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C0nsl)0l)ochen fkcorkr Established 18G9, No. 5G85. Pt'BURHED EVERT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1923. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 11.60 A YEAR PRICE TWO CENTS H.C. JONES CO. PLANT DlOTFIl; THE CONSHOHOCKEN CHORAL SOCIETY Since the org cation of tiio Com-munity Center, a number of Ita mem- MIS have endeavored to have n strong and efficient Choral Booiety e to sing y jciin together to produce choral singing and those lovera of mush who cannot sing well can com.' to the presentations at Intervala to lis-ten io the choral singing, . The aooletj was organised and has been HI exlatence al i two years. Several presentations or choral sin"- ing were made and greatly enjoyed by the representative audiences, ion tin* membership did nol thrive, and waa not as large aa Ita organisers expected This foil .Miss M. LOUUM Wood, the president of the society, haa called a meeting io the Park Rouae for Friday evening, November tilth, at eight o'clock, '['ho membership this winter will be restricted to females alone. The Girls Friendly Society, ALL READY FOR BIG El i Ei KITCHEN DAMAGED BY EXPLODING WATERBACK Only Hour of Explosion Saves Fam-ily From Injury encourage tn recruit members for it. prof. .lolls. Instructor of singing la the Conshohocken Behoofs will be the leader of the soolety, giving of his time without charge. The officers of the society hope that all those Interested in singing will give assistance in any manner possible. —i , .-.IIWIIK .mo riiHirm \ noi.tl Two Departments' of Local '"'" s"'"," ',',""" " !v ««_«i- AT . _ *-v/val may join pro. II' Manufacturing Plant Swept by Fire on Wednesday Afternoon SMOKE HINDERS FIREMEN Fire of an undetermined origin, broke out in th,. picker di partment of the textile mill of II. C. Jones 1 '■< mpany locatt d on Washington street ohm,. Poplar shortl) after 2 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, ami before it was extinguished Lhe flames had eaten then way through the carding department. While the plant was in full opera lion a flame hurst out shortly alter 2 O'clock. Employees of the plant , Immediate!) grabbed the hand ex-tlngulshera ami the sprinkling*sys-tem was |iul in operation in an ef-fort to extinguish the flames before they had a chance tn gain head way. Tie- light, fllmj material which is used ill this department was an easy prey to the blaze and the flames spread almost as rapidly as if among powder, As soon as il was seen that the the was getting beyond the con-trol of the noil fence. the Whistle Was blown and later an alarm was soul to the local department. Ilow.- ever, by the tune the alarm was re-ceived the Washington Company's apparatus was out of the building ami on its way. The George Claj Fire Company, of West Conshohock-en also responded. Cbnshohocken Fire Company claims their alarm did Hot ling and that one of their Siom-liers tried to summon them II different times but their ahum did not ring either time. Tin- apparatus "was no! at the lire. The Washington Are company con-nected with three plug streams and the George Clay Company went tol the canal and pumped two streams, The firemen had made their con-nections ami were ready to play on the flames, but waited for several minutes while the stock of several hundred dollars value was carried from the.stock room beneath the lire. Immediately after the stock had been removed tin- firemen made their way by means of ladders In lhe second-story windows and poured five streams of water on to lhe biasing yarn, much of which was being run through the machines. Tlie firemen wen' handicapped by the dense clouds of black, oily smoke tlfst. poured out of ihe windows Into their faces. However, within half nn hour after they had been in set vice, the Bremen had the Ore under control. Good Weather Only Thing Necessary to Insure Great-est Demonstration Bor-ough Ever Had SIX DIVISIONS IN LINE The greatest mummers' parade the borough ever witnessed will he held tomorrow evening. The only thins; ih.it can possibly prevent il Will he Unfavorable weather. The llnal arrangements for lhe demonstration was mnde lnst oven-ing at a meeting of the Merchants' Association In the Washington hose house and every detail was complet-ed lor the parade. The line of par-the Women's t'atholic Alliance andj ade will he made UP of six divisions the Womans Club have all agreed to '."'<' '">' d,?",_0.n_h.M ^l.™1*™! the society and endeavor ACCIDENT VICTIMS IMPROVING Bdward Whlteman, residing with his son-in-law, John Hidden. 804 Forrest street, is recovering from an accident he received nearly' two weeks ago and which has confined him to his home since that time. on October 20th, while returning from n visit Io his daughter -Mrs. George Rutter, be fell while boarding a trolley at rlarraonvllle ami broke two ribs and Strained the muscles of his side, lie was brought to his home and has 1 n under the care of a physician. Eizey Freas, of Fifth avenue ami Wells street, is recovering from a painful injury received while at-tending to his duties at the bOl fac-tory of the Francis U Proas <;iass Works on West Tenth avenue sever - al days SgO. The young man was engaged in operating the sanding machine when the box he was hold-ing in his hand slipped allowing both hands to conic in contact with tile Bander, badly burning the flesh from the ends of live of his lingers, One of the dibits waa burned into the bone. Vincent Wilson, of Blast Hector street and who is a patient in Mont-gamery hospital, is recovering from the effects of an operation perform-ed more thai a week ago for lhe am-putation of four timers following an accident when he had hia hand Caught in a hoi press, is doing ns well as can he expected. His con-dition is SllCh that III- expels Io he able lo leave the institution in a few days. An exploding waterback in the kitchen of [fiber I.old, at .",fl Forrest street, shortly after seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, blew the plates off the slave, scattered ashes and hot coals over the floor and Ignited the carpet. -Mrs. I.ohh ran to the Washington hose house only a short distance away and Jesse Stcmple went to the house with a hand ex-tinguisher and put out the tire be-fore it hail gained any headway. When I In- explosion occurred Mrs. I.ulib was in llu- second story with her four children. .Mr. l.ol.l, hail left only a short tin^e before for his work. Had Ihe explosion occurred half-hour later all of the Children would have been seated at tlie table close lo the stove eating their break-fust and it is more than probable seme of them would have been in-jured. Fortunately the lire in the stove was not n hot one ns she was using riddlings. Had the stove been hot the explosion would have been much worse, TRACT OF 80 ACRES Purchased At Sheriff's Sate Property of Chas. Hanson. Will Sell Part and Develop Remainder SAVE BUYERSTROM LOSS I OF FOUR ARRESTS Bad Whiskey Delivers Knock-out to Four Men.MHauled to Station in Auto—Three Sentenced to Jail; Other Pays Fine. Bad whiskey, believed by the po-lice to have been Obtained In a no- Sixth division—Floats, both fancy torioua hootch factory In the vicinity nn,i advertising, ijno Up ,,n Maple of Seventh and Spring Mill avenueH, S|,.ppt above Flni. was the cause of the arrest of four T|le nst oC lnp prizes w|lt be men, who Imbibed to SUCh an extent awarded as follows: on Tuesday aflernoon as to heroine SPECIAL BAND PRIZES "OSSlfled" and had to be hauled to Best |,nnd. fall: second best hand, He police station in an automobile *25: third best hand. $25. which Police Officer Harrington had | FIRST DIVISION (Fancy) lo convert into a police patrol. r?est Club, $20: Second Rest Club, on Tuesday afternoon complaints ( $20: Rest Croup. (J or more) $15; wei, received by Burgess DeHaven Second Rest Croup (2 or more). $10; from residents of Fast Eighth ave-1 Best, Bride. Ladies Cold Ring (J. B. nue on account of the presence of n Ray)! Second Best Rrlde, Pair of number of men in the vicinity who Ladies' Rumps (R. Nngele); Rest were drinking and conducting them- I Goddess of Liberty, Fancy Waist (A. selves in an obnoxious and indecent Swede); Most Modern Flapper. Face manner. The Burgess despatched Powder (William Neville). Reese P. Davis, Democratic Nominee, Asks Friends Not To Vote For Him.