The Conshohocken Recorder, February 18, 1913

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NO PARTY POLITICS IN
BOROUGH ELECTION
MANY TAX PAYERS BELIEVE
NOMINATIONS FOR COUNCIL
SHOULD BE MADE WITHOUT
CONSIDERING PARTIE8.-A CITI-ZENS
PARTY IS FAVORED AND
MEN FITTED FOR POSITION8
SHOULD BE CHOSEN.
DID NOT ELECT JANITOR
The present financial condition of
the borough and the fear of a good
size boost in the tax rate or a special
fevy of taxes has created an Intes t
in borough affairs among the taxjM
era.
A number of tax-payers have signi-fied
their desire that nominations for
vacancies in town council shall be
filled by men who art the choice of
the whole people regardless of poli-tics.
It has been suggested that a
Jcitzens party be formed and a full
ticket be named for the eleven vacan-cies
which are to be filled in Council
at the November elox-t'on.
The object of the party is not to
light tlic present councilmen but .K;
there are eleven vacancies to fill k
presents an elega.ii opportunity for
ambitious persons to seek office sim-ply
for the honor of holding it, re-gardless
of their fitnesf for the duties
to be performed.
The borough now bus a debt of $173,-
OOO in bonds, about $10,000 in no'es
and have contracts let which will a-mount
to over $10,000. It is now pro-posed
to issue $18,00" in bonds to
take care of this deficit, which will
amount to about Ji!7,00O. There is
much street work to be done and
throughout the balance of the year,
much cleaning and repair work will
have to be done. There is insuffic-ient
money to do this as the street ap-propriation
has been reduced to $2500
for regular work and $3800 for spec-ial
work. Tho latter amount will be
used as soon as some of the present
contracts are completed. The regular
street work account is now about one-half
exhausted. It can be readily
seen that the next council will have
a serious finaniejal problem to solve
and if it is not prcpt-rly handled, the
taxpayers will nav ;< fine bill to pay.
A number of prop* : ty owners have
suggested thr. a i*)nimittee be form-ed
in each ward to select candidate?
and these candidates be nominated on
the tickets of all parties. Several of
the members of the present council
have signified their intention of re-tiring
at the expiration of their terms
The primaries, for the nomination
of borough officers v. ill be h'ld in
.Tune and their is uie pie time for can-didates
to announce themselves.
School Board Holds Over Bids In
opened until next Monday
A meeting of the School Board was
held last evening for the purpose of
awarding a contra t for janitor ser-vice
at the schools. Upon receiving
the resignation of .lanitor Robert
Herron, it was decided, instead of
filling the vacancy by apopintment,
to award a contract tor the janitor
service for all the. schools. Bids
were received last evening but tho
Hoard decided not to open them as it
is expected that other bids will be of-fered
and all will be opened at a
meeting to be held next Monday ev-ening.
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The matter of providing another
sewage well was discussed. The mat-ter
was ref»rred to the Buildings and
Grounds Committee.
HOUSES BLOCK STREET;
MUST BE REMOVED
Opening and Grading of Third Ave-nue
Necessitates the Removal of
Two Dwellings.
WANT THIRD JUDGE IN
UNITED STATES COURT
CONGRESS ASKEJ TO ADD TO
DISTRICT COURT TO RELIEVE
JUDGE JAMES b. HOLLAND.—
HIS HEALTH 18 NCT GOOD—THE
JUDGE IS NOW IN FLORIDA TO
AVOID THE RIGORS OF THE
WINTER.
WOMEN ENGAGE IN FIST FIGHT
A Most Disgraceful Secene was Wit-nessed
by Situ t day Night
Shoppers
The crowds of Saturday night shop
pers witnessed a most disgraceful
scene at Hector and Fayette streets,
at 10:30 o'clock. Saturday night. Two
colored women, HfcTte Brown and
Louis.'. *-ife of Joseph Brown, en-gaged
in a list fight v hich resulted in
the arrest of both or them. The wom-en
met at the ooraor and lx>uise ask-ed
.Marie to pay for some goods which
she had bought of her. Marie refused
and the women got into an alterca-tion.
They attracted much attention
and to the surprise of the crowd, be-gan
fighting.They pulled each other's
hair and clinched. Neither could break
holds and they rolled into the gutter.
Office lluth arrived or. the scene at
this time and pulled Marie out of the
gutter and then gavo his assistance to
Louise. She did not respond to his
pulls U her luitr was entangled in
the iron tree box, on the corner. The
Officer disentangled her hair and got
her on her feet. He ordered the wom-en
to go home, but >'arie became im-pudent
and the officer took both wom-en
to the station houee. Burgess Rav
gave them a hearing and tire evid-ence
was that both the women had
been drinking and were disorderly.
