The Conshohocken Recorder, April 19, 1907

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CONSHOHOCKEN' PA. FRIDAY APRIL 19 1907
TQWN NOTES
This is spring. If you do not be-lieve
it consult the calendar.
The Alcott club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Hrehm on Tuesday even-
'Ug
Ueorge Meyers has sold his house on
Forrest near Tenth avenue, to Stella
Noble for $:!200.
Miss Emily H. Lee has resigned her
*o-ition in the First National Bank,
to take the position of Assistant Trust
Olficer at the Norristown Trust Co.
^ |)ublic sale' ill real estate and per-sonal
property, situated at No. 702
Elector street, near Walnut, will be
■eld on Saturday, April 20th, at one
• •( lock P. St
Frank McPhllomy will shoot Charles
Rodgers * twenty-five live-bird match
for Bftj dollars on Saturday afternoon
April 20th. at Seventh avenue ball
■ark, seventh avenue and Maple
-I: vet.
A wagon. belonging to Frank I*
Tracy, which had in some manner been
run from the stable yard to the trolley
tracks, was struck by a car yesterday
and demolished.
The Girls' Friendly Society, of Cal-vary
Church, will give a May Party on
Saturday. May 4th, from 4 to 9.30.
Cakes and candy will be for sale and a
May Pole Dance will be given several
times during the afternoon ana even-is*.
$1 PER YEAR
Messrs. Chas. J. Buckiey, one of the
Republican candidates for Sheriff, and
Oonard S. Sheive. who is seeking re-election
to the District Attorneyship.
were prospecting in town yesterday
afternoon. They were accompanied
%y Kx-Assemblynian Grant R. Mc-
•ktthery and Horace Righter.
The bowling teams of the J. Ellwood
Leo Company and of the Johnson &
Johnson Company, of New Brunswick.
are to bowl in Trentou on Saturday
afternoon. There has been great riv-alry
between these two teams, and
•his name on a neutral alley, is to
decide which is best. After the game
there will be a banquet in one of the
Trenton Hotele.
The assessors of the borough are |
making their annual spring assessment
This is the way some one over In
Austria spelled the name of our town,
"Krongie Hocken."
W. S. Harry has purchased a cement
block machine and expects to begin
next week to make blocks. He will
use the first ones to rebuild his green-house,
but expects later to sell them.
Mr. McGuire, who died yesterday
morning at his home. Elm street,
above Fayette, was a brother of Mrs.
Hugh Lawless. Deceased formerly re-sided
at Henderson, v
Members of the Men's Social League
of the Baptist Church are reminded
that the monthly meeting occurs on
April 25th. Keep it in mind. The
committee is arranging a special pro-gram.
The funeral of Kate M., wife of Ed-ward
Dempsey. occurred this morning
from her late residence, 116 First ave-nua
Sigh Muss of Requiem was cele-brated
in St. Matthew's Church; inter-ment
in St. Matthews Cemetery.
A play, "The Valley Farm," will be
given in the Parish House of Calvary
Church, under the auspices of class
No. 1, Mr. McCord, and class No. 11,
Mr. Walters, on Thursday and Fri-day
evening, April 25 and 26. A very
enjoyable evening f anticipated.
Rev. M. J. Kline, D. D, General Sec-retary
of the Board of Foreign Mis-sions,
of the Lutheran Church, and a
personal friend of the Rev. Will F.
Bare, will deliver the sermon. Sunday,
at both the morning and evening ser-vices
in St. Mark's Ev. Lutheran
Church. The morning service will be
marked by the baptism of infants,
confirmation and reception of new
members.
JOSEPH C JONES
A CANDIDATE SPRING MILL
Joseph C. Jones, of this borough, is
a candidate for the Republican nomi-nation
of County Treasurer,
Mr. Jones is the secretary of the
School Board of this borough, having
served as such for twelve years. He
has been a member of town council
and has always been interested In and
helped advance ih.- interest of the bor-ough.
He has been an active Repub-llcan
ever since his majority, and
has a great many friends throughout|daye,*illnfl
the county.
Mr. Frank Embody was a visitor at
Roxborough yesterday.
Mr. Everett Frankenfleld was a visi-tor
at Shuwmont yesterday.
