The Conshohocken Recorder, December 29, 1911

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AN IMPORTANT REALTY
DEAL AT GULF MILLS
HENDERSON SUPPLEE HAS SOLD
TWENTY-TWO ACRES OF LAND
ALONG THE GULF ROAD AND
MONTGOMERY AVENUE. PUR-CHASER
UNKNOWN BUT IS
THOUGHT TO BE MRS. GEORGE
A. FLETCHER. LAND ADJOINS
HER HOME.
Henderson Supplee, Hie well!
flour and irer cf < on
■hobockeii, who recentlj removed
from Gulf .Mills to Port Kennedy, has
consummated another Important real
leal.
This time be baa sold 22 acrei of
land at Cull .Mills on the west side
of the Gull road and Montgomery av-enue
to a purchaser thought to be
-Mrs. George A. Fletcher, of the same
place, on private terms.
Some lime ago Mr. Supplee fold to
the Philadelphia and Western Rail-way
Company eight acres of land on
which was the old Supplee home-stead
and several other dwellings, all
being on the eastern side of the Gulf
road and Montgomery avenue. A
portion o'i the ground which he sold
to Mrs. Fletcher, a fine large meadow
adjoins her handsome country es-tate
and also that of her son-in-law
Wamiwt Richards. Included in the
new purchase of Mrs. Fletcher's is
the ruins of the Old Grist Mill erect-ed
in 1747 and destroyed by a con-flagration
in about the year 1895. It
was in this ancient mill that flour
was ground for the evolutionary sol-diers
during their encampment in the
vicinity of Gulf Mills and at Valley
Forge during the winter of 1777 and
1778. Also situated on this 22 acre
tract are several other buildings one
of which a number of years ago was
used as a saw mill by tha late Thom-as
Hudson and afterwards as a grist
mill by Henderson Supplee. Another
structure was at one time used for
the manufacture of children's toys by
a man named Meyers. The Gulf
Oreek extends through the entire
tract. Notwithstanding that Mr. Sup-plee
has sold about 30 acres of land
at Gulf Mills, he still retains cou-slderable
real estate, there including
what is known as the Van I.eer prop-erty
and tenanted by the well-known
artist Edward F. Munshower, besid-es
woodland on the Gulf Hills.
Since the destruction of the Old
Gulf (iris- Mill, Mr. Supplee has been
engaged in the flour and feed busi-ness
in Conshohocken. Mrs. George
A. Fletcher has been a resident of
Gulf Mills for about fifteen years.
Her husband, the late George A.
Fletcher, having purchased the Jam-es
Griflith farm, erected thereon a
palatial mansion, which his widow
and family occupy in the summer. The
Fletcher property is one of the show
places of this loeallty.
JAMES A. FLAHRETY
Supreme Representative
K. OF C. COUNCIL TO
BE INSTITUTED HERE
MANY MEN PROMINENT IN THE
ORDER WILL BE HERE TO CON-FER
DEGREES ON 85 MEMBERS
AND INSTITUTE NEW COUNCIL
NO. 1603 K. OF C. SESSION
WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY AF-TERNOON.
This iown will be the Mecca for
the Knights of Columbus on Sunday
next, when hundreds of the Knights
from nearby places will come here
to aid and witness the Institution of
a new council No. 1603, which will
be composed of local people aDd will
be located here. Many men promin-ent
in the order will be present and
will take part in the ceremonies.
I-Jist night, a meeting was held in
the A. O. H. building, where the per-manent
quarters of the Council will
be establit-hed and the first degree
was conferred on a large number of
candidates, the work being done by
the degree team from West Chester
Council.
CALVARY CHURCH MU8IC
Tne choir of Calvary church win
reader a speotal service at Christmas
and New Tears musia <>■ Sunday
erenlng. The following win be the
programme:
Proeesstona.1 Hymn—It Came t.OB
A Midnight clear W||(,
Magnificat and Nunc Dimlttis—ia
B flat Simp*.
The First Christmas Morn
Newton
Proclaim ye His Name .... Tudon
O Holy Night Adam
Recessional Hymn—From Glory In-to
Glory Tours
March—\ncienne Macbeth
RUTH GLASS COMPANY
APPLIES FOR A CHARTER
COUNCIL WILL
ORGANIZE ON MONDAY
THE WATER RATE
FIGHT IS ON
PEOPLE'S A. C. HOLD
3RD ANNUAL BANQUET
NEW CONCERN OF LOCAL PEO-PLE
WILL START A MANUFAC-TURING
PLANT HERE. BUILD-INGS
ARE ALMOST COMPLETED
AND IT IS EXPECTED TO HAVE
PLANT IN OPERATION BY JAN-UARY
15TH.
