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BOOST CONSHOHOCKEN And Thus Boost Your Neighbor. BOOST YOURSELF And Help to Prosper e €0tt0hol)0ckett ilecor&et*. Buy in CONSHOHOCKEN And Get Real Satisfaction Read The RECORDER Ads Before Your Shopping PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY] JgtJ. 4802 THE CONSHOHOCKEN RECORDER, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915 JPI PER YEAR $1206.83 THE OFFERING TO REV. McKINNEY ATTENDANCE SUNDAY NIGHT WAS LARGEST DURING THE CAMPAIGN.- EVANGELIST GIV-EN GREAT OVATION.— WEEK END SERVICE BROUGHT 64 CONVERTS.- PROOFS GIVEN OF WHAT CAMPAIGN IS DOING.. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Offering. To Rev. T. \V. MeKinncy Sunday Afternoon ....1810.69 Sunday e\ ening 896.26 11206.88 Attendance Previously announced .. 45,051 Friday 1,000 Saturday 2,200 Sunday afternoon 1,600 Sunday evening 2,600 I Total 52,461 Convert*. Previously announced .... 786 Friday 0 Saturday 1". Sunday afternoon "> Sunday evening 40 846 Reconsecrated. Previously announced 698 Sunday afternoon - i 700 *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The tabernacle campaign closed its fourth week Sunday night with the largest congregation that has yet at-tended the services. The people an-ticipated that it would be a big night and all the seats were occupied early. Seats from automobile busses were commandeered and placed near the platform extra chairs were se«-ured and placed in the aisles, and the night being cool, the people sat close together and made room for others, very available space was occupied and many stood through the entire ser-vice. There were 2600 persons in the audience. I Every one was imbued with the Eplrit that the service was to be a reat one, and of all the fine musical iaervices, Sunday evening's was the test. Tho familiar hymns were sung •tand the big building was filled with melody which floated out the open windows and could be heard a couple of blocks distant. Never before did the choir better respond to Mr. Mad-den's directions. When sections of the big audience sang responses to the choir, the voices would float through the big building with a pipe organ ef-fect. A free will offering was taken for Rev. Mr. MeKinncy at both the Sun-day services and amounted to $120(1- .83. The afternoon offering amount..I to *810..V7 and the night offering, $395.20. These amounts include the offerings from the various churches and from various organizations. Rev. J. F. Sheppard asked for an offerings of $1000 at the afternoon service. He told the work the tabernacle is doing. He said there is a story going about that one man contributed $1000 to the tabernacle and that another gave Mr. McKinney $500, neither of these stor-ies are true. Mr. Sheppard told of the interest the campaign has aroused in the churches and that it has brought about a better community spirit. He also said a saloon keeper said he was glad the tabernacdle was coming as it would improve business, but he was mistaken as the other night a friend stopped in this man's placo and during the half hour he was there not a cus-tomer appeared. At the evening service Rev. E. L, Hyde paid a line tribute to Mr. McKin-ney's services and asked that the peo-ple express their appreciation in a substantial manner, life received of-ferings of $5 from the W. C. T. U., $30 from the oflicers and directors of the People's Bank, of West Conahadiocken, and $22.70 from the St. MarOT Luther-an Bible Class. Mr Hyde asao recit-ed instances where the campaign has brought such joy Irito homes that Its value cannot be estimated In money. He told of a case where a woman told him the revival has been the means of banishing drunkenness from her home and he said there are many such cases In town. After the afternoon service a num-ber of singers went to the Silk home where the evangelistic party Is stay-ing and sang several hymns. They then went to several homes In the upper end of town and sang hymns, in the open air, for those who have bean prevented from attending the taber-nacle by reason of illness. Mr. MeKinncy announced thai some evening thla weak Mr. and Mrs. Lind-say, talented musicians, would be present. He said he was unable to name the day as they could not till him when they would be free to come. N'I \l Saturday evening will be Bible Class night and the service will be for men only. At the same time a WOOMn'a inc.'ting will be held in the Piaabyti rian church and will be ad-dressed by an eminent woman preach-er. Evening Sermon. The evening sermon was preached from the text from Isaiah, 1:18— ■■ Some now, and let us reason together, sail!', the I.ord: through your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crim-son, they ,-hall be as wool." The terribleness of sin and the promise that we can be cleansed of it was the 'Jieine of the sermon. The preacher said: "Sin is a terrible tiling but our text tells us it may be cleans-ed It is false that the church faith is divorced from reason it is not so; it lias a most reasonable foundation. It is sin and self indulgence that puts out the light and makes us take the journey through life in darkness. Kin sold the soul of the beggar and mil-lionaire alike, it is not like dust on a garment that can easily be brushed away, it is like dye in tile warp and woof of the fabric. "If you beheld the hideousness of sin. you would flee as from a pesti-lence; but as sin presents itself in a fascinating light, wc clasp It to our bosoms. Sin and serpents are usually compared, and I would that every man and women would hate and fear sin as I do a snake. The bite of sin is deadly to happiness and the soul and the trail of the serpent of sin is every-where." The preacher told of a Christmas service he conducted at the House of Correction and said it is wonderful how those two thousand men and one thousand women sang the hymns. It showed that sin had led them to where they were. Those people had at one time sung in Sunday School. No one is free from the trail of the serpent. Sin Cannot be Outgrown. "There are those who say that sin can be outgrown. To perdition with such a doctrine! If you prefer Moth-er Kddy, Howie, Russell and Sanford, take them and go to perdition with them! The ultimate judgment of such doctrines belongs to the devil rather than to God! "What did it mean when Jesus littered the