The Conshohocken Recorder, April 8, 1924

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L I BLANCHE TELLS
Writes Of The Great Progress
Of California and The
Fascination of San
Francisco
VISITS FORMER LOCALITES
Councilman Lawrence N. Blanche,
who accompanied hia daughter to
California, where she is t. ■ be mar-ried
after Easter, writes Interesting-ly
of MB trip acroaa the continent
and of his Impressions of California
: f follOWl:
To the Recorder:
w<- though) you might be Interest-ed
In B brief account of our trip to
the Western Coaal where we are
now enjoying an extended visit In
Ban Francisco.
Our party of three, ray daughter.
Mary E. Blanche, Miss Marlon Cur-ren,
of Chestnut Hill, Phlla., and
myself, left Conshohocken the lat-i
■ part of February for California.
We stopped off at Denver to see
the city and cull on former residents
of Conshohocken, Mr. and Mrs. Ger
nld O'Bryne,
Crossing the Rockies by way of
the Royal Gorge, the Oreat Bait Lake
and the American River Canyon, wo
found the beauty of the mountain
scenery rivaled only l>y tlie riotous
bloom of spring Howars and blossom-ing
orchards nt the Sacrnnw nt • Vnl-ley
in California.
We have been very busy flatting
and sight-seeing In and about Ban
Francisco since our arrival and are
comfortably located in a new apart-ment
at B77 Oak street.
A week ago we attend d he nn-nnal
Blossom Festival In the Santa
Clara Valley and have enjoyed BC\-
aral motor nips to the Malr Woods
and the mountains of Mai in County;
Leland Stanford University of Palto
Alto, an elaborate example Of the
old Mission style of architecture.
and the University of California at
Berkeley, the largest and one of the
most picturesquely located of Ameri-can
Universities.
We were well pleased with the
city nt the Golden Gate, a great
metropolis built upon commanding
heights and overlooking the broad
waters of a wonderful harbor. Cross-ing
the bay in the late afternoon it
is a beautiful Bight indeed' to see the
sun Mttlng and watch it iinlil it
seems to sink into the waters at the
Golden Gate.
it is hard to realise that seventy-five
years ago then' was nothing but
Band dunes where now stands the
greatest pen of the Pacific, and
judging from the rapid strides be-ing
made hers at present, there is a
great future ahead of Ban Francisco
and all California.
The city has n large and rapidly
growing business district of modern
and artistic "sky scrapers" where
the absence of smoke and dirt Is
Very noticeable, due to the fact that
no soft coal is used. It has been
• called "the city on the hills by the
side of the sea." and they give to
the city's sky line a very picturesque
effect. I'p and down the hills glide
cable oars which constitute a unique
feature of the city. The views they
afford from elevated portions of the
city are matchless and to us the trip
On the cable car is quite B treat.
The residence sections In re par-ttCtlCUlarly
to be remembered. Land-scape
gardeners and architects have
combined to make the most of lofty
hillside locations and we marvel ut
the beauty of the many terraced
gardens and lawns always green and
the great profusion of trees, shrub-bery
and (lowers that bloom the
yeaI round. It is not unusual to see
massive retaining wails holding up
both house and gardens and this
feature combined with appropriate
architecture lends a decided dls-tinctiveness
to many of the finest
residence streets,
Aside from all this there are
many old historic places which take
us back to the romantic past among
these the Old and venerable .Mission
Dolores, with its mud adobe walls
four feet thick, built by the Fran-ciscan
missionary fathers and the
native Indians in 1776, and still pre-served,
its members who sleep un-disturbed
in the old church yard
there little dreamed of the great
city that would be built upon their I
hunting grounds and pasture lands. |
Then there is the fascinating:
Chinatown—a portion of the Orient
transplanted to our shores—for
Chinatown in San Francisco Is the
largest gathering place of Chinamen !
outside of til lent The simps,
there are of the finest Chinese archi- |
lecture and are crowded with the,
art treasures bf the orient. About
the streets there moves a throng of I
people with strange races and shuf-'|
fling gait. While it is no remarkable
sight to behold the Chinese dressed
In the latest of metropolitan styles.
