The Ambler Gazette 19020109

              a model dairy farm mr edward price's spotswood pro perty at broad axe the manager mr walter inm 	 v sent to knglnnri for high bred oattle-ioff t*«t sd cattle producing 3ho quart nf milk per day 105 head of cows are o be seen in the stables of spotswood farm the pro perty of mr k t price of broad axe yet in addition to this large herd mr price has purchased abroad through his superintendent mr walter tatincey 22 liead which arrived in new york thia week and which accord ing to the united states cattle inspec tion laws iimsi remain in quarantine for a period of 00 davs so flint it will be the middle of april before the im ported herd is safely housed as a part of the milk producers at spotswood mr janneey who by the way is a past-master in the dairy business sailed from new york in november for the purpose of purchasing cattle for mr price and inspecting dairy methods em ployed in england after about a month of traveling and search ing for high grade cattle mr launcey sailed on his return trip on christmas day and although the vessel was delayed he ar rived in new york sunday where he was met bv mr price who had gone over on thursday for the purpose of . welcoming his manager and assisting with the transfer of the cattle mr jauncey journeyed throughout england and the channel islands inspecting the beet herds and purchased many cattle all of which were bought conditionally on passing the medical inspection after a most thorough examination and a subjection to all the cattle tests possible some of the cattle were found to be undesirable for spotswood and re turned to their original owners but mr jauncev succeeded in obtaining 22 which successfully passed all the exami nations and fulfilled every medical re quirement these he has brought over and after remaining in quarantine flit required number of days will be added to the large herd at spotswood a representative of the gazette recently paid spotswood a visit and was1 shown around the property mr price has added within the past year a large wing to his cow barn which is over 100 feet long being lighted with numerous windows and having a high ceiling and provided with plenty of sunlight and ventilation the cattle are all well cared for kept clean and ever vth ing about the stables is thoroughly sanitary and up to the modern ideas of success ful dairying the stables are clean as a parlor walls whitewashed and stalls washed out frequently with running water which is everywhere at hand the wing is very handv to the large cow barn entrance being effected there to directly from the stables of the main building the latter is a large structure with plenty of light and having three rows of stalls here too the interior is as clean and bright as a pin and the solid cement floors and stalls are kept thoroughly sanitary and everything done which modern scientific dairying has proten successful and necessary to secure the purest milk possible proper care and handling of the cat tle cleanly stalls and stables wholesome milk-pioducing food plenty of light and ventilation a maintenance of even tem perature are qualities which are insist ed upon by mr jauncey in the conduct of the farm a cow here must do more than earn her board and those which do not are not honored with a place in the spotswood herd for the superin tendent assumes a personal responsibil ity that every chance is given the cattle to do their very best by affording the greatest possible and most favorable op portunities the amount of milk produced by this herd amounts to about 350 quarts daily which is disposed of in chestnut hill no butter is made for market as the demands for the milk are so urgent that the full product is required the milk is placed in sterilized glass bottles and sealed hermetically after delivery these bottles are returned and are wash ed thoroughly in hot water dried by exposure to the air and then subjected to intense heat in an air-tight chamber ho that by this process absolutely no thing detrimental to health and no atom of foreign substance can possibly find its way into the product which bai been pronounced by medical experts the purest that can be obtained from a test ed herd cared for on scientific princi ples and the milk from which is handled in a modern and thoroughly up-to-date manner power houae at selleriville sellersville's very satisfactory new year's gift is the decision of the jle high vailey traction company to locate its large central power station in that borough a site has been selected and the beading railway company has giv en its consent to the placing of a switb the triangular plot of ground formed by the creek railroad and the lane lead ing to the weiss farm bouse north of the railroad biidge is the plot of ground on which the main buildings will be located south of this addi tional land has been secured for the purpose of building a big dam for storing of water 10 acres of ground are include i in the d«al and other options on additional land have since been se cured the site is an idettl location it is on high ground on which good founda tions for placing heavy machinery can be secured the levels and elevations have already been taken and chief en gineer walker will immediately perfect the plans for the big power house some idea of the magnitude of sellers ville's prospective industry can be gatli nd from the