The Conshohocken Recorder, March 1, 1907

              PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
1369 CONSHOHOCKEN PA. FRIDAY MARCH 1 1907 $1 PER YEAR
TOWN NOTES
The thermometer dropped to six de-gress
yesterday morning.
The L T. L. School will hold their
monthly session on Sunday afternoon
in P. 0. S. of A. Hall.
The Republican members of Town
Council In caucus to-morrow night,
will select the borough Officers for-this
yeai
W. M- CFilbert. of this borough, has
just been granted a patent for a sed-iment
catching pocket and J. Ellwood
I A v. of the same place, has been grant-ed
.i patent tor a machine for brushing
bandage rolls.
"Fifty Years Age." is the iii i i
the address which Mr. Charles lleber
Clark Is to deliver this evening at the
■OCial gathering Of the Men's League
•.I the Baptist Church. This work for
men has been proceeding since last
fall, with encouraging results. All
men are invited.
Thomas Butcher, of Conshohocken,
who has many friends here, will be
brought home, from Cuba next week,
fr'or some months Mr. Butcher has
been engaged in erecting and installing
machinery in some of the great sugar
plantation, and recently -while adjust-ing
a machine had his shoulder bone
broken, besides being injured in *>th-ar
ways. However, he has been well
cared for and anticipates an early re-turn
to his home for recuperation and
rest. Mrs. Butcher, who Ls in Con-
■thohocken, has also been quite sick.
Some of you. fellows who never
have a million dollars like we editor.-,
4o not know, of course, of what the
pile consists. When you have a mil-lion
dollars In bills und pile them tip
lat, on one another, and want one
off the top, you will have to reach 276
feet, if you la] them down, end to
•nd. you would have to walk 110 3-4
Biles, if you bad the amount in sil-ver
dollars, the rrtie' wool 111-2 miles
high, and so on. We know, be
we tried it the oilier night, bul the ,
tf bed slat broke and We WOk. T*™ **? J°n*8' °f thto **■ ougn, is a daughter.
Dr. C. F. Tegtmeier returned yester-day
from a visit to Atlantic City.
Oscar T. Wood and son. DoIIaven.
arrived home this morning from a
ten days" visit to Atlantic City .
A very enjoyable entertainment was
given last evening in the Harry street
Building of the Baptist Church.
"Nig," the little house dog belonging
to Mrs. Harry C. Pugh, was struck
by a trolley car on Fayetle .street yes-terday
afternoon and instantly killed.
Mrs. Davis" class of Calvary Sun-day
school will hold a bread, pio and
cake sale on Sturday afternoon at
Leroy Whitman's home, 19 First ave-nue.
The Conshohocken Electric Light
and Gas companies have opened an
Office at SI Fayctte street, In Henry
M. Tracy's office. Eugene Tiernan
will be in charge of it.
Miss Tegtmeier, who was to have
sung at the concert given in the Bap-tist
Church last night, was prevented
from doing so. Her mother fell on the
Ice yesterday afternoon and broke her
arm.
The funeral services of John Hufty
were held yesterday afternoon from
his late home, 818 Fayette street. Bev.
A. J. Davles conducted the services
at the home, the Interment was pri-vate
in Riverside Cemetery.
An interesting event is to be held at
the Temple. Broad and Berks streets,
Philadelphia, on Tuesday evening,
March 5th. It is a banquet of Baptist
men of Philadelphia and vicinity. Al-ready
over 500 men have arranged to
be present. The purpose is to arrange
a "Forward Movement" in the denom-ination.
BENJAMIN HARRY
A rising young barrister of Conshohocken.
WOMAN COULD NOT
IDENTIFY DEAD MAN
After thirty persons had positively
identified a picture of the man murd-ered
on Church road the night of Feb-ruary
16, one of the thirty being none
other than a woman who said the pic-ture
was that of her husband, and af-ter
Chief Sddington had worked un-ceasingly
on tb> case for more than a
week. ;l|| the h >pea Of fully identify-ing
the victim of the Black Hand mur-der
and possibly capturing the assail-ant
vanished yesterday when the wo-man
of the ease viewed the body at
JenklntOWD and said she was mistak-en
in her Identification or the picture,
and that the body was not that of her
husband.