They were discharged upon payment
of a fine.
Marie gave her age as eighteen
years. The authorities could not find
out where she secured the liquor that
intoxicated her.
SUPERVISORS IN SESSION
The Montgomery County Supervis
ors Association are holding their an
nual sessions at che Court House to
day.
Attorney Henry M. Tracy will to-morrow
morning, at the court house,
Xorristown, present, to the County
Commissioners and the jury to assess
damages, claims for damages to the
house* of Mrs. Mary McGovera and
Anton Dirmazer, which now stand in
the way of the grading of Third ave-nue,
from Maple to Freedley street.
The court has termed an opening
order for the street and the borough
has passed a resolution ordering the
removal ol all obstructions from the
street that it might be graded. The
house of Mrs. McOovern is the old
homestead at the Collins family and
one half of it is directly in the path
of the street. The Dirmazer house is
a twin stone buihli'U and is also in
Uie street's path.
The opening and grading of West
Third avenue is a part of the work
specified in the loan schedule and the
residents of the avenue have persist-ently
asked town council that the
work on the street be started. The
boiough has partially graded tho
street and it is expected that as soon
their damage claims and the claims
have been settled, the obstructions.
which consist of three stone dwell-ings—
tho McGovern and Dirmazer
houses and the one adjoining the lat-ter—
steps, fences and entrances to
houses, arc removed, the street will
be graded. Couneil has given this
Ittreet much consideration and at the
last meeting, it was stated that mon-ey
would have to he provided for the
work as the residents ire that section
hare little or no conveniences, in the
way of stivi-ts.
Because of the poor, health of Judge
H >lland, of the United States District
Court, prominent lawyers of Philadel-phia,
are supporting a bill Introduced
in the national Hous.i of Represents
tives by Congressman A. Mitchell
Palmer for a third Judge in the Dis-trict
Court, so th.it Judge Holland
may nave an opportunity to take - a
va ation and regain his health.
The Palmer bill provides for a third
Judge ,in addition to Judges Holland
and Thompson. Judge Holland is only
.'>!! years old and could not retire until
the age of TO. The only way of re-lieving
him of his judicial duties until
he is in t'etter health, is to add a
Judge to this court.
In support of this measure, a dele-gation
of Philadelphia lawyers, head
ed by Henry P. IP-own, appeared be-fore
the Judiciary Gcnvral Committee
of the House of Rnuresentatives last
Friday and urged the passage of the
bill This delegation included JudgJ
McPherson, Frank P. Prichard, Owen
J. Robert, George Wentworth Carr,
Ernest L. Tustin, Frui.cis Fisher Kuae
William A. Glasgow, Jr., J. Howard
Iteber, Howard W. Page. Charles
Bi.ldle and United States District At-torney
John C. Swartley, of Doyles-town.
At Washington, Judge •Gray,
sei:or Judge of th" Circuit Court of
Appeals, joined the Philadelphia con-tingent.
It is the general understanding that
the third judge bill will pass this
house, but it is a question whether it
can be brought befoie the Senate In
time for passage at this session of
Congress. There -s no doubt anioitg
its idvocatts oi lha passage of the
measure by the next Congress..
i'he consensus of opinion among
the persons Interested in this piece
of legislation is ilia*, the appoi.itee
should be a democrat. President-elect
Wilson will be given the opportunity
of appointing the ;uc'ge. The con-gestion
of busiuess in the United
States courts also Increase the Je-mand
for the pass.i-; ■ of this meas-ure,
it was explained.
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A LIST OF NEW BOOKS ADDED
TO THE FREE LIBRARY SINCE
NOVEMEER 1st-MUCH FICTION
FOR ADULTS AND CHOICE ONES
FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE.—LIT-ERARY
IS NOW USED MORE
THAN EVER.
ANNOUNCE WEDDING
Carlisle Girl, Who Has Many Friends
Here, was Married on Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. I.ouls C. L-esher an-nounce
the marriage of their daugh-ter,
Grace Meredi'.h, to Mr. Ralph
Jacob Warner, on Saturday, the fif-teenth
Inst., at 'Carlisle, Pa.
Mrs. Warner has been a frequent
visitor to this boroug.i and has many
friends here. She is a niece of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Roberts and .dr.
and Mrs. Samuel .V< redith, of this
borough.
