The Conshohocken Recorder, June 30, 1914

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ST. MATTHEW'S WILL
GRADUATE EIGHT
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF ST.
THE MATTHEWS PAROCHIAL
SCHOOL WILL BL HELD IN THE
OPERA HOUSE THIS EVENING-SIX
BOYS AND TWO GIRLS WILL
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS.— A DE
LIGHTUL PROGRAM.
FAYETTE STREET
PROPERTY SOLD
J. Bressen has Pu-chased No. 113
Fayette Street ana Will Erect
a Building.
SERIOUSLY INJURED
BY RUNAWAY HORSE
A class of eight—six boys and two
girls—will be given diplomas tonight
when the commencement exercises of
St. Matthew's Paiocbial School will
be held in Little's Opera House.
The exercises will begin at 8.30 o'-
clock and a very excellent program
has been prepare! Besides the ora-tions
and essays of the graduates,
there will be recitations, songs and
drills. Rev. Father Parker will pre-sent
the diplomas and Prof. M. J. Ke-hoe
will preside over the exercises.
The commencement is always an
attractive feature and a large audi-ence
is anticipated.
The graduates are: Bessie Helen
Casey, Alice Begin i McGonigle.James
Aloyslus Lynch, Joseph Louis Darby,
Joseph John Carroll, John Timothy
Blanche, John Leo Larkin and Daniel
Joseph Lynch.
The program will be as follows:
Overture Orchestra
Welcome Chorus: School
Salutatory Bessie Helen Casey
MHappy Hours-'.Tableaux Illustration
Essay: "Science and Religion"
Daniel Joseph Lynch
"Mary, You're a Little Bit Old Fash-toned"
With Minuet
Essay: "The Chunh the True Friend
of Science" John Leo Larkin
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm-'
Farm" With Specialties
Essay, "The Ideal in Educatin"
Alice P.egina McGonigal
"I Want to Go to Mexico" with Pa-triotic
drills an<l marches.
Essay, "The Influence of Religion'
John Timothy Blanche
•]My I .day"—-Ecstasy, with Fancy-
Dances.
'Valedictory.... Joseph Louis- Darby
Presentation of Diplomas
Rev. Father Parker
Prof. Michael J. Kehoe, Presiding
NEW EXPRESS CO. HERE
United States Express Company Ceas-es
Business To-night.—American
Its Successor
At the close of btiFiness to-day the
United States Express Company,
which has done business here for
many yours, giving service of the
Reading Railway, tin company will
cease business. Tomorrow morning,
the American Express Company, one
of the largest in ihe country und op-erating
all over the United States,
Canada and Mexico, will take over
the business of the United States
company and the business will be
handled without th; public knowing
there has been any change except In
the name of the operating company.
William B. Gh3ei, agent for the
Reading Railway will continue
agent for the express company.
Real Estate Agent George M. S.
Light has sold for George Meyers the
property No. 113 Fayette street, to
Jacob Bressen, of West Elm street.
The property consists of a lot of
ground 20 by 140 feet and the im-provements
are a one story store
building.
Mr. Bressen has been engaged in
the custom tailor business here for
a number of years and today his Elm
street store is too small to accommo-date
his business. He will take pos-session
of the Fayette street property
on August rst and will immediately
begin making improvements. He
will have the present building torn
down and will ersct a three story,
brick, store and dwelling. The store
with work rooms in the rear will be
equipped as a modern custom tailor
shop.
At present the Faith Tabernacle, a
religious sect, is occupying the Fay-ette
street building where services
are held on Sunday's and in the even-ings
during the week.
READY FOR THF KIDDIES
Playground will be Opened To-M0r-row
Morning
Everything is ready for the Kiddies.
The gates to the school yard will be
opened at nine oclock tomorrow morn
ing and after a little talk by instruc-tor
Ray Geiss, of Xorristown, the
swings, see saws, sliding board and
giant strides will be started in full
blast.
It will be a gr-;at day for the kids
and the great day3 will continue all
summer, every week day from nine
in the morning uniil five in the after-noon.
The Misses Francis Ross, Dorothy
Jones and Elizabe'.h McKee, the sup-ervisors,
will be at the grounds to see
that the youngster* are having a good
time and to supervise the play.
