The Ambler Gazette 19160217

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The Ambler Gazette.
VOL   XXXIV.-NO.   7
AMBLER.   PA..   FEBRUARY   17,   1916
.«1.25   A   YEAR
COLD POINT AND PLYMOUTH.
Happenings of Local Interest to Our Readers.
Rev. D. Tupper, of Wilkinsburg, Elect¬ ed   Pastor   of   Ccrid .Point   Church— Evangelical Church Activities—Hick¬ orytown   and   Harmonville—Miscel¬ laneous. .  Communion service wili be held next Sunday evening in the Plymouth C. K. ehurch.
John White, of PJymouth, was slight¬ ly Injured Sunday evening liy a tall on the Ice.
Mr. and -Mrs. ilarry Miller, of Cold I'oint. vvho have both been ill, are con¬ valescent.
George  l'\   Prader,  of Chureh  street, , Barren  Hill, has secured a position in Manayunk.
E.  H.   Chick,   of  I'lymouth,   sold   his
horse   last   week  at   "	
lown bazaai".
Mrs. J. M. Baker, i{f Germantown avenue, Harren Hill, spent Wednesilay last  ill Philadelphia.
Walter   Rex,   of  Narclssan  has   pur- | chased a  Buick  tooring car,   which  he will convert to a truck.
A large willow tree ;it the .\urci.ssa. creamei-> lias been badly damaged b>- reason of the sleet storm.
Next Tuesday evening the Men's Uid¬ dle Biblo class, of the Plymoutli U. H. church will hold its dinner.
On March IS the Loyal Crusaders, of Cold Point Baptist church, will hold a dollar social in the church hall.
On Monday Lemuel Rodebaugh, of Hickorytown, visited his daughter, Mrs I'Ved. (lllard, at Wayne Junction.
A dollar social will be held this Thursday evening by the Ladies' Bible elass of the Plymouth XJ. E. church.
Mrs. J. M. Berkhimer, of Harmon¬ ville, has a pink azalea In bloom, which contains 114 flowers and buds.
Mr.s. Roberts and sister, Mrs. Charies Brown, of Chestnut street, Marble Hall, visited friends af Stafford on Friday.
.Samuel H. Myers, of Harmonville, spent several days this week with his brother, Elmer Myers, in Bridgeport. The Ladies' Aid society, of tho Hick¬ orytown Union mission, will hold an oyster supper in the mission on Feb. 26.
Mr. and Mrs. Gegrge W. Wood, of Conshohocken, spent Sunday with Mrs. Millie Hlltner, Karr's lane, Hai-mon¬ ville.
Daniel Manning, formerl.v of Barren -Hill, has purchased the Railroad house, Doylestown, and will assume charge shortly.
Judging from the complete covering of Ice on fruit and all otlier trees there should be a plentiful yield the coming season.
Rev. Dr. Tupper, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., was entertained Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Lewis in Har¬ monville.
Miss Ijettie Bowman, of 11,-irmon- vllle, has been spending a few days with her niece, Mrs. John Hippie, in Philadelphia.
Owing to the heavy storm Sunday afternoon, the boy preacher, J. Scott Dawkins, was unable to attend the Hickorytown mi.ssion.
Next Tuesday afternoon the sewing circle, of Cold Point grange, will meet at the home of Mrs. Theodore Weide- m.ann, eaat ot Hickoi-ytown.
William J. McKannan, of Barren Hill, was recently elected as one of the directors of the Liberty Moving Picture company,  of Germantown.
The I'achnecht social, held Saturday evening in Ilickorytown mission was a auoxjgss  de»n^tp- _^^
.^.fHr.iMhf'!\(ee 'af -^runifs \vS^^iei-ved' J(W.n Fulmor>,^i Monday moved from Karr's lane, Haj-monville, to Plymouth Meeting. Mr. Fulm<ir has .secured a .position as fireman on the Pennsyl¬ vania railroad.
WEDDED.
STI.NKilN—BE.VCU.N.
.Miss Dorotliy Beacon, daughter of <!\-Slate Reiiresentatiye and Mrs. James .S. Beacon, of Greensburg, Pa., was married .Saturday evening in the .Methodist Episcojial church, Greens¬ burg, to .Mr. James E Stinson, of Am¬ bler,  by  the Hev.   Henry  G.  Whitfield.
The bride, who was given in mar¬ riage by ber father, had her sisti'r, .Miss l':iisa))eth Heacoii, as maid of honor, and her only other attendant was .Miss llmtense Cowing, of Chicago.
.Mr. Stlnson's best man was liis fath¬ er, .Mr. Thomas Stinson. The ushers were: Mr. Roberl Z. Beacon, brother of tlie bride; .Mr. Josej.h L. Cote, .lr., Mr. Paul S. Bail- and Mr. John .M. Hughes.
-Mr. and Mrs. Stinson will be at home after Marcb 1, at 2(H! Hethlehem jiiko, Amliler.
OBITUARY.
.M. Sl'S.VN  .MORRIS. .Marv   Susan   .Vlorris,   of* port   Wasli¬ ington,  died   Tnesday afternoon  at   the residence  of   iJr.   .\.   M.   Seymour,   2f>:Ui
WMUpr's   Norris-I •"^'"¦"''^    Sl.xteeiith    street,    I'hiladelphia.