CHANGE IN LAW PLACES THE
ORGANIZATION DATE FOR
YEAR'S INSTEAD OF FIR,T
MONDAY IN MARCH.— ORGAN-IZATION
WILL TAKE PLAT
THE EVENING. ALL OLD OF-FICERS
LIKELY TO BE
NAMED.
A HEARING IN OPEN COURT UP- THE MEMBERS OF THE CLUB
George Hastings, Lillian Ruth and
Aaum Until will ou January 29th,
make application to the Governor for
a charter for a corporation to be
known as the Ruth Glass Cim:
The company is composed o.' local
residents and they will engage in the
manufacture of glass bottles and
other glassware for use by chemists
and druggists, The company is
having a three story, concrete block
building •retted at Tenth avenue
and llallowell street. The building
will be completed in the first week in
January and is :'.."> feet by 80 feet.
As soon as the building is completed
the necessary machinery will be In-stalled.
Already much of the equip-ment
for the beginning of o|H-rations
is in place and it Is expected that ac-tual
manufacturing will begin about
January 15th.
The plant will begin operations
with about twenty-five employes the
greater number of whom will be
glass blowers. The new works will
give employment to a number of
girls and before the end of the first
year it is anticipated that 40 or more
people will be employed.
Previous to 1908, Joseph Kuth, a
local resicent, operated a glass fact-ory
here and was very successful. In
1908 he became associated with oth-er
manufacturers and removed his
plant to Philadelphia and later to
Vineland, N. J. Several weeks ago
Mr. Ruth withdrew from the Vine-land
concern and has returned here
to reside.
The new company will manufacture
glassware of all sorts, but will not
manufacture glass from the raw ma-terials.
The articles of their manu-factur
will be blown from tubing
which will be purchased in the open
market.
The new plant is modern in every
respect and will contain the latest
equipment for the manufacture of
bottles.
FIRC IN TEXTILE MILL
PROF. M. J. KEHOE
Grand Knight
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Oa Sunday afternoon, in Little's
Opera House, the ceremonies of in-stituting
the Council will be held.
The ceremonies will begin at one o'-
clock and the second and third de-grees
will be conferred on a lumber
of candidates. The Council will be
instituted with a membership of 85.
The second degree will be conferred
by members of the Norrlstown Coun-cil
and the third degree will be con-
«rred by State Depty McEnery.
Those prominent in the order who
'I be present at the ceremonies are
S"' me Knight James A. Flaherty,
"f :ladelphla; Past State Deputy,
•,oh2rC Hrew, Erie; Past State De-inTy,
T II. Lynch and State Deputy
MrKnery, of Philadelphia.
The officers of the now council are
Grand Knight, M. J. Kehoe; Deputy
Grand Knight, Joseph A. Kelly, Fin-ancial
Secretary, John J. Fogarty;
Treasurer, P. J. l.eary; Recording
Secretary. John I,. Darby; Chancel-
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Flames Break Out in the Picker Room
at the H. C. Jones Co.—Loss Slight
Fire broke out in the "picker"
room at the textile mills of the H.
C. Jones Company, Washington and
Ash streecs, shortly after two o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The heat from
the fire *et the sprinklers off but
the fire got into some raw material
and t he flames got beyond the cen-tral
of the employees and the fire-mea
were summoned. At th» time of
the fire (he sind was very cold and
blowing a gale. The firemen were
delayed several minutes in getting
across the railroad and in making
their water connections on account
of the trains. The Washington Com-pany
got a stream of water on the
flames as they were breaking I h rough
the windows and the fire wan com-flned
to the room. The No. 2 Com-pany
arrived and also went into ser-vice.
The damage done was mostly
from water all the fire got Into cot-ton
and ii was necessary to deluge
it. Much of the cloth in the room
was removed before it was damaged.
The loss may exceed $1500.
Go to Glllam's, 4!) IB. Main street,
Norristown for Photographs, also
Picture Framing.
If you have an item of news, wocle.1
personal or otherwise, send it to
The Recorder.
r the Brat lime In the htato
the borough Council win organ!