Mr. Jacob Fox has removed from
his home on Centre street to Norris-town.
Mr. Hurry Fite, of Elm street, has
secured a position with the Longmead
Iron Company.
Mrs. William MaoFarland of E. Elm
street, is convalescing after a few
Tllp mu a candidate
tor the nomination of treasurer, but
Withdri R bl !.>re a ballot was bad in
the convention.
He has been visiting a number of
districts of the county and finds Ilia!
he has plenty of friends who will help
him along in his contest.
GEORGE F. IX)NGAKER
wh^waTonTue^ Ml" i
MaBl8tra"-' "" "«»»*• the iate C. E. Hippie, who
in the Grand Ixxlge of Pennsylvania.
Gustave C. Riemann and wife, form-er
residents of this borough, who had
quarters in Section 11 at the Hospital
for the Insane which was burned on
Monday night of last week, wish to
thank the physicians, nurses and at-tendants
and many friends for the ex-presslos
of love and sympathy extend-ed
to them In this trying hour. Mr.
Riemann went down into the corridor
to help fight the flames when the fire
first broke out, and while assisting
therethe flames crept to their apart-ments.
They lost everything they
bad. The loss is two thousand dol-lars.
Business and professional men of
this borough with rooms in the large
•Bice buildings in Philadelphia, have
only lately caught onto a little game
toeing worked by scrub women and
oloaners which in the past has led to
much annoyance. One of our resi-dents
with offices in a big office build-ing
recently showed a friend a bun-dle
of old letters he was bringing
home from the office to burr, in his
furnace. "I wasut always so careful
about destroying useless business let-ters,
but I have recently found it to
be a good plan." he said. -Some of
my clients have been troubled by re-ceiving
an unusual number of circulars
from Arms dealing In speculative se-curities
and were at a loss to find out
■tow their names ever got on the mail-ing
lists of the firms in question. A
brother attorney a short time ago had
•ccasion to return to his office In the
evening and found his cleaner-out go-in
: over the hitters in his waste bask-et
' iking ilown the names and address-es
of his correspondents. The woman
frankly admitted that she sold the
■antes for a mailing list, and did not
think she was doing anything wrong.
Since then I. as well as quite a num-ber
of other professional men of my
acquaintance, take the trouble to car-ry
the letters home and see that they
are destroyed, and In that way we pro-tect
our clients from the annoyance
that follows getting one's name on a
mailing list."
Next Tuesday evening. In the Bap-tist
Church, Harry street building,
an address will be given by Rev. F.
W*. Stall, lately come from India, and
soon to return there. It will be illus-trated
with a splendid series Of views
on the lantern. Mr. Stall has |„.,.„
heard with delight at Norristown and
in many of the city churches. There
will be no charge for admission. The
offering of the evening will go to Mr.
Stait's mission work. All are invit-ed.
An enjoyable birthday party was
given to Miss Edna M. Hall, the daugh-ter
of Dr. and Mrs. William M. Hall,
at her home, Fayette street and Third
avenue, on Saturday evening. Friends
were present from Plymouth Meeting,
Roxborough and this borough. The
evening was delightfully spent in play-ing
games. Among those present were
Irene White, Mamie Weeks, Annie
Highley, Marion Garrett, Bessie Lew-is.
Mary Cleaver. Ethel Sudders, Ida
Conrad, Bessie May, Frances Jones,
Albert White, Charles Highley. Rich-ard
Hey, Raymond riooth, Barclay
Webster. Ellwood Webster.
The. snow storm which struck town
to-day, with a temperature of 35 de-crees,
makes one think that the sea-son
has been put back two months.
It is a regular old fashioned Febru-ary
storm that is afflicting us.
The Knights of Columbus have paid
to the widow of ex-Borough Clerk B.
V. Corrigan, a benefit of $1000. Prof.
Corrigan died about a year ago in Ha-vana.
Cuba, from fever, but, owing to
some difficulties in having the records
Complete, the payment of the benefit
had been deferred. The claim has now
been satisfactorily adjusted.
A surprise party was given to Miss
Grace Grini.shaw. on Monday evening,
April lath, at her residence. 804 For-resl
street. Many games were played.
