The Conshohocken Recorder, June 1, 1900

              Sfjc Consljoljockcn flkcorftcr.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FKIUAY
NO. \\VM) CONSHOIIOCKEIS PA., FRIDAY JUNE I, 10(H). $1. PBK YUAI.
T0WNN0TI:S.
Ssorl laics nnd NetM About lbs
Town -■<ii«1 the I'cuplc Who
Are lu II
The Women's Relief Corp* «ill inert
Monda] evening.
i in i nine out sale of tin' Philadi i
pftla Bargain Store ii -^ i ill In progress
'i he aJcotl ciuii will nii'i't al the
home ni lira, Ulller mi nexl Tu
•'M Ding.
i lealer Mi Oovern is dtstrlbu-
Uni those handy ii tablaa ol both
■ :lils.
\ large number of our residents vls-it.-
■ 1 ii 111>111-.- pleasure parks on
w edncsday,
The Kconomy Clothing Store is ad-vertising
teveral choice bargains" on the
fourth page.
I'm the Mrs) time for many yean
there were no baseball games in this
borough oil Mi moi la) Day,
Mr William Sri. W 1 and Miss M 13
0 n ih< r, both ni' Cedar drove wore
married on Tuesday evening by Rev.
II. Oolclesser.
The Women's Relief Corps Auxiliary
to Hi. Q, \. K. wishes tu thank all
thorn who contributed to the dinner
«hi, h was a great success,
The Hiibjocl ni the Bermon In the
Baptist Church Sunday evening will i»'
nil and Happiness" the last in the
in. ..i.i minis im the Hunk nf Itntli.
ir the prraenl weather is no) warm
'ii in Justify the placing of mm
mer trolley cars In iiiis borough, how
warm will ii have to be before thoy
are pnl on the tracks hen !
Mi-, ami Mrs. James v. Stewart have
! Invitations to the marriage of
their daugtar, Battle, to Mr. Frank
Baldwin. The marriage will take place
a the bride's residence, June 12th.
The storm of yesterday afternoon
bli w down the trolley feed wire on the
Conshohoeken Pike near Harmanvllle.
The can were mil of service .about two
hours before the break was repaired.
MI Strawberry Festival of Vida Re-bekah
Lodge on Saturday will i»- equal
tn those in fanner years, A good time
ami plenty of fiin for your money. Free
in the afternoon. Open at :! o'clock.
I. P. Boogar Mas purchased the bus-i
tlroest William Summers. He
km possession of the store nt
Elm and Payetie street nnd will con-tinue
it in connection with his other
Fayi'tti" strci't store.
Ellen O'Donnr-ll has sold the Bcventb
avenue hotel, at Seventh avenue ami
Maple Btreet, to ex-Councilman William
K. Toner for $i».»»". Mr. Toner will
take possession as sunn as the license
i in be transferee.
l.i'ii. the infant son of Frank ami
Elisabeth Peacock, and grandson of
John and Catherine Mc Donongh, died
on Monday at his home, Blm and Ash
streets, The funeral services wereheld
y. Iii rday afternoon, the interment was
In St. Matthew. Ni'W Cemetery.
The Gettysburg Association with
< onii.nil s of the (i. A. it. will leave on
Tuesday on n special train for the En-campment
al Qettysburg, June 6 and 7.
Id limns. Mrs, J, V, Stewart, Mrs,
it Pitman, Miss E u. Pitman, Mrs. B.
I.nl.iiis. Mr, llartstall. Mrs. P. Hook.
Mrs. Qlenttnger, Miss I.. Iliines will al-tenii
the Encampment
The Union Mutual Fire insurance
Company ol Norristown al an annual
meeting on Monday elected these offl-cers:
Henry S. Kulp, Henry Fleck,
lames Tracy, Martin Kulp. Henry S,
Mailman. Frederick Beaver, Abraham
K Zlegler. John Whlteman 0. H Nase
Louis 3. Whln-mnli it. F, DeFraln, A.
j. Trucksess, Joseph W. Relter,
Richard Male, ,ir., of this borough,
and Miss Annie M, Wafer, of Norria-town
were married on Wednesday
evening. The ceremony was perform-ed
by Rev, T, F, Bhannon,at the parson-age
of st. Patriok's It. c church, Nor-ristown.
Joseph A. Wafer. In-other of
the bride, was best man and Miss An-nie
Hate, sister of the groom was the
bridesmaid, After the ceremony n re-ception
was held at the home of the
bride. There WON present onlv the
Immediate relatives and friends of the
contracting parties, Mr. and Mrs.
Hair let) for Atlantic City. Upon their
return they will reside al their hand'
somi-lv furnished home. IL'1 Chain
Street Norristown,
Israel Hart, BlWOOd Mart. William
Stemple and Blwood Phlpps, were frag-ging
along the WIssahlckon last even-ing.
