Ambler Gazette

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The Ambler Gazette.
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AMBLER.   PA..   JANUARY
81.
1918
$1.75   A   YEAR
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OVER THE TOP.
COLD POINT
AND PLYMOUTH.
Happenings at Local Interest to Our
Readers.
Hiokorytown Man and Team Struck by j g^,,,^   Roy  A>  9l^Mt_  „f Company
Trolley at  Barren Hill—Marble  Hall|     *    s1Atkl    \nt_m_m.     Wri*»«    _t   tha
AMBLER BOYS GO! WATER RATES   ! WHITPAIN AND
KNOCKED OUT.      I. GWYNEDD.
NEW RATES
FOR GAS CO.
HORSHAM AND
UPPER DUBLIN.
Camp Meade Troops Charge tor tbe j Upper Dublin Water Co. Loses Be-
Motion Pictures.
fore State Commission.
Who's Who and Wbat__» What in the | Planned to  Become  Effective oa | Miscellaneous  Items of Interestje
Two Township^
Feb. 20.
Many Readers.
School     Coal     Low—Storm     Blocks
Traffic — Red     Cross    Activities —
Events at Harmonville.
A daughter was born Tuesday ot last
week to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Moseley at HarmonviUe.
Mrs. Oeorge Osburn, of Philadelphia,
visited Mrs. Charles B. Frederick at
Hickorytown last week.
Mrs. Millie Hiltner, of Carr's, lane,
Harmonville, who has been on the sick
list,  is  now much improved.
George Kirk, who is in the United
States navy, haa heen spending some
time at his Cold Point home on leave.
Mrs. George Markel, of Corsons, was
removed to a Philadelphia hospital on
Saturday and on Monday underwent
an operation.
Miss Elizabeth H. Marple, of Hick-
■orytown, has been spending a week
' with Mr. and Mrs. Addison Nitterauer,
near Pottstown.
The annual meeting of the Hickorytown mission will be .held on Feb. 4,
;;| when among other business four trustees are to be elected.
The Plymouth    branch  of the    Red
Cross held an aU-day meeting at A. F.
Wernle's, upper Plymouth, on Tuesday,
and  the members   worked   busily  all
, day.
John J. Albright, the blacksmith at
Harmonville, who has been very ill
with a relapse following a sickness, is
somewhat improved, and was able, on
Sunday, to sit up a while in'his bed.
Mrs. Charles B. Frederick returned
home to Hickorytown on Wednesday
of last week, after having spent a
very enjoyable stay with her daughter,
Mrs. William Funk, at New Brunswick,
N. J.
Haby brothers shipped, Saturday
evening, from Plymouth Meeting station, Trenton Cut-off, baled hay,
.horses and pigs from Cold Point to
their new place of business near Harrisburg.
Wallace B. Danehower, principal of
the Plymouth township schools, who
has been critically ill at Phoenixville
hospital with spinal meningitis, has
been reported as having been some;
what better..
Eck Carson. J. Edwin Ewnig and
George Corbett, of Hicktorytown, spent
Sunday evening at Ambler and attended * the very enjoyable birthday
party tendered Mrs. James B. Long
held at the home of Jefferson Clair
on Park avenue, x
Many, families in Harmon ville were]
'W of-ebal'•■'oii -l_ton.ilay "Vnd with the j
storm raging things looked very ser-1
ious, as some had been without fires
. over Sunday. However.,, several loads!
of wood were secured for the homes
and delivered aa early in the afternoon'
aa possible. I
At  George  Corson's residence,  Cold j
Point,   the  house   was  without   water!
service  tor several   days   as  the  ser- j
vice mains,    were    frozen.    Workmen
were employed for several days in relief  work,  and   night   work   was   also
resorted to in an effort to remedy conditions.
On Monday the Whitemarsh township schools that had coal were allow- I
ed to open, but the heavy snow storm
almost nullified the order. The Marble
Hall school was closed because of a
lack of fuel, and it is said that but 12 j
pupil-. were present at the Barren Hill
scbool.
Rev. WUUam Smiw, of Philadelphia,
will preach next Sunday evening at
Hickorytown Union mission. The
prayer meeting service, this Wednesday evening, was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph James, at Hiokorytown. At the meeting', held at the
Eckened bungalow on the previous
Wednesday evening 20 persons braved
the severe weather and the long walk
back from the  trolley.
