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•jumfst'.-.f «««r-',' T The Ambler Gazette. VOL XXX -NO. 3 AMBLEiR, PA., JANTJARY 18. 1912 J^l.25 A YEAR TEAS DECLARED SUPERVISOR. Tlw Court Passes On Horsham Townsbip Contest. Elmer E. Potts, Who Received More Votes Than Teas, Had No Length of Term Sipecified Opposite His Name —Omission Riesults in His Unseat¬ ing. Judge Swartz handed down an opinion in the contested election for the OtHce of road supervisor in the township of Horshani, Saturday morn¬ ing, in which he declared that William Teas was elected over his contestee, Blmer E. Potta The costs of the proceeding are to be paid by Horsham township. The opinion of the court, in part, ia as follows: "At the election held on November 7, 1911, in the township of Horsham two road supervisors were to be elected, one for the full term of four years and the other for the un¬ expired term of two years, "The F.epublioan party nominated Norton Downs for the four years' term anu Fllnier E. i'otts lor tho torm of two years. "The Kepublican party forwarded a proper eertilioate to the county eonimissioners. designating the terms for their respective candidates. The presiding otlicer of the Democratic meeting also certilicd Its party nom¬ inations, but failed to give the terms Of the respective candidates. On tbe IJoniociatic certillcate tlie name ef George W. Stong was written above that of Fulmer E. Potts. When the commissioners printed the ballots this order was reversed mid tlie name of Klmer E. Potts appeared above tliat of George W. Stong. This was done so that the candidates of a particular party might appear alphabetically where two or more persons aro elected to the same otlice. The election olli¬ cers made return to court as follows: Norton Downs (4 years) had 112 votes, William Teas (2 years) had 102 vote.s, Kliner E. Potts (no torm designated on ballot) had lOli votes, George W. Stong (no term designated on ballot) had 102 votes. The elec¬ tion board gave a certilicate to Xor¬ ton Downs that he was eloi'tod to the oflice of road supervisor for tho term of four years. "The certilicate lo Klmer E. Potts stated as follows: "VVe do iiereby certify that you having received 109 votes for the otlice of supervisor, it being the highest, or one of the highest, number cast for said office are 'therelore duly elected to said of- tice for the term of two years.' "The requisite number of electors contest the election of Elmer E, Potts. It ie claimed that the vote^ Jast for .Blmer E. Potts and George VV. Stong were illegal and void and should not have been counted by the election olli¬ cers, that the said Wm. Teas was elected to the office of road supervis¬ or for the term of two years and that the court should declare his election accordingly. was not necessary to designate the term of office on the ballot, that he believes that each vo-ter fully under¬ stood that he was a candidate for the abort term of two years. He also claims that the court has no right under this- contest to declare his cer¬ tificate invalid, "He also avers that the court has no right to declare the election in¬ valid. That the case does not fall within the provision of the act of April 14, 1897, P. L. 23, wherein it is declared that the court may hold that an election is Invalid where by reason of the defective conditions on the ballots the voters were misled. "It is Important to note that neither party contests the legality ot the elec¬ tion for supervisor. It Is simply a contest whether certain votes cast for Elmer E. Potts should have beon counted for him." The court say^: "We cannot give any effect to the claim that the voters understood that Elmer E. Potts was a candidate for tho two-year term. The answer avers a belief that such was the case, but how can ainy one assert such a nroposition unless all the voters are fiuestioned ':• There is certainly nothing in it which indicates for what term any ballot was cast or throws any light on the intention of the elector in respect to the term. Mllligan's appeal, 96 Penna. 222, also hoius that ballots without a specitl- cation of term cannot be counted where two councilmen wore to be chosen for different terms." The court by using similar cases as examples as proof of the justness of its decision, closes by saying, "We do not see how these new ballots differ in any manner whereby an election bo.trd can now safely count any voites where no term is designated where several ofllcers are to be eleotod but for different terms," OBITUARY. JOHN ROWLEY. John Rowley, and old resident of Harmonville, died Wednesday after¬ noon, at his home after a brief ill¬ ness from apoplexy. He had been In ill health for some time, but was able to be about to some extent until Tues¬ day when he suffered a stroke. Mr. Rowley was well known in this borough. He served throughout Civil war, although he was not a member of the Grand Army post. He Is survived by two sons and two daughters. The funeral look place, Monday af¬ ternoon, from his late residence. In¬ terment was private. MARY READ FISHER. The news of the death of Mlss Mary Read IHsher, which occurred at an early hour Friday morning at her re¬ sidence. 2.S8 South Thirteenth street, Philadelphia, was received with feel¬ ings of much great regret by her rela¬ tives and large ciicie of friends in that city. Karly in tho autumn Miss I'isher was taken ill a,t her country iionie at Penllyn, and from the be¬ ginning her physicians hetd out lit¬ tle hojies of her recovery. Born 70 years ago In Philadeiphia. the daugh¬ tor of lho lato Mr. and Airs. Coleman : islior all hor lite was p.i.-^sod there, .'.ho v\jis so.'iail.v prominent in the iushionabio lite of lliut eil.^-. whero her piea.sing poisonalily and alCahlo con¬ versation made lur a special favorite. Sho uas also ehiolly interested in many charitable organizations and was a member of St. James' churoh at Twonl.v-Seoond and Walnut streets, to whirli parish her family had belonged for many gonoriitions. She is sur¬ vived by ono sister, .Vliss Sally VV. I'isher, and a lirother, William Read l-'ish(!r who, with his deceased sis- tor, spent many summers in Ambler. K.MPSO.V K. HAINES. l-:!fmj.son K, Haines, aged .S;! years, >'. lio iias lieen a resident noar .Xorris¬ town for inuny years, and who was Well and proniinontly known, died Tuesday night of last week,'at his late n sidenee, S04 Swede street, following :iii illness due to general debilit.v and old ago. Deceased formerly eonduct.^ oil a farm in Plyinouth township, known as the "Haines plantation." He is survived b.v one son. -MARY ELIZABETH ASHFUV. Mr.s. Alary Elizabeth Asliury, widow ol' T. Henry Asbury, died Sunday in l"i>-arwater, Fla., of bronohitLs, after an illness of only two days. She was liorn in Biriiii.ngham, England, 87 years ago, and married Air. Asbury in Ks.'iO. She is survived by livo children, Ibirry H. Asbur.v, Charles Asburv, -Vlrs. ,Ianies Carr, Airs. A. C. Harmer and Airs. At. H. Rand. .Vlr. Asbury was one of the founders of the Knterpriso Alanufaoturing com¬ pany. Tho wlnier home of tho fam¬ ily was at Clearwater, but their suni¬ mor home is at Oak Lane. The funeral of .Vlrs. Asburj- will be hold this Wednesday, services being liokl at 2,.10 at the home of hor son, Ilarrv H. Asbury, at Oak Lane. -VIRS. EAIAIA WEIKEL. Mrs. Emma Xeavil. wife of N. W^. Weikel, and mother of Airs. C. W. Jefferis, of Doylestown, died at her home in Xofth, Wales on Saturday 6. wi"ftli.j 7'oa' yilact oi age. She is survived' by her husbaind and flve cbildrafn: Albert, Ervin and William, ot VV^lkes-Barre; Mrs. Herbert Schoid, of Xorth Wales, and Katharine .N'„ of Doylestown. AIRS. GEORGE A. RICE. .Vlary Ellen, wife of George A Rice, died at her home in Clialfont, Satur¬ dav at noon. She had boen a suffer¬ er of neuritis the pas,t 10 years. Drop.sy linally set in and caused her doath. She was helpless for years. Sho was a conscientious and earnest (Christian and a member of the Re¬ formed church at Dublin. Deceased leaves a husband, one daughter, Elsie, and a son, Paul, both residing at home, also her father, Ja¬ cob Angeny, and a sister. Airs. Clem- mio Rife, of Dublin; three brothers, Wiiliam Angeny, of Philadelphia; Al¬ len, of Chalfont, and I'Yank, of I<"'ort Washington. Mrs. Rice was 49 years, 4 months and 23 days old. Interment will be made in the Dub¬ lin cemetery. MAN'S DEATH A MYSTERY. Harleysville Farmer Found Dead I in His Bam. Abraham Price Killed Either by Man I or Horse—Neck Broken, Skull Frac- turied and Chest Crushed—Horse Untied. Abraham Prioe, aged 63, a widely known farmer, who resided near Har¬ leysville, was found lifeless in his ' barn. Friday, by a neighbor. His Inwk was broken, skull fractured and 1 chest crushed. I The bodv was lying in one of the horse stalls and one of the horses was untied. U'liotlior or not the farmer was worsted in a struggle with an enraged I equine or whether he was the victim ! of an attack by a horse thief or tramp, wliom be may have discovered Ln the struoturo, is a mater whieh Coroner Xeville. who was called to the soouo Saiurday. is asked to determine. .Vlr. Frill' w.-iii lo th.