""' 'aged 01 sears.
The deceased was well known in this section, where she resided all her life. Some years a,go. with her jiar¬ ents, she made her home on what is now the .Mrij. J. Sims Wilson projierty, nortii of .Vmbler, and later removed to l''ort U'.isliingtoii, where she erected a neat i-otiage on the Ilelglits.
.Miss Jloi-i'is was a musician of more than local rejiutation. She gave vocal and instrunieiital lessms and jiublish¬ ed several works on th<> subject. Iieing especially interested in the Cheve sight-singing method, in the stud.v of wliich she made a numlier of accepted imjirovements. lor several years she al.«o was an instructi-i-ss in the Sunny¬ side school, Ainlik-r, and the Heacock sciiool .-It   Wyncote.
Stolen  Auto   Found   in   Ditch.
I'olii-e clii(>f. of Lansdale. recently found the au-tonioliile of Jacob F. Cly¬ mer. of that borougli which was stolen the week before b.v a band of auto thieves, on the Kuljisville road in a. ditch. No trace lias been found of thci thieves.
Coroner   in   Office  of  Sheriff.
1111 Friday Coroner (liant ft. Jlc- Glathery was retjuired to serve a writ of attachment upon the Cheltenham Building & Loan as.soi-iatlon to secure Judgment against H. D. Fries, a stocit- iiolder. Execution was issued by Pro¬ tlionotary Drake on behalf of Louis A. Nagle, trading as Louis A. Nagle iNi Company to secure $'>9.25 alleged to be due and owing by liVle.s.
As Mr. Nagle is the sheriff of Mont¬ gomery county he cannot serve the writ in which he is Interested and therefore, under the 1^-w, the duty de¬ volves upon the cororiMr.,
It is perhaps the jft* time in the history of the county,' that the coron¬ er was called ujion to act, in jilace of the slieriff. Mr. McGlathery secured servi<-e upon tlie .issdolatlon's secre¬ tary, Martha P, Messe*, . ,-*
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CENTRE  SC^BE.
I'ourtlandt Morris hftS) had electric lights installed in his home.
The Whitpain high aObODl will ren¬ der a literary jirograna^fi Washing¬ ton's birtliday at 7..1() ji.Jfe; in the high sthool room. Prof. MicgHeton. sujier- visor of music, will sinS*^ solo. Prof. VV. D. Beyer will atMi-ess the parents. The patrons are coidi.iUy invited to attend.
Mr.  and  Mrs.   Howard  Baker enter¬ tained Miss Ethel Schwenk, of Norris¬ iown,     and      Mr.      anjl-_|\ti-s.     Jiavid ;v-j^;,J^<--AV.'-> ¦'(Jp»tti--li,||^- •o"noi^no-iiel   tlie   Ui(i7''.s'   auxiliary
MATTISON IN CONSHOHOCKEN.
His Asbestos Company Buys Long¬ mead Iron Co. Properly.
Business   at   LaChine,   Canada,   Plant to    Be    Located    in   Conshohocken— 160,000  for   a   Property—Plans   Out¬ lined, t The    Jiurchaser   of    the    jiroliirly   ofj the   Longmead   Iron   (-ompany,   located lietween   the   Heading  r.iilway  and   the canal   at  ("berry  street,   Conshohocken,,, is   the Asbestone  Manufacturing com-! Piiny,   ol   which   R.   V.   Mattison,   Jr.,j a  member  ol   tlic  well  known  corjiura- tion  of  Keasliey  .Si   .Muttis ui  comjiany, of Ambler,  is  the presidenl.
The Jirice jiaid for the jiroperty isl $t;tt,00O. Thi- in-ojierty consists of 1!» acres <if land, the iinjirovemenls aref: two brick mill buildings,, a brick ma-^ cliine shoji, iirick imwer house, a largej| frame mill iiuildln.y. ."^eiiaruled b.v a-l railroad siding i..^ ilic nilllng mill pro- jieit.N. and ilie imiirov ement.s are at brick mill building and two steel and' iron  mill buililings.
The Jirojierty is one ot the beat maii-^ ufacturin.g sites In the valley, being eqiiijiped with coal pucisets and other railroad sidings, and the dil'terent sec¬ tions of the Iilant are connected with i-raneways  and   indu-strial  i-ail--vayK.
The jiurcliase  was made thioiigh  the- receivers,   Louis   N.   Ciiilds.   lisij..   and Lewis   -V.   Lukens,   former  president  of the    LongTiiead    lion    company.     The'j purchasers   of   tlie   property   will   take, i .'lossession   immediately   upon  the con- I hrniation of the sale  by  the court. i
¦ 'file. .Asbestone    .Manufacturing com- ] j jiaiiy  is lieaded  by  It.  V.  Mattison, Jr.,; ami  fur a  number of ye.ars ha-s had a Jilant at Lat,|hine, near Montreal, Can¬ ada.     The   coiniian.v   was   engaged   in: the   manufaelure   oi   general   cement and asbestos goods and did a protitable e,\iiort     business—the     business       for whicii   the   Jilant   was  established   and equipped.   Inn  at  the  outbreak  of  thtt war a duty of 7ui) per cent, was placS cd   upon     tlie   export   of  the     producQ which   made   it   impossible   to  do   busi-j) ness.
