month but his rlendricks, who was officially re-iiin.
ss was not considered serious un- ported as having been killed In act-ta
a few days in for.- his death, which ion. October -. 1918, In Prance., will
.amc as a great slunk to hi* many.be held Thursday evening at 8 o'
friends In both boroughs,
Mr. Sturges was a blacksmith and
was employed at the works of the Dla- tlelpbla Branch of the Y. i>. s. c. t:
mend State fibre Company, West\ of which he had served as president
Conshobooken.
was taken ill with stomach trouble
progressed an II death ensued.
Mrs. rllggins is survived by a son,
John Jr., who lives in Ireland. Dux-ing
her lonjr residence hero, she made The firemen were summoned to
many friends and was one of the old- east borough llmil Saturday morning
est members or S'. Matthew's parish shortly before five o'clock, when
The mineral will be held rrom the flames were discovered in a one
residence of her brother-in-law, Wil- »tory frame store building at No.
Ham Holland, Bryn Mawr, Thursday Tl!< Kasl Hector street The prompt
morning at i o'clock. Solemn high Mrh»l ot tne Hremsn Bav,,(1 lnP
mass of requiem will be celebrated In s'on' "om 'lesinuiion an.: also pre-
St. Matthew's church at 9.30 o'clock vt,n'«'11 the spread of the names.
and the Interment will be at St. Matt- Th" rrame »tPUOture' whUh ls "n
Ian.: adjoining the home or Edward
Duggan, is owned by James Scanlan
At present the building is vacant.
This is the second time the prop-erly
has been thren'iened by lire
within a week. Several nights ago
employes or the Lee lire plant dis-cover..:
flames in the building and
I heir quick work saved the store
TOWN'S HONOR ROLL OF DRAFTEES
BEING COMPILED FOR WAR HISTORY
BASKET BALL
dock In calvary Presbyterian church Ifrom destruction.
Stxtenth and Master streets, Phihv " is beUeved ** «" w;ls s,nr,ca
by incendiaries, and an investigation
will be made. The loss Saturday
AbratTmonth ageheJRev Floyd Tompklns will preachlhe|™°™ta* *™ ro: 0XCf>p'1 *-""
which he attributed to Inhaling gas
from his blacksmith's lire. His ill-ness
was such as to compel him to
quit work He was apparently recov-ering
and was able to have his home | 1'hiladelphla and
but his Illness progressed and he was
compelled to take to his bed.
Mr. Sturges lived all his life in the
Conshohockens and had been employ*
..I as a blacksmith In the various In-dustries,
He was a member of a
number of societies and for a number
of years was active in Republican
1". lilies.
He Is survived by his widow, three
daughters and n son as follows: May,
wife of Theodore Speaker, German-town:
Flora wife of John Hayden, I
Norribtcwn' Miss Ada. who enlisted
last Koptoml er as a r. S. army nurse
and now rtulioned at thi
hospitl No. 5, Grand Central Palace,
New York city, and William Jr., who
resides with his parents. Be is also
survived by a sister, Mrs. William .r.
l'cnnin^lon, of West Conshohocken.
Funeral services will be held a- h.'a
late residence Thursday afternoon, at
memorial sermon. Many friends o
the late soldier, from this borough,
will attend the service.
Private rlendricks was the son or
Mr. and Mrs. .John Ilendricks. at
formerly or ibis
borough. During his residence here,
he was an active member of the
Presbyterian church.
His family have received a letter
from the cap.ain or his company
telling Of the last seen or Alfred. The
letter stated thai Alfred with a com-panion
had been assigned to scout
duty. They penetrated the Herman
lines and returned to their company
With much valuable information. Al-fred
again went out ;o obtain furth-er
Information and did not return. He
was reported missing on October -'
and later as reported as having
been killed.
ATTACKED MAN IN
RAILWAY STATION
Thomas O'Donnell. a special officer
ror the Heading Railway, with officers
Heald and Ruth, of the local force, ar-rested
Walter Heal, S23 Apple streel,
2 o'clock and will be conducted by late Saturday night, as the man who
'Hev.-J. Kenned* 'Moorhousc, rector of
Calvary P. E. church. The int-rment
will be at Lower Merlon Baptist ceme-tery,
Joseph J. Connelly
Joseph J. Connelly died suddenly .-if
his home, 15 Bast First avenue, at 2.30
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mr. Con-nelly
had been In delicate health for
the past t\yo years. Shortly before
his death, lie was conversing with his
brother and had been playing with his
young son. He remarked that he was
feeling much better and that he would
attacked James Fogarty, ot Philadel
phut and formerly of this borough.