They returned this morning with
over 100 frogs.
A horse belonging to R. Roberts Car-ey
of Ivy Rook, driven by Frank Bmlth,
ran away yesterday morning, The
horse got ions.- from the driver al
Second \venue and dashed down the
street al full speed. Near Hector street
he fell to the ground and eonhl easily
have been caught, had several by-standers
wished to do so. When ho
again got on his feel he dashed down
the street and across the bridge run-ning
Into a coal train thai was passing
iii West Conshohoeken, When hi
struck the train lie was thrown to the
side of the Ira.k when Baggage Agenl
William Cameron grabbed his head
and held him to the mound. He was
taken to the simp of Buckle & Black-burn,
bleeding from the nostrils,
The Conshohoeken Social Club gave
n enke walk In Washita Mall last even-ing.
The Itaptisl Church of Mils bOTOUgh
was represented at the meeting of the
1 eiiltal Itaptisl Association held in
Chester on Wednesday by William F.
Qraham, Mrs. Mary J. Qraham, Qeorge
M. Willll I, Mrs. Mary A. Williams.
Cnarles Hoopes, Mrs Munis lloopes,
Harriet E. Matthews, C. Kate Bodey,
Howard M. Roborta and Edmund K.
Williams. Tin- report ol Miis church.
i ienry t 'ol, i tor, showed Mint
it is quietly holding its own. it is
paying Its debts as the) i and the
nation has determined to do tins
wilhout the help of church fairs or sup
|.cis The present church membership
IS ITU. and that of the Sabbath School
I Id with Is teachers.
Come, now. High School, pull your
oil together and "« allop them."
Charlie Millei will appear on the
High School line up to-morrow,
Mi -It Bel I VB, l.ansdale tn morrow
afternoonin this borough. This will he
i fiercely contested name as limh team;.
are determined to win.
lie Conshohoeken Juniors have one
of the Strongest teams for their ape
tin re is in this county. Theyhave I n
in the game I'm ail there Is In it ami have
lily mil with defeat lint once that be-ing
al the hands ol the Y. M. A. A. and
Which can not he looked upon as one
I hat would spoil their record for the
• II 'ii Considering thai they are im II.
Till-: ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
AI a meeting of ih Alumni As=ooin-
.iiu of the Conshohoeken Public
-.1 Suds, insl evening the following
officers were elected:
President
James B, Holland,
Vice Presidents,
J. Ellwood Lee,
Charles W. .loins.
Edward Williams,
Recording Bacretary.
Fredi -id: BJckfeldt
Corresponding Bet n tary.
Ml B. it. Pitman,
kssh lam Becretary,
Mis. Kltic Lewis.
Tn a airer.
Many C. I
Executive Committee, '•ill Class.
MIsfl Katlieriiie shade.
Maurice Hallowell,
FOUND DEAD BABE
The authorities of MontgomeryCoun-j
are probng a heaiih-ss case nf Infan-ticide
which has just boon revealed.
Near Ogonts, laal Saturday was found
,he body of a child about one week old.
mil the post mortem disclosed that
lenth was due to a wound caused by a
a n pin ,n long needle, piercing the In-nocent's
head from temple to temple.
All the oilier organs of the body are In
a healthy condition.
I.asl Saturday the body enoasod In
i pasteboard hnx was found by two
Ittle clover pickers, Jennie lloovcnnnd
Mary Adams. The little clover plok-irs
turned their ghastly And over to
the Charge of the York Itoad Proteotlvo
Vasoclation,
A TMItltll'lc THUNDERSTORM
A terrific thunderstorm passed over
onshohocken yesterday afternoon.
For about twenty minutes the light-ning
Hashes and rolling thunder was
iwe Inspiring.
The handsome home of .1. Kllwood
I at Eighth avenue and Knyotte
ilreet was struckby lightning. The
toll struck one of the rear corners,
ind knocked several slates from the
oof. lint did not otherwise damage the
louse.
After Striking the house the bolt
Daasetl to the ground stunning Henry
Mat intyie who was Standing near the
..ouse. Ho was not severely injured.
mil quickly regained consciousness.
In Plymouth the storm was very se-
Itere. The roads were badly washed.
i.-. | were blown down across the Con-anohocken
Pike telegraph and tele-phone
wires were broken and a number
ol chimneys were wrecked.
A STATEMEN1 FROM < i Kit.
MEMORIAL l)/\Y.