On, Friday evening Milton R. Marple,
of Hickorytown, furnished his big sled
With comfortable seats and warm
robes and conveyed the teachers of
Plymouth township publio schools to
Centre Point,' where they were moat
delightfully entertained by Miss
Blanche Schults, who is also one of the
Plymouth township faculty. The ride
and entertainment were most enjoyable. -%0."
Last Saturday morning as Milton R.
Marple of Hiokorytown, was returning after disposing of a load of potatoes in Roxborough his sled was struck
from the rear by a trolley car while
descending a hill on the Ridgel, pike
south of Barren Hill. . The sled was
damaged and the pole broken. The
horses broke loose and started to run
away, but Mr. Marple, although shaken
up and bruised, pluckily held to 'the
lines and succeeded, after some difficulty, in checking them. Fortunately
neither Mr. Marple nor the horses were
seriously injured and they were able to
proceed to "Buttonwood farm," Hickorytown.
Membership in the Golden Rule club,
of the Hickorytown mission, is stead -
- Uy growing, and the good influences of
the movement are expanding. Mr.
Ewing was recently ln receipt of a
letter from Timothy P. Shanahan, formerly o*y Philadelphia, one of the flrst
boys to Join the movement. The lad
has now grown to manhood and is in
Massachusetts preparing himself for
government service ln the wireless
■branch. A second lad, Clarence Hat-
tei, ef Philadelphia, has recently addressed Mr. Carson from Camp Han-
cock, Ga. He is a member of Co, ___,
110th infantry, and states that, so far
as possible, he is striving to interest
come of the hoys in the uplift movement ot the club. He sent for some of
the club pins, and a similar request for
pins has also come from several members of the club who are now in Vt-
sinus college, Collegeville.
(Continued on Page I)'.
K,  314th    Infantry,    Writes    of   the
Thrills and ef the  Amusing  Experiences—Smoke    Bombs,    Mines,    Gas
Masks,   Etc.—The   Wounded.
Roy A. Smith, of Ambler, who is sergeant ln Company K,  314th Infantry,
writes  as  follows  concerning  a  most
interesting event    in the camp    drill,
which served    to take the    monotony
out of the routine :
Uncle Sammv has been keeping us
on the Job for fair. We're receiving
|our hardening process now, and maybe
it isn't ,some stunt. We do all our
physical exercises out In the cold jvilh
over coats or blouses on. There are
times when a stove would sell for a
fortune.
On Thursday last we hiked out to
the   trenches   through   snow   about   a
Ruling Ae Handed Down Declares
That Proper and Legal Notice of
Increase of Rates by the Water
Company Was Not Given—Abstract
of Decision.
The public service commission has!
handed down a decision in the case of j
the Ambler Highlands improvement;!
association vs. the Upper Dublin Wa- i
ter company, which decision is favor-4
able  to  the  former association
ThdJ
•VSylvester ' Duffield hauled his wheat
to Lansdale on Saturday.
. Percy La^ch has purchased the pigs
of Mr. Lapetina. of Blue Bell.
, William Donnelly and family spent
Sunday with Samuel Fisher and family
at Blue Bell.
. Paul Anderson, of Pittsburgh, spent
Sunday with his cousin, Emma Walton, at Blue Bell.
.- Letitia Phipps, who is boarding in
I Ambler, spent  the Week-end with her;
Blue  BeU,
of Joseph
spent
Shoe-
njre    CD    cue   loruirr   uasuuiuiiuu.       l ucs/i parents  at Blue Bell
case   was   heard   before   Commissioner}' • jto]anc|   Wentz   ot
Alcorn   in   the  select   council   chamber, '■ Sunday   at the  h'onu
city hall,    Philadelphia on    Thursday,j| maker and family*
[November 8.    Harold G. Knighi Esq..'!    Mrg    Harry  Walton,    of   Blue  Bell,
of Ambler,  was the attorney for the. | .haa  beon  substituting  in ,the  Ambler
improvement association, while Attor-n school as teacher
ney  Franklin  Wright  represented  the. 11 Gwynedd  Friends'    school  was    not
company.1'  I opened   Monday,; as  the teachers  were
Stable  to reach the building.
report    of  the     commissioner,
water
T-A           ^^^
which  was  handed down  on  January j
22. in part is as follows :•
"The Upper Dublin Wat
filed  a   new   tariff  effective
company-
July   1st,'
foot deep for a battle we were to light 1917, increasing the rates for service.