last cry? It meant that the sins of the human race had been atoned. Sin is the most degrading, defacing, debauching and devastating thing in the world, and yet some of you nurse It and say sin is a little thing! Go to the house of sorrow and see if sin is a little thing; it Is at the bottom of most sorrow! Will be Forgiven. "A startling and helpful truth is that sin at its worst may be cleansed, no matter how deep the stain. If you have committed every crime, bro-ken every commandment, God can and will forgive you. He will do more than that if you will confess your sins. He 1B faithful and Just and will cleanse you! Unless you confess, you will go to hell! Will Take Chancet "We come here with the great sal-vation and we can take it into the worst places and teach it and bring men to the purity or living. The text is a good one for the harlot and the libertine and I would be willing to take my chances with them at the bar of God against those of you here who tell the personal workers, you have done nothing God will not ov-erlook It! There are more scarlet men and women than you think, and the scarlet man is more reprehensible than the scarlet woman! Tell it to the tombstone or in the insane asy-lums that sin is a little tiling! Sin is a little thing? The devil told you that! "If aesthetic souls can rage over the blood shed at Gettysburg, Bhilo, Chat-tanooga and other battlefields where great patriotism was shown, why not over the cross of Jesus." When the invitation was extended the great audience arose and forty persons professed conversion. (Continued on Page G) SOLDIERS PREPARING FOR MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES WILL BE HELD ON SUN-DAY, MAY 23, IN LITTLE'S OP-ERA HOUSE.- GRAVES WILL BE DECORATED SATURDAY, THE 29th—UNIFORMED O. OF I. A. WILL ASSIST THE VETER-ANS. George Smith Post No. 7!), ('.. A. It. baa completed arrangements for mem-orial services to be held in memory of their departed comrades, with the ex-ception of selecting the orator for the sc rvices to be held in Little's Opera House on Sunday evening, May 23. Sunday afternoon, May :!::, the Vet- BIG BIBLE CLASS PARADE Parade Will be in Two Divisions and Escorted by Several Bands. If the predictions of J. Rufus Barr. leader oi the Men's Bible Class of the M. E. church and chairman of the committee or arrangements for Bible Class night at the tabernacle, Satur-day night, are cornet, the greatest parade of llible Class men ever held in this county will be held here on Sat-urday evening The Bible Classes from Plymouth, Barren Hill, NorrUtown, Gulf Mills, West Conahohooken and this borough will participate and Mr. Barr expects there will be several bands in line. The members of the local classes are requested to assemble at their various churches at 6.30 P. M. The classes of the Baptist, Calvary and St. Mark's churches will be known as the eastern division and the M. K. and Presbyterian classes will be the wes-tern division. Both divisions will march to Tenth avenue and Fayette street where they will be joined by the division composed of the out of town classes and a line of parade will be formed. The full details of the parade will be printed in this paper on Friday next. HENRY J. HARROLD Adjutant of the Post. WOMEN'S CLUBS MEETING The Federation of Women'.; Clubs of Montgomery County are holding a i meeting in the Baptist church in Ilat-boro, today. A business meeting was held at 10.30. The afternoon session will be an open meeting to which all members of the club are Invited. Mrs. Jean K. Foulke will address the meeting. She will be remembered as a very pleasant speaker by those who heard her on a previous visit to the club. erans assisted by Conshohocken Coun-cil, O. of I. A., the latter act|ng as a firing squad, will go to Merlon Square and decorate the graves of all Onion soldiers buried there and will hold the regular Grand Army service for the dead. In the evening, a memorial service will be held in the Opera House. A number of singers have volunteered their services assuring good music. The following ministers have consented to take 'part in the service: Rev. H. T. Houf, Rev. R N. Musselman, Rev. II. 1). S. Coate3, Rev. James P. Parker, Rev. A. J. Davles, Rev. J. T. Fox, Rev. T. A. Armour and Rev. J. F. Sheppard. The services will be held in mem-ory of tho following Comrades: THOMAS G. ARNOLD. Private, Co. I, 43 Regt Pa. Vol. M. Died, Nov. 1, 1914. EPWIN KIOLLICIINER Private, Co. A, BlSt Pa. Vole. Died, August !), 1914. JAMBS V. STEWART Private. Co. C, Pp.. Vol. M. Died, February 6,, 1015. HENRY DeHAVBN Private, Co. I, 2nd Pa. H .A. Died, January 17, 1915. BLLERY CHANNING POTTS Private, Co. B, Ind. Cavalry. Died February 19, 1915. GBORGH II. LOGAN Private Co. A, 7th Del. Vols. Died, April 7, 1915. As Memorial Day falls on Sunday, the Post will celebrate it on Saturday the 20th. The Comrades will meet at the Post room at seven o'clock that morning and accompanied by the O. of I. A. will march to St. Matthew".* cemetery where the graves will be decorated, the G. A. II. service Will be held and an address will be mado by Rev. James P. Parker. The vet-erans will then go by coaches to St. Matthew's new cemetery, Plymouth Meeting, Cold Point and Barren Hill and hold services at each cemetery. They will return to their hall at noon where the Women's Relief Corps will serve dinner. Tho afternoon service will be held at Gulf cemetery. This will be the largest service of the day &-a there are many soldiers buried there. J. Bur-nett Holland Esq., of this borough, will be the orator. The Citizens' band and a company from the O. of I. A. will escort the veterans. Killed by Gas. Alexander Neill, an aged resident Of Bridgeport, was found dead seated in the kitchen of his home with gas pouring from an open jet. GEORGE CLYMER BROOKE. \fter an illness of several years, Which became acute two weks ago, George Clymer Ilrooke, retired finan-ce r. died Friday at his home, Ereezy-brow, Ardmore. He was ill years old, and formerly was a member of the banking llrm of Drexel &' Co. He retired recently on account of ill health. He was a di-rector of the Central National Bank, Philadelphia, and before joining Drex-el & Co. was associated in the broker-age firm of George S. Fox J Son. Mr. Brooke is survived by a widow, who was Miss Rhoda F. Morris, daugh-ter of E. li. Morris, president