The sui»ervisors have secured a
very competent instructor in Mr.
Geiss and mothers can have every
confidence that the children will be
given proper care and plenty of good
mind and muscle making fun while
they are at the play grounds.
All the youngsters ir. town are wel-
W <1 to the grounds and the open-ing
day promises to be a big one.
PATRICK KEENAN, A WELL
KNOWN BUSINESS MAN, WAS
BADLY HURT THIS MORNING
WHILE PREVENTING HIS HORSE
FROM RUNNING AWAY AFTER
HAVING BEEN FRIGHTENED BY
A TROLLEY CAR.
as
MISSIONER TO SPEAK
The Italian mis«loner, whose at-tempts
to hold meetings on Maple
street this- evening.
It is not the intention of the miss-loner
to talk against any church or
religlout sect.
The Italian residents have tried to
prevent the meetings not understand-ing
the intentions of the mlssloner. It
has been explained to a number of
Italian residents that the missioner
Intends to only give a religious talk
on right living and will not hurt the
feelings of members of churches.
REMOVED CRUSHER PLANT
This morning the portable stone
crushing plant of l>ouis H. O'Brien,
which has been in operation at a quar
ry on West Twelfth avenue, was re-moved
to the Independent quarries at
Howelville, and will be immediately
placed in operation. Mr. O'Brien has
been made superintendent of tho quar
ries which are among the largest and
best In this section of the State. The
famous liowellville trap rock used
very extensively In road building and
railroad ballast. The quarry has
many orders and will be busy all
summer.
Patrick Keenan, residing on Spring
Mill avenue, above Jones street, this
borough, and engaged in the huckster
ing business, suffered a broken collar
bone and two broken ribs, in an at-tempt
to prevent his horse from run-ning
away on Hector street, about
eight o'clock this morning after the
animal had beeu frightened by a pass
Ing trolley car.
■Keenan was engaged in serving his
route and was working on Hector
street between Jones and Walnut
streets. His team was, standing in
front of the store of John Prior. No-ticing
an approaching trolley and be-ing
aware that the horse, which is on-ly
young, was afraid of them, Keen-an
caught hold of the horse's head.
As the car came nearer the animal be
•came more frightened and leaped and
plunged and finally tried to get away.
Keenan held tight but the horse got
beyond his control and dragged him
completely out of the street across
the gutter and into the open field on
the opposite side of Hector street.
Keenan was finally compeller to re-linquish
liis hold and in tailing drop-ped
beneath the wagon, the heavy-wheels
of which passed over his
chest. Eye witnesses to the affair hur-ried
to Ills side and carried him into
one of the houses nearby and sum-moned
a physician who upon examin-ation
found that the man had suffer-ed
a broken collar bone and two brok
en ribs and was otherwise cut and
bruised.
The injured man was later taken to
his home.
Neither the horse nor wagon was
damaged.
THE DR. HIRAM
C0RS0N HOMESTEAD
AN IDEAL COUNTRY
WITH FINE TRELS.-
A PICTURESQUE
MANY MEDICAL
RESIDENCE
-THE LAWN
GROVE.—
STUDENTS
STUDIED THERE.—DR. WM. Mc-
KENZIE ONE OF THE FEW SUR-VIVORS.
WATER CASE TO BE HEARD
Attoney H. M. Tracy will open the
Case Against the Springfield
Water Co., before the Public
Service Commission
HORSE LOST
A valuable chestnut sorrel horse
belonging on the MnFadden Estate at
Villa Nova, was driven to this bor-ough
by an employee or the estate
last evening who intended to remain
here over night. Tli) animal was plac-ed
in the stable of 1-awrence N.
Blanche. Sonietimj during the night
the animal, in some unknown manner
got out of the stable and this morning
no trace of it could be found. In-quiries
about town furnished the in-formation
that a horse answering the
description of the one- missing was
seen going in the direction of West
Con8hohocken about four o'clock.
The animal returned to the McFad-den
stable shortly before noon.
SPECIALS FOR THE
FOURTH OF JULY WEEK-LAST
LOWEST PRICES ON ODD
surra FOR MEN, YOUTHS AND
BOYS. ALL THE ODD LOTS OF
SI ITS LEFT FRO.VI THIS SEASON
CLOTHING OF THE LATEST STY-LES
WILL BE BOLD AT BIG RK-DICTIONS.
