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COLD POINT AND PLYMOUTH.
Happenings of Local Interest to Our Readers.
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Stone Crushers  Busy at Lancasterville
—Man Severely Injured at Cold Point
—Horse Wanders Away From Har¬ monville—Persosal and IVIiscelianeous
Items.
Augustus Fie, of Harmonville, has been seriously ill.
Mrs. Leon Solomon, of Harmonville, has been on the sick list.
Misses Etfie and Edith Marple spent the week-end at Perkasie.
Miss Mary Dewees, of Harmonville, has been spending her vacation in At¬ lantic City.
The R. K. Kibblehouse quarry and crusher at Lancasterville has been put into operation.
Paul Roth, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday at John Yergey's, on the Ridge pike, at Barren Hill.
William Morris, of Roxborough, spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Williain Hellings, at Barren Hill.
Wilbert M. Hellings and wife, of Bar¬ ren Hill, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bartfioiomew.
Mrs. Annie Dowhes, of Gladwyn, was a guest Sunday of her sister, Mrs. Jo¬ seph Maxwell, in Harmonville.
Mrs. Gertrude Keown, of Cold Point, left Saturday for a two weeks' stay at the Mercer home, Atlantic City.
Miss Venie Fie, of Coliegeville, spent the week-end with her aunt, Mrs. Wil¬ bert M. Plellings, at Barren Hill.
Mrs. Eugene Lightkep, of Hickory¬ town, on Sunday entertained Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lightkep, of Xorristown.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fels, of Atlantic City, are spending some time with iir. and Mrs. Wm. B. Richards, near Hick¬ orytown.
John Stout has returned to his home after being confined in the German hospital, Philadelphia. He is much improved.
An inspector of the Pennsylvania railroad visited Xarcissa station last Monday and found everything in good condition.
Mrs. John Slingluff, of Conshohocken, and Mrs. Mattie Maris, of West Pliila¬ delphia, were guests of Mrs. E. ,H. Chick in Plymouth.
Miss Emily Exley, a student of the School of Horticulture for Women, near Ambler, is studying hardy perennials at the Andorra nurseries.
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Richards and datf^hter, of Xorristown, were Sunday guests of Mr. and "vfrs. Wm. B. Rich¬ ards, of near Hickorytown.
Mrs. Harry Hart, of Xorristown, who Is recovering from an operation for ap¬ pendicitis, was a recent guest of her sister, Mrs. Harry Johnson, at Harmon¬ viile.
Misses Elizabeth and Jennie Rich¬ ards, of bear Hickorytown, spent Sun¬ day at the camp of the Boys' Golden Rule club, along the Perkiomen creek at Yerkes.
The Sunday school of the Cold Point Ea,ptist church will picnic Wednesday, i^S.-«r r' U,.r'3'a:loeB. . island, XorMs- tovii-n.-andA.aSite'clal'trolley car will leave Plymouth at 9.30 a. m.
At the last meeting of Cold Point grange it was decided to hold the an¬ nua] picnic and odting on Aug. 15 at .^the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton R. Marple. A program of entertainment is being arranged for the event.
On Saturday Cold Point was defeat¬ ed by the strong Sherwood team by the score ot 10 to 5. Half the runs scored by the victors were made on errors. Next Saturday the Cold Point team will play St. Elmo, and a good game is an¬ ticipated.
The Plymouth United Evang. church team, encouraged by its victory last week over Cold Point, three sets to one. Is anxious to meet any amateur team at any time. Mr. R. W. Musselman, Plymouth Meeting, will receive the communications.
A. D. Bartholomew and family, of Harmonville, left last week to spend • two weeks at Stone Harbor. Mr. Bar¬ tholomew, who is flnishing up the erec¬ tion of four houses in Conshohocken and one near Oaks station, returned home Monday from the shore.
The inclement weather Saturday evening interfered greatly with the success of the carnival held on H. Oscar Young's lawn at Plymouth by the trus¬ tees of the Cold Point Baptist church. As it was, there was a very good at¬ tendance, and $32 was realized.