of Glrard Trust Company, Philadelphia: His father was John Edward Brooke, weal-thy iron and steel producer, of Uirds-boro. TESTING NEW LIGHTS See If You Notice Any Greater Bril-liancy at Hector and Fayette Street After Tonight. Advertise In "THE RECORDER" Chairman Richard Bate of the Po-lice, Fire and Water Committee of Town Council has been In conference with the officials of the Counties Gas and Electric 'Company many times during the past year, using his efforts to have the company use a better arc lamp for the street lighting. The company has made a number of tests of lamps and now believes It has one that will give entire satisfaction. For the >pcst week two arc lamps, of a new and improved type, have been burning at Tenth avenue and Wells street and Tenth avenue and Jones street. The light given is more pow-erful than from the old lamps. To-day the company will place one of the new lamps at Hector and Fayette street and another at Spring Mill avenue and Harry street, that the pub-lic may judge of the new lamp. The advantages of the new lamp are that they will burn for two hun-dred hours without trimming and the carbons are so adjusted that the light is steady and constant Date Stone Bids Ruled Out Because Frank Nash put an extra charge for a date stone in his bid for extensive repairs to the Spring Valley bridge in Abington, it may lose him the contract, for otherwise he was low bidder. The Commissioners hove de-cided to "cut out" the date Btones. JANE CAMPBELL PLEADS FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTED SUFFRAGIST ADDRESSED A LARGE COMPANY AT "COL-LINIA" LAST EVENING.-USED ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE CAUSE FOR IT.—MR. DIX ALSO SPEAKS FOR THE SUFFRAGE CAUSE. A large and enthusiastic meeting in the Interest of Woman Suffrage was held at Collinia, the home of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Collins, Second avenue and Forrest street, lost evening. Nu-merous well known Conshohockenites were present at the invitation of the hostess, to hear Miss Jane Campbell, the prominent Suffrage leader of Germantown, who lias been one of the-most enthusiastic advocates of Votes for Women for a nupber of years. She explained freely and frankly that the main reason why she and other women wanted the vote was for the same reason that men wanted It, viz., To have something to say regarding the government which governs both men and women. She gave many practical answers to the various ob-jections which are being forwarded by those opposed to equal suffrage and showed that many of the questions asked by such people were in them-selves answered by other objections made. For instance, some persons claim In one breatli that the difference of opinion between man and wife ^would cause dissensions in the home, and in the next breath say that there is no use of women voting, as they would only vote as their husbands did. Following Miss Campbell a brief talk was made by James II. Dix, of Plymouth township, the husband of Mrs. Caroline Ludy Dix, leader of the Woman Suffrage Party in this district. He Urged those who already saw the undeniable justice and advantage of Equal Suffrage to not be satisfied to simply believe in the cause them-selves, but to do all they possibly could to interest others, especially the men who, by voting for the amend-ment next November, could bring vic-tory for the cause. Mrs. Dix and Miss illovenden, Secre-tary of the Plyiwuth Meeting Woman Suffrage Association, assisted by oth-ers, secured numerous signatures to the party membership blanks, and plans were laid for organizing the Woman Suffrage Party In Conshohock-en. FRANK MELLOR Former Resident Died Yesterday Philadelphia. at Right at the Tabernacle. WIDL'S GARAGE. The place where your auto service is right.—Adv. Frank Mellor, husband of Ellen Mel-lor (nee Herron), aged 66 years, died yesterday, at his home, 3301 N. Twen-ty- second street, Philadelphia. Mr. Mellor was a brother-in-law to Robert (Herron, of this borough, and resided here for many years. While here, he was employed as on engineer nt the Schuylklll Iron Works and other mills. He removed, with his family, to Philadelphia a number of years ago and entered the employ of the Electric Storage Battery Com-pany. Mr. Mellor became ill about a year ago and had an operation performed to give him relief but he never regain-ed robust health. Six weeks ago, he was compelled to give up work and ten days ago his illness became worse and he took to his bed. The funeral will be held from his late residence on Friday afternoon at one o'clock. The funeral will arrive at Barren Hill at 2.30 o'clock and ser-vices will be held in St. Peter's Lu-theran church and the body may be viewed there. Presbytery North to Unveil Tablet A memorial tablet to the Rev. Dr. Joseph Beggs, pastor and pastor emer-itus of the Falls Presbyterlon Church for forty years, will be unveiled in that church Tuesday night at the spring meeting of the presbytery of Philadelphia, North. Sessions of the presbytery will be held throughout the day. Woman loves a clear, rosy complex-ion. Burdock Blood Bitters is splen-did for purifying the blood, clearing the skin, restoring sound digestion. All druggists sell it. Price, $1.00. Advt. VALLEY FORGE CHAPTER, D. A. R. On Friday the members of Valley Forge Chapter D. A. It. held their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. J. Kennedy Moorhouse, No. 317 Fay-ette street, this borough. There were 30 members present. Mrs. Irwin Fish-er, the regent, presided. Mrs. Charlotte Kilpatrick, chairman of the marker committee, speaking in her report of the ten graves of Revo-lutionary soldiers to be marked the coming summer with the permanent D. A. R. marker, said that email Unit-ed States Hags would be placed on these graves and those previously marked prior to Decoration Day. Mrs. Wilfred L. Stauffer, chairman of the committee appointed to devise means to increase the chapter funds, reported that arrangements for an en-tertainment to be held June 1st in.the Norrlstown Opera House, were almost completed. The proceeds from this affair are to be used for a memorial to Mrs. William II. IHolstein, who or-ganized the Valley Forge Chapter, gave It its name and was its first re-gent. This patriotic woman, besl lea her work for I'nion soldiers of the civ-il war and her interest