The Conshohocken Recorder, February 5, 1909

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MEED A
HIGH SCHOOL
MORE SCHOOL ROOM NEEDED
HERE, AND A HIGH SCHOOL
MUST BE ERECTED SOON.
It was brought out at the meeting
of the Conshohocken School Board ou
Wednesday evening that another
school building will soon be needed
here and this building, it has been
suggested, should be a modern high
school building.
It is hoped that this present ses-sion
of the Legislature will so in-crease
the school appropriation! that
Conshohocken wi'l be able to erect a
building in keeping with modern pro-gress
and one which would be ample
for all pupils for years to come.
Dr. Tegtmeier, chairman of the
Teachers and Textbook Committee,
spoke of the visit here of one of the
«tate High School examiners. A very
thorough examination ot the schools
was made. He had no fault to find.
With the school so far advanced, and
the corps of teachers here, he was sur
prised that we have only a three
years' course for the high school.
This course places us in the second
class. There are now 131 pupils In
the high school and 52 in the next
room taught by Miss Bodey.
We 3hould have the four years"
high school course here, and the large
number of pupils in the two highest
rooms show that we will soon be com-pelled
to build a high school building.
When this is done the four year
«ourse should be adopted.
The following letters from the State
Inspector of High Schools was read:
Harrlaburg, Pa., Jan. 16. 1909.
Supt. E. B. Ziegler. Conshohocken, Pa.
My Dear Sir:—There are a few
things I want to write you. My visit
lias this to say: Teachers are well
qualified, keep them if possible; the
community and Board of Education
are to be congratulated on insisting on
a good Quality of work. What you
most need is an additional year in
your high school, giving you four
years. This will make you a first-class
high school. Many schools with few-
*r pupils than you, weaker faculty and
less equipment—science, manual train-ing
and compiercial course—are aim-ing
at the first-class.
I hope this will command Itself to
poor people.
Very sincerely,
C. S. KOCH,
Inspector ol High Schools.
Minute to Mr. Lacey.
I do nol think, said Dr. Tegtmeier,
that Patrick Lacey, whom we all
knen so weft who died on To
needs any eulogy. He was consistent
in his work here in the school boar.l;
a consistent man of the church; a
loving father, a kind parent and a good
citizen; and we, as a board, should
show our good will and respect to his
many sterling virtues. I make a mo-tion
that a committee be appointed to
prepare suitable resolutions express-ing
our esteem for his many loving
qualities and our sympathy to his fam-ily.
Also that the resolutions he
printed in the Recorder, a copy given
to the family, spread upon the min-utes,
and that the Board attend the
funeral in a body.
The motion was adopted and Presi-dent
Bowker appointed Dr. Tegtmeier
and Messrs. Morrison and Graham the
committee.
Treasurer Morrison read his month-ly
report as follows:
Ruber tips should be put on chairs
in Miss June's room.
Mr. Cloud wishes to have two dozen
Morey's Outlines of Ancient History,
copy books and ink tablets.
The following is the statistical re-port
of the mo'ith:
Whole number of pupils admitted
. to date 800
Number of pupils enrolled during
month 767
A\ c i age daily attendance 696
I'I r cam attendance 92
Number Ol pupils present every
day 326
Number of visits by superinten-dent
65
Number of parents' visits 24
Total number of pay pupils 76
Total number ol Directors' \isits. 18
Mr. .1. C. Jones .'.. 11
Mr. Bowker 2
Dr. Tegtmeier 3
Mr. Hastings 2
"A LINCOLN SERVICE"
A Lincoln Memorial Service, under
the auspices of George Smith Post No.
79. G. A. R.. will be held in the G. A.
R. Hall Friday evening, February
12th, 1909.
The following Is the program:
Singing—My Country Tis of Thee,
Led by M. E Church choir.
Invocation
Singing M. E. Church choir
Poem Addison Lindsay, Esq.
Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg,
Comrade EL J. Harrold
Solo Miss Alva Blddle
Address . .Comrade Cbas. Heber Clark
Singing Union Quartet
Address Rev. Abner J. Da vies
Singing M. E. Church choir
Singing—Stan-Spangled Banner, led
by M. E. Church choir, closing with
Doxology and Benediction by Rev.