The night operator called the police
to the station saying a man had been
lied, When the officers arrived,
was seen down Ihe tracks a
short distance below the P. & R. sta-tion.
Officer Ruth went after him
and the man ran away. The officers
pursued. Heal ran to the Schuylkill
river bridge and tripped and fell.
The officers caught him and brought
him lo the police station
The night, operator said thai For-
Many Parents and Relatives Have Neglected to Send the Names
of Members of Their Families in the Military Service 10 be
Enrolled in the Borough's War History—Read the List Care-fully
and if Any Omissions are Noticed, Send the Informa-tion
to the Committee or to The Recorder That the Boys May
be Given Credit.—Additional List of Volunteers.
Resident
P. R. R.
Body of Spring Mill
Was Found Along
Tracks at Cinnaminson. Wife
Identifies Body.
The following is the list of Conaho-ho,!.
en resldl ids called in Ihe mili-tary
service through the drafts, and
has been gathered by the committee
of Town Council, Richard H. Bate
chairman, and the police. It is evi-dent
that many names have been
missed and it is the their desire that
every man, who has served his coun-try
in the military branch be given
full credit for his service, parents
and relatives of the men are asked to
scan the following list carefully and
if the names of their relatives are nol
included, they arc asked to supply
the necessary information to the corn-mil
te .the police or to the Recorder.
The list of draftees contains 13.".
names.
The list of volunteers printed in the
Recorder Of February 4 contained 131
names, but from these must be de-ducted
throe names as they were res-idents
of West Conshohocken and will
appear in the lists of the volunteers
and draftees lo lie printed In ihe West
Conshohocken list.
Corrections have been made since
the last was printed and nine addi-tional
volunteers are to be nd.led and
included in these are three young
women who volunteered and are now
serving as Red Cross nurses.
The names of all the volunteers
and daflees will be Inscribed in the
borbugh's War History and a move-ment
is also on foot to hnve the
names perpetuated on a hronzo tab-le!,
so every man who has served his
country should be given the credit
due him.
Consbohock.n high boys won a
great came from He- Lebanon high
•earn, the champion high set I team
of the slate by the score .if 58 to '■•'■
The game was one of the cleanest
that has been played here ibis year.
Although there were many fouls com-mitted,
they were not intentional.
Ref.ree Miller of Philadelphia, Who
referred the game, said that it was
Ihe hardest and fastest garne thai ho
has seen this year. A.s a general thing
when a game is played as hard as ibis
ene wa.s the score is very low but this
game wa.s an exception to the rule.
The first half opened with both
teams going at top speed. The first
DOUBLE ELOPEMT
I
Two Local Couples Missed
Train'for Elkton and Actions
in Station Caused Arrest.
GIRLS ARE 14 AND 16 YR .
Two young local girls, who on Sun-day
believed they would be happy
brides tolas, are at their homes hero
mourning the fate of their unhappy
point wa.s a foul goal which was made lovers who are detained OS runaways
by Lebanon. It was BOOO followed
by the Visitors. Several more points
| were scored before I 'onshoho, I., n
made anything. Irwin started the lo-
Ical boy's score with a field goal which
was soon followed by one from Merk-' rlcd.
el. Beaver then helped them out
with another field goal after which
Merkel overcome Ihe lead with two
.noals in succession. Both teams scor-ed
several more points but Consho-hocken
kept in Ihe lead and ended
the half with a score of 31 to 23.
Irwin opened the second half wilh a
foul goal. Lebanon soon followed
by ihe Philadelphia police and their
arentS are leasing" them to their fate
for the time being that they may have
an opportunity of reflecting upon their
rashness in running away to be mar-
Name ,
Atkinson. Harry I.
Allen, (leorge W.
Andraka. Anthony
Address
162 Uth, Ave.
9th Ave.
, 105 Kim St.
Sintered Service
Sept. 1917
April 20, IMS .
Sept. 3, Mil
arise from bed. Shortly afterwards,j garty came to the station and bought
a ticket lor Philadelphia for the last
■rain to the city, and wa.s in the
wailing room waiting tor ;iie train
when Heal came in, and without any
provocation, as tar as he knew. Heal
si ruck Fogariy a heavy blow. The
men got into a lussel and :h.- operat-or
called the officers. Fogarty also
told the officers he was struck with-out
provocation. Fogarty returned
to the city and appeared at the hear-ing
against Heal. The bearing was
held Sunday morning and Heal was
held Tor a fr.rthr hearing this evening.