Tin ooscnaacr nl Ihc da> In ihe >i.lnily i.l
this lieinicMi .I'rol. Cnrri«,ao'«
kifreii
Conshohoeken. Mny II, 1000,
'i o the Recorder
i am indebted to the Honorable Pres-ident
of the Conshohoeken iiaskei Ball
Team for Ihe statement published In
your issue ot May L'lith as it was the
first opportunity that I had tu know
wiiat money was made and what use it
was put to. The statement of the first
game is no doubt correct hut the second
is where the II. P. C. It. II. T. noes up
In the air. Me says that another name
was arranged for April 2iRt hut falls
to mention all the facts in the case
wnieh are these. The first game being
a failure the players lust heart and
would not attempt another game, At
this time a few outsiders offered to as-sist
if another game was arranged fi.
my benelU and at thai lime every one
seemed satisfied thai the proceeds were
tor me. Employees of the J Wood a
i.rns. Mill where 1 was employed know-ing
how badly I needed assistance
I,ought more than the share thatlsnow
offered me, The statement that $18.00
received from BlhUS was from the ben-i
III was news to me as the cluh owed
me more than double thai amount on
ine season's profits, Now I defy the
II. P, C. B. II. T. to produce one person
(outside Ihe eluhl who will say that he
or she purohased ■ ticket with any
other thought than Ihat of charity for
it there he such a person -the public
should know of It Then the H. I\ 0,
it. it T. becomes generous and invites
a,, Ihe dissatisfied In come In him and
he will see that they get their money
back. I fall to see how he can do It as
there is not enough remaining to pay
n v share, Now all I want is whal Is
Jusuy due, The profits of the game ar-ranged
for my benefit which according
to your statement netted me $17. • and
nothing hs; will satisfy me.
Respectfuiiy
DAVID CUBTBR.
If you want a large stock to select
from and like up-to-date hats, go to
Tracy, the Matter. Norriatown,
"DeWltta Little Early Risers are the
finest pills I ever used." 1>. J. Moore.
■iillbrook, Ala. They quickly eure nil
liver nudhowcl I roubles.
11. Maxwell Ilnrry anil W. R. Rup-p'oe.
West Conshohoeken.
'I he gravoa Increase in number and
ih. \, terani are being slowly laki n
away, but there an plant) ol willing
hands to assist those win, .in y,t inn
In place the Bowers mi III :i i,, B
Qeorge Smith Post begun early to ob-serve
the day. Al eight o'clock the
members with the Drum Corps ami the
Sons of Veterans left their hall an.:
in-ill services and decorated lie- •
iii ihe Friends Plymouth Meeting
graveyard, the Cold Polnl Baptist
church yard where Rev, Mi. Llpton de-livered
Mie address, lb.- SI. I'.-i.-i .-
Cemetery at Barren Mill, ami st Matt-hews
Cemetery in this borough.
Dinner was served to the membei
ihe (!. A. it. Mall by the Women' Re-lief
Corps.
The Decoration Services were held In
he tjnif Cemetery on Wednesday nf
ternoon before a large assemblage ol
i pie. They were held over the grave
of Henry II. Townsend, and were of a
very Impressive ordor. The services
wore begun by singing "Nearer My
'",od to Thee'' after which the It'v. J.
it. Fenwlck, pastor of the fhtlf Chrlst-lan
church, offered a prayer. The
'irami Army then proceeded to decor
ile the graVl e! their fallen In-ilber
imi comrade, after which tin- choir of
(he Quit Christian Church Bang a beau-tiful
selection, pit w;.s very lining for
llie occasion ami was listened In with
the deepest Interest. Prof. B. I-'. Cor-lii'.-
ui was then Introduced by Mr. .b>s.
C. Junes in a few well chosen words.
is the oratm of the day who then de-livered
ihe following addn
Once more we are gal bored on tin
i'lei u hillside lo lay upon the graves of
liiroes Ihe wealth of Spring. The
memory of the soldier dead, the spirit
nt Ihe day is llie sti ongefll am! I
est tie that binds all hearts together
and keeps all Stales henealh a nation's
Bag. On tins beautiful Memorial Day
amid peaceful avocalions SO Strong n-contrast
in the Berce wild stormi of
war in which these bravo men dared
their lives, when every field is a pic-ture,
every landscape a poem and
ivety forest a fairyland, Memory, pat-riotic
Memory like a mourning mother
comes to all by the grave of every [Tn
Ion soldiel' and with tenr tilled .iyi■:.
crown him again and again with the
crown of everlasting honor. To-day
tuen we remember the heroic dead
whose blood reddens Ihe paths and
highways of honor, those whose blood
oozed friu pallid lips under ihe stara,
on the battlefield, thOSS who in hospit-als
of pain dreams of fever pictures nl'
the ones they loved, those who lleep
far away beside Ihe lonely Chiekahnin-iny
and those nameless heroes who of-fered
up their lives in the holocaust
and carnage of the Wilderness. We re-member
all those who perished in pris-on
pens or famine's clutch, all who be-lieved
with tin- all wise anil prophetic
Lincoln, the grandest figure of the
Western World ...at liberty ami slavery
COUld not live in the same nation or
the same brain who believed that if the
i nion perished there would fade away
tno last best hope of earth. They had
seen under slavery every human tie
rent and tin asunder by llie brutal
nanils of avarice and might, they saw
mothers refl of babes, they saw the
blooding backs of slaves and they asked
—must the Nation's honor be sacriliced.