KIRSCHBAUM ALL-WOOL HAND-TAILORED
GUARANTEED SUITS
$18.00 VALUE AT $12.60
$22.00 VALUE AT 115.00
$12.50 VALUE AT $8.50
$10.00 VALUE AT $7.60
BOYS' NORFOLK BLOOMER SUITS
$3.50 SUITS Now $2.50
$4.01 $3.00
$5.00 " " $3.75
$«.00 " " $4.50
$7.50 " " $5.00
ALL STRAW HATS REDUCED!
$2.50 Value at «fl.60
$3.00 Value at $1.75
PANAMAS—$5.00 Value at .... $3.00
—$7.50 Value at ... $5.00
OUTING TROUSERS FOR THE 4th
$3.50 Value at $2.50
$1.50 Value at $3.50
$6.00 Value at $4.00
WILLIAM KATZ,
(Guarantee Shop,)
53 Fayette St., Conshohocken
(We give Trading Stamps)
The long, drawn out action of the
subscribers to the service of tho
Springfield Consolidated Water Com-pany
will again be orened before the
Public Service Commission, the at-torneys
for the subscribers having
been successful in having the action
transferred from Uie codrts to the
commission.
Attorney Henry M. Tracy will-pre-sent
the case before the Cosmission,
sitting at Ilarrisbnrg. Tuesday, July
7th. lie will make the argument for
the subscribers and will ask the Com-mission
to compel the Water Com-pany
to produce figures in evidence to
prove vindication for the exercising
of the right to fix water rates. In
the county courts the Water Company
won its point in not being compelled
to prove its right to fix rates.
Mr. Tracy will file a bill of interro-gatory.
Ambler Gazette:
The old Dr. J. K. Corson homestead,
on Maple Hill avenue near Plymouth
Meeting, now occupied for the sum-mer
by Albert 3acon and family, of
Germantown, is an Ideal country seat
being splendidly located and having
complete appointments. The property-was
largely developed by the late Dr.
Hiram Corson, father of Dr. J. K.
Corson, also deceased, and the large,
roomy, colonial stone mansion house
was erected by the elder Corson after
he commenced the practice of medi-cine.
It was built more than 70 years
ago. Dr. Hiram """orson died there on
Marcli 4. 1X96, in the 92d year of his
age. He was' a widely known practi-tioner
and one who held many ad-vanced
Ideas in his chosen activity.
He not only erected the house but
also planted nearly all of the fruit
and shade trees surrounding, which
have grown up, making the lawn a
vast picturesque grove. In those ear-ly
days before medical schools and
hospitals were so plentiful, it was the
custom for medical students to pur-sue
their studies with some establish-ed
practitioner of recognized ability
and professional standing. Dr. Cor-son
had many of these students, and
it was largely to accommodate these
.pupils that a smill house was erect-ed
en the lawn to the southwest of
the mansion, where the smaller struc-ture
yet stands. One of these stu-dents
of the partriarch physician Is
Dr. McKen/.ie, now of Conshohocken.
When Mr. Corson died In ISitG he left
many interesting curios, relics and
mementos, but probably the one that
temporarily caused the greatest local
m ttiricty were the bones of a man's
hand and arm that had been used In
tin- medical course pursued by the
embryo physicians as they advanced
in the art of medicine. After Dr.
Corson had passed away, the bones
were cast on the junk pile and sold
together with other things to Thomas
Starr, a junk dealer in Norristown.
\ i' r he had conveyed the material
to the county seat, Starr was appar-ently
at a loss as to how to proiierly
dispose of the bones. Half afraid of
the partial skeleton and fearing to
attempt to expose the bones for sale,
he finally interred them in the cellar
of his house. By some means the
story of the burial leaked out, and
the authorities got wind of the mys-terious
grave. An investigation was
made, digging commenced and the
bones exhumed, with the result that
Starr was arrested. There was much
excitement over the discovery, and
CELEBRATED 90TH BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Harriet George was Hostess at
a Delightful Birthday Party.
Mrs. Harriet Genge celebrated the
90th anniversary of her birth on Sat-urday
afternoon and evening by giv-ing
a party to her children, grand-children,
and great grandchildren, at
her home East Seventh avenue. Mrs.