•dill the majority adhere to their na-tive
costumes, the women wearing
the long straight jackets and trous-ers,
their shiny black hair combed
straight back. On holidays and
ceremonial occasions the population
turns out clad in beautifully tinted !
silks und glossy black. Bands play !
the wierd Oriental music and cafe
orchestras can be heard tummirig
the Oriental Jazz. So San Francisco
has a fascination and insistent ap-peal.
I
We have been the guests of the
Commonwealth Club of California '
and the San Francisco Real BNrtats
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Conshohocken Young Men's
Association Formed
Interest in New Organization at a
High Pitch.—Membership Cam-paign
On.
Tiu> Conshohocken Young AT. n'a
Asaoolatl) n ta formi d on Friday
evening at a meeting held in the
Park lions,- ami plans wet., made
whereby the organization will start
its campaign for members immeil-diately.
The organization and mem-bership
committee consists of I lie
following: Ray Winner, Oscar Wood,
Charles ibad. Harold Bishop, Joseph
Garesa, Wilford Ruth, William
Jones and Gordon Atkins. This
Committee held B meeting and laid
plans along the lines which the As-sociation
will work. All spoils in-cluding
base hall, basket ball, fool
ball, track, tennis and swimming
are the spoils thai will be fostered
while later. hexing and Wrestling
Will, be added to the list. Besides
sports. numerous social activities
will be conducted In the way of
dances, parties, etc. The forming of
nn orchestra is already under way.
and a large musical club will furnish
the music for the Association's ac-tivities.
A campaign for members is under
way and anyone wishing to secure
information concerning the same can
apply to any member of the above
named committee. This committee
is handling the membership cam
paign and anyone before Joining
must see some member id" it.
USTELTZ QUITS
Resignation Asked For Last
November Presented Sat-urday
Evening to Take
Effect Immediately
CLYDE MOSER ELECTED
E
Changes Made in Teaching
Periods. — Report From
State Department.—Com-mencement
Date Set For
Thursday, June 26th.
Tin- April meeting or toe w- • i
Conshohocken School Board was
held in the school building last eve-ning
with all members prw-ent.
Mr. Ramey slated that li what
bo could infer from the Inf. n matir.n
lie received from the State Depart-ment
thai Herbert Qruber, regular
teacher iii the sixth gradu and wl.o
lias been teaching certain studies in
the high sochoii), was not qualified tq
teach high school subjects aad thai
arrangements must >„. made to re-lieve
him from these ,i| lal dliies.
Supervising principal. Mower when
asked if tills could be do.ie. staled
that he could allow Miss Henry, the.
commercial teacher. Instruct In
Business English, on> of tlie sin Ins
taught by Air. GrUbC- and that the
two pupils being given a period by
Mr. Qruber could be paved to. in an-other
manner thus permitting htm <>
devote his entire time ill Ills trade.
The commercial geography i lass is
tar ahead of what is required ill the
three-year course and by not teach-ing
any more of this subject Miss
Henry could use tin- period consumed
on this subject to the Uuslnoss Eng-lish.
A report was read fram the Stale
Department of the conditions found
by W. S. Taft, an inspector, on his
nc,in visit. The building is crowd-ed
and poor, tlie light doc- not con-form,
ventilation by windows, the
water supply very good. The play-grounds
were found to be large an I
in good condition. The general im-pression
of the school was t'..i:nd to
be above the average.
It was decided to hold the annual
commencement on Thursday even-ing
June 26th.
I'lie Teachers and Text Books
committee reported all of the touch-
• is on duty every day during the
month With the exception of Miss
Alice M. Alcorn, who was absent
one-half day. The resignation of T.
.1. Steltz as supervising principal was
read and accepted.