MGR. KENNEDY SEES POPE
Two American Women are Presented
at Vatican
The Pope yesterday received la and
ience Bishop Kennedy, the rector of
the American College, who has just
returned from his Christmas vacation
in the United Slates Mgr. Kennedy
presented to the Pontiff Mrs. Kambo,
of Norrlstown, Pa., and Miss Gerald-iu
Ryan, of New York.
Bishop Kennedy saiys the Pope is
in 'i depressed over the death of his
sister and his health is good. He
welcomed Mgr. Kennedy in the moat
cordial manner and asked after the
health of his aged parents, whom he
hoped God would preserve for many
years.
The Pontiff expressed himself as
deeply gratefuly for the many sym-pathetic
messages he had received
from America on the death of his
sister.
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Want Ad.
CHARGED WITH PERJURY
Former Resident of this Borough Ac-cused
of Giving False Testimony
Charged with laving wantonly,
criminally and deliberately commit
ted perjury while a witness before
the (k>urt, Bernard Stern, a.i aged
and well-known resident of this town,
was arraigned for a hearing before.
Magistrate E. M. Harry, of Norris-town,
on Saturday, whea he was ob-liged
to furnish baii to the extent of
$1000 for his apperranee at the
March sessions of ("curt. His son-in-law,
Asher Levi, cf Norrlstown, bo-came
his bondsman.
The prosecution acinst Stern was
brought by I-ouis M. Harris, who in
a lengthy affidavit charges the de-fendant
with haviu/ given false tes-tiinoney
when called UF a witness in
a civil suit that was heard bvfor)
Judge A. S. Swart/. - This suit was
brought by l.ouis M Harris, assign??
of John N. Fletcher vs. I<ena Citron,
executrix of the late Abraham Citron.
The litigation was before the courts
for several terms and was an action
upon a mortgage for $7000. After the
testimony had been heard at the De-cember
term for rover*! days the-parties
anniounced that a compro-mise
had been reached and that set-tlement
was pending.
It is charged by Mr Harris that
when Stern was called to the stand
to testify in behalf of the defendant,
who is his daughter, he gave such
evidence that assisted her and that
was absolutely untrue. In the affi-davit
filed Mr. Harris sets forth the
entire testimony given by Mr. Stern
and then charges that all of it was
willful perjury on his part.
Retur"ed from the South
Doctor and Mrs. George N. Highley
returned home yesterday, after a two
weeks' visit at Pinehurst, North Caro-lina.
ADULT FICTION
Window at the White Cat.. .Rinehart
Their Yesterdays Wright
Inner Flame Burnham
Miss Wealthy, deputy sheriff.... Ned
Rich Mrs. Burgoyne Norris
Romance of Billy-go.it Hill Rice
Mr. Achilles I^ee
Revolt of Anne Roy'.j Martin
Woman Haters ... .■ Lincoln
Tales cf two countries Kielland
Rise of Roscoe Paine Lincoln
Cry in the Wilderness Waller
Bride's Hero Revere
l.ady and Sada Sa I Little
Upas Tree Barclay
I .ed-horse claim Foote
Arm-chair at the Ir.n Smith
"l'.* Q", or in the wireless house.Train
Clayhanger Bennett
Soddy Comstock
Corporal Cameron Connor
Picked company Foote
Long Roll Johnston
Sonny Stuart
Heather Moon Williamson
Lost World | Doyle
Heroine in Bronze Allen
Hortense Helmburg
Maiden's Choice ~ ..Heimburg
Charge it Bacheler
Around the World with Josiah Al-len'*
Wife'" Ilolley
Holly, the Romance of a South-ern
Girl Barbour
Barrier Bazi.n
Jewel's story book Burnham
John Ward, Preacnur Deland
Keziah Coffin Lincoln
Story of an I'ntold Love Ford
Iron Heel London
Mr. Pratt Lincoln
Adventures of Francois .....Mitchell
Where there's a Will Rinehart
Marriage a la mode Ward
Mystery White
Riverman White
Silent Places White
Princess Virginia Williamson
Set in Silver Williamson
Miss Philura's wedding gown
Kingsley
Prudent Priscllla Weymyss
Sidney Carteret, rancher ....Bindloss