- l..iin Friday . :.:iig to attend lo his usuai work ill tho h..rse staliles. and, from the oouuii.on o! tbo sialls. must have be¬ iii.ii tlio work iiitendi-d whi-ii lho fa- t.iiily liappenoil ! The fact .that ono of llio liorses Woro untied and tho ta.et that tramps and suspicious persons wore seen in mat vicinity, has caused a suspicion ol' foul pia,v. Iioooasod is survived l.\ III ihildren. Want Good Roads. I'rom August I lo Ji.nuar.\ 1. oov- oriiig lho lirsl jioriod of tho operation of Ule Sproul road law. whioh <'on- loiuidaios putting in eondition hiin- diods ot miles of atrocionsly bad roads in Foniis.v Ivania. applioations wero made to the stale highway depart¬ ment for the improvement of over 2?u iiiilos of road, says a nies.sago from llarrisbuig. .Vluoii of the existing liigliway sysloiu is so bad that coun¬ ties and townships were glad to have .III opportunity lo got it under state .ail', over though Ihoy paid a share .if Iho expense. In Alontgomery counly the township of Aloreland offered alono to bear the looal expense of improving 3522 feet of road. The most notable applica¬ tions from this countv are: Moreland 35'22: Cpjier Hanovor, 9000, 11,700; Abington. 10,3SI; Lower Sal¬ ford,6000; Upper Gwynedd, 72r.O: Whit¬ pain, 7000; Limerick. 19,350. Runaway at Ogontz. "Jack" Blum, son of Gabriel Blum, who has a country home in the Ogontz seotion, ligured in a sleighing runaway near Ogontz Sunday. Air. Blum es- oa))ed Injury, bul his outfit was de- nudishod. He was driving east over AV. Church road, when his speedy trotter shield at something, and in just about 60 sec¬ onds Blum picked himself out of a snowdrift by the roadside. The frightened pnimal continued its, dasb -to.'t!-.t=- Yo>J<^'T'craii; • i-artil-d'^BtJTltnr'ii^aE- was hitting a 2.35 clip through Ogontz when hailed by Williani Goeh- ring. of tho Cheltenham poflee depart- nionl. GWYNEDD, Conserve the Skunk, Urges Prof. Sur- facie. A strong plea for the conservation of animal life In this state has been issued by Prof. H. A. Surface, chief of the division of zoology of the depart¬ ment of agriculture. To the killing off promiscuously of various ani¬ mals Professor Surface attributes the increase in destructive insect life. Cats, chipmunks, foxes, skunks, rac¬ coons, bats and moles are among the animals that Professor Surface pleads for. They are the natural enemies of destructive Insects, mice and rab¬ bita. The robin, top, while he m«.y steal a few cherries, devours great quantities of grub and cut worms and other peste, and the skunk, which may cat a few eggs, will also dig under the stones for insects which ruin crops. Jt is recommended that cats be cared |?or and fed, but not to such an extent as to make them lazy. Abandoning a cat, it is declared, is almost criminal, for the cat, grixwlng wild, learns to catch and kill song birds and ather birds of value to the farmer. A do¬ mesticated cat will also kill grasshop¬ pers and June bugs. Foxes are great enemies of field mice and rabbits, and the despised bats are foos of bugs that fly by night. While moles are regarded as nuis¬ ances in a garden, they are decb-ired to be benefactors, because they feed . upon earth worms whieh destroy the P roots of plants. The porcupine is put under the ban because by gnawing at bark It destroys trees. The engine boing used liy the Harp¬ er estate to drill a well on tho former I..owery place for C. G. lioaumont, broke down last Friday and was out of eonimission until JVIonda.v, when work was again rosuined 'i'he well, wiiioh is now more than 200 feet deep, wili be drilled to a depth of 250 feet. -No water has boen found as yet. Tiie intensely cold weather diil some damage to the water pipes at ¦the Pemberton Hollingsworth place, whioh was reiiairod by plumbers. John liarndt and wife, of Line Lex- iii,!,-toii, were among the sleighers here on Saiurday. A. G. Yothers, of tiiis place, and Air. and Airs. Harry Richardson, of Lans¬ dale, will leave l'"rlday and sail from Xow York Satui'day niorning for a trip to Havana, Potto Rico, Trinidad, Ja¬ maica, Panama and several of the South American ports. Mr. Linnard is quite IH- Colonel Goodman, who has juat re¬ turned from Florida, was out Sunday to his country place here. During last week there was shipped from his I farms here one carload of shelled corn and two carloads of baled hay. . F. E. Bond has just housed 100 tons of line Ice. —Hugh It. I<;a.stburn. Esq., of Doy¬ lestown, has announced hla candidacy for tho Republican nomination for con¬ gress from the Bucks-Montgomery county districts. Has Officiated at 5382 Sates. A. A. Delp. of Lansdalo, is one of the oldest auctioneers in the county. He is in his 70th year, and has been in the business 41 years. During that time he has cried 5382 sales and has kopt a record of each one. He speaks German and English and is in great demand throughout the county, being more active than some men nian.v years younger. Thursday. Jan. 4, Mr. Delp cried the F. W. Repogle sale of personal prop¬ erty at Orvilla, near Hatfleld. The following were tllsposed of; Four covv's at ijrices ranging from $25 to J35; nine-months-old heifer brought $15.25; two horses. $50 and $82.50; 250 bushels of corn at 75 cents and 79 eeiiits a bu¬ shel; 9 shoats, $3.50 to $3.75; a num¬ ber of chickens bought 12'^ to 16 cents a pound; 500 sheaves corn fodder, $3^78 hundred; 100 bushels of oats at 45 conts a hushel. D. Schultz acted as clerk. On Alonday, January 1, he also sold at West I'oint. 19 head of cattle rang¬ ing in prices fi'om $35 to $79 a head. Tuesday Jan. 2, at Kneedler's, Mr. Delp cried tho Arthur Welsh's sale of personal proptsrty, including a lot of farming implements, one horse, 11 lioga and shoats, ranging in price from $4.60 to $25 and many bushels of corn at 70 and 71 cents a b.ushel. Bucks County Singer Makes Good in Europe. 'I'he I'hiladolphia Xorth Aiiioricaii of Alonday published the following rela¬ tive to the success of Mi.ss Bertha lirinker. of Cb.alfont, well known in Doylestown: "A Philadelphia singer who lias 'made good' and for whom a great fu¬ ture is predicted is Miss Bertha Brink¬ er, who, on tho advice of Mme. Melba. the prima donna, went abroad for further study. Miss Brinker has re¬ tui'ned to Philadelphia, and it is pos¬ sible that she may be heard in the Aletropolitan opera house before the season closes. "Five years ago Aliss Brinker was the contralo soloist at the Chambers- Wylie Alemorlal Presbyterian church, on South Broad street, and the quali¬ ties of her voice attracted wide at¬ tention. Mrs. Scammon Jones inter¬ ested Alme. Melba in Miss Brinker. Aliss Brinker's trip to Europe be¬ came possible through the offlces of several bankers, headed by Jay Cooke. Jr., who olitained sufficient funds to send lier abroad to finish hor educa¬ tion. Eight months after she plac¬ od hor.seif witii Alme. Barracchia. in ii'iorence, the young woman appeare.l as Aducena In 'II Trovatore,' and hor suocess was immediate and emphatii "Last fall Aliss lirinker signed a con¬ tract to sing in Rome, but the illness of her inother caused hfr to cancel her ongagoinonts and come to this country. Chalfont, Bucks county, is tho young woman's . home town. Recently she gave a iVcital for friends 'who wero interosted\ln her progress, and it is likely that she may be heard in one of her thirty roles, which include Amnerls, Delila, Mignon, Carmen, Sie- bel. Ortrude, Laura and Ciece in 'La Ciooonda' and numerous others." « Bible 313 Years Old. 1>. .-V. F. Cressman, of Springtown. P.a., has an old German Bible printed in 1599 at Frankford-on-the-Main. It is therefore 313 years old. It is a large volume, the paper is eight by 12 inches. It is substantially bound with board, covered with embossed leather in neat design with six stout ropes in back and claspji in front. About 150 illustrations, four and a halt by six Inches, are inserted throughout the Kible, all of which are surround¬ ed by ornamental scroll work. On the lirst loaf Is the stateinon* that this edition was the last read over oarofully and corrected by Martin Luther before his death which occur¬ red in 154Cv r —AIoi.':gomery county commissioners are now meeting on the first and third Mondays of tho inonth, instead of AVodnesdays. —Alore than $21 in silver was stolen from H. H. Robinson's store, at Col¬ iegeville. —Dr. J. ('. Holiton has resigned as dentist at tho state hospital for the insane, Norristown. —Air. .and Mrs. Clarence E. Weeks, of "Willow Brook," Hickorytown, an¬ nounce the engagement of their daugh¬ ter, Mamie W, to George C. Blngaman, of St. Peters. Pa. No date as yet has boen sot for I'Jie wedding. —The Sellersville Nationai bank In its semi-.annual report shows that it pr.id interest to depositors amounting lo $5226; dividends to bond-holders $3750, and .ks undivided pi'ollls amount to $7056. Tho semi-annual dividend is 5 per cent. 26 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. Lowest Temperature Recorded in This Vicinity. Unprecedentled Cold Weather Bestirs tlie Oldest Inhabitant—Some Ther¬ mometer Readings Hereabouts—Ex¬ periences of Bursted Pipes and Brok¬ en Down Heating Plants. The almost unprecedented cold weather in this generation has be¬ stirred the oldest Inhabitant, and one hears almost hourly of some new low record of temperature, but the lowest hereabouts is recorded by a thermo¬ meter at AI. Vandegriffs greenhouse In Wost Ambler. Mr. Vandegrift, during iho extremely cold weather, has h.