Ira C. Atkins, of West Conshohocken, •who has recently returned from China, visited in Cold Point on Sunday. Sat¬ urday night he spent at the camp of the Boys' Golden Rule club at Yerkes, on the Perkiomen. Many Plymouth and Hlckorj'town young people also visited the camp.
A very enjoyable and successful sur¬ prise party was tendered last Thursday evening to Miss Ida G. Conard, daugh¬ ter of John Conard, of Whitpain, and the event, which was attended by about 50 friends and neighbors, was in honor of Miss Conard's hirthday. A very pleasant evening resulted.
Sunday evening Malvern Upright, of Meriqn Square, was visiting at Joseph Maxwell's, Harmonville. He had placed hia horse, a flne young animal, in Ell¬ wood Cressman's stable, but during the evening the horse broke out of the stall and stable and wandered into Consho¬ hocken. His escape waq not discover¬ ed until Mr. Upright was ready to de¬ part. By means of the telephone the animal was traced as far as Twelfth avenue, Conshohocken, where all track of him was lost. Mr. Cressman kind¬ ly loaned a horse to Mr. Upright, who drove home, but the next morning again took up the chase and found the steed on Sixth avenue, where he -n-as recovered.
Wilmer B. Cassel, successor to his brother, Isaac H. Cassel, is busy at the Lancasterville stone crusher. He has erected a neat and convenient office at the plant. During the past few weeks tho plant has been working 21 hours per day and recently this has been re¬ duced to 15 hours per day. The state highway department will shortly put on 10 teams to haul stone on the Skip- pack pike, the announced plan being to resurface the road from Belfry to Whitemarsh. Whiptain township will also put on flve teams to haul stone to a road across Sandy Hill. Wm. J. Bysher has been hauling 100 tons of half-inch stone to cover the oiling of the drive through the Whitemarsh Val¬ ley Country club. Stephen Laubert, of Barren Hill, has been hauling build¬ ing stone to a Marble Hall operation, and a small quantity of crushed stone has been hauled to the Andress proper¬ ty at Broad Axe.
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ATKINSON ANDJALLMAN
Feature in the K. & M. Victory Over Tulpehocken.
Captain    Wodock  Also    Plays a    Star Game^-Ragged   Fielding   Helps   Am¬ bler's  Runners—Details of the Game, if  there   was  one  player  more  than another  who  made  himself  solid   witn the Ambler ball fans in last Saturdays conflict,  it   was  Daniel  Atkinson,  more afiectlonately  known  as  "Tuck."     The big  catcher  of  the  local's  came  to  the bat in the llfth with the bases filled and drove the ball into Trinity avenue for three  bases,    scoring all  three    of his teammates.
Captain Wedock also came in for a share of the honors from a flelding standpoint by making one of the most spectacular catches ever seen on Lin¬ denwold fleld. The play took piace in the,second. Two were out when Plank hit a short fly to left Held. Wodock was off at the crack of the bat and just as the ball was going over his head he leaped, pulling it down with one hand. It was marvelous and the player de¬ served the applause.
Hallman again proved that he is a flnished box artist by shutting uut his opponents, the Tulpehocken team, by the score of 5 to 0. He again allowed Ijut 30 batsmen to face him in this con¬ test the same as in the Haddington game of the week previous, which shows the calibre of his work.
Ragged support is what put the op¬ posing pitcher in bad, Bringhurst, wh'i had five errors, being the real offender and he was responsible for at least two of the runs scored by the locals.  ^
Beginning the second inning, F. Wo¬ dock was given a life when he hit to short and Bringhurst dropped Doyle's perfect throw. A moment later the batter showed his appreciation by stealing second. Kalbacher missed the third strike on Kelljj. and Bringhurst again muffed the tWrow. Kindig in attempting to bunt popped otlt to the pitcher who doubled Wodock at third. Robinson then inserted a long single to right centre, on which Kelly scored. Firman closed the inning by going out on his roller to the pitcher.