J. T. Gray.
Doors open at 7.30 o'clock. Com-mence
at 8 o'clock.
Public are cordially Invited.
FRIENDS MAY TAKE
OFr MARRIAGE BAN
Abmgton Votes to Change Rule of
Members Mating "Out of Meeting."
CHESTER VALLEY HUNT
ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT
THOMAS B. HARPER
Republican candidate for State Senator.
WAR OVER ICY BAPTISM REV. J. J. CREIGH DEAD
Couple's Quarrel Begin
to Be Good.
by Trying
In deciding to propose to the Phila-delphia
yearly meeting of Friends (Or-thodox
branch) a change in the disci-pline
of the meeting that will make it
possible for members to marry non-members
without being guilty of a
breach ol the rules, Ablngton Quarter-ly
Meeting, at its session In Gernian-town
yesterday, probably took the
most radical action adopted by any
Ing ol T'liiia.i. Iphia i"i l> ads In
many years.
Probably aever sine
meeting was organized! more than 200
years tigo, has it been possible tor ■
member ol the society to marry I per-son
not of the Quaker faith without
being dealt with In some way by the
meeting. 1'ntil recent years the
Friend who married "out of meeting"
was promptly disowned. More recent-ly,
however, It has been customary
for monthly meetings to compromise
in the matter by simply appointing a
committee to visit the Friend breaking
the rule, giving the member the priv-ilege
of remaining in the society if he
so desired.
It was made plain la the discus-sion
that the change was desired sim-ply
by way of recognizing the fact
that many Friends are marrying mem-bers
of other sects. It was stated that
of 66 marriages of members of the
quarterly meeting in a certain period
two thirds were with non-mi mbers.
Balance In Treasury. January. $648.48, ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^
Received ol tax. »jlt ve|,y |i|ajn |lia, ,,„.,.,. was no cnange
Received of tax, 1908 500.00
i;( ex Ived outside tultian 8.00
Proceeds ol not.' 3931.66
Orders paid to date
$5,333.14
. 1,875.03
Balance on hand $3,468.11
Report of the Schools.
Prof. Zlegler's monthly report was
read as follows:
We had our mid-year promotions on
Friday. January 29, and admitted the
beginners on Monday, Feb. 1.
Owing to the severe weather, nol
rtt i many bi glnners present, d them-
■ tor admission, there being but
23. /
A class- of 19 was promoted from
the 8th grade, which gives us a total
enrollment of 131 In the High School.
I would suggest to the Building
Committee that the windows of the
buildings need attention—to be clean-ed,
to be fixed so that they will not
rattle on windy days, and four cur-tains
need to be replaced by new ones.
whatever In objection ol Friends to
mixed ma/rlages.
Among those who spoke on the ques-tion
were William H. Haloes, Dr. Dd<
ward G. Rhoads, Stanley R. Yarnall,
Walter T. Moore. John E. Outer.
Samuel Emlin. Kllzabeth Allen, George
W. Thorpe, Margaret W. Haines and
Martha H. Garrett.
Ablngton Qaurterly Meeting of the
Library branch met yesterday near
Jenklntowii Hvherry. Horsham, Gwy-nedd,
Ablngton and Richland Month-ly
Meetings were well represented.
Irritation ol the throat and hoarse
are relieve,I immediately by two
or three little swallows of Kemps
Bal am, the besl cough cure.- Grip
patients should make a note of this.
BIG REDVCTIOXS
In Our Clothing Department
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
—At—
SOL SIMON'S
Hector and Fayette* 8t
After living happily as a common
law couple tor eight years with their
two children, Nathan Crosby and the
woman who passed as his wife were
married according to the rite of the
Salvation Army, several months ago,
as a preliminary to Joining that organ-ization.
The life of the pair had hitherto
been peaceful, but after thi tying of
the nuptial knot a series of jars broke
out, which ended yesterday when
Crosby was sent to jail by Magistrate
A. K. Calhoun, of Norrlstown. The
charge against him was beating his
wife and threatening to take her life.
Crosby says that his changed man-ner
was due to his desire to keep her
from being baptized when she was
physically unable. She took the rite
last week at the hands of a disciple of
the Gospel Herald Mission, in the ley
waters of the Schuylkill.