Tnoy believed thai no government not
rounded on linerty ami justice could
live.
From sand-enshrouded Egypt, from
ine marble ruins of Athens, from every
crumbling trophy of the once mighty
..iiliii came the wail (bat a government
founded upon, injustice could not stand.
Iliey believed that Slavery had pois-oned,
cursed ami blighted BOUl and soil
enough and that it must not wreck Ihe
gallant ship that lime the hope and
,(ii tune of the world. And so when
e hissed a shotat Ihe old flag they
sprang to answer the Nation's Call in
the tiilghtlisi armythal ever fought
lor human liberty round the world, re-solved
Miat Freedom should not perish
ami slavery should not live The army
Of the Republic bears proudly 'he dis-tinction
that it was ihe greatest army
ol all limes not alone in numbers lint
In valor, intelligence and high and
holy purpose. They fought not for
plunder but for human rights. Othei
mighty armies have wasted tin- earth
Tile greatest soldiers have . stencil to
the siren of ambition. They waged war
lor the lust o conquest for pump and
pillage, place and power. Hut hi us
proudly remember that the greatest
tno grandest, the noblesl army of Ihe
world, the Crand Army of the Republic
fOUghl not to enslave but to free, mil lo
destroy but to save, not for conquest
but for conscience, not only for us for
every land and race. Thai is why we
honor the living members ol thai host
and revere the dead and lay upon their
tomb the fairest ami the sweetest Mow-er
of the human heart eternal grati
tilde.
Then the speaker told the atorj of
Li.C struggle for the Nation's life In
graphic pictures he brought bat i< tn
tno veterans the "death-felled days
days when Ihe heart beat high and Ihe
biood (lowed strong." Mc recounted
the names of the matchless leaders
Bnermnn Bh irldan and Orant. and above
all Lincoln "whose loving life like a
bow of peace spans arches and the
clouds of WSJ" and whose name will be
s.,il green in the memory of a grateful
world when the names of Alexander,
t aesar and Monoparle will have pol-ished
into obllvlqp." lb- emphasises
ihe benefits we enjoy born of tin- old
soldiers sacrifice, The "priceless bless
lugs of true liberty, free lips free hearts
free hands, a free press and the first
free government in tin- world. They
decided for all time that there was only
laud enough in this country to Moat hut
I judges lo be just ami statesmen to he
I human." Then lie depleted the in in-ress
made by the U s. since the civil
War. Interspersing his facts with many
happy allusions and declared that our
present prosperity could never lie at-tained
"with the millstone of discord,
mm flag, I'b' >' made It | II- foi
. ,si nion and slavery about our necks,
which required the blood, the bravery,
scars of the Union soldiers and the
sacrifice of precious lives '<> remove."
his touching apostrophe lo tin
• n soldiel s who wailed ill sin low al
niinie. in ihe mothers who gave their
mi lo the unknown dead untied
llie In ail slrings. And Anally in an
outburst of eloquence thai wet the
, net k ,u many an old soldier he thank-ed
them again and again, ami promised
uinl their memory would be cherished
lory enbalmed in art and song
ami t,.eii graves lovingly strewn with
lainsl Mowers by generations vet n
boi: .
■ '.iiiied company then sang
M ' olllltrv "I'is of Thl i ■" all, I 'A h ill
!;, . lei ben .i. Cook offered a pr
ihe salute was then Bred over the
■r.i i of the sleeping soldier which was
! by Ihc Bugle Call whit h was
i. n en d by Mr. Charles Miller.
I IIANOER GOT IMS
HORSE AND BUGGY
! Ivoryman H. A. Wilson, of Norris-
• own is mourning the loan of a valuable
team which a thief deprived him of
miring the pas) weak. The stranger
can e to the livery stable ami repreaen-t>
d himself as an agent for a firm man-ufacturing
agricultural implements.
in. d a team from last Wcdnes-
,:iv until Saturday evening and secured
tno best conveyance in the place. Not
being expected home until Saturday
night the man secured a good slart.and
be his evidently disposed of the team.
I'm horse is a beautiful bay ami tin
H-. v was just new from the shop.