New fears day and another i'
is that instead of organizing in the
morning as has ah...., been the rule
the organization will take place in
the evening, w Ith the chant ol
date made by the law, the rule of
council setting the time tor or.
at ion at ten o'clock a. in. is C<
ered as null and in order to ai
modate tne members who find It In-convenient
to attend a mornin;
sion, the meeting will be held i.. the
evening a: eight o'clock. Co
will meet at 7 P. II. and adjourn
sine die. This change will also
make it convenient for citizens to at-tend
the meeting if they desire.
The whole interest centers about
the election of a president. Council
is composed of eleven Republicans
and four Democrats. The Republicans,
will have easy control. President
Thomas is again a candidate to suc-ceed
himself and Edmund K. Wil-liams,
of the Fifth ward, is opposing
him.
The present officers are also candi-dates
for re-election and are not
likely to have any opposition. They
are: Solicitor, J. Aubrey Anderson;
Clerk. Harvey G. Field; Treasurer,
William Campbell.
There is some talk that an attempt
will be made to make some changes
on the police force. All the pres-ent
officers will be candidates for
re-election and It is rumored that
Thomas McCarter, of the Third ward
a Republican and John Boyce, of the
First ward, a Democrat, both of
whom have acted as substitute police
men at times, will be candidates for
the police force.
It is believed that the present force
of Heald. Ruth, Mason and Slav in
will be re-elected.
Another feature of this organiza-tion
is that all officers elected will
be for a term of two years as here-after
council will organize bi-ennial-ly.
The retiring members of council
are Frank McPhilomy, Democrat of
the Fourth ward and J. A. Crossmore
of the Fifth ward. Each is succeed-ed
by a member of the same political
faith The members of the new
Council will be: First ward, John A.
Harrold, Democrat; John l^acey.
Democrat; Miles Stemple, Republic-an.
Second Ward—Mayall May, R;
Harry T. Woodland, R; Elwood Neb
lit, R. Third Ward—Dr. J. Q. Thorn
as, R; Richard H. Bate Sr. R: John
Blinglnff, R. Fourth Ward— M. r.
Harvey, R; William B. Toner. D;
Frank KeTly, V. Fifth Ward— M-mund
K. Williams, R; Frank Marks,
R; George W. Jones, R.
ON ONE OF THE LEGAL PHASES
OF THF LITIGATION.
AND THEIR FRIENDS TO THE
NUMBER OF ONE HUNDRED^
AND THIRYY ENJOY A SPLEf
DID TURKEY DINNER.—J. Bl
NETTE HOLLAND WAS TOAJ
MASTER AND EVERY Oj
HAD A GOOD TIME.
Judges Weand and Swartz. sat in : 1
open < ourt on Tueadaj lai I to
of Counsel upon the
be Water
Compi i be Inti i n
■
Company in the water pa;
The Watt r Company was i ombone, lama
! by Joseph T, Bunl "'' ,no
Edward II. Hall, i MlU orchestra were tlere and
It was
and
town, while the water i
were i i inted by George Whar
ton Pepper and Qilpin G. Robinson,
played some n Ighty tine music. "Bob"
i rawford at the lead of the 1'eople's
A. C. i . fi lends to the □ umber
of one hundred and thirty, came
of Philadelphia and \. il. Larzelere marching Into the banqueting room.
and Henry M. Tracy of this county
The point at issue is one which
at Little's Hall, last night, to the
stirring strains of "Alexander's Rag
goes to the marrow of the litigation,' Tlnle ,i:""1" •""' «* down to a good
that is, whether the Water Compan-1©ld-fashloned Christmas dinner ol
ies are bound to furnish the Consuin-'roa8t turkey and all the "axiiis."
ers with detailed Information concern-{ Arter eve|,y one naQ e**en '° h'»
ing the facts which are solely Ithin ""• and ln«' amount of tilling neces-the
knowledge of the Water Compan- 8ary u,ade the extra nllin8 on the
ies, namely, facts concerning their
franchises and the territory in which
Fayette street pacing job a small oue
In comparison, J. Burnette Holland,
each subsiding company operates; I acting as toastmaster, introduced
the Corporate relations of each com- Borough Solicitor J. Aubrey Ander-pany
to the other, and the com posit- |»on. The Solicitor congratulated the
ion of th? Board of , Directors: the
stock and bound indebtedness ot each
Company and just how much of It
represents cash investments, all the
details of cost of plant, cost of op-eration
and revenues derived there-from
both before and after the raise
in rates; a description of all dams,
reservoirs, conduits, pumping stations
purification plants, stand pipes, pipe
lines and real estate holdings, all of
which It was argued was essential in-formation
for the Court to have in or-der
to determine the reasonableness
of the rates and all of it was solely
club on its athletic record for the
season just closed and advocated
strongly the inauguration of a move-ment
for enclosed grounds that bet-ter
teams may be developed and
what the town may get the business
benefit which good clean sports
bring to a town. The diners were
impressed with his remarks and de-cided
that a movement should be
started for the grounds immediately.