-on obliged to attend his fires ovory three-fiuaiters of an hour to prevent serious loss of plants and tlowers from freezing. On Sunday moiming at 2.30 o'cloek tho thermome¬ ter on. the exterior of his greenhouse registered 26 degrees below zero. At !. .on: lho same tiim the instruments on Uu outside of Angeny's. Roberts' ii.id Stillwagon's diug stores and at i.:ie, liio house recorded 18 degrees lie- ...w zoi-o. and at 1 o'cloek Charles .^ireoper, watchman at J. VVatson itlu s lunihor yard, stated the nior- I curfy touched 20 degrees below zero. Other thormometeis registered from ," to 2.1 dogr.-es below zero as tho oold- I.-', of i:ii inlensivi'Iy cold night, and all marked a temperature of from tbroo' to lij degrees colder' than the niglit hefore. \\hioh (-stabllshed a re- voi'il ill this looiility at loast not only of the yt--av hut also of tho pn sem century. As a i-iuisoquonoo of the higli eolil \( inds of last Wook which preeedod the snow .'.lonii of I'riday and the bitter ,i-.dd of .Saturday and Sunday there ' won many frozen water pipes and I brokt n down heating pianist The ' noH.tiiig system in the "Gazette" build¬ ing, cluo to frozen return pipes to the holhr. gave out on Friday, several so(iti..iis of the boiler liecoming worth¬ less-. The firo was witlidrawn iiii- niediiiloly and the occupants were witlif.ut. heat, except for suoh as could n.- luiiirovisod fi'oni oil and gas stoves, until .Sunday niorning. A sled was closii.tu hod to Coliegeville early Sat- iii'd;i,\ to the plant where the boiler uas 11 instructed, and several sections wore oonvoyvd to Ambler, reachlnj? hero at ij ]). iii. In the meantime John .\1. Kirk had a force of men working (in the old heater dismantellng same and gottinK it ready for tho new sec- lions. As .soon as the latter .arrived they Wore put in place and by 6 o'rfloi k Sunday morning fire was start- odt Work, liowever, was necessary ; ali day to thaw out frozen return ; pipes and other connections to per- , fe^t the system. ! Owing to the severe weather the wa¬ ton hack in the range of John E. j Turner's residence, Rosemary avenue, j froze up Saturday night .and aljter lire was kindled Sunday morning art ox^iwsion i^ulted. Fortunately no ^v.>•i-^»*ls --*«J»ired.-.althpUKt).,-..s, .cljild •"WTifc- in tho room at,,.thc time and hot j coals uvgre distributed around the room : very dangerously. The kitchen was lilled with escaping steam, but out¬ side of the wrecked ra;nge no further damage was done, as a plumber was sooure(l at once and turned off the wa¬ ter, -Major Eliis, a colored man aged about 46 years and employed by Thomas F. Shoemaker, of Butler drive i.etwoen Rose Vallcv and Three Tuns, narrowly escaped freezing to death Saturday night or rather Sunday morning. He is a stranger here¬ abouts, and after visiting Amblor .S.aturday evening started out to walk to his home. Somehow he mistook ; his directions and after wandering I about and becoming dazed %vith tho I tierce cold was rapidly being over- ! come in front of E. II. Faust's resi- j donee, Bethlehem pike. Hearing cries , for help Mr. Faust and his son-in-law, I Charles Stout, hastened to render as- j sistance and discovered the man in an almost helpless condition on the road. i Mis limbs were benumbed .and after I some effort he was gotten into the I tannery, where he spent the balance •¦f the night and siowiy thawed out. lie returned to the Shoemaker farm .Sunday morning .and after a good roakfast appeared none iiio wor.so I.r his exijcrience. That there were a numtier of places v.ith lower temperature than Philadel¬ i.hia, with Its zero record, was demon¬ strated by accurate thermometer loadings in various A'ork road towns ¦f several hundred feot higher than i'hiladelphia. -•Vt McKinley a commisslonor of Ab¬ ington township reported two readings j taken on Ogontz avenue shortly after daylight. An instrument on the norlh i exposure oif the avenue read 16 de- ' grees below, while on tho southern -sitle was a trifle less than 12 below.. ' I'ormer Assemblyman Charles A. Am- ider reported from tho Abington dis¬ trict two re.aders, one of 10 below, the other of 9 below. A thermomoter at the .Schively residence, in West ,-ivenue, Jenkintown. registered 7 below \:tx daylight, with a subsequent change ! to 2 below at 11 o'clock Saturday i niorning. WEDDED. EXCEPTIONS DISMISSED. County Officials. H EATO N—DUFFIELD. A beAutlful hom(> wedding took ulace j last Wednesday evening at .the resi- • dence of John Duffield, near Sandy 1 Hill, when Mlss Etta Duffleld became - the wife of Mr. Carman He.aton, who j resides near F'ox Chase. The house j Petitioim In«inffiripiit Air!iin<:t Twn was tastefully decorated for the oc-' '^"""'^ inbUIIlCiem AfaiDSl IWO casion, and a large number of relatives and friends of both the contracting parties were present. The bride looked radiant In a beautiful white gown. Rev. Loucks, of Boehm's Reformed ohurch. Blue Bell, performed the cere-l mony, and Immediately thereafter the bride and groom and guests eat down to a sumptuous wedding breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. Heaton left on a short honeymoon trip and on their return will reside with the groom's parents near For Chaae. CROUTHAMEL—MOYER. B. Harrison Crouthamel, of Dublin, and Miss Sallie G. Moyer, of Chalfont, ' Alalsberger. Mr. AIoAvoy is the Dem were united in marriago Saturday, ooratio loader. January Bth, by tho Rov. C. C. Sny¬ der, at his residence, Dublin. The young couple will reside in Plunistoad- \ille in the near future. ', Judge and ties not 1 Tho lion of \ attornev Weand Hands Down a Decision Says Rights of Political Par¬ te Have Votes Credited Can- Be Disregarded, petitions contesting the eloc- Conrad S. Shelve, as district and of John N. Jacobs, as county controller, have been adjudged insufficient by Judge Weand, and are dismissed at the eosts of the peti- tloner.s, who were tho rival candidates on the Keystone-Democratic ticket, Charlos D,' McAvoy and George N. to t.. lo to lyn ot al, .'5250, Rogers to to lots. .\n- et ux. to tu lo REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Fast .Norriton. Harr.v- i'ii,ovitoh John Cirak. .'511500, house and tract. Abingion, Alary V. AloKoan et al, itolioci-a W. 'I'htuiipson. $536, lots. -Vbington. Alary V -VIcKoan ol al, l.oui.so l.ioons, $114, lots. Ahington. Anna P. Itndolph .;.-oiKo II. Sii.Mior. $aiO, lot. -\iiiijlor, -Vlary J. Stannard lo EiIk .\l. Siannard, $1, house and lot. liatbyro, (Jeorge C. Yerkes et ux, Maria L. Fondorwbite Ilatboro, ('lara M na E. Yerkes, $1, lot. Jonkintown, Jos. VV. Al iaronoo J. Shilcook. $1, iot. .lenkiiiton. Clarence J. Silcock .lonuio II. fiingee, $1, liouso and lot -Vhlngton, Eugene A. Heilman Iiarry F. Pennypacker, $1, lot. I pper Providence, Theodore Kesting to Jno. Todd, $200, lot. l.o«or (/w.\nedd, Henry E. Drayton to ^. .M. C. A. Phila., .'$1. houso and tract. JouUinu.u 11. Jonkintown. .\atl. Bank t.i .Sara R Moran. houso and lot. -Vhington. Christiana Corbltt to Chas. F. Habenold. $1, lot. .Moreland. John Pitcalrn to Ravmond (i. Chauch. $111.84. Lppor Dublin,. Gustaf Pfanner to Harry Henninger, $1, house and lot. UpiK r Dublin, Harry Renninger to Magdalena D. Pfanner. .$1, house and lot. -Vloreland. Reginald T. F'erguson Uni. T. Scott, $1, lots. Aloreland, Reginald T. Ferguson Will. L. liodey, ot ux, $1, lots. Hatlield. Eliam L. Davis et al, Samuel li. Conover, $2100, tract. Wost .Norriton, Thom.as Rochelle Clay Haninier, $1500, houso and tract. Lower Gwynedd, FYaneis Houston to i-'dwin J. Houston. $1. tract. Wliiiemarsh, Alfred Al. Sevmour to David liuchanan, $600, lot. Wdnostor. Jas. 11. Rader to Jas. Horiihard, $2000. house and lot. Montgomery, Harold G. Knight to Win. C. Evans. $2.'i00,,mlll and tracts. Spvingliold. .Mitchell Harrison to Ed- ' f'l'" language Instructed the voter Wn-v^ C. Dait-, ^6-147.90, tract. Iv^i* to mark •...ti/l..',yi*A-A'K«%'i wrt^tr'-t-ft?— Sj.ringfleld, Mitchell Harrison to ' Poslte the name of a candidate meant Uobert G. Fell. $9993.91, tract, ja vote for him. The voter knew- that West Telford. .-Vbraham Af. Geissing-. | f"' could only vote once for the same or to Abraham S, Kulp, $3000, house '- candidate for the same office. If he and lot. ' j voted twioo for .the same candidate Ciieitonhaiii, Hichard Straub to Ar-: f'"'' 'h'' -'^aiiie olfice ho violated the tiiiir P. Denney, $250, lot. i'aw and invalidated his vote fvjr that Choltenham, "charles B. Conklin to i particular office, at least. to tl to to VVhen tho oioetion returns wore tab¬ ulated hy the court, during election week, it appeared tliat Shel\e had re¬ ceived 14,493 votes, while AlcAvoy re¬ ceived 14,130. Jai'obs had olitained II.4CU and Alalsberger 13,019. A month afti-r the oleition petitions uoio presented, roprosentiiig that the returns of tho oleotion were not cor¬ rect, and that i.v could be pj'ovod that Alo.