The Conshohocken Recorder, June 7, 1912

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TEACHERS RESIGN
FROM LOCAL SCHOOLS
OTHERS ARE ELECTED TO FILL
THEIR PLACES AND REMAINING
CORPS OF TEACHERS ARF RE-j
ELECTED.—ADVANCE MADE IN
SOME SALARIES.—BIDS FOR TOI-LET
SYSTEM NOT OPENED.
At the regular meting of the bchool
board, on Wednesday evening, Prin-dpeJ
Ddgar Kemner, Miss Bva Row-ley,
teach) r in the fifth grade; Miss
Alice Buckle, teacher in the third
grade; .Miss Helen A. Miller, teacher
In the second grade and Miss Florence
Maconachy. teacher i;i the first "grade,
tendered their resignations to the
Board, to take effect at the end of the
present school term. The resignat-ions
were accepted and the following
teachers were elected to fil the vacan-cies:
Principal, Irvln O. Knoll, of
Bellefonte, Pa., at a salary ot JIL'OO
per year; Miss Marie Thomas and
Alias Josephine Rapvine, both of this
borough and former students of the
schools, at a salary of $40 per month.
Miss Hose Staley, of Cold Point, at a
salary of$40 per month and Miss
Maude Liggett, of Chester Couuty, at
a salary of J.">0 per month. Miss Ligg-
«tt is an experienced teacher, hence
her increase in salary over the other
new teachers who are inex|>erienced.
The old corps of teachers were elect-ed
and the following increases in sal-ary
were made: Miss Lillian Freas,
from $65 to $70 per month; Miss Min-nie
Shultz, from $70 to $7.1; Miss
Maude Sagebeer, from $35 to $.">7.50;
Miss Emily Jeffries, from $50 to $55;
Thomas Middleton, teacher of music,
from $^5 to $30. The position of prin-cipal
of thv primary department will
be dlscontlued at the end of this term.
The resignation of the five teachers
■was not due to any friction Whatever,
Mr. Kemner has decided to enter bus-iness
life and has secured a liositioa
in the office of the 1-ee Tire and Rub-ber
company. The other teachers
have better ]>ositions offered them and
felt that they should accept.
After the election of teachers was
concluded, President Tegtmeier sug-gested
that in the future the Board
should elect the teachers either In
May or June as it gives the board an
opportunity to secure high class teach-ers
if vacancies should occur in the
teaching corps.
On the recommendation of Superin-tendent
Cloud the following transfer
of teachers was made to take effect
at the opening of the fall term. Miss
Jeffries to grade formerly taught by
Miss Rowley; Miss Smyth to grade
formerly taught by Miss Buckli ; Miss
Liggett to grade formerly taught by
Miss Jeffries; Miss Rapine lo take
Miss Millers room and Miss Thomas
will take the room of Miss M.iconachy.
There was some hesitation before
the election of Miss Rapine was
made. She made application for the
position and was highly recommended
by Dr. Philips, of West Chester State
Normal School, but she had not ap-peared
personally before the superin-tendent,
the committee or the Board.
Mr. Campbell was the only member
who had interviewed her and he rec-ommended
her election. After some
deliberation, the Board proceeded with
the election but decided that hereafter
all applicants for |K>sitions must ap-pear
before the committee for an in-terview.
Miss Rapine's excuse was
that she was at Want Chester taking
her examinations and expected to be
able to appear before the Board but
was detained as the examinations
were of longer duration than expected.
When the advance in salaries were
made, Mr. Cleaver said that Miss Hahn
a teacher in the High School, had an
interview with him and asked that her
salary be advanced. The interview
was had after the meeting of the com-mittee
meeting at which the n;> >n.
was made and signed and he there-fore
brought the matter before the
l^.ud. After some discussion, ii was
decided not to make any change in
her salary at this time. The question
was decided by a motion "that no
Change be made in her salaiy'' and
was carried by a vote of 6 to 1. Mr.
Cleaver voting Nay.
TOILET SYSTKM
Bids have been received for the in-stalling
of a new and sanitary toilet
system and it was the intention of the
Board to award the contract for the
doing of the work so that it might be
completed by the opening of the school
in September, but a letter was receiv-ed
from George Brecht, secretary of
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AMATEURS MAKE A HIT
The "College WidovV Was Given a
Fine Produelion and Witnessed by
a Large Audience.
"The College Widow" a comedy in
three acts, was produced by the Y. M.
