The Conshohocken Recorder, March 8, 1912

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WILL SOON ERECT
A NEW SCHOOL
10 STAKT CHURCH FUND uLii.uonftls TO
THE SCHOOL BOARD MAKING
PREPARATIONS TO PAY OFF
ITS FLOATING INDEBTEDNESS
WITH BONDS AND GET IN
FUNDS TO PAY FOR A NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING.
At the meeting of the School
Board on Wednesday evening the Fi-nance
Committee, with J. A. Ander-son,
the solocitor of the board, were
directed lo prepare the necessary
resolutions for submission to the
next meeting of the Hoard In April,
so that the present floating indebted-ness
of about $10,000 can be paid off
With a four per cent, bond, also that
sufficient bonds in addition be offer-ed
lor sale to pay for a new school
building suitable for primary and in-termedia!,
grades, and for the install
ing In iln present school buildings
ef sanitary Hush closets.
Treasurer Morrison advised the
Hoard that $1000 of the bonded in-debtedness
had been paid during
February, from the sinking fund, and
«hat there yet remained in the sink-ing
fund $300.
The Teachers and Text Hook Com-mittee,
of which William Cleaver is
chairman is examining different sites
in the town trying to find the one
eest filled for a new school building.
While no definite plans has as yet
been decided upon for the building,
the present crowded condition of the
present schools makes relief imi>era-tive,
and ine Hoard hope that a four
or six room building can be erected
*ble year, or, the plans of the Hoard
■nay be changed to erect a High
School Building.
Louis Jones, the chairman oi the
Building Committee, showed the
members of the Board a plan for
s»ew toilet rooms containing automa-tic
flush closets to replace the pres-ent
unsanitary toilet rooms. Bids will
will be had on these plans and will
*e presented at the April meeting of
the Board.
Under the efficient and economic-al
management of the Boar.l the
schools have been maintained at the
highest standard and the expenses
}>aid out of the current revenue,
While the bonded debt is being stead-ily
reduced at the rate of $l!i0 per
■lonth. The members feel sure that
she floating indebtedness can be
tli;:nged into bonds at a saving in
i met, and that additional bonds
can be Issued to meet all the re-etnentx
of the Board without any
increase in the tax rate.
The present floating indebtedness
■was incurred by the Board paying off
a. bond of $10,000, that amount being
in the treasury at the time, and. the
Hoard thinking that a new bond could
toe issued when funds were needed.
But the laws of the state prohibited
the issuing of bonds to pay off float-ing
indebtedness. The new code,
■IOW.■«>)-, has changed the law in this
respect and bonds can not be issued.
On the motion of Mr. Cleaver, the
Board adopted a resolution that all
applicants for the position of teacher
*n the schools must be a graduate
from a Normal School or College, or
•Is.' have taught in the Conahohock-en
Schools, a substitute for two
years. This is simply re-enacting
resolutions of former Boards.
Prof. Cloud advised that 22 begin-ners
ana 2 advanced pupils had been
admitted to the schools during Feb-ruary.
This makes a total enroll-ment
for the year of 801. The new
studies of mechanical drawing and
Pennsylvania History had been start
ed and v. ere now in smooth opera-tion.
The Hoard directed that the Super-intendent
start the monthly fire
drills, as called for by the new
«chool code.
Treasurer Morrison reported that
be had just received from the State
Treasurer a check for $310.50 the
amount of the State appropriations
•or second-class high schools to
which Conshohocken is entitled.
This Is in addition to the regular
State appropriation received in Aug-ust.
Treasurer Morrison reported a bal-ance
in the treasury of $1821.33.
Orders were granted for miscell-aneous
bills amounting to $416.28, as
well as for the salaries of the teach-ers
and janitors.
Italians Will Make Big Demonstrat-ion
to Raise a Church Building I
Fund.