for the movies. The trenches were full The complaint was filed September tSi
of snow ahd everything was sloppy. 1917, and refers to the excessive in-
We had to climb over the top .through I crease in the rates. At the hearln '
a nice big drift, and away across "no
the
man's land."   The spot chosen for thol   .,-
battle had    a nice bunch of    prickly
complaint was amended so as id
ie the. question whether the notice
the  Increased   rates   was  given  in
  nformity   with   the  act  of  July   Mi
burrs growing close by.   Theae, I sup-   1913.    The respondent agreed  to  pro-'
pose,   were  wire   entanglements.    Our  ceed under the complaint as amended,
squads   deployed   in   regular   skirmish   The preliminary question, therefore  is
formation and  whenever  the director I whether the inorease rates were pro
would call "casualty" some one would
take a "header" as though dropped by
a bullet.    Some    of the poor    fellows
took their little spill in puddles and had
to stay there until the battle was over.
It was a lot of fun, though, and sure
was interesting.    We had all sorts of
powder   explosions   for   mines,   smoke
bombs for gas,    and blank cartridges
galore.   Some of the fellows wore steel
helmets as are used on the other side,
also gas  masks,  etc.    Some  inspiring
sight t____W
Stotesbury's Coal Seized at Ambler.
About 50 families in Ambler and
vicinity, who a week ago. were almost
without coal and worrying because
there appeared to be no hope of obtaining fresh supplies, are warm today, says the Evening Ledger of last
Saturday, because William Warner
Harper, district fuel administrator under H. B. Tyhon, federal fuel administrator for Montgomery county,- seized a carload of coal that had been intended to heat the Chestnut HIU home
of Edward T. Stotesbury, now under
construction.
Two carloads of the precious anthracite—about 60 tons—were shipped to
Chestnut Hill, by the George A. Fuller
perly 'posted and published so as to
become effective July 1, 1917. If the
respondent did not comply - with the
act of assembly in posting1 and publishing then the Increased tariff did not
become effective.
"The act of 1913, requires the tariff
to be posted and published in the office or station of the public service;
company open to the public where
payments are made by consumers,
users or patrons, in such a manner,
form and place in such office er station as to be readily accessible, and
said tariffs and schedules may be conveniently inspected by the public. On
the notices as given by the respondent
posted in the offlce at Ambler and that
at the offlce on the farm of Dr. R. V.
Mattison there ls no statement that,
the new tariff is an increase ln the"
rates. In fact the new rates could not
be learned by the notice as posted in
the offlce at Ambler where the bills ara
paid without lifting up the first sheet]
and there ls nothing at all to indicate
that these rates are an$
wife are moving
Hallowell   farm,
B.   Strassberger'S
I   Mr. and Mrs. Bayard' l\  Livingston.
[of Philadelphia, culled at their country
residence on Sunday at Blue BeU.
6 No chureh service was held Sunday
evenin* in Boehm's Reformed chureh,
Blue Bell,    because of the   inclement
weather.
":  Mr. and. Mrs. Victor Prete, of Blue
Bell, have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
John  Lapetina  in   New  Tork  city   for
two weeks;
Rev. and Mrs, Joseph Tost, of Blue
Bell, were entertained at dinner at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Preston on
Friday laat.
! Harry Walton and
this week from the
Hear PenUyn, to R.
fit  Franklinviile.
¥ C. H. Danehower, of near Centre
Square, was brought home from Charity hospital on Saturday. He is still
under the care of a trained nurse.
T. Mrs. Marietta Hoover, Ada Hoover
and Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Booz, of
Blue Bell, spent Wednesday at the
home of A. A. Nash and family, of Eureka.
John Mitchell, of Gwynedd,. is nearing the completion of his new house.
The painters have _ finished, and on
Monday the hard wood floors were
scraped.
- Rev. Joseph Yost expects to finish
the term as teacher of the Whitpain
high school owing to the resignation
of Prof. Russel Hunter, who has taken
a position in New Tork.
The anniversary of the Sewing Circle,    of  Boehm's    church,    Blue  Bell,
which was to have been held on Sat-
to indicated urday  evening,  was postponed on ac-
iiffernt from* count  of the scarcity of fuel.
Contains Schedule of Rates Listed Below—Other Changes Include Prepayment Meters, Short Term or Temporary  Service,  Seasonal  Service.