The comjiany has left Canada and will establish tlie business. The com¬ jiany will engage in the manufacture of gener.il cement and asbestos goods, sucli as hollow tile, drains, bricks, shingles and many other articles used ill (ire proof buildings.
Mr. Mattison has announced that it is the pliins of the company to utiilze the jn-e.sent buildings on the projierty, as they ean eiusily be changed to suit the retjuirements of the business. Much of the machinery from the Can¬ adian Jilant will be moved tr, Consho¬ hocken and installed.
As soon as the court conlirins the sale, work will immediately begin to |ilat:e the buildings in condition and equiji them for operation. The corn- j.'uny is an.\.ious to have the new plant working as soon as possible.
AMBLER TO FLOAT LOAN.
Voters Favor Debt Increase for Im¬ provements.
Splendid  Vote  of Confidence—^281   Fav¬ orable and Only 27 Opposed—Carries Every  Ward  by   Big   Majorities. -At   the  sjiecial  election  Tuesday   the. Voters   of  Ambier,   by   a   total   vote   of 2S1  ill I'uvor and only 2' in ojijiositioii, .granted  permission lo  borough  council to   iir.-rea.se ¦ the   bonded    debt    in    th<^ sum of $30,000.
The jiiirposes of the bond issue .ire lo |Mi( the roads, streets and highway.s in better i- 'ndition for jniblic travel b.v ninking imjirovements thereon ot a Jjei-iiianent and durable eharaeter, and by iciiioving therefrom, as far us pos- sililc. surface drainage of water, and the cp(ieiiing of new streets, and the biii'iilliig (if water jiijie lines therein for said purjiose, also for the jiurjiose. of iJi.ving off the jiresent Moiiling in- del-tcflness of the borougli; and also for tile parpnse of niakiiii; an apiirojiria- tioii f.ir the juiriL'hHse of i\ motor tire aiiliarn.iiis.
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WEDDED
50YEARS.
Mr. and Mrs  George G. Davis Ob¬ serve Anniversary.
HORSHAM AND UPPEJRDUBLIN.
Miscellaneous   Items of Interest to Many Readers.
Veteran   Undertaker   and   His   Faithful Wife    Quietly    Observe    Anniversary on    Feb.    6—Sketch    of    Their    Busy i Lives—42 Years  in  Business.
(Ill l«\'li. 'i .Vlr. .Uld .Mrs. George '}. Davis, of I'jij'er Dublin townshiji, l-'ort Wasliington, (juietly obsei-M'd the ."lOtli anniversary of their wedding. Mr. Davis has been in Ihe undertaking business continuously since 1S71, when he   succeeded   his     grandfather
Isaac     Parry     Laid     at     Rest—Wintei- Weather—Birthday    Party    to    Miiss Freas—Events   at   Dresher   nnd   Jar- '     rettown.
William   Elliott,   of   Dreshei.      sponC
Sunday in  Phlladeljiliia.
.Mi.-s  liessie  Lightkeji, of .larreltowii,
was In  I'liiladelphia on  Satuiday. The   study   circle     met   , Wednes(3uv
evening in the llorsham Friend.s' meel- l.ihn jing hou.se.
Gomble, at  tin   latlci's death, an.l afl'-rl     A   temperance     meeting     was     heij he had  followed  the same  business for   Tuesday     evening     in     the     llorsliani
3 years, so that  tlie art of earing for  Friends'  meeting house.
he  dead   has  been  in  the one  family |    John   Harrar,  of  the   Sclialter  farm
for    three-quarters
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George Ambler Hurt.
(Jeorge Ambler, of Abington, a broth¬ er of Chillies A. Ambler, speaker of the house of rejiresentatlves, nearly liad his neck twisted .and b.ack injuied m an elfort to .save men working on a sewer in Delaware.
.\mbler is a superintendent of the Ambler-Davis Contracting company, of which Sjieaker .A.mblei- is the head, lie has a large force of men working on a seyvage contract in Delaware and was standing by a trench when iie noticed the shoring give' way. With a c^-y of vyiu-nin.g to^^^j^^uMyJ^si^^' into'the trench. ii^^f^H^it to\lii-acr; the shorin.g.    The  ti^Hlrcaved  in and
Workmen
.Martha    Wasliington   tea,      whiili    will j he   was   comjiletelv   biTFi'ed Ne  given   in   the  lire  house  this  .'-'ami-- ; imstil-,   ilii^   out   .\mbler.
has   secured   - ! "^>:^-^"';]f-,,„^„.^,   .^   ^^„.^..,^^   „„   ^,^^, 	
Jury   this   week  at   the   special   session
Mrs. W. M. Hellings, of Germantow.i avenue, l:!arren fiill, was the recipient of a line basket of fruit from friends in Norristown on the occasion of her recent   birthday.
Mrs. George Hiltner and daughter, liillian, of Conshohocken, spent Thurs¬ day ,at the home of the formei-'s moth¬ er, Mrs. James Cunningh.am, Maple Hill avenue, Plymouth.