and work in the preservation of Mount Verfton, was also Instrumental in the preserva-tion of Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge, being, until her death, president of a society she had estab-lished for that purpose. At the close of business the chapter was treated to a most entertaining report by the re-gent, Mrs. Irwin Fisher, or her at-tenance at the N. S. I). A. R. Congress in Washington, D. C, in April. Miss Mary Evans represented the chapter then as delegate. Mrs. Hugh Mclnues and Mrs. P. Y. Elsenberg as alter-nates, and several other members were In attendance, viz: Mrs. Reese P. Davis, Mrs. M. E. B. I.ane, MM. C. O. Pparrwort, Mrs. H. S. Righter, Miss Marie Yost, Mrs. Joseph Fornance and Miss Lois Fornance. Mrs. C. Howard Harry entertained the chapter by reading several inter-esting extracts from a Savannah Kia.i paper, regarding the unveilng of a memorial shaft at Midway, Ga, to two famous Revolutionary officers—Gener-al James Sereven and General Dan-iel Stewart. It was of especial inter-est, as General Sereven was the great-great- grandfather of Mrs. Harry, and General Stewart was the great-grand-father of ex-President Roosevelt. The chapter adjourned to enjoy a social hour and delightful vocal and instrumental music, together with re-freshments, provided by the hospit-able hostess. Lilies-ofthe-valley add-ed to the beauty of the refreshment table and every one present had an enjoyable time. STRASSBURGER HONORED Ex-Consul General Elected to Navy League National Committee. Ralph B. Strassburger, of Gwynedd Valley, was elected to the National Committee of the United States Navy league at a meeting of that body held In Washington yesterday. .Mr. Strass-burger is the second Philadelphian elected to the Navy league National Committee within the last few months, the other being Alexander Van Rensselaer. Mr. Strassburger has a spendid record of Government service both in the navy and as a member of the diplomatic corps. He was a member of the class of 1906 at Annapolis, and a star member of sev-eral Naval Academy football teams. In 1909 he retired from the navy and entered the diplomatic service, receiv-ing the appointment as Consul Gen-eral In Bucharest at tho time of the Balkan war. Two years ago he re-turned to this country, and last spring he caused a political sensation by running for the nomination for Con-gress from the Hueks-Moulogmery dis-trict on the Republican ticket at the primaries, losing by a narrow margin. TEMPERANCE WORKERS TO MEET The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the home of Mrs Thomas Murray, 112 West Ninth ave-nue, on Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'- clock. Business of vital importance to all is to be transacted and it is urg-ed that all of the members be present and bring a friend. The regular dues will be received at this meeting. Advertise in "THE RECORDER" FIREMEN MAP OUT A FIRE DISTRICT WASHINGTON COMPANY SETS A DISTRICT IN WHICH IT WILL RESPOND TO ALARMS-WILL ONLY RESPOND TO FACTORY AND SECOND ALARMS FROM WEST SIDE.—ZONE IS A LARGE ONE. The Washington Fire ' ompany has mapped eat a district in which it will respond to all alarms of lire. The company baa taken this action t>e- Iteving in practice i( will work out for the In ner protection of the district and Conshohocken especially. Here-tofore alarms have been coming in from distant places and both the local companies and the George Clay Com-pany have responded, leaving . both boroughs without protection. Tin district mapped out which the Washington Companv will cover is as follows: .Marble Hall. Plymouth Meeting and west on the Germantown pike to Uveaey'a store (the Trenton Cut-off bridge i and all the territory lying between these points and Cotr ahohocken. On the east, the covered territory will extend to the Hamilton paper mills at Lafayette. All alarms from factories In Weal 'orisholiocken will be n sponded to but other alarms will only be responded to on second call; that is, if the George Clay Company needs assist-ance, the Wasliingtons will render it. It is believed the announcement of the district the Washington Company will cover will lie a great benefit to the Bremen and to properly owners in that the hitter instead of sending in a general alarm will only summon one company and both the boroughs will always he protected. It is also suggested to property own-ers having property without the pro-tection of fire plugs that they ouild Small dams in the many creeks in the district that would enable-a »tuinpiir.( engine to go into service. At the fire at Spring Mill lust week, it was ob-served that Spring Mill village could be given fair protection by th« build-ing of a small dam in the creek near 1-entz's hotel. The cost would be small and the work might be done by property owners or the township supervisors. The Washington Company has act-ed in the hope that the other fire com-panies will also adopt fire zones thus saving many needless runs and the consequent needless wear on appar-atus and an expense to the compan-ies RUMMAGE SALE The Women's Club hopes to have the School Board authorize the leach-ing of Domestic Scienci- in the High School, and has offered to contribute towards the expense. In order to raise money the members of the club will give a Rummage Sale In the Bummers Building at Fayette and Kim streets on Friday and Sat-ur lay of this week. Any one who desires to contribute to tills sale can send their contribu-tions to Mrs. If. P. I'avis 128 East Fourth avenue. Will Operate an Auto Bus. Charles Slavin, of this borough, has purchased another automobile truck for use in bis hauling business. The new truck will be fitted with an up-holstered bus body with a seating ca-pacity for fifteen persons. Mr. Sla-vin's trade slogan is "We go uny-where at 'any time." The new truck will arrive May 29th. Mr. Slavin will make a specialty of tnking parties to Willow drove. Valley Forge, Atlantis city and other trips. LESE MAJESTY. Pennaburg Town and Country. The minister who presumes to know the very number of the room this or that person will occupy in the sweet-bye-and-bye, should him-self be consigned to number 18, Umbrellas repaired and covered at KEHOES —Advt. MANHEIM SPORT SHIRTS ON SALE AT KATZ'S 53 FAYETTE ST., CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. .*