Crosby was so apprehensive about
his wife becoming an invalid that on
Sunday he attempted to drink a bottle
of muriatic add; but Mrs. Crosby
proved the superior in a wrestling
match and saM'd his life. Next day
Crosby got B rope and was going to
hang himself when Mrs. Crosby, cut It
up. The man then beat her and
threatened to shoot her for not post-1 ground u,,s broken and work com-polng
the ceremony until she was In manoed upon-the Parish Souse,
A Former Rector of Calvary C.uirch
Died in West Cheater—Funeral Will
Be Held at That Place To-Morrow.
Rev. James J. Crelgh, a former rec-tor
of Calvary Church, died at his
home In West Chester, on..Wedn<sday.
The funeral will be held to-morrow
morning at eleven o'clock at Holy
Trinity Church, at West Chester. A
delegation from Calvary Church will
attend the funeral.
Rev. James J. Crelgh, before enter
ing the Episcopal ministry, was a
lawyer and a brilliant scholar. He be-came
one of the most forceful pulpit
orators among the Episcopal clergy.
In 1877 Rev. Creigh was called as rec-tor
ot Calvary Church, succeeding Rev.
A. K. Tortat, who resigned, January
first, 1877, or. account of HI bealtl.
He assumed charge on Easter Sunday,
April first, 1877. The Rev. O. I'erin-chief,
rector of Christ (Sw das')
Church, held service Sunday after-noons,
from January to April.
Mr Creigh was well liked lev his
congregation and did much go. d for
his church and the commuulty during
his pastorate. During Lent, In 1879,
he organised the Men's Guild and the
Women's Guild, which organizations
have since rendered such value!
instance to the church. Rev. I
did mui h toward the tree Ubrar
i. i .i itence, and on .lone first
A. J. Drext-I Paul resigned as mas-ter
of hounds of the Chester Valley
Hunt held yesterday at (be King of
Prussia Inn. In doing so, however,
Mr. Paul tendered the use of his pack
of English hounds to the club to hunt
during the remainder of the season.
William A. Rolln also Was obliged to
vacate the office of secretary-treasury,
owing to the pressure of business.
These officers were finally ehosan un-animously
to serve during the ensuing
year:
President, K. Penn Smith; secretary"
treasury pro tern, William C. Wilson;
board ol directors, Harry ('. Yarrow,
Charles w. Walker, William M. Ken-,
Dlijah Brooks, John R. K. Scott and
Richard Vaux; master of the hounds,
William C. Wilson; huntsman. John
K. Pechln.
The dub has limited its membership
to 115, There are at present 113 on
the rolls In good standing. The club
is in a flou. isliing condition financially,
having no floating debt and a tidy bal-ance
in the treasury.
The members who are all closely
allied with tl>e farmers of Chester
County, are having some lively chas-es
after Reynard on Tuesdays, Thurs-days
and Saturdays of each week.
The American pack of hounds now be-ing
used Is in fine futtle. They seem
to know the country well and scarce-ly
a hunt day elapses without one or
more loxes being routed and run
again to earth, affording rare sport for
the riders.
peril et health so as to resist sui
tally sil) shock to her Bystem.
Crosby's defense before Squire Cat
noun was thai his wile's allegations
were untenable. "She says i was go-
Ing to kill her," he went on. "and how
could I do that if I died on the acid
or cut off my wind with the rope?"
This defense was net accepted, and he
was sent to jail.
Hist i the
Heated and forma op
ened.
On January 1st, 1881, Rev. < eigfa
was compelled to resign the rectorship
on account of ill health. His ri
tion was accepted with regret, as he
had gained the love anil confidence of
his entire congregation. He was suc-ceeded
by the late Rev. Dr. A. B. At-kins.
At the time of his death, Mr. ( reigh
was living in retirement.
The vestry of Calvary church will
meet to-night at 7.30 o'clock to take
action on the death of Rev. Creigh.
A committee will be appointed to at-tend
the funeral and resolutions will
be pass",I.
AN OPEN LETTER
1 desire to state to the public that
I feel perfectly justified in letting Dr.
