The Conshohocken Recorder, August 28, 1908

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4423 CONSIIOIKX KI:N PA. rumAY AUGUST 28- urns tfl PEB VI:AK
KILLED BY TRAIN
GOING TO WORK
CRANVILLE B. HAINES, RESIDENT
OF THIS BOROUGH. AND FATH
ER OF A LARGE FAMILY MEETS
DEATH NEAR IVY ROCK.
Qranvllle B. Halnet am'.I ."it;
Idlng in PlymouUi township,
Mar the hotel of .irsse Patrick, waa
Instantly killed yeriterdaj mlng
i<-:■ i Ivy Rock station on the Schuyl
kill Valley Division of the Pennsyl-vania
railroad.
Halaea was employed as fanner by
femes Beatty, Who resides at Ivy
Rock, and was on Ins way to work
when tin' accident happened. Instead
of walking up the n ail toward the
Beatty farm, which hi- was generally
in the habil of doing, he decided to
walk up the railroad tracks. Being
somewhat deficient iii eyesight and in
hearing he evidently did not aee or
liear the approach of the southbound
passenger train which is due at this
borough at B.85 a. in.
Eiabtea was struck and hurled a con-siderable
distance. The train was
Stopped and when the crew reached
the tnun they found that he was dead,
death resulting instantaneously. There
were no marks on the body with the
exception of a slight cut on the chin.
The remains were taken on the train
■and removed to this borough and
placed in a building belonging io the
Pennsylvania railroad company. Cor-
■oner King is making an Investigation.
Deceased was well known in the vi-cinity
of Conshohocken where he re-
Bided his entire life time. He was
formerly employed In the rolling mills
ol iiie borough and for u number of
years was COai luiian lor Howard
Wood.
A wife and large family of grown
children survive. Deceased had been
employed in the capacity of fanner
for .lames Beatty for some years.
RED MEN TO PARADE
WILLS PROBATED
The wills of Matthias .1. Ilarley.
Richard T. s. Hallowell. Miss Laura
Aline Wood were among those offered
for probate Tuesday morning in the
office of Register of Wills Edward .1.
■Caine. In neither paper Is there be-quests
of a public nature.
.Mr. Ilarley, who resided on Haws
avenue near Main. Norrlltown, divided
Ills estate equally among his six chil-dren:
Aaron II. Ilarley. Snllie Har-ley.
Milton Ilarley. Clara, widow of
Jacob II. Brendllnger, Elianbeth, wife
■of R. ScheetS, and Ailallne Allor.
The will was executed on June IK,
Aaron and his daughter, Sallie,
are made executors.
Mr. Hallowed], of Swedeland, in his
■will, dated June 6, 1895, divided his
property among his wife, Jennie, and
son, Frank T. S. Hallowell. His wid-ow
is made executrix.
Miss Wood, daughter of Mrs. Laura
"Wilson Wood, widow of George W.
Wood, made her will on April 11,
1900. She bequeaths her all to her
■another, who is also made executrix.
Another will offered for probate was
that of Edwin Tees, of Cheltenham,
■who designates the Real Estate Title
Insurance and Trust Company of
Philadelphia, as executor.
GRAND OPENING OF THE PALACE
On Saturday afternoon. August 29,
under the management of Frank H.
Platt, all the latest and u|>-todate mov-ing
pictures will be shown, illustrated
songs and refined vaudeville. For
the opening the management has se-cured
Kathryn Thayer and Frank Du
Frayne, in the laughable skit, "For
Rent To-morrow." Come and bring
your friends and see the big show.
Two reels of pictures, illustrated song
and vaudeville, for 5 cents.
Constipation, or Irregularity, is
very often the cause of sick-headache.
Lane's Family Medicine Is the great
preventive and cure of headache.
Druggists sell it for 25 cents.
Guth Chocolates, at Neville's.
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The Parade of the Red Men During
Founders' Week to be a Notable
One.
Among the many varied features ol
the i>iu i-'iiiiii.ii'is Week demonstra-tion
in Philadelphia In October, the
displays to be made by the fraternal
organisations, promise to plaj no In-considerable
part.
To the Improved Order ol Red Men,
with its nearly 80,000 members in
Pennsylvania, the civil authorities
have assigned an entire evening, for
a night pageant and historical exhibit,
the like ot which has probably never
before been witnessed in any previous
night parades, made In Philadelphia.