The local Italian societies have
completed all arrangements for the
demonstration and mass meeting to
be held in Little's Opera House, on
Sunday afternoon for the purpose of
raising a fund to build a church for
the use of the local Italian residents
and to have the gospel preached in
their native tongue.
The three Italian soo'.etlea have
engaged a band of music and will par-ade
from Maple street to the P. R.
K. station to meJt the 3.58 P. M.
train on which the visiting priests
will arrive. The societies will then
march to the Opera House where the
meeting will be held.
That the church will be built is al-most
assured and a site will be se-lected
within a few days. Many con-tributions
have been promised und the
actual work of constructing the buil-ding
is expected to begin this spring.
MISS WALKER'S RECITAL
ROY "WHITEY" ELLAM
Arrangements Are Under Way for a
Dollar Dinner to Bring the Party
Together.
v D.NNER FREE LIBRARY'S USE
IS INCREASING
Next Sunday evening, March 10th,
as a prelude to the evening service,
at the Baptist Church and starting
at 7.30 o'clock there will be given by
Marion Gilbert Walker, OrganlBt, as-sisted
by Rusel Stickler, Tenor, the
following Recital:
Organ:
Grand March from "Aida"—G. Verdi
Berceuse from ".locelyn"—B. Godard
Solo—"Come, Jesus Redeemer,"
Bartlett
Organ:
Intermezzo G. Dethier
Pastorale P. Wachs
Offertory, Melody In A-flat
H. Shelly
Postlude, March in F B. Steane
SPECIAL MEETINGS IN
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Every night next week, with the ex-ception
of Saturday night. Special
Meetings for the deepening of the
Spiritual Life will be held In the
BaptiBt Church. Here is a list of
the Preachers who wll speak on the
various nights:
Mar. I— e . C. P. Warner, Potts-tow
Mar 1. : \. \V. B. Forney, Phladel-pliia.
Mar 1.1—I'v. A. .1. Davies
Mar 12—Rev, \V. .M Forney, l'hiladcl
delphia.
Mar 16—Rev. W. J. Cusworth, Cold
Point.
The visiting preachers have been
selected for the reason that in each
instance the speaker is a man cap-able
of making an earnest and win-some
appeal to men in behalf of the
higher thnigs. Each one Is well
worth the hearing, while all the mes-sages
will point to one clear and dis-tinctive
purpose, the winning of men
to the higher reaches of the Christian
Life, or to the starting of that Life
if not already begun. Simple, and
earnest tvangelistic singing will aid
the efforts of the visiting clergymen.
An earnest invitation is extended to
all to share in the benefits of these
meetings.
HAS MADE GOOD AS A
BASE BALL PLAYER
ROY ELLAM OF THE WEST SIDE
HAS EARNED AN ENVIABLE REP-UTATION
AND IS THE PREMIER
SHORT STOP ON THE BIRMING-HAM
(8. L.) TEAM
Roy Ellam is a member of the Bir-mingham,
Ala., team of the Southern
1-vague and will leave on Monday for
the Southern Clrty where he will join
the other members of the team to
begin spring training for the coming
season which is scheduled to open
on April 16th.
Whitey, which he is familiarly call-ed,
is a resident of West Conshohock-en
and has been in professional base
ball for several seasons. While a
pupil at the public school in the West
Borough he began to practice the
game and entered into It with a de-termination
to climb to the top. Af-ter
graduating from the school he
went to Ambler to work and became
a member of the team at that place
in the North Penn league. From
the first he became the leading short
stop in the league and continued to
play consistently through the season.
His great work attracted the alien
tion of base ball managers throughout
the state and he was signed to play
BARNSHAW ACQUITTED
OF LARCENY CHARGE
WELL KNOWN LOCAL TEAMSTER
AND MATTHEW FOGARTY WERE
ACQUITTED THI8 AFTERNOON
OF LARCENY OF CORN FROM
THE TRACY BARN. — JURV
BROUGHT IN A SEALED VER-DICT
AND WANTS COSTS ON
PROSECUTOR.