—Could Not Accept If Elected.— County Candidates. Reese R. Davis, who was made a candidate for school hoard on the Democratic ticket at the primaries . by the voters in two wards writing ' in Ills name, withdraws from the Officer Harrington to the scene but by the time he arrived the "block and fall" had sunk into, their sys-tems so deep thai three of them had fallen and were dead drunk. Tlie three men were Kdward Keefe, Joseph Stemple .and Daniel McGee. Bo helplessly drunk were Auto Overturned The Ford coupe of Elmer Allen was overturned on First avenue near Harry street yesterday afternoon. Tlie car was being driven by Mrs. Allen and she was accompanied by four children. Mrs. Allen was driv-ing toward her home on Spring Mill avenue below Cherry strict when Francis Myers, of West Consho-hocken, attempted to drive past her. Ills car struck the rear wheel of the Allen car and overturned it. Persons who saw the accident hastened to the woman's aid and helped lhe women and children out of the upturned vehicle. None of the Children were burl but Mrs. Allen received a cut on the forehead that required two stitches to close. One of the doors was torn from tlie car and the top was damaged. Pentagon Club Meets The Pentagon Club, of Community Center, will have their regular busi-ness meeting In the Park House this evening. Miss VI t'urtiss is presi-dent of the club. Baby Go-Carts and Coaches retired at KEIIOE'S, 217 Hector street. Advertisement for special displays. In order for any one to figure in the prizes It Will be necessary for the entrants to be In the proper division. The divisions will form at their ; respective places not later than 7.30 o'clock and the parade will start promptly at X o'clock, the blowing of the siren on tlie Washington hose bouse announcing tlie time. I The division will be comprised of and line up In the following posl- I tlons: First division—Fancy, line up on Kim street between Fayette and For-rest street. Second division—Comic, line up on , Elm street between Forrest and Oak streets. Third division —Children. both comic and fancy, line up on film street between Onk and Maple streets. Fourth division—Mounted division, line up on Maple Streets above Flm street. Fifth division — Fire companies, line up on Hector Street between '"",""1' '''/' ' ,'"r ", ' "" TSf °RI," Forrest and Oak streets. ■"■ '" wWcn h« Wtolata« "is P0"'" tion: To the Recorder: Having been nominated on the Democratic ticket for school Direct-or without my knowledge and eon- | sent. I wisli to announce lo my | friends of both parlies that it is my desire that they refrain from voting j for me. because if elected it will be Impossible t,» devote the time re-quired for tlie duties of such an im-portant office as (hat of School Hi rector. ' Yours sincerely. iEESE P. DAVIS. I The withdrawal of Mr. Davis leaves hut one candidate on tho Democratic ticket for the school ! bonrd. Thomas F. McCoy, of the First ward. | The Republicans have a full ticket for school board and also have a full ticket in every ward except the First where they failed to name a Candi-da te for town council. I The Republican candidates for school board are. Leonard Smith, of the Second ward: Oscar Freas. of the Fourth ward, and Alex. Young, Of the Fifth ward. The sobool board Is elected by the vote of the entire borough. Bight members of town council will be elected next Tuesday. There are Contests In only two wards, the Second and Fourth. In the First ward. Manus Sween-ey, the Democratic nominee is unop-posed. In tlie Second ward, there is a contest between Norrls Campbell, Republican and Lawrence Blanche, Democrat. Klwood Noblit and Archibald Fair- SfiCOND DIVISION (Comic) Rest Club, $30: Second Rest Club, $20; Rest Group (2 or more) 110; Rest Tramp. $5 worth of graceries (Mrs. P. Locey); Second Rest Tramp Umbrella (Stewart & Forst) Tall-est man In line, Cuff Links Righler's Jewelry Store): Shortea man In line. they it was impossible for the oilier <;,.,,ls' Cap (William Katz): Rest to get them to the station house and: Farmer, Silk Shirt, (H. Kleinman): he pressed an automobile into ser- Best Former's Wife. Statue and Red-vice as a police patrol and loaded ( estal (Zimmer's); Rest Acrobat, Bli-the prisoners in and had the driver ver T>en<-ll (George W. Taylor): Fat- Of the machine to bring them to the test Man. Box of Cigars (A, W. brig. j Moore): Fattest Woman, Bar Bin Later In the evening Constable (Stewart A Forst): Rest Irish Im- Campbell arrested Winliclil Freas porsonator. Harmonica (L. H. Smith) on Bast Sixth avenue, In the same Best Jewish Impersonator, Canned condition and practically carried him Goods (John Rieleski): Rest Musi-lo the Jail. r .elan. Ukelele (Stephens Music Shop) On Wednesday morning Keefe.' Immediately after tlie parade ihere Btemple and McGee were nrraigned will be a masked ball In the' Maple before Burgess DeHaven and com- room of the Washington hose house mined to jail. The former was sen- and another orie in tlie R. O. S. of A. tenced to thirty days and the latter 'hall. two to fifteen days each. When, A feature of the parade will he a , McGee entered the hearing room be troupe of bucking bronrhoes and af- ,,al'"n' "eI'ubh.ans. presented a sorry spectacle. Ills t,r the parade they will give an ex-l.- it eye was swollen almost shut and •hibitlon of riding on West Hector badly discolored and his faee was street. THIRD DIVISION' (Children) First prize', $3.00: 2nd prize. $2.00; 3rd, $2.00; 4th. $2.00; 5th, $2.00: 6th, $2.00: 7th. $1. 8th. II, 9th. $1. 10th. $1 11th. 1. 12th. $1, 13th, $1, nth, $1. Sheriff Hamilton, in the court house, Wednesday afternoon, sold the property of Charles Hanson, lo-c;, led in the First and Fourth wards. this borough, and a small slrip in Plymouth township, the whole com-prising about SI) acres, to <'. Henry BtlnSOH, Esq., representing the Con- BhohOCken Realty Corporation. for |200, The properly was seized for debt of $47,768.46, Tlie property was owned by Floyd, Btinson and O'Brien estates, the original owners being the operators of lhe Conshohocken Stone (marries. and in April 1980 was sold to Charles Hanson, a promoter. Who planned to develop the trail in the upper por-tion of town and sell off the lots in the lower section. A number of lots were sold in both sections anil the buyers were never given title as Mr. Hanson had not paid for the land In full. A number of the buyers bad not paid in full but had paid several installments of the purchase price. Mr. Hanson has not been here for sometime and tlie sellers and owners of the property, Boyd, Btinson and O'Brien estates had*the sheriff levy on the property. The Realty Corporation purchased the property from the estates for )42.000 and the sheriff's sale gives them clear liile to the property. The corporation expects to have posses-sion within ten days. The first act of the association after the purchase was to issue a Statement that the persons who pur-chased lots in tlie tract from Charles Hanson would be protected. Per-sons who have paid In full will he given title to their land and those who have paid on account will be given clear title upon the completion of the payments of the purchase price. Will Sell and Develop The tract consists of the Consho-hocken stone quarries, situated in the west end in lhe First and Second wards and along the Plymouth rail-road. This trail contains about 12 ALL PLACES OF BUSINESS TO CLOSE AT 12.30 A.M. Proprietors Summoned Before Bur-gess on Tuesday Evening All places of business in the bor-ough will in the future be closed ai IL'.:i» o'clock a. m. This hour was agreed upon by a number of the proprietors of business places at n meeting before Burgess DeHaven in the borough hall On Tuesday even Ing. Heretofore some of the places w.ie kept open until as late as L' or 3 o'clock in the mornings. Com-plaints were coming into the Bur-gess about disorder and rowdyism and in an effort to break up the practice, lhe proprietor of every business house in the borough that was kept open until late was notl-lied lo appeal' al Ihe borOUgh hall on Tuesday evening, at 7.30 o'clock. BurgeSS DeHaven explained the object of the meeting and told of the great number of complaints he had received and it was agreed upon that all should Close their places not later than 12.30 o'clock. The only reason for extending the time one-half hour later than mid-night was to give those persons ar-riving in town On the last train an opportunity to make any purchases they might desire. I Stranger Forges Dr. Fag-gart's Name To Check and Has Boy Cash It- Money Returned FRIGHTENED BY DELAY DIE OFmm Ceremony Performed In St. Matthew's Church, Wednes-day Morning.