Xot until the fifth were the K. & M. boys able to get another run over. Then they added four. Hallman open¬ ed by getting a single. Captain Wo¬ dock laid Uown a neat sacrifice, but Bringhurst again gave tho batter a life by dropping Plank's throw. The lat¬ ter's teammates kept getting him more Into a hole by their bad playing, which was proven when Kalbacher missed the third strike for the second time, but on this occasion Davles was the bene¬ liciary. Atkinson next up set the crowd wild when he hit to right fleld for three bases, , scoring. Hallman, Wo¬ dock and Davies. Plank made a good stop of F. Wodock and threw him out at flrst, Hines now playing this posi¬ tion in place of Bringhurst. Kelly's sacrifice fly to centre scored Atkinson with the fourth run of the innin.g. Kindig's infield fly was dropped by If lank, but nothing'came of It,- as ¦We— biilsoh's long fly to left was captured by Slbbel. Only two of the visitors reached second during the entire game, which was due to the good pitching of Hallman and his splendid support on the part of his teammates. Following is the score:
TULPEHOCKEN e rhoae
1 Silbel.lf      0   0 0 ^ayle.BS     0
K.&M. r   h R.W'ck, sa 1   0
Davies. If   1 Atkins'n. c 1
8   0   0 Br'gh't.lb 0
F.W'ck. 3b 0   0 1   0   0 Hines.lb    0
Kelly,2b,cf 10 12   1 Carney,cf 0
Kindi8r,cf    0   0 0
D'nfry, 2b  0   0 1
2 0 0 1 0 0 Kalb'her.c 0 0 0   0 Griffith,3b 0   0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
1 0 0 1 3 1
H.R'son. rf 0 1 10 0 Castigra,2bf 0 0 Firman, lb 0 0 10 1 0 McF'l'd.rftO 0 Hallman, p 1   1   0   3   0 Plank,p .00
Totals     5   3 27 11   2    Totals      0   3  24   6   7
K.&.M 0   10  0   4   0   0   0   X—5
Tulpehocken 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0—0
DIAMOND 5JOTES.
No game will be played on Linden¬ wold Held by the K. & M. A. A. until Saturday, August 8, as the team plays the Lansdale A. A. at Lansdale on th.at date.
Many of the local fans are of the opinion that Atkinson is one of the best receivers that has ever stood behind a local home plate. Well, laying all ar¬ gument aside, we are* all well satisfied that "Tuck" is some catcher and a good hitter, too.
C. Robinson, who has been playing under the handicap of illness for the past two or three games, is at last compelled to give up playing by order of his physician.
Tuipehoclten up until Saturday lost but two games during the season. Pitcher Hallman, when told this before the game, said, "Well, here is where the third defeat is handed to them," and it was,
"Ollie" Houpt, formerly pitcher for the K. & M. boys' took in the game from, behind the screen. Houpt Is now pitch.> ing for the Lansdale A. A., which team was without a game on Saturday.
The Haddington team, from which the locals won a red hdt contest by the score of 2 to 1 on Saturday, July 18, will return here for another game on Saturday, August 8.
Bringhurst, who played so poorly at flrst in Saturday's game, Is said to be one of the best first basemen playing ball in Germantown today. He sure was off color in his playing on Saturday.
We are to have the Moose team, of Philadelphia, here for a game on Satur¬ day, August 15. This team is made up of almost all old players from the^big leagues. A large guarantee is paid this club wherever it plays, and the only reason the local fans wiil have the pleasure of seeing the team in ac¬ tion is because the members of the or¬ der residing in Ambier and vicinity are making up the greater part of the amount needed. These members of the order are also planning to show the players of the team an interesting and enjoyable time during their short stay in the town. Among the special enter¬ taining features planned is a banquet for the players in the evening. Let every fan in the town hear the call of the Moose and follow the crowd to Lin¬ denwold field on Saturday, August 15.
—S. Howard Hallman, secretary of Montgomery County Christian Endeav¬ or union, announces that the annual outing of the union will be held at Ringing Rocks park on Saturday, Au¬ gust 8. Aii Endeavorers must make ar¬ rangements to be at Main and Swede streets, Xorristown, by 9 a. m. sharp. A request is made that noticj be sent to Mr. Hallman before August 1 as to how many members from each society intend to take in the event, so that the number of cara .to bo chartered may be determined.
PLYMOUTH'S NEW^CHOOL.
Plans Completed tor a Consolidated School Building.
Architect Phillips Displays the Approv¬ ed and Accepted Proposed Structure —Complete and Up-to-Date in Every Feature—The Details and Description.