A. ,\. Dramatic Society In Uttlel Op-en
House, on Wednesday even'ng be-fore
an audience that filled the house
This play was t:ie greatest produc-tion
ever attempted by amateurs h< re
and the acting and directing was a
pleasant surprise to the large audi-ence.
The play was produced under the di-rection
of James J. Lynagn, oi Nor-ristown,
who also acted as stage man-ager.
Everything went off with a
smoothness that is not expected of
amateurs. The play is a lively one
with plenty of action and the ama,
tours handled the critical situations
in such style as to bring out the best
in the play and won roup.Js of ap-plause.
Miss Annie Kelly played the leading
role with a vivacity and charm that
immediately won her audience. This
27 ll\l GRADUATING
CLASS OF 1912
ONE OF THE LARGEST CLASSES
IN THE HISTORY OF THE LO-CAL
PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL BE
GIVEN DIPLOMAS ON THE 26TH
INST.—DR. A. DUNCAN YOCUM
WILL MAKE AN ADDRESS. —LIST
OF GRADUATES.
CELEBRATION ON THE
FOURTH IS ASSURED
| URSINUS COLLEGE
HONORS
MISS ANNIE KELLY
is the first tiime that she has ever ap-peared
in theatricals and her acting
shows that she possesses much dra-matic
ability.
The other members of the cast
showed the effect of thorough train-ing
and an understanding of their
roles. The acting was good and the
whole production moved withouit a
break. The many humorous situa-tions
were really funny and were not
overacted.
The costumes were very pre'ty and
the hit of the show was the reception
scene, in which nearly the whole com-pany
is on the stage, the girls in pret-ty
evening gowns and the sta^e bril-liantly
lighted. The scene was a bril-liant
one and brought forth rounds of
applause.
Between the acts, solos were sung
by William J. Dougherty and Philip
S. McDevitt Jr., of. Philadelphia and
Bernard Quinn, of this borough.
The success of this production has
been most pleasing to the Dramatic
Society and may lead to the producing
of other modern plays next winter.
The annual commencement exercis-es
of the Conshohocken High school
will be held, In Littles Opera House,
on Wednesday afternoon, June 88th
and a class of twenty-seven graduates
will be given diplomas. This Is one
of the largest classes ever turned out
from the school and attests to the pop-ularity
of the high school
The committee of the School Board
are making arangements for a most
successful commencement. The stage
will be decorated with flowers and
Knecht's orchestra will furnish music.
The singing will be by a chorus of
school children under the direction of
Thomas It. Middleton, teacher of mus-ic
in the schools. ,
Dr. A. Duncan Yocum, of the Uni-versity
of Pennsylvania, will make an
address and Dr. Tegtmeier, president
of the School Board will present the
graduates with their diplomas.
The program for the exercises is
now in preparation and owing to the
large class, but iten -nt the members
will have a place on the program.
Those selected to take part in the ex-ercises
are:
Ada Eldridge, Ethel Balmer. Harry
Tyson, Jennie Ferrier, Luther Johnson
Anna Laverty, Florence Smallwood,
Clifton Woodward, Margaret Stemple,
Leon Fishbein.
The members of the class are:
Ethel Balmer, Paul Best, Marie Cav-anagh,
Laura Canter, Francib Davis,
Ada Eldridge, Marion Evans, Frank
Ferrier, Jennie Ferrier, I^Roy Fisher,
I^eon Fishbein, Edward Finneran, Per-cy
Hallowell, Walter Hallowell, Luther
Johnson, h'dna Jones, Anna Laverty,
Harry Murray, Howard Musgrave,
Adolph Rakosky, Florence Smallwood,
Lillie Silk. Margaret Stemple, Harry
Tyson, Clifton Woodiward, George
W ood and Morris Wood.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING WAS
HELD LAST NIGHT FOR THE
MAKING OF PLANS FOR A
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION.
OPINION WAS AGAINST HAVING
' A PARADE.—WILL MEET AGAIN
ON SUNDAY.
MR. CLARK
Degree of Dcctor of Laws Was Con-
Ferred on the Distinguished Con-ehohockenite.
9 Months For Illegal Liquor Seller
WILL CHOOSE A PASTOR
Lutherans Will Hold a Congregational
Meeting To Make a Selection.