—Out-of-Town Guests Present.—Breakfast at Bride's Home. Marlon Veronica, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William (i. Wacker, 23X East Seventh avenue, and Mr. Ed-ward V. Flneran, spring Mill avenue and Ash street, were married on Wednesday morning, at nine o'clock. Ill St. Matthew's church. Rev. Philip Gallagher, D.D., I.D.D.. the rector. Officiated al the marriage, which was solemlnzed by a nuptial mass and Witnessey by guests from Phil-adelphia. Seaside Heights. N. J.. Xorristown and the Conshohockens. The bride was attended by her sister. Miss Viola K. Wacker and the groom was attended by Mr. .lames acres and has railroad connections j P. Meaney. of this borough. badly bruised. Freas was arraigned before Magis-trate Light and fined. He was dis-charged when friends come to his rescue and paid up. • Keefe secured bail on Monday and j 16th, $1, IGth. $1. was released from jail. where he was being detained for court charges ; with aggravated assault and battery. With intent to kill. He has been | away from Conshohocken for more than a year and was evidently eele-hraling Ills return. Patrick Kelly, who is the star wit-ness against Keefe In the assnult and battery case and who failed to appear at the hearing on Monday, was found in a drunken condition by Officer Heald on Monday evening and was committed lo Jail for fifteen days. BEAUTY CONTEST IN THE RIANT THEATRE The week of November 12th to the 17th win be the anniversary of the opening of tlie Riant Theatre. In celebration of it, tlie theatre will give a beauty contest. All girls between the ages of 18 and 60 are eligible. Pictures will be taken at BotSWOOd of all who apply, and the patrons of the theatre (luring the anniversa i y week will vote for the winner. The one receiving the most votes will lie given a first prize of a season ticket good for two persons, and the one receiving the second highest number will receive a prize of a sea-son ticket good for one person. Tlie prize winners will be an-nounced in the UKCOHliF.lt of No-vember 23rd. FRIED OYSTERS! Every Saturday oenlng. QFALITY Bakery, Fifth avenue and Wells St. Advertisement Best Bride and Groom. Girl, box of cindy (Mcl-ernon's); Boy, Box of candy (Candyland). Best Boy Scout, flashlight (Kehoe Bros.). Best Girl Scout, Fern i w. II. Baldwin). POI'RTH DIVISION (Mounted) Most Original Entry, Cent's Gold ring t William II. Ray), Best Mount Inner Tube (J. A. Wan-ell). 'Second Best Mount. Serving Trnv ill. K. Block &6ro.) FIFTH DIVISION (Fire Co.) Best Company, $50.00. SIXTH DIVISIIN (Moats) First prize, $25; 2nd, $10; 3rd, $10. The following judges have been appointed and will be assigned to their divisions immediately before the start of the parade. The prizes will be awarded at the office of C. A. Desimone In the Riant building. First avenue and Fayette street and those who are given tags will report there immediately after the parade. Tlie Judges are: George W. DeHaven. Harry Logan, Paul i). Millar, s. B. Griffith IXUI rislown), Joseph Mr- Elhaltan, Seth K. Mitchell. Francis McDermott, James McDonald, (Nor-rlstown). E. J. Rafferty. William S. Campbell, Olden Bishop, Cleorge Boone (Norrlstown), George M. s. Light. Manns M Sweeney. John D. Hampton. James Bolton (Norrls-town) E. K. Williams, Patrick Mor-tality, John E. O'Donnell. William Shannon (Norrlstown). Joseph Kelly, chairman of the Pol-succeed themselves. Mr. Fairbairn was elected by council to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ills uncle, Richard H. Bate, and on Tuesday will be elected for the un-explred term. Mr. Noblit will be elected for another full term of four years. A lively contest is being waged in tlie Fourth ward for the two seats In town council. Frank Kelly and | John O'Donnell. members of the present body are the Democratic candidates and are opposed by .Spencer I,. Jones, of.the H, C. Jones I Company and Lloyd Sagebeer, Re-publican candidates. At the primaries. Mr. Kelly sought to secure nomination on both tickets hut was defeated on the Bepublicon ticket. Another contest In this ward Is for assessor. At tlie primary elec-tion tlie Democrats did not file for places on the ballot for ward offices and tlie friends of Thomas Hickey, who has long been a worker in the Democratic party, wrote his name on the ballot and It was believed he would easily receive the nomination. When tlie vote was counted. Hickey and bis friends were greatly sur-prised to find that the Demorcalic nomination had been won by Joseph Schraok, the Republican nominee for assessor. Hickey claimed that he was not treated fairly by the Demo-cratic leaders and is waging an In-dependent contest for tho office. K. K. Williams and Charles Cauvel are the Republican candidates for council in tlie Fifth ward nnd are unopposed. Cornell Not a Candidate Tlie politicians are anticipating a big Democratic vote in the county next Tuesday, as there is a lively light for the county commissioner - With the Beading and Pennsylvania railroads. H is the purpose of the new owners to sell this tract for factory sites. A second portion of tlie land Is lo-ci ted between First and Sixth ave-nues and west from Wood street. This tract contains about 300 build-ing lots and it Is the purpose of the company to sell these lots at auc-tion. It is in this tract that a num-ber of lots were sold by Hanson and title lo which was not given. Tlie third tract is located between Sixth and Twellath avenues and ex-tends west from Wood street to Col-weirs lane, a small slrip being in Plymouth township. This tract the company Intend! to develop. It has been platted Into ten blocks, each block containing about 60 building lots, and gives ample room for the erection of about 400 dwellings. The corporation will lay out the tract Into building lots and next Spring will begin lhe erection of houses. The houses will be modern and build to sell at moderate prices, providing every convenience, sub-stantially built and With the best of surroundings. It is planned to make the tract a modern residential sec-tion along lines that will be new lo this community. Streets will be opened nnd built and trees and shrubbery planted. Building will he continued so long as there is a demand for houses. ships. At the primaries the Demo- Ice, committee, requests that the lire crat8 centered tneir flgllt on tha police report at the borough hall at board of commiB8loner8, tnere belng seven 0 clock tomorrow evening to Beven can„|date8 for the two nomI. assist in handling the great crowd natlon8. John , McConnlck and expected. (Continued on Pago Two) GIRL SCOUTS ENJOY HALLOWE'EN PARTY The annual Hallowe'en party of the Community Center Girl Scouts was given in the Bark House last evening among very attractive sur-roundings. Tlie decorations were artistically arranged: streamers of black and yellow, bowing and nod-ding In their Hallowe'en piquancy as tlie merry revellers danced In tin ir grotesque or fancy representa-tive costumes. Pierrots nnd Spanish gipsies and dancers mingled with will lies and hob goblins in the spirit of the Hallowe'en fun and frolic. Fortune telling was one of the In-teresting nuinbeis of a delightfully