The Philadelphia Suburban Gas &
I Electric company has filed with the
public service commission for its Jen-
[ kintown division (Jenkintown. Rock-
1 ledge, Hatboro, Ambier, North ■ Wales,
Lansdale, flatiield, Souderton, Telford,
1 West Telford and surrounding terri-
j tory), to become effective on Febru-
I ary 20th, 1918. a new tariff of rates,
I providing for an increase in the mlni-
i mum charge for regular meters from
j 50c net to 70c net per month, and an
I advance of from 10c to 20c per 1000
I cubic feet in the unit rates charge for
gas consumed. The new tariff con-
schedule of rates :
ft. or less, $ .70 net
" ..1.40 net per M
" ..1.25	
" ..1.10   	
"   ..1.00    "      "     "
 " • • 9° "      9 ^^^___
Other changes contained ln the new I tendance
tariff include :
Prepayment meters—a monthly ser- '
vice charge of 26c shall be paid in ad- |
dition to payments for gas consumed i
at $1.30 per 1,000 cubic feet net.
Short term or temporary service for,
terms less than one year—a payment!
of $1 in advance for each setting and
removal of meter shall be made in ad- 1
dition to the scheduled rates for gas |
consumed.
Seasonal Service—A new rate ls es- I
tabllshed   for   contracts   for   the  eight
I months' season between September the
first and May the first, in which a ser-
cive charge and minimum of $6 is to j
be paid, which shall include 6,000 cubic j
feet of, gas, and all over 6 000 feet to j
be charged at the rate of 70c net per.
1,000 cubic feet.
haa
______ kaa
corn to the Philadelphia
Mrs. John Harrar, of Horsham,
been suffering from rheumatism.
Jabelwadi farm, near Hallowell,
of  Hallowell,  ex-
new body for his
tains  the
following
Minimum
600 cu,
First
6000 "
Second
6000   '
Third
5000   "
Next
26,000   '
AU over
40,000   "
thos 3 previously in force.   It was sup*f|
posed that tbe posting of a new rate)i located in Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.
in the offices and stations of the ser-i C, where he is medical director of
vice  company  showing  what  changes' the department  of gas defense,
were being made  would  be  sufficient; 1 a member of the 106th engineersl	
Of course,  it is the duty of the con^i     Mi-   and   Mrs.   William   Sailer,   Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Hand. Mr. and  Mrs,
Dr. Joseph Leidy, of PenUyn, is now
beini
sumer or patron to take notice and to.
be sufficiently observing,  but no. matt
ter   how   careful   the   consumers;   werj
e   this ____-_!■____*___?_rS__.0/__^^_
.enpat);-, who .'¥»'■ 't^~ fi~*irfritf 'tt*   **"1 <____r*_ithrri*' a^t-       ____
the  House.     Harper,   learning  of  tne [whether jt_was ah increfiKt
shipment, went to representatives of
Mr. Stotebury and the Fuller company
and demanded half the coal for the
benefit of the families that were almost without fuel.
" The coal was willingly given, so
While Mr. Harper did seize the coal;
the term does not imply that he met | quirements
any resistance. "They willingly gave — are °*
it up," said Mr. Harper, "when I told
them the situation was serious and it
was absolutely necessary that it be
given up."
The Fuller    company is    using
rest of the coal, about 30 tons, for
purpose for which it was originally intended, and there is no delay in construction    of    the    multi-millionaire's
house despite the coal shortage.
Representatives of the Fuller company explained that the construction
of tbe mansion has reached such a
stage that heating is necessary if the
work is to be continued. Plastering
and interior finishing is going on, and
the contractors hold that\ it is necessary either to keep the house warm
or to abandon work until warm weather sets in.