The Plymouth township school board is erecting frame waiting stations along the Germantown pike for the pu¬ pils who are obliged to use tht trol¬ ley cars for conveyance.
Considerable damage was done to lo¬ cal telephone wires by the recent sleet storm, the most damage being in cer¬ tain spots of a few hundred feet in nearly every local instance.
Percy Rex, in his new greenhouse at Narcissa, recently raised a single ger¬ anium bloom with 47 distinct parts. The bloom was e.xceptionallv large and tifeautiful and was purchased by Fi-aiik Oat.
B. II. Tarbutton and brother have been busily engaged for the past week getting the balance of the corn husk¬ ed on the premises recently occupied by their father, J. S. Tarbutton, do- ceased.
Mrs. -Vnnie F. Ambler has returned to Plymouth Meeting after a week's stay at Ithaca, N. Y. . Her daugliter, Miss Alice Ambler, who has been tak¬ ing a course at Cornell university, has also returned to Plymouth.
On Monday afternoon in the Ply¬ mouth Friends' burying grounds were interred the remains of the lato Eliza¬ beth Jarrett, who died at tho Norris¬ town Friend.s' home. The deceased was a sister of Samuel Jarrett, of Jeffer¬ sonville. ^
Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Rodebaugh, of Hickorytown, on Wednesday evening gave a delightful dinner to Mr. and Mrs. John K. Thomas, Mrs. Ralph Thomas and baby, of Norristown, and Mr. and Mrs. ,T. M. Berkhimer, of Har¬ monville.
Largely attended sessions cnaracter- ized the farmers' institutes held Wed¬ nesday of last week at the Plymouth Consolidated school. The state speak¬ ers did not attend until the afternoon, but the whole program was full of in¬ terest for all.
Tho trustee board of the Plymouth V. E. church has organized by elect¬ ing the following ofllcers: President, Benjamin Moseley; vice president, Ijeslie Rodebaugh; secretary, Jonathan Rodebaugh; treasurer, James Cunning¬ ham; representative to the quarterly conference, Charles Nelson.
The funer.al services li'riday over the remains of George Preaa. of Cold Point, were largely attended, and a number of friends .also paid their respecLs. Thursday evening, when the body was on view. In addition to tho largely at¬ tended services, some friends of the deceased sent beautiful lloral pieces of ex<]uislte workmanship and appreciat¬ ed sentiment.
] of the court.
Said a resident Iti the "Gazette" reporter on Monday, "Tlie snow that fell on Sunday was a blessing in one. Way; it liilled up the many deeii lioles in the bed of the Skippack pike, mak¬ ing travel on the pike much better." It is to be hoped that the state high¬ way dejiartment will live up to its promise and repair this pike as soon as the weather permits.
Courtlandt Morris returned on Sun¬ diiy from a business trip to Buffalo and Cleveland. Mr. Morris expects to leave on anotlier business triji this week that will take liim to Hamilton, Ont.
Tho sewing circle of Boehm's church ^'ill give a supper on Thursday even¬ ing, March 2.
Our local harness maker and sad¬ dler, George Swartz, was so busy with repair wrok this week that he was obliged to employe Walter Unruh to help out.
Horace Rezer, who was taken sud¬ denly ill one da.v last week, and who has continued to be quite ill, was re¬ moved to the home of his mother in Germantown last Friday.
Charles Blattner purchased a horse last week at Walker's Norristown ba¬ zaar.
William I'nruh has resigned his pos¬ iton as clerk at Waggon inn and has secured a jiosition in Baldwin's loco¬ motive works,  Philadelphia.
Walter Roynan was assisting John Berkheimer, the local blacksmith, the early pai» of the week. Because of the ley condition of the roads on Mon¬ day Mr. Berkheimsr had a large num¬ ber of horses, most of which had to have their shoes shai-pened. In his shop.
Enos Wentz is convalescent after an attack of grip and he is able to be about.
It is reported that the station of the Lehigh Valley Transit company at this place, wlil be moved across the wav from the present location. Instead of building a lar,ge brick station house.
-Vlfred Grlnrod and family enter¬ tained R. N. Grlnrod and family, cf Manayunk, recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Blackburn, Ja¬ cob Moyer and daughter Edna attend¬ ed the funeral of Mrs. Cathrine Culp, at Oaks station on  Sunday.
Miss Ethel Schwenk, of Norristown, spent. Saturday and Sunday with her brother,  David  Schwenk,  and  family.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Murphy of Phil¬ adelphi.a, visited relatives here for .sev¬ eral da.vs last week.
(continued on page 8).
PENLLVN.
Tho mercury here Monday morning registered four degrees below zero.
Mrs. W. ^ H. Adams and grandson, Walter, have returned home after spending three weeks In Brooklyn, N, Y„ with the former's sister.
A marriage license was granted Tuesday to Wm. P. Sholler, Ponllyn. and Edith H. Phipps, Blue Bell. The J wedding will take place this Wednes¬ day,
Annual Meetin-i of County Supervisors.
In the absencTe of former County Coiii- missioiier James Krewson, as presld. ii; of the Supervisors' Association of -Montgomery eounty. the annual meet¬ ing ot the body, to be held in the Mont¬ gomery county court house, Thursdav Beb. -24, at 10 o'clock will be presi.l. .1 over by Vice President Geor.ge Sulli¬ van, a (-ounty commissioner, who is also president of the Ivower Alerion townsliiij coniniissioners.