The lung-talked-about c.jnsolidated school for Plymou'th township is about to become a fact. C. B. Scheriiierhurii «* Watson K. Phillips, associate archi¬ tects of Philadelphia, have completed drawings and speclHcations for the new eight room Ijuilding to be built at Ply¬ mouth Meeting, and the one room build¬ ing to be built at Connaughttown. The building at Plymouth Meeting will be known as the "Consolidated School," the one at Connaughttown as the "Ivy Rock School." Bids have been advertis¬ ed for and the board intends starting actual construction about the middle ot next nionth.
More than a year ago the school di¬ rectors, realizing the needs and bene¬ lits of a consolidated school, unani¬ mously voted for the proposition. A public meeting was held at the time by the citizens and it seemed to be the prevailing opinion that to consolidate the schools is an excellent thing for the township. The propcsai to divide the township was then advanced, thus preventing the board from carrying out the building project. The voters over¬ whelmingly decided against division, which thus gave the board the oppor-
are also placed on this floor. Slop sinks for the janitor's use, and drinking fonn- tam.s are pruvided on both floors.
'ihe .stairways from the basement to the .'^('cond floor and both rtrst and sec¬ ond lloor corridors are designed of llre- Plo',; construction and will be built in thi.s manner unless the extra cost of the sfliiie iK prohibitive. All corridor and slairway walls will be wainscoted to a. m-ight .if flve feet with red shale lirick. Wall.s above will be plastered. Two se¬ parate stairways lead to the basement, one lor boys and one for girls. A largo pla.v room fnr rainy days occupies all-.lit one-half of the basement. This is di'slKned so that in the future it may be converted into manual training and iloniestic science rooms or gymnasium. The b.-iliince of the basement contains the heating and ventilating apparatus and toilets.
The danger of ley steps is avoided by ha\ ing all steps inside the building. All stairway treads will be of black slate. The corridor floors will be covered with battleship linokum, which is noiseless, sanitary and almost indestructible. The class room floors will be of maple with a rough underfloor and sound deadening felt between.
The building will be lighted through¬ out with electricity, " and gas outlets will be placed in convenient positions in case of emergency. The class room fl.^tures will be of an Improved semi- indirect type, using Alba glass and tungsten lamp.s—the last word in light¬ ing equipment.
The illustration shows a building designed along Colonial lines. In pre¬ paring the flnal plans the exterior has been somewhat modified. Xo mone .- will be wasted on "architectural frills," whleh are expensive in the beginning and f ircver after. The base will lie built  of Conshohocken  stone,  and   the
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tunlty of going ahead with«ts build¬ ing plans. The delay of a year was to some advantage, in that the board has had more time to give careful thought and attention to the proposition. The members visited :i number of modern school buildings and got in touch wi1;h other districts where consolidation has
'irder toprtmT^TSyi^H^BjHHBRTi^rici.'. The architect, Mr. Phillips, ¦^Blted up¬ wards of 40 recently erected'! school buildings in Pennsylvania, fJew York and Xew Jersey, from which a number of valuable suggestions and i^eas w-ere obtained; besides the opportimity was awarded of learning what not to do.
Different methods of heating, venti¬ lating and toilet systems were investi¬ gated and compared. The board, real¬ izing the importance of heating, ven¬ tilating and sanitati'on, went into tlie matter thoroughly. Experienced engin¬ eers explained the various types of systems. The board finally decided to Install a blower system of warm uir heating in the consolidated school, finding it to be the most economical in first cost and maintenance, ajid easily operated by the average janitor. Thri'O cast iron tubular furnaces will be in¬ stalled to warm the air; two of whicii will be used most of the winter; tho third being in reserve for extremely cold weather. The fresh air is admitt¬ ed to a room in the basement, where it is forced by means of a fan, driven b; an electric motor, through the furnaces and thence to the rooms. The teacher may, by means of a damper or valv., regulate the temperature of the air de¬ livered, but the volume will be the same whether warm, tempered or cold air is being supplied. Every movement "f the dampers is indicated to the janitor, who may tell at a glance whether the rooms are calling for warm, tempered or cold air and can thus run his fires accordingly. Several devices are manu¬ factured for automatically controlling the temperature of each room, but ilic cost of installing such an apparatus at this time is felt to be unwarranted.