I'LYMOI I'M
The festival at Plymouth was a SUC-fln
rcl pro, Is were SOOUl I 17
Jonathan uttujray, of Cold Point has
bOCn on tin sick list. lie Struck his
ISJSlnsI the "lid of a piece of wire
11 around a bale of hay. it
•d ti heal up almost immediately and
,.: Im gotten, but in a few days
his linn-1 ind arm began swolllng>and
swelled to -i large size, lie was at-tacked
with a chill. Thi physicianwaa
•alb I in and Mr. Murray is now able
in be about and expects soon lo be
-eri iag his customers as usual.
The trolley Gbmpany is negot
with the supervisors mid the property
holders for the right of way from the
Rldg - Pike, at Harmanvllle, to Ply-mouth
Mooting. The company prom-ises
if the right of way is given they
will have ears running over it by July
I. The line along the Ridge pike to
Norriatown will not be abanoned as
has been reported. The company ex-pects
to bridge the "Y" before long and
perhaps will try and gel to Ambler,
K Jones' family, ol Mai-inunvillc are
reported sick with scarlet fever,
Farmers In Worcester Township,
coini-hiin of the ravages in their com
Aelde by the web worm.
norriatown is about creating a $150-
IIIII loan, the bonds to bear interest at
', pel cent, for the purpose of refund-ing
a like amount of outstanding bonds
it I and ■• per cent.
AI a meeting of ihe Worcester Farm-era'
Club the committee on rural mail
delivery reported that a petition con-taining
the names of 118 heads of fami-lies
has boon sent to Washington with
Congressman Wanger's recommenda-tion
that the service lie established in
that par) of Montgomery county.
"After suffering from piles for fifteen
years 1 was cured by using two boxes of
DeWltt'l Wltol Ma/el Salve." writes
w. .1. Baxter, North Brook, N. O. it
heals everything. Beware of connterflts
II. Maxwell Harry and W. B Sup
idee. West Conahohocken.
A dollar buys a soft or sllff hat, that
looks well and wears well, al Tracy
ne Hatter, Non Istown,
BELLING OUT SALE
Stork of Siloes to be sold at once at
in Fayette street To be sold at mice.
regardless of cost or anything. 2000
ind more In shoes New bright
lepen Inble and iinderprlced in a decree
unprecedented In the history of any
sale, loseph Rokasky.
I C, Kennily. Knannko, Tcnu.. says.
I cannot say loo much for lie Witt's
Witch Ma/el Salve Due box of it cur-ed
what the doctors called an Incurable
ulcer na my jaw." Cures piles and all
skin diseases. Look out for worthless
Imitations
II. Maxwell Marry. Conshohoeken
Hid W, B, Slipplee. West Conshohoe-ken.
THL CliNSUS QUHSTION
Ihc work Ibi- linumcratur.s will be required
>•• da The questions tin i will
Atk.
ANOTHER TREAT IN STORB.
The appreciation shown for the two
splendid Mower pictures given free to
nailers of the great Philadelphia Sun
day ' Press" this year has led the pub-lishers
to provide a third great picture
which will in- given free withevery copy
■ Sunday's "Press" (June I. This
picture, which is quite as attractive as
tin famous Yard of Roses" ami "Eas-ter
Lilies" pictures. Is called "A Itas-kel
of BlOSSOmS." [I is by the famous
Paul Do Longpre, and is one of his
-i works. It Is 1!0 by :.'x inches In
-• /e anil Is also noteworthy as Ijoing
the iirsi example of a new method of
color printing, which Is quite as won
derfltl as the picture Itself. The pub
Ushers guarantee that every picture
will bo perfect. There is certain *o be
• it de'inand for next Bund ty's
' Pi-ess," bonce it will be well tor all
vh> want this picture in or lor their
cop} In advance.
"I bad dyspepsia lor years. No im-d
Iclne was so effective as Kodol Dys-
I pepsla Cure. It gave Immediate relief.
I Two bottles produced marvelous re-
1 suits." writes I.. II. Warren. Albany.
I Wis. It digests what you eat and can
not fall to cure.
Some lime to-day a i wall i all at
yi,in house and ask y |iiestions It
m i I" III It Ihe questions 'hat Ii.
ni,, you as being very personal
in nature, vmi will find him possess-
1 d il a i i MIL- , in iosity as lo your age.
condition, business status, family re-lations
ami financial capabilities. He
"ill BVI li go 10 far as In inquire enr-ol
von whether you are black or
while, perhaps he may exaspeiai,
yon. Inn you must remember thai la- is
a man and a brother and refrain from
hitting hin. with Mm furniture, tor he
is employed by the Government to gal
voi: down on paper and make you a
par! i f ihe census of 1900. if you re-frain
from replying lo any of his quer-ies
perhaps he'll put you down as a
de into, for there is a special cata-
'I persons thus afflicted and also
of Ihe blind. Hut if you turn him out
"i He- house by force or commll anyas-satllt
upon him yon will have your
Uncle Sam lo reckon with and Ihe next
lime yoni name appears on a Ijst It
may be on the rosier of a Jail.