George was in lively spirits and en-joyed
the celebration immensely.
The children present were: Miss
Mary George, Mrs. Annie McCarron,
and Mrs. Nellie Elsenberg. Another
daughter, Mrs. John Silk was pre-vented
from bein< present by Illness.
The grand children and their chil-dren
present were: Mrs. John Arnold
and two sons, Robert McCarron, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas McCarron and son,
Samuel McCarrou, George McCarron,
Mr. and Mrs. George Mennig, and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hague, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Eiseaberg and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. William Slik and son
and Miss Lillian Tllk.
The party was enjoyed by all and
Mrs. George was the recipient of
many congratulations from her many
friends and neighbors.
MRS. CLARA NESTER
Clara, wife of Lyraan Nester, died at
her late residence, Spring Mill ave-nue
and Cherry street, at an early
hour this morning, aged about twenty
four years. Deceased has been In ill
health for the past two weeks and
yesterday her condition became sud-denly
alarming and she grew gradual-ly
worse until about six o'clock this
morning when death relieved her.
Deceased was the daughter of Grace
and the late Winneld Stiteler, of
West Censhohocken. She was born
on the West Sid° and lived there with
her mother until the part of the l.ee
Plant in which sho was employed
was removed to New Brunswick, N.
J.. when she went there to work.
During the latter i art of 1913 she was
married to l.ymun Nester and the
couple went to reside in Chicago, but
only resided there a few months when
they removed to this borough, where
Mr. Nester engaged in the glass blow-ing
business Besides her husband,
she is survived by her mother and the
following brothers and sisters: Wal-ter,
Raymond and Ralph, all or West
Conshohocken; Mr-;. Ilessle Ferrier,
West Conshohocken; Mrs. Emma
Blaekbnrn, this borough and Mrs.
Elizabeth Young, of Plymouth Meet-ing.
The relatives an-1 friends of the
family, also the employees of the Lee
Tire and Rubber Company, are invit-ed
to attend the fui-eral from her late
home, 401 Spring Mill avenue, on
Friday afternoon. Services will be
conducted in St. Murks ' Evangelical
Lutheran Church, v. 1.30 o'clock. The
interment will be made in the Gulf
OPEN ATHLETIC MEET
FOR THE FOURTH
SPRING MILL AVENUE RESI-DENTS
HAVE PLANNED A BIG.
TIME FOR THE FOURTH FOR?
EVERYBODY.—THERE WILL BE.
AN ATHLETIC MEET FOR MEN,
BOYS AND GIRLS TO PARTICI-PATE
IN.
The residents jf Spring Mill ave-nue,
in the absence ol any public cele
bration during the day of the Foorth,
have planned a big athletic event to
which the public is invited. There
will be many hontesta open to men,
boys and girls. The committee ap-pointed
by the residents to have
charge of the affair is composed of
Messrs John Giles. William E. Pier-son
and William H. Murray. The
resldnets of the Avenue have donated
a number of articles to be given the
contestants. The articles are on ex-hibition
in the sluw window at Mur-gj
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cemetery.
Starr, protesting that he was guilty | The body may be viewed on Thurs-of
no criminal act and that he had I $ay evening,
with evil luck ever
WILLIAM II. MURRAY #*-*!
Firemen's Party a Success
The first block party of the season
to be held on West Hector street was
given by the Washington Fire Com-pany
on Saturday evening, and was a
great success. The Conshohocken
band was present and played a deH
llghtfui concert. The party "was at-tended
by hundreds of persons, many
coming from out of town
A novel feature wan a big snapping
turtle froze In a large cake of ice.
Several hundred ciuarts of snapper
soup were sold. The party was the
most successful one ever given by the
c impany and another will be held
this coming Friday evening. The pro-ceeds
will be devoted to the new en-gine
fund.
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Donations received for the new en-gine
fund last week were:
Dr. E. Winter $ 10.00
Al. Chase 2.00
hums MoCune 2.00
Harry Moores, Norristown... 2.00
Ralph Campbell, 2d paym't., 1.00
been haunted
since the ominous bones came into
his possession, was imprisoned. The
authorities then made a visit to Ply-mouth
Meeting to investigate SaVr's
story as to how and where he secured
the ill-fated hand and arm. His story
was readily corroborated beyond
question, and Starr was promptly re-leased.