in rates. The complalhahuvwere'"not
ware, of tke increase until thev received tli e bills, about or after July i, 1917,
and then only by a comparison of the
n*w and old bills. As the notices given
by the respondent did not indicate that
the new rate was an increase over the
old and. did not comply with the roof the aet of July 26, 1913,
    the  opinion  that the  new
rates cannot be enforced. The complaint as to th' oogting of this notice
is sustained. Signed James Alcorn,
commissioner,"
Following is the order of the com-
the I niissioners :    This matter being before
the  the public . service commissioners    of
1 th5    commonwealth    of    Pennsylvania
upon   complaint   and   answer   on   file,
and having been duly heard and submitted  by \the parties and full investigation of the matters and things involved having.been had, and the commission  having    on   the  date    hereof
made and filed of record a report containing Its findings and fact and conclusions thereon,  which said report is
hereby    approved    and made    a part
thereof:
Now, to wit, January 22, 1918, it is
ordered :    That the Upper Dublin Water   company   cease   and   desist  from
hargingVand collecting the rates spec-
,
_ t_ «-.-.!ified in its tariff supplemnt'issued May
Such work is sometimes done in the 117   lm- efflctive j*£ lat   m7> whlc£
tariff is hereby declared to be void and
of no effect, and that the charges of
said Company be assessed under the
tariff in effect prior to the filing of
said supplement. Signed, Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Since the decision has been handed | conducted
Lower
winter time in ordinary houses and
even in more expensive ones without
heating, but, according to building experts, thia is always a dangerous practice, since a drop ln temperature might
render the work worthless and all
would have to be done over again. In
such an event the interior finishing
costs Just about twice,the price.
Hairy Hoover and Miss Florence Sail-
of Penllyn, were entertained on
__ht!'_&___■ _____e'' dinner at the home.
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A, G. Yothers, off Wm." FSnrl inn, onu
Monday-had an experience with drifts]
oh the Gwynedd pike, and his car be- j
came fast in the dep snow near the C.,
C. Coolbaugh residence, it was abandoned there for the night, but was res - j
chad by the snow shovelers the next!
day. I
Wednesday evening, January '30th, is
the date of J. Henry Scattergood's illustrated   lecture   on    "Reconstruction'
Work in   Franee,"  in Ambler borough '
hall, and  the Colony club, of Ambler,'
under the auspices of which this lecture is given, extends an invitation to
all interested in thi-. work to attend.
From 80 to 40 men have been busy
opening Whitpain township roads, un- :
der Road Masters James Bsrnhard, of
the  upper  end,  and  Harry  Ziegler,  of I
the lower end.   Not only the' east and !
west, roads,   but   'hose  running north
and south are blocked, and the Skip- j
pack  pike    has  also   been    closed   in
Places.
Adam Fleck, of Springhouse, one day
last week, on his bob sled conveyed ■
60 baskets of beets to the Pock Street
market, Philadelphia. This is an unusual occurence within recent years,
inasmuch as in but few winters has it
passible to make the trip on a
into   the   heart   of   Philadel-
Black  Hand Charge  in  Conshohocken.
As the result of an investigation
made by postal authorities foUowlng
the receipt of a black hand letter by
Rev. A. Kuiawy, rector of St. Mary's
church, Conshohocken. Peter Komor-
owski. of that borough, was arrested
Thursday on the charge. He was arraigned for a hearing before U. S.
Commissioner Long in Philadelphia,
and held under $6000 bail for court.
Rev. A. Kuiawy, the recipient of thc
letters, said that after threatening to
beat him, Komorowski sent a letter
demanding X500 be placed beneath a
stone near the St. Mary's church on
the penalty of death if the sum Was
not forthcoming.
"Son of Lucifer and servant of the
kaiser,  your hours are - counted,"
the Brim  message  in  ih^firf   1
Rev. Mr." Kuiawy 1
office   authorities,
The arrest was ma<
ar postoffice inspect,
* 3__\-___9$**: A9.*A
egfea B_'_tfck  Handerwas t
of a  club   opposed   by   the
which was broken up finally ,
It is said the trouble between par-
ishers and priest began when the rector openly denounced a social club
composed of members of his church.
was
letter.
It-
been hauling
markets.
Walter  V.  Allen,
pects to receive the
motor truck this week.     	
Edward Simmers, of Maple Glen,'
while cutting wood with an axe was
painfully cut below the right knee
when the axe slipped.
The trolley line between Willow-
Grove and Doylestown was kept open
through the storm on Monday, and the
cars ran nearly on time.
John Harrar, Sr., of Horsham, on
Tuesday morning underwent an operation at St. Luke's hospital, Philadelphia, and he is convalescing satisfactorily.
Naomi, the nine-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Maurer.
of near Davis Grove, who died on Friday night was buried Tuesday afternoon nt the Brick church.  *
At Babylon school on Monday the
storm seriously interfered with the at-
  Miss    Meredith,    teacher,
however,    braved    the   elements    anot
reached the school.
Alvah Williams, of Horsham, who is
at the officers' training camp, near
Washington, D C. has been on the sick-
list and Mrs Williams has gone down
to visit him:
William Whiteside received' a carload of manure at the Welsh road siding and was engaged during and after-
the storm in hauling same to his farm.