Particular attention has been given j to the toilet system, and the bounl. after careful consideration, decided to install a cremating closet system. Sev¬ eral schools designed by Mr. Phillip-^ have had this system in use from twj to seven years with perfect results.
The consolidated school as design'?'I will contain six class rooms, an as¬ sembly room, teachers' room and direc¬ tors' room. Each class room wiil ordin¬ arily accommodate 42 pupils, but they are designed to hold 4C should sudden increase in attendance require it.
The class room will have from 33 t'l 45 running feet of slate blackboards four feet wide. The blacitboardp In tli'.' present buildings will be re-used in th'? new buildings as far as they will go- Each ciass room will be unilaterally lighted by means of a large flve-part window, by this means neither pupils nor teachers face the direct light. Ea' li room will h...vo sunlight during soine part of the day, but no class room will have sun all day, as the blank end will be towards the south. A bookcase and cloak room are provided for each class room. The cloalt rooms In the dlfferciu buildings inspected wero thoughtfully studied, and the arrangement workid out in this building is believed to be the simplest, most practical and con¬ venient that has so far been developed. Each cloak room has outside light and is heated and ventilated independently ¦of any other part of the building. Metal ceilings which are firo resisting and without danger of falling, are pro- vicjed in all of the class rooms.
The assembly room, which will ac¬ commodate about 200, is on the second floor, and is designed so that It may bo readily converted into two standard class rooms when the need for such arises, by simply building a partition through the centre. A stage and dress¬ ing rooms are provided. Tho teachers' room on the second floor I3 provided with a toilet and individual lockers. The directors' room, which may be used also as a library or class room, and a large dust-proof supply closet.
walls above will be of local red brick, which will be laid In an original man¬ ner '-'ntJrely different from anything heretofore done in this locality. Large brick panels, designed in an unique manner,^ wjU be introduced in the end ivalls to.r^lieye tho blank spaces. i -Vn altesiytt* eftimate will be taken f'li- usins JlbmVnelstgiHiQji tkSfljBrnstojie and sand lime brii'k. .A. plain but dig- nifled. entrance with an appropriately lettered panel above, will be the main feature ,of 'the front. The rear eleva¬ tion will be plainly treated.
In order to reduce the flre risk to tlie minimum the chimney has been placed on the outside wall of the building. The furnace room is enclosed -witli brick walls and separated from the rest of the cellar by a tin covered flre door. The ceiling of the,furnace room will be covered with asbestos lumber. Instead of the steps customarily used, a con¬ crete runway is provided from the fur¬ nace room to grade to facilitate the re¬ moval of ashes.
The interior will be finished In Oregon fir or Wisconsin birch. All interior nilUwork will be made plain and with few mouldings so as to facilitate clean¬ ing. The baseboard will be curved to meet the floor so as to eliminate sharp and dirt catching corners. Spaces above the blackboards, and wall spaces where blackboards do not occur, will have burlap panels for exhibiting the pupils' work.
The modern school house is becoming more and more the civic and education¬ al centre of its district, and this idea has been foremost in the minds of the directors and architects. The building is planned so it may be readily used for suoh purposes. The lighting equipm^.it will be such that night sjhools may be introduced at any time.
The five-acre plot is a short dis¬ tance east of the Plymouth Meeting corner, and while not geographically in the centre of the township, is the most conveniently located. The Germantown and Ridge pike trolley lines cross the township from east to west and the connecting line on Conshohocken and Upper Dublin pike passes the school. No township in the state is better situ¬ ated for transporting the pupils, as all live within a mile and a half of the trolley lines. The plot, which has a frontage of 250 feet on the pike and runs back about 518 feet, is slightly rolling and elevated abo/-s the road. The building will be set oack 75 feet from the road, which will leave an ample field in the rear for sports, or for teaching scientiflc agriculture, horticul
The school code requires that all plans and specifications must be sub¬ mitted to the state board of education to be passed upon beforf the work is started. This has been done, and the plans have not only been approved but have been favorably commented upon by the state architect. Tha code speci¬ fies that each class room must have at least 15 square feet of lloor space and not less than 200 cubic feet of air space per pupil. Light area, equal to 20 per cent, of the floor space, must be admit¬ ted from the left or from the left and rear of the pupils. The heating and ventilating apparatus must be such that at least 30 cubic feet of fresh air will be delivered to each pupil per min¬ ute, which means that 062,400 cubic feet of warmed fresh air, will be sent through the building every hour that school is in session, or nearly four mil¬ lion cubic feet per day. In a building of this size it can only ba done suc¬ cessfuly by means of a blower system. Because of the increased etficiency of this method of heating it wili take very little more fuel to heat and ventilate the new building that it now requires to simply heat the present one-room buildings.