Mr. Cullen, of Bloomsburg, told
what that town has In enclosed
grounds and athletic teams and the
benefit the town derives from good.
within the knowledge of the defend- clean sport. Others who responded
to toasts were: Messrs. Joseph Ruth,
Jacob Hamilton, Frank I.. Tracy. Wil-liam
McFarland Robert, Crawford and
ant companies.
Mr. Pepper argued that there were
no sides to this case so far as the
evidence before the court is concern-1 Joseph Kelly.
ANDERSON TO BE APPOINTED
Local Attorney Will be Appointed As
slstant District Attorney.
On Monday next. District Attorney-1
elect Conrad Shleve will announce
the appointment of his assistants. J.
Aubrey Anderson of this borough will
undoubtedly be named as one of the
assistants and It is said on good au-thority
that Abram Hendricks, of Col- ,
legeville, and a former district at •
ney will be given the other appoint
meat The appointment of .Mr. An-derson,
who is a young man am al
present Solicitor for the Borough
be a cause for much gratific.
among bis friends.
ed. The court was entitled, like a
public service commission, to nil the
evidence wherever it could be found,
and any questions profounded to the
Water Companies which were pertin-ent
and within their knowledge should
be answered. He drew a distinction
between evidence in the posbession
and control of a private business cor-poration,
who resent an Inquiry Into
their aflairs as an intrusion, and an
inquiry into the affairs of a public
service corporal ion which should have
no secrets from the public.
He further argued that the except-ions
to the answers raised no quest-ion
as to the right to discovery, but
only whether the reasons given were
sufficient to excuse them from answer-ing.
He then went Into a lengthy-argument
to show that the reasons
for refusal to answer were not pertin-ent—
He stated the Water Company
refused to answer thirty four inter-rogatories
because the question* were
for the purpose of fishing up the evi-dence
for the defence—he admitted
the crime and thought the i>ond a
good one to fish In; as to twenty two
interrogatlves the Water Company an-swered
that the questions were lr-revalent—
it was argued that the
Court must hear this information in
order to fairly determine the reason-ableness
of the rates charged and as
to the facte sought, they ought to be
readily accessible to the defendants,
as a public service corporation. If
they are not the circumstance that it
may cost the defendants money to
complete their records is not a good
reason for relieving them from duty
to furnish, on proper demand, the ba-sic
facts upon which their charges to
the public must rest.
J. Burnette Holland sang several
solos and recited an original poem
which made a great hit. There w. rt
recitations by Lloyd Sagebeer, Wil-liam
McFarland and John Collins
which brought the house down. Jno.
Flynn and Mr. Miller sany silos and
the Morrii-on quartette sang a num
ber of songs. The orchestra played
a number of selections. John l-ow
played a coronet solo in such fine
Style thai he was compelled to re-spond
to an encore. Robert amsey
gave a selection on the trombone and
Earnest (Srauel played a clarionet so-lo.
Both were greatly applauded and
res|K>nded with encores.
The banquet wound up at mid-night
and every one was satisfied that
the People's Club never spent a bet-ter
and happier evening.
FARRELL—C0UL8T0N
Broker Takes Whitemarsh Girl for
His Bride.
Miss Frances Conde Coulston, sis-ter
of Mrs. William Potts Jones, sf
this borough, was married to Mr.
George R. Farrell, of Philadelphia,
in that city on Wednesday last. Af-ter
the ceremony the couple left for
Florida, where they will spend their
honeymoon. Upon their return they
will reside at 225 Willow drove Pike
and will be at home after March
First.
The iT^nm |o ene">ced in the bank-ing
and brokerage business in Ph
delphla.
The bride is a member of one of
the Oldest families in this section
mi'' before h"r maniaca was princi-
M;;pe;,;rfu'r7her argued .hat a ^ ? ""» We,d°n Sch°01' Wh,t-marsh
township.
Everything In Meats—Klndregan. READ THE RECORDER, $1 s. VEAR
competent public service commission
would Insist upon having all the in-formation
which tl". defendants are
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Steer Plate Beef—7c lb.—Kindregan.
READ THE RECORDER, $1 a Year
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