entertaining program and the even-ing was n very merry one for the scout girls, Refreshments were served in Hallowe'en style. The af-fair was very much enjoyed, Miss Eleanor Righter is In charge of the Community Center Scout (iirls. and through her Interest and management, the girls are doing good work together with enjoying pleasant evening meetings at the Bark Bouse. Miss Clara Righter was assistant hostess at the Hallowe'en party. The bride's gown was of white, klttnes' ear satin and was fashion-ed on lines of charming simplicity. orange blossoms former an effective trimming. She wore a bridal veil of tulle held with a coronet of orange blossoms. Her slippers were of while kid and she wore white silk stock-ings. She carried a bouquet of lil- Itea of the valley and bride's roses. The bridesmaid's dress was of Nile green. Hat crepe, with all over-dress of cream silk lace, she wore h poke shaped hat of black panne v.lvet, with long streamers of black velvet over the shoulders. Her slip-pers were of black satin and she wore stockings to match. She car-ried an arm bouquet of Ophelia ruses and maiden hair fern. After the ceremony a reception and wedding breakfast was held at the home of the bride's parents. The decorations were in green and white nnd with a profusion of chrysan-themums and a'utumn leaves. The couple Will reside at 201 Spring Mill avenue. The bridal party entered the church to the strains of the wedding march from Lohengrin, Miss Rose presiding at the organ. Miss Eev-lyn Mallen a nil I'aul Carroll sang several hymns during the services. Spring Mill avenue upon their return from their honeymoon which ts be-ing spent in the South. The bride is a popular member of Si. Matthew's parish and has a wide circle of friends. The groom Is os-j BOClated With his father, J. J. Flner-iiii. in the plumbing and heating business. Wood—Ward The wedding of Mary II., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ward. 108 West Sixth avenue, and Aaron Wood of Sweileland. will be solemnized til 4 o'clock this afternoon, In St. Mat-thew's church, the rector. Rev. Phil-ip Gallagher, D. D., LL. D.. will per-form the ceremony. The bride will be attended by Miss Vera Wood, a sister of the groom, and Mr. Maurice Brady, of West Conshohocken, will be best man. The bride's wedding gown will be of brown duventyne with a hat to match and she will carry a bouquet of brides' roses and lillios of the valley. Her bridesmaid win wear « dress of blue Bolivia Ctottl and a hat to maiib, and will carry a bouquet of pink roses. A reception will be held at the home of tlie bride's parents imme-diately after the ceremony and tho newly wedded couple will leave early I his evening for Atlantic City Where they will spent their honeymoon. They will reside in Norrlstown. A Strangei silting in an automobile at Eighth avenue and Fayette street, shortly after BIX o'clock Tuesday evening, called young John Baser, Baal Ninth avenue, who was "passim along Fayelle street and asked if lie would do him a lavoi. He said that be was waiting for his sister ami usked the boy to l.ilie a check, which he banded him, to McCoy's drug store, at Fourth, ave and have it cashed. The man told the boy. he was I II . I'.IR-gari. and would wait for his return. The boy look the check to the drug Store, Mi McCoy was out of ihe st for a short time and his niece, Miss Elizabeth Mulholland, was in oharge, There wen u number of customers in the store and it was sometime before the boy was waited upon. He gave Miss .Mulholland a note written on a card and in a tine, legible hand. Which read: "If con-venient, will you kindly cash this clack ami semi the money by bearer and oblige Dr. II, I.. I'aggart." The check was drawn on lhe Montgomery National bank, Morris-town and was numbered, S24 lii red Ink. it was made puyable to Dr. n. 1. I'aggart, for ten dollars and signed by "McDermott Bros." It Was endorsed ''Dr. II. I. 1'atgart." The endorsement was In a line hand resembling (lie writing on the note and resembles a feminine hand. Miss Mulholland did not suspect anything was wrong and cashed the cluck. The bey received the money and went lo Eighth avenue and Fayette street and found that tlie man had left. He made Inquiries of passersby, several of whom had seen the machine bin had not noticed when it had b i n ■■• ed, The boy, alter ., futile search for the supposed doctor, went home and told his" experience to his Toother and gave her the *1". Mrs. ltuser suspected that something was wrong and called Mr. McCoy on the telephone. It was soon found that Dr. I'aggart knew nothing of the mailer and thai ii stranger had at-tempted to secure money on a forged check. The money was returned to Mr. McCoy. The check bore evidence of having been taken fioin a book issued by the Montgomery bank to one of its patrons as the stub, with the pu-tron'a name had been torn, making the check short but containing the Printed number. The leal had been neath done, but left the edge as a poor Imitation of tearing from a perforated line. Tlie hoy was aide to give only a meagre description of the stranger, The face Of the check was written iii a hold hand but the endorsement bore evidence of a woman's hand writing. CONDITION OF REV. J. K. MOORHOUSE The condition of Rev. J. Kennedy Moorhouse. rector of Calvary B. EL church, and who has been ill at the rectory for the past few days, was reported this morning to be slightly improved. While lie is still serious-ly ill he rested more comfortably last night and his general condition Is somewhat improved today. VIOLATED PARKING ORDINANCE William Davis, 632 Green street Norrlstown, was given a hearing be-fore Burgess DeHaven in the bor-ough hall lust evening charged by Officer Harrington with huving vio-lated the parking ordinance at the corner of Hector and Cherry streets. The officer lodged a complaint a;;.iinsi Davis, who Is a driver for Roy Rlttenhouse, with having used abusive language. Davis was fined 10.00 and discharged. SUDDEN DEATH OF JOHN FRITZBURG John Prltsburg, a well-known resi-dent of tlie borough, died at his home, 103 West Tenth avenue, yes-terday morning following an illness of only a few days. lie suffered from II complication of diseases. Deceased was the son of Mrs. Margaret Mclntyre and was born In tills borough thirty-six years ugo and lias resided here all his life. For the pasi several months he has been iii ill health suffering from a complication of ailments, although able lo attend to his work as a plumber. On Sunday lie was com-pelled to take to his bed but his condition was not considered alarm-ing Until a shorl time before his death when he became critically ill and he sank rapidly until bis death. Deceased was a member of Con-shohocken Lodge. Knights of Pyth-ias and of the Loyal Order of Mooso of Vinelaiid. N. J. He is survived by his neither, Mrs. Margaret Mclntyre, and one brother Samuel Erltsbnrg, with whom he resided on West Tenth avenue. The funeral will take place from tlie residence of his mother. Mrs. Margaret Mclntyre. 103 West Tenth avi nue. on Monday afternoon. Ser-vices will be conducted at tho house at 2 o'clock and will be in charge of Rev. J. F. Slieppard, pastor of the Presbyterian church, interment will be made in Riverside cemetery. VETERAN RAILROADER RETIRED 1 William II. Famous, 251 East Elm street, a veteran employee of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, was retired from active service and placed on tlie pension list on October 31st. Mr. Famous, who is now seventy years of age, entered the employ of the company as an extra hand In 1R76. On December L'0. 1S7R. he was made foreman of the Freight house and has held the position ever since. As an expression of his warm friendship, station agent Charles A. Bchlachter has written Mr. Famous a beautiful letter commending him on his excellent record and the jrood feeling existing between him and liial fellow employees, ^^,
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Title | The Conshohocken Recorder, November 2, 1923 |