statements of the officials of the company when they say that this will be a 4000-hortepower plant the power nouee at sooderton ia icbs than 1 000 horsepower plant turwo of four artesian wells will be drilled to supply watti for the boilertj dedicatedto lindenwold when the sun in radiance shcdn its crimson light of cold t muecrt find wandered idily thniiiftn the grounds of lliiiipnwnid i innkoil mid beheld a palace kit for n king to dwell while i wandered through this lan<1sr»j i found a fairy dell where the bee might hum mid gather food for it's winter store and the poets could sit and dream and pen their golden lore where the artist with his canvas could pnlntascene.zn grand yet ever and on i watered about this beautous i ud and none but a genius could build this architecture rare for tis an innte gift divine to plan this paince fair and while life's lesson here we learn we tmlld for another home tis nlnng life's mighty highway thut grand and lofty dome elizabeth c 0 campbell willow grove there is jreat difficulty in digging wells in this vicinity william k johnson was just completing the walling up of a 28-foot well for mrs john mc evoy's new house on davisville road when the whole thing gave away and dropped in aheap lie finds it as bard work to get out the stone as it was originally to dig the well alpheus menefee was patting down the well for the new house of david 1 nolan and had it nearly completed when the sides fell in causing several days additional work mrs kate larzelere had an artesian well put down on her property on the davisville road and after the pump was worked a few minutes the water becume very muddy the ques tion of water is a serious one in our lo cality last week we reported the case of k m parkhnrst who lives on the doyles town pike at the cut-oil railroad who was filler by his man this week mr parkhurst brought suit against bis man peter blair on the charge of tresspass ing and threatening his life before squire wood of ogontz the case was settled by blair agreeing to remove from the premises and withdraw his suit which was before squire yerkes of hatboro parkhurst paid the costs the blairs moved on jan 1 the newport company started up their mill on dec 0 after it had been partially closed since november the intention of the company is to run it with full force in the near future as the orders for fertilizer are now pour ing in at their plant at riverside del they now employ between ino and 200 men and are running night and day the business of this company has so in creased that it will take both mills to fill their orders samuel mcadam has just finished painting the house of samuel keightly on park avenue which has been enlarg ed and remodeled he has also the contract to paint the inside and outside of the houae of john balme on welsh and edge hill roads parker deen will leave the spencer farm next spring and will move to joshua cope's house on the pike he will continue bis well digging business w b gheen our ticket agent was removed from this station to german town and j e sheen bookkeeper for the harry kates company has a posi tion at coateaville the new schoolhouse on the phipps property was closed on thursday owing to the fact that there was water in the cellar which put out the heater lire and it was necessary to pump the water out j c robinson has decided to build a kitchen addition to his new hotel it will be about 15x18 feet and fitted with every convenience john phillips will move from p p gheen's house on church street to 8myrna del where he will engage in the tobacco business byron smith and miss bessie david son of milford del were recently married and will reside at willow grove the white coating of j c robinson's parkside hotel has been completed and the carpenters are now puttiug on the interior finish jones & paxson of hatboro are fur nishing the lumber for the double house of mrs jonn mcevoy at willow grove moore krier late foreman for bert larzelere has moved from the sybert farm to the city the cellar beneath the casino in wil low grove park was filled with water by the rain on saturday the under drain got choked up and the back water rushed in with a vengeance pany five valuable stock at public sals auctioneer a m bergey saturday forenoon disposed of quite a number of important stocks at the hotel mont gomery norristown for thomas b evans agent at public sale the fol lowing were sold five shares montgomery naional bank john jacobs at 208.25 three shares same to same at 209 six shares first national bank to joseph landis at f 175 five shares people's national bank to m j harley at 109 two and one-half shares same to daniel longacre at 10 five shareb norristown trust com pany to joseph landis at 145 rive bhares same to thomas b evans at 140 five shares norristown water com y to f g stritzinaer at 95.25 five shares same to john jamison 95.50 live shares mime to robert dager at 94 ; six shares same to charles ram sey at 94 ; rive shares same to robert dager at 95 five shares montgomery trust com pany 8amuel e nyce at 170 five shares same to s s kohn at 170.20 14 shares first national bank con shohocken samuel e nyue at 150 five shares same to f e jacobus at 150 500 tend unit telegraph and tele phone company joseph laodis 500 1000 : bond united telegraph and telephone coinpanv t b kvans at 1000 ¦ i , — hoods pills eui lwwr in an louaneia indlgmtlon headache