Charles Geyer, of Norristown was
put on trial before Judge Weaud, i:i
Criminal Court, charged with selling
liquor without a license and helling
and furnishing liquor on Sunday. As-sistant
District Attorney J. Aubrey
Anderson represented the common-wealth
and J. Ambler Williams and J.
B. Larzelere the defendant.
The defendant resided at the corner
of Barbadoes and I-afayette strets. It
was testified that on Sunday he walk-ed
the streets of Norristown and sold
half pint bottles of whiskey which he
carried In his pockets, or if any one
would approach him and show him
the price, he would get it for them.
Geyer was found guilty and sen-tenced
to nine mouths in the County
jail.
IN THE CHURCHES
The spin of patriotism is not dead
in this old town by any means. The
patriotic organizations sent their re-presentatives
to a public mooting, h aid
in the borough hall last evening and
were enthusiastic for the idea ol hold-ing
a good, old-fashioned celebration
on the Fourth of July.
Burgess K.iy explained the object of
the meeting and Dr. J. Q. Thomas
was elected president of the organiza-tion
formed. Edmund K. Williams
was elected secretary and Matthl ■
Vercoe was made treasurer. .Vi. Vet-coe
was unable to attend the meet-ing,
but In consideration of his excel-lent
service last year, he was again
honored with office. Thomas F. Mc-
Coy and William Kane were both nom-inated
for treasurer but neither would
permit his name to stand both paying
a compliment to Mr. Vercoe and each
withdrawing in his favor.
The chairman called for suggestions
•as to what the celebration should con-sist
of. The opnilon of every one
present was against a long route of
parade and while some favored s short
parade in the morning many were
against having a parade at all. The
question was put to a vote and it was
decided to abandon the idea of a par-ade.
The plan for celebrating the day
which found favor was: A rousing pa-trioic
meeting, good speakers and sing-ing
by either a chorus of school chil-dren
or a union choir from the Church-es,
Sports in the afternoon and wind
OP the day with a pyrotechnic display
at night.
The objection to the parade was ow-ing
to the intense heat which is like-ly
to prevail. I-ast year, the paraders
suffered 'intensely and some became 111
Another meeting will be held in the
Borough Hall, on Sunday afternoon at
two o'clock and the organizations
which were not represented nt iast
night's meeting are requested to have
committee s at Sunday's meeting and
It Is the desire to have every organ-ization
represented.
The organizations represented at
last night's meeting are: G. A .R., P.
O. S. of A., K. G. E., K. of C, School
Board, Town Council, Y. M. A. A.,
Washita Tribe, A. O. H., German Bene-ficial
Society, O. of I. A., Wasbnitgon
Fire Company and St. Peter's Polish
Society.
Charlea Fiebi r Clark, of this bor-ough,
who has gained International
! - in. • as an author ol Innii irons books,
and has a national reputation as a
tariff expert and writer on economic
subjects, was honored by I'rslnus Col-lege
at tin commencement exercises
at Collegeville, on Wednesday, when
the honorary degree of doctor ot la us
was conferred upon him. At the
same time. Dr. Joseph s. XetT, Hi-rector
of the Department of Health
and Charities of the city of Philadel-phia,
was similarly honored.
A class of itwenty-seven were grad-uated
and a number of honorary de-grees
we,e conferred. Miss ( hristine
Elizabeth Tegtmeier, daughter of Dr.
C. F. Tegtmeier of this borough mas
one of the graduates and received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Unusual Interest was taken in this
commencement because it was hoped
that a 1100,000 fund being raised for
the institution could be completed.
Those who have charge of the cam-paign
stated that the $100,000 mark
had not been reached, but that there
is every reason to believe that the
fund will be completed before the end
of the summer.
The confidence of the Board of Di-rectors
in the ultimate success of the
money-raising campaign was saown at
an adjourned meeting held recently
iwhen it was decided at once to start
preparations for remodeling North
anil Free-land Hall, of the men's dor-mitories,
one of the objects of which
the fund was undertaken.
The Alumni Association also voted
to appoint a committee to collect
$25,000 from the alumni toward the
second $100,000, which will be raised
when the first fund of that amount is
completed.
Ait the graduation exercises the sal-utatory
oration was delivered by Flor-ence
A. Brooks, on the subject, "Con-servation
of the Laborer," and Hazel
Longstreth gave the valedictory ora-tion
on the theme, "Practical Chris-tianity."
"Changes in Educational Ideals"
was the subject of the commencement
oration by Dr. A. Duncan Yocum, of
the University of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Yocum declared that in the future
educational problems would be solved
by experimentations and observation
toward practical ends.