Ranching for Sylvia Bindloss
Red House of Rowan Street,
Doubleday
Godparents Mason
Calumet "K" Merwin-Webster
Chip of the Flying l" Bower
Between two Thieves !>ehan
Pictures of Polly Courtney
Honorable Mrs. Garry
De I .a Pasture
Partners of the tide Lincoln
Shadow Stringer
Sally Cast!etonv southerner
Marriott
Linda Montague
Mother Norris
ADULT NON-FICTION
Auction of today Work
Brazil in 1911 Oakenfull
Pan American Union Barrett
On Hazardous Serviio Beymer
Royal Romances of to-day. .Durland
War of Independence Flske
Through the School Priddy
Labrador Grenfell
JUVENILE FICTION
Gentle Interference of Bab..Daulton
Fortunes of Phoebe Deland
Further Adventures of Nils. .I^agerlof
Miss Betty of New York.... Deland
Pclly Prenliss Goes 10 School ..Gould
Dragon and the Cross Paine
Fugitive freshman Paine
Old Ryerson Camp
Campus Days Paine
Mountain Divide Spearman
How Phoebe Found Herself ..Brown
One Thousand Men for a Christ-mas
Present. Sheldon
IBoy with the U. S,. Fisheries Wheeler
Hereward the Wako Kingsley
Kingsford. quarter ) Barbour
Nandy Lee Warde
Within the Silver Moon (Blgham
Hallowell Partnership Brown
Four Gordons Brown
Phdlllppa at Halcyon Brown
Jackson and ills Henley Friends
Channon
Doings of the Dollivers Cooke
Sheaf of stories Coolidge
Pecks in Camp Dudley
On the Cinder Path Duffey
For old Donchester Duffey
Wht Happened at Quasi Bggleston
Those Prejton Twins .... Forrester
Sultan's Rival Gilman
Knights of the Golden Spur. .Holland
Lakerim Cruise Hughes
Freshman (o-ed 1-ee
Sophomore Co-ed l-ee
J unior Co-ed Lee
What Happened to Barbara ..Miller
Kewpies and Dotty Darling. .O'Neill
Redgauntlet retold for Boys
and Girls Scott
Chri3 Uie Model Maker Stoddard
idttle Smoke Stoddard
On the Old Frontier Stoddard
Once a Volcano Houston
Raftmates Munro
Friends Is the end Dix
Forest IMeasenger Ellis
Jack Collerton's engine .. . .Godfrey
Treasure of Mushroom Rock..Hump
Head Coach Paine
Little Puritan Cavalier.. ..Robinson
Little Puritan's first Christmas.."
Dorrance Domain \.. Wells
Child of the Sun I... Banks
Helen Oi raesby .. Moses
Change Signals Barbour
David Copperfield retold for
children .. Dickens
Oliver Twist retold for chil-dren
Dickens
General Nelson's Scout Dunn
On General Thomas' Staff ....Dunn
School team in Camp Earl
Young Pitcher Grey
Freshman Hopper
With CarK>n and Fremont Benin
Beatrice Leight at Coiiege . .Schwartz.
Young Minute-man of 1812 Tomlinson
Betty Wales Decides Warde
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
Pitching in a pinch ... .Matthewson
Bold Robin Hood and his outlaw
band Rhead
Australia's story Marshall
Canada's story Marshall
India's story Marshall
South Africa's story Marshall
St. Nicholas, Nov. 1!'10-Apr. 1911
Fireman Jenks
Story oi Tristram Brooks
When Mother 1-ets us give a
party _ Yale
Touc hing second Even
Wonder Book of the Atmos-phere
Houston
Independence day Schauffler
Washington's Birthday . . .Sohlauffler
Building the Nation Wada
Children's treasure trove of
of pearls • Tidleston
Pictures from the lives of
Great Composers Tapper
Cookery for little girls Foster
Fighting for the Empire Otis
Merry Adventures of Robin
Hood
Story of ing Arthur and
Knights
Buccaneers and Pirates of
Our Coast Stockton
Boy life of Napoleon Foa
Pyle
Pyle
SLIPPED ON ICE; MAN
IS SERIOUSLY INJURED
JAMES BURNS, OF WEST CON-SHOHOCKEN,
SLIPPED ON THE
ICE ON SATURDAY NIGHT, AN*
IN FALLING, STRUCK A WATER-ING
TROUGH, SERIOUSLY IN-JURING
HIMSELF.—18 NOW IN
HOSPTAL.
Laying on a cot In Charity Hospital
Norrlstown, James Burns, a popular
resident of West Cocshohocken, wh»
lives with his parents on upper Ford
Street, Is hovering between life and
death, as the result of serious inter-nal
injuries sustained by a fall on the
ice on Saturday evening.