He employed three horses attached to
the hay wagon.
Earl C. Henry removed Saturday
from the Hallowell estate property of
Joseph Hitner, near the A. Dieter
shop, to the 20-acre farm of Horace-
Leppert, on the county line, which property be will farm.
Miss Florence Whiteside, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Whiteside, of
Hallowell, who has recovered from her
illness at the West Chester State Normal school, and has resumed her studies at the institution.
On Monday afternoon at the Neshaminy church were interred the remains of Dr. William McBride, of
Harts.ihe, who bad reached his 92d
year. He made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. Eddowes, who is known,
in tbe Hallowell section.
J. W. Freas, of the Horsham store;.
and C. W. Willard, of the HalloweU'
store, were obliged to close the selling-
end of their businesses at noon on.
Monday but were compelled to remain
open.because of haying the postoffices;
in their stores. Nash's hotel, at HalloweU, was closed all day.
Horsham roads were badly drifted"
in places as a result of the storm ahd*
on Tuesday Road Master Haggerty
and    Arthur  Fell,  with  four    strong*
rses attached    to  the road  scraper
engaged_in  breaking  open  roads
th
memo,
priest and
md
Red  Cross   Notes.
During  the month  of January
cause and  215 muslin  dressings
ressings  r
4 So 2
were
mms
of this
room,
pa-
sled
been
bob
phia.
Arthur A. Fretz,  of Blue  Bell, haa
purchased a New Holland gasoline en
roade in the surgical
and Mrs. Godfrey is -'""""rman
department.      In    the    sewing
managed by Mrs. Eckfeldt, the following articles    were made and    sent to
hearquarters in Philadelphia :    50
Jamas,  20  pairs  operating  legglnt,	
nightingales, 20 hot water bottle covers, 40 pairs bed socks and 20 knitted
wash cloths.
From May until the first of January
the Anibler branch has received from
the headquarters of tbe s. K. Penna.
chapter $1120.52 worth of goods to be
used in sewing and surgical dressings
rooms. This shows what a large
amount of work Ambler is contributing'
to the Red Cross cause.
in January 24 new members were
enrolled in the Amhlr branch. Is it
possible that there is a person left ln
Amber who ls not a member ? If so,
Join at once, either at Red Cross headquarters, 713 Butler avenue, or at Dr.
Mehler's office, in the Knight building,
following   lett
ed for n Time te
Mr.  and  Mrs.   O.   H.
daughter Evelyn, of Roselle^
have  returned    to   their'     	
spending two weeks with her parents,
Mr.   and   Mrs.   Benjamin   Webster,   or
Horsham.
Miss Sara Hellyer. of Philadelphia,
visited Marguerite Webster, at Horsham, over the week-end.
John Seiple. of Horsham, is about
again after a very serious illness.
Miss Margaret- Willard. of Hallowell,
has been ill with tonsilitis.
A change has been made in the
freight car arrangements at the HalloweU station. Hereafter the morning1
freight oar is the Doylestown car, and
the afternoon car is the Hatboro car.
Goods shipped in the afternoon will lay
overeat Willow Grove until next morning. As the car barn at the latter-
place is heated no damage from freezing ean result. An embargo is enforce
now on everything but foodstuffs.
mp.
The
_        er   and' $2   hav
gine from M. C. Dettera & Son. of Am- j J-een received    from a little boy   wh
filer, and also    a circular    saw.    The  If, 8u"s-v *?*nf his bit:
machinery has been placed in the Freta I __!____ branch of the Red
and with Horace Phipps, also nf
woods ^^^^^^^^^^ _^^^^^^
Blue Bell, a very active business in the
sale of cord and stove wood is being
Norristown Register Closes Out.
When the penn Trust company,
Norristown, as receiver for the Daily
Register Publishing company, sold at
pubUc auction, -Saturday afternoon, all
the good will of the Daily Register,
together with the entire machinery of
the printing and publishing establish-
down lt baa been learned that the consumers of the Ambler Sharing Water
oompany will also have the commissioners 'pass upon their complaint,
Which is similar to that of the Ambler
Highlands  Improvement  association.
have
Drafted Men to Leave on Feb, 0.