The Building Committed reported
that the long, lost curtains had been
placed iii the grades w.ietc needed
and that liie seats in the commercial
r ooni i,,-oi in en reparled
Tr surer Woodward
the following report :
Ha lance on hand
it Ived Appropriation
lb Ived 1021 taxes. .
submitted
.. MM 7.20
... 28M.I.5
422.0.S
Tola!
Expenses for month
27594.22
.:- BE
Balance 1.265.27
Sinking Fund Account.... 550.00
LOST CHILD RETURNED
TO PARENTS
A three-yeai -old hoy of foreign
parentage was found on upper Ford
street Friday afternoon by John
I'.oue. while delivering orders from
the McCabe grocery store on From
street. The child was unable to give
any Information and Mr. Howe took
him to a number ef houses of for-eigners
but COUld not locate bis par-ents..
He iater took the child to
thu home of his mother. Mrs. Mar-tin
Howe Si., on upper Ford street
and the police Of Conshohockoil
wire notified. About 7.311 o'clock
the father of the child came to the
Howe house and took the baby. The
family removed from Bwedeland to
West Fifth avenue Conshohocken on
Friday. The little tot and an older
brother wandered away and became
separated. The older child was lo-cated
in Conshohockeni but the
young/* child continued to walk un-til
he reached this borough and was
picked up by Mr. Bowe. The baby
had been missing about five hours
when the father finally located
where, he was through the Consho-hocken
police.
T. .1. Steltz. who has acted as
supervising principal for more than
eighteen years, tendered Ins resigna-tion
to William .1. I'ennington. sec
retary of tin- board, ai 8.15 o'clock
Saturday evening, the same lo lake
place immediately. Mr, Stelts pre-sented
the keys to the •building to
the secretary along with his resigna-tion.
Mr. I'ennington turned the
resignation and keys over to Thom-as
E. Ambler, president of the School
Hoard, immediately upon their re-ceipt.
The resignation was in compliance
with the request of the Hoard of
I hiei tors last November, when at
their regular meeting they demand-ed
iii.. resignation of .Mr. Stelts. No
time was set for the presentation
when the request was made but It
was never withdrawn.
When the directors found them-selves
without a principal yesterday
morning. John H. Smith, chairman
of the Teachers and Text Hooks
Committee, went to the school and
placed Miss Agnes It. Farrell. teach-er
of the grammar grade, in charge
of the high school and divided her
pupils among tin* other teachers
temporarily, lie then communicated
witll Clyde Moser, of West Third
avenue, this borough, and a graduate
of t'rsiniiM College with two years'
experience at teaching. Mr. Moser.
owing to il Iheallh. was coin;"Me.i to
■relinquish' leaching this year and
has recovered his health, lie went
to the West Side schools and after
lookingtover conditions agreed to
take charge if the Hoard saw I'd lo
engage him.
At last night's meeting of the.
Hoard, Mr. Moser was present and
Was unanimously elected to super-vising
principal for tlie balance of
the present term at a salary of JltiU
per month, the same as was paid the
former principal.
Mr. Moser addressed tlie board
and stated that from the little op-portunity
he had had to go over the
Conditions, he found them to be in
poor shape. In some studies the
pupils are far 'advanced in fourth
year work while in others they are
not up to the Standard in the three
year course, lie said that he would
arrange the schedule of studies so
that he and Miss Henry, the com-mercial
teacher, would do all the
high school teaching.
Mr. Moser is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Moser. He was born in
this borough and has lived here all
his life. He attended the local
public school and after graduating
With honors, matriculated at I'rsin-us
College, completing his four year
course in 1921. Immediately after
his graduation he was elected to
teuch in the Chestnut Hill Academy,
where he was re-elected in 1H22. |
His services were sought in 1S23 ;
but owing to ill health and the im-perative
need of a surgical operation
ho was compelled to refuse a re-election.
Later he entered a hospit-al,
underwent successfully the oper
ation and has been restored to
health.
Yesterday morning he registered
in the County Superintendent's of-fice
in Norristown and was imme-diately
given his certificate to teach
in this county.