'<e called to his wife and when she
reached his side he was suffering
with a hemorrhage which caused his
dealh.
Mr. Connelly was born here forty
years ago and was educated at St.
Matthew's parochial school. Tie en-tered
the employ of the Hell Tele-phone
Company and for a number of
years was stationed al .1. nkinlovvn in
charge of the right of way. Ill health
compelled him to give up his employ-ment
and two years ago he relurne.l
to this borough and opened a confec-tionery
store at IE Blast First avenue.
He Is survived by his widow, who
was Miss Bllsabeth Ford, of this bor-ough,
and a son, Joseph Jr. He Is al-so
survived by his father, Timothy
Connelly and Ihe following brothers
and Bisters: Timothy and George,
Bridget Elisabeth, Ella and Mary, all
of this borough.
The funeral will be held from his
late residence on Friday morning.
Solemn high mnss of requiem will be
celebrated In St. Matthew's church at
9.30 o'clock and the interment will be
at St. Matthew's new cemetery.
Daniel O'Neill
Daniel, husband of Bessie O'Neill
(nee Harrington) died yesterday in
Bryn Mawr hospital, He formrly re-sided
in West Blth avenue, this bor-ough
and has many friends here.
The funeral will lie held from his
late residence. 70:.' Railroad avenue,
Hryn Mawr. Thursday morning. Sol-emn
high mass ..f requiem win he
TWO FIRES YESTERDAY
The lire companies had two runs
yesterday. Al noon, fire was discover-ed
at the home of James M. Nyce,
Seventh avenue and Wood streei. A
defective Hue set the chimney a fire
and the firemen quickly extinguished
it with chemical streams. The dam-age
was trilling.
At lour o'clock yesiorday afternoon
the firt men were called to the .liable
of the People's Sanitary Dairy In the
ol' the store Fourth avenue and Harry
street. The building was filled with
smoke and the firemen had much
difficulty In lighting the Hre, which
was Just beglnlng to get a mart. U
was nuickly extinguished and the
loss was communicating to it when
the firemen arrived.
Robert faugh, a life long resident
or Spring M1U, was killed Bometlme
during Saturday night by a Pennsy-lvania
Railroad .rain at Cinnaminson
and was discovered early Sunday!
morning by a railroad engineer on his ,
way to work The Manayunii police I
were not ilied and the body was re-moved
to the city morgue.
The identification of the body was
brought about by an article in a Phila
delphla evening paper yesterday. The
article slated that the hal worn by
dead man contained the initials R. P.
A neighbor of Mrs. Paugh's road tne
article and showed il to Mrs.wPaugh."
who had believed her husband was
visiting relatives in Philadelphia. The
description of Ihe body tallied with
thai ol her husband and she itnmed-lately
went to the cuy with her son-in-
law, W. S. Holland where they 1-
dentlfled the body as that of Mr.
Paugh.
Mr. Pangh left his home shortly
after six o'clock Saturday i veiling,
saying he wa3 going to Manayunk.
He went to Moland's poDecy, Spring
Mill, wiiere he was employed, and
after that theje is no trace of his
movements. When he did not return
home Saturday nigh,, Mrs. Paugh
was not alarmed as he often relli red
the night watchman on Saturdays,
and she believed he had remained at
the work::. On Sunday, when he did
not reurn, she believed he hat' gone
to visit his sis.er in Philadelphia.
Yesterday she became alarmed at
hiJ absence but found no clue of his
whereabouts until the article in the
newspaper was shown to her.
Mr. Paugh's body was found tying
beside the track and was badly
mangled. The face was badly cut anil
bruised and the limbs mangled and
broken. It is not known how the acci-dent
happened, whether he fell from
a train or was struck while walking
on the railroad. No train crews re-ported
having struck a man.