Moyer sell the almost worthless den-tal
outfit that he sold to me ovei one
year ago with his professed good will
and his promise "as a man of his
word and honor and character" not to
engage in the dental profession or to
interfere with me In any way.
In lien of this promise 1 agreed to
pay him a substantial sum. !!• put
honor aside anil disregarded his prom-
. vbleh was only verbal, but which
DOliB. d to glv< me in writing, but
I was nevi r able to gel it from him.
He has been doing all he can to ln-
,,,, inst> ad ol helping me,
promised to do.
it was for his good promises com-rom
ii,, I. dly man thai be posed
to i,. thai i was paying htm moi I ol
the money for, and nol the outfit.
PATRICK LACEY
DEAD
One of the Foremost Citizens of the'
Town Laid to Rest This Morning.
Follows son in Death, by less than a
Week.
Patrick Lacey died on Tuesday aft-ernoon
from the effects of a stroke of
apoplexy. As stated before, Mr. Lacey
was stricken on Monday afternoon in
the olllce of his physician, and after
being removed to his home lapsed In-to
a state of unconsciousness from
which lie did not revive.
The funeral was held from his late
residence, , 01 Dlif" Kim and Forrest
streets, this morning at 8 o'clock, and
was one of the largest ever held in
the borough. People in all stations
or life were in attendance. Last night
the body was viewed by hundreds of
friends from both boroughs and the
surrounding country. High Mass of
Id uuiem was celebrated In St. Mat-thew's
Church at 9 o'clock. The pall-l"
arera were Thomas Rossiter, Patrick
Connors, Daniel Hoy, John Tracy,
Garrett Blanche and John Flneran.
The interment was made in St. Mat-thew's
new cemetery.
Patrick Lacey was born in Owlert
Parish County of Wexford, Ireland, on
St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, 1850.
His father was a farmer, but young
Patrick, believing his future lay in the
New World, at the age of seventeen,
left the old nome and came to this
country. He came to Conshohocken
in 1868, and obtained his first employ-ment
In the (marries of the Consho-hocken
Stone Quarry Company in
West Conshohocken, which at that
time were under the uperintenden-cy
of the late John Vallely. of this
borough. He remained at work here
until he ,,.■etuiiulateii enough money
to go into business, and in 1877 he op-ened
a grocery store on Elm street
above Fayette, In the McGonigle
building. In business he prospered
and outgrew his quarters. He pur-chased
the Butler property on Elm
street and removed there. About fif-teen
years ago he purchased the Mc-
Dermott property consisting of four
stores and dwellings situate on Elm
street, and six dwellings on Hector
street. In one of the Elm Street
sti res he op< ned a bakery and In this
business be prospered. Two years
was compelled to find still larg-er
quarters for his grocery business.
and In removed to the large store and
dwelling at the corner ol Elm and For-ii
BI street .
While Mr. .Lai' y has he n an eiior-
CASUALTES AT FOX HUNT
Huntsmen from half a dozen town-ships
In Chester and Montgomery
Counties met at the Black Rock Hotel
in Phoenixvllle, yesterday afternoon
and then enjoyed a particularly excit-ing
fox hunt. After leading the hunt-ers
a long distance and swimming the
Schuylkill River, the fox succeeded in
shaking them oft in the West Pike
land Hills.
The hunt was given by Ellis J. Butt,
proprietor of the picturesque inn at
HI ok Rock, across the river from
PhoOilxville. Two hundred persons
were his guests at breakfast and fifty
riders followed the hounds. Hunters
were present from all the townships
and boroughs of Northern Chester
County and from the upper townships
of Montgomery.
The fox, liberated by the landlord's
daughter. Miss Elsie Butt, at once
started for the Chester County border,
swimming the river near Cromby and
taking the direction of the Pikeland
T[IUS . Itch cured in 30 minutes by Wool-
Three hounds were drowned In the. ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never falls.
toy waters of the Schuylkill and one I Sold by.Wm. Neville, Druggist.
of the hunters was badly injured while;
riding along the Pennsylvania Rail
CONSHOHOCKEN M. E. CHURCH
9.00 A. M.—Sabbath School and
Bible Classes.
10.30 A. M.—Reception of Members
Baptism and'lxird's Supper.