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FullText | BOOST CONSHOHOCKEN And Thus Boost Your Neighbor. BOOST YOURSELF And Help to Prosper e €0tt0hol)0ckett ilecor&et*. Buy in CONSHOHOCKEN And Get Real Satisfaction Read The RECORDER Ads Before Your Shopping PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY] JgtJ. 4802 THE CONSHOHOCKEN RECORDER, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915 JPI PER YEAR $1206.83 THE OFFERING TO REV. McKINNEY ATTENDANCE SUNDAY NIGHT WAS LARGEST DURING THE CAMPAIGN.- EVANGELIST GIV-EN GREAT OVATION.— WEEK END SERVICE BROUGHT 64 CONVERTS.- PROOFS GIVEN OF WHAT CAMPAIGN IS DOING.. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Offering. To Rev. T. \V. MeKinncy Sunday Afternoon ....1810.69 Sunday e\ ening 896.26 11206.88 Attendance Previously announced .. 45,051 Friday 1,000 Saturday 2,200 Sunday afternoon 1,600 Sunday evening 2,600 I Total 52,461 Convert*. Previously announced .... 786 Friday 0 Saturday 1". Sunday afternoon "> Sunday evening 40 846 Reconsecrated. Previously announced 698 Sunday afternoon - i 700 *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The tabernacle campaign closed its fourth week Sunday night with the largest congregation that has yet at-tended the services. The people an-ticipated that it would be a big night and all the seats were occupied early. Seats from automobile busses were commandeered and placed near the platform extra chairs were se«-ured and placed in the aisles, and the night being cool, the people sat close together and made room for others, very available space was occupied and many stood through the entire ser-vice. There were 2600 persons in the audience. I Every one was imbued with the Eplrit that the service was to be a reat one, and of all the fine musical iaervices, Sunday evening's was the test. Tho familiar hymns were sung •tand the big building was filled with melody which floated out the open windows and could be heard a couple of blocks distant. Never before did the choir better respond to Mr. Mad-den's directions. When sections of the big audience sang responses to the choir, the voices would float through the big building with a pipe organ ef-fect. A free will offering was taken for Rev. Mr. MeKinncy at both the Sun-day services and amounted to $120(1- .83. The afternoon offering amount..I to *810..V7 and the night offering, $395.20. These amounts include the offerings from the various churches and from various organizations. Rev. J. F. Sheppard asked for an offerings of $1000 at the afternoon service. He told the work the tabernacle is doing. He said there is a story going about that one man contributed $1000 to the tabernacle and that another gave Mr. McKinney $500, neither of these stor-ies are true. Mr. Sheppard told of the interest the campaign has aroused in the churches and that it has brought about a better community spirit. He also said a saloon keeper said he was glad the tabernacdle was coming as it would improve business, but he was mistaken as the other night a friend stopped in this man's placo and during the half hour he was there not a cus-tomer appeared. At the evening service Rev. E. L, Hyde paid a line tribute to Mr. McKin-ney's services and asked that the peo-ple express their appreciation in a substantial manner, life received of-ferings of $5 from the W. C. T. U., $30 from the oflicers and directors of the People's Bank, of West Conahadiocken, and $22.70 from the St. MarOT Luther-an Bible Class. Mr Hyde asao recit-ed instances where the campaign has brought such joy Irito homes that Its value cannot be estimated In money. He told of a case where a woman told him the revival has been the means of banishing drunkenness from her home and he said there are many such cases In town. After the afternoon service a num-ber of singers went to the Silk home where the evangelistic party Is stay-ing and sang several hymns. They then went to several homes In the upper end of town and sang hymns, in the open air, for those who have bean prevented from attending the taber-nacle by reason of illness. Mr. MeKinncy announced thai some evening thla weak Mr. and Mrs. Lind-say, talented musicians, would be present. He said he was unable to name the day as they could not till him when they would be free to come. N'I \l Saturday evening will be Bible Class night and the service will be for men only. At the same time a WOOMn'a inc.'ting will be held in the Piaabyti rian church and will be ad-dressed by an eminent woman preach-er. Evening Sermon. The evening sermon was preached from the text from Isaiah, 1:18— ■■ Some now, and let us reason together, sail!', the I.ord: through your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crim-son, they ,-hall be as wool." The terribleness of sin and the promise that we can be cleansed of it was the 'Jieine of the sermon. The preacher said: "Sin is a terrible tiling but our text tells us it may be cleans-ed It is false that the church faith is divorced from reason it is not so; it lias a most reasonable foundation. It is sin and self indulgence that puts out the light and makes us take the journey through life in darkness. Kin sold the soul of the beggar and mil-lionaire alike, it is not like dust on a garment that can easily be brushed away, it is like dye in tile warp and woof of the fabric. "If you beheld the hideousness of sin. you would flee as from a pesti-lence; but as sin presents itself in a fascinating light, wc clasp It to our bosoms. Sin and serpents are usually compared, and I would that every man and women would hate and fear sin as I do a snake. The bite of sin is deadly to happiness and the soul and the trail of the serpent of sin is every-where." The preacher told of a Christmas service he conducted at the House of Correction and said it is wonderful how those two thousand men and one thousand women sang the hymns. It showed that sin had led them to where they were. Those people had at one time sung in Sunday School. No one is free from the trail of the serpent. Sin Cannot be Outgrown. "There are those who say that sin can be outgrown. To perdition with such a doctrine! If you prefer Moth-er Kddy, Howie, Russell and Sanford, take them and go to perdition with them! The ultimate judgment of such doctrines belongs to the devil rather than to God! "What did it mean when Jesus littered the last cry? It meant that