Ill addition lo the consideration of matters pertaining to the duties of the supervisors of the various townshiiis and the application of the new roa.i laws, as well as features of road mak¬ ing the.se addresses have been schediil- ed by the executive committee-
•'The Work of the Bureau of Town¬ .shlp HIghwn.vs," by a representative ol the state highway department. -After¬ noon session, 1.30, address, Jame,- C resson, "Township Briilges." It i- urged that every supervisor and town¬ ship commissioner in the countv !» pre.sent Under act of a.ssembly cf Ma.v, li(13, supervisors are .allowed * and mileage for attending. T!..- amount will be paid out of the towi.- ship funds. Dinner will-be sen. ;. There will be no annual dues this ye, .
PROSPECTVILLE.
Mi.ss Kthel Fillman .spent Suturd > with  Mrs.   P.  Connelly at Ambler.
-Mrs Jeremiah Wells has been m- "'^r'' Vi,^"*' Al^insrton hospital.
Mrs. Minnie Bartleson and Mrs p:- man Bartleson were the guests of 'mi -. A. Hanson,  of Medi.i, on  AV^ednesda
A. Dilienbaf-k is painting his ban. in A.^^'ilV's^ serviees were eondud. I in the M. E. church last Sunday ' - cause of the weather. The interior of the church Is beins- painted.
Mrs. Josejih Weiss and Mrs. Levis .Smith were the guests of .Mr. and M.s.
ne"sda ^ •  "    ^'"'^^  "^^''"''¦''' ""'  ^'' '-
John Markley fell    from a  tree lust
week   and     sustained   .serious     inju.-^-,
h'is^unfs.^^''^'''"   '¦'^'   ^""   P"«'=t"''''^ Joseph   Gouak     was  taken     to      he Pennsylvania    hospital  last  week    fi" trcitment.
rJ"Tw'',"'"'''} ^^^ '^<'" house of Mr, .foseph Weiss ast week and s nln about 20 chickens '^
.j.T'"',,,?^"^^- ¦|^•^?• held its banque' at (he homo of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gouak last Saturday evening. Al-ut uO guests were pre.sent.
Team and Trolley Crash; Man Injured. Driving .-ICI-O.SH the tracks of the Phil¬ adelphia rtaTdd Transit company at Noble along York road. H. Reah, of Willow Grove was injured and Ihc team he was driving was hurt wh. ii a north-bound trolley car ran int.i it. Reah IS employed by Georgo C. Sp.ahn, a Willow Grovo milk dealer, and was delivering to customers at thp timo of tho accident. A considerable qua nf iiv of milk was spilled. Reah Is in tho Abington Memorial hospital with severe cuts ami contusions about tho head and face.
BELFRY.
'I'll, |-:|iworih League, of llethel churcii. will hold a jiui-kage social .Sat¬ urda.v evening in the llethel school hoiisi>.
This Wednesday evening the Fair- view \-iUage Assemlily association gave it.- lirst entertainment, the most of the jir.igi-am being music. The event was held in the Fairview school house.
A. M. Rader will .sell his personal property at an all-day sale next Tues¬ day, starting at fl.30. Lunch will be served.
At ihester Schultzs the thermome¬ ter regislered four degrees below zero on'.Monday morning.
.Ml-, and Mrs. Henrv .\nnear enter¬ lained Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Righter, of Custer station, on  Monday.
Henry Sjiare, the accommodating driver for J. W. Brunner .fc Comjiany, is receiving the congratulations of his many friends over the appearance of a son in his rome. Mrs. Spare, who is doing nicely, is under the care of Mrs. Samuel  Smitii,  of Ambler.
The pews of the Methodist church at Kuljisville were conveyed last week to llethel church and the pews in the latter church were removed to the for¬ mer.
The farmers' institute, Thursday und Kriday at Centre Point, was well at¬ tended and the lectures were excellent, the sjieakers were given much credit for the many valuable points brought out.
I 111 account of the improvements tliat are being made to the interior of the liuilding, there will be no services ne.xt Sunday in Bethel Methodist ciiurch. On Sunday, February 27, there   will  be sjiecial  all-day  services.
The telejihones of this sectioii were put out of service on Sunday by tlie storm.
Albert Schultz left the employe of Isaiah Anders last week and has gone lo Conshohocken, where he has secur¬ ed a position as teamster.
Tlie Jilay, entitled "Lazy Hob Par¬ kins," wliich was introduced by the (Julkl bf' WentzJs Refonned church ¦ .inie tim> ago In J'»tw?»'*»;V •<M(-U..-*:>"^-'"<» Point, will lie reiidt)recl Saturday even¬ ing, March 11, in' <Penri Square hall for the lieneht ,of the P. O. S. of -A.., of th^t place.
' H. M. Geyer, local drover, left Sat¬ urday'for Ohio for a i-ar of horses. Mr. Geyer expects to return in ahout two  weeks.
Bethel M. E. churcb, of Belfry, will celebrate the improvements to its church by holding a jubilee and home¬ coming all day service on Sunday, Feb. 27. The new stained glass mem¬ orial windows and pews will be in pos¬ ition for the occasion. The services will be at 10.30 a. m., 2 p. ni. and 7.30 p. m. At the afternoon servit-e former pastors will be present. Some who are unable to be present in person will send letters of greeting. Ai this ser¬ vice pastors from the nearby churches will be present. A uortion of a well arranged program win be special sing¬ ing by local talent. Rev. Alexander Graham, Jr., son of Bethel's pastor, will preach the^ morning and evening ser¬ mons. He~is Jiastor of Trevose, Pa., M. E. church. Rev. -Mr. Graham, for the. short time he has been with Bethel church, has injected a spirit of en¬ thusiasm among the members, as the new improvements amply prove. The Epworth League connected with Bethel church is second to none in the line of church activity. The Bethel aid is another big factor to the church.
Harry Righter, of Custar station, who is well known in this sjection, met with a painful accident last Saturday whllo on his market route' in Philadelphia. Mr. Righter, in attempting to step into his wagon slipjied from the steji und struck his face on a sliarji piece of iron on the side of the wagon, cutting a deep gash in his check.
The old school properties of Worces¬ ter townsliiji will be olTered at public sale at Farmers' hall, Centre Poinet, on February 2ti.
At the public sale of horses of -V. B. Benner, recently held at Chalfont, 10 animals sold for an average at $18;!. The next day Mr. Benner held a cow sale at Kulpsvilie and disposed of 25 head at an average of $66.84.
Elmer Place has secured an auto truck, and during the oarly part of the week It was kept busy h.auling cord wood from Lapatina's woods, Bluo Bell, to the local freight yard for ship¬ ment. Mr. Place has also received an¬ other order for poles, the length of whicii IS about 85 feel, for Seaside Park, N. J., to be used for piling. These poles will be shipjied over the Trenton Cut- oil from Hoopeston siding.
J. W. Brunner, on Sunday, quietly celebrated his 60th birthday anniver¬ sary at the home uf his daughter, Mrs. David Schwenk. Only near relatives attended tho pleasant event.
The extensive market niute of the late H. L. Nyce was sold last week to A. R. Bean, of Skippackville, for $2500. The route extends through Chestnut Hill and Germantown, and is ono iif the best in this section.
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century.
.Mr. Da.vis was born in Upjier Inin- lin on June 25. 1X15, beiiiK the son of the late John and Jane S. (?iimble Uavis, who then resided at the old house now ineliuled in Rose lllll ceme¬ tery Jiroperty. His mother was the (laughter of John Gamble, the veteran undertaker, corner of Stisiiuehanna Street road an.l Fori Washington ave¬ nue, Cjijier Iiulilin townshiji. The suli¬ ject of Ihis sketch has one brother, John S., now residing at Rose Hid, and sister.s—-Anna, wife of Alexander McAfee, both deceased, and Margant. now Of Si-hiiylkill ilaven, wife of the- late Roberl Liuchanan, of near .Ani¬ bler.
The forebears of this well known fainily were Welshmen, the grandl'.ith- er of Gt'orge G. Davis dying in Wales, the widow brought the family tri .Ani.i-- ica. Sh'^ had two sons—Samuel an.l John. The latter died in middle Iif-. March 20, 1S5(I, at Puffs Corner. His wife. Jane S. (iaJiible, was a daughtei- of John and Mary .Service Gamble, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to America and settled in liuclts countv about  1S35.
Mrs. D.ai.-is, "the bride" of this sketch, was Lydia .S. h'reos, born Aug. 10, 1,S41, the daughter i,f Jesse Freas and Hannah Carivar, of rennsburg, but made her home with her uncle, Adtim, of Flourtown. .She was one of live (hildren, a brother dying in infanc.v. The three sisters are: Annie, deceased, wife of Henjamin F. Sell, of Barto, Pa., now of Reading; Mary, wife of Williiim Bi.s'hop, of Quakertown, huh deceiised; Kate, deceased, wife of Rufus .Sliker, ol Philadelphia; Susan, wife of Aaron  Fre.as, of Milford Square.
-Mr. D.avis attended the townsliiji si-hools and at the ,age of 16 went witli his grandfather and learned the under¬ taking art. Ijiiter he followed carjien- teriiig, iiut on the death of John Gam¬ ble in .S17I, George G. Davis siK-ceeded to the business, which he has success¬ fully  followed ever since.
liorsluim.   has  received  a  car  of rrutu- lire  ill  the   Hresher yards.
The directors (if the Horsham iiao! Hatboro turnpike met Monday evenin*;. and  transacted routine  business.
.Miss lla.chci Wliileside, of Habylcin.. i-eluriic(l h'liday to her home lr ini the- -American   hosjiital,   Philadeijiliiii.
A jiubiic meeting will be held this-. Thursday evening in the Prosiiectvillir' hall in behalf of tli" no license cixm— jiaign..
:sil was cleared for the Horshiun Firt.- comjiany by means of a dame held last week in tlie hall. Another event of  like  nature  is  being  jilanne.l.
Mr. and Mrs. John .McMullin. of 1'resiiei-. went lo Conshohocken Sat- iird.iv and were sloriii-staid till Mon¬ day bei-ause of the heavy ice and sleet.