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Date | 1923-11-02 |
Year | 1923 |
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FullText | C0nsl)0l)ochen fkcorkr Established 18G9, No. 5G85. Pt'BURHED EVERT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1923. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 11.60 A YEAR PRICE TWO CENTS H.C. JONES CO. PLANT DlOTFIl; THE CONSHOHOCKEN CHORAL SOCIETY Since the org cation of tiio Com-munity Center, a number of Ita mem- MIS have endeavored to have n strong and efficient Choral Booiety e to sing y jciin together to produce choral singing and those lovera of mush who cannot sing well can com.' to the presentations at Intervala to lis-ten io the choral singing, . The aooletj was organised and has been HI exlatence al i two years. Several presentations or choral sin"- ing were made and greatly enjoyed by the representative audiences, ion tin* membership did nol thrive, and waa not as large aa Ita organisers expected This foil .Miss M. LOUUM Wood, the president of the society, haa called a meeting io the Park Rouae for Friday evening, November tilth, at eight o'clock, '['ho membership this winter will be restricted to females alone. The Girls Friendly Society, ALL READY FOR BIG El i Ei KITCHEN DAMAGED BY EXPLODING WATERBACK Only Hour of Explosion Saves Fam-ily From Injury encourage tn recruit members for it. prof. .lolls. Instructor of singing la the Conshohocken Behoofs will be the leader of the soolety, giving of his time without charge. The officers of the society hope that all those Interested in singing will give assistance in any manner possible. —i , .-.IIWIIK .mo riiHirm \ noi.tl Two Departments' of Local '"'" s"'"," ',',""" " !v ««_«i- AT . _ *-v/val may join pro. II' Manufacturing Plant Swept by Fire on Wednesday Afternoon SMOKE HINDERS FIREMEN Fire of an undetermined origin, broke out in th,. picker di partment of the textile mill of II. C. Jones 1 '■< mpany locatt d on Washington street ohm,. Poplar shortl) after 2 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, ami before it was extinguished Lhe flames had eaten then way through the carding department. While the plant was in full opera lion a flame hurst out shortly alter 2 O'clock. Employees of the plant , Immediate!) grabbed the hand ex-tlngulshera ami the sprinkling*sys-tem was |iul in operation in an ef-fort to extinguish the flames before they had a chance tn gain head way. Tie- light, fllmj material which is used ill this department was an easy prey to the blaze and the flames spread almost as rapidly as if among powder, As soon as il was seen that the the was getting beyond the con-trol of the noil fence. the Whistle Was blown and later an alarm was soul to the local department. Ilow.- ever, by the tune the alarm was re-ceived the Washington Company's apparatus was out of the building ami on its way. The George Claj Fire Company, of West Conshohock-en also responded. Cbnshohocken Fire Company claims their alarm did Hot ling and that one of their Siom-liers tried to summon them II different times but their ahum did not ring either time. Tin- apparatus "was no! at the lire. The Washington Are company con-nected with three plug streams and the George Clay Company went tol the canal and pumped two streams, The firemen had made their con-nections ami were ready to play on the flames, but waited for several minutes while the stock of several hundred dollars value was carried from the.stock room beneath the lire. Immediately after the stock had been removed tin- firemen made their way by means of ladders In lhe second-story windows and poured five streams of water on to lhe biasing yarn, much of which was being run through the machines. Tlie firemen wen' handicapped by the dense clouds of black, oily smoke tlfst. poured out of ihe windows Into their faces. However, within half nn hour after they had been in set vice, the Bremen had the Ore under control. Good Weather Only Thing Necessary to Insure Great-est Demonstration Bor-ough Ever Had SIX DIVISIONS IN LINE The greatest mummers' parade the borough ever witnessed will he held tomorrow evening. The only thins; ih.it can possibly prevent il Will he Unfavorable weather. The llnal arrangements for lhe demonstration was mnde lnst oven-ing at a meeting of the Merchants' Association In the Washington hose house and every detail was complet-ed lor the parade. The line of par-the Women's t'atholic Alliance andj ade will he made UP of six divisions the Womans Club have all agreed to '."'<' '">' d,?",_0.n_h.M ^l.™1*™! the society and endeavor ACCIDENT VICTIMS IMPROVING Bdward Whlteman, residing with his son-in-law, John Hidden. 804 Forrest street, is recovering from an accident he received nearly' two weeks ago and which has confined him to his home since that time. on October 20th, while returning from n visit Io his daughter -Mrs. George Rutter, be fell while boarding a trolley at rlarraonvllle ami broke two ribs and Strained the muscles of his side, lie was brought to his home and has 1 n under the care of a physician. Eizey Freas, of Fifth avenue ami Wells street, is recovering from a painful injury received while at-tending to his duties at the bOl fac-tory of the Francis U Proas <;iass Works on West Tenth avenue sever - al days SgO. The young man was engaged in operating the sanding machine when the box he was hold-ing in his hand slipped allowing both hands to conic in contact with tile Bander, badly burning the flesh from the ends of live of his lingers, One of the dibits waa burned into the bone. Vincent Wilson, of Blast Hector street and who is a patient in Mont-gamery hospital, is recovering from the effects of an operation perform-ed more thai a week ago for lhe am-putation of four timers following an accident when he had hia hand Caught in a hoi press, is doing ns well as can he expected. His con-dition is SllCh that III- expels Io he able lo leave the institution in a few days. An exploding waterback in the kitchen of [fiber I.old, at .",fl Forrest street, shortly after seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, blew the plates off the slave, scattered ashes and hot coals over the floor and Ignited the carpet. -Mrs. I.ohh ran to the Washington hose house only a short distance away and Jesse Stcmple went to the house with a hand ex-tinguisher and put out the tire be-fore it hail gained any headway. When I In- explosion occurred Mrs. I.ulib was in llu- second story with her four children. .Mr. l.ol.l, hail left only a short tin^e before for his work. Had Ihe explosion occurred half-hour later all of the Children would have been seated at tlie table close lo the stove eating their break-fust and it is more than probable seme of them would have been in-jured. Fortunately the lire in the stove was not n hot one ns she was using riddlings. Had the stove been hot the explosion would have been much worse, TRACT OF 80 ACRES Purchased At Sheriff's Sate Property of Chas. Hanson. Will Sell Part and Develop Remainder SAVE BUYERSTROM LOSS I OF FOUR ARRESTS Bad Whiskey Delivers Knock-out to Four Men.MHauled to Station in Auto—Three Sentenced to Jail; Other Pays Fine. Bad whiskey, believed by the po-lice to have been Obtained In a no- Sixth division—Floats, both fancy torioua hootch factory In the vicinity nn,i advertising, ijno Up ,,n Maple of Seventh and Spring Mill avenueH, S|,.ppt above Flni. was the cause of the arrest of four T|le nst oC lnp prizes w|lt be men, who Imbibed to SUCh an extent awarded as follows: on Tuesday aflernoon as to heroine SPECIAL BAND PRIZES "OSSlfled" and had to be hauled to Best |,nnd. fall: second best hand, He police station in an automobile *25: third best hand. $25. which Police Officer Harrington had | FIRST DIVISION (Fancy) lo convert into a police patrol. r?est Club, $20: Second Rest Club, on Tuesday afternoon complaints ( $20: Rest Croup. (J or more) $15; wei, received by Burgess DeHaven Second Rest Croup (2 or more). $10; from residents of Fast Eighth ave-1 Best, Bride. Ladies Cold Ring (J. B. nue on account of the presence of n Ray)! Second Best Rrlde, Pair of number of men in the vicinity who Ladies' Rumps (R. Nngele); Rest were drinking and conducting them- I Goddess of Liberty, Fancy Waist (A. selves in an obnoxious and indecent Swede); Most Modern Flapper. Face manner. The Burgess despatched Powder (William Neville). Reese P. Davis, Democratic Nominee, Asks Friends Not To Vote For Him.