ALBANY-BAILEY
Total for week $ 17.00
Previously donated $5155.10
Total to-date $5172.10
Advertise in "THE RECORDER"
Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Bailey, of No.'.'i Elm street, was
married last evening to Mr. Wesley
Albany, of Manayur.k, at the Presby-terian
Manse. The couple were at-tended
by Miss Anna Smith, of this
borough, as bridesmaid and Mr. Roy
lllolt, of Philadelphia as groomsman.
After the ceremony the bridal party
entered a big automobile, which was
gaily decorated with signs and be-deckfed
with white ribbons, and driv-en
to the home of the bride's parents.
On the way, the chauffeur drove past
the Washington engine house, of
Whtob company tho bride's father Is
a prominent member and the newly-weds
were given a rousing serenade
by the firemen.
A reception was held at the home
of the bride's parents after which the
happy couple left for their honey-moon.
Upon their return, they will re-side
at Manayunk, where the groom
is employed In a responsible position
In a textile mill.
BOY SCOUTS OFF FOR CAMP
Advertise In 'THE RECORDER"
The details or pioneers of Gulf
Mills Troop of Boy Scouts headed by
Assistant Scoutmaster Kaye Mun-shower,
left the Scout headquarters
at this place about 7.30 oclock yes-terday
morning lor Valley Forge,
where they made preparations for the
opening of 'Vamp- Killkare" today.
The wagon train which was used in
the transiKirtation of the necessary
things for the encampment was in
charge of Robert Graham, and the de-tails
or advance detachment of the
troop made the trip with this train.
The details had no easy task after
reaching the site for the encampment,
as they were required to pitch nine
large tents which will accommodate
about twenty Boy Scouts for a month,
and also.be used for the-entertain-ment
of guests, as it is known that
the Scouts display great hospitality.
The main body of the troop reached
camp last night, and when the first
call was made this morning in readi-ness
for the first daily routine of a
month at "Kamp Killkare," there was
great activity among the campers.
Henderson Supplee, of "Kenhurst,"
Port Kennedy, WHO takes great inter-est
in the Boy Scout movement, will
entertain the Gulf Troop at his home
on Thursday.
News is what makes a Newspaper
interesting. Don't wait to see the re-porter
personally, but send or phone
you Items to TLis Office.
ray's store, Fourth and Spring
avenues.
A big afternoon is promised with
plenty of good Sport The committee
has secured a street piano in lieu of
a band and the musician to turn the
crank at the opening of the sports,
which will begin at 1:30 o'clock.
There are no entrance fees or red
tape of any sort. The affair is gotten
up for fun and every effort will be
made to give every one the best af-ternoon
of fun and sport.
Entrance in the events is open to
residents of both the Conshohoekens,
Plymouth and Wihtemarsh townships.
The program follows:
100 yards dash—Award, beautiful
medal.
Shoe Race for boys—award, two
pairs stockings.
50 yard dash for girls 16 years and
under—Award, first, brooch; second,
circle pins.
Potato Race, opsu to men and boys
—Award, pair stockings.
220 yards dash, rpen to all—Award,
beautiful medal.
25 yards dash, open to girls, 12 yrs.
or under—Award, 1st, handbag, 2nd.
hair ribbon.
T.'i yard sack race for boys 16 years
or under—Award, Caps.
100 yard dash, open to boy 16 years
or under—1st Pongee Shirt, 2nd. Sus-penders.
20 yard dash, open to children 6
years or under—Awards 1st. beautiful
doll; 2nd. Set Dishes.
IS yard dash, opeu to boys 12 years
or under—Awards, 1st, WhaKi pants
2nd. Jersey.
IS yard dash, open to children four
years or under—Award, 1st beautiful
prize.
Three-legged ra ■. open to boys 16
years or under—Award, Caps.
Wheelbarow race, contestants to
be blindfolded and to wheel to a stake
—Award, Overalls and Juniper.
S80 yard run, opeu to all—Award, a
fine medal.
Tug-of-War open to boys 12 years
or under. Four boys to a team—
Award, lour neckties.
Mill
Fireworks wholesale and retail ati
KHHOES. Hector street, Oppo.
School.—Advt.
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