Drafted men who wilt be called  to
make up shortages of districts tributary to Camps Lee and Meade will, ln
all nrobabill y   begin to move on Feb-
ment of the company, that newspaper ruary 6, but the remainder needed  to
plant passed out of exlstence|	
The Dally. Register had been published in Norlstown by the Kneule
family for more /than 35 years. The
late Albrecht KnUule, the veteran editor, who died about two years ago, established the newspaper as a daily
when he purchased the Weekly Register and Free Press in 1880. He and
his son, Edwin, successfully operated
the publication until 1897, when it
passed into the hands of the corporation, known as the Daily Register'
Publishing company, with Albrecht
Kneule, however, still holding the controlling Interest. He retired from active business about five years ago,
when hM son, Albert K., took over the
mangement. Tho latter had been editor and general manger since that
time. Early in December tbe publication failed, and the trust company
filed a biU ih equity witjh the court
asking for a receivership. Saturday's
sale was the result of thia proceeding.
make up the quota under the first- call
will not start before February IB, ac-,
cording to present indications. The
men to make up shortages will replace
those rejected at camps after physical
examinations and, to make up deficiencies under previous "uotas. About 10
or 12 per cent, still are. due to the two
camps under the first call.
Rulings have been announced that
men of draft age. married since May
18 and given classifications, will have
their cases automatically appealed to
the district boards and that all men
who have received the "green card"
or card to be In readiness to go, are
entitled to Questionnaires,
Gwynedd     township    roads
been pretty  badly  drifted  as  a
I result    pf     Monday's    snow      storm.
i Strang^*to say the highways running
north   and  south    are,  ln  places,    as
completely filled as the roads running
I east and    west.    Wm.  G. Just,    road
I blaster, gathered a force of 18 men on
Monday and attacked  the drifts with
vigor.    Before  night   the  Evans',   the
Mends' and the  road from Just's to
Welsh   road  were    opened.    On
Tuesday he opened the Gwynedd and
the West Point pikes for the oounty.
Rapid progress has been made in rescuing the townsbip from the blizzard
conditions.
At
in-
Offers Services to Government.
Prof. E. Johnson BOnter, principal
ef the Spring Mill schools, has offered his aid to the draft board of the
Second district, sitting at Jenkintown,
ln response to President Wilson's appeal to the school teachers of the country to help in the classfiication of the
questionnaires. Mr. Bonter-s offer was
the flrst received ln his district.
Ellwood Hoot Is President,
a meeting, held Tuesday ev
ing at Lansdale, Ellwood Hoot, of
West Point, WM elected president of
the association of Justices of the peace
ahd notary publics in thia district. J.
A. Rosenberger, of Lansdale, was elected secretary. A resolution was adopted to make all charges in accordance
with the fee bill of 1909 passed b-- the
legislature. Another meeting will be
I held at Lansdale on Feb. 14.
—The Abington Townabip Home and.
School association has planned a number of meetings to be held in the interest of a closer relationship between
patrons of the schools and the officials
and has elected these officers : president, A. N. Baggs; vice presidents, H.
E. Bodine ahd Professor James Park-
ley; secretary, Mrs/ S. H. Niblock, arm
treasurer, Mrs. H. A. Krips.
F
the
"To the Am-
Cross—Here is
two dollars to buy a comfort kit.    1
had a little show to raise some money
for the Red Cross.   I had a magic lantern and three Jokes, and a recitation."
James  W,  Cooke, Jr,    Samuel Garre,
Jr., sent ft, taken from his Christmas
money, to buy a kit and $1.40 was received, the proceeds of an  entertainment given by Ellwood and Man
Godfrey.    Perhaps  more  of
and girls can do as    _______^_    =
Led
cess.
cleare
were
are :
a. r.
son,  I
caret
>ur  boys
  -_^__. well.    In the pie-
torical  section  of last Sunday's
OBITUARY.
MRS. MART D. HORROCKS.
Mrs. Mary D. Horrocks, wife of William Horrocks, died on Jan. 18 in her
64th year, at the home ot ber son, John
W. Horrocks, in Lansdale. The funeral took place Tuesday, Jan. 22, Rev.
M. E. Hare officiating. Burial was in
West Laurel Hilb cemetery, Philadelphia.
WALLACE L. DANNEHOWER.
Wallace L. Dannehower, of Jeffersonville, for about four years principal of Plymouth township high school,
died on Tuesday at Phoenixville hospital of cerebro spinal meningitis,
aged 28 years. He was ill but a short
time. Mr. Dannehower was the son of
George and the late Luretta Dannehower, of Yerkes, and is survived by
his wife Alice and three sisters, Mary,
Helen and Cora, all residing at home.