Xefore the West Side Hoard asked
for the resignation the following
Charges were presented against the
Supervising Principal:
First-—Purchasing books without
tilling out duplicate order forms.
Second—Changing programs of
periods and studies as laid down by
thu Hoard in regular session without
sanction of Hoard.
Third—Ignoring motion to discon-tinue
collection of monies from chil-dren
for school needs.
Fourth—Utterances in public and
in school room, falsely accusing the
School Hoard and inciting to riot.
Principal Steltzlimmediately made
a public denial of the charges and
the Hoard was petitioned in his be-half
by the Alumni Association.
Barly in December a petition sing-ed
by 101) taxpayers of the w'et.t
Uorough petitioned the Court play-ing
for the ousting of part of or all
the School Hoard, charging miscon-duct
in office of certain directors and
of the board In not providing u
teacher for a room of 40 pupils,
charging a member with "wickedly
threatening" the principal, charging
a member witli profiting through
work on the schools and other
charges.
The case was heard before Judge
Williams on December 17 th ana al-ter
hearing the evidence in the case
nnd the opposing lawyers argument,
11 Bt rved decision.
I'p to the presenting DO ibcislo.i
has been handed down.
Mr. Steltz has been appointed to
■i I osition .n lh-j BOilOOlS of I'llll-ade'phia.
Rescue Co. Arranges
For Anniversary Here
\ committee!from the Rerfoue Firs
Company x<. -i. of York, I'a , spent
the week-end as quests of trfai Wash-ington
Fire Company of this borough.
The object of the visit was lo com-plete
arrangements for iheir stay
here during the fiftieth anniversary
of the organization or the Washing-ton
Fire Company which will he held
during that period.
The visitors included William
llclfner, chairman of the commit tee;
August Brlckner, secretary of the
Rescue Company; William Eppley
and l.evi Keencv. The York laddies
win come bin- 'with one hundred
uniformed men and the Bpring Qnr-den
hand of twenty-nine pieces. The
members of the band will have as
their headquartena at the Hotel ii.n
rold on West Elm street. The inem-bers
of the local fire company will
provide lodging for tin- members of
the visiting firemen. A number of
these will he personal guests of the
"Washy" members ami to take care
of the rest of the number fifty cots
will be placed in the Maple room on
the Third Hour of lire hose house
The committee lias made arrange-ments
with the Conshohocken Can-dy
Land. 59 Fayelle Street) to fur-nish
the visitors with board. The
visitors will remain for seven meals.
Tlie Rescue Company will Have
the honor of housing the new ap-paratUS
on Saturday afternoor,
May 31st.
The Spring Garden Band is recog-
BROKE NECK IN FALL
IN ELEVATOR SHAFT
Joseph Vinchinski, Local Ball
Pitcher Instantly Killed at
the Hamilton Paper Mill
Yesterday.
Joseph Vinchinski. a well known
local base hall player and residing
at No. li.'t Poplar street, was instant-ly
killed while in lire discharge of his
duties al the William C. Hamilton A
Sons paper mill at Miquon about 9.80
o'clock yesterday morning. His
death was caused by breaking his
neck in a fall down an elevator shaft.
He was about twenty-live vis of
age.
The unfortunate man bad been
employed al the paper mill for about
four weeks as a laborer. Vcsterday
morning, in company* with other em-ployees,
he was engaged in trans-porting
pulp from I he sio- k room on
the ground door to Hie beaior room
located on Ihe third 'In i- el' Hie
plant by means of a hand truck. Vin-chinski
and his fellow workmen had
taken a truck load of the pulp in the
third Hour and had brought Ih, ele-vator
lo a stop. The truck was
pushed from the elevator onto the
Moor and his three Companions hail
also stepped from the cl'Vator'
nlsed as one of Ihe best musical or- Without any warning Whatever the
Ranlsatlons in tlie State. Among elevator gave way and dropped lo
their number are eight singers and the bottom of the shaft, t* Is sup-
I these men sins while marching. posed licit Vinchinski was in ihe act
ELM STREET RESIDENT
STRANGELY MISSING
Harry Wilson Left On Vitlt to Phila-delphia,
Saturday and Haa Not
Been Heard From Since
The Norris Ho-.c Company. of
Norrlstown, at t'eir regular meet-ing
last Frldaj evening accepted
the Invitation of the Washington
Fire I'Kinpaiiy and will attend the
hOUSlng ceremonies in this horoiigh
on Saturday afternoon. May [list.