The address to the gVraduates was
The address to the' graduates was
dent of the college.
WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT
DIES SUDDENLY
GEORGE ROBINSON, OF EAST
SIXTH AVENUE. WAS FOUND
DEAD IN EED YESTERDAY MORN
ING A VICTIM OF HEART FAIL-URE.—
RETIRED IN HIS USUAL
GOOD HEALTH ON WEDNESDAY.
FUNERAL TO-MORROW.
THOMPSON MADE A JUDGE
THE PENN CLUB OUTING
Federal District Attorney Promoted
to District Court Bench.
After the morning service, on Sun-day,
the members of the congregation
of St. Mark's Lutheran church will
hold a congregational meeting for the
purpose of choosing a pastor to suc-ceed
Rev. Will F. Bare, who resigned
on April 1st.
A number of candidates for the
charge have been heard and whoever
is chosen it can be depended upon that
he will have the support of an harmon-ious,
faithful and enthusiastic congre-gation.
GRADUATING PRESENTS
I have an unusually fine stock this
year of watches, chains, cuff links.
scarf pins. Fancy rings. Bracelets,
■ -tally nice coat chains, Fobs, Belt
Pins, Everything up to date. These
are first class goods and cheaper
than can be bought at any other
place.
F. J. BLOOM HALL-Watchmaker
and Jew
Hector St.. oppo. Bank.
Baptist
All scholars of the Bible School
are specially urged to be out for the
regular seslons on Sunday morning.
Last chance for preparation for the
"Children's Day" programme.
"The Imitation of God," will be the
subject of the Pastor's sermon for
Sunday morning next. The hour is
10.30.
In the evening at seven o'clock, the
entire Church together with th\-
school will gather for the Annual Chil-dren's
Day Programme. Please note
the special hour of seven, for the ac-commodation
of the children.
•The Good Thinsg of the New Tes-tament,"
Is the subject for the .Mid-week
service on Wednesday evening
in \t, 7.45 P. M. Bring along with
you one good thing from the part of
the Bible to help make the meeting
a good em .
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Prebyterian
Children' Day m the Prebyterian
church will be oberved by a erinon
by the pastor in the morning on 'Mor-al
Stamina' as an asset for youth;
and in the evening by exercises under
the direction of the Sabbath school
for which careful preparations haw
been made.
Reports which have been current
for some time were born out Wednes-day
when J Whitaker Thompson, a
United States District Attorney for
eastern Pennsylvania, was nominal
ed by President Taft for promotion
to Judge of the United States Dis-trict
Court, succeeding Judge Mcl'li r-son,
who is now the United btsitm
Circuit Court udge. John C. Swartley
■was nominated to succeed Judge
Thompson as United States DistrlCl
Attorney.
Judge Thompson was born August
19, 1861, at Stroudsburg, Munroe c-oun
ty, but since 1870 he has resid-
Montclare, Montgomery county. He
obtained his early education at Rugby
Academy entering the University of
Pennsylvania in 1883. After a course
in the Department of Arts ii" enter-ed
the law olllce of Samuel W. Pen-nypacker
and graduated from the
University i.aw school In 1887, being
admitted to the bar that year.
He has been practicing law in Phil-adelphia
since his graduation, with
the exception of one year which ni
spent iii I^as Crues, New Mexii ., In
The Pet:n Club outing which takes
place on next Wednesday afternoon
is going to be quite the thing this
year. The dining room will be decor-ated
with the Penn Club colors and
an extra fine dinner will be served.
The game of ball will be exciting
enough to give everybody an appetite
and enjoy it. The members will meet
at the club and leave as near 2 o'clock
as iwsHible. In case of rain that day
the Club will go on Thursday
George Robinson, a well-knowa
nt of the borough was found
dead in bed at his home on East Sixth
avenue, by his wife early yesterday
morning, having expired during the
night of heart failure.
On Wednesday evening Mr. Robin-son
retrod at the usual hour and com-plained
of feeling tired, although ha
was not unwell. About half-past five
o'clock yesterday morning when his
wife went to his room to awaken him
to prepare to go to his work ue failed
to make an answer. Believing that
he was sleeping soundly she went to
the side o:' the bed and laid her hand
on him. He did not move and l.e was.
cold. Realizing that something was
wrong, shn hastily summoned a physic-ian
who pronounced that the man
had been dead for at least a couple
of hours. Coroner Neville was noti-fied
ami after an investigation issued
a certificate of death due to heart fail-ure.