The authorities are now again at The W. 10. Wham, and
the point where they were an hour are working at nights, getting out
after the commission of the murder, their spring stock. The place is ov-
The remains of the butchered victim ertaxed with work.
will, in all likelihood, go to an un-
SPRING MILL
Mr. Joseph Blackburn is confined to
his home with illness
Mr. Charles A. Statey was visiting
in Phoenlxville on Wednesday.
Mr. Franklin Embody Is suffering
Intense pain with neuralgia of th<-
face.
Mr. and Mrs. p. T. Harkins cele-brated
their eighteenth anniversary on
Wednesday evening.
A sleighing party from Philadelphia
Visited the home of Mr. Loufc-f^ank-enfleld
on Elm street Tuesday even-ing.
known grave iii Hillside Cemetery.
A chase over an entire State, which
Mr. Benjamin Smith of Philadelphia,
will occupy the house owned by Mrs.
THE FREE LIBRARY ALL CANDIDATES
MUST FILE ACCOUNTS
Mrs. Amanda Collision, the widow
of .lames ('oulston. died very sudden-ly
this morning at her home in White-mareb
township. Mrs. Coulston seem-ed
iu her usual healtb when she .
and about eight o'clock sat down in
a. chair and died in B few minutes.
The work for the Conshohocken
Free Library is being pushed rapidly.
The committee of nine, appointed hy
the public meeting recently held,
has been working steadily and a
great deal has been accomplished.
Through the courtesy of the School
Board the work of getting the library ! <-andidates, elected and defeated, who
room in readiness has commenced and i corae lo fl!e their expense accounts,
The office of Clerk of Courts Still-wagon
is one of the busiest 'on the
hill," says last Thursday's Norristown
Herald. The cause is the presence of
-P.
Memorial Day will l. otiserved here-with
greater impressiveness
^throughout Pennsylvania, according to
ftjBStfmblyoian John 11. Kcx, of Mont-gomery
eounty. Mr. Rex is chairman
of the Mlllturj Affairs Commltti i
the Legislature and he said that the
aoiumlU.ee had agreed to report out a
bill authorizing County Commissioners
or Treasurers of municipalities to con-tribute
to o. A. it. Posts in order to
help defray the expense of the ob-servance
of that day. No limit is
placed on the amount of the appro-priations.
The same committee also
extend the burial privileges of sold-iers
of the Rebellion to Spanish-Amer-ican
war veterans, also the privileges
•f the Soldiers' Home at Eric were
extended to the participants in that
war.
A surprise birthday party was giv-en
Mr. George R. H. Cheel, 115 Elm
street, on Saturday last. About forty
persons congregated at the house and
u very enjoyable time was spent by
everyone. Among the many handsome
presents was an elaborate sugar-coated
fruit cake, weighing twenty-live
pounds. Mr. Chell's name was In-scribed
in candy, and forty-seven col-ore
I candles denoted his age. The
oako was made and presented by Mr,
George Hertlein, a confectioner, of
Philadelphia Among those present
were: Mr. John H. Stemple, Mr. and
Mrs. William Bturges, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Kay. Mr. and Mrs. C. Gallo-way,
Mr. C. Galloway, Jr., Miss Susan
BallOWay, Master Bar] Galloway
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George Hertlein, Miss Lillian Hertlein,
Mr. George Hancock, Mr. William
Taylor, Master Charles. Frank, Albert
tnd Ernest Chell.
RDbben again paid a visit to the
outskirts Tuesda] night, aad it was
reported to the police by George Hall-man
that his home had been entered
and a pair of shoes, a coal and vest,
'and overcoat taken. There were no
marks In the snow, indicating that the
robbery occurred before the snow be-gan
failing—about 11.30.
The Men's Bible Class of the Metho-dist
Sunday School will hold a Gos-pel
Meeting in Little's Hall on the
last Sunday afternoon in March. The
address will be made by John Spar-hawk.
Jr., a member of the Philadel-phia
Bar. A rare musical program is
also being arranged for the occasion
Full particulars us to the time and
program will be announced later.