The firemen have engaged the Lib-erty
Band of Norrlstown, to head
their company in the line of parade.
Word has been received of Hie nc-ceptance
by tin- Brandywlne Fire
Company, of Coaieavllle. They win
be iii tlie line of parade with one
hundred uniformed members, with a
hand of music.
FUNERALS
Michael Fogarty Dead
Michael Fogarty, son of the late
Matthew- and Bridget Fogarty, died
yesterday following an illness of two
months from a complication of dis-eases,
He was about fifty-nine
years Of am-. The funeral will take
place from the residence of his bro-ther-
in-law. Manus M. Sweeney.
West Kirn street, op Thursday morn-ing
at 8.80 o'clock. Services will be
la-Id with High Mass of Requiem In
thew's cemetery.
Bt Matthew's church at 9.10 o'clock.
Interment will he made in St. Mat-
Mrs. Ellen McDermott
The funeral of F.llen II., widow of
William McDermott, who for many
years was cashier of the First Na-tional
hank, of this borough, was
held yesterday afternoon from her
late residence. 83f> West Marshall
street, Norristown, and was attend-ed
by many friends from this bor-ough.
Mrs. McDermott was in her 83rd
year and had lived in Norristown |
of stepping unto the Moor wlc n tie-elevator
fell and he was precipitated
backward and dropped down the
opening landing on the platform of
the elevator shaft al the bottom.
When fellow workmen reached his
side they were horrified !■> had him
lifeless. The only visible mark on
the man was a laceratioi on the
!!• '•. His i ck was brocon.
Ctrone.- Huff was notiftet1 and thai
lH ly was |. moved to lib: home.
Tl e eli vat01 at t e imper mill t.-i.i
be. n out of commlss' a for several
days and had been In operation for
less than an hour follow in. repairs
when the accident occur.-. ,i.
Vinchinski had been employed at
the plant about four weeks,
Vinchinski came to tin; borough
about tWO years ago am! entered
the employ of the Alan Wood iron ft
Steel Company at the Schu.v hiill
Iron Works where he re-imiucd for
several months. He War a bnae ball
Pitcher of ability and las! year was
the leading slahiuan for the Alan
Wood team in the hail Industrial
League, ami one of the best pitchers
in the league.
Vinchinski was married two
months ago .ind is snivel nv his
young wife. Ills mother who resides
in the coal region, also survive': him.
Harry A. Wilson, of 1111 West Elm
street, haa been strangely missing
from his home on Saturday morning
and despite all efforts to locate him
no trace of hl'ni has been found Ihus
far.
The man left his home early on
Saturday morning Intending to g , to
Philadelphia, to visit friends. When
he left his home he told his wife he
might not return Saturday night but
he expected to return on Sunday. He,
however, did not return on Siindav
ami when his absence continued until
yesterday morning his wife asked
till1 local police to help locate him.
Philadelphia authorities were asked
lo search for him but no word has
In r n received from him to noon to-day.
The Wilsons removed from Phila-delphia
lo this borough about live
months ago. The husband secured
employment at the plant of the John
W 1 Manufacturing Company as an
operator on one of the hydraulic
presses.
The missing man is a former ser-vice
man and served overseas. While
in action he was gassed and at times
ever since suffered from ils effects.
When he left his home he complain-ed
of a severe headache.
He is about thirty-seven years of
age.