6.45 P. M.—Epworth League.
7.30 P. M.— Preaching by the Pastor
—Topic. "The Divine Copyright of
the Scriptures."
Sunday ffivenlng, February l+lh—
Lincoln Centennial Anniversary. Spec-ial
Sermon by the Pastor; Topic The
Great Emancipator." An in\ itation
has been accepted by several ol the
Patriotic societies of the town to wor-ship
with us at the servic. Special
Music.
I have already paid him $420.00,
h is more than tin value ol the ,,,,,,,. business loan. ound time
things received from hi ort. Up to within two yi
i . engaged In the profession In direct ag0i wnen bis health began failing] he
opposition to me, and solicited U
B, iong IUJ patients, 1 kept on pi vim:
off the note.
I made him a reasonable offer to let
him have the place back, which he BO-cepted.
but when it came to the time
of settlement he and his brother want-ed
things all one-aided again. They
refused to sign any papers or to give
me any duplicates, but wanted me to
sign all papers and hand Ihem over
to them. And they were simply going
to give me a small check to bind the
contract, so I called the deal off. I
have also offered hiirf a reasonable
settlement this time, which Is more
than the value of the things I receiv-ed
from him. I am perfectly willing
I'm him to go ahead with the sale, for
he Is doing me a great favor by sell-ing
the outfit and getting it out of my
way.
But when the sale Is 0V< i I will be
in a position to continue my practice
with a new and modern**outfit thai will
not In detrimental to the profession.
Hoping that my patients will favor
me with a continuance ol their pat-ronage
and assuring them the same
courteous and efflolenl treatment and
the best work as 1 have always tried
to give them. I am.
Very respeetfuly yours. m
DR. R. B. ELZEY.
V
road tracks at Cromby. This was
Michael Coin. Ills horse fill and he
was thrown on to the railroad track,
his chin striking a rail. His only re-gret
was when he regained conscious-ness
that he had to abandon the chase.
1
Heavy, impure blood makes a mud-dy,
pimply complexion, headaches,
nausea, indigestion Thin blood makes
you weak, pale, sickly. Burdock Blood
Bitters makes the blood rich, red,
pure—restores perfect health.
LEED'S DEVIL GUESSING CONTEST
Come up to-morrow night a id ob-tain
a guess on trie terror, dlret from
Dime Museum. Prof. Denton's i
Ing Academy, Main street, Norrl ■ iwn.
Orchestra. 25 Cents.
OVERCOATS
AT ALMOST YOUR OWN PRICE
—AT—
8 0 L SIMON'S.
Hector and Fayette St.
Fnr a mild, easy action of the how
rls. n single dose of Doan's Ri I< ts
ugh, Treatment cup - habitual
,,n ije:,lion. 26 i" 'i|s a box. Ask
vour druggist for Hi
All branches of bicycle repairing at
Kehoe's, Hector street.
YOU CAN BUY •
All the Standard Brands of Choice
Whiskies, Wines and Gins at
TALONE'S WHOLESALE
LIQUOR STORE
Elm Street
was a di votes of fox bunting and i'
was his pride to exhibit hlS Irish
hunter, which was considered one of
ih, besl lumpers In this section. He
was a devout member of St. Matthew's
Church, and took great Interest in its
affairs. He was one of the early mem
bei-B of the Scientific Society, organiz
ed by Rev. Richard Kinahan, nnd a
liberal contributor to all charitable
funds.
In borough affairs he was always ac-tive
and served a number of years in
Town Council and the School Board.
In transacting public business he was
scrupulously honest and insisted that
all business should be done in a way
that no question of doubt as to hones-ty
of purpose could be raised. He was
ever watchful to the Interest of the cit-izens
as a whole ami was never a par-ty
man.
He was active in orgnnizing and con-dueling
building associations, and
for years has bet n a director in sev-eral
of them.
In 1878 he married Julia Rossitor.
ol West Conshohocken, and this Un>
Ion was blessed by eleven children.
four of whom are dead and one, a
son Nicholas, was burled last Satur-day.
Deceased is survived by a widow
and four sons—John, William, Patrick
and Walter, and three daughters.
Mrs. James McGuire. of West Consho-h,
.lien. Mary and Katie, and a broth'
er. who lives in Ireland.
J.BRESSEN
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