FATAL ACCIDENT
AT CONSHOHOCKEN QUARRY
One man killed and another one se-riously
injured is the result of an ac-cident
at the East Conshohocken Stone discovered by John Ellmore, an Al-
SECRET OF CHEAP FUEL
Common salt, one pound.
Oxalic acid, two ounces.
Water, one gullon.
Mix thoroughly, and then moisten
a mixture containing one part of coal
and three parts of ashes.
Anthracite ashes burn as easily as
bituminous.
This is the secret of making ashes
burn discovered by John Ellmore, the
Altoona cobbler.
The remarkable ashes-burning secret
quarry yesterday. The men were en-gaged
in removing stone from the
Quarry, and, about 5.30 o'clock In the
afternoon, while thus engaged, they
toons cobbler, which has excited at-tention
almost the world over. Is out.
Almost every householder In Altoo-na
is now converting his ashes into
were working directly under a lot of &>«!. with great saving in coal bill
mging rock which was suppos- '■ Several well-known chemists, immc-edly
sale.
Without any warning whatever, the
over-hanging rock gave way and came
tumbling down, completely covering
UP the two men with stones.
When extricated one man was found
to be killed outright, while the other
and songs were sung by Paul Delanev was seriously Injured, The dead man s
and James Ricker. Miss Julia Con- name was Vincenzo Fullo,
nelly also played many piano solos.
Those present were: Misses Edna
Murray, Julia Connelly, Margaret Mc-
Gttigan. Gertrude Ford, Mary Donahue,
Hilda'Brown, Grace Grimshaw; Messrs
Paul Delaney. James Ricker, Edward
Brown, Joseph Connely, Robert Mac-
Intyre, Lawrence Myers, George Allen,
Ellwood Jones. Harry Fitzgerald, Law-rence
Bolton, James Connelly and Ger-ald
Connelly.
In the case of Frank Samuel vs.
Philadelphia, Germantown and Norris-town
Railway Company et. al„ Judge
Swartz gave an opinion. This action
was at the Instance •>•: the plaintiff
to prevent the defendant from con-structing
a siding on Canal Street, In
the borough of Conshohocken. "And
now. April is. 1907, the injunction Is
refuse!. and the bill is dismissed at
the cost of the plaintiff, this disposl-tlon
of the bill to be without preju-dice
to any proceeding at law the
plaintiff may bring. The Prothonotavy
will enter a decree vjsl accordingly
and unless exceptions are filled to our
findings and conclusion as provided by
the equity rules, he will enter a final
decree as of course.
The Carpenters' Union, of this bor-ough,
in the P. O. S. of A. Hall, last
Tuesday evening, observed its 4th an-niversary
with a banquet, which was
attended by about 100 craftsmen of
the East and West Side and vicinity.
Isaac D. Schaffer presided over the fes-tivities,
and acceptably filled the office
of toastmaster. Addresses were de-livered
by several Philadelphia Officials
of the union, as well as b) the Rev.
.1. T. Gray and a few local members,
age 22
years, while the injured man was his
brother-in-law. Both lived at Second
avenue and Maple s'reets, this bor-ough.
The injured man was removed to his
home. Undertaker Thomas J. Carroll
was summoned and took charge of the
dead man and had his body removed
to his undertaking establishment on
Hector street.
Coroner Joseph N. King was noti-fied
and held 'an inquest this after-noon.
diately alter it was announced that
Ellmore had solved the problem of
obtaining heat from ashes, set to
work to try to discover the formula.
They were successful and here it is:
Common salt, one pound; oxalic acid,
two ounces; water, one gallon.
A
PROPOSITION FOR
AN ICE PLANT
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Ni J. B. XAH*
WSNTUCT
» Fayette Street
Electrical Equipment
Hours:—* A. M. to 6 P. M.
* Evenings by appointment only *
♦ Bell 'Phone « W. J
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Everywhere In the country dis-tricts,
the devastating effect of the
unseasonable frost, snow and cold is
apparent. The birds that sang so
joyously a month ago are silent and
discouraged Saturday a Recorder man
walked through the fields, pried into
the ravines and wandered along the
river. From the fields came the whis-tle
of the meadow lark, but It was
not the joyous paean of a sunshiny-day.
It seemed chill. The robins were
trying to sing, but they sat with ruf-fled
feathers and feet drawn up to
their breasts. The only bird who wan
doing full duty to spring waa the
bright little song sparrow. The chill
and the drisale had no effect upon his
cheery spirit, and he sang his beau-tiful
song as if the air had been laden
with the perfuiuc of the wild crab-ap-ple
blossoms, and as hT the April "skies
were clear and th« air balmy.
here has been considerable talk
about starting an ice plant in Consho-hocken.
But the cost Of building and
maintaining said plant requires more
Capital than any one or two seem will-ing
to put up.
Now the Electric Light Company
makes a proposition that reduces the
cost by offering to lease the ground
and furnish the heat power, hot and
cold water nnd railroad siding. This
reduces the cost of a plant, and a
company formed would only have the
building and maohlner) to furnish.
It is believed by a good many that an
ice plant with cold storage would
pay. This proposition of the Electric
Light Company would certainly he a
factor in making it a success.
CALVARY CHURCH
Friday:—
8 P. M. Teachers' Meeting.
Sunday:—
7."0 A. M. Holy Communion.
Short Meditation, Special music by
Junior Choir. Corporate Communion
for the Sunday School.
10.80 A. M. Morning Pray and Lit
an». Sermon. Subject, ?'The Bish-op."
3 P. M. Confirmation—Senior Divi-sion.
4 P. M. Confirmation—Junior Di-vision.
1M P. M. Special Musical Service.
livening Prayer. Sermon. Subject.
"Holy Baptism and Confirmation.'
In baptized adults of Confirmation
class will be baptized.
A PRETTY WEDDING
F. J. BLOOMHALL
Some very desirable building lots
for sale. Inquire at the Monarch Pool
Room. Meyers'a
Master Paul Carroll desires to thank
:;11 those who assisted him in the
Norristown Times Diamond contest
that has Just closed.
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LAMES AN* GENTS ♦
TAILORING ♦
Cleaning. Dyeing. Pressing and ♦
Repairing Neatly Done. •
MOUHXENG BOODS DYED AT ♦
SHORT XOTTCB e
. 9 West Elm Street. «
A quiet, but pretty wedding, was sol-emnized
at the parsonage of the Cen-tral
Presbyterian Church, Norristown.
on Wednesday evening, April 17th,
when Rev. c Allen Crawford united
Clara If. Ouster and Mr. John
1 ArmJtage, Jr., in the holy bonds
of matrimony.
The ceremony was performed at 7.SJ0
o'clock, and was witnessed by only the
immediate families of the couple.
The bride was handsomely gowned
in a handsome tan batiste, and wore u
Legohrn hat trimmed with roses.
The couple were unattended.
After an informal reception, held at
at the home of the brtde-s parents,
6» Astor street. Norristown, Mr and
Mrs. Arm!tag*' left on the 8.35 train
•r»r n »'!Wrl ~ idlng trip, ""hey -.r"
be at borne after May 1st, to their
newly furnished home, 120 Spring Mill
avenue.
The bride is one of the most pop-ular
young ladles In Norristown<s
smart, and the. groom holds a respon-sible
position in the .Reading Termi-nal.
Mix and moisten a mixture contain-ing
one part coal and three parts ash-es,
and a better fuel than pure coal is
obtained.
The ashes of anthracite coal burn
as readily as do those of bituminous
coal.
This mixture will, upon being plac-ed
upon a burning fire, fuse into a
coke-like mass and deposit but little
residue.
The chemical action of this com-pound
is thus explained:
When an aqueous solution of an al-kaline
salt, such as common salt, is
mixed with coal ash. the result is that
a mild lye is formed, which, when mix-ed
with any combustible material, such
as coal, and upon the application of
heat, gives off oxygen gas, thus enab-ling
rapid combustion.
I'll" addition of oxalic acid causes a
chemical change of greater value than
tbfl lirst, for the reason that the sec-
01 ! chemical breakdown results in the
1 ion of a carbide, which in turn
glvi .IT acetylene gas, this adding to
th iiH'nBity of the heat and lacilitat-
!.;>lete combustion.
U ■ possible upon moistening a
i-il Quantity ot ashes, without the
1 lition of coal, to readily detect the
lor of acetylene gas, and if the
'Rated ashes are placed upon a light-l
lire they will fuse and burn to
a ine powder.
1 ie ash-burning compound is now
belnj used in many large industrial
'••" » ream i c plat ca In Altoona.
,,.,1 1 ,u„' ",'„„:,l"■ "■ " th.a.i ii , h,a„sjl — HloV,r_ «(a.*t.„n_rh.,. ile*t me send vou free 1 .." . ' ""Ore than half. Just to prove merit, a Trial stoe box
n as eliminated almost entirely the |of Dr. Shoop's Catarrh Remedy. It. is
Q ilion of disposing of ashes, which
hi a been considerable where greai
Mr. Herbert Frens. of Mt. Pleasant
avenue, baa secnr.cl a position with
the Longmead Iron Company.
George Emerson, or Horsham.
>'••'■■ a -. Ifor to the Frankenfleld home
on Railroad avenue on Wei
Maltha M. Paugh was one of
a number who attended an evening so-cial
and dance at King-of-Prussia last
week.
Mr. Herman Morris, of Wissahickon,
was a guest at the Thomas-Kiy wed-ding,
which took place on Wednesday
afternoon.
T. W. Morris's healers are arrang-ing
a base ball game with John Young's
Stars, of Hickorytown. to take place
in the near future.
Mr. Charles Schwartz, Republican
candidate for Sheriff, was entertain-ed
by Mr. William McFarland of E.
Elm street on Monday evening.
Mr. William Davidson has purchas-ed
two mules. They are supposed to
be about the best -around this part of
the country. They are of a black
complexion, about 15 hands high, and
very heavily built.
Miss Mary Kribel. of Hector street,
is confined to her bed with a very bad
attack of inflammatory rheumatism
Miss Kribel was token ill with this
attack of rheumatism while at her
work in Conshohocken.
The new office of the W. E. Whann
& Co., is going up very rapidly. From
all probability it promises to be the
best of its kind when completed.
The supervisors of Whitemarsh
township are making extensive im-provements
about the postofflce build-iug
in Spring Mill.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ely entertain-ed
their friends on the eve after their
marriage at their parents home on Mt.
Pleasant avenue. On leaving, their
many friends wished them a long and
happy life together.
Thanks to Cupid that we have an-other
young man stricken off the
Bachelor roll, and three or four more
who arc almost ready to have their
Dames taken off. My. how popular the
young men of Spring Mill are.
Mrs. Mary A Wilson, wife of Albert
Wilson, of Philadelphia, died sudden-ly
on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Wil-son
is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Charles
Nixon, of this place, and was well
known here.
Mr. Joseph Blackburn, who is con-fined
in a private hospital in Phila-delphia,
is now on the road to recov-ery.
Yesterday he was able to be up
and around, which is most encourag-ing.
The doctor says it will be hut
a short time until! he has again re-covered
his former good health.
The Spring Mill people are wonder-ing
if the trolley company will repair
the roads and keep them in repair
when they build their line through this
section, as they did Hector street in
Conshohocken. The Spring Millers
promise to be a little faster than the
Conshohocken Council If they do not
repair ihe road
qi intltles of co.-u are consumed.
The disi over] has resulted in a num-ber
of complications an.I is retarding
the work of paving contractors who
have Utilised asl.es as a foundation for
sidewalks. Heretofore it was possible
to secure all the ashes required for this
purpose without cost, but contractors
are now complaining that it Is Impos-sible
to get them.
Ellmore, who discovered the secret
and focused attention upon the possi-bilities
that lurked in ashes, claims
that his patent will protect him in his
secret. He claims to have, received an
offer from the British Government if
he can demonstrate the practicability!
While It la everywhere conceded that
Ellmore has conferred a great boon
upon humanity, it is feared that he
will not derive any tangible benefits
from his discovery. In view of the
fact that hundreds of others have se-cured
the same results, following bis
lead.
a snow white creamy, healing an-tic
balm that gives Instant relief to
Catarrh of the nose and throat. Make
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Shoop, Racine. WIs. Large jars 50
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