Officially the census ! gins on June
I. As there aren't enough census enum-erators
to make the entire rounds on
thai nay. or for many days following,
in all probability the process will ho
stretched out a good deal, but all ques-tions
will be asked and answered with
reference to that day. for instance.
the enumerator may arrive at your
boua ■ on June 'i or 7 ami Bnd thai yon
were married on June i, Down you
go on his list as a bachelor; your wife
si t down as a spinster living al Ihe
resiih-iiee of her parents. The census
wont recognise your marriage n all
because it look place after June I.
Similarly you may he dead since tin-liisi
liny of the month, but if the ran
merator Bods nut that you were alive
an that day you an- part of the popu-lation
of Conahohocken ami willekeoul
a fictitious existence in the sum total.
Snould a baby he born in your lionsc-aold
after June 1. the child is non- ex-istani
so tar as the census goes. Noth-ing,
absolutely nothing, can happen to
you between Ihe 1st of June anil the
dale of the enumerator's arrival. The
law says so and the law goes.
When the enumerator comes to your
house he win Identify himself by his
Official Schedules and also by a badge
which he will wear on his waistcoat
lie is bound by his instructions to be
not only civil hut patiently polite, ami
.. he Isn't you can write a complaint
.iiioiil him .which, supposedly, will re-ielve
prompt attention. Special stress
,a- been laid on this mailer of pollte-ai
s.- in the Instructions to ihe enumer-ators
and they have been warned thai
any proof of bad manners on their part
will result unpleasantly for them.
Uncle Bam recognises the average
Ann rican lesenls having to discuss his
private affairs with outsiders and has
set out to make this census as little of
an ordeal as possible. At the same
time il is to be pretty sweeping in its
scope
Here an- some of the things which
the enumerators will want to know
about yourself and the Inmates of your
u,l. and he wont necessarily de-pend
upon the evidence of his eyes.
either. Ile will ask you outright your
sex and color, and the fad lhal you
-veat trousers and a white skin wont ex-
■ use you from answering, lie will ask
von the dale of your birth, month ami
Whether you are single, married,
widowed or divorced: how long you
have been married to your present con-sort,
how many children you have had
and how many are now living, whether
yon are deaf, dumb, or blind, and ho
will require to know these things about
each member of your family. You will
" Xpected to tell where you were
hot n and if yon are a native nf another
ouiiiiy. when you came to this country
mil whal stc-.s. il' anv. yon have liken
TO bet mie a , ii lien,
Then your business will come under
•oiisideration. and here is where the
ami,orators anticipate the greatest
trouble. A business man generally
considers his business as his own bus-ad
nobody else's, and prefers to
t'-M almost anything else about himself
rather than give details of the process
"s win rchy he makes his living:. Hut
ile- government Is just as much Inter-ested
in your business as it is in your
household. H wants to know Justwhal
your occupation Is. and if you hnve
more than one you will he listed under
Me head of Mint one from which you
derive the chief part of your Income.
In , a... yon areii'l sure of lhal, the one
vou spend the most time and effort on
will lie that under which you will be
described. Thus. If you tend bar in
the daytime and usher in the theatre
in the evening yon will go down na a
bartender. Some persons hnve no oc-cupation.
They will bo asked whence
their income Is derived, and if they re-celve
most or it from loaned money,
siocks bonds, or other securities, you
are a capitalist by the tlovernmenl
definition. In ease one hasn't any In-come
at all then will bo probably he a
noie to ibis effect, as the Government
is loo polite to set anybody down na n
hobo. If there wore any months or
pails of months in the lasl year when
ion wen- out of work ihe enumeratoi
will want In know about lhal. hill va
eaiioii lsn'1 BUfllclenl to land you in Ihe
greal company of the unemployed.
Vou an- to tell S/hether you own yoiti
own home and if so, whether ii Ismort-'
gaged. Also, you are expected to state
whether yon can read and write llie
English language. If you can't, hut
can read ami write some other lang-uage,
i..at is duly sol down to your
credit and saves yon from the slignia
m illiteracy.
when the census enumerator gets
through with you he will probably
SHOW things about you thai your mnsl
intimate friend doesn't know. As soon
as he has asked and received the an-swei
to nis last question la- is expected
to leave your premises and promptly
forget everything he has found out. n
he doesn't forget It, or behave as if he
mid forgotten it. he will gei into verj
hot water.
Severe penalties are established I'm
the punishment of any betrayal of In-formation
received by Ihe i IIII merator.