Henry Barnahaw, the well known
teamster and Matthew Fogarty were
this afternoon acquitted on the charge
of the larceny of corn from the barn
of Frank L. Tracy, on the Consho-hocken
pike, just outside the borough
limits.
The case was put on trial yesterday
afternoon and sent to the jury at 12.30
o'clock this afternoon. The jury re-turned
to court at the opening of the
afternoon session and rendered a scal-ed
verdict. The verdict acquitted
the accused men and placed the costs
on the prosecutor. Judge Swartz
asked the jury if they believed the
evidence was not sufficient to bring
.the case to court? The jury believed
such to be so whereupon the Judge
ordered that the prosecutor be re-
'iiie Democrats are getting togeth-er
for the coming campaign if some of
the progressives of the County Dem-ocracy
are successful in their plans.
The method to be used for HIH
mentlng process is the beat dinner
that can be had for a dollar.
The Lower Merion Democratic
Club has issued a call, signed by Ed-win
S. Haws, secretary, for a meeting
to be held to-mono A afternoon, at
2.30 o'clock at the Rambo lions..
Norristown, to arrange for a dollar
dinner to be held in the near future
and to which aii Democrats "ill be
Invited. The object oi the dinner la
to bring ii.irm.iii and to Inter-ests
in the party.
BIG SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Lower Merion Property Brings Big
Price.—Land to be Developed.
lieved of the costs as the evidence
short stop for the CoruieHsvllle, Pa7, j'^^.^l^^.*J?^"*8
team. He remained with this team The testimony presented was prae-tor
a season, when he was signed by jtirally the 8ame as prlnted in tne ■»
the Birmingham team. After playing oorder of Fe°ruary 27th., giving the
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES
Our New Easter Music will be ready
for our attention In the Bible School
on Sunday morning next. Lei us
start in and prepare for a most joy-ful
and helpful Faster Season.
"The Counsel of Barnabas" Is the
subject of the sermon to be delivered
by Pastor A. J. Davies on Sunday
morning next. The service starts at
10.30 A. M.
The evening service starting at
7.30 wil II be inaugurated with an Or-gan
Recital given by Marion Gilbert
Walker, assisted by Russel Stickler.
Tenor, Soloist. Pastor Davies will
preach on "Following the Gleam."
Every night next week with the ex-ception
of Saturday, there will be a
Special Meeting in the Church. In
another place you will find full an-nouncement
of these meetings.
For a mild easy action of the bow-els,
try Moan's egulets, a modern laxa-tive.
25c at all stores.
SEND US YOUR SOCIAL NEWS
The Recorder Invites from its read-ers
of these columns brief accounts of
social events, with lists of guests, per-sonal
notes. Write on one side; let
us have It by noon Tuesday and Fri-day,
and supply your name and ad-dress
as evidence of good faith.
Carpet weaving in all Its branches
at Kehoet. Hector St., oppo. school.
with this team for two seasons, where
he was the premier short stop of the
Southern League, he was pm chased
by Clark Griffith, at that time Man-ager
of the Cincinnatti Reds, of the
National league. He went with the
National League team at the close of
the season or 1910, but without giving
him a thorough try out he was farm-ed
out to the Kansas City team of
the American Association. Not being
pleased with the atmosphere that
pervades the American Association,
he made known his dissatisfaction
and was immediately reclaimed by
Birmingham where he still continues
te play great ball. Last season he
was out of the game for several
weeks owing to a broken shoulder
received in a collission with another
player. This naturally effected his
fielding for a short time after his lay-off
but at that he finished with an
average of over ,»00. While he is not
one of the best batters in the South-ern
League his average lsat season
was close to the .300 mark.
As a base ball player he is the type
of man who elevates the game. His
conduct both on and off the Held is
beyond reproach and he commands
the respect of both manager and play-ers.
He is the only person in either bor-ough
to advance so far In the great
National pasUme. He claims the
West Borough as his home and at the
close of each season immediately re-turns
to the home of his mother at
Josephine and Bullock avenues where
he spends the winter.
testimony of the prosecutor at the
Magistrate's hearing.