-Vvoy and Alalsberger wero elected, il was also doelarod that 57'i votes weve ii-jootod liy file election ofllcers, beoauso of a pe(-iiliar (¦hara(-tor in thtj m.'irking of the ballots. The contest was ovor the legality of doulile cross and single cross bal¬ lots, ill reference to which the court says: ¦•.No indopoiidont voter is beforo us objei-tiiig to the form of the liallot. Those who voted seieeted thoir party dosigna.iion, whon, if not inclined, they should iiavo used tlie liiaiik space provided for tbat purpose. The re¬ jected votes were of throo classes: i-'ii'st, those which were not marked at all in the straight parly ooiunin, but wore marked with two crosses, ono in tho Democrat' and the other in the 'Koystont!' square—opposite the con¬ testants' names. Socond, those which wore not marked at ail in file straight jiartv column, but on whicii the voter covered both party s(iuares opposite the contoHtant.s' names witli one large iidss. Third, those whicii wore mark¬ ed wilh a cross opposite the word ¦Dinuocratic' or . 'Keystoive' in the straight party columi.. and also mark¬ ed opposite the contestants' names with a cross in one or both of the lioniooralii-' or 'Koyston(!' party squares. "The .third class alone would not chuiigo tho result if classes 1 and 2 were dofeolivo. It is not clear from the petitioners how many voter:^ made a cross mark in the straiglit party square and also opposite tho name of the candidate of the same party, but if the voter made a cross mark in the straight party square and then plac¬ ed a cross mark opuosite the name of a candidate of another party on an- .Ither ticket he vitiated his ballot. "The ballots were printed strictly in accordance with the act and in Mandd Stout, $250, lot. -Vbington, Fliigene Carmine to Al¬ port P. Wolf, $1, loi. Worcester. John Metz to Irwin C. .Solilosser, $3050 houso and tracts. Ex-County Treasurer Loses. Judge Weand, on Monday morning, handed down an opinion in the suit brought by WUliam tl. Hagginbothom, ex-county treasurer, against the coun¬ ty of Montgomery for a post-age stamp bill of $219.70 incun-ed In carrying on the business of the office. The court holds that under the law the bill can not be riaid by the county .and enters judgment In favor of the defendant— th(^ county. The opinion is lengthy and goes exhatistivoly into the fundamental law and the m.any decisions handed down affetain.i;- the question of "sup- |)lios" tn imblic officials. In conclud¬ ing Judge VVo.and says in part: "it is incoiu-oivablp th.at under the designation of supplies tho legisla¬ ture intended all artlclis of expense that the oflicer might deem nocessary. There are many cases in whi'h publii; oltioials perforin duties for which no liay is provided. Our attention has not boon oallod l» any law which re- iiuiros correspondence with tax payers and public oiiicials in the "What was the effect of placing cross mark opposite the names of AIcAvov and Alalsberger twice for the same office '.' Clearly to show that tho voter intended to vote for them as candidates of two parties for the same offie,\ How, then, woro the elec¬ tion OfHcers to count tlio vote '! Cer¬ tainly not two votes for the (!andi- dates, for the elector could only give them one. liut to which political party should the vote, if they gave him but one, be credited ':• Xot to both, and nnt arbitr.arlly to either one. "Here, then, was a case where the election offlcers could not gather tlie intention of the voter with reference to the rvolitical party for wiiich he in¬ tended to vote. The voter had mark¬ ed his ballot otherwise than as di¬ rected by the act of assembly, so that it was impossible to' determine the voter's choice of the political party for which ho had voted. The right of i political parties to have votes credit- i od to them is impor.tant. and cannot [with impunity be disregarded by the '\iiici' or olectiot) -.flicers." No License for Inferior Stallions. A new Pennsylvania law went in'to o.'fect January 1 regarding stallions and jacks standing for service. The old law is amended that all such ani¬ mals standing for public service In the state must be registered under one ..f four forms, after being examined by a duly qualifled vdterlnarian, who will I certify th.at the animal is either pure : lired and sound or unregistered and ! unsound, and a license must bo procur- I cd from the stato live-stock sanitary i board in one of these classes. The license mutit be posted, conspicuously I at the place where tho stallion or jack is in service, and must also be pre- - s.nted to and recorded by the pro¬ tlionotary of the county or counties in .\hlch '.-.he stallion or jack ia used for I public sorvices. In lieu of an exainl- i nation by a veterinarian, the owner i may make aflidavit beforo a notary riublic as to tho f.act rogardin.t; his breeding .and his condition of sound- ' Il-'SS. j A section^ of the law which migh't suliject it to some possiblo criticism ! ivads as follows; "Any st.ailion or jack, ! the patronage of which, in the opinion nt those (harged with tho enforcement of this aiit, on account of impure breeding, un.soundnoss, Inferior type .ir conformation may prove a detri¬ ment to the horsobroedlng Interests of the state, shall be refused a license, :ind when license is so refused the said stallion or jack shall not stand for public service for profit or gain. of the dutties of a county troajsurer. "In Doweil vs. comiiiissioners, etc. it was hold that tho word 'supplies' as hero used clearly signifies pencils, pa|>ei'S. rubber bands, blanks, ink and articles of that description, re¬ iiuired and constantly used by county olliooi's. Its meaning must be meas¬ ured and controlled by the connection in which the word is employed, the evident purpose of the act and the subject to which it relates, namely stationery and other articles for use of tho county. "Adopting the samo reasoning In this case we are of opinion that the woi'd 'supplies' refers to articles of a kindred or same character aa those specifically mentioned and in the case of the county treasurer does not in¬ clude postage stamps or mere mat- tors of expiense.'' Ruling on Veterans' Funeral. Veterans of the Civil war, or, for that matter, a veteran of any war, cannot expect Montgomery county to lirovlde burial expenses at his death, nor provide tho customary tombstone, in .the event of the estate of the de¬ ceased veteran being of sufflcient amount to permit of these items being collected from what he possessed. This is according to a ruling made by Controller John N. Jacobs, himself a \(-toi'an of the Civil war. Jenkintown High Winners. Jonkintown High defeated the Hat¬ boro High live at Jenkintown Friday I.y a score of 28 to 15, the Jonkintown performance I team displaying tho licsi team work of •ating a the season, although slill indi ! slight \veai»noss in sliooting. PROSPECTVILLE. The package party held at tho home of Air. and Airs. Arthur Williams was well attended. .-Vbout 47 guests were present and good prices were realized at auction. Air. and Mrs. Waltor Fillman spent Sunday with the la,tter's parents, Mr. and Airs. Charl«.\c; Rich, of Horsham. .S S. Hagerty had the misfortune to los,. his "double neck" freak horso, "Babe," last week. Robert Wier and sons, LeRoy and Harold, of Horsham, Wvi'e the guests of Air. and Mrs. Robert Weisel on Sunday. Harvey Ilittle and son Clarence, of' Philadelphi.a, were the guests of Eu¬ gene Kratz and wite on Sunday. Herman Ford is on the sick Hat. The creamery Ice house Is being lilled this week. Airs. Robert Weisel and daughter Aldyth snent Alonday In Phiiadelphia with relatives. An Illustrated lecture, "Shadows of :i Great t^lty,'' will be given In Pros¬ pectvllle hall on Jan. 20, benellt of the Aiethodist church. There will bo 61 vieWjF showing the slums of Xow York oity. Judge Stout Resisns. Judgi^ .Mahlon II. Stout, of the Bucks county courts, forwarded his resigna¬ tion to (Governor Tener on Tuesday, r.otlrement Is due to an Illness which has interferred with his judical duties for threo yoars. His term would not havo expired until January 1, 1914. Judge Stout's resignation was ten- dori»d under a law which provides for the ietiromen.t of judges for physical or mental disability and also m.akes provision for the payment of full sal¬ ary for the uncompleted portion of a tenn. —Sellorsvllle new nearlng completion. trolley depot Is GWYNEDD VALLEY. I'Yilz Ilartman sent two lino porlcers over to Ross Rile's to bo butchered. Mlss Florence Donat, AIlss Helen Burns and Messrs. Edwin Hambleton and William Fellows, of Philadoiphi.o, spent Sunday .vith Mr. and Airs. W. !¦>. Cressman. Thomas II. Allies and family moved to their Phihidelfihla home last Sat¬ urday. Local young people liave boen en-- joying skating here. Cressman Brothers lilled their ice hnuse liutt week with oigltt inch ice. Henrv Annoar, v.ho is oniiitiyed b.v Dr. W. P. Wilson, has purchasid lb" IBelfry storo and ivill tnf.e \'- -. on M.arch 15. >lo will ;.I • . charre of the U't^Ktoffl'.'o.
