The Conshohocken Recorder, February 8, 1907

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4;$<u CONSHOHOCKEN PA. FRIDAY FEBRUARY- K HK>7. $1 PER YEAR
TOWN NOTES
W. P. I.inville is eoullned to his
homo by lllneBS.
Tax Collector Hampton's office is
■ow at lull Kayette street
The thermometer got down to two
degrees below zero yesterday morn- j
lng.
Mr. Ilartin J. Dsvsney, of Fifth ave-
■ne, is recovering from a WJ» severe
i.iii'ss ol several weeks' duration.
Bx-Burgesa Charles W. Jones is re-ceiving
congratulations on the arriv-al
yesterday of a little daughter to his
home,
,in entertainment is i ow in pro
to be givi u in the uai ami ni o St
. .;iiih.'.\-'a Church on Friday evening,
uary 12.
Mr. 11. t!- Fields In Cohocton, N.
I., where he was called by the aerioua
Illness of his father, Mr. H. I
of Cohocton's oldest and foreost cit-izens.
The funeral service of Mrs. Jane
Ryan were held on Wednesday morn-ing
in St. Matthew*! Church. The in-terment
was in St, Matthew's
tery.
At the residence ol Airs, r.
113 Seventh a\ . ■■ Will be giv-en,
tomorrow afternoon and evening,
a sale of good home-made cookery.
The purpose of Mrs Shay and her as-sistants
is to asslsi the work ol the
Church.
Thomas Kelioe. aged 15 years who is
employed as a newspaper carrier by
Graham and Johnson, is in receipt of
a letter from Schissler's College,
where he la B Student, commending
him for the perfect work attained in
S shorthand speed test The faculty
state that his efforts merited a mi
100, and that it is the first time In
the history or the college that the
lOO-mark was attained. Before going
to business college Kehoe was a stu-den
at the parochial school
From a letter received by Mrs. Thos.
Butcher, of Seventh avenue and Harry
street, it is apparent that Mr. Butcher's
injuries;, sustained at Cuba, just as he
Wl about sailing for home, are far
more serious than was implied by the
cablegram previously received. In
fact, he had n miraculous escape from
death, being buried under a mass of
debris. In addition to his fractured
shoulder blade and injuries to his bead
he is suffering from other hurts of a
more or less serious nature.
Gasoline is getting dearer iu price,
and the rank seem of the stuff hangs
round it still. There should be an-couragement
in such conditions for the
Introduction of denatured alcohol as
a substitute. Possibly with the pas-sage
of amendments to the BVSS Al-cohol
act now under consideration in
Congress liberalizing the restrictive
provisions which discouraged small
producers, alcohol may be put on Un-
American market at prices that will
permit of its general use for the gen-eration
of power and for heating and
Illuminating purposes. What is suc-cessfully
done in Germany ought not
to be impossible in the United States.
Why February has twenty-eight
days is explained In the- legends of
the past. A French publication de-votes
one column of this curious sub-ject.
One is of an old woman, who,
tending her flock, ridiculed the month
because it had dealt so leniently with
her and her sheep. Then February-felt
insulted and made leap year, and
borrowed a cold day from March, and
froze her and her nock. There is a
merman legend which makes It out that
February had originally as many days
as other months, but February was a
confirmed gambler and lost at domin-oes
a day both to January and to
March. Strange to say. there is an old
story of Egypt wherein the god of Feb-ruary
plays forfeits with the moon
and loses certain days
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Saturday, February 9, is the last day
for tiling applications tor liquor li-censes
with Clerk oi Courts Stillwag-on,
The Alcott club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Brehm next Tuesday
evening. Fifth avenue and Hailowell
street.
Prof. Frank Greeu, of the West
cnester Norinai School, last evening
lectured to a large audience in 'lie
Harry street building of the Baptist
Church
Grocer Boucot's team ran away this
morning, breaking the safety gates at
the Harry street crossing of the Penn-sylvania
Railroad It was caught on
Washington street near Forrest.
Mrs, Rosie Luts, aged 70 years, died
on Wi dnesdaj ni her home on Maple
. near I'irst avenue. The funer-al
services will be held to-morrow
morning in St. Matthew's Church in-terment
will be in st. Matthew's Cem-etery.
The Consfaohocken Electric Light
and Power Company has succeeded in
making a lwenty-tive year agreement
with tae supervisors ol Whltemarsh
Bhlp whereby the compan.\ has
the right to run Its wlrei and tar-nish
power and light to residents of
the township. In payment lor the
franchise the company agrees to give
a street light or twenty-lour candle
power for each mile ol wire strung in
the township. The company expects
to begin work as soon as the weath-er
permits in erecting its wire. There
are a number of residents of the
township in Harnionville and along
the Ridge Pike who want the service
of the company.
Little's Opera Mouse was crowded
las) evening by an audience, which
gathered to witness the very excellent
entertainment given by the Y. M. A, A.
A. Mr. William F. Schensley, saxa
Bololsl with Sousa's Band, by
special request consented to piay a
grand fantasie from the opera Bohe-
Glrl Mr. benenstey Is an art-ist
on his Instrument of no mean abll-ind
through his efforts lias done
much toward elevating the placing
axaphone to the high standard
Ol excellence it enjoys tO-dBVJ US
has been connected with Mr. Sousa's
world-famed organization for the last
live yean, touring Europe and Amer-ica
and traveling about 70,000 miles.
The ladies of the rreshyterian
Church are now making preparations
for their annual supper to be held
Thursday, the evening of St. Valen-tine's
day. This has come to be look-ed
forward to as an enjoyable occa-sion
which every one likes to attend.
The following will be the menu:
Poulet Roti Jambon Roti
Janibon Bonilll Celeri
Sadade des Pommes da Torre
Souces des Canneberges
Petlts Pains ^ Cafe Noir
Cafe an Lalt Creme vjlacee el Qatean
Mrs. Smyth and Mrs. Butcher will
admit all coiners to the curio room
where wo. be assembled curios from
the past and of the Immediate pres-ent
trom Pennsylvania, Cuba and Por-to
Rica.
Ike apron table as one previous oc-casions
of the kind will be in evidence
—women's work for women—apron.
This table will be in charge ol Mrs.
Gray, Sr., Mrs. McClements and Mrs.
Craig. The enke table always an at-tractive
feature will be presided over
by Mrs. George M. S. DeWSes
The choir of Calvary Church, lust
evening, gave a very enjoyable comedy
in the Parish Building. The room
was crowded to the doors, and the au-dience
very liberally applauded the
splendid work of th amateurs. Mr. J.
Burneite Holland, espec
much applause for his splendid act-ing.
The folowing was the east of
characters:
Felix Featherstone. a practical joker,
Mr. J. Burnette Holland
Arabelia, his pife, .. .Miss Emma Wilt
Ethel Granger, sister to Arabelia,
Miss Helen Davis
Harry Prendergast, in love with Ethel,
Mr. George Benz
Uncle John, who rioesnt nndpi-<t«nd,
Mr. William 1'owner
Penelope, the avenging Venus
Miss Anna Orner
founders, a butler Mr. Amoi Rex
enti rtaln men) will be repeated
evi alng.
Next Tuesday is Lincoln's lli:nday.
Mr. and Mrs, William s. Perot are
spending the month of February In
Florid...
Harry T. Aiiebaeii, on Wednesday,
removed Into his new home on Thir-teenth
avenue and Fnyette street.
A great many resident- of Fayette
street do not seem to have heard of
Burgess BloomhuH's proclamation that
snow must be removed from the pave-ments.
A ten per cent advance In •■
has been given to all the tonnage mi D
of the Alan Wood Iron and Steel Com-pony,
the J. Wood ,t Bros CO., and
the uongmead Iron Works, the ad-vance
began on Monday Of this week.
Sle ding on the pavements i
tlmi Which should be Mopped. There
an 11 lit} ol sire ts which can be
used tor this purpose. The pavements
are .n dangerou! enough condition
now without having the added danger
of a hilarious youngster knocking your
teel from under you.
HELPING THE FREE LIBRARY
ASSAULT ON
SIX YEAR OLD GIRL
Charles Bickinga, about forty years
Of age, was arrested yesterday by of-ficer
Robinson, and this morning he
was held under J1000 ball by Magis-trate
Smith to answer at Court the
charge of committing an indecent as-sault
on Mabel Qoslee, the six-year-old
daughter of Lawrence Qoslee, of 389
Kasi Rector street.
According to the testimony
ai e heaiing by Mr. Qoslee, he was
at his home yesterday afternoon,
Blcklngs was In the kitchen. Near the
house is a small frame house used as
,i plaj house in this play house was
Mabel and a three-year-old brother.
Mr. Qoslee left the house to go to the
mill. He returned In about fifteen
minutes and when a short distance
irom the house heard his dan
B reaming In terror.
He ran to the piay house and found
BlCklng8 with his clothing dil tn
ed holding the girl.
He threw Blcklngs out of the house
and got a warrant for his arrest.
At the hearing the little girl
testiiied to th<' assault by Blcklngs.
Blcklngs had nothing to say In an-swer
to tin' charge. He was therefore
held under $1000 bail.
A curious feature BOOUt the arrest,
is that just about twenty years ago
BlcklBgS was arrested under almost
a similar charge before the same mag-istrate.
On February 28th. 1887, Charles
Blcklngs was arrested tp answer the
charge of committing rape on a wom-an
seventy-four years old residing in
Spring Mill. Magistrate Smith gave
him B hearing and sent him to jail.
When tried by the court be was
I'lmnn gutll end sent to the peniten-tiary
for four years.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
At a meeting of the Norrlstown and
gevllle Women's Suffrage Asso-ciation
held Wednesday it was decided
to hold a bread and cake inle In
Ml rch, and a committee with Mr M.
R. Livesey as chairman was appoint-ed
to have charge of the same.
An excellent program was rendered,
Mrs. Bertha Moser Halnes, of t'oiiege-ville,
presented a very able paper on
"the education ol women in the Uni-ted
Suites up to the time of their gen-eral
admission into colleges.' Mrs.
Haines told of a time In New England
when wives Of distinguished men were
unable to write their own names and
women of high standing in Boston
could not read. Many wills left by
men and a greater number by women
were signed with a cross. Even after
schools were established the Idea pre-vailed
that ail a ■
□ ... iicate
a pretty lace and a musical voice. In
1870 the illiterate women outnumber-ed
the men but. In -J00 there were
more illiterate men than women in the
country.
miss Isabel Walker gave the names
of some women who were instrumen-tal
in improving the educational stand-ards
and opportunities for girls and
gave an interesting account of some of
the notable women.
toe various college that admit women.
....S8 Katharine Baker sank a beauti-ful
snlo and a poem was also read
by Mrs. Livesey,
„KAD JilE RECORDER SI.Of) a yr.
THE SCHOOL BOARD VIRTUALLY
MAKES A SUCCESS OF THE I
JECT TO ESTABLISH HER! A
i REE LIBRARY.
The Conshohocken School Board, at
.ts meeting on Wednesday evening,
helped materially in the establi.
Oi ti lice library in this borough. In
use to a request made by • i
mlttee the Board appropriated $30u to
i in uorary and gave the use of an un-occupied
room.
The committee to come before the
i consisted of Frederic L. Clark,
->tr. and Mis. Conard Jones, Mrs. i
ry I). Cranor, Thomas F. McCoy
Edmund K. Williams,
Mr. Clark did the talking, and did
It ■• II. lie loid of the work done by
the different committees and disinter-
: citizens toward the establish-ment
of a free library here; read .
tl i Horn the Hector of Call .
Church saying that the church wo,.Id
to a tree library of Conshoh< li-en
tns two thousand volumes and Hie
necessary bookcases, at a not)
rental; that for a very trilling sum the
stale would loan a library in this I r
Ongu one hundred .and fifty volumes
evi ry three months: that the laws of
the state permitted, and the authori-ties
of the slate urged school boa. Is
to appropriate money towards the es-tablishment
ami maintenance of
brary and finally that private
script ions would very liberally sup-plement
any money appropriated by
the school board towards the library.
Mr. Clark asked that the Board
propriatc ?300 to the library.
Mr. Collins made the motion that
the amount be given lo the library by
the school district.
Mr. Neil, while he said that he did
not oppose the giving or money to a
library, suggested that the Hoard had
hardly enough money to pay its
until the end of the year.
Mr. Davis wanted the motion r
to report at a sj
clal meeting.
Mr. Clark said that the reason ac-tion
I I so hurriedly was t, I
tRe borough year ends the first M
day of March, and if the school board
should appropriate money, it would
materially help in getting the bor-ough
to do likewise when the app o
priatlon ordinance was considered at
the March meeting.
Mr. Jones and Mr. Bugbee both ur-ged
immediate action and the grant-ing
of the money.
The motion was adopted.
Mr. Collins' motion was also adopted
that one of the vacant rooms In the
buildings be granted the library until
such time as it Is needed for the
schools.
On motion of Mr. Bugbee, President
Bowker appointed Messrs. Bugbee, Dr.
Temmeicr and Collins a commit, te
to meet with a committee from the
free library to decide upon represen-tation
of the Board on a Board of
Directors of the Free Library.
MORE TYPEWRITERS.
Dr, i, the chairman of the
Teachers' and Textbook Committee,
spoke of the need of having more
typewriters in the schools. On his
motion the committee on Buildings
was Instructed to buy three more ma-chines
and also twenty-four chairs for
the laboratory.
Dr. Tegtmeier, in speaking of the
schools, said that there were now in
the High School ninety scholars, and
that it had been determined to grad-ually
lengthen the terra in the High
School from three to four years.
Tnis term for those who came in the
high school from Miss Bodey's second
class, would now' consist of three years
and six months. Some time in the lu-ture
it was hoped to again lengthen
the term six months, making the nec-essary
four years.
■ Commit-tees
said that Collector Hampton was
ready to settle the tax duplicate of
1905. Hs asked an exemption of
$265.21. The total amount of the du-plicate
was S14.396.77. On the mo-tion
of Mr. Davis, the Finance Com-mittee
was directed to settle the du-plicate.
Mr. Neil complained of the condi-tion
of the pavement on Harry street
opposite the schools. By direction of
President. Bowker. the Secretary was
to Burgees Bloomhall'of the pavement.
Treasurer Morrison reported a bal-ance
in the treasury of $6606.91,
Superintendent Zlegler read the fol-lowing
report:
Pupils admitted 848
Enrolled during month 788
Averago daily attendance 022
Present every day 92
Pupils not tardy 607
Pay Pupils 50
Directors visits 11
Parents visits 12
Citizens visits 10
Superintendents visits 29
Saving Fund SIM.Hi
THE FREE LIBRARY
The movement to establish a free li-brary
in Conshohocken seems to be
about meeting with success.The school
board baa granted the D M of a room
in the school building and $300 to-wards
the current expenses. It is now
i that tin' Town Council will give
B like amount. These, with the mon-ey
to be raised by private subscription,
which is hoped to be about $700. will
for the operation of the library
tor a year.
This will give the opportunity of
having a library, owned by the people
01 the town, for one year. If it is not
successful, It will be discontinued. If,
It meets with the hearty approval of
the people it is hoped to be continued
Tor years to come.
It is the intention to apply to the
courts and have the association grant-ed
a charter with the name, probably,
of The Free Library ol Conshohocken,
A meeting of those interested will
be held next week when it is thought
thai the name and the method of con-ducting
it will be decided upon. There
will probably be a board of directors
consisting of nine persons, three to be
selected by the Bchool Board, tl n
Town Council, providing money is
contributed from the borough funds
and three to be selected Irom among
the citizens of the town.
An experiment of great Interesl es-
•
the Conshohocken Building and Loan
at ion. was made by the Build-ing
and Loan Association of Corning.
.V V., to 'counts of
hoys and girls, has proved successful
after a year, in a present member-ship
of 52:' belong to girls and 305 to
Nearly $9,000 is on deposit in
mis department, and withdrawals
small. This Is con-sidered
a splendid showing, as Corn-ing
has only 13.000 population. The
lation's experience confirms that
Of the building and loan society at
Bast Rutherford, N. J., which was
Ih'si in the country to establish a ju-venile
annex.
A meeting of the Building Commit-tee
of the School Board and a commit-tee
trom the Free Library Association
wnl be hPld to-morrow afternoon at
the school buildings to decide on me
room which will be used for the li-brary.
The following letter explains Itself:
Mr. Frederic L. Clark.
My dear Mr. Clark:
The committee of the Vestry of Cal-vary
Church has decided to lease our
library upon terms satisfactory to both
parties to tii> Library Association if
ii is formed. We only ask to keep out
a few books for parish use. We, as
a church and as an individual, will do
all in our power to help you in tiiis
BUI.
I am very anxious to see a free Ii-brary
for Conshohocken. Call on me
at any time if I can be of service.
Faithfully yours,
ARCHIBALD BRADSHAW,
I'. B. I understand about tWO thou-sand
books will go with book cases
in this lease.
POLITICAL
John M. Wilson, of Spring Mill, was
in Norrlstown yesterday and impressed
on tae minds of his friends that he is
a candidate tor County Commissioner.
Tl ,• i ommlssloner nominations will
lie made next year. Wilson is a Re-publican
and until several years ago
resided in Lower Merlon.
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Louis Nagle, of Cheltenham, has the
Commlsslonership bee buzzing In his.
Iionnet. He declared the other day
wneii asked if he was not going to
POPLAR STREET WIDTH
To the Recorder:—
1 note in your issue of February 1st
a letter signed "J. E. K.," which 1
suppose Is from our old friend Kin-dregan,
still hunting wreaths for him-self.
If Mr. .1. B. EC. will make Inquiries
he will find that Poplar street is only
thirty feet wide from curb to curb,
and he will also discover thai while
the street dimensions are given s
ing sixty feel wide, this (overs an al-lowance
of fifteen ret I on each side
for sidewalks, on whicii the borough
encroaches.
This explanation will still leave it
open to Mr. J. E. K. to advise the ex-pectant
public, just how he made tip
their estimate of the value of this
property, l am afraid he win have to
admit that he has "erred most erron-eously
in his calculations and compu-tations."
POPLAR STREET
ST PATRICKS DAY
To the Recorder:
I suggest that St. Patrick's Day bo
fittingly celebrated on Sunday, as it
falls on that date. I.i t the events gen-erally
hehl in honor Of Bt Patrick take
place, Including a parade, ue1 the
outpouring of Erin a sons and daugh-ters
on mat day be of such a chi
to reveal to the world that weare
alive in the momentous happenings
taking place In foreign lauds all
pointing to a free Ireland,
I am positive if the A. O. H. and
kindred organisations will adopt this
suggestion we Will have a more sue-ceSBtUl
celebration than In years and
be a practical revelation to those who
would dare try and belittle Ireland and
ople.
'I ne holding of the parade on Sunday
would glvi hundreds an opportunity
to take part In it and to witness it
who cannot possibly get away from
business on any other day E D.
•HE BURNED HER RING
Ali.ough it is a trifle late to tell
Christmas stories, here's a good one
worth telling if It is old. The story
has just leaked out and there is one
popular Conshohocken girl who didn't
enjoy Christmas one bit and as a se-quel
it Is said a summer's wedding
has been declared oif.
A day or two before Christmas, so
the story goes, this young lady re-ceived
a handsome box of candy
from her sweetheart, but as she had
expected a more expensive present
the candy, although incased in a
beautiful box, did not please her.
"To think that he sent the candy
when he know what I wanted''—and
t mil she stamped her foot and grew
indignant. While in this mood the
young woman picked up the offend-ing
candy, box and all, threw tin-whole
thing into the stove and went
to her room for a good cry.
That evening the young man who
sent the hox mnde his usual call.
.-in happy was he that, he did not no-he
frigid demeanor of the lady
of his choice. His first question was
How did you like your present?" and
when told that the precious candy had
been consigned to the lire he nearly
fell off the chair.
"Didn't you open it?" he almost
snrieked.
"No. I ditln't open It," replied the
girl.
For a moment the young man seem
eii paralyzed and then slowly- he
fished out of his pocket a receipted
bill from a jeweler. This," he said,
"is a receipt showing that I paid $100
for a solitaire diamond ring1. That
ring was In that box of candy."
Then be picked up his hat anil left,
the house vowing never to return
again. And thai is why th
woman is unhappy,
Friends are now seeking to patch
UP the differences between the two
hut with little success.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
make another try for Sheriff nomina-tion:
"No, I'm too busy for that; but!
I would not mind having the County
Commissionership."
Prof. James Sweeney will continue!
his select dancing party at City Hall, j
Norristown, Saturday evening, Febrn-J
ary 9, 1907. The new German Ealbn
Waltz will be introduced. Full or- ■
[chestra. Admission, 2» and 35 cents, j
Qeorge W. Rodenbaugh to Daniel
Hanna. House, Hector street near Pop-lar
street, S1500.
Easter rone to Frank Pieard. House
11226.
I'rank Itangert to (Has. Hisposlt.
House, Elm street nearCorson street,
I116v.
Winter cans in all styles, 50c. to 15,
would make nice presents for man or
boy. Tracey's, the hatter. Norristown.
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