NEW PIPE ORGAN
FOR GULF CHURCH
Movement To Secure Modern
Instrument for Historic
Structure Under Way-
Hope For Installation With-in
a Year
Township Claims No
Jurisdiction On Road
A petition of residents and own-ers
of property abutting on K.vs
street, a street that runs at right'
angles from the Conshohocken pike
at Harmonvllle, was presented to
the Plymouth township commission-i
ers at their regular meeting, last ev-ening,
asking that the street he Im- '
upon the retirement of her husband ( proved by building a roadway. The '
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from the bank. During; her resi-dence
here, she and her husband
were both active in the Presbyterian ' has never
church, and Mrs. McDermott con-tinued
her activity in the Central
Presbyterian church at Norristown
so long as her health permitted.
Warren Pepper
Warren I'eppor, a former resident
of Whilemaish township and for
severa years engaged in the planing
mill business here, died early this
morning at his home. ri2nd Street
and Lancaster avenue. Philadelphia.
Mr Pepper had been In ill health for
the past year.
Mr. Pepper came here several years
ago from Philadelphia and witn a
Mr. Wood leased the planing mill
formerly operated by A. 1,. Miller &
Company. The lirm dissolved busi-ness
and Mr. Pepper went to Better-ton.
Mil., as agent for the K.un
Steamship CO, which operates horns
between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
AbOUt a year ago, Mr. Pepper re-tired
owing lo the condition of his
health.
He was a member of Frits Lodge of
Masons of this borough.
Funeral servcles will be hell at
the chapel of Oliver S. Jlair 1 L'X4
Chestnut streeel, Philadelphia Sat-urday
at 2 p. m. The interment will
be at Femwood cemetery. Frits
Lodge will hold a Masonic service
at the cemetery,
Timothy Ford
The funeral of Timothy Kurd, life
long resident of Conshohocken, who
died at his home Wednesday of last
week, was held this morning from
his late residence. 319 Spring Mill
avenue.
Solemn Requiem Mass was cele-biaied
in St. Matthew's church at
ten o'clock. Rev. .lames Hrogau
was celebrant, assisted by the Rev.
James Shea, and Rev. Father Mc-
Dade. of St. Edmonds, Philadel-phia,
sub-deacon. The Vatican Cre-gorlan
Mass was chanted by the
choir, Mrs. John Qulnn singing Si.
Cecelia's Uenedictus. Miss Rose
lloey presided ut the organ. Pres-ent
in the Sanctuary were Rev.
James Monahan, U L, D., of St.
James Paris. Philadelphia, Rev.
Rev. James Duffy, of St. Edmonds,
nnd Rev, Father Burke, chaplain of
Catholic students at the University
of Pennsylvania, and Rev. Dr Gal-lagher,
pastor of St Matthew's
church Father Brogan gave the ab-request
could not be granted as the!
street remains private property and
been opened, hence the
township has no jurisdiction. A I
number of houses have been built
along the street and more are con- j
templated.
The commissioners are requiring
that the township |)P kept Informed
of nil expenditures of the public
monies under the control ofthi com-missioners.
An appropriation was
made to Ihe Plymouth Fire Com-pany
and Ihe commissioners require
that the company make quarterly
reports of Ihe condition and activi-ties
<>f the company. The company
has failed to make these reports and
the Commissioners decided to with-hold
the appropriation until the re-quired
reports are received.
A request from the Reading Rail-way
that the township place warn-ing
signs at grade crossings in the
township was refused. The com-misloners
taking the position that
it is the duty of the railway in guard
Its crossings.
The commissioners appointed a
board of health of five members,
each section of the township being
represented on the boar das follows:
It. S. Staley, Plymouth Meeting;
Mrs. George Corson. Cold Point;
Miss Margaret Potter, Conshohock-en
pnke; Michael l.inzie, Mogeetown.
Orders were granted for the pay-ment
of bills jn the amount of
$1074.17.
Easter Eggs For Church Debt
A special service marking the 14th
anniversary of St. Mark's Lutheran
church will he held to-morrow even-ing
in the church,. Rev. I. Chantry
Hoffman, of Philadelphia will preach
the anniversary sermon and there,
will be special music by the choir.
A feature of the service will be
gifts to the church.