Object Description
Title | The Ambler Gazette 19120118 |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 3 |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County -- Ambler |
Description | A newspaper from the community of Ambler, Pa., this collection includes incomplete runs of the Ambler Gazette from 1897 to 1919. This is a weekly newspaper that reports news from multiple communities in Montgomery County. The local news reported in the paper is, in many cases, the only record of the development of the southern half of Montgomery County. The Ambler Gazette continues the Fort Washington Times. |
Publisher | A.K. Thomas |
Date | 01/18/1912 |
Location Covered | Ambler, Pa.;Montgomery County, Pa. |
Type | text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
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Language | English |
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Month | 01 |
Day | 18 |
Year | 1912 |
Description
Title | The Ambler Gazette 19120118 |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 3 |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County -- Ambler |
Description | A newspaper from the community of Ambler, Pa., this collection includes incomplete runs of the Ambler Gazette from 1897 to 1919. This is a weekly newspaper that reports news from multiple communities in Montgomery County. The local news reported in the paper is, in many cases, the only record of the development of the southern half of Montgomery County. The Ambler Gazette continues the Fort Washington Times. |
Publisher | A.K. Thomas |
Date | 01/18/1912 |
Location Covered | Ambler, Pa.;Montgomery County, Pa. |
Type | text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Language | English |
Rights | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
Contact | For more information, please contact the Wissahickon Valley Public Library at abutton@wvpl.org or phone: 215-643-1320. |
Contributing Institution | Wissahickon Valley Public Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | •jumfst'.-.f «««r-',' T The Ambler Gazette. VOL XXX -NO. 3 AMBLEiR, PA., JANTJARY 18. 1912 J^l.25 A YEAR TEAS DECLARED SUPERVISOR. Tlw Court Passes On Horsham Townsbip Contest. Elmer E. Potts, Who Received More Votes Than Teas, Had No Length of Term Sipecified Opposite His Name —Omission Riesults in His Unseat¬ ing. Judge Swartz handed down an opinion in the contested election for the OtHce of road supervisor in the township of Horshani, Saturday morn¬ ing, in which he declared that William Teas was elected over his contestee, Blmer E. Potta The costs of the proceeding are to be paid by Horsham township. The opinion of the court, in part, ia as follows: "At the election held on November 7, 1911, in the township of Horsham two road supervisors were to be elected, one for the full term of four years and the other for the un¬ expired term of two years, "The F.epublioan party nominated Norton Downs for the four years' term anu Fllnier E. i'otts lor tho torm of two years. "The Kepublican party forwarded a proper eertilioate to the county eonimissioners. designating the terms for their respective candidates. The presiding otlicer of the Democratic meeting also certilicd Its party nom¬ inations, but failed to give the terms Of the respective candidates. On tbe IJoniociatic certillcate tlie name ef George W. Stong was written above that of Fulmer E. Potts. When the commissioners printed the ballots this order was reversed mid tlie name of Klmer E. Potts appeared above tliat of George W. Stong. This was done so that the candidates of a particular party might appear alphabetically where two or more persons aro elected to the same otlice. The election olli¬ cers made return to court as follows: Norton Downs (4 years) had 112 votes, William Teas (2 years) had 102 vote.s, Kliner E. Potts (no torm designated on ballot) had lOli votes, George W. Stong (no term designated on ballot) had 102 votes. The elec¬ tion board gave a certilicate to Xor¬ ton Downs that he was eloi'tod to the oflice of road supervisor for tho term of four years. "The certilicate lo Klmer E. Potts stated as follows: "VVe do iiereby certify that you having received 109 votes for the otlice of supervisor, it being the highest, or one of the highest, number cast for said office are 'therelore duly elected to said of- tice for the term of two years.' "The requisite number of electors contest the election of Elmer E, Potts. It ie claimed that the vote^ Jast for .Blmer E. Potts and George VV. Stong were illegal and void and should not have been counted by the election olli¬ cers, that the said Wm. Teas was elected to the office of road supervis¬ or for the term of two years and that the court should declare his election accordingly. was not necessary to designate the term of office on the ballot, that he believes that each vo-ter fully under¬ stood that he was a candidate for the abort term of two years. He also claims that the court has no right under this- contest to declare his cer¬ tificate invalid, "He also avers that the court has no right to declare the election in¬ valid. That the case does not fall within the provision of the act of April 14, 1897, P. L. 23, wherein it is declared that the court may hold that an election is Invalid where by reason of the defective conditions on the ballots the voters were misled. "It is Important to note that neither party contests the legality ot the elec¬ tion for supervisor. It Is simply a contest whether certain votes cast for Elmer E. Potts should have beon counted for him." The court say^: "We cannot give any effect to the claim that the voters understood that Elmer E. Potts was a candidate for tho two-year term. The answer avers a belief that such was the case, but how can ainy one assert such a nroposition unless all the voters are fiuestioned ':• There is certainly nothing in it which indicates for what term any ballot was cast or throws any light on the intention of the elector in respect to the term. Mllligan's appeal, 96 Penna. 222, also hoius that ballots without a specitl- cation of term cannot be counted where two councilmen wore to be chosen for different terms." The court by using similar cases as examples as proof of the justness of its decision, closes by saying, "We do not see how these new ballots differ in any manner whereby an election bo.trd can now safely count any voites where no term is designated where several ofllcers are to be eleotod but for different terms," OBITUARY. JOHN ROWLEY. John Rowley, and old resident of Harmonville, died Wednesday after¬ noon, at his home after a brief ill¬ ness from apoplexy. He had been In ill health for some time, but was able to be about to some extent until Tues¬ day when he suffered a stroke. Mr. Rowley was well known in this borough. He served throughout Civil war, although he was not a member of the Grand Army post. He Is survived by two sons and two daughters. The funeral look place, Monday af¬ ternoon, from his late residence. In¬ terment was private. MARY READ FISHER. The news of the death of Mlss Mary Read IHsher, which occurred at an early hour Friday morning at her re¬ sidence. 2.S8 South Thirteenth street, Philadelphia, was received with feel¬ ings of much great regret by her rela¬ tives and large ciicie of friends in that city. Karly in tho autumn Miss I'isher was taken ill a,t her country iionie at Penllyn, and from the be¬ ginning her physicians hetd out lit¬ tle hojies of her recovery. Born 70 years ago In Philadeiphia. the daugh¬ tor of lho lato Mr. and Airs. Coleman : islior all hor lite was p.i.-^sod there, .'.ho v\jis so.'iail.v prominent in the iushionabio lite of lliut eil.^-. whero her piea.sing poisonalily and alCahlo con¬ versation made lur a special favorite. Sho uas also ehiolly interested in many charitable organizations and was a member of St. James' churoh at Twonl.v-Seoond and Walnut streets, to whirli parish her family had belonged for many gonoriitions. She is sur¬ vived by ono sister, .Vliss Sally VV. I'isher, and a lirother, William Read l-'ish(!r who, with his deceased sis- tor, spent many summers in Ambler. K.MPSO.V K. HAINES. l-:!fmj.son K, Haines, aged .S;! years, >'. lio iias lieen a resident noar .Xorris¬ town for inuny years, and who was Well and proniinontly known, died Tuesday night of last week,'at his late n sidenee, S04 Swede street, following :iii illness due to general debilit.v and old ago. Deceased formerly eonduct.