.Mr. and .Mrs. Albert Sill and daugh¬ ler Virginia have been sjiending aomt» time with the foimei's iiarents, HAf... and Mrs. George Sill, llorshani terrace.
(In Tuesday at Palmer's pork liutch- ering eslaliUshm.eiit 10 very line pigs: were killed from i<\ A, Hich, of Me- chaniesville. The animals dressed 1672 pounds.
David .N'olan, of Willow Grove, whllw in Philadeljihia on Monda.v was un¬ fortunate in losing his wallet contain¬ ing several checks and about $20t» ii\ curreni y.
(In l-riday Jonathan Stackhouse con¬ veyed L.'iO bushels of /Jiotatoes, besides other Jiroduce, to Pliiladelphia. mar¬ kets, using his large auto truck foe- delivery.
Kdwiird Heritage and Morris Buck- man, two Jirogressive llorshiim farm¬ er.s, have (-OWS very ill witli millc fever. Dr. A'anltuskirk is attending t<> the animals.
The .Meehan nursery, .if Dresher, oiu Wednesday shipped to Australia 15 bushels of jieach tree seed of the na¬ tural fruit. The seeds were gatheret*. in .southern slates.
The     I'tniisylvaniii    Riiilroad    com¬ iiany's masons are extending the con- j i-rete   wing  Wiills  of  the  abutments  to I the   Ti-enton   Cut-off   bridge   over   the.- Limekiln turnjiike at Dresher.
,-'y'"-.""/L.i^ , lu'"    u^"**     wedded I     ^.^g     I-i„sp<^ctville     and     LewIsvUh:
l-eb.   tl.   1866,  and   they   have  one  son. ^ Tumpij,,,  rtoad  company    has secured' Jesse (..,  of Ambler, and  four daugh- ; „j,,t,.  insurance coverin* its  employes.
Shirt   Factory   For   Hatfield.
The warehouse belonging to the J. B Anders estate, located on tho comer of Main .and Blaine street.s, Hatlield has been sold to Nathan Harrison of Ardmore, Pa. The probabilities are that a shirt factory will be located on the Becond floor of the building
ters: .Margaret, wife of Frank Potts, of Jarrettown; Ida May, wife of Fred. Arnold, of Fort Washington; l!essii\ wife of Robert Smith, of Ujiper Dub¬ lin:  Annii S.,  unmarried.
Jesse G. Davis, the only son, hits al¬ so become jirolii-ient in the undertiik- ing art, and materially assists his faih- er in the business, which has greatly exjianded in later years, oftices bein.g maintained in lioth Ambler and i''ort Washington.
Mr. Diivis is a member of the Inde¬ pendent  (irder of (.)dd   Fellows,  of  the
and   lhe   Wliitehall  Turnjiilie  company is   iilso  considering  the   matter.
On   Tuesday   evening   Mr.   ;ind   Mrs  . J.  W.   iM-eas,  of Horsham,  gave  a de¬ lightful   Jiarty   to   their   daughter,  Mis.>£ Mabelle   Kreas,  in   hour  of  Iker  birth— d.ay.    About  50 guests  were  jiresent.
(iwing to lhi> illness of one of the-- jiarticipanls. the Prosjjectville Ushers" a.ssoi-iation tnis jiostponed Us comedy, "Tile Country Iioctor," from this Sal¬ urday night to a date to be announce(il later.
On Saturday afternoon .Mr. and Mr.s. .
Order'fif  fiulejiendent" Americans' find | Enos^^D.^Watsiin, ^^^l^J^'^'f}!^^];^,''^^*-^^^^'
of the Masonic ffiaterrilty. He in still a'.'tiVei'.v' et'iuc'tiini• ttt his i'UKlne.-jil, and both he and Mrs. Davis are well iie- served, although Mrs. Davis has b. .-ii somewhat in.-atiacitaled lately by rheu¬ miitism and iilso trom the effects of a recent fall. They reside in a projierty on Fort Washington avenue, wherein <iiil.\ a few yards distant .Tohn Gamble ori.ginated the undertakin.c business 75 years ago.
FLOURTOWN.
Ilarry Schnell, agent, has sold to John Riidcliff, of Ambler, a Ford tour¬ ing  i-ar.
.Milton Smith will soon complete his neu house on Grove avenue. Jolm Freed is installing the heating system, while (ieorge T. Matz is doing the oilier  necessiu-y  plumbing  work
.Mr. and Mrs. Clement Comlv hiive recovered  Irom  severe  colds.
The usual services will be held next Sundiiy in Springfield Presbyterian church.
William Heffner has resigned iis hustler at CentJ-al hotel and has tak¬ en a similar position at the Hroiid Axe hotel.
Samnel B. Heebner, persldent of the Sunnybrook Golf club has recovered from his recent illness.
The Flourtown Fire company was (idled into service twice last week to pul out a fire that started on the dump on Wissahickon avenue. Tho company also responded to an alarm in  Wyndmoor last  Sunday.
William Buller, while in Philiidelphia one diiy last week, had his wallet stol¬ en contiiinlng a sum of money and his employe's pa.<5s on the railroad Mr Buller notilied the police, and a day oi- two afterwards he received his wallet minus the money and pass
Several members of Gennantown camp, No. 34, P. O. S. of A. jiaid a vist to the local camp on 'Monday evening, and on Februai-y 24 the mem¬ bers of Flourtoun camp will return the vLsit. A full attendance is «•(¦¦- quested.