In January a drive was begun lo
liquidate the church debt of $2100
and the church workers decided to
make Ihe money by manufacturing
and Helling easier eggs. The work
is carried on In the kitchen of the
church building nnd the workers
have made 103,000 small eggs which
are sold at two cents each and I00O
large size eggs.
1 The method of raising funds by
making and selling eggs was begun
by members of the choir several
solution of the body and preached ,'>ears ago and Ihe first year's pro-file
funeral sermon. «. duction was i few hundred. The
work has grown to such nn extent
that the egg producing plant is now
operated on a large scale with the
Umbrellas repaired and covered ut
KEHOE'H. :'17 Hector Bt.
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The Gulf Christian church is to
have a new pipe organ. It is ex-pected
to have the instrument in-stalled
within a year. It will take
the place of pianos which have been
used in all of the church service,
and other functions for some years.
Preliminary plans looking to the in-stallation
of the organ have been
discussed and there is everything to
indicate that they will bear fruit.
For some time past an instrument
of the above type has been desired
at the Gulf church, but the matter
which was advocated some time ago.
remained in an embryo state. When
Rev. John C. Barrett entered the
pastoral field at Gulf Mills the pro-ject
took on new life, and it has
passed from the embryonic si.He to
one which gives assurance of a ma-terialization.
A part which brought the object
to its fulfillment culminated at a
meeting of the Men's Hible class of
the Gulf church, when an announce-ment
was made by Frank V. Rine-hart.
who conducts the singing of
the class and is chairman of the
music committee of the church, to
the effect that members of the local
class who attended a Bible class
meeting elsewhere, were so favorably
impressed with Ihe pipe organ music
there that they remarked to their
music leader. Mr. Rinehart. "Why
can't we have a pipe organ at the
Gulf?" The matter then took on
such a form that wdien Mr. I line-bait
hinted that there is a way to
have it. on the strength of his sug-gestion,
the hint was taken, and
Daniel Mclntyre, one of the oldest
members of the local Bible class.
headed the list in support of the
project. Other members followed
with a liberal response, and so far
the subscriptions have come from
the members of the Hlble class.
The particulars towards organiz-ing
the complete plan for going for-ward
are in the making, but there
is one thing sure and that is the
people are interested in the purchase
of the new instrument and their an-ticipations
and realizations of it
will mature at no late date.
The installation of the pipe organ
will fill a long felt want at the Gulf
church and will be following in line
with musical equipments in other
temples of worship. In the Gulf
Christian church building the people
of Gulf Mills have one of the finest
and one of the most pretentious
sanctuaries to be found in the rural
districts, ami it also compares fav-orably
with churches in urban cen-tres.
A new pipe organ will add
strength to the support of the church
body.
DEACONESS HART TO
SPEAK IN THIS BOROUGH
Deaconess Hart, of the American
Church .Mission. Hankow, China will
deliver nn address to the Women t,f
Calvary Church in the Parish House
on Tuesday afternoon. April 29th.
The Deaconess has been touring the
United States since January and has
delivered I0S addresses She is an
able and forceful speaker and will
graphically describe the customs and
manners of the Chinese nnd the
wonderful work that Is being done
by her church. The opportunity to
hear her comes but once in five
years and there is no doubt the Par-ish
House will be taxed to Its cap ic-ily
with the number of women who
will want to hear her address.
Councilmen Will Tell Why
Proposition Is Being Pre-sented
and Condition
of Borough
OPPONENTS WILL SPEAK
Is it to ihe Interest of ihe taxpay-ers
to increase Ihe bOTOUgh debt by
1100,000? Thhis question will he dis-cussed
al a public meeting called by
the Chamber of Commerce, in the
Park House. Thursday evening at
8.10, Every taxpayer' is vitally in-terested
in the question because it is
a question thai is going to touch the
pocketbook. The public meeting in
called to give the taxpayers the op-portunity
lo slate the manner In
which their pocketbooks art to he
touched.