Deceased was fifty-seven years of
age and has resided in this borough
nearly his entire life time and was
well and favorably known. When a
young man he was married to Miss
Mary Ann Jones and to this union
were born eleven children, nine of
whom are still living as follows: Fan-nie,
wife of ohn Stroud, of Norristown;
John, Daniel, George, Joseph, James,
Willima, Mary and Laura, all residing
at home.
Deceased had enjoyed good health
save for an occasional attack of heart
trouble, of which he thought of little
concern and his sudden death was *
great shock to his family and many
friends.
Besides his wife and the above-men-tioned
children he is survived by two
brothers and two sisters, John, of West
Conshohocken, and Joseph who is at
present visiting Mauch Chunk, and
Mrs. Joseph Haiines, of Mauch Chunk,
and Mrs. I,aura l;ak, of Roxborough.
The funeral will be held from his
late home on Sixth avenue, to-morrow
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Services,
will be conducted by Rev. A. J. Davies
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
he interment will be made in Barren
Hill cemetery.
GAUGHN—JONES
Where The Teams Play To-mcrrow
The Champions will journey to th-
School and line up against Manager
Bishops Beauties. Kindregan and
Johnson will be the battery for the
Cham|>s while Lawle ami Freas will
do the work for the Beauties.
I nion Club will journey to Norris-town
when they Will line up against
Manager Hacks Machinists. Wilson
and M< Cut I m will be the battery for
the Machinist while Markland or Irvin
and Cook will be in the points for tin-
Unionites.
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The Billken Club Will be the next
at I faction on the Mi allows in a spec-ial
game on June 9. This is the best.
It
Carpet weaving in all Its branches
at Kehoes, Hector St., oppo. school.
team that has appeared here this sea-the
office of the Territorial District son and tarry a large delegation of
Attorney.fi Since returning to Phil- rooters. They are a great butch of
adelphia he has been associated with ban playWa and one of the b. t semi.
ec-Oovenior Pennypackar, with olilc- professional teams In the game today,
es In the Franklin Bank building, lie tray hive victories over BUOh teams
was appointed Assistant United States as Southunrk, North Chillies. \it. Mor-
District Attorney In 1900, and District iah and Victrix C. C. Duffy and Fin-
Attorney In April, 1904, succeeding , neran is the battery for I'.ilik. u while
Miss Elsie Baxter, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Jones, 421 Spring
Mill avenue, became the bride of Mr.
John H. Gaughn, of Philadelphia oa.
Wednesday.
The ceremony was performed at
high noon at the home of the bride
and was witnessed only by the im-mediate
families of the couple. Rev.
Harry St. Clair, rector of St. John's;
Episcopal church, Norristown, per-formed
the ceremony.
The bride was attended by Miss
Pearl Kellam, of Philadelphia and Mr.
Hamilton MacKain, of Pleasant Mills.
N. J., was best man.
After the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served after which the
happy couple started on their honey-moon.
Upon their return they will re-side
in Philadelphia.
The bride is one of Conshohocken'a
most popular young ladies. The
groom is employed as superintendent
of the Pullman Taxi Cab Co. of Phila-delphia.
To Undergo Operation
Hon. nines B. Holland who wa-vated
to the bench, being reappsint-ed
in April, 1908. He is a member
of the Union league is married and
has wo daughters and a son.
Kelly or Klndrenju ,wiJl twirl for
Consby With I laves on tin- receiving
end.
READ THE RECORDER, $1 a Year
Ice Cold Skim Milk, 2 nts. for 5 cts.
at Harvey's Ice Cream Co., 116 W. 8th
avenue. ** tfu
William B. Reed, of Lower Morion.
Is a patient at the Bryn Mawr hospit-al
suffering from an attack of appen-dicitis
Arrangi mentS have been
made to operate on him at four o'-
clock this afternoon
Mr. Etoed la r< rj well know-] here
and Is a brother-in-law of Alan Wood
3d, of this borough.
A MUSICALE
Mr. and Mrs. C. Colket Wilson, of
Paoli are opening their house tomor-row
afternoon from three until six for
a muslcale under the direction of Miss
Crawford. Mrs. Wilton Will serve tea
between the hours of three and six. A
silver offering for the benetlt of Wash-ington
Memorial Chapel will be receiv-ed.
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