Mr.s. Ellis MaeUuighlin and son R.ay- niond have been spending- .a few d;i'vs In Brooklyn, N. Y., as the guests of rel.atives.
Miss Edna H. Snyder ha.s returned home after spoiuling several days with her grandparents at Argus.
Mrs. M. T. Stowman attended the funeral of her uncle, William F. Dowl¬ ing,  in Philadelphia, tliis Wednesday
Harry Schnell has awarded tho con¬ tract for decorating the interior of llis hotel to John Radcliff, of Ambler.
Sevoral cars of manure and peat moss havo been unloaded in tho local frei.ght yard thla and iixst week for the Sunnybrook Golf club.
-Alton MacLaughlin. of Williamson school, sjient tho week-end visiting at the liome of his uncle. Wesley.
Tlie annual Marthii Washington sup¬ per of the Ladles' Aid, of Springlield Presbyterian chureh, will bo held next Tuesday evening.
—Jolm Garges has purcliased tho property at Lino Lexingion, wliich be¬ longed to tho Into Ann Swartley. Mr. Garges occujiied this property and car¬ ried on pork butchering extensively for some yi'iirs. Hi3 ha.'i mado consider¬ able iniprovements in tho way of en¬ larging the butcher shop, and contem¬ plates making somo repaira shortly,
ed   the  fnuiira), nf   the   former's   lium. the iate Angelina Hough,  of .l,latDiDtx'> . <• The  reniains  were cremated! iiii Phila-- delphia.
John lliiidfield. of riorshiim, haviiiM;' received two ears of maiiure at Dresh¬ er last week, unloaded the (-ars in the Dresher freight yard and later ¦n-iil haul the fertilizer to his fiirm near th<»t Welsh road.
The "Gazette" has received fromr. AVilmer Atkinson several copies of "Country Beautiful," a pamphlet cron- eerning Upper Dublin. Any Ujiper Dublin mivn may come and receive uu copy free as long as they last.
(In Saturday evening Mr. and Mis. -Mollis Jiu-retl, of Babylon, gave a de¬ lightful dinner of 24 covers in honor- of Mr. Frank Mather, of Meadowbroote, and Jliss -"^an Lewry, whose engagft— metil hiis just been announced.
Harry Hirmingham, who resides in «»- jirojierty iilong the Byberry road, om* of the motormen on the Doylestowijj iind Willow Grove trolley line, has rent¬ ed tho 1.10 acre Paxson farm, neai- Dresher, occupied by George Kern.
(Jn Saturday A. P. Bissey, of Davit-- Grove, iittended the funeral iit Rose Ilill cemetery of the late Samuel Mar¬ lin, who for a number of years resid¬ ed in llorsham and was a charter membifr cf llorsham castle. No. 48«, K.. G.  B.
The Meehan employes, who come upt to Ardsley on che trolleys and are thert ((invoyed to Dresher b.v coach, -werw.- obliged tc return from Ardsley Mon¬ day inoiiiiiig. as the horsediawn coacti W.IS out of commission by reason of the ioy roiids.
lift cases of nursery .itock from. Frtmce have been received at the Mee¬ han nurseries, Dresher, and tills weolc aro being unjnicked and the inspector.s; . Messrs. I5ngle and AVindle, are exam¬ ining ev<iry jjacket to see that tho stock ciii-ries no disease. They wili. pmbably be emjiloyed in tlie work alt this week. The insjioctors iiro guard- in .iLiiiinst the invasion of tho brown- tail inolli, iind ihus far tlie stock has- l.een  t'oiin.l  in perfect condition.
The Horsham school board met last Wednesday afternoon at the home of. James A. ('ozens, Davis Grove, and all tho members were in iittendanoe. Teachers' siiliirifs of $350 and other bills to tho amount of $S.70 were or¬ dered paid. State liability insuranco on tho employes li.as been purcliased at a cost of $5. The next jneetin.g will b(^ h<dd at tho homo of Harvey D. Thomji¬ son on March S at 2.30 p. m. After thf busines.s had been transiicted the mem¬ bers of the board and their wives were- entertiiinod at sujiper.
Liist  l''riday  afternoon  at   1 torslian-. ¦ tho   rem.ains   of   the   late   Isaai;   I>arrj - were laid at rest.    A largo  concourst ¦ of  relatives  nnd   friends   j-alhi^rea   ir< the  meeting house   to   pay   their fa.st respects to the memory of the deceas¬ ed.    Toucliing    remarks    and     appro¬ priato   eulogies   wero   pronounced    b.\ Isaao Wilson, iSarah  Liiivilli!,  Isaao O. Michener,    -Anna    Wobstor.    Elizabeth Comly,   Charles  Livezey,   all   ot   whom personally    knew  the    de.>easod.     Th. pallbearers   wero   six   nephews- of  Mv. Parry.    His remains were dop.-i.sited io the grav(;yard in a s.ilid ciiiici-cte over- box,   eight   feet   In   length,   the   lid   ni; which weighed 1500 pounds.
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