Appreciating the importance of the
occasion ,the State Council of Pennsyl-vania,
at its last annual session, in a
generous public-spirited manner, ap-propriated
a liberal sum of money for
the demonstration, appointed a com-mittee
of prominent progressive great
chiefs, and issued a call to tribal war-riors
and chiefs in all sections of the
State, to unite in making this display
one worthy of this great brotherhood
and the historical Incidents, In the
early lives of the American Indians.
so strongly featured in Its picturesque
ritual.
The committee of the Great Coun-cil
In charge of this moving night
spectacle, which will be given on Oc-tober
8. Is composed of the following
prominent members of the State body:
Truss Connell, of No. 30; William .1.
Kerns. No. 377; A. C. Holland, No.
344; Joseph Farrar, No. 144; Paul C.
Buck. No. 886; A. L. Twiford. No. 48,
and Thomas K. Donnalley. No. 18.
Promptly following their appoint-ments,
this committee called a con-vention
of representatives of all tribes
in Philadelphia and vicinity.
In response to this invitation, dele-gates
from 140 tribes met, formed
a permanent association and mapped
out plans which already assure suc-cess
of the undertaking. Permanent
officers were selected as follows:
President, A. C. Holland; vice-presi-dent,
John Guise; secretary, A. L.
Twiford, and treasurer, Charles L.
Jones.
All of the tribes in the city were di-vided
into eleven districts, each hold-ing
weekly meetings and having a
distinct organization and all reporting
to meetings of the general convention,
which are held monthly'. Outside of
the city many tribes have joined in
the movement and promise to send
costumed delegations of warriors and
braves to participate in the demon-stration.
From all the Eastern counties, all
through the Northern tier and us far
»i.t as Altoona, tribes are planning
novelties and preparing for a typical
red men's display, made all the more
effective by reason of the brilliancy
of electrical illumination and lighted
tableau floats, with wigwams, squaws
and papooses, illustrating the simple
life of the early aborigines, the real
founders of the later metropolis.
Work upon moving floats Is already
well under way and the pageant prom-ises
to present a series of Interesting
historical tableaux of a highly, educa-tional
character, second to no other
display made during the whole of
Founders' Week. Among the tableaux
already arranged for by local tribes,
the following are perhaps the most im-portant:
Treaty with William Penn;
an Indian extending a welcome to a
paleface, rescue of Captain John
Smith, by Pocahontas. delivery of
wampum belt by Tamina, to William
Penn, and the totem bond as formed
In the warriors' degree.
The Improved Order of Red Men Is
the only known organization which
seeks to perpetuate the manners, cus-toms
and traditions of the North
American Indian and in ritualistic
ceremony to illustrate the many fas-cinating
rites and ceremonies of an
elevating character practiced by these
picturesque and Interesting aborigines
In their primitive forest homes.
Claiming to be the real conservators
of the people who welcomed William
Penn to Kuquenaku (Philadelphia)
when he landed on the shores of Len-nape
Whittlck (Delaware River) It
seems but fitting, in this later day
when the city gives Its Founders'
Week demonstration, that the night
pageant assigned to the care of the
order of Red Men, should be one of
the most brilliant spectacles as well
as one of the most interesting features
of the week's program.
QVLF MILLS
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED
BY OUR LOCAL CORRESPOND-ENT
*OR OUR READERS.
Peroxide Cream at Neville's.
George W. Derrickson, of Berwyn,
ter county, the popular auction
ear, was renewing acquaintances In
tins village on Thursday.
William Sprang. "I this phu-e, has
disposed Of himdri ds ol b.isk'is Ol U)
matoes as well as an abundant
other kin,is of vegetables from his
lairn. this year.
Mrs. Samuel Tinkler and ion Wal-ter,
of Philadelphia, have been spend
inn a few days with relatives in the
village. They have recently returned
from a sojourn at Wildwood, N. .1.
John Etchingham. of the firm of Et-chingham
Bros., florists of Wa> ne.
Delaware county, has resumed his du-ties
after having been confined to his
home at this place for several weeks,
suffering from rheumatism.
The Mis.es Helen L. and Sara It.
Jones have received a number of beau-tiful
souvenir post cards from rela-tives
at Cordova, Md. The cards rep-resent
different scenes of watering
places along the Chesapeake Bay.
Elizabeth Supplee, a pupil of the
Gulf School; Ethel Pope, Ida Mclntyre
and Thomas Lennen, pupils of the
Bird-In-Hand school, will enter the
West Conshohocken High School at
the opening of the term on Monday.
William Short, a well known colored
man. residing at Ithan. Delaware
county, who has been engaged In the
threshing business for many years,
threshed this season's crop of grain
on the "Bluff Farm" of Percy Varian.
this week.