The board hopes to have the I-vy Rock school flnished by November 15th, and the Consolidated school by April 1st, 1015,
After the consolidated school Is com-
SUMNEYTOWN PIKE FREED.
No Toll Required From Springhouse to Kulpsville.
Seven Miles of Turnpike Opened After Long Fight—$23,000 Paid by the County—Celebration of the Event Ar¬ ranged for on Aug. 15,
The Springhouse and Sumneytown Turniiike road, from Springhouse to ivulp.sville, ,a distance of seven miles, is now free. Oh Friday the county comiiiissioners took the last steps nec¬ essary to bring about the abolishment of tolls upon this Important highway, when they paid to the ofllcers and di¬ rectors of the turnpike company the sum of .^28,000, that amount having re¬ cently been agreed upon as the terms for settlement, and the 'gates werfe opened at U a, m. that day.
The freeing of this thoroughfare by the payment of the above amount is a most important step and Is hailed with great delight by residents in that seo¬ tion of the county. Especially are the residents of Xorth Wales jubilant, as the newly freed turnpike passes di¬ rectly through the borough of Xorth Wales and is the most important high¬ way in that prosperous main line mu¬ nicipality.
There remains now but a stretch of 11 miles of the once long toll road still to be freed—that portion from Kulps¬ ville to Sumneytown. The fact that this portion of the roadway has been included in the plans of the state high¬ way department and will be taken uver by the state as soon as the means for such a step are taken, no attempt was made by the petitioners to have this section freed at the time the above pro¬ ceedings were begun.
The freeing of this turnlke was only accomplished after a series of mishaps and difficulties that confronted the petitioners. Road viewers who had been appointed by the court, at the March sessions of last year, following proceed¬ ings that continued for over 12 months, filed a report in which they condemn¬ ed the seven miles of roadway and awarded damages to the amount of $33,- 500. The county commissioners took exception, and the court sustained the appeal largely on the charge of the master to the jury.
Folowlng this action the original petitioners, mostly residents and busi¬ ness men in and about Xorth Wales, decided to renew the proceedings. The Xorth Wales board of trade secured th-? serv'ices of Attorney J. B. Larzelere, Jr. He brought together the county offlcials and the offlcials of the turnpike company with the result that an agree¬ ment was n ached and a report there¬ of n-ado to the court.
To. properly celebrate the event the board of trade of Xorth Wales, a com¬ mute'^ of which has been in charge of the efforts to free the road, has arrang¬ ed for a monster automobile parade and carnival over the road which has just been fr^ed. Saturday afternoon, August 15, is the date set for the par- .adtf, and hundreds of invitations are .being sent Dut» to county and Ktate officials, automobire, clubs and indivi¬ dual owners of cacB to participate. Burgess F. D. Frlss'elJ. of Xorth Wales, who is also president of the board of trade, is in charge of the arrangements for the parade and already acceptances have been received from a large num¬ ber of people who have assured the committee that they will have their cars in the parade. The cars will assemble at Xorth Wales at 2 o'clock from which place the parade will start, iiroceeding to Xiilpsville aiid^ back through Xorth Wales to Sprinf^ouse. Returning to Xorth Wales, the cars will be parked at Raywood park, the new recreation grounds recently opened under the auspices of the Women's Civic elub, where a band concert will be held and addresses made by prominent men.
NORTH   WALES.