the sins of the human race had been atoned. Sin is the most degrading, defacing, debauching and devastating thing in the world, and yet some of you nurse It and say sin is a little thing! Go to the house of sorrow and see if sin is a little thing; it Is at the bottom of most sorrow! Will be Forgiven. "A startling and helpful truth is that sin at its worst may be cleansed, no matter how deep the stain. If you have committed every crime, bro-ken every commandment, God can and will forgive you. He will do more than that if you will confess your sins. He 1B faithful and Just and will cleanse you! Unless you confess, you will go to hell! Will Take Chancet "We come here with the great sal-vation and we can take it into the worst places and teach it and bring men to the purity or living. The text is a good one for the harlot and the libertine and I would be willing to take my chances with them at the bar of God against those of you here who tell the personal workers, you have done nothing God will not ov-erlook It! There are more scarlet men and women than you think, and the scarlet man is more reprehensible than the scarlet woman! Tell it to the tombstone or in the insane asy-lums that sin is a little tiling! Sin is a little thing? The devil told you that! "If aesthetic souls can rage over the blood shed at Gettysburg, Bhilo, Chat-tanooga and other battlefields where great patriotism was shown, why not over the cross of Jesus." When the invitation was extended the great audience arose and forty persons professed conversion. (Continued on Page G) SOLDIERS PREPARING FOR MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES WILL BE HELD ON SUN-DAY, MAY 23, IN LITTLE'S OP-ERA HOUSE.- GRAVES WILL BE DECORATED SATURDAY, THE 29th—UNIFORMED O. OF I. A. WILL ASSIST THE VETER-ANS. George Smith Post No. 7!), ('.. A. It. baa completed arrangements for mem-orial services to be held in memory of their departed comrades, with the ex-ception of selecting the orator for the sc rvices to be held in Little's Opera House on Sunday evening, May 23. Sunday afternoon, May :!::, the Vet- BIG BIBLE CLASS PARADE Parade Will be in Two Divisions and Escorted by Several Bands. If the predictions of J. Rufus Barr. leader oi the Men's Bible Class of the M. E. church and chairman of the committee or arrangements for Bible Class night at the tabernacle, Satur-day night, are cornet, the greatest parade of llible Class men ever held in this county will be held here on Sat-urday evening The Bible Classes from Plymouth, Barren Hill, NorrUtown, Gulf Mills, West Conahohooken and this borough will participate and Mr. Barr expects there will be several bands in line. The members of the local classes are requested to assemble at their various churches at 6.30 P. M. The classes of the Baptist, Calvary and St. Mark's churches will be known as the eastern division and the M. K. and Presbyterian classes will be the wes-tern division. Both divisions will march to Tenth avenue and Fayette street where they will be joined by the division composed of the out of town classes and a line of parade will be formed. The full details of the parade will be printed in this paper on Friday next. HENRY J. HARROLD Adjutant of the Post. WOMEN'S CLUBS MEETING The Federation of Women'.; Clubs of Montgomery County are holding a i meeting in the Baptist church in Ilat-boro, today. A business meeting was held at 10.30. The afternoon session will be an open meeting to which all members of the club are Invited. Mrs. Jean K. Foulke will address the meeting. She will be remembered as a very pleasant speaker by those who heard her on a previous visit to the club. erans assisted by Conshohocken Coun-cil, O. of I. A., the latter act|ng as a firing squad, will go to Merlon Square and decorate the graves of all Onion soldiers buried there and will hold the regular Grand Army service for the dead. In the evening, a memorial service will be held in the Opera House. A number of singers have volunteered their services assuring good music. The following ministers have consented to take 'part in the service: Rev. H. T. Houf, Rev. R N. Musselman, Rev. II. 1). S. Coate3, Rev. James P. Parker, Rev. A. J. Davles, Rev. J. T. Fox, Rev. T. A. Armour and Rev. J. F. Sheppard. The services will be held in mem-ory of tho following Comrades: THOMAS G. ARNOLD. Private, Co. I, 43 Regt Pa. Vol. M. Died, Nov. 1, 1914. EPWIN KIOLLICIINER Private, Co. A, BlSt Pa. Vole. Died, August !), 1914. JAMBS V. STEWART Private. Co. C, Pp.. Vol. M. Died, February 6,, 1015. HENRY DeHAVBN Private, Co. I, 2nd Pa. H .A. Died, January 17, 1915. BLLERY CHANNING POTTS Private, Co. B, Ind. Cavalry. Died February 19, 1915. GBORGH II. LOGAN Private Co. A, 7th Del. Vols. Died, April 7, 1915. As Memorial Day falls on Sunday, the Post will celebrate it on Saturday the 20th. The Comrades will meet at the Post room at seven o'clock that morning and accompanied by the O. of I. A. will march to St. Matthew".* cemetery where the graves will be decorated, the G. A. II. service Will be held and an address will be mado by Rev. James P. Parker. The vet-erans will then go by coaches to St. Matthew's new cemetery, Plymouth Meeting, Cold Point and Barren Hill and hold services at each cemetery. They will return to their hall at noon where the Women's Relief Corps will serve dinner. Tho afternoon service will be held at Gulf cemetery. This will be the largest service of the day &-a there are many soldiers buried there. J. Bur-nett Holland Esq., of this borough, will be the orator. The Citizens' band and a company from the O. of I. A. will escort the veterans. Killed by Gas. Alexander Neill, an aged resident Of Bridgeport, was found dead seated in the kitchen of his home with gas pouring from an open jet. GEORGE CLYMER BROOKE. \fter an illness of several years, Which became acute two weks ago, George Clymer Ilrooke, retired finan-ce r. died Friday at his home, Ereezy-brow, Ardmore. He was ill years old, and formerly was a member of the banking llrm of Drexel &' Co. He retired recently on account of ill health. He was a di-rector of the Central National Bank, Philadelphia, and before joining Drex-el & Co. was associated in the broker-age firm of George S. Fox J Son. Mr. Brooke is survived by a widow, who was Miss Rhoda F. Morris, daugh-ter of E. li. Morris, president of Glrard Trust