Whatever you tell him is a confidence
netween yon and ihe Government ami
ho is merely ihe apparatus through
which the desired Information passes
if he is false In his trust ami repeats
lo any person any Information received
in ihc performances of his duties he
may be lined 1500 upon eonvieiion.
Not only may he not show his schedul-es
lo any person oilier than his super-iors
in the Census Office, hut lie must
promptly destroy all imperfect copies.
For returning false Information about
any person on his schedules he may bi-nned
tB.000 and imprisoned I'm two
years. Canvassing or advertising of
any kind while in the discharge of his
'laths is forbidden to him and he must
no his work himself and not delegate
il to any one else, lie cannot even
take any one with him while making
Ins rounds except another Census III'
ii e employee nor can he take any In-terpreter
except by special authority.
I.veiy precaution to protect the public
has been taken.
lie following are Mie questions Ihat
will ho asked.
Name of each person whose place of
kbodo, on June Isl lllnii was in IbiB lam
ly.
I'ale of Birth, month and year.
Age nl last birthday.
Whether single, married, widow d m
llvorced.
Number of years married.
Mother of how many ehildren|
Number of these children living.
Place of birth of each person ami par-ents
of each person enumerated. If
bom In |e I'nited Slates give name of
btSte or Territory, If foreign birth give
name of Country only.
Fear of Immigration to the railed
Stales. Number of years in the United
stales, whether any naturalisation
papers have boon taken out.
Ocupatlon, trade or Profession of
Bach person III years nf age or over.
Months not employed.
attended school in months, can read,
can write, can speak English.
House owned, mortgaged or Rented,
The following are the enumerators
of this borough:
.1. II. Iliiukley. I'Trst and Second
\\ aids.
0. II. Ilrooke. First Ward.
Amy Hampton Fourth and Fifth
\. ards.
WliST CONSIi()U()Ckl:N
"•ni, - ol luleresl fioni Ihc Town airoiiti tbc
Kivcr and ihe ISearh)
IlisirkU.
UtA'ITtiN IIY RBV. bll. KRAUSKOPF
Memorial Day was generally observed
at Norristown, on Wednesday. SSoOk
■ ost. No. ii. c. A. K.. decorated the
graves of over live hundred veterans
wno are hurled at Montgomery ami
Riverside Cemeteries. Memorial ser-vices
were bold on Wednesday evening
in the Grand Opera Mouse, addressed
by Rev. J. It. Kraiiskopf. of Philadel-phia.
The decorating of General Han-cook's
tomb In Montgomery Cemetery,
was : :! d by an oration by Henry I.
POX of Norristown.
HISTtiltlc SPOT REVISITED,
Ion Mill, whore Washington's army
encamped for a short time following
the ha.il of Itraudyw inc. was ihe
scene t : vary Impressive ceremony
Wednesday afternoon, when Wissa
he ion Council. Mo, 100, Jr. () I' \ M
of foil Washington, unfurled a Hag in
Ihe center of ihe old fortification. Sen
ator John A. Went/., or forl Washing-
Ion, was master of ceremonies, Tin
oral ion of Ihe day was made by Rev.
I). M. Dlltmnr, of SI. Paul's Church,
fort Washington.
Charles Rowe is confined to
in r home by illness
i 1...1 lea ^ oiiiiL. bad a heat ing be-fore
Magistrate Lenhardl ol Norris
town mi Monda) afti moon on the
charge of desertion, Hi was pit un-der
bail for trial,
.lames Noblett, lie- Contractor ot
Itaiilior. has lakcll llie scalps ol Horace
i In is Howie, and many i.ihers
.. illi Ins greal trotting man |.;,,|y Mas.
on. in looking over them theothei daj
ne thOUghl It won,,i he a c.ieal addition
ni Ins i oil, , i ion lo ha He the .ealp ol
I Ii lieel .on Supplies toll, r.elloli Jr.
ile invited in.-, many friends to see bow
,iieiii,„ was dom lasl i'uesdayevening
o.n Montg irj Avenue .inn to ins
surpi is, la inni .P. look Im, scalp,
i"iui ami an and i ) Mason ban to
■i ■' He I in;, i...,I .mil i mild not
• on last enough.
in put} Register Ol \\ ills How.nil
W hiieneail Is Dunking.ihoiil embarking
,u the Uoui ami feed business m order
i, nourish ins ambitions tor Register.
lb- claims ibai next io the farming In-dustry,,
ll.illl il,il feed people seem to
uavi a i nub with Republican approv-
.i urn lucre sentimental approval but
ihc real practical sort. Now In re is
now Howard revolves matters over In
lining soul. Joseph Bonier, the
. boitenhain miller, is National Dele
,-ati . Manasses C. Clemens, thi feed
merchant, la County Commissioner;
oiiii.e breed, who runs a dust raising
•slanii-lll t at Ninth Wales, is l(eg-ister;
Joseph Crawford, who handles
...als. lee,i ami limn, was a recent Iteg-dichael
Kulp. w ho receives the
aesl pan ol Ins Income from whole and
racked grain as well as rolled wheat,
,s jnsi now basking in Mie Piotbono-tarysbip;
Henrj Croft, a Salford teed
. is iii a lair way lo gel office
mil ex-Treasurer Godshall raised the
sinews in war for his campaign by
;i inning wheat h-» millers suiter
from chapped hands ami few n seems
suffer r chapped ambitions, i.aus
I, Ueporter.