laay to take easy t ep«rat 2 be born in whitpain charles morgan of wilkesbarrc passes away llcntli oiimon after 87 vtari of acmyn lire sketch of the omoniied horn in an old property on sklppiu 1 i'lke and mov ed to wilkennarr in 1830 charles morgan of wilkesbarre died on new years day in his s8t.li year he was known to a few of the older residents of thi.s section of the country having been born in wbitpain town sihp he was the son of benjamin who had married tacy stroud arid was born on oct 81 1814 in the little stone house on the east side of skippack pike near the private entrance to barton hoopes summer home his father was a blacksmith and car ried on the trade in a shop on the same side of the road neat the house the deceased came from one of the oldest and most eminent families in england being descended from edward morgan who came to this country about 1686 arriving in philadelphia and settled in the district of moyaniensing later he took ii his residence in gwynedd the subject of this sketch was by birth a tneurber of gwynedd meeting although his family became connected with the methodist church and although lie attended he still retained bis mem bership with the society of friends he learned the trade of slioenuiuinj with john preston of near blue bell and later drifted to philadelphia where he followed his trade in 18.')9 he ap peared to be losing his health gave up this business and on aug 1 left the city expecting to recuperate in the wyoming valley until cold weather he was nearly two days and three nights reach ing harrisburg on the old columbia railroad and went from there to wllkes barre by canal his letters at the time state lie was much impressed with the town'of 1200 people and its surrounding mountain beauty frosts coming on and regaining his health he decided tfi stay and spent several weeks rishi in the susquehanna and hunting aino the mountains . on returning to wilkesbarre he con tinued sboemaking till 1834 and there after was in partnership with john kline in kslih he purchased the hard ware business continuing to manage it until 1870 when he entered a partner ship in a shoe store with his son jesse after 1 years active work in this en terprise he retired being succeeded by the firm of c morgan's sons on april 2 1842 he married ellen hunn of huntington township lti zerne county who was born dec 5 1823 besides bis widow the following children survive jesse t william 1 charles e , benjamin f , anna l wife of dunning sturdevant ella h wife of willard post mary e wife of william s gofl the following chil ren are deceased edward s tacie s wife of b o luxley of philadelphia and walter who died in infancy the life of the deceased was emi nently an active one he had a keen insight into the affairs of the business and commercial world his stories of the early davs of stage coaches were in teresting to his large circle of friends and acquaintances his last years were spent without cares and he went among his friends apparently contented and happy he had been a member of the wyoming historical society since 1858 being vice president of the same in the years 18(52 and 1863 the funeral took place friday interment being at hal tenback cemetery several years ago the deceased was visiting the neighborhood of his birth and went round among the old friends who were still living it was with keen interest that he marked the advance ment and progress of this locality his brother was benjamin morgan late of willow grove who died june 9 1896 how to live without work when two negroes boarded a trolley car at willow grove at 3 o'clock sunday morning each carrying a bulging valisa motorman trout became a little sus picious when he observed a moment later that there were feathers and blood on the sides of the valises he remem bered a tradition about negroes and chickens and his suspicions became stronger when the car reached ger mantown avenue and diamond streets philadelphia he quietly called a police man one of the negroes dropped off the rear platform and escaped the policeman opened the valises and found 23 chickens whose necks had been wrung the captured negro said he was wil liam parker of fredericksburg va and that he had come up here to pay the other a ' visit on saturday night the latter said to him come with me and i will show you how i make a living in winter then they called at a number of well-filled ben houses near willow grove parker was held in 800 bail and the police are looking for his ingenuous friend whose name they withhold 	 sat n«»t to smallpox victim samuel miller of hooverton was ad mitted to the municipal hospital nor ristown friday afternoon mr miller lias been a farm hand on the moclain farm in norriton centre he was vis iting his father and brother who are employed by judge hoover when he was taken ill and from which place he was removed by his request to the hos pital health officer landis of nor riton township met the ambulance at the hooverton residence which he afterwards fumigated and placarded mr miller who is 80 years of age was in i'h i ladelj ib ia on monday dec 15 aud missing the last train stayed'at broad street station until the departure of the 4.15 a in train monday he fell asleep there and on awakening found a man sitting next to him with a sus picious rash on his face just a week from that time he was taken sick aud httk devvlopi'il tjinallpox of a continent