Company, Philadelphia: His father was John Edward Brooke, weal-thy iron and steel producer, of Uirds-boro. TESTING NEW LIGHTS See If You Notice Any Greater Bril-liancy at Hector and Fayette Street After Tonight. Advertise In "THE RECORDER" Chairman Richard Bate of the Po-lice, Fire and Water Committee of Town Council has been In conference with the officials of the Counties Gas and Electric 'Company many times during the past year, using his efforts to have the company use a better arc lamp for the street lighting. The company has made a number of tests of lamps and now believes It has one that will give entire satisfaction. For the >pcst week two arc lamps, of a new and improved type, have been burning at Tenth avenue and Wells street and Tenth avenue and Jones street. The light given is more pow-erful than from the old lamps. To-day the company will place one of the new lamps at Hector and Fayette street and another at Spring Mill avenue and Harry street, that the pub-lic may judge of the new lamp. The advantages of the new lamp are that they will burn for two hun-dred hours without trimming and the carbons are so adjusted that the light is steady and constant Date Stone Bids Ruled Out Because Frank Nash put an extra charge for a date stone in his bid for extensive repairs to the Spring Valley bridge in Abington, it may lose him the contract, for otherwise he was low bidder. The Commissioners hove de-cided to "cut out" the date Btones. JANE CAMPBELL PLEADS FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTED SUFFRAGIST ADDRESSED A LARGE COMPANY AT "COL-LINIA" LAST EVENING.-USED ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE CAUSE FOR IT.—MR. DIX ALSO SPEAKS FOR THE SUFFRAGE CAUSE. A large and enthusiastic meeting in the Interest of Woman Suffrage was held at Collinia, the home of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Collins, Second avenue and Forrest street, lost evening. Nu-merous well known Conshohockenites were present at the invitation of the hostess, to hear Miss Jane Campbell, the prominent Suffrage leader of Germantown, who lias been one of the-most enthusiastic advocates of Votes for Women for a nupber of years. She explained freely and frankly that the main reason why she and other women wanted the vote was for the same reason that men wanted It, viz., To have something to say regarding the government which governs both men and women. She gave many practical answers to the various ob-jections which are being forwarded by those opposed to equal suffrage and showed that many of the questions asked by such people were in them-selves answered by other objections made. For instance, some persons claim In one breatli that the difference of opinion between man and wife ^would cause dissensions in the home, and in the next breath say that there is no use of women voting, as they would only vote as their husbands did. Following Miss Campbell a brief talk was made by James II. Dix, of Plymouth township, the husband of Mrs. Caroline Ludy Dix, leader of the Woman Suffrage Party in this district. He Urged those who already saw the undeniable justice and advantage of Equal Suffrage to not be satisfied to simply believe in the cause them-selves, but to do all they possibly could to interest others, especially the men who, by voting for the amend-ment next November, could bring vic-tory for the cause. Mrs. Dix and Miss illovenden, Secre-tary of the Plyiwuth Meeting Woman Suffrage Association, assisted by oth-ers, secured numerous signatures to the party membership blanks, and plans were laid for organizing the Woman Suffrage Party In Conshohock-en. FRANK MELLOR Former Resident Died Yesterday Philadelphia. at Right at the Tabernacle. WIDL'S GARAGE. The place where your auto service is right.—Adv. Frank Mellor, husband of Ellen Mel-lor (nee Herron), aged 66 years, died yesterday, at his home, 3301 N. Twen-ty- second street, Philadelphia. Mr. Mellor was a brother-in-law to Robert (Herron, of this borough, and resided here for many years. While here, he was employed as on engineer nt the Schuylklll Iron Works and other mills. He removed, with his family, to Philadelphia a number of years ago and entered the employ of the Electric Storage Battery Com-pany. Mr. Mellor became ill about a year ago and had an operation performed to give him relief but he never regain-ed robust health. Six weeks ago, he was compelled to give up work and ten days ago his illness became worse and he took to his bed. The funeral will be held from his late residence on Friday afternoon at one o'clock. The funeral will arrive at Barren Hill at 2.30 o'clock and ser-vices will be held in St. Peter's Lu-theran church and the body may be viewed there. Presbytery North to Unveil Tablet A memorial tablet to the Rev. Dr. Joseph Beggs, pastor and pastor emer-itus of the Falls Presbyterlon Church for forty years, will be unveiled in that church Tuesday night at the spring meeting of the presbytery of Philadelphia, North. Sessions of the presbytery will be held throughout the day. Woman loves a clear, rosy complex-ion. Burdock Blood Bitters is splen-did for purifying the blood, clearing the skin, restoring sound digestion. All druggists sell it. Price, $1.00. Advt. VALLEY FORGE CHAPTER, D. A. R. On Friday the members of Valley Forge Chapter D. A. It. held their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. J. Kennedy Moorhouse, No. 317 Fay-ette street, this borough. There were 30 members present. Mrs. Irwin Fish-er, the regent, presided. Mrs. Charlotte Kilpatrick, chairman of the marker committee, speaking in her report of the ten graves of Revo-lutionary soldiers to be marked the coming summer with the permanent D. A. R. marker, said that email Unit-ed States Hags would be placed on these graves and those previously marked prior to Decoration Day. Mrs. Wilfred L. Stauffer, chairman of the committee appointed to devise means to increase the chapter funds, reported that arrangements for an en-tertainment to be held June 1st in.the Norrlstown Opera House, were almost completed. The proceeds from this affair are to be used for a memorial to Mrs. William II. IHolstein, who or-ganized the Valley Forge Chapter, gave It its name and was its first re-gent. This patriotic woman, besl lea her work for I'nion soldiers of the civ-il war and her interest and work in the preservation