^ oil a farm in Plyinouth township, known as the "Haines plantation." He is survived b.v one son. -MARY ELIZABETH ASHFUV. Mr.s. Alary Elizabeth Asliury, widow ol' T. Henry Asbury, died Sunday in l"i>-arwater, Fla., of bronohitLs, after an illness of only two days. She was liorn in Biriiii.ngham, England, 87 years ago, and married Air. Asbury in Ks.'iO. She is survived by livo children, Ibirry H. Asbur.v, Charles Asburv, -Vlrs. ,Ianies Carr, Airs. A. C. Harmer and Airs. At. H. Rand. .Vlr. Asbury was one of the founders of the Knterpriso Alanufaoturing com¬ pany. Tho wlnier home of tho fam¬ ily was at Clearwater, but their suni¬ mor home is at Oak Lane. The funeral of .Vlrs. Asburj- will be hold this Wednesday, services being liokl at 2,.10 at the home of hor son, Ilarrv H. Asbury, at Oak Lane. -VIRS. EAIAIA WEIKEL. Mrs. Emma Xeavil. wife of N. W^. Weikel, and mother of Airs. C. W. Jefferis, of Doylestown, died at her home in Xofth, Wales on Saturday 6. wi"ftli.j 7'oa' yilact oi age. She is survived' by her husbaind and flve cbildrafn: Albert, Ervin and William, ot VV^lkes-Barre; Mrs. Herbert Schoid, of Xorth Wales, and Katharine .N'„ of Doylestown. AIRS. GEORGE A. RICE. .Vlary Ellen, wife of George A Rice, died at her home in Clialfont, Satur¬ dav at noon. She had boen a suffer¬ er of neuritis the pas,t 10 years. Drop.sy linally set in and caused her doath. She was helpless for years. Sho was a conscientious and earnest (Christian and a member of the Re¬ formed church at Dublin. Deceased leaves a husband, one daughter, Elsie, and a son, Paul, both residing at home, also her father, Ja¬ cob Angeny, and a sister. Airs. Clem- mio Rife, of Dublin; three brothers, Wiiliam Angeny, of Philadelphia; Al¬ len, of Chalfont, and I'Yank, of I<"'ort Washington. Mrs. Rice was 49 years, 4 months and 23 days old. Interment will be made in the Dub¬ lin cemetery. MAN'S DEATH A MYSTERY. Harleysville Farmer Found Dead I in His Bam. Abraham Price Killed Either by Man I or Horse—Neck Broken, Skull Frac- turied and Chest Crushed—Horse Untied. Abraham Prioe, aged 63, a widely known farmer, who resided near Har¬ leysville, was found lifeless in his ' barn. Friday, by a neighbor. His Inwk was broken, skull fractured and 1 chest crushed. I The bodv was lying in one of the horse stalls and one of the horses was untied. U'liotlior or not the farmer was worsted in a struggle with an enraged I equine or whether he was the victim ! of an attack by a horse thief or tramp, wliom be may have discovered Ln the struoturo, is a mater whieh Coroner Xeville. who was called to the soouo Saiurday. is asked to determine. .Vlr. Frill' w.-iii lo th.- l..iin Friday . :.:iig to attend lo his usuai work ill tho h..rse staliles. and, from the oouuii.on o! tbo sialls. must have be¬ iii.ii tlio work iiitendi-d whi-ii lho fa- t.iiily liappenoil ! The fact .that ono of llio liorses Woro untied and tho ta.et that tramps and suspicious persons wore seen in mat vicinity, has caused a suspicion ol' foul pia,v. Iioooasod is survived l.\ III ihildren. Want Good Roads. I'rom August I lo Ji.nuar.\ 1. oov- oriiig lho lirsl jioriod of tho operation of Ule Sproul road law. whioh <'on- loiuidaios putting in eondition hiin- diods ot miles of atrocionsly bad roads in Foniis.v Ivania. applioations wero made to the stale highway depart¬ ment for the improvement of over 2?u iiiilos of road, says a nies.sago from llarrisbuig. .Vluoii of the existing liigliway sysloiu is so bad that coun¬ ties and townships were glad to have .III opportunity lo got it under state .ail', over though Ihoy paid a share .if Iho expense. In Alontgomery counly the township of Aloreland offered alono to bear the looal expense of improving 3522 feet of road. The most notable applica¬ tions from this countv are: Moreland 35'22: Cpjier Hanovor, 9000, 11,700; Abington. 10,3SI; Lower Sal¬ ford,6000; Upper Gwynedd, 72r.O: Whit¬ pain, 7000; Limerick. 19,350. Runaway at Ogontz. "Jack" Blum, son of Gabriel Blum, who has a country home in the Ogontz seotion, ligured in a sleighing runaway near Ogontz Sunday. Air. Blum es- oa))ed Injury, bul his outfit was de- nudishod. He was driving east over AV. Church road, when his speedy trotter shield at something, and in just about 60 sec¬ onds Blum picked himself out of a snowdrift by the roadside. The frightened pnimal continued its, dasb -to.'t!-.t=- Yo>J<^'T'craii; • i-artil-d'^BtJTltnr'ii^aE- was hitting a 2.35 clip through Ogontz when hailed by Williani Goeh- ring. of tho Cheltenham poflee depart- nionl. GWYNEDD, Conserve the Skunk, Urges Prof. Sur- facie. A strong plea for the conservation of animal life In this state has been issued by Prof. H. A. Surface, chief of the division of zoology of the depart¬ ment of agriculture. To the killing off promiscuously of various ani¬ mals Professor Surface attributes the increase in destructive insect life. Cats, chipmunks, foxes, skunks, rac¬ coons, bats and moles are among the animals that Professor Surface pleads for. They are the natural enemies of destructive Insects, mice and rab¬ bita. The robin, top, while he m«.y steal a few cherries, devours great quantities of grub and cut worms and other peste, and the skunk, which may cat a few eggs, will also dig under the stones for insects which ruin crops. Jt is recommended that cats be cared |?or and fed, but not to such an extent as to make them lazy. Abandoning a cat, it is declared, is almost criminal, for the cat, grixwlng wild, learns to catch and kill song birds and ather birds of value to the farmer. A do¬ mesticated cat will also kill grasshop¬ pers and June bugs. Foxes are great enemies of field mice and rabbits, and the despised bats are foos of bugs that fly by night. While moles are regarded as nuis¬ ances in a garden, they are decb-ired to be benefactors, because they feed . upon earth worms whieh destroy the P roots of plants. The porcupine is put under the ban because by gnawing at bark It destroys trees. The engine boing used liy the Harp¬ er estate to drill a well on tho former I..owery place for C. G. lioaumont, broke down last Friday and was out of eonimission until JVIonda.v, when work was again rosuined 'i'he well, wiiioh is now more than 200 feet deep, wili be drilled to a depth of 250 feet. -No water has boen found as yet. Tiie intensely cold weather diil some damage to the water pipes at ¦the Pemberton Hollingsworth place, whioh was reiiairod by plumbers. John liarndt and wife, of Line Lex- iii,!,-toii, were among the sleighers here on Saiurday. A. G. Yothers, of tiiis place, and Air. and Airs. Harry Richardson, of Lans¬ dale, will leave l'"rlday and sail from Xow York Satui'day niorning for a trip to Havana, Potto Rico, Trinidad, Ja¬ maica, Panama and several of the South American ports. Mr. Linnard is quite IH- Colonel Goodman, who has juat re¬ turned from Florida, was out Sunday to his country place here. During last week there was shipped from his I farms here one carload of shelled corn and two carloads of baled hay. . F. E. Bond has just housed 100 tons of line Ice. —Hugh It. I<;a.stburn. Esq., of Doy¬ lestown, has announced hla candidacy for tho Republican nomination for con¬ gress from the Bucks-Montgomery county districts. Has Officiated at 5382 Sates. A. A. Delp. of Lansdalo, is one of the oldest auctioneers in the county. He is in his 70th year, and has been in the business 41 years. During that time he has cried 5382 sales and has kopt a record of each one. He speaks German and English and is in great demand throughout the county, being more active than some men nian.v years younger. Thursday. Jan. 4, Mr. Delp cried the F. W. Repogle sale of personal prop¬ erty at Orvilla, near Hatfleld. The following were tllsposed of; Four covv's at ijrices ranging from $25 to J35; nine-months-old heifer brought $15.25; two horses. $50 and $82.50; 250 bushels of corn at 75 cents and 79 eeiiits a bu¬ shel; 9 shoats, $3.50 to $3.75; a num¬ ber of chickens bought 12'^ to 16 cents a pound; 500 sheaves corn fodder, $3^78 hundred; 100 bushels of oats at 45 conts a hushel. D. Schultz acted as clerk. On Alonday, January 1, he also sold at West I'oint. 19 head of cattle rang¬ ing in prices fi'om $35 to $79 a head. Tuesday Jan. 2, at Kneedler's, Mr. Delp cried tho Arthur Welsh's sale of personal proptsrty, including a lot of farming implements, one horse, 11 lioga and shoats, ranging in price from $4.60 to $25 and many bushels of corn at 70 and 71 cents a b.ushel. Bucks County Singer Makes Good in Europe. 'I'he I'hiladolphia Xorth Aiiioricaii of Alonday published the following rela¬ tive to the success of Mi.ss Bertha lirinker. of Cb.alfont, well known in Doylestown: "A Philadelphia singer who lias 'made good' and for whom a great fu¬ ture is predicted is Miss Bertha Brink¬ er, who, on tho advice of Mme. Melba. the prima donna, went abroad for further study. Miss Brinker has re¬ tui'ned to Philadelphia, and it is pos¬ sible that she may be heard in the Aletropolitan opera house before the season closes. "Five years ago Aliss Brinker was the contralo soloist at the Chambers- Wylie Alemorlal Presbyterian church, on South Broad street, and the quali¬ ties of her voice attracted wide at¬ tention. Mrs. Scammon Jones inter¬ ested Alme. Melba in Miss Brinker. Aliss Brinker's trip to Europe be¬ came possible through the offlces of several bankers, headed by Jay Cooke. Jr., who olitained sufficient funds to send lier abroad to finish hor educa¬ tion. Eight months after she plac¬ od hor.seif witii Alme. Barracchia. in ii'iorence, the young woman appeare.l as Aducena In 'II Trovatore,' and hor suocess was immediate and emphatii "Last fall Aliss lirinker signed a con¬ tract to sing in Rome, but the illness of her inother caused hfr to cancel her ongagoinonts and come to this country. Chalfont, Bucks county, is tho young woman's . home town. Recently she gave a iVcital for friends 'who wero interosted\ln her progress, and it is likely that she may be heard in one of her thirty roles, which include Amnerls, Delila, Mignon, Carmen, Sie- bel. Ortrude, Laura and Ciece in 'La Ciooonda' and numerous others." « Bible 313 Years Old. 1>. .