Deceased is survived by hW widow
and the following children: Martha,
wife or Winfield S. Holland, Norris-town;
wife of Edward Olenzinger:
Hester, Robert Jr,. of this borough
and Horace who is in lire American
army in France. He is also survived
by two brothers, William and Daniel
and a sister. Elizabeth, wile of John
I'uss, all or Philadelphia,
Abrams. Gustave, Adolph. 003 Spring Mill Ave. Oot. •'.
jturreii, Reuben Conshobooken Dec. 13. 1917
Bodey, George Warren til Harry St. Nov. 3. 1917
Bertlno Balvatore 121 W. Kim St. sept, 20, 1917
Bailey, William It. 1 IT W. 7th Ave. Aug. 26, Mil
Hello Balvatore Conshobooken Nov. 3, 1917
BOdkIn Richard I'.iuce 13'. EL Sill Ave. Sept. 20, 1917
Bailey Benjamin Rmlth 708 B. Hector si. Bept 20, MM
Blanche. Arthur M. 237 Spring Mill ave. Nov. 20, 1917
1917
Brwn, Michael A.
n-elshaw, Harry ."2:
I'.iaselll. 'Charles
Decker, Russell L.
Balmer, Robert W.
Oarusello, Uerardlno
I'ltfo. Luciano
Conicelll AgOltlno
Cardomone, Anthony
Conicelll, Ni.oia
Crotty, John J.
Crawford, .lames H.
1 "loss. George W.
Coyne, Philip J. 7th
Coyne, James P.
Coyne, Thomas S.
Cairns, John
Chill, Frank Nathan
Ml E. Hth Ave.
Spring Mill Ave.
IS!! Maple St.
Conshohocken
Conshohocken
144 W. 1st Ave.
124 W Id III Rt
124 W. Elm St.
P. Conshohocken.
Conshohocken
1H B. 3rd. Ave.
330 Harry St.
247 E. Elm St.
ave. & Maple St.
Conshohocken
Conshohocken.
Conshohocken
114 W. 5lh Ave
Sept. L't DU7
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DembOWSkl, Const unto 1st. ave <Ni Maple f=t. Feb. 25, 1918
Donovan, Leo T,
Dyer, John Joseph
Davles, Stanley 1"
Darcy, Jew ph
Di PaolO, Domenlco
DiAmidio Candllore
DeKltorre, Pimqunlo
1 nit ill. Elwo.al
Conshohocken
119 W. 1st \-'\
108 K. 4th .We.
Spring Mill Ave.
103 W. 7th Avo
Conshohocken
Conshohocken
330 B, 10th Ave.
133 W. 4th Ave.
381 K. Elm st.
433 Bun St.
1 'inishohocken
1 imk St.
Denny, Thomas A. 320 Spring Mill Ave.
Darby, James A.
DoBrowolski Ignatz
FlllpponI Amide..
Flshbein, Isaac
Florino Mario
Ferrier, John Franklin Fast Nth Ave.
FlitSberg, Samuel 103 W. 10th Ave.
Ferrier Fred. A. 369 Spring Mill Ave.
Fitzgerald. Harry .'oi'-hohocken
Griltiths, David 308 E. 9th Ave.
Greene, Norman R. Conshohocken
llold.n, William 39 layette Bt.
Hidden, I'ercy Harry 39 Fayette St.
Hamilton. James 422 Spring Mill Ave.
Hiltner. Daniel F. X00 Spring Mill Ave.
Hayes. .lames J. 56 Fayette St
Harvey. Jos. Francis 110 W. 8th ave.
llarrold. Hurry .1. Conshohocken
Klekey, John F. 133 W. 4lh Ave.
JaeQUOt, August R. Jr. 139 W. 4th Ave.
Johnson, Ralph
Jones, Sylvester D.
Kuuffmann, August J.
Kauffmann, Henry J.
Klein, Aaron 5."
Conshohocken
Bast 8th Ave.
Conshohocken
Conshohocken
Fayette, St.
The arrangements for .he
have not as yel been made.
funeral
DISTRICT ATTORNEY INJURED
Persons living in the neighborhood
stated that boys gathering garbage ' District Attorney J. A. Anderson
have been seen to enter tne staoio appeared in court yesterday in a
celebrated at 9 o'clock in the Lady of an(l -smoke cigarettes. It is said the crippled condition. On Sunday, Mr.
Good Counsel church, Dry n.Mawr. In- hoys were seen there shortly* before Anderson was doing Homework In
torment will be at St, Matthew's new Hit
cemetery, this borough.
Mrs. Ann Higgins
Mrs. Ann Hlggins. widow o? John
Hlggins, cited on Sunday evening at
the home or her brother-in-law, Will-iam
Holland, Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Higgins had been a resident
of Ibis borough for over a hall' cent-ury
and since the dealh of bet hus-band
lived alone ai S24 Harry street.
A few weeks agq, Mrs. Higgins be-came
ill with ailments due to her ad-vanced
years and she was taken to
th« home of Mr. Holland, Her illness
fire.