—Could Not Accept If Elected.— County Candidates. Reese R. Davis, who was made a candidate for school hoard on the Democratic ticket at the primaries . by the voters in two wards writing ' in Ills name, withdraws from the Officer Harrington to the scene but by the time he arrived the "block and fall" had sunk into, their sys-tems so deep thai three of them had fallen and were dead drunk. Tlie three men were Kdward Keefe, Joseph Stemple .and Daniel McGee. Bo helplessly drunk were Auto Overturned The Ford coupe of Elmer Allen was overturned on First avenue near Harry street yesterday afternoon. Tlie car was being driven by Mrs. Allen and she was accompanied by four children. Mrs. Allen was driv-ing toward her home on Spring Mill avenue below Cherry strict when Francis Myers, of West Consho-hocken, attempted to drive past her. Ills car struck the rear wheel of the Allen car and overturned it. Persons who saw the accident hastened to the woman's aid and helped lhe women and children out of the upturned vehicle. None of the Children were burl but Mrs. Allen received a cut on the forehead that required two stitches to close. One of the doors was torn from tlie car and the top was damaged. Pentagon Club Meets The Pentagon Club, of Community Center, will have their regular busi-ness meeting In the Park House this evening. Miss VI t'urtiss is presi-dent of the club. Baby Go-Carts and Coaches retired at KEIIOE'S, 217 Hector street. Advertisement for special displays. In order for any one to figure in the prizes It Will be necessary for the entrants to be In the proper division. The divisions will form at their ; respective places not later than 7.30 o'clock and the parade will start promptly at X o'clock, the blowing of the siren on tlie Washington hose bouse announcing tlie time. I The division will be comprised of and line up In the following posl- I tlons: First division—Fancy, line up on Kim street between Fayette and For-rest street. Second division—Comic, line up on , Elm street between Forrest and Oak streets. Third division —Children. both comic and fancy, line up on film street between Onk and Maple streets. Fourth division—Mounted division, line up on Maple Streets above Flm street. Fifth division — Fire companies, line up on Hector Street between '"",""1' '''/' ' ,'"r ", ' "" TSf °RI," Forrest and Oak streets. ■"■ '" wWcn h« Wtolata« "is P0"'" tion: To the Recorder: Having been nominated on the Democratic ticket for school Direct-or without my knowledge and eon- | sent. I wisli to announce lo my | friends of both parlies that it is my desire that they refrain from voting j for me. because if elected it will be Impossible t,» devote the time re-quired for tlie duties of such an im-portant office as (hat of School Hi rector. ' Yours sincerely. iEESE P. DAVIS. I The withdrawal of Mr. Davis leaves hut one candidate on tho Democratic ticket for the school ! bonrd. Thomas F. McCoy, of the First ward. | The Republicans have a full ticket for school board and also have a full ticket in every ward except the First where they failed to name a Candi-da te for town council. I The Republican candidates for school board are. Leonard Smith, of the Second ward: Oscar Freas. of the Fourth ward, and Alex. Young, Of the Fifth ward. The sobool board Is elected by the vote of the entire borough. Bight members of town council will be elected next Tuesday. There are Contests In only two wards, the Second and Fourth. In the First ward. Manus Sween-ey, the Democratic nominee is unop-posed. In tlie Second ward, there is a contest between Norrls Campbell, Republican and Lawrence Blanche, Democrat. Klwood Noblit and Archibald Fair- SfiCOND DIVISION (Comic) Rest Club, $30: Second Rest Club, $20; Rest Group (2 or more) 110; Rest Tramp. $5 worth of graceries (Mrs. P. Locey); Second Rest Tramp Umbrella (Stewart & Forst) Tall-est man In line, Cuff Links Righler's Jewelry Store): Shortea man In line. they it was impossible for the oilier <;,.,,ls' Cap (William Katz): Rest to get them to the station house and: Farmer, Silk Shirt, (H. Kleinman): he pressed an automobile into ser- Best Former's Wife. Statue and Red-vice as a police patrol and loaded ( estal (Zimmer's); Rest Acrobat, Bli-the prisoners in and had the driver ver T>en<-ll (George W. Taylor): Fat- Of the machine to bring them to the test Man. Box of Cigars (A, W. brig. j Moore): Fattest Woman, Bar Bin Later In the evening Constable (Stewart A Forst): Rest Irish Im- Campbell arrested Winliclil Freas porsonator. Harmonica (L. H. Smith) on Bast Sixth avenue, In the same Best Jewish Impersonator, Canned condition and practically carried him Goods (John Rieleski): Rest Musi-lo the Jail. r .elan. Ukelele (Stephens Music Shop) On Wednesday morning Keefe.' Immediately after tlie parade ihere Btemple and McGee were nrraigned will be a masked ball In the' Maple before Burgess DeHaven and com- room of the Washington hose house mined to jail. The former was sen- and another orie in tlie R. O. S. of A. tenced to thirty days and the latter 'hall. two to fifteen days each. When, A feature of the parade will he a , McGee entered the hearing room be troupe of bucking bronrhoes and af- ,,al'"n' "eI'ubh.ans. presented a sorry spectacle. Ills t,r the parade they will give an ex-l.- it eye was swollen almost shut and •hibitlon of riding on West Hector badly discolored and his faee was street. THIRD DIVISION' (Children) First prize', $3.00: 2nd prize. $2.00; 3rd, $2.00; 4th. $2.00; 5th, $2.00: 6th, $2.00: 7th. $1. 8th. II, 9th. $1. 10th. $1 11th. 1. 12th. $1, 13th, $1, nth, $1. Sheriff Hamilton, in the court house, Wednesday afternoon, sold the property of Charles Hanson, lo-c;, led in the First and Fourth wards. this borough, and a small slrip in Plymouth township, the whole com-prising about SI) acres, to <'. Henry BtlnSOH, Esq., representing the Con- BhohOCken Realty Corporation. for |200, The properly was seized for debt of $47,768.46, Tlie property was owned by Floyd, Btinson and O'Brien estates, the original owners being the operators of lhe Conshohocken Stone (marries. and in April 1980 was sold to Charles Hanson, a promoter. Who planned to develop the trail in the upper por-tion of town and sell off the lots in the lower section. A number of lots were sold in both sections anil the buyers were never given title as Mr. Hanson had not paid for the land In full. A number of the buyers bad not paid in full but had paid several installments of the purchase price. Mr. Hanson has not been here for sometime and tlie sellers and owners of the property, Boyd, Btinson and O'Brien estates had*the sheriff levy on the property. The Realty Corporation purchased the property from the estates for )42.000 and the sheriff's sale gives them clear liile to the property. The corporation expects to have posses-sion within ten days. The first act of the association after the purchase was to issue a Statement that the persons who pur-chased lots in tlie tract from Charles Hanson would be protected. Per-sons who have paid In full will he given title to their land and those who have paid on account will be given clear title upon the completion of the payments of the purchase price. Will Sell and Develop The tract consists of the Consho-hocken stone quarries, situated in the west end in lhe First and Second wards and along the Plymouth rail-road. This trail contains about 12 ALL PLACES OF BUSINESS TO CLOSE AT 12.30 A.M. Proprietors Summoned Before Bur-gess on Tuesday Evening All places of business in the bor-ough will in the future be closed ai IL'.:i» o'clock a. m. This hour was agreed upon by a number of the proprietors of business places at n meeting before Burgess DeHaven in the borough hall On Tuesday even Ing. Heretofore some of the places w.ie kept open until as late as L' or 3 o'clock in the mornings. Com-plaints were coming into the Bur-gess about disorder and rowdyism and in an effort to break up the practice, lhe proprietor of every business house in the borough that was kept open until late was notl-lied lo appeal' al Ihe borOUgh hall on Tuesday evening, at 7.30 o'clock. BurgeSS DeHaven explained the object of the meeting and told of the great number of complaints he had received and it was agreed upon that all should Close their places not later than 12.30 o'clock. The only reason for extending the time one-half hour later than mid-night was to give those persons ar-riving in town On the last train an opportunity to make any purchases they might desire. I Stranger Forges Dr. Fag-gart's Name To Check and Has Boy Cash It- Money Returned FRIGHTENED BY DELAY DIE OFmm Ceremony Performed In St. Matthew's Church, Wednes-day Morning.