typo hauled away furniture barkley stong of ambler held for larceny and burglary i nil mi hi chapel on mercer home l'ro]iert.v ii daybreak nnri wan cnuelit removing llii goods llarkley stong of ambler was arrest ed tuesday monring on the charge of burglary and larceny and given a hear ing before justice bittinij and was bound over for court to aimwer the charges about i.25 s w morrow of the mercer home heard noises over about the chapel building and on investigat ing discovered a man hauling awav furniture in a wheelbarrow he ac costed the accused who had an exten sion table and a reclining chair loaded up an examination of the premises snowed that he had entered and taken the goods from one of the rooms he was brought to ambler and given a heaving when ho was held on the charges named a search warrant was sworn out and his home on the wcstelry side of the old reiff property now owned by dr 11 v mattlgon was searched and a piece of enrpet and two chairs were found which were taken to the squire's office these goods bad probably been removed from the house at some other time as stong who is employed in the kiln room of the chemical works had left bis work at 5.85 tuesday morn ing ami had not time between ttiat and (> 25 when he was discovered to make the two trips to mount pleasant j tlie house was recently toi-jjuted by j f bergey bookkeeper of jj-"'e amb ler supply company and the fjrniture in the bouse previously was locked in a large room in which all the goods were stored except two chairs a reclining chair bureau and the piece of carpet these were used by mr bergey and left in the house when he moved to ambler last fall it is said stong help ed him move and of course became acqainted with the goods and t bouse at that time he had broken no locks to gain entrance to the property as ingress was easy new county officials in charge monday the new sheriff john lnrze lere and county treasurer george n malsberger who were elected last nov ember began their terms of three years in their respective offices in the court house the retiring officials sheriff light and treasurer ilallowell leave office with the conscience that they have transacted their duties in a proper manner and all who came in contact with them in their official career speak most highly of them sheriff larzelere in entering on his term does so without having made any appointment and savs that the inside deputy undev the light administration will remain at his post temporarily the outside deputy thomas coulston offered his services to mr larzelere for a few weeks until the new incumbent became familiar with the work and his tender was accepted mr larzelere will appoint his deputies in the near future the treaasurer mr malsberger and his deputy e p ancona were on hand early monday morning and the office was transferred into their hands coroner elect dr j 3 kane also took up the emoluments of official life he has appointed benjamin defarin as deputy for pottstown and dr c h mann as coroner's physician district-attorney hendrick also began his second term he was re-elected to succeed himself at the november elec tion 	 jarrettown the recent thaw and heavy rains have started washes in a number of grain fields lloyd scbuman has nearly recovered the use of his hand which was recently injured while working in the rolling mill at hoopeston c.b talyor visited friends in limer ick township on new year's day miss florence dillon has returned to her studies in a philadelphia commer cial college howard nieweg was home for about two weeks during the holidays he entertained a school friend during the time he was at his mothe'rs home courtland knelt and wife are being congratulated over the arrival of a son and bcir watch night services were held at the methodist church on new years eve the ladies aid society held their regular monthly meeting during the early part of the evening a very in teresting program of entertainment formed a part of the exercises miss josephine griffiths read a paper on the origin of watchnight meetings miss sadie smith and mr kingsley gave readings misses dith rodeinich etta engle and mamie gilbert rendered some selections of musiu on the organ ' the question of probable candidates for township officers is beginning to interest local politicians the officers whose terms expire are as follows su pervisors george b conway john c donat school directors albert atkin son walter s watson ; justices of the peace louis s whitcomb max kaiser auditors max kaiser constable hicks lukens town clerk > edgar roberte the usual election officers are also to be elected most of the officers named are likely to be candidates for re-election hoard the quakertown board of health has reorganized by electing the following officers treaident dr o h fret secretary john v ommeren health officer john a funk the report in dicates that the health of the residents of the borough has been butter the pant yuar than for a number of years as here were but 34 deaths against 45 the previous year and fewer contagious diy nht it>port*d than any year jun'ce th organization of tbe boaid franchise extended trolley company given one year to operate the road ambler ilornilgh c'ihiikii hold monthly sfoiiiii miirn in keqnlre i a a tale plione company to imlull fire alarm st 	 iti'ifiiirr iiiibiiii'hs transacted a regular monthly meeting of the ambler borough council was held mon day evening in the council chamber with all the members present ihe minutes of dec !> weie read and approved mr acufl of the finance committee referred to the treasurer's statement for his report mr craft,,of the highway committee reported having investigated the wash ing at mr fitter's entrance and ascer tained that the damage is caused by the flow of water from outside the bor ough and thought that until the town ship of upper dublin or the turnpike company take tho proper steps the bor ough would have no ground to remedy the matter regarding the ridge ave nue boardwalk mr craft loported that mr earnest bad repaired bis portion and mr weiss had substituted ashes and both are willing to lay a pavement in the hpring the borough may be under the necessity of erecting a fence over the fill the engineer had prepar ed a plan of the proposed macadam to be done by the trolley company on south main street mr craft reported progress with butler avenue along mrs hart's properly mr acufl also a member of the highway committee reported haying interviewed mr knipc who gave his verbal consent to lay side walks if the borough filled sufficiently and made an entrance to his land through mr acuff m e allen wiled the attention of council to the gutter in front of his property which is lower than elsewhere causing water to settle and creating an annoying and at times offensive nuisance it was lowered by the borough several years ago mr davis of the light committee re ported the light contract signed and a duplicate for council's acceptance he had ordered a time switch for the fire house and two additional lights for ten nis avenue mr acuft of the law and order com mittee reported no arrests last month and the order of the town generally rood he called attention to the dilapi dated condition of the furniture in the council chamber mr davis of the building commit tee reported permits issued as follows keasbey it mattison company stone building and three sheds 1 w craft two frame additions benton 8 russell house and frame addition mr knight of . the tire committee reported that the new steamer is in good condition and that the old engine had been repaired also that john me cool and george renner had purchased the suction hose and their bills for 0 bad been approved by the committee the treasurer in submitting a report showing a balance of 515.54 on hand requested that the finance committee take steps for the cancellation of two bonds he also informed council that the present indebtedness of the borough is 20,300 2000 having been paid off during 1901 mr kramer of the railway crossing committee reported that the solicitor had secured the necessary data from the engineer and would proceed at once to prepare the necessary ordinance em bodying the releases mr knight asked what progress the highway committee is making concern ing the alleged damages to the proper ties of jefferson carr and daniel dow lin resulting from the change of grade on butler avenue he therefore moved that the highway committee be instruct ed to take the matter up with these pro perty owners and ascertain the alleged damages and report to council the bond of the philadelphia & le high valley traction company and the acceptance by the same were received and filed mr hose reported he had been in formed the light company had no code of rules regarding the lighting of the streets and especially on moonlight nights the light committee was there fore instructed to prepare a set of rules for the borough officer regarding the burning of the lights mr croft informed council the fire company intended purchasing horses in the near future and that the company would then be in a position to do any hauling or street sprinkling that the borougn had to do a communication was read from mrs m j ambler stating that since the change of grade on south main street it has been very difficult to get into and out of her stable and trusted council would take steps to remedy the trouble the matter was referred to the high-nay committee the law and order committee was in structed to purchase 12 suitable chairs for use in the borough chamber mr acuff presented a proposition providing for a one year extension of time from jan 8 1002 for the trolley company to complete and operate their road it was taken up by sections and adopted a proposed ordinance granting the delaware & atlantic telephone company a franchise in the borough was present ed and at the suggestion of mr knight referred to the highway committee to take tho matter up with the company relative to inserting a provision that the company erect and maintain for the use of the borough a fire alarm system bills to the amount of 342.58 were ordered paid spencer williams addressed council relative to the poor condition of wood land evenue and north street and the highway committee was instructed to look into tho matter a certain cur for chilblain shake into your shoe allen's root-katie a powder it fures chilbluiua frostbite iluui c4uuu swollen lent all druggieus unj shoe iw 86c , . jan u-u qlenside and around kide'k dsuchtera m>..i ic hill srliimi famlfatod chrumnn knn>avor annlrer hry mlncellnnenii rtemii mr william vedele is spending sev eral days with friends in vlrglnlai 10 members were taken in at carmel presbyterian cbimsh last sunday morn ing w m wolff haw bad a telephone in slallfil at his residence on shady