BICYCLE repairing and sundries at
KEHOE'S. 217 Hector St.—Adv.
UMBRELLAS repaired and recovered
ut KEHOES. 217 Hector St.—Adv.
OR. n. j. MEYERS
Dentist.
75 P<y»tt« Street
OUR GAS & ELECTRIC
ITY BILLS ARE O'JC
HAVh YOU PAID? SAW
THE DISCOUNT.
his barn at his home in I'pper Merioll
and jumped from the barn Hoor onto
ihe roof ol' a sheu attached lo the
building. The rool ol" Ihe shed gave
way under his weight and he fell
through Ihe roof to the ground. He
.suffered brusies on the arms and his
body was painl'ully squeezed and
bruised. However, no bones were
broken. He appeared in court yester-day
anil conducted the prosecutions
in [he criminal court.
Klein, Jacob M. 55 Fayette St.
Kehoe Arthur F. Corislmhocken
Koch, Wro. CloytOU B10 Fayette SI.
Kelly, James J. 30 Washington St.
Ixing, William J. 43 Fayette St.
Laverty, Soloman F. 913 Fayette St.
Laverty, Joseph H. 247 E. 6th Ave.
Lobb, Charles F. P, 301 Hector SL
l.eightam Albert Joseph, 105 B. Elm St.
l.ucento Bplfank) 153 W. 7th Ave
I.ukens. David H. 316 Hallowed St.
l.ukens. Wilfred P. 027 Spring Mill, Pa.
Lawless. Frank A.
McGuigan. John W.
11 s F, Hector st.
215 K. 0th Ave.
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May 25, 1!'18
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April 26. I IMs
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Chaplin will
jpp»ar In the Gem Theatre Saturday.
J Matinee and evening.
McFaddon. Frank K. 033 Spring Mill Ave. April 26. 1918
McOrath, CharleH 112 W. 3rd. Ave. Aug. 26. 1918
McCloskey, Daniel F. 348 E. 6th Avo Nov. 2. 1917
McEvoy James Francis 475 Elm St. Sept. 19, 1917
M.Claln Milford C. Conshohocken Oct. 14, 1917
MoBvoy Wm. Joseph 77 Harry St. Aug. 9, 1918
McGuigan Edward Francis 231 E. 6th Ave. Sept. »l, 1917
McFarland. George 243 E. 8th Ave. Oct. 5, 1917
McNulty. William J. 527 Old Elm St. May 1918
Meararo, Donate 106 Maple St. Jan. 2, 1918
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The Unhappy couples are: Rosin
Keeley, aged 18 years, 513 Wesl Blm
streei ; Charles C. Corroda, aged 21
years. 324 Maple street; Anna Dylbo;
aged 14 years, 133 West Elm street,
and John Novak, aged 19 years, 349
Bast Hector street
Sunday afternoon, the two four lov-ers
met and went to Philadelphia, the
with a field goal and began lo over- Intention of going to Elkton, Mil., to
come Ihe lead. When Ihe score was be married. They missed the last
41 to -10 Lebanon scored a field goal train for the Maryland Gretna Green
and secured Ihe lead. They held it and decided to wail in Broad Street
until Conshohocken tied it wilh a foul station until ihe morning train. They
goal at 46 to 40. The local hoys then Were a happy parly and went into tho
scored the lead by a field coal and wailing room, opened a big parcel of
held il until Ihe end of the game. | sandwiches and other picnic food and
McMri.le played a fast game in niak- : were enjoying themselves. Their
ing goals and guarding his man. ( youthful appearance attracted the at-
The visitors would have scored tentlon of .Mrs. Thorn, agent for the
.many more points and probably won Travelers Aid Society, who question-
'the game had It not been for ihe .!•■-
Ifensive work of McBrlde and Kate.
Hale also made many field goals and
followed his opponent very close.
1 The Lebanon boys played a very
fast and clean game, llolh teams
earned all the points that they madi-as
Ihe game was one of the hardest
that was played hero this season.
• • •
The High School .earns won rrom
the Boyertown teams at the latter's
ed the nirls and found they were on
their way to Elkton to be married.
Mrs. Thorn immediately broke up the
happy party and had the two couples
taken to city hall and detained as
runways.