—Out-of-Town Guests Present.—Breakfast at Bride's Home. Marlon Veronica, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William (i. Wacker, 23X East Seventh avenue, and Mr. Ed-ward V. Flneran, spring Mill avenue and Ash street, were married on Wednesday morning, at nine o'clock. Ill St. Matthew's church. Rev. Philip Gallagher, D.D., I.D.D.. the rector. Officiated al the marriage, which was solemlnzed by a nuptial mass and Witnessey by guests from Phil-adelphia. Seaside Heights. N. J.. Xorristown and the Conshohockens. The bride was attended by her sister. Miss Viola K. Wacker and the groom was attended by Mr. .lames acres and has railroad connections j P. Meaney. of this borough. badly bruised. Freas was arraigned before Magis-trate Light and fined. He was dis-charged when friends come to his rescue and paid up. • Keefe secured bail on Monday and j 16th, $1, IGth. $1. was released from jail. where he was being detained for court charges ; with aggravated assault and battery. With intent to kill. He has been | away from Conshohocken for more than a year and was evidently eele-hraling Ills return. Patrick Kelly, who is the star wit-ness against Keefe In the assnult and battery case and who failed to appear at the hearing on Monday, was found in a drunken condition by Officer Heald on Monday evening and was committed lo Jail for fifteen days. BEAUTY CONTEST IN THE RIANT THEATRE The week of November 12th to the 17th win be the anniversary of the opening of tlie Riant Theatre. In celebration of it, tlie theatre will give a beauty contest. All girls between the ages of 18 and 60 are eligible. Pictures will be taken at BotSWOOd of all who apply, and the patrons of the theatre (luring the anniversa i y week will vote for the winner. The one receiving the most votes will lie given a first prize of a season ticket good for two persons, and the one receiving the second highest number will receive a prize of a sea-son ticket good for one person. Tlie prize winners will be an-nounced in the UKCOHliF.lt of No-vember 23rd. FRIED OYSTERS! Every Saturday oenlng. QFALITY Bakery, Fifth avenue and Wells St. Advertisement Best Bride and Groom. Girl, box of cindy (Mcl-ernon's); Boy, Box of candy (Candyland). Best Boy Scout, flashlight (Kehoe Bros.). Best Girl Scout, Fern i w. II. Baldwin). POI'RTH DIVISION (Mounted) Most Original Entry, Cent's Gold ring t William II. Ray), Best Mount Inner Tube (J. A. Wan-ell). 'Second Best Mount. Serving Trnv ill. K. Block &6ro.) FIFTH DIVISION (Fire Co.) Best Company, $50.00. SIXTH DIVISIIN (Moats) First prize, $25; 2nd, $10; 3rd, $10. The following judges have been appointed and will be assigned to their divisions immediately before the start of the parade. The prizes will be awarded at the office of C. A. Desimone In the Riant building. First avenue and Fayette street and those who are given tags will report there immediately after the parade. Tlie Judges are: George W. DeHaven. Harry Logan, Paul i). Millar, s. B. Griffith IXUI rislown), Joseph Mr- Elhaltan, Seth K. Mitchell. Francis McDermott, James McDonald, (Nor-rlstown). E. J. Rafferty. William S. Campbell, Olden Bishop, Cleorge Boone (Norrlstown), George M. s. Light. Manns M Sweeney. John D. Hampton. James Bolton (Norrls-town) E. K. Williams, Patrick Mor-tality, John E. O'Donnell. William Shannon (Norrlstown). Joseph Kelly, chairman of the Pol-succeed themselves. Mr. Fairbairn was elected by council to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ills uncle, Richard H. Bate, and on Tuesday will be elected for the un-explred term. Mr. Noblit will be elected for another full term of four years. A lively contest is being waged in tlie Fourth ward for the two seats In town council. Frank Kelly and | John O'Donnell. members of the present body are the Democratic candidates and are opposed by .Spencer I,. Jones, of.the H, C. Jones I Company and Lloyd Sagebeer, Re-publican candidates. At the primaries. Mr. Kelly sought to secure nomination on both tickets hut was defeated on the Bepublicon ticket. Another contest In this ward Is for assessor. At tlie primary elec-tion tlie Democrats did not file for places on the ballot for ward offices and tlie friends of Thomas Hickey, who has long been a worker in the Democratic party, wrote his name on the ballot and It was believed he would easily receive the nomination. When tlie vote was counted. Hickey and bis friends were greatly sur-prised to find that the Demorcalic nomination had been won by Joseph Schraok, the Republican nominee for assessor. Hickey claimed that he was not treated fairly by the Demo-cratic leaders and is waging an In-dependent contest for tho office. K. K. Williams and Charles Cauvel are the Republican candidates for council in tlie Fifth ward nnd are unopposed. Cornell Not a Candidate Tlie politicians are anticipating a big Democratic vote in the county next Tuesday, as there is a lively light for the county commissioner - With the Beading and Pennsylvania railroads. H is the purpose of the new owners to sell this tract for factory sites. A second portion of tlie land Is lo-ci ted between First and Sixth ave-nues and west from Wood street. This tract contains about 300 build-ing lots and it Is the purpose of the company to sell these lots at auc-tion. It is in this tract that a num-ber of lots were sold by Hanson and title lo which was not given. Tlie third tract is located between Sixth and Twellath avenues and ex-tends west from Wood street to Col-weirs lane, a small slrip being in Plymouth township. This tract the company Intend! to develop. It has been platted Into ten blocks, each block containing about 60 building lots, and gives ample room for the erection of about 400 dwellings. The corporation will lay out the tract Into building lots and next Spring will begin lhe erection of houses. The houses will be modern and build to sell at moderate prices, providing every convenience, sub-stantially built and With the best of surroundings. It is planned to make the tract a modern residential sec-tion along lines that will be new lo this community. Streets will be opened nnd built and trees and shrubbery planted. Building will he continued so long as there is a demand for houses. ships. At the primaries the Demo- Ice, committee, requests that the lire crat8 centered tneir flgllt on tha police report at the borough hall at board of commiB8loner8, tnere belng seven 0 clock tomorrow evening to Beven can„|date8 for the two nomI. assist in handling the great crowd natlon8. John , McConnlck and expected. (Continued on Pago Two) GIRL SCOUTS ENJOY HALLOWE'EN PARTY The annual Hallowe'en party of the Community Center Girl Scouts was given in the Bark House last evening among very attractive sur-roundings. Tlie decorations were artistically arranged: streamers of black and yellow, bowing and nod-ding In their Hallowe'en piquancy as tlie merry revellers danced In tin ir grotesque or fancy representa-tive costumes. Pierrots nnd Spanish gipsies and dancers mingled with will lies and hob goblins in the spirit of the Hallowe'en fun and