George M. s. Light, president of
lie- Chamber of I 'i.uiineice will pre-side
and Archibald Falrbalrh, presi-dent
of town council, will tell the
voters why the loan proposition is
being presented to the voters and the
attitude of town council towards the
loan.
spencer i.. Jones, chairman of the
finance committee; Manus Sweeney,
committee and John Keboe. borough
i Irairinan of the ways and means
secretary, will speak of the finances
of the borough .the demand for Im-provements
a mi tin. course town
council will have to follow should
the loan be rejected. They will
answer questions regarding the rev-enues
and expenditures of Ihe bor-ough.
John Hamilton, eliarinian of the
street committee, will speak of Ihe
street conditions, nnd tell of the
handicaps the hormfgli is under in
not being able to provide durable
streets.
Councilmen E. K. Williams and
Charles Cauvol. who voted against
submitting the loan proposition to a
vote of Ihe people, will give their
reason for opposing the loan ifl I
why the taxpayers should oppose it.
Dr. Thomas, who was president of
town council for a number of years
and during the period when the lost
street improvement loan was lloated
and spent, who is also on the pro-gram
to tell of the experiences of
that period.
Provisions have been made to cliri
for a large audience and the tax-payers
will be given every opportun-ity
to ask questions as the purpose
of the meeting is to give the t.ixpav-ers
full information as to the physic-al
and llnancial condition of the bor-ough,
the Improvements being nutds
by private interests and the de-mands
made upon tlie borough for
Improvements to make development
possible.
A Free Lecture on Christian Science
will be given on Sunday afternoon,
April 20th 1924 at 3.30 o'clock by
Charles I. Ohrensteln C. S. B. of Sy-racuse,
New York, in the Garrlck
Theatre, Main Street. Norristown,
Pa. A cordial invitation is extend-ed
to the public. Advertisement
BURSTING TIRE
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
Truck Jumps Curb on Lower Fay-otte
Street and is Badly Damaged
A Ford truck belonging to John
smith of West Conshohockeni was
badly wrecked yesterday shortly af-ter
noon when a front tire blew out
causing the machine to leap over the
curb across the pavement and crash-ed
into the railing on the Pennsyl-vania
railroad bridge on Payette
street.
The truck was loaded with ashes
anil was being driven by Forrest
Dana, of West i •onshohoekeil. As
the truck was leaving the bridge
ready to start up the incline on lower
Fayetle street a front tire blew out.
Before the power could be shut off
the truck swerved over to the right
side and crashed with great fores
against the curb. Both front wheels
were completely torn off and the
truck was carried across Ihe pave-ment
and was prevented from going
over the high wall and landing on
Ihe property of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company by the guard rail
running along the bridge. The force
of the truck loosened the heavy cop-ing
stones on top ,,f the wall and
shunted them several Inches out of
place, A post In front of the cigar
store of A. \V. M e .,nd which was
in the path of the truck was broken
off like a pipestein. The machine in
its wild dash barely missed Crashing
into a telegraph pole.
Joseph Fisher also of West Con-shohocken
was riding with Dana
when Ihe crash occurred. Both were
thrown from the seat of Ihe car to
the pavement bin neither was Injur-ed.
Another car was procured and the
ashes were transferred from the
wrecked truck lifter which the de-molished
car was removed to the
Smith garage for repairs,
WOMAN'S CLUB MEETING
The Woman's Club will meet to-morrow
nt 1 p. M., in the Park
House, Mrs. Howard Roberts has
charge of the meeting which begins
with a box luncheon. Following the
luncheon and club business. Miss
Mildred Rurdette of Drexel Institute
will demonstrate economic salads
■making.
A most enjoyable time will be had
in viewing old photographs of the
club members. Kveryone is urged to
bring at least one photograph taken
touring her early youth.
The hostesses will be Mrs. H. F.
Alleboch. Mrs. Richard H. Bate, Jr..
and Mrs. Archibald Fairburn.
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Baby Coaches and (Jo-Carts re-tired
at KEHOE'S, 217 Hector St.
. AdyerU8em«n{