Burns, in company with a couple of
other men, was walking down Front
street, late on Saturday evening and
when in front of t&3 Rising Sun Ho-tel,
he slipped on seme ice on th*
pavement and fell heavily against a
watering trough, which was placed in
front of the hostelry ifor the accom-modation
of horses. In falling th*
unfortunate struck his stomach
against the corner of the trough. Ha
was so badly injureJ that he was un-able
to rise to his feet. His compan-ions
carried him into the home of Fe-lix
O'Brien, proprietor of the Rising
Sun Hotl, and a physician was sum-moned.
Upon examination it was
learned that the man had seriously
injured himself and after administer-ing
to his injuries h-; was removed to
his borne. His condition failed' to
yield to treatment on Sunday and it
was decided to remove him to the hos-pital
and in consequence the ambul-ance
from Charity Hospital was sum-moned
and the man removed to that
Institution.
Mr. Burns is in a critical condition,
being too weak to withstand an oper-ation.
This morning his condition la
slightly improved.
When quite young Mr. Burns suffer-ed
an injury to the stomach and was
in a serious conditi-M for a long time
and it is feared that the accident of
Saturday night has aggravated tit*
old trouble. He is one of the most
popular employees of the Schuylldil
Iron Work, wehere he has been em-ployed
for several years.
"THE GARDEN OF
SINGING FLOWERS"
FIRE IN A DWELLING
Upsetting of an Oil Stove Causes Ai
Exciting Flre^
C. A. Desimone, I he well known lo-cal
real estate broker, had an excitiug
time, on Sunday afternoon, at his
home, Tenth avenue and Jones street
when an oil stove, in his dining room
was accidentally «p»et and the blaz-ing
oil poured over the door setting
fire to the carpet and draperies of the
room. Mr. and Mrs. Desimone had
been away from home and returned
about four o'clock in the afternoon.
The heatei fire had teen dampened
and in order to quickly warm the
house, an oil heating stove was light-ed
and placed in the dining room. A
baby coach was in the room and this
accidentally pushed against the stove
upsetting the lattv. The oil in the
lighted stove poured out on the floor
setting lire to the «arpet and portier-es.
Mr. Desimone had no time to
summon help. He quickly ripped up
the carpet and smothered the flames
after a hard fight. The damage done
amounts to 'about J6r>.
iHad Mr. Desimone not succeeded
in subduing the flanvs, the uouse
would have been lost as the nearest
Are plug is four squares distant.
Council has givsn instructions to
have a fire plug plaxod in this section
and this fire should hurry action in
the matter.
READ THIS!—Jmt came in; the
New Improved Big Ben Alarm Clocks,
don't cost any more, get the Best—
no one else has them. Get one from
F. J. BLOOMHALL Watchmaker,
Hector street, oppo. Bank—adv. 2t.
A Novel Entertainment to be ' given
by St. Mark's Choir
"The Garden of Singing Flowers"
is the tith. of a pretty musical canta-ta
which will be given by the ehoir of
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, in the G.
A. R. hall, on Thursday evening of
next week. The cantata will prove
to be very entertaining and with it
will be given an entertainment which
will be composed of many novel fea-tures
new to this town. Philadelphia
talent has been secured to assist in
the entertainment and the presenta-tion
of the cantata which will be giv-en
under the direction of Mr. Edgar
G. T. Davis, the well-known local
singer. The choir will consist of
thirty-live voices.
The proceeds of the affair will be
given to the organ fund.
A WASHINGTON CELEBRATION
Camp No. 121, P. O. 5. of A. will Hold
Annual Celebration on Saturday
If you have an Item of news Social,
Personal or otherwise, send it to
The Recorder.
In honor of the memory of General
George Washington, Washington
Camp No. 121, P. O. S. of A., will cele- .
brate the 181st anniversary of the
Great American's birthday, with baa--
quet and entertainment, in their hall,
on Saturday evening.
The committee of arrangements
consisting of E. K. Eddleman, John P.
Wood, Wllllard C. Young, Harold S.
Bennett and 'Howard A. Eddlemaa
have arranged a line program for the
entertainment and the banquet should
be a great success. The banquet will
take place at 8:30 P. M. and the en-tertainment
will follow the banquet
The attendance will be limited t*
membere of the Camp and their fam-ilies
or two ladles.
The committee has taken great care
to arrange for every comfort for th*
guests and the affair should prove n»
be a very enrjoyabre one., •
On Sunday morning, the membere
of the Camp will assemble at the hall
at 10 o'clock to proceed to Calvary
church to attend divine service*.
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