frolic. Fortune telling was one of the In-teresting nuinbeis of a delightfully entertaining program and the even-ing was n very merry one for the scout girls, Refreshments were served in Hallowe'en style. The af-fair was very much enjoyed, Miss Eleanor Righter is In charge of the Community Center Scout (iirls. and through her Interest and management, the girls are doing good work together with enjoying pleasant evening meetings at the Bark Bouse. Miss Clara Righter was assistant hostess at the Hallowe'en party. The bride's gown was of white, klttnes' ear satin and was fashion-ed on lines of charming simplicity. orange blossoms former an effective trimming. She wore a bridal veil of tulle held with a coronet of orange blossoms. Her slippers were of while kid and she wore white silk stock-ings. She carried a bouquet of lil- Itea of the valley and bride's roses. The bridesmaid's dress was of Nile green. Hat crepe, with all over-dress of cream silk lace, she wore h poke shaped hat of black panne v.lvet, with long streamers of black velvet over the shoulders. Her slip-pers were of black satin and she wore stockings to match. She car-ried an arm bouquet of Ophelia ruses and maiden hair fern. After the ceremony a reception and wedding breakfast was held at the home of the bride's parents. The decorations were in green and white nnd with a profusion of chrysan-themums and a'utumn leaves. The couple Will reside at 201 Spring Mill avenue. The bridal party entered the church to the strains of the wedding march from Lohengrin, Miss Rose presiding at the organ. Miss Eev-lyn Mallen a nil I'aul Carroll sang several hymns during the services. Spring Mill avenue upon their return from their honeymoon which ts be-ing spent in the South. The bride is a popular member of Si. Matthew's parish and has a wide circle of friends. The groom Is os-j BOClated With his father, J. J. Flner-iiii. in the plumbing and heating business. Wood—Ward The wedding of Mary II., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ward. 108 West Sixth avenue, and Aaron Wood of Sweileland. will be solemnized til 4 o'clock this afternoon, In St. Mat-thew's church, the rector. Rev. Phil-ip Gallagher, D. D., LL. D.. will per-form the ceremony. The bride will be attended by Miss Vera Wood, a sister of the groom, and Mr. Maurice Brady, of West Conshohocken, will be best man. The bride's wedding gown will be of brown duventyne with a hat to match and she will carry a bouquet of brides' roses and lillios of the valley. Her bridesmaid win wear « dress of blue Bolivia Ctottl and a hat to maiib, and will carry a bouquet of pink roses. A reception will be held at the home of tlie bride's parents imme-diately after the ceremony and tho newly wedded couple will leave early I his evening for Atlantic City Where they will spent their honeymoon. They will reside in Norrlstown. A Strangei silting in an automobile at Eighth avenue and Fayette street, shortly after BIX o'clock Tuesday evening, called young John Baser, Baal Ninth avenue, who was "passim along Fayelle street and asked if lie would do him a lavoi. He said that be was waiting for his sister ami usked the boy to l.ilie a check, which he banded him, to McCoy's drug store, at Fourth, ave and have it cashed. The man told the boy. he was I II . I'.IR-gari. and would wait for his return. The boy look the check to the drug Store, Mi McCoy was out of ihe st for a short time and his niece, Miss Elizabeth Mulholland, was in oharge, There wen u number of customers in the store and it was sometime before the boy was waited upon. He gave Miss .Mulholland a note written on a card and in a tine, legible hand. Which read: "If con-venient, will you kindly cash this clack ami semi the money by bearer and oblige Dr. II, I.. I'aggart." The check was drawn on lhe Montgomery National bank, Morris-town and was numbered, S24 lii red Ink. it was made puyable to Dr. n. 1. I'aggart, for ten dollars and signed by "McDermott Bros." It Was endorsed ''Dr. II. I. 1'atgart." The endorsement was In a line hand resembling (lie writing on the note and resembles a feminine hand. Miss Mulholland did not suspect anything was wrong and cashed the cluck. The bey received the money and went lo Eighth avenue and Fayette street and found that tlie man had left. He made Inquiries of passersby, several of whom had seen the machine bin had not noticed when it had b i n ■■• ed, The boy, alter ., futile search for the supposed doctor, went home and told his" experience to his Toother and gave her the *1". Mrs. ltuser suspected that something was wrong and called Mr. McCoy on the telephone. It was soon found that Dr. I'aggart knew nothing of the mailer and thai ii stranger had at-tempted to secure money on a forged check. The money was returned to Mr. McCoy. The check bore evidence of having been taken fioin a book issued by the Montgomery bank to one of its patrons as the stub, with the pu-tron'a name had been torn, making the check short but containing the Printed number. The leal had been neath done, but left the edge as a poor Imitation of tearing from a perforated line. Tlie hoy was aide to give only a meagre description of the stranger, The face Of the check was written iii a hold hand but the endorsement bore evidence of a woman's hand writing. CONDITION OF REV. J. K. MOORHOUSE The condition of Rev. J. Kennedy Moorhouse. rector of Calvary B. EL church, and who has been ill at the rectory for the past few days, was reported this morning to be slightly improved. While lie is still serious-ly ill he rested more comfortably last night and his general condition Is somewhat improved today. VIOLATED PARKING ORDINANCE William Davis, 632 Green street Norrlstown, was given a hearing be-fore Burgess DeHaven in the bor-ough hall lust evening charged by Officer Harrington with huving vio-lated the parking ordinance at the corner of Hector and Cherry streets. The officer lodged a complaint a;;.iinsi Davis, who Is a driver for Roy Rlttenhouse, with having used abusive language. Davis was fined 10.00 and discharged. SUDDEN DEATH OF JOHN FRITZBURG John Prltsburg, a well-known resi-dent of tlie borough, died at his home, 103 West Tenth avenue, yes-terday morning following an illness of only a few days. lie suffered from II complication of diseases. Deceased was the son of Mrs. Margaret Mclntyre and was born In tills borough thirty-six years ugo and lias resided here all his life. For the pasi several months he has been iii ill health suffering from a complication of ailments, although able lo attend to his work as a plumber. On Sunday lie was com-pelled to take to his bed but his condition was not considered alarm-ing Until a shorl time before his death when he became critically ill and he sank rapidly until bis death. Deceased was a member of Con-shohocken Lodge. Knights of Pyth-ias and of the Loyal Order of Mooso of Vinelaiid. N. J. He is survived by his neither, Mrs. Margaret Mclntyre, and one brother Samuel Erltsbnrg, with whom he resided on West Tenth avenue. The funeral will take place from tlie residence of his mother. Mrs. Margaret Mclntyre. 103 West Tenth avi nue. on Monday afternoon. Ser-vices will be conducted at tho house at 2 o'clock and will be in charge of Rev. J. F. Slieppard, pastor of the Presbyterian church, interment will be made in Riverside cemetery. VETERAN RAILROADER RETIRED 1 William II. Famous, 251 East Elm street, a veteran employee of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, was retired from active service and placed on tlie pension list on October 31st. Mr. Famous, who is now seventy years of age, entered the employ of the company as an extra hand In 1R76. On December L'0. 1S7R. he was made foreman of the Freight house and has held the position ever since. As an expression of his warm friendship, station agent Charles A. Bchlachter has written Mr. Famous a beautiful letter commending him on his excellent record and the jrood feeling existing between him and liial fellow employees, ^^, |
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