nook farm tim railroad company have given orders to mr mills to remove his backs from the station kev krank burdick,of l'hiladelphia will conduct tho services at the baptist mission next sunday miss nellie elliott of ijorshain is employed in kline van winkle's gen eral store as assistant clerk mr and mrs thomas clampfl'er of edge hill attended a wedding at nor ristown on new years dny the regular monthly meeting of the usher's association of carniel i'resby tevinn church will lie held fiiday even ing mips edith miller of west philadel phia spent new years day as the guest of sir harrison ii inkle and familv of mt carmel avenue mrs w.j meredith's rimming store is closed and the house quaratined miss mi if red meredith aged four years is ill with diphtheria dr f s slifet has had aiiell tele phone placed in the office at bis resi dence on mt carniel avenue below willow grove pike the niunbci1 of the phone is 43 y edge hill the monthly meeting of the king's daughters association f oarmel l'res byteriiui church wan held wednesday afternoon at the home of mr joseph williams north edge hill die 10th anniversary of the christian endeavor society of the same church will be held fiiday evening jan 17 at the church during the holidays the edge hill school building has been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected new per fection drop window shades havo been installed in the class rooms to take the place of the slat blinds this change will be gladly welcomed by the teacheis and children with the new drop shades the light can be distributed to any desired spot in the room and at the same time the gtare of the sun will be eliminated obituary ieortie w kibhlemoi-hh goerge w kibblehouse of green wood avenue ambler died tuesday evening of blight's disease aged 57 years he lias been ailing for more than a year the deceased has been a resident of ambler for about 20 years having pre viously operated a farm near broad axe he resided in william baum's house then removed to the property of henry jones and thence to the dwelling now occupied by howard f pent later he purchased the property on green wood avenue he has been engaged for several years in conducting i lie ex tensive greenhouses on his propeitv and also soliciting insurance after relin quishing farming he was salesman for p p mast a company and was success ful in selling their machinery through out this section a widow and two daughters florence wife of mr frank turner of ambler and minnie survive two other children having died previously deceased was an active member of st thomas epis copal church whitemaish in the cem tery of which on saturday the remains will be interred narcihtt the directors of creamery met on tuesday and decided to pav 35 cents per pound for december this brings milk nearly four centsjper quart those patrons whose dairies test 460 will re ceive a little over four cents per quart the directors also passed the following resolution resolved that on and after jan 11 1902 all patrons furnishing milk to the creamery must bring the entire production of their dairv other wise there will he a reduction of 05 cents per pound for butter made from baid dairies james mm hax completed filling tin ice house at the creamer the ice wax all of fine quality there being no snow in it i lie hum of it was four inches thick sou eone iuoceedo i in getting through the kltcb en window by taking out the lower sash of the hickorytown hotel on saturday morning no thing was taken but a part of a loaf of bread kither the intruder was simply hungry or else ha was scared away immediately for the doors leading through to the barroom and other rooms were all unlocked he could have easily secur ed several dollars in cash aud some salable arti cles but evidently he did not get beyond the kitchen there is a uoee of small]x)x near fenn suuare and what is uerhaps worse is the fact that a social gathering was held ut the man's house one evening with a number of the school children present the man was sick at the time but no one thought of it being the smallpox the ihurch at cold point has sent notices to the entireties of the north philadelphia associa tion i'f!|ufstiiig them to send their pastor and two delegates to consider the advisability of ap pointing george livingston bayard for the work of tin gospel ministry tho council will muet at 2 p in jan 14 and if the council decide to or dain the ordination services will take place id the evening to which the public is invited mr bayard has had 10 years of training having l>een graduated at buckuell university then took a two-years tbeolpgical course at harvard and is now attending crozier theologicul seminary j q alkiuaou on sttu jo*e scale james q atkinson of three tuns last week addressed the worcester far mers club on the san jose scale he said it is first discovered in soathern california in 1870 since then it has spread to various parts of the united states and is doing deadly work it is in montgomery county he said and i am informed you iiavu it right in your community mr atkinson said he was studying it and likhtiug it in his own orchards but is not certain with what success he is coping with it the little mwet can hardly bo sucm with the nak«d eye but you can ne the m-are on the tree under which it is secreted ami is doing its d«ttdly work mr atkinson showed samples of small lini.c ui\ijml with icales