DIED.
HYDE. On May 111. 1900, J. Itufus
Hyde, Infant son of Rev. Edwin I., and
1, V.'in a 1 lyde. aged ten days.
Funeral private mi Saturday after-non.
.lime 2nd, at two o'clock from the
residence of his parents in West Cun-ihobocki
n.
THE NORRISTOWN TRUST CO.
NOBBY-NEW srvi.i.' swi.nus.
Hydemnn'a i, leading Norristown in
Sailor and walking hats. Their show-ing
of Muse cool head coverings is
greater than thai of all other Narris-town
stoics combined, the styles are
correct ai tl becoming ami the prices are
is you QXpeel them to be al My,I, man's
down to Ihc Iowa si notch, of price
littleness.
W. S. Muaser. Milbetm, Pa., saved
Ihe life or his little girl by giving her
fine Minute Cough Cure when she wns
(tying from the croup. It is the only
harmless remedy that gives imindiate
results. It quickly cures coughs, colds,
bronchitis, grippe, asthma and all
throat and lung troubles
II. Maxwell Harry and W. K. Sup
pleo. West Conshohoeken.
The annual election im fifteen 01-
tectors or the Norristown Title, Trust
ind Safe Deposit Company, was held
on Tuesday. May 22, at the office of the
company, and resulted in the unani-mous
re-election of the old Hoard, con-isiing
of the following: John W.
Loch, N II. Larselere, siias Jones, J.
I'. Hale Jenkins. Horace ('. Jones. Ash-ley
p. Hunter, Isaac W. Smith, Horace
C. Coleman, Hugh Mclnnea, Amos w.
Heiger. Henry M, Tracy. .1. A. Sttass-burger,
John Walton, Montgomery
Evans, Jacob It. Ilillegass.
'The newly-elected Board mel fm or-ganisation
mi Friday, the j:. Instant
Dr. John W. Loch, who lias held tin1 of-fice
or President since the beginning ot
ihe company, owing to ill health, re-fused
to in- a candidate.
Montgomery Evans, Bsq., was unan-
Imoualy elected as President, ami
Ashley P. Miinter as Vic President
f. c lloiison. Esq., was re-elected as
Secretary. 'Treasurer and Trust Officer.
Mr. Prank s .Yeakle was elected Assls-lant
Treasurer.
The Bridal FCdSt
Is not-Infrequently followed by i long.
lentcn period of enforced fasting ana
fleshly mortification. The cluck grows
hollow, the eyes are dull and deep
ringed, ami the step is slow and languid.
There ia an "nil ilragged-om feeling,"
which makes hfe
an utter burden.
The great func-tional
eliangea
wh Ich follow
marriage an- not
usually antici-pated,
or tin wife-ly
raftering might
lie avoided.
Dr. l'ierce's Fa-vorite
Prescription
is ihe best mend
of weak and sickly
women, It curea
111,- womanly dis-eases
ibai roll the
eve oi brightness
ami the ■ten of
lightness It tones
up tin- lysteui and
establishes the
womanly organ-ism
on a basis of
Bound health.
"Favorite Pro-scription"
con-tains
no alcohol,
neither opium, eor-iino, nor other nar-cotics.
Accept no substitute. There ia
no other medicine " just SS good" for
weak teid sickh women.
-1 had bees .iyri.itsun'- i.i iieiu fciiuii, weak*
i ■ about two \-,.u— w-iit.. ,\ii- grama
Rti hardaon, ol Gcaa '.'■ i Ki 'Could
not do my work part of Ihe lime. I look fouf
hotttoBoi in Pteroa'a Pafontc TiasorlpUonand
I, Il .'- well •>- I ever did "
Young married women will filial a
lasting friend in Dr. Pierre's M.-.lical
Adviser. It contain-. loo8 pagW ami
is sent free (in paper Cover), on re-ceipt
of 21 one-cent -tamps to pay
expense of mailing only. Cloth binrl-
Ing, ;t stamps. Aildre39 Dr. R. V. Pierce,
Buflalo, N. Y.