Barnshaw had a number of charac-ter
witnesses who testified as to his
good reputation. They were: Irvin
Moore, Councilman M. J. Harvey, Wil-liam
Zeber, Louis O'Brien, of this bor-ough
and a Mr. Lawler of Norristowu.
The case grew out of the larceny
of four bags of corn from the Tracy
stable on February 13th laBt. Mr.
Tracy testified that within the last
few months he has lost between 50
ad 75 bushels of seed corn.
Forty-five acres of ground between
Merlon and Narberth, on the Main
IJne of the Pennsylvania Railroad
the remainder of the holdings ef the
estate of I^ouis Thomas, have been
sold to Charles J. Mclllvaln, Jr., of
Mclllvain & Company, by Samuel C.
Wright, Jr. Although the considera-tion
is withheld, it is reiwrted to be
in the neighborhood of $175,000, as
ground in the immediate vicinity is
held for sale at from 15000 to $7000
an acre.
The purchaser will .imediately de-velop
the property by the erection
of dwellings. The Thomas family has
for more than 100 years owned the
property) part of which is opposite
the old General Wayne Inn, made fa-mous
in the Revolutionary days.
The estate oi Dr. Charles T. Goet-ner
has sold the tract of ground on
Church road at St. David's Pa., con-taining
five acres. The purchaser,
Adolph G. Rosengarten, will erect a
handsome house on the property,
which he will occupy as his residence.
The ground adjoins the tract recently
purchased by Herbert L. Clarke, and
is near the property of D M. Barring-er.
The consideration was $9500.
THE INSTITUTION HAS LONG AGO
PASSED THE EXPERIMENTAL
STAGE AND EACH YEAR SHOWS
AN INCREASE IN CIRCULATION.
—LIBRARY IS IN GOOD FINAN-CIAL
CONDITION. —CIRCULAT-ION
AVERAGES 100 BOOKS PER
DAY.
A LITERARY NIGHTMARE
Automatic Water Findar.
An automatic wnter finder is made
by an English firm which, according
to the Agrieiillnral Journal of India.
Ims been used with some success In
Bombay. Instead of the wnter witch's
lui/el or peach rod. this Instrument
works i.y measuring the strength of
the electric currents which flow be-tween
earth and atmosphere. These
currents are nmst powerful in (hs
vicinity of subterranean streams.
A 25c Bargain in Rings
We have about six dozen gold filled
Rings, set in white ^stones, Garnetts,
Sapphires, Emeralds, Turquoise and
Rnbys. Wc will close them out at
twenty-five cents each. First come,
first choice. F. J. BLOOMIIALL, the
Jeweler.
Rabbit Fur Hats.
Rabbit fur has supplanted wool In
felt bat making in Sydney, Australia,
where thirty-two factories are in oper-ation.
The fur Is considerably superior
to the finest merino for this purpose,
and millions of rnbbit skins are used
annually. It takes the fur of about six
average skins to make a fur felt ha I.
In one factory the consumption of
skins ranges from 25,000 to 30,000 per
week.
(Oak Lane Review)
When does Mary Mapea Dodge?
When Thomas W. Knox.
What did Charles Reade?
Whatever he saw .Mabel Osgood
Wright.
What made Virgil?
Having to Pla-lo small audiences.
When is it that John Burroughs?
When he hears Edward Everett
Hale.
Who gave Thomas Paine?
Hamilton Wright Mable.
What is it that John Keadrlck
Bangs?
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What made Winston Churchill?
Eating what he saw John Ester
Cooke.
What was it ihat Bulwer Litton?
Delano,
Why did Charles Darwin?
Because he never turned his back
to Defoe.
When Did lfollle Elliot Sean-ell
When she heard Charles Dudley
Warner.
Where did Captain Frederick Mar-ryat?