Two children, of MechanlcsvMle—
Edgar, son of Kilmer Miller, and Wal-ter,
son of Frank .Miller—are recover-ing
from scarlet fever. They have
been suffering from the disease for
about two weeks. Excepting these
two cases of Infectious disease, the
general health of the residents of this
locality is excellent. Even hay fever
has not developed as yet, but this is
not owing to the scarcity of weeds
as they are here in abundance.
The Christian denomination gave to
the world the first religious newspaper,
"The Herald of Gosped Liberty," which
wil celebrate the one hundredth an-niversary
of its birth in September,
by issuing a centennial number. This
religions paper is published In Dayton,
Ohio, the editor being Rev. Barrett,
1) H. Among the different illustrated
articles usually found on the pages
are ones in referenn to the Gulf
Christian Church, Its pastor, Rev. S.
I. Baugher, and the country about
here in general^ Contributions from
the facile pen of Rev. Mr. Baugher
will be found in the centennial num-ber,
which will be one of the finest
of this religious publication ever is-sued.
"The Herald of Gospel Lib-erty
" has quite a large circulation
among members of the Gulf Christian
Church as well as others throughout
this locality. Those who are sub-scribers
are looking forward with
great interest to receiving the centen-nial
number.
Hundreds of jars and cans of toma-toes
as well as hundreds of bottles
of catsup are now being prepared by
the good housewife for winter use, and
go where you will at this season of
the year you can detect the odor of
the different kinds of ingredients such
as spices, etc., which are used in con-nection
with their preparation. Woe
betide the man who bothers the good
housewife when she Is in the midst of
canning and preserving fruits and vege
tables. Cellars and garrets are close-ly
scoured In search of all kinds of
vessels for holding the good things
that have been prepared for winter
use. First we find the Mason, Co-hansey
and lightning jars; next bot-tles
belonging to some extinct brew-ing
company or one which is doing
business at the present time; for it
must be taken Into consideration that
there are exceedingly few houses
which do not contain a few beer bot-tles,
either empty or filled with cat-sup.
Many persons often wonder how
the beer bottles accumulate when they
are not In the habit of partaking of the
foaming alcoholic beverage, and yet
they do, and come In very handy at
this season of the year. Carbonated
beverage bottles are also used in bot-tling
catsup, as well as all other
kinds which can be found about the
house. A former resident of Mechan-icsvllle,
who was engaged in the milk
business and dellvereeThis milk in bot-tles,
becoming short in the latter ves-sells,
decided to make an investiga-tion.
Great was his amazement one
da] when entering a house u
about a hall -do /in of his milk I.
filled «1th fine peaches i ■■■.u\\ i i be
placed in the cellar for wlnt<
The Meclmnii : \ille milk
thought thai was about the liml and
abolished the Use of bottles ill con
section with bis business. Bui it is
afe to ;n thai some bousewli « re-sort
to ail kinds ot strategic m<
during the season ol preparing
table things I' : v. .:
SPOONING ON PORCH;
TAKEN FOR BURGt ARS
Radnor Police Make Little Headway
in Search for Thieves.
Efforts made In the police of Rad-nor
TOWnahlP to capture the bll [lai s
who have recently been committing
numbers of minor depredations in the
neighborhood, have resulted so far in
scaring two spoonors sitting inn at-ly
on the back porch of one of tin-big
country residences and in the cap
ture of a furniture van legitimately
engaged in removing furniture from
another house. The real culprits have
so far escaped detection, though every
effort to capture them has been made.
Late Monday night Policeman EBd-inger,
of Radnor, saw a colored man
walking down the street carrying a
bag which looked as though it might
contain burglars' tools. He was or-dered
to stop, but took to his heels
instead, and in the chase which fol-lowed
the policeman ran a poor second.
A call for help was sent to Wayne,
and Chief Leonard Haskett. together
with the whole police force of the
township, ransacked the woods in
which the colored man was seen to dis-appear
from end to end.
For hours the police lanterns flat bed
into each possible hiding place, the
search being continued till dawn with-out
any trace of the fugitive being
found.
NEW BRIDGE ACROSS
THE STONY CREEK
County Commissioners Decide to
Erect Bridge.
The proposed Markley street bridge
over the Stony Creek, at Nor
ristown, which has for several
years been planned J and dis-cussed,
will soon be a realization and
Markley street will then be connected
from Airy to Marshall.
At their meeting held Wednesday
afternoon the County Commissioners
decided to erect this bridge whic-h is
now deemed a necessity. Plans and
specifications for the structure have
been approved and tney are at the
Commissioners' office. Bids for the
construction of this bridge will now
be asked for and these will be opened
on September 26 when the conn act
will likely be awarded.