Christian Bendel, aged 16, from Coatesville, who was visiting his cousin Augustus Bendel, at the Xorth Main street bakery, met with a sad ending on Tuesday evening while assisting in working a dough mixing machine driven by a gas engine, he was struck on the head by the levers and almost instantly killed. Dr. H. F. Slifer was called, but the young man expired in a few min¬ utes. His father was notifled, and af¬ ter the coroner had investigated the ac¬ cident, the remains were taken to his home.
Lempe Bros.' circus gave a show on the commons near the railway station on Friday evening.
Frank Leister and family spent the week end visiting Irvin G. Lukens at his bungalow at Pocono Pines near the Delaware Water Gap. J. H. Leister and wife, parents of the former, re¬ turned on Monday from their visit of a week at Pocono.
Mrs. Wm. R. Childs, musical instruc¬ tress of our public school, is visiting a sister at Xew Rochelle, X. Y.
Some of our business men suggest to our burgess that since the appointing of lo reserve policemen has been found a good move that he also appoint a women policeman to look after the pranks    of young   girls parading    the
streets at night. . -  ., .,        „, „„„ita oy naa   1^ Sectlon Boss Wm. Baskin and family
Umes""" pursuits or pas^M^ Sunday   motored   to Valley   Forge
park.
Mine Plost Adam Schmel is the latest purchaser of a touring car.
Station Agent Wm. Franks is still unable to attend to his duties on ac¬ count of his recent accident at the freight station.
Tho annual event of the Little-by- Llttle society—its block party—will this year be given on Saturday after¬ noon and atening on Xorth Main street.
Xorth Wales lodge of Odd Fellows on Wednesday evening of last -week had a visit from Grand Senior Warden Samuel Pope, of the Grand Encamp¬ ment of Pennsylvania,
MAPLE GLEN THIEVES CAUGHT
R. A. Hollingsworths Plucky Fight Leads to Capture.
Two Farm Hands Suspected of Month's
Depredations—One in Abington Hos¬ pital    With    Cut    Head and    Broken
Shoulder—The Capture.
Allchael llubcr, a German, and an¬ other laborer, employed for a month.' on the James Q. Atkinson jihice. Three Tuns, are under arrest susiiected of several robberies committed during the past two weeks in tho Maple Glen and Jarrettown section. Huber has been in the Abington Memorial hospital as a result of the beating given him Fri¬ day night by Robert A. Hollingsworth, of .Majile Glen, when the latter found the German in his bed room.
Mv. Hollingsworth w«i awakened Friday night about 11.30 by Mrs. Hol¬ lingsworth, who heard a noise in tho- bed room. Fearing that it might bo one of the chiidren, who sometimes walks in her sleep, Mr. Hollingsworth proceeded cautiously until he was con¬ vinced a stranger was present, when the latter brushed him. In trying to reach the door. In the scramble, Hol¬ lingsworth was cut on the head witli a chisel in the man's hand, but ag ho backed against the door he grabbed a chair and brought it down with terriflo force on the intruder's head, which caused him to slunk away to a darlc corner. Mr. ibdlingsworth called to one of the children to bring a light, and at the same time followed up his advantage by again attacking the man,, and struck him another heavy blow with  the chair, shattering it.
As the door was opened by the child bearing the light, the man made a dash afid escaped down the steps, closely pursued by Mr. Hollingsworth, and got out through a rear window by which ha had entered, having forced the sash with the chisel. A search was made of the house, garage and premises, but no trance of the wounded man was found.
Jlr. Hollingsworth telephoned to tha Abington police headquarters, and in a short time Chief Lever and his men arrived. They soon discovered a trail of blood and followed it to a workmen's house on the James Q. Atitinson farm, where Huber was discovered in bed, having attempted to wash and dress his wounds, and his suspected partner, whose name is Charles Dougherty, was also found with blood on his clothes. Huber was taken to the hospital and was found to be suffering from a brok¬ en shoulder blade and several cuts and bruises on his head. Dougherty wasi conflned in the township lock-up.