At tha Ellen Olney Kirk.
When was Laurence Sterne?
When ne found Bill Nye.
Where did Henry Cabot Lodge?
In a Dryden.
For what did Eugene Sue?
For onb of Samuel Smiles.
Why did Miss .Mulock up the silver?
Because she saw Flora Annie Steel.
Why do we not laugh at R. D. H.
Iliackmorc'r
Because we find John Greenleaf
Whittier.
JOSBPIUNE POPE
The trustees of the Conshohockea
Free Library held a meeting last ev-ening,
at the library and beside*
transacting the routine business, re-
I a i' port ir mi the librarian.
Anij Baldwin showing the coa-ii
of the librarj.
Institution is being used by a.
er extent than was anticipated,
and its ns< shows that it is doing a
good work and has proven to be a
11 \.
The library was instituted on May
1st, 1907 and was at first opened la\
a room in the public schools. Those
quarters quickly becam e too small,
and the School Hoard also needed the
room and the library was moved to
111 Fayette street. The prominent
cation made it very convenient lor
the public and the permanency of the
institution became assured. The
School Board and Town Council each
appropriate $500 per year for Its main-tenance
and private donations are
sulllciet to assure its up-keep.
The library is ow established in
the fine property, generously donated
by the heirs of the late Lewis A. Lu-kens,
and its comfortable rooms are
dally frequented by many persons.
The library is ably managed by the
following officers: President, A. Con-rad
Jones, Secretary, Thomas F. Mc-
Coy; Tieasurer, Dr. George T. Luk-es;
Trustees, Richard H. Bate, Ed-mund
K. Williams, John U. Slingluff,
represeting Town Council; Dr. C. F.
Tegtmeler, Louis Jones and Ralph
Campbell, representing the School
Board and William F. Meyers and
Thomas I'. McCoy.
The report of the librarian Is as'
follows:
Total Number of Books 524<>
Total number ot Reader's Cards
:i2.'!t)
Circulation.
May Isi. 1907-1908 28844-
May 1st. 1908-19011 26792
May 1st. 1909-1910 2977,1
May 1st. 1910-1911 :I0607
FORMER RESIDENT DEAD
William II. Dean, a former resident
of this borough, died at his home in
Chester, yesterday.
Mr. Dean was about 80 years old,
and was well known in the textile
business. For a number or years he-was
employed at the mills of the late
Stanley l.ees and later, with his
brother formed the firm of Dean
lirothers and operated a plant as
Thurlaw, Pa, Their plant was de-stroyed
by fire and the business was
closed out.
Deceased was a member of Frits
1-odge of Masons and has several
relatives residing here.
The funeral will be held on Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock from his late
residence, -126 Parker street, Chester.
IGNORE AUTO-KILLING CHARGE
Grand Jury Refuses to Consider Man
slaughter Bill Against Payre.
Four Absolut* Monarohs.
Now i hut Russia, Turkey. Persia,
China. Montenegro and Monaco have
adopted constitutions and parliaments,
there ate only four absolute monar.-lis
left In the world. These nre the king
of Slam, the ameer of Afghanistan, the
•ultnn of Morocco and the Iman of
Muscat.
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The Grand Jury of Norrlstown on
Wednesday, ignored the bill charg-ing
manslaughter against George
Payne, Bon of the late capitol con-tractor,
the indictment devi loping
from the accident in which Martin
Smith, of Abingtou. was fatally In-jured
some months ago. Payne ami
several companions were motoring
on Old York Road in Abington town-ship,
neat Folly Farms, the suburb-an
estate of George W. Klkii.s, Jr..
when the car struck and injured
Smith, a foreman in the employ of
Elkins.
Smith died in the Jewish Hospital
and Payne was arrested on a mas-slaughter
charge. When the case
reached the Montgomery County
Grand Jury that body ignored the
bill and although sent back the see-ond
time to reconsider the evident*
the jury again tailed to return an in-ilictmeii*.
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all stores.