A small, half-clad boy hunted up
Burgess Bloomhall on Wednesday
night and said that his father was
punching his mother. The burgess ac-companied
the boy to a small house
on Sansom street between Hector and
Dull and found that Edward Burns
had been abusing his wife. Burns re-
Bd up stairs when the burgess en-tered.
A warrant was sworn out for
him and Officer Hastings was secured
by Chairman of the Police Committee
Hate, who, with Mr. Little, accompan-ied
the • burgess to the house. The
Burgess gave Burns a hearing yester-day
and sen) him to jail for fifteen
days.
February has been almost a record-breaker
in some of its weather condi-tions.
The total snowfnll was 24.01
in a few days the shelves will be erec-ted
and the furniture placed In the
room.
Miss Price, of the State Library at
Harrisburg has been working on the
Classification of the books already con-tributed
or promised, and expects to
have this work completed in a couple
of weens.
The commit lee has under considera-tion
the names of several trained li-brarians,
and one is expected to be
secured in a few days. It is hoped
that the 111
cuing some ii,ne in the early part of
April.
Mr. .1 Ellwood Lee. who is
as treasurer of the association for the
present, reports that several Inn
as required by the new Corrupt Prac-tices
act.
Not so much was thought about it
last fall, when the candidates affected
were those who were running for of-fices
with large salaries. But at this
month's election it is different. Coun-
Cilmen, school directors and supervis-ors,
who receive no pay, must file ex-pense
accounts before they can take
the oath of office. This applies to un-successful
candidates at primaries and
regular-election, and also includes can-didates
for party coniinitlceiucu voted
for at the primaries.
The expense statements must be filed
any expense was entailed or
not. with the Clerk of Courts, win e
charge is, under the fee bill, the
branched, before the end, into two Thomas O'Connor, on Hector street'
other States, and included visits to a the first of March,
dozen towns after the wife—or one of
four wives, as it is alleged—of a miss-ing
man. was the feature of a hunt
Miss Mary Peacock fell and sprain-ed
her wrist while walking over a pile
participated in by Chief Saddington 0f snow. She did not notice the Ice
dollars have I ' .MI subscribed, and it :lll!"ll»" aggregating 45 cents. As e
Is hoped that the citizens of Consho-hocken
win contribute enough to bring
the total subscriptions up to one thou-sand
dollars. This sum, with the aid
of the $300 appropriated by the School
Board, and a like sum from the bor-ough,
wih be enough to purchase the
books necessary to start with.
TABLET AT VALLEY FORGE
A meeting of the special committee
of the Valley Forge Asociation of the
Patriotic Order Sons of America was
held at Heading yesterday to consider
the question of dissolution and the
dividing of the funds in the hands of
the treasurer. This association suc-ceeded
the old Valley Forge Associa-tion,
composed mostly of women,
which was organized in 1878.
The Valley Forge Association was
paid $18,000 by the State for Wash-ington's
headquarters, and still has
some money to collect lor personal be-longings.
There is still about $10,000
In the bands of the treasurer.
Some were in favor of the Hoard of
Directors of tin Association dividing
the same. Others thought that it was
a matter for the courts to dispose of,
since the association Is chartered.
After talking over the matter the en-candidate
must make affidavit that the
account filed is correct, an additional
charge of 25 cents is made for the ad-ministration
of the oath, so that the
COB) of the candidute is at least 70
cuts. This sum is Increased by car-fare
and kindred expenses, for whieh
the law makes no provision. The m: t-
Te"r of carfare is considerable when
the candidate comes from the distant
ends of the county.
The sixth paragraph of the first sec-tion
of the act "regulating nomina-tion
and election expenses," sums up
this tenture as follows.:
"The term of election expenses, as
used in this act, shall include all . x-pendltures
of money or other valuable
things iu furtherance of the nomina-tion
of any person or persons as can-didates
for public office, or in furth-erance
of the election of any person
or persons to public office, or to de-feat
the nomination or election to pub-lic
office of any person or persons.'
In further explanation of terms 01 d
in this paragraph the law expjai' s
that the terra candidate "includes both
candidates for nomination and candi-dates
for election." As to the teim
public office the law says that It "shall
include every public office to which
persons can be elected by vote of the
people under the laws of the Common-wealth."
and Special Officer Bailey, of the Ger-main
own district. In the work the of-ficials
had every possible assistance
from Captain Donaghy and Lieuten-ant
Buchanan.
A marked resemblance of the dead
man to Tony Castareeta led to the in-vestigation
along the lines which kept
the officials on the chase for a week.
Castareeta was missing, and the de-tec,.
ves wanted to locate a woman be-lieve.)
to havu been his wife. The
woman had some money when she met
Castareeta i. id he married her, after-wards
disappearing. He has been
mixed up in several jobs—this much is
definitely known by the police, and it
was .considered possible that he was
Victim of the Church road murder.
chase led Drat to Jersey City, then
to Newark, to Mew fork, to Riverside,
N. J.. to Uiveiton. to Palmyra, and
finally to Vlneland, where late last.
the detectives receive i definite
Information thai the woman wanted
couid be found in Philadelphia.
The woman was located In Phila-delphia
yesterday. She quickly Iden-tified
the picture of tnc dead man as
the husband who was missing, hut
when she was brought to Jenliintown
and saw the body in the vault she
said she had been mistaken—that it.
was not her missing husband, there be-ing
a difference in eo>>r and the quan-tity
of hair on the murdered man's
head. Otherwise, she said the n
blame was remarkable.
tire day it was decided to meet again'
in Reading April 4 to make a final dis- co„nt8 „„lst be filed with the Clerk
position of the matter.
When the property was taken over
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DR. J. B. MAHN
DENTIST
69 Fayette Street
Electrical Equipment.
Hours:—9 A. M. to 6 P. M.
Evenings by appointment onlv.
Bell 'Phone Cl W.
lct T; ""' ^osl month'sji0w ,„Vr t() „
February, 1899, when 31 V£ inches fell.
The month was also one of the most
continuously cold on record. The
mean temperature was 27, which was
5 degress below normal and 7 de-below
February. 1S0G, when the
mean was 34. The lowest tempera-ture
registered was 8 degrees on Feb-ruary
12. Two days later it was up
to CO the highest point of the month.
For the greater part of the month,
VST, the mercury was at or be-
, of Courts whether the expenditure;
• were more or less than $50, and unle
by the State the latter promised to al- | such aooOunbJ are filed, the act H
at Valley |„ administer the oath ol office un
Forge to show what the order has done j ho has filed an account, as requir, d
Since this privilege has | bv thla act> and no 8Uch per80n 8hil,,
enter upon the duties of his office un-til
he has filed such account, nor sir
he receive any salary for any period
prior to the filing of the same." The
penalty for failure to comply with tl e
provisions of the act Is, according to
Section 14, as follows:
"Any person who shall incur any II-one
ol I
been refused, as fully two-thirds of the
air tubers Of the present Legislature be-long
to the order, it is proposed to
introduce a bill into the present Leg-islature
to allow the order to place a
tablet on the premises, Brvery \
blyman who is a member of the order
will be asked to support the measure.
legal election expenses, or otherwise
D ivid n. Rhonda, of PI ■• ', . . .. ....
. mere uavwg • ship, late candidate tor School Direc-days
with
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READ THE RECORDER $1 00 ft yr
been one stretch of ten
freezing weather continuously. There
wi re 12 eh ar da} B, 8 partly i loudy
I cloudy .-now has fallen on ::i
days liar,, the first one of tl
November 28.
tor, and Judge of Elections, yester-day
morning filed his certificate of elec-tion
expenses, n states thai his ei
■ re less than $:,u.
If you have an item of news, social,
personal or otherwise, send it to the
Recorder
act. shall he guilty of a misdemeanor;
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
hed by B fine of not less than
Bftj dollars or more than one thou-sand
dollars, or by imprisonment for
not less ilian one nioiilh or more than
tWO years, either or both al the dis-cretion
of the court.
ROBBERY AT NORRISTOWN
The residence of Attorney John M.
Dettra. at. Main and Noble streets, Nor
ristown, was entered by burglars dur-ing
Wednesday night. Among the ar-ticles
taken were sixteen dollars in
money and a box of cigars. When the
police were notified yesterday morn-ing
Mr. Dettra could not give the
correct list of what had been stolen,
but he was of the opinion that sev-eral
pieces of Jewelry had been tak-en.
The burglary was one of the boldest
of tiie many that have taken place
In Norristown during the Winter
months. There is an electric light on
the corner, and with the moon shin-ing
bright It was almost as light as
day. It is believed that the burglar
entered the residence sometime be-tween
midnight and five o'clock in the
morning. The robbery was not dls-red
until the servant arose in the
morning. She found that the pantry
window on the Noble sticet side of the
house had been forced open.
It was I id that the burglar had
a thorough Beach of the Brsl
left in a sideboard drawer by Mr.
Dettra. it was evident thai the thief
did not want silverware, tor he made
tempi to appropriate solid i
Iver thai were In the dining room,
The pockets of several oven oats in
the hallwe bed and |
and other contents were distributed
about the Boor.
burglar also made bis way to
econd floor and thoroughly ran-
I one Of the rooms, He in.idi
sleeping rooms', occupied by Mr, and
Mrs. Dettra and their son, ii was ev-ident
thai the burglar had made an
attempt to force several windows on
the Noble street side of the house be-fore
he succeedd In gaining an en-train
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under the snow, which caused the fall.
Mr. Albert Stetenech visited Mr:
August Smith on Elm street Wednes-day.
Mr. Stetenech was a former res-ident
of I his plan-, but now resides
in Philadelphia.
Contractor Wright has secured a po-sition
with W. E. Whann & Co. Ow-ing
to the freezing weather he is not
able to Iii! his contracts which wilt
have to be held back till good weath-er.
The 100-yard dash whieh was to
come off to-morrow between Mr. Rob-ert
Paugh alias Ted, and Mr. John
Butler, alias But, has been postponed
on account of their trainee being con-fined
to his home with illness.
Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Robin-son
& Crawford, Philadelphia's leading
grocers, has taken possession of the
handsome home lately owned by" Dr.
Dean, of Philadelphia. Mr. Robinson
has purchased the place and is mak-ing
numerous improvements.
A PLEASANT SURPRISE
A very pleasant surprise was tender-ed
u. Wallace Mammel and wife on
12nd, it being the 25th anniversary
ol their marriage. Guests from Phila-delphia.
Quakertowti, Conshohocken,
Plymouth, Blue Hell, Horsham, Ambler
and Gwyned.l began to arrive about
4 o'clock. After congratulations were
exchanged, some of the ladles took
possession of the kitchen with pack-ages
which they had brought with
them and spread a bountiful repast,
under which the table groaned, and
of which the honored couple and
guests were invited to partake. After
doing justice thereto, they adjourned
to the room wherein the wedding took
place a quarter of a century ago. The
certificate was read by Joseph T.
FOulke, Esq.. and all present, 52 in "
number, signed, 19 of whom attended
the wedding 25 years before. Many-useful
presents were received. After
a very social mingling the guests dfl
parted for their homes wishing Mr.
and Mrs. Mamniei may happy returns
Of the day. The affair is very highly
appreciated by the recipients and will
ever remain a bright spot in their
minds. Mrs. Mammel is Ada, daugh-ter
or the late Albert and Martha Con-ard.
and was born in the house where-in
the happy event of Friday took
place, Mr. and Mrs. Mammel have
seven children: Lewis. J., of Sheri-dan,
\V\.; Martha, Kmiiia. Walter.
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the affair was the attendance of Lew-is
Conard, of Philadelphia, aged 81
tnd Van m Ball of < luakectpwn
who is also peel 80 years of n"<
'.'.I! \T IS A COLD In the I
Nothing to worry about if you treat
it with Ely's Cream Halm as soon as
yon begin to sneeze and snuffle.
lecti i ii id ma] grow into
rh, and the air i be so In
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n la true thai B
Balm int. h, prompt]} and
certainly. But you know the old saw
about ounce ol pri vention. Then-fore
use Cream Balm when the cold
in the head shows itself. All drug-gists,
50c., or mailed by Ely Bros.. 56
Warren Street, New York.