Puneral arrangements had not been
made up to time of going to press,
other than tbat the service will be
held in Trinity Lutheran church, Collegeville.
ger was a picture of Miss Abigail Vare.
five yars old, daughter of Senator Vare.
This little girl received $80 for knitting
a sweater and gave the money to the
Ambler branch of the Red Cross.
$8.28 were the proceeds of last
Thursday's lunch at the Red Cross
house, whioh was in charge of Mrs.
Rolston. This Thursday's lunch will
he in charge of Mrs. Stillwagon, who
promises a very good lunch at reasonable prices.
Our Bavs   in  Ca 	
The recent    entertainment for    tha
i benefit  of the  colored  boys  ln  cam.pt, ■
; given by the colored residents of Ambler and vicin}ty, was a splendid sue-
1      rp]le committee reported having;-
d $45.93. Other donations, which -
thankfully received, as reported
The Zion Bantist church, $15;
M. P. cburch. $2; James Thomp-
15, and R. C. Roberts. $2. The
money was used in buying kits for
each of the colored boys in camp. Tha
kit contained toilet articles, one pair
of woolen gloves and two pairs of
socks. All the mney received has gone
for the purpose mentioned and watt
used by the committee with the very-
beat intentions. The committee consisted of the following : John H. Burrell. Henry Thompson, Joshua Thompson, Jr., David Smithy, Joseph Ashton, Sylvester Johnson. Andrew Dope-
ly. Joshua Thompson. Mrs. Viola
Batchlcr. Mrs. Lulu Smith, Mrs. Emily
Bailey. Mrs. Marv Thompson, Mrs.
Rachel Mahoney, Mrs. Rose Thompson
and  Mrs,  Rebecca -Johnson.
—Thieves entered Ely Utz's garage
at Telford and stole' an automobile.
The freight station of the P. & R. was
broken into th% same night, as was
also Alderfer'B garage, but little of
value was taken from these places.
Samuel Anders Dies in France.
Samuel K. Anders, 27 DeKalb street,
Norriatown, late of the United States
army banking department, died ot
scarlet fever in France on January 22.
He was the son of George K. Anders, treasurer of Montgomery county,
wbo committed suicide three weeks
ago, because, his family say, he feared that bis son would never return
from the war. The young man, who
had been an assistant bank examiner,
was assigned to the banking1 department in France because of his knowledge of financial matters.
His mother tried to comfort the
father by pointing that the young man
would not have to endure trench duty,
but Mr. Andera had » premonition that
evil would befall his son, and two days
after ths youngr man sailed for France,
Mr. Anders cut his throat in the bath
room of his home, and died 36 hours
later in the Norristown hospital.
Auto Stolen  Out of  Garage.
Harry T. Bilger,' of Centre Square,
proprietor of the Colonial garage on
West Main street, Norristown, notified
the police Friday morning that a six-i
cylinder Reo touring car had been
stolen during the night. The car had
been taken from a garage ln the rear
of the house. Mr. Bilger wad not
aware that the theft had been committed until about 7.30 o'clock Friday
morning. He went to the' garage to
get the car and found that it was missing.
The license number is 131,004 and
the engine number is 1442,
—Announcement has been made of
tbe engagement of Miss Frieda Kriebel, daughter of Dr. O. S. Kriebel,
principal of Perkiomen school, pennsburg. to ferae! ^*-i?,' of F*--'--rly, Pa.,
now with th i. r'-fec
Camp Greer*" Cbaai^lft.
irmy
Elkins Oil Stock Holdings.
C. Henry Stinson, specially appointed
by the orphans' court to audit the account of the 'exeutors of the estate of
William L. Elkins, with special reference to holdings in South Penn Oil
company, of California, and the Standard OU company, it is found that 628%
shares are distributable to the life tenants.   The value •» more than $100,000.
collegeville.
Gas Increas.
The Collegeville 3as oompaya, operating in Collegeville, h&s filed with thepublic service commia;; on, to become;
effective on March lst. 19-is, a new
tariff increasing the unit rates for
"Isolite Gas" from. SJ.10 to $1.20 per
1000 cubic feet: the rates ln each case-
being subject to; I
if noi-1 **;i.h-'._ tl
of bills.
cent, discount
its from  date