The Philadelphia police cotiimtinicat
ed wilh the local police yesterday
morning saying Miss Keeley had giv-en
her age as 18 years and Miss Dyl-ba
as lyears. The police notified he
parents Of the young people and the
gymnasium in two fast and interest- girls were brought home. The par-ing
gamej Friday evening. The boys pnts 0f the boys decided to leave
won by the close score of 30 to 27 (hem wilh ,,„. ,,olice for a Ume that
"™1^? f.1! ,by ""' ovorwhelm-ne lhcir love pass.ons might be cooled,
and this morning, both boys were
still detained.
BIRTHDAY PARTY.
A merry crowd of young people ten-dered
a surprise valentine party to
Howard Johnston of Harmonville, on
Saturday evening, February 8th, the
occasion being his sixteenth birthday.
The evening was spent in dancing,
singing and playing games, a game of
dissected hearts, determining the
choice of partners, after which re-freshments
were announced nnd the
company proceeded to tho dining
room to the air of a popular march
played by the orchestra, where every-one
did ample justice, tu tho good
things provided.
The house was very artistically
decorated with palms, cut flowers,
hearts etc. while a gorgeous cake with
sixteen lighted candles adorned ihe
centre of the table.
score of 40 to 1.
Owing to the ract that the uoys
knew that they would have to play a
very hart: game in the local gymnas-ium
on Saturday afternoon they saved
their strength for that contes. and
did not play themselves out. Tlie
game was very interesting for the
reason that the score was very close
and that both teams played a vc. y
clean game.
We cannot blame tho Boyertown
girls for losing to such a wonderful
team as that which belongs 10 tho
local high school. The girls have al-ways
played lino games and did
great credit to their ooach In Ihe
game on Friday night.
THE MISSING WORD
A young lady deeply interes.eu in
the hunt for the Missing Won; pro-tested
to the contest editor against
"those deplorable D's." She said:
"Givo us words beginning with a let-ter
other than 1). The D's have been
our despair. 1) is a deplorable letter,
it begin.4 Despair and Desolation,
Debt and Deficiencies and so on
through all the hardships of life even
:o Desolation and Death. Dive us ;v
word beginning with a letter thai
stands for Uie liner things.' "What
would you suggest?" she was asked.
"Well I, is a line letter it starts those
line words: Ixive, Liberty, Ure".
Tho young lady wa.i right, ihe ife
have destroyed the chances of many
in the contest and the Missing Word
last Tuesday was one which is wucn
a favorite With a very distinguished
and widely read author that he pre-fers
It to every other word when ho
can apply it. It is DIDACTIC.
The mising won! today begins wilh D.
WEDDED IN FRANCE
Six weddings in France or England
of nurses and enlisted men ol Rase
Hospital No. 10 organized at the Penn
aylvania Hospital, are announced Dy
a seventh pair of newlyweds who
have returned home.
The latter are Sergeant William It
Schwartz, Jenklntown, and his wife,
who was Mhs Harriet Davis, Swede-land
Pa. They worked in the same
ward of the hospital and obtained a
furlough to London, where tiny wen
married February 4. 1818,
The sergeant and his bride relum-ed
lasl week, and Mrs. Schwartz's
sisier Mia. Francis It. Esterley, i-u>7
Pine at. Philadelphia announced the
wedding Schwartz is a son of Mr.
and Mis. ('barbs E. Schwartz. His
father is a former sheriff of Montgo-mery
couniy.
Mrs. Schwartz attended the West
Conshohocken public schools, and
wa.s a member of the graduating
class of 1895. She is well known
The Chautauqua Begins
The flrBt of the series or six con-certs
by the Chautauqua was given
In the high school auditorium this
ariernoon before a large audience
The MeKlnnie Operatic Company was
the attraction and gave a most ex-cellent
program. The same company among members of Ihe Girl's Friend-
;will be attraction this evening and ly Society in the Schuylkill Valley
,Ro.<s Crane, cartoonist and clay and was lor many years prominently
modeler, will lecture deomslra.ing identilied with the liraneh of Christ's
his lecture with Ills art. I Swede Church in Upper Meiion town
The Chautauqua will continue to-! ship.
mo»row and Thursday with concerts The announcement of her marriage
and lectures at 2.:!0 in ,he afternoon
and 7.30 In the evenings. The attract-ions
will be Ihe Jordan Holmberg and
Parker Company and the McDonough
Eagleston Company.
BABY COACH WHEEL8 retired at
KrTHQE'S 217 .Hector St—Adv.
came as n surprise to hor many
friends in this locality.
Seven members of the unit, Includ-ing
the sergant and his bride, have
returned. They came over as attend-ants
of convalescent soldiers on trans
ports.