It Is the intention to-span the Stony
Creek at Markley street with an iron
and concrete bridge. By its construc-tion
Markley street will be made a con-tinuous
thoroughfare from the Schuyl-kill
River to the borough line. At
present the street comes to an abrupt
ending at Airy street but continues
again at Marshall street. The erec-tion
of a bridge at this point, it has
long been claimed, is an absolute ne-cessity
and the decision of the Coun-ty
Commissioners will be hailed with
delight by the business men and oth-ers
in the vicinity.
It Is also claimed that by the erec-tion
of this bridge, the pollution of
Stony Creek will be avoided and that
in the future there will be no more
obnoxious odors arise from that
stream. The opinion of many of the
borough officials Is that the sewage
waste empting Into the creek at
Marshall street and north of that
thoroughfare is responsible for the
foul stench that arises from the water.
With th>* erection of the bridge the
proposed trunk line sewer from Mar-shall
street to the Schuylklll river will
be built and this will carry away the
sewage that is now emptied into the
creek. It Is the intention to construct
this sewer directly beneath the bridge
and to allow that structure to carry Its
weight.
It will ot course require some time
to complete the bridge and until that
work is done the sewer cannot be
built. However, it is fully believed
that before next summer the structure
will once again have extensive lm-trunk
line sewer and West Norrlstown
wil once again have extensive im-provements
that are a necessity.
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN STREETS
To tin Rei HIder:—
Wc.-t ConshohO) ken TOWn Council
adopted a oevi method of repair-
■ I- and her lister bor-ough
had better adopl it. Having but
one gutter down the middle of the
street saves gutter paving In
ling all danger of teams running
MI adl other travelling in opposite
the divid-ing
iiu". No expense exci pt ■ tew
red lights at night (hoe. in ordi I to
avoid accidents.
DAILY TRAVELLER.
DEMOCRATS LOSE IN
HUNT FOR CANDIDATE
The Democrats of the Bighth Con-gressional
district are still without a
candidate tor Congress, Assistant
District Attorney John B, Bvans, who
was selected by the conferees in Phila-delphia
Wednesday to oppose Con-gressman
Wuuger. has declined to run
for the office. He said last night:
Any use of my name in connection
with the nomination for Congress has
been without authorization from me
and from the first intimation of It. a
day or so ago. I stated my Inability to
accept under any circumstances. I
naturally appreciate the honor, but I
cannot accept the nomination."
Charles E. Ingersoll was nominted.
but he declined to run.
MAN FOR CONGRESS
Montgomery-Bucks Democrats Nomi-nate
John Burke Evans.
To nominate a candidate for Con-gress
in the Bighth district in |
of Charles B. Ingersoll, .who recently
withdrew, the Democratic Committee
ot Montgomery and Bucks counties
met Wednesday at the Bingham
Mouse. Philadelphia, and selected John
Burke Bvans, of Pottstown. The
nominee Is a well-known lawyer, and
at present is borough counsel of Potts-town
and Assislnnt District Attorney
of Montgomery county. Though only
:'.", years old. he is a man ol
Standing, and Is believed to be as
strong a candidate as could have been
named.
The conference was presided over
by chairman Chrlstman, of the Mont-gomery
County Committee, and
Charles R. Smith acted as secretary.
The nomination was made unanimously
and Mr. Bvans Will be formally noti-lied
on the afternoon of September 2,
at the Rumbo House, Norrlstown.
LOCAL WATER
TE8TLD
HEALTH OFFICER NEVILLE HAS
TEST MADE OF NORTH bPRING-FIELD
WATER AT UNIVERSITY
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
in lieu of the fact thai there an
era! cases ol typhoid fever about town
and that this disease might develop
through the use oi impure water,
Health Officer William Neville has had
the water subjected io a bacteriological
test al the Laboratorj ot Hygiene, uni-versity
ot Pennsylvania.
1I • water was drawn from a faucet
at Neville's drug store and sent to
Philadelphia last week, and yesterday
Dr. D. H. Bergey sent his report to
the health Officer.
The report was as follows:
Number of bacteria per cubic cen-timeter,
40; character of bacteria—
Nothing suspicious. All bacteria are
of an earthly nature and carry no In-jurious
germs at all.
This report will no doubt be gratify-ing
to all local people, as many were
considering the advisability of boiling
all the water they used and some had
already begun such work. This re-port
will dispense with all unneces-sary
work as the water is practically
pure when It comes to the consumer.
The number of typhoid cases In
Conshohocken are very few and there
is little danger of an epidemic of the
disease such as Royersford and Spring
City are experiencing.
COLDEST AUGUST 27 IN
23 YEARS' RECORD
Return of Gentle Summer Predicted
by Government Experts.
WARRING DEMOCRATS
Montgomery Refuses to Indorse Kerr
and Helps Guffeyites.
»f you have an item of news, social,
personal or otherwise, send It to the
Recorder.
Discord marked yesterday's meeting
of the Democratic County Committee.
To the disgust of the followers of
James Kerr, National Delegate
Charles D. McAvoy. who was a fol-lower
of tiuffey's at the Denver con-vention,
not only ran the meeting, but
succeeded In having adopted resolu-tions
commending him for his action
at Denver. This stirred the Kerrltes.
Ijiwrence F. O'Brien, Harrison W.
Bean, John H. Ziegler. Charles H.
O'Neill and Leo Gartin, all of Norrls-town,
have laid claim for the right
to make nominations, by nomination
paper.-, under the title of the "Bryan
League of Pennsylvania." for the No-vember
election. Similar right to the
use of the name. "Bryan League Par-ty.''
was filed by Henry M. Houpt,
John If. Bockius, Owen Hack, C. Van-artsdalen
and Samuel R. Bockius all
of Abington. Papers asking the right
to use the name "Bryan party" were
filed by J. M. Bockius, Abington;
Harry C. Dreshman, Norristown; Da-vid
Fitzgerald, Jenklntown; James E.
Malay, Hugh H. O'Neill and Sylvester
V. Bates, Jenklntown,
The "Bryan League of Pennsylvan-ia"
petitioners are the acknowledged
friends of Charles D. McAvoy. the
county leader, and are also listed In
the political manual as Guffeyites.
The other petitioners are antl-Guffey-ltes
and supporters of Mr. Kerr.
The meeting of the committee was
presTTted over by Chairman Christ-man.
Speeches were made by Charles
D. McAvoy, of Norrlstown, and T.
Harsh, of Narberth. The resolutions
adopted ratified the platform of the
National Democratic party and in-dorsed
the nomination of Bryn and
Kern and McAvoy at Denver.
Warmer and more normal weather
is soon to follow the midwinter spell
of the last few days. There Is to be
relief, also, from the rain. and. with-in
twenty four hours, yccoiMing to the
government Weather Bureau at Wash-ington,
Conshohocken is to have gen-uine
August again.
The weather of the past few days
has. however, been exceptional only in
temperature, As for the fall of rain,
there has been nothing at all remark-able
in that. I'p to 8 o'clock last
night there had been a total fall of
only ;;.S inches since the storm be-gan.
On Tuesdaj the till was .7. on
Wednesday 29.2 and yesterday .9, a
total of 3.8 In seventy-two hours.
Ten years ago, almost to the hour,
there was a fall of 5.89 in twenty-four
hours. In 1873 there was a fall
of 5.21 on the same day In August;
in 1874, the same day. there was a
fall of 4.08; in 1882, 8.70; in 1905.
3.59, and In 1906. 3.14. All these rain-falls
were in twenty-four hours and all
exceeding the storm that began last
Tuesday.
It has been colder than the mini-mum
of 56 degrees of yesterday only
twice on the 27th day of Anpust since
the official records of the Weather
Bureau were begun in 1871. In 1895
the thermometer reached Its lowest
point for the 27th of August, 51 de-grees.
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BASE BALL
The A. O. H. team will have for
their opponents In their next game,
the strong Watervlew A. C. of Ger-mantown.
The game will be played
on the Seventh avenue grounds. Satur-da>
at 3 p. m. sharp, and a lively con-test
Is anticipated. There will no
doubt be a large delegation from Ger-mantown
to root for their team.
The two teams have each won a game
and this contest is the one to decide
the series.
THE GEM
Attractions at the Gem Theatre for
to-night are "The Face on the Bar-room
Floor" and "Fly Paper." New
illustrated songs by Mr. Houston.
Don't forget the watermelen contest
on Tuesday evening.
Guth Chocolates, at Neville's.
READ THE RECORDER $1.00 A YR.
"My child was burned terribly
about the face and chest. I applied
Dr. Thomas' Eclectrlc OH. The pain
ceased and the child sank into a rest-ful
sleep."—Mrs. Nancy M. Hanson,
Hamburg, N. Y.
YOU CAN BUY
All the Standard Brands of Choice
Whiskies, Wines and Gins at
TALONE'S WHOLESALE
LIQUOR STORE
.< Elm Street.