-V. F. Cressman, of Springtown. P.a., has an old German Bible printed in 1599 at Frankford-on-the-Main. It is therefore 313 years old. It is a large volume, the paper is eight by 12 inches. It is substantially bound with board, covered with embossed leather in neat design with six stout ropes in back and claspji in front. About 150 illustrations, four and a halt by six Inches, are inserted throughout the Kible, all of which are surround¬ ed by ornamental scroll work. On the lirst loaf Is the stateinon* that this edition was the last read over oarofully and corrected by Martin Luther before his death which occur¬ red in 154Cv r —AIoi.':gomery county commissioners are now meeting on the first and third Mondays of tho inonth, instead of AVodnesdays. —Alore than $21 in silver was stolen from H. H. Robinson's store, at Col¬ iegeville. —Dr. J. ('. Holiton has resigned as dentist at tho state hospital for the insane, Norristown. —Air. .and Mrs. Clarence E. Weeks, of "Willow Brook," Hickorytown, an¬ nounce the engagement of their daugh¬ ter, Mamie W, to George C. Blngaman, of St. Peters. Pa. No date as yet has boen sot for I'Jie wedding. —The Sellersville Nationai bank In its semi-.annual report shows that it pr.id interest to depositors amounting lo $5226; dividends to bond-holders $3750, and .ks undivided pi'ollls amount to $7056. Tho semi-annual dividend is 5 per cent. 26 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. Lowest Temperature Recorded in This Vicinity. Unprecedentled Cold Weather Bestirs tlie Oldest Inhabitant—Some Ther¬ mometer Readings Hereabouts—Ex¬ periences of Bursted Pipes and Brok¬ en Down Heating Plants. The almost unprecedented cold weather in this generation has be¬ stirred the oldest Inhabitant, and one hears almost hourly of some new low record of temperature, but the lowest hereabouts is recorded by a thermo¬ meter at AI. Vandegriffs greenhouse In Wost Ambler. Mr. Vandegrift, during iho extremely cold weather, has h.-on obliged to attend his fires ovory three-fiuaiters of an hour to prevent serious loss of plants and tlowers from freezing. On Sunday moiming at 2.30 o'cloek tho thermome¬ ter on. the exterior of his greenhouse registered 26 degrees below zero. At !. .on: lho same tiim the instruments on Uu outside of Angeny's. Roberts' ii.id Stillwagon's diug stores and at i.:ie, liio house recorded 18 degrees lie- ...w zoi-o. and at 1 o'cloek Charles .^ireoper, watchman at J. VVatson itlu s lunihor yard, stated the nior- I curfy touched 20 degrees below zero. Other thormometeis registered from ," to 2.1 dogr.-es below zero as tho oold- I.-', of i:ii inlensivi'Iy cold night, and all marked a temperature of from tbroo' to lij degrees colder' than the niglit hefore. \\hioh (-stabllshed a re- voi'il ill this looiility at loast not only of the yt--av hut also of tho pn sem century. As a i-iuisoquonoo of the higli eolil \( inds of last Wook which preeedod the snow .'.lonii of I'riday and the bitter ,i-.dd of .Saturday and Sunday there ' won many frozen water pipes and I brokt n down heating pianist The ' noH.tiiig system in the "Gazette" build¬ ing, cluo to frozen return pipes to the holhr. gave out on Friday, several so(iti..iis of the boiler liecoming worth¬ less-. The firo was witlidrawn iiii- niediiiloly and the occupants were witlif.ut. heat, except for suoh as could n.- luiiirovisod fi'oni oil and gas stoves, until .Sunday niorning. A sled was closii.tu hod to Coliegeville early Sat- iii'd;i,\ to the plant where the boiler uas 11 instructed, and several sections wore oonvoyvd to Ambler, reachlnj? hero at ij ]). iii. In the meantime John .\1. Kirk had a force of men working (in the old heater dismantellng same and gottinK it ready for tho new sec- lions. As .soon as the latter .arrived they Wore put in place and by 6 o'rfloi k Sunday morning fire was start- odt Work, liowever, was necessary ; ali day to thaw out frozen return ; pipes and other connections to per- , fe^t the system. ! Owing to the severe weather the wa¬ ton hack in the range of John E. j Turner's residence, Rosemary avenue, j froze up Saturday night .and aljter lire was kindled Sunday morning art ox^iwsion i^ulted. Fortunately no ^v.>•i-^»*ls --*«J»ired.-.althpUKt).,-..s, .cljild •"WTifc- in tho room at,,.thc time and hot j coals uvgre distributed around the room : very dangerously. The kitchen was lilled with escaping steam, but out¬ side of the wrecked ra;nge no further damage was done, as a plumber was sooure(l at once and turned off the wa¬ ter, -Major Eliis, a colored man aged about 46 years and employed by Thomas F. Shoemaker, of Butler drive i.etwoen Rose Vallcv and Three Tuns, narrowly escaped freezing to death Saturday night or rather Sunday morning. He is a stranger here¬ abouts, and after visiting Amblor .S.aturday evening started out to walk to his home. Somehow he mistook ; his directions and after wandering I about and becoming dazed %vith tho I tierce cold was rapidly being over- ! come in front of E. II. Faust's resi- j donee, Bethlehem pike. Hearing cries , for help Mr. Faust and his son-in-law, I Charles Stout, hastened to render as- j sistance and discovered the man in an almost helpless condition on the road. i Mis limbs were benumbed .and after I some effort he was gotten into the I tannery, where he spent the balance •¦f the night and siowiy thawed out. lie returned to the Shoemaker farm .Sunday morning .and after a good roakfast appeared none iiio wor.so I.r his exijcrience. That there were a numtier of places v.ith lower temperature than Philadel¬ i.hia, with Its zero record, was demon¬ strated by accurate thermometer loadings in various A'ork road towns ¦f several hundred feot higher than i'hiladelphia. -•Vt McKinley a commisslonor of Ab¬ ington township reported two readings j taken on Ogontz avenue shortly after daylight. An instrument on the norlh i exposure oif the avenue read 16 de- ' grees below, while on tho southern -sitle was a trifle less than 12 below.. ' I'ormer Assemblyman Charles A. Am- ider reported from tho Abington dis¬ trict two re.aders, one of 10 below, the other of 9 below. A thermomoter at the .Schively residence, in West ,-ivenue, Jenkintown. registered 7 below \:tx daylight, with a subsequent change ! to 2 below at 11 o'clock Saturday i niorning. WEDDED. EXCEPTIONS DISMISSED. County Officials. H EATO N—DUFFIELD. A beAutlful hom(> wedding took ulace j last Wednesday evening at .the resi- • dence of John Duffield, near Sandy 1 Hill, when Mlss Etta Duffleld became - the wife of Mr. Carman He.aton, who j resides near F'ox Chase. The house j Petitioim In«inffiripiit Air!iin<:t Twn was tastefully decorated for the oc-' '^"""'^ inbUIIlCiem AfaiDSl IWO casion, and a large number of relatives and friends of both the contracting parties were present. The bride looked radiant In a beautiful white gown. Rev. Loucks, of Boehm's Reformed ohurch. Blue Bell, performed the cere-l mony, and Immediately thereafter the bride and groom and guests eat down to a sumptuous wedding breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. Heaton left on a short honeymoon trip and on their return will reside with the groom's parents near For Chaae. CROUTHAMEL—MOYER. B. Harrison Crouthamel, of Dublin, and Miss Sallie G. Moyer, of Chalfont, ' Alalsberger. Mr. AIoAvoy is the Dem were united in marriago Saturday, ooratio loader. January Bth, by tho Rov. C. C. Sny¬ der, at his residence, Dublin. The young couple will reside in Plunistoad- \ille in the near future. ', Judge and ties not 1 Tho lion of \ attornev Weand Hands Down a Decision Says Rights of Political Par¬ te Have Votes Credited Can- Be Disregarded, petitions contesting the eloc- Conrad S. Shelve, as district and of John N. Jacobs, as county controller, have been adjudged insufficient by Judge Weand, and are dismissed at the eosts of the peti- tloner.s, who were tho rival candidates on the Keystone-Democratic ticket, Charlos D,' McAvoy and George N. to t.. lo to lyn ot al, .'5250, Rogers to to lots. .\n- et ux. to tu lo REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Fast .Norriton. Harr.v- i'ii,ovitoh John Cirak. .'511500, house and tract. Abingion, Alary V. AloKoan et al, itolioci-a W. 'I'htuiipson. $536, lots. -Vbington. Alary V -VIcKoan ol al, l.oui.so l.ioons, $114, lots. Ahington. Anna P. Itndolph .;.-oiKo II. Sii.Mior. $aiO, lot. -\iiiijlor, -Vlary J. Stannard lo EiIk .\l. Siannard, $1, house and lot. liatbyro, (Jeorge C. Yerkes et ux, Maria L. Fondorwbite Ilatboro, ('lara M na E. Yerkes, $1, lot. Jonkintown, Jos. VV. Al iaronoo J. Shilcook. $1, iot. .lenkiiiton. Clarence J. Silcock .lonuio II. fiingee, $1, liouso and lot -Vhlngton, Eugene A. Heilman Iiarry F. Pennypacker, $1, lot. I pper Providence, Theodore Kesting to Jno. Todd, $200, lot. l.o«or (/w.\nedd, Henry E. Drayton to ^. .M. C. A. Phila., .'$1. houso and tract. JouUinu.u 11. Jonkintown. .\atl. Bank t.i .Sara R Moran. houso and lot. -Vhington. Christiana Corbltt to Chas. F. Habenold. $1, lot. .Moreland. John Pitcalrn to Ravmond (i. Chauch. $111.84. Lppor Dublin,. Gustaf Pfanner to Harry Henninger, $1, house and lot. UpiK r Dublin, Harry Renninger to Magdalena D. Pfanner. .$1, house and lot. -Vloreland. Reginald T. F'erguson Uni. T. Scott, $1, lots. Aloreland, Reginald T. Ferguson Will. L. liodey, ot ux, $1, lots. Hatlield. Eliam L. Davis et al, Samuel li. Conover, $2100, tract. Wost .Norriton, Thom.as Rochelle Clay Haninier, $1500, houso and tract. Lower Gwynedd, FYaneis Houston to i-'dwin J. Houston. $1. tract. Wliiiemarsh, Alfred Al. Sevmour to David liuchanan, $600, lot. Wdnostor. Jas. 11. Rader to Jas. Horiihard, $2000. house and lot. Montgomery, Harold G. Knight to Win. C. Evans. $2.'i00,,mlll and tracts. Spvingliold. .Mitchell Harrison to Ed- ' f'l'" language Instructed the voter Wn-v^ C. Dait-, ^6-147.90, tract. Iv^i* to mark •...ti/l..',yi*A-A'K«%'i wrt^tr'-t-ft?— Sj.ringfleld, Mitchell Harrison to ' Poslte the name of a candidate meant Uobert G. Fell. $9993.91, tract, ja vote for him. The voter knew- that West Telford. .-Vbraham Af. Geissing-. | f"' could only vote once for the same or to Abraham S, Kulp, $3000, house '- candidate for the same office. If he and lot. ' j voted twioo for .the same candidate Ciieitonhaiii, Hichard Straub to Ar-: f'"'' 'h'' -'^aiiie olfice ho violated the tiiiir P. Denney, $250, lot. i'aw and invalidated his vote fvjr that Choltenham, "charles B. Conklin to i particular office, at least. to tl to to VVhen tho oioetion returns wore tab¬ ulated hy the court, during election week, it appeared tliat Shel\e had re¬ ceived 14,493 votes, while AlcAvoy re¬ ceived 14,130. Jai'obs had olitained II.4CU and Alalsberger 13,019. A month afti-r the oleition petitions uoio presented, roprosentiiig that the returns of tho oleotion were not cor¬ rect, and that i.v could be pj'ovod that Alo.-Vvoy and Alalsberger wero elected, il was also doelarod that 57'i votes weve ii-jootod liy file election ofllcers, beoauso of a pe(-iiliar (¦hara(-tor in thtj m.'irking of the ballots. The contest was ovor the legality of doulile cross and single cross bal¬ lots, ill reference to which the court says: ¦•.No indopoiidont voter is beforo us objei-tiiig to the form of the liallot. Those who voted seieeted thoir party dosigna.iion, whon, if not inclined, they should iiavo used tlie liiaiik space provided for tbat purpose. The re¬ jected votes were of throo classes: i-'ii'st, those which were not marked at all in the straight parly ooiunin, but wore marked with two crosses, ono in tho Democrat' and the other in the 'Koystont!' square—opposite the con¬ testants' names. Socond, those which wore not marked at ail in file straight jiartv column, but on whicii the voter covered both party s(iuares opposite the contoHtant.s' names witli one large iidss. Third, those whicii wore mark¬ ed wilh a cross opposite the word ¦Dinuocratic' or . 'Keystoive' in the straight party columi.. and also mark¬ ed opposite the contestants' names with a cross in one or both of the lioniooralii-' or 'Koyston(!' party squares. "The .third class alone would not chuiigo tho result if classes 1 and 2 were dofeolivo. It is not clear from the petitioners how many voter:^ made a cross mark in the straiglit party square and also opposite tho name of the candidate of the same party, but if the voter made a cross mark in the straight party square and then plac¬ ed a cross mark opuosite the name of a candidate of another party on an- .Ither ticket he vitiated his ballot. "The ballots were printed strictly in accordance with the act and in Mandd Stout, $250, lot. -Vbington, Fliigene Carmine to Al¬ port P. Wolf, $1, loi. Worcester. John Metz to Irwin C. .Solilosser, $3050 houso and tracts. Ex-County Treasurer Loses. Judge Weand, on Monday morning, handed down an opinion in the suit brought by WUliam tl. Hagginbothom, ex-county treasurer, against the coun¬ ty of Montgomery for a post-age stamp bill of $219.70 incun-ed In carrying on the business of the office. The court holds that under the law the bill can not be riaid by the county .and enters judgment In favor of the defendant— th(^ county. The opinion is lengthy and goes exhatistivoly into the fundamental law and the m.any decisions handed down affetain.i;- the question of "sup- |)lios" tn imblic officials. In conclud¬ ing Judge VVo.and says in part: "it is incoiu-oivablp th.at under the designation of supplies tho legisla¬ ture intended all artlclis of expense that the oflicer might deem nocessary. There are many cases in whi'h publii; oltioials perforin duties for which no liay is provided. Our attention has not boon oallod l» any law which re- iiuiros correspondence with tax payers and public oiiicials in the "What was the effect of placing cross mark opposite the names of AIcAvov and Alalsberger twice for the same office '.' Clearly to show that tho voter intended to vote for them as candidates of two parties for the same offie,\ How, then, woro the elec¬ tion OfHcers to count tlio vote '! Cer¬ tainly not two votes for the (!andi- dates, for the elector could only give them one. liut to which political party should the vote, if they gave him but one, be credited ':• Xot to both, and nnt arbitr.arlly to either one. "Here, then, was a case where the election offlcers could not gather tlie intention of the voter with reference to the rvolitical party for wiiich he in¬ tended to vote. The voter had mark¬ ed his ballot otherwise than as di¬ rected by the act of assembly, so that it was impossible to' determine the voter's choice of the political party for which ho had voted. The right of i political parties to have votes credit- i od to them is impor.tant. and cannot [with impunity be disregarded by the '\iiici' or olectiot) -.flicers." No License for Inferior Stallions. A new Pennsylvania law went in'to o.'fect January 1 regarding stallions and jacks standing for service. The old law is amended that all such ani¬ mals standing for public service In the state must be registered under one ..f four forms, after being examined by a duly qualifled vdterlnarian, who will I certify th.at the animal is either pure : lired and sound or unregistered and ! unsound, and a license must bo procur- I cd from the stato live-stock sanitary i board in one of these classes. The license mutit be posted, conspicuously I at the place where tho stallion or jack is in service, and must also be pre- - s.nted to and recorded by the pro¬ tlionotary of the county or counties in .\hlch '.-.he stallion or jack ia used for I public sorvices. In lieu of an exainl- i nation by a veterinarian, the owner i may make aflidavit beforo a notary riublic as to tho f.act rogardin.t; his breeding .and his condition of sound- ' Il-'SS. j A section^ of the law which migh't suliject it to some possiblo criticism ! ivads as follows; "Any st.ailion or jack, ! the patronage of which, in the opinion nt those (harged with tho enforcement of this aiit, on account of impure breeding, un.soundnoss, Inferior type .ir conformation may prove a detri¬ ment to the horsobroedlng Interests of the state, shall be refused a license, :ind when license is so refused the said stallion or jack shall not stand for public service for profit or gain. of the dutties of a county troajsurer. "In Doweil vs. comiiiissioners, etc. it was hold that tho word 'supplies' as hero used clearly signifies pencils, pa|>ei'S. rubber bands, blanks, ink and articles of that description, re¬ iiuired and constantly used by county olliooi's. Its meaning must be meas¬ ured and controlled by the connection in which the word is employed, the evident purpose of the act and the subject to which it relates, namely stationery and other articles for use of tho county. "Adopting the samo reasoning In this case we are of opinion that the woi'd 'supplies' refers to articles of a kindred or same character aa those specifically mentioned and in the case of the county treasurer does not in¬ clude postage stamps or mere mat- tors of expiense.'' Ruling on Veterans' Funeral. Veterans of the Civil war, or, for that matter, a veteran of any war, cannot expect Montgomery county to lirovlde burial expenses at his death, nor provide tho customary tombstone, in .the event of the estate of the de¬ ceased veteran being of sufflcient amount to permit of these items being collected from what he possessed. This is according to a ruling made by Controller John N. Jacobs, himself a \(-toi'an of the Civil war. Jenkintown High Winners. Jonkintown High defeated the Hat¬ boro High live at Jenkintown Friday I.y a score of 28 to 15, the Jonkintown performance I team displaying tho licsi team work of •ating a the season, although slill indi ! slight \veai»noss in sliooting. PROSPECTVILLE. The package party held at tho home of Air. and Airs. Arthur Williams was well attended. .-Vbout 47 guests were present and good prices were realized at auction. Air. and Mrs. Waltor Fillman spent Sunday with the la,tter's parents, Mr. and Airs. Charl«.\c; Rich, of Horsham. .S S. Hagerty had the misfortune to los,. his "double neck" freak horso, "Babe," last week. Robert Wier and sons, LeRoy and Harold, of Horsham, Wvi'e the guests of Air. and Mrs. Robert Weisel on Sunday. Harvey Ilittle and son Clarence, of' Philadelphi.a, were the guests of Eu¬ gene Kratz and wite on Sunday. Herman Ford is on the sick Hat. The creamery Ice house Is being lilled this week. Airs. Robert Weisel and daughter Aldyth snent Alonday In Phiiadelphia with relatives. An Illustrated lecture, "Shadows of :i Great t^lty,'' will be given In Pros¬ pectvllle hall on Jan. 20, benellt of the Aiethodist church. There will bo 61 vieWjF showing the slums of Xow York oity. Judge Stout Resisns. Judgi^ .Mahlon II. Stout, of the Bucks county courts, forwarded his resigna¬ tion to (Governor Tener on Tuesday, r.otlrement Is due to an Illness which has interferred with his judical duties for threo yoars. His term would not havo expired until January 1, 1914. Judge Stout's resignation was ten- dori»d under a law which provides for the ietiromen.t of judges for physical or mental disability and also m.akes provision for the payment of full sal¬ ary for the uncompleted portion of a tenn. —Sellorsvllle new nearlng completion. trolley depot Is GWYNEDD VALLEY. I'Yilz Ilartman sent two lino porlcers over to Ross Rile's to bo butchered. Mlss Florence Donat, AIlss Helen Burns and Messrs. Edwin Hambleton and William Fellows, of Philadoiphi.o, spent Sunday .vith Mr. and Airs. W. !¦>. Cressman. Thomas II. Allies and family moved to their Phihidelfihla home last Sat¬ urday. Local young people liave boen en-- joying skating here. Cressman Brothers lilled their ice hnuse liutt week with oigltt inch ice. Henrv Annoar, v.ho is oniiitiyed b.v Dr. W. P. Wilson, has purchasid lb" IBelfry storo and ivill tnf.e \'- -. on M.arch 15. >lo will ;.I • . charre of the U't^Ktoffl'.'o. |
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