of Mount Verfton, was also Instrumental in the preserva-tion of Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge, being, until her death, president of a society she had estab-lished for that purpose. At the close of business the chapter was treated to a most entertaining report by the re-gent, Mrs. Irwin Fisher, or her at-tenance at the N. S. I). A. R. Congress in Washington, D. C, in April. Miss Mary Evans represented the chapter then as delegate. Mrs. Hugh Mclnues and Mrs. P. Y. Elsenberg as alter-nates, and several other members were In attendance, viz: Mrs. Reese P. Davis, Mrs. M. E. B. I.ane, MM. C. O. Pparrwort, Mrs. H. S. Righter, Miss Marie Yost, Mrs. Joseph Fornance and Miss Lois Fornance. Mrs. C. Howard Harry entertained the chapter by reading several inter-esting extracts from a Savannah Kia.i paper, regarding the unveilng of a memorial shaft at Midway, Ga, to two famous Revolutionary officers—Gener-al James Sereven and General Dan-iel Stewart. It was of especial inter-est, as General Sereven was the great-great- grandfather of Mrs. Harry, and General Stewart was the great-grand-father of ex-President Roosevelt. The chapter adjourned to enjoy a social hour and delightful vocal and instrumental music, together with re-freshments, provided by the hospit-able hostess. Lilies-ofthe-valley add-ed to the beauty of the refreshment table and every one present had an enjoyable time. STRASSBURGER HONORED Ex-Consul General Elected to Navy League National Committee. Ralph B. Strassburger, of Gwynedd Valley, was elected to the National Committee of the United States Navy league at a meeting of that body held In Washington yesterday. .Mr. Strass-burger is the second Philadelphian elected to the Navy league National Committee within the last few months, the other being Alexander Van Rensselaer. Mr. Strassburger has a spendid record of Government service both in the navy and as a member of the diplomatic corps. He was a member of the class of 1906 at Annapolis, and a star member of sev-eral Naval Academy football teams. In 1909 he retired from the navy and entered the diplomatic service, receiv-ing the appointment as Consul Gen-eral In Bucharest at tho time of the Balkan war. Two years ago he re-turned to this country, and last spring he caused a political sensation by running for the nomination for Con-gress from the Hueks-Moulogmery dis-trict on the Republican ticket at the primaries, losing by a narrow margin. TEMPERANCE WORKERS TO MEET The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the home of Mrs Thomas Murray, 112 West Ninth ave-nue, on Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'- clock. Business of vital importance to all is to be transacted and it is urg-ed that all of the members be present and bring a friend. The regular dues will be received at this meeting. Advertise in "THE RECORDER" FIREMEN MAP OUT A FIRE DISTRICT WASHINGTON COMPANY SETS A DISTRICT IN WHICH IT WILL RESPOND TO ALARMS-WILL ONLY RESPOND TO FACTORY AND SECOND ALARMS FROM WEST SIDE.—ZONE IS A LARGE ONE. The Washington Fire ' ompany has mapped eat a district in which it will respond to all alarms of lire. The company baa taken this action t>e- Iteving in practice i( will work out for the In ner protection of the district and Conshohocken especially. Here-tofore alarms have been coming in from distant places and both the local companies and the George Clay Com-pany have responded, leaving . both boroughs without protection. Tin district mapped out which the Washington Companv will cover is as follows: .Marble Hall. Plymouth Meeting and west on the Germantown pike to Uveaey'a store (the Trenton Cut-off bridge i and all the territory lying between these points and Cotr ahohocken. On the east, the covered territory will extend to the Hamilton paper mills at Lafayette. All alarms from factories In Weal 'orisholiocken will be n sponded to but other alarms will only be responded to on second call; that is, if the George Clay Company needs assist-ance, the Wasliingtons will render it. It is believed the announcement of the district the Washington Company will cover will lie a great benefit to the Bremen and to properly owners in that the hitter instead of sending in a general alarm will only summon one company and both the boroughs will always he protected. It is also suggested to property own-ers having property without the pro-tection of fire plugs that they ouild Small dams in the many creeks in the district that would enable-a »tuinpiir.( engine to go into service. At the fire at Spring Mill lust week, it was ob-served that Spring Mill village could be given fair protection by th« build-ing of a small dam in the creek near 1-entz's hotel. The cost would be small and the work might be done by property owners or the township supervisors. The Washington Company has act-ed in the hope that the other fire com-panies will also adopt fire zones thus saving many needless runs and the consequent needless wear on appar-atus and an expense to the compan-ies RUMMAGE SALE The Women's Club hopes to have the School Board authorize the leach-ing of Domestic Scienci- in the High School, and has offered to contribute towards the expense. In order to raise money the members of the club will give a Rummage Sale In the Bummers Building at Fayette and Kim streets on Friday and Sat-ur lay of this week. Any one who desires to contribute to tills sale can send their contribu-tions to Mrs. If. P. I'avis 128 East Fourth avenue. Will Operate an Auto Bus. Charles Slavin, of this borough, has purchased another automobile truck for use in bis hauling business. The new truck will be fitted with an up-holstered bus body with a seating ca-pacity for fifteen persons. Mr. Sla-vin's trade slogan is "We go uny-where at 'any time." The new truck will arrive May 29th. Mr. Slavin will make a specialty of tnking parties to Willow drove. Valley Forge, Atlantis city and other trips. LESE MAJESTY. Pennaburg Town and Country. The minister who presumes to know the very number of the room this or that person will occupy in the sweet-bye-and-bye, should him-self be consigned to number 18, Umbrellas repaired and covered at KEHOES —Advt. MANHEIM SPORT SHIRTS ON SALE AT KATZ'S 53 FAYETTE ST., CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. .* |
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