After entering the Hollingsworth home, Huber, it is believed, went up¬ stairs, where the three sleeping rooms are occuided, and in the bathroom a light is kept burning. He extinquished this, and entered the room in which the daughters were sleeping. As he open¬ ed bureau drawers, he aroused the eldest girl, who sat up In bed. This caused Huber to leave the room, and as he entered Mt. Hollingsworth's apartment he closjed the door. In th<^- scuTle which followed, Huber left bloody traces of the encounter all over the ro'im and down  the steps.
Thieving has been sroing on in the Maple Glen and Jarrettown section for several weeks. At the Edwin Simmers store $8 in money, cigarettes, candy and cigars were stolen, and the hotel was entered and $35 in money was re¬ moved. . r
The tollgate of Samuel Maxwell, south of Maple Glen, was also robbed, entrance being effected in all the places through a rear window, which in all the instances was pried open.
Some time iast week the suspect Dougherty gave one of Mr. Atkinson's granddaughters a silver iocket. This was returned to the Abington police, and it was later identified by Mrs. Maxwell as her property, and she pro¬ duced the key to release the clasp. No goods nor stolen booty -were found In the quarters occupied by the men, but it is thought they were out several' nights each week, as the Wiiliam Rode¬ mich store property at Jarrettown was visited, but not entered.
After he heard of the numerous rob¬ beries in the neighborhood, Mr. Rode¬ mich sought to protect his property from entrance and one night last week one of the wires about the stoi^e was cut, most likely by these same parties.
The two men—Huber and Dougher¬ ty;—were engaged by Mr. Atkinson a month ago from a Philadelphia em¬ ployment agency and have been work¬ ing on the farm. Huber, who is a Ger¬ man, served in the army of his native country, and Chief Lever h.is sent abroad to ascertain his record.
Scheetz Family Reunion.
The annual reunion of the .Scheetz family was held Wednesday at Wilio-w Grove. 60 members of the family were present from Doylestown, Perkasie, Philadelphia and X'orristown.
The following offlcers were elected: President, W. Gotwals, of Philadelphia; secretary, Grier Scheetz, of Perkasie; treasurer, A. Gotwals, of Philadelphia.
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GWYNEDD.
Charles Cassel has added flve cows to his dairy. He ships the milk product to Philadelphia.
Wm. G. Just has completed grading the Friend.s' burying ground.
Thorpe Dorr left Tuesday morning for the Pocono mountains.
Abington quarterly meeting of Friends wil bo held at Gwynedd meet¬ ing house Eighth Month August 6th next, and in the afternoon, at 2 p. m., an address will be given, under the auspices of tha philanthropic commit¬ tee, on the subject of Imn.igration, by Dr. J. P. Llchtenberger, of the depart¬ ment of sociology of the University of Pennsylvania, and secretary of the American Academy of Poiitica! and So¬ cial Science. The address promises to be very instructive.
Frelhofer Men at Lansdale.
A dolly outing was given to his merry men and maids Sunday by WilUani Frelhofer, president of the Frelhofer Baking company. A first detachment of Frelhofer bakers and other employ-- es picknicked a week before and tha other 150 went to disport themselves on. William Freihofer's 30-acro farm at Lansdale.
The picnic party, persontiily conduct¬ ed by Mr. Frelhofer, traveled t(^ Lans¬ dale by automobile, starting from tho Frelhofer main bakery grounds at 8..10 a. m.
Arriving at the Frelhofer farm, ath¬ letic events of all sorts, including sprinting, relay races, jumping, etc., '.vere held on the broad ii eadows. A pie-eating contest was on the program, together with a prize competition in catching the greased pig.
Luncheon was served under tha giant elm at noon. Robert Warren and James Gildea sang and Ben. Frank¬ lin, former minstrel; Dan McCarrigan, ni'inologist; and Tony Shapiro, harpist, contributed to the entertainment.
MAPLE GLEN.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mann, on Thursdav, a daughter.
Whitfield Merrill, of Fort Washing¬ ton, is spending some tini'i with hia: aunt, Mrs. Amelia Householilor.
Benton Walton, of Philadelphia, t3 spending tho summer with his grand¬ parents, Mr. and Jlrs. Curtis B. Stout.
T. Ralph Knott and William J. Mc-i Clelland accompanied Rev. L. BT. Hainer and a number of boys fron» Ambler on a few days' outing in a houseboat at Xorristv>vn last week.