The Conshohocken Recorder, February 19, 1904

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So. 2293 CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., FKIOAF, FEBRUARY 19, 1904 $1 PER YEAR
NOTES OF OUR TOWN
n EMS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
.HE PEOPLE OF OUR BOROU'iH
CONDENSED FOB REC0R1 UR
31EADERS.
Miss Katie Met, of Philadelphia, is
visiting Mrs WllUam Little, of Fay-ette
ItTSel
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Chantry have
reurned home from a two week's visit
to Philadelphia
Bible Class No. 3 of St. Marks church
will in.it this evening al Littles Hall
to decorate for the supper.
Mr. M. Harvey, of Eighth Avenue, is
rejoicing In the at rival of a daugh-ter,
who came Monday night.
Prof. Coyer will give a study of the
Sabbath School lesson Tuesday .wan-ing
in the Presbyterian Church.
(1 .1 liarrar & llro. liae put in a
Hell Telephone Pnj station with
booth In their Shoe Store, 28 Fayette
street.
United states Metric) attorney Hol-land
and son, Burnett, and Mr. John
Booth, left town to-day for a vacation
to be spent in Florida.
A surprisi party was given BUM
Biavin, ol Ninth Avenue iinil Harry
street on Tuesday evening by a num-ber
of his friends. The instrumental
music bj tin host and J. Kline was
greatly enjoyed
Prof. K. 11. Zlegler. who lias assumed
t'harge of the public schools, cannot
obtain a house here in which to live.
ne had Intended hi remove here and
board with Mr. at F. Davis, but
the serious illness of his young daugh-ter
lias prevented blm from doing so.
This Is an era of hustling. The doc-tor
lawyer, insurance man. real eslate
gent and mechanic find competition
and must hustle to meet it. As with
men so with towns. They have got to
offer newcomers good water, sewerage,
(lean streets and pleasant surround-ings
to catch and hold them. They
must do it even to retain those who
have lived for years in the place.
In the effort to thaw out a frozen
tjiijie at the home of Henry M. Tracy,
DO Wednesday morning the steam
escaped out the water pipe making t
appear that the roof of the house was
on lire. An alarm was giv;n and the
Are department of the I Bllwood Lee
Company, and the Conshohocken and
Washington Companies quickly re-sponded,
but fortunately their ser-vices
were not needed.
Edmund Kruszynski died here during
December. He owned two stores, one
in this borough and one in West Con-shohocken.
He had been separated
from his wile, and after his death two
Of his brothers applied for letters of
administration on the estate, Antonl
Kruszynski, one of the brothers was
appointed administrator and has been
running the stores. Yesterday Mrs.
Kruszynski came to town to hunt up
her husband's property, and there Is
now a proBpect of trouble before the
.settlement be made.
The Montgomery County Medical
Saociety elected the following officers:
J resident. Joseph K. Corson, Plymouth
Vice Presidents. J. Newton Hunsberg-er,
Sklppack; Clarence M. Cassel-berry,
Pottstown; Recording Secre-tary.
II. II. Whitcomb, Norrlstown;
Corresponding Secretary, Joseph K.
Weaver. Norrlstown; Treasure*, 8.
Nelson Wiley. ^^
The following doctors were present
from this borough, at the meeting:
Dr. George M. Stiles, William McKen-de,
J. Quincy Thomas. George Luk-
• II Join, II stemple and Lewis Tryon
The Ilusy Workers announce that
their annual supper will be held on to-morrow
(Saturday) evening, in Littles
Dining Hall. Supper from 4.30 to 9
P. M. The liberal patronage of the
public is solicited, as no pains have
be spared to make this the best supper
they have ever given. The decorations
of the Hall and tables will lie in keep-ing
with Washington's Birthday. The
nationals colors will be used. The
matrons will be garbed In Martha
Washington costume. The aids will
look dainty in colonial style of dress.
Souvenirs suitable to the occasion will
be given with each ticket. The follow-ing
matrons will preside over the sup-per
tables, assisted by an efficient
corps of young ladles as aids. Tabte
No. 1. Mrs. Ida Moser; Table No. 2,
■am IMward Nagle; No. 3, Mrs. Clara
Little; No. 4; Miss Elizabeth Rlghter
Home-made candy, cake, fancy articles
and Ice Cream will be for sale. Mis-ses
Elizabeth .Streeper, Lille Noblett
will have charge of the Candy booth,
where they will dispense of sweets of
iheir own manufacture, as well as Geo.
Washington's hatchets of various
sizes. Misses Staley and W ilson will
have charge of the cake table. Fancy
table—Mrs. Robert McCarron and Miss
Katherinc Rlghter, Ice Cream—Miss-es
Morkle, Corduff and Frankenfleld,
Bible Class No. 3 will have charge of
the souvenir ami decorations.
LEE TEAM GETS CUP
Many persons were present al the
Temple Alleys on Wednesday evening
i between the J. Ell-wood
Lee team and the Ersine team,
of NorriltOWn, tor the championship
of the Montgomery Howling League.
In the race for the leadership of the
League, these two teams were tied,
with eight gsmoa won and four lost.
As a consequence it was decided in
ored to award the championship, and
also the Sallade cup to bowl off the
tie. This was done on Wednesday
evening when the J. Ellwod Lee's team
easily won by 80 pins.
The Lee Company Team, of course.
strongly advocated netural alleys for
the bowling-OS, but at a meeting of
i he league It was decided that It should
be played on the Temple Alleys, at
Norrlstown. This was reluctantly
agreed to by the Lee Company team,
and the game was fixed for Wednesday
February 17th.
It is needless to say that Duui teams
were on hand early at the place of the
contest, each eager to "get at" the
Other, at it were, and each perfectly
confident of success. At the very start
the I Company Team had a slight
lead, anil steadily gained up to the end
of the first game, when they were I i
pins to the good; the scores being 837
to 772.
In the second game Hallowell came
in and Lee dropped out. This was a
nip and tuck game almost to the end,
hotly contested b the Ersine team, ml
Inch by Inch the Lee Compiny team
gained on them, and finished ahead
with the magnificent score of Ml pins
against the no mean score of 903, for
the Ersine. This gave Loo Company
Team 29 more pins which added to the
U Horn first game lert the Ersine 94
pins short at the beginning of the
third game.
As the team walked up to start the
last game, the Lee Company Team did
so with an air of assured success;
while anything but hope was depleted
on the countenance of the Ersine men.
The two teams practically tied each
other frame by frame, neither gain-ing
any advantage, until the finishing
11 aine when two of the Lee Company
ream's best players dropped their
spares, and the Ersine Team won the
same by 14 pins; the scores being 825
for the Ersine and 811 for the Lee Com-pany.
This made the total scores for the
tnree games, 2580 pins for tho Leo
Company Team and 2500 pins for the
ersine Team, the former team winning
by 80 pins.
The applause at the evening's play
was about evenly divided between the
Consholmrfcen ano" Norristown rooters,
although by no means so enthusiastic
as when the Temple Team played Its
last game with the Lee Company
Team at Conshohocken.
This match concluded the season for
the Montgomery League
The l#o Company Team desires to
thank Mr. Sallade for his generous off-er
of the cup, and begs to state that
the team will fully comply with the
conditions under which he offered It to
the League.
•LEE TEAM
Herron 190 174 147 511
Paulus 145 168 145 468
Lee 137 137
Hallowell 205 210 416
Wells 215 196 150 561
Wright 150 189 159 498
Conshohocken Election Returns
THE FOLLOWING IS THE RESULT
OF THE BOROUGH ELECTION,
ON TUESDAY.
FIRST WARD.
Auditor—
Harvey G. Field, Republican, 71
Town1 Council—
Johu A. Harrold, Democratic, 164
Jacob S. Moser, Republican, 54
Harrold's majority, 110
School Director—
Patrick Lacey, Democratic 161
George R. Chell, Republican, 61
Lacey's majority.
Assessor—
Michael Nevins, democratic,
1. J. Moyer, Republican,
90
153
65
Nevins' majority s*
Judge of Election—
Wm. Wolflngton, Democratic, 150
Geo. W. Hummel, Republican, 63
Wolflngton's majority.
Inspector of Election-
Cornelius Hayes, Democratic
S. R. Nixon, Republican,
87
160
63
Hayes' majority, 87
SECOND WARD.
Auditor—
Harvey G. Field, Republican 124
Town Council—
Flllmore Stemple, Republican 121
Thomas Kelley, Democratic 39
Stcmple's majority, 82
School Director—
John F. Bowker. Republican, 120
John F. Bowker, Democratic, 36
Assessor—
F. J. Bloomhall, Republican 126
F. J. Bloomhall, Democratic, 34
Judge of Election-
John Long, Republican, 123
W'm. Wertz, Democratic, 36
JOHN A. IIABROI.n
Re-elected to Council Mom the First
Ward,
NORRISTOWN LETTER
A BUDGET OF INTERESTING GOS-SIP
FROM THE PEN OF OUR COR-RESPONDENT
AT THE COUNTY
SEAT.
FROZEN WATER PIPES
Long's majority,
Inspector of Election—
Mayall May, Republican,
John Whalcn, Democratic,
87
122
37
May's majority. 85
THIRD WARD
Auditor-
Harvey G. Field, Republican, 126
Town Council—
Richard H. Bate, Republican, 124
Con. O'Brien, Democratic, 38
Bate's majority, 86
School Director—
Joseph C. Jones, Republican, 126
C. F. Tegtmeler, Republican. 123
wm. McCloskey, Democratic 36
Assessor—
Wm. H. Murray, Republican, 130
Con. Crowloy, Democratic, 34
Murray's majority,
Judge of Election—
Chas. W. Jones, Republican,
William Keefe, Democratic,
Jones' majority,
Inspector of Election—
C. H. Brooke, Republican,
Lawrence Carroll, Democratic
96
124
38
86
121
40
When you feel blue arid that every-thing
goes wrong, take a dOBe of
Chamberlain's Stomach and Ll>ler
Tablets. They will cleanse and In-vigorate
your stomach, regulate your
bowels, give you a relish for your
food and make you feel that In this
old world Is a good place to live. For
sale by J Ruftis Barr, West Consho-hocken.
and Wm. Neville, Consho-hocken.
1>H. MASON K. MOYER
DENT13T.
316 Fayette Street, Conshohocken.
lOfflee Hours:—7.30 A. M. to 4.J0 P. M.
6.30 P. M. to 8 P M.
PAINLESS EXTRACTING
Nitrous Oxide Gas or Lwal Aneaa-itlieMc.
Totals . 837 932 811 2580
Totals, 2580
ERSINE
Coleman 171 191 146 508
Craft 168 199 163 530
Jones 180 205 182 567
Irish 128 127 154 409
Lensi 125 181 iso 486
Totals 772 903 825 2500
The winning of this contest means
that Conshohocken owns the Sallade
Cup.
To-night C. J. Craft, of the Ersine,
and Mr. Hallowell, of the Lee Team,
roll off a tie at the Temple Alleys.
■at 1. has 235 pins to his credit and as
there are several prizes for tho high
score In the league they must be
bowled off.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Preaching by the Pastor at 10.30
A. M .and 7 30 P. M.
Sabbath School at 9 16 A. M.
Junior Christian Endeavor at 2
P. M.
Y. P. S C. E. at 7 30 P M.
Brooke's majority, 81
Constable—
El Iwood McCarter Republican 127
FOURTH WARD
Town Council—
James Barrett, Democratic, 92
Ahiu c Culp, Republican, 91
Barrett's majority,
School Director-
John Neil, Republican,
Frank Fisher, Democratic,
Nell's majority,
Assessor—
John T. Mellon, Democratic
Benj. F. Kay, Republican,
Mellon's majority,
Judge of Election-
George Meyers, Republican,
Robert Ronnan, Democratic,
101
80
21
92
89
97
77
M
30
CALVARY CHURCH DOINGS
Lenten services tonight at 7.30 In
Parish House. Sunday morning Bible
Class and Sunday Schools at 9.15.
Morning Service and Holy Commun-ion,
10.30, Rev. C. C. Parker, officiating
The Rector will visit tho Mission at
Hatboro, returning for Evening ser-vice
at 7.00.
Holy Baptism on Sunday, February
28. Instead of the 21st. Service Tues-aa
afternoon at 4.30.
AWS THIS!
We offer On* Hundred Dollars Re-ward
for any case of Catarrh that can
not bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe him to be perfectly honorable
In all business transactions, and flnon-nally
able to carry out any obligation
fade by his firm.
WALDING. KINNAN & MARTIN.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 0.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter-nally,
acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonial! sent free. Price. 76"
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con-stipation.
Meyers' majority,
Inspector of Election-
Frank Maconachy, Republican 100
Wm. E. Kelley, Democratic, 78
Maconachy's majority, 22
FIFTH WARD.
Auditor-
Harvey G. Field, Republican,
Town Council—
J. A. Crossmore, Republican,
School Director—
E. J. If, Wood, Republican,
Assessor—
Elmer E. Elliott, Republ.can,
Judge of Election-
Milton Jones. Republican,
Inspector of Election—
Chas F. Ruth, Republican.
John R. Gray, Republican, 1
John J. McDermody, Dem. 3
There was no Democratic opposition
for any of the offices in this ward.
94
94
93
92
93
91
ST. MARKS CHURCH NOTES
Tho subject of Rev. Will F. Bare, on
Sunday morning will be "The Import-ance
of Religion." In the evening his
subject will be "The way to be Saved"
SOME FOOLISH PBOPLH.
Allow a cough to run until It gets be-yond
reach of medicine. They often
say "Oh, It will wear away," but In
most cases it will wear them away.
Could they be Induced to try the suc-cessful
medicine called Kemp's Bal-sam,
which Is sold on a positive guar-antee
to cure, they would Immediately
see the excellent effect after taking the
drst dose. Price 26c. and iOe. Trial
size free. At all druggists.
The exceptionally cold winter has
caused suffering and inconvenience to
a great many in the town. Very near-ly
all the residents of Fifth Avenue
below Hallowell street have their wat-er
pIpeB frozen BO that no water can
be obtained. The water main on Fay-ette
street at the Pennsylvania- Rail-road
bridge froze and broke on Wed-nesday
depriving those living on the
lower end of that street of water.
An Investigation on Wednesday
snowed that the Arc plug at Eighth
avenue and Fayette strct was frozen.
This caused Chairman Bate of the Po-i.
ce Committee to have Miles Stemple
test every fire plug In town. The re-sult
was that only two were open.
The steamer of the Washington
Hose Company was immediately put
to work to force live steam into the
plugs. A number were opened in this
way, and the employees of the Water
company were also put to work open-ing
the plugs Very nearly all of them
arc now clear, and the work will be
continued until none remain frozen.
HISTORICAL SOCIE 1 .
1'he annual meeting of the Mont-gomery
County Historical Society will
be held on Monday afternoon at two
o'clock In1 Historical Hall, Norrlstown
Mr. S. Gordon Smytii, of West Cou-shohocken,
will read a paper at tho
meeting called 'The Land of the Llewci
lyn and Camp Discharge.
METHODIST CHURCH
Fourth Quarterly Conference this
evening at 7.30.
The Choir will give a Supper next
Thursday evening for the benefit of the
new Church Fund.
Next Sunday morning the Pastor will
preach on "The Advantages of Divine
Worship. In the evening the subject
will be "A Model Young Man."
Sunday School and Men's Bible
Class at 9.30 A. M. Epworth League at
6.45 P. M.
A cordial welcome and a profitable
time for all.
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES
"The District School at Blueberry
Corners" held a very elevating and or-derly
session Monday night, and lb
rapidly preparing for a public demon-stration
of what a modol school should
be. The event will occur the end ot
February, and precise announcement
will soon be made.
As a result of the earnest efforts of
the band of younger folks meeting
Sunda"s afternoons, the main window
In the Porchway of the new Church
will be their gift and accordingly will
bear a presentation Inscription from
' The Junior Society."
A Joint and special meeting of tho
Social Union and Young People took
place this week. They planned an en-tertainment
for Saturday, March 12th
the nature of which will soon be made
public.
The exercises of Sunday next will
be of special interest and Importance.
In the worship beginning at 10 A. M.
the Pastor will speak on: "The Foil to
Simon Magua."
In the course of the evening wor-ship
the Pastor will present "A Mod-ern
Sermon on an Old Fashioned Top-ic."
The regular monthly meeting of the
Ladles Social Union takes place next
Tuesday evening at the Parsonage.
A WINTER TO REMEMBER
Figures, .aey say, do not He, and
there are some on tho books of the
Weather Bureau that provo that rec-ord*,
have been broken Into many
pleofc by the present real old-fashion
ed winter.
Since Thanksgiving there have been
only seven days when the mercury In
the official thermometer failed to get
below the freezing point. This is un-precedented
here On December 20,
21 and 24. the mercury managed to
repeat the performance. It stayed
the Host line a week ago last
Sunday. On all the other days be-twcejl
Thanksgiving and Wednesday
the mercury dropped below 32 de-gl'c
n.
Slice January 1 the deficiency in
laiure baa been 322 degrees
blnog February 1 It has been 129. and
00 Wednesday it was 22 degrees. This
protracted eold has frozen the ground
to 'he average depth of three and one-half
feet. It has also been a great
drain on the pocket-book, and the coal
man has prospered accordingly. One
dealer said last week, that the demand
for coal was exceptional, but that the
siiUufr-was aitemuia. 'Phe eolrt has
made plenty of Ice too. and the Iceman
is waiting patiently for the return or
the robins and the bluebirds.
The mercury kept close to the zero
mark on Wednesday. The wind onct
blew twenty-four miles an hour, but
the sun shone without a break from
the time It rose until It set. It was
coldest at 6 o'clock In the morning,
when the mercury registered 1 degree
above zero. At 8 o'clock It reached 6
14 was registered at noon, and the
maxln 24 was recorded at 5 o'clock
in the afternoon. It was 21 at 8 o'-
clock on Wednesday night .and con-tinued
to fall slowly.
CONVOCATION AT NORRISTOWN
The Convocation of Norrlstown,
Hi''. Herbert J. Cook, Dean, met in
M Paul's Church, Cheltenham, on
Wednesday, Rev. J. Thompson Cole,
rector. An address was delivered by
Bt Rev. Alexander Mackay-Smlth,
Coadjutor-Bishop of the diocese on
M uinary Extension in tho Diocese.'
Rev, Arthur B. Klnsvlng, D, D., rec-tor
of Christ Khurch, Brooklyn, por-trayed
the spiritual destitution of
Brazil and the great work which had
bee., accomplished iu a few years. He
said there were fourteen Brazilians
of high character In the ministry or
,n preparation for it and the people
Wl loomed the Church.
Rev. A. A. Marple, of Christ (Swedes)
I hureh, Bridgeport, and Rev. Isaac
Gibson, pastor emeritus of St. John's
Cnurch, Norristown, resigned as trus-tees
of Epiphany Mission, Royersford,
and Rev, Herbert J. Cook, of Calvary
Cnurch. Conshohocken, and William
II. Reevefl, were elected to Mil the va-cancies.
Rev. William H. Burbank presented
plans for rebuilding the chapel at
Royersforu, destroyed by Hre. These
were approved and the winding com-mittee
authorized to give the work to
the lowest bidder.
Rev. Edgar Campbell, rector of Holy
Trinity Church, Lansdale, reported
the completion of a new rectory, and
Rev. Harry F. Auld told of tho success
fill efforts to reduce the mortgage on
the Church ot the Advent at Hatboro.
Rev. W. Herbert Burk. of All Saints
Church. Norrlstown. by request of the
bishop, made a report on the Valley
1 orge Mission, of which he has charge.
Among tho convocation's enter-tainers
at luncheon In the parish house
was Jay Cooke. who for nearly fifty
AN EARLY RISER
A strong, healthy, active constitut-ion
depends largely on the condition
of the liver. The famous little pills ears has taught a large biule class In
known as DeWltt's Little Early Ris- | tlie Sunda School connected with,
ers net only cleanse tho system but
Ihey strengthen the action of the liv-er
and rebuild the tissues supporting
tuat organ. Little Early Risers are
easy to act. they nover gripe and yet
tney are absolutely certain to pro-duce
results that are satisfactory in
all cases Solo by All Druggists,
Bt
Paul's Church, Cheltenham.
The convocation will meet next June
at St. Paul's Church, Upper Provi-dence.
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Do not wait until you or some of
your family arc sick nigh unto death
and then send for Chamberlain's Col-ic,
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emergence It Is the one remedy thai
1 an .ilwi.rs be depended upon In the
most severe and dangerous cases. For
sale by J. Ruftif Barr. Wee Consho-hocken.
and W , Neville, Consho-hoeken.
An instance where it is disadvan-tageous
to lessen a mortgage In partial
payments developed In the Register of
Wills office to-day, when the will of
John Batdorf. formerly of W'hitemarsh
waa admitted to probate. In a will.
written many years ago. he bequeaths
to the Cold Point Baptist Church
whatever balance it may owe at the
time of his death, on a mortgage held
by him against the congregation. The
mortgage was originally seventeen
hundred dollars, but the amount has
been reduced by partial payments to
seven hundred dollars, at which flgure
it stood when be died last week. John
J. Corson is executor of the estate. All
his property, other than the mortgage
is given to the children of the l,,.i s
Powell Chllds of Plymouth.
The famous old Wheel Pump Hotel
in Springfield township which has been
in possession of Robert Gordon since
1877, has been sold by Mr. Gordon,
tnrough Attorney John Faber Miller,
to J. Nelson Yocum, for $50,000. Mr.
Gordon is now living retired at Fort
Washington This hotel stands at the
terminus of the Chestnut Hill & Sum-neylown
turnpikes, which is a section
of what was originally the Kings great
highway from Philadelphia to the Le-high
region. This 'road was piked sub-sequently
by various corporations
each taking up a section and main-taining
a continuous pike. The earli
est record of the Wheel Pump tavern
is in 1776, when Jacob Neff, collector
of taxes, kept the Inn, The Wheel
pump, which still stands In front of
the tavern is said to be tho original
one that gave the name to the house.
It has been licensed ever since col-onial
days, except for a few months,
tnree years ago, when an attempt was
made to run a park in connection with
the hotel, when Judge Swartz, decided
that beer and music must not mix In
this County, and cancelled the license
until the following Spring, when It was
granted on condition that the hotel
park we discontinued.
The successorship to James B. Hol-land
as the Republican Organization
leader In this County, Is a matter of
considerable speculation iiow*,becau.si
of the probability that Mr. "'Holland
will be made an United States Judge,
and of course cannot consistently re-tain
control of the manifold duties of
party leadership. Many of those
promfhent In the organization have
been mentioned seriously or compli-mentary
as likely to attain the chief
leadership.
In discussing this affair, one cannot
adopt the process of elimination like
Sherlock Holmes, and Individually
consider and pass upon the merits or
lack of offers in each candidate. That
would be obviously unfair and per-haps
uncomplimentary, to the many
counsellors about the consultation
board of Leader Holland's organiza-tion.
But without throwing them
aside in a bunch, It may be well to say
right hero that the logical leader who
Is to follow Mr. Hollands Is Senator
Algernon B. Roberts. This by com-mon
consent of those prominent in
party affairs and by the voice of the
great mass of those humbly following
In tho party ranks.
Should Mr. Holland happily be elect-ed
to the Bench, the provision re-vealed
in this correspondence will be
attested in due time. Senator Rob-erts
has all Uii gracious urbanity of
Mr. Holland, and having done the or-ganization
some service is "acquaint-ed
the ropes" as the sailors say. ,
Senator Roberts has time and again
demonstrated his capacity for leader-ship.
Send him to a district where
party affairs have become entangled,
and intrigues are as thick as at a
French Court, and he will come away
leaving the lion and lamb, the wolf
and kldlet, the bull and boar, and the
eagle and tuijle dove all abiding con-tentedly
together In the one district
united harmoniously for the good of
the party and influenced with only one
desire, that of having tho district forge
up head In the political column
Other leaders have their claims as
organizers, tacticians or orators
Since, however It Is the principle func-tion
of the head of the organization to
maintain harmony and quell discord
with the gloved hand and by gentle
strokes. Senator Roberts simply adds
this essential requisite to the other
qualities enumerated.
Very little Interest Is taken In the
Spring contest. The Republicans have
such a strong hold in the affections of
the voters for progressive and econ-omical
affairs that very little oppos-ition
could lie developed.
Forenamed Is forearmed. If the
drinking population went dry election
day It was not the fault of several en-terprising
liquor dispensers, who dis-played
cards all day, Monday being
these words,*" Election Day to-mor
row. get your flasks filled to-day."
'The early bird catches the worm?
according to the old proverb, but the
appearance of a blue bird here last
Saturday, singing merrily, calls at-tention
to a change In the proverb un-der
present weather conditions to "the
early bird catches the cold snap."
THE WEST SIDE VOTE
The election iu West Conshohocken
on Tuesday was the hottest one for
many years and there were quite a Is*
surpris. s Tickets were out in large
numbers in both the First and Third
Wards by both parties, while In the
Second ward the Democrats made a
clean sweep with the exception of
Judge of Section, which office WSD
won by William Oraham, the Republl
can by a majority of two votes.
On the borough ticket, an Auditor
was the only office to be filled. Bert-ram
Jones, the Democratic candidate.
defeated Albert Ellam, the Republican.
Jones carried both the First and Sec-ond
Wards, while Ellam came out
ahead in the Third. Jones received
•IB "oti 1 Kllam's 211.
In the First Ward, W. J Penning-ton,
for Assessor. Benjamin Redlng-ton
for School Director and Wlllard
Megann. for Inspector were the only
successful epublicam. In the Third
v. aid Matthias Rled was elected
kSSessor, being the only Democrat to
b« elected^ There was a tie vote for
the three-year term In Council and for
the School Hoard.
The following Is the result In the
different Wards:
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN ITEMS
SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
THE BOROUGH ACROSS THE
HIVER.
FIRST WARD
Auditor—
Bertram Jones, D 63
Albert Ellam, R. 58
Jones' majority, 5
Town Council—
Samuel O. Smyth, H. 3 Yrs 55
Malln S.lteler, D. 2 Yr.4 47
Reese P. Davis, D. 3 Yrs 65
James Kearns, D. 2 Yrs 7g
School Director—
Benjamin Ridington, R. 3 Yrs...62
Joseph Caress. R. 1 Yr 58
Charles D. Hampton, D. 3 Yrs. ..66
Joun H. Smith, D. 1 Yr 66
1 1 MOT—
William J. Pennington, R 63
Charles Brodell, D 60
Pennlngton's majority 3
Judge of Election—
Judge ol Election—
Alfred Crocker. D 67
William Simons, R 54
cioekers majority, -13
Inspector of Election—
Willard Megann, R 61
Jos. F. O'Brien, D 59
Megann's majority, 2
SECOND WARD
Auditor—
Bertram Jones, D 81
Albeit Ellam, H 65
Jones' majority.
Town Council—
Daniel shallow, D. .
Henry Redfearn, R.
Shallow's majority,
School Director—
Benjamin Riles, D. .
Henry Hammond, It
16
...80
...70
10
86
63
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Idles' majority. 23
Assessor—
Michael McDonnell, D 79
Harry Pope, R 70
McDonnell's majority, 9
Judge of Election—
William Graham. R 75
William Biown, D 73
Graham's majority 2
e id Klcetion—
tleorge McLaughlin, D 81
Mason Havener, R 67
McLaughlin's majority. 14
THIRD WARD
Auditor—
Albert Ellam. R 86
Bertram Jones, D 71
II
76
Ehain's majority, »
Town Council—
Bdward Bernardo, R. 3 Yr..
Alfred Bell, R. 1 Yr
William II. Martin, D. 3 Yr.
Kuward Smith. I). I Yr
School Director—
William Mowlds, R 79
George ... Dellaven, D 79
Vssi ISOT—
Matthias Ried, I) J2
Jacob Rlstlne, it 70
Ried'S majority,
Judge of Election—
Arthur Caress, R. ...
William J. Smith, D.
22
83
73
Caress' majority in
Inspector ot Election—
Edward Cassey, R 79
Harry Dougherty. D 74
Uassaya majority, 5
Tin re was thirty-seven cut tickets In
•1 e Third ..ard.
One Prominent Republican In the
i-'nsi W'ard, thinking he was voting
the straight ticket marked a cross In
thi -ipiare opposite the name of the
Auditor, placed his ballot In the box.
and stepped back. Upon discovering
his mistake he tried to have his ballot
returned, but it was too late.
Speaking of Jacob Ristine's defeat
in the Third Ward, a prominent Re-pub,
can worker of that Ward remark-ed,
"I was surprised at the result as I
expected Rlstlne to win. but thought
be would have a close shave; win by
n hair so to speak. Evidently the barber
had distributed a sample lot of razors
among some of the dissatisfied Repub-licans.
Judging from the manner In
which the Republican ticket was
slaughtered In his favor."
Miss Ella Hall, of this borough, and
Bdward C, Smith, of the East Side
wart United In the holy bonds of matri-mony
by Rev. B. K. Hoffman, of the
i-ree Baptist Church on Wednesday.
The funeral of Richard It. Cavanagh
occurred yesterday morning from the
DCS Of his brother-in-law, John
AicCabe. comer Bullock and Morion
Avenue. West Conshohocken. High
Mass oi Requiem was held in St. Gert-rude's
Church. Interment at St. Mat-thew's
New Cemetery.,
There is a possibility of the public
school being closed on account of the
extreme cold. During the past three
days the water pipes have been froz-en
and no water can be obtained. Tho
supply tai... Is almost empty and If
water cannot be secured shortly there
will be no water to All the boilers;
consequently the schools win have to
be dosed until the water supply can
be replenished,
i here Is a peculiar lie-up in politics
as a result 01 the election, in the
iiiud Vvard.oii Tuesday. Edward Ber-nardo,
the Republican and William
Martin, the Democrat, caudiuuic lor
the long term in Council, each re-ceived
the same number of votes, 79.
William Mowlds, Republican, and Geo.
A. DeHaven, the Democrat, candidate
for School Director, each received the
same number of votes. Just how the
vote will be settled is not fully known.
In each case the body to which the
candidates aspire have the authority
to elect, which in the Mowlds-De-
Haveu case, will go to the Republicans
in that body, but in the Council there
will be a tie vote, and in consequence
a deadlock, which will probably have
to be settled by the court. To a Re-corder
Representative Mr, Martin ex-pressed
himself as willing to decide
wuo shall sit in Council, by drawing
lots. This Is also believed to be
satisfactory to Mr. Bernardo, because
If the Court appoints either it will be
only until the next election. The term
Is for three years and by the first
plan the lucky man would be entitled
to the seat for three years. In view
of the following, the case will, more
than likely, be settled by the Court:—
The deciding of a tie vote for Town
Councllmen by the election board is
generally regarded by the legal pro-fession
as unlawful. In other words
the lection board overstepped their_ ~
authority. They were not justified In
drawing lots to decide the tie, even if
they did so under Article 28 in the
publication "General Information for
Electioa"
Tho tio was between ex-Assembly-man
II. H. Fetterolf, Republican, and
u. H. Grubb, Democrat, in the CoIIege-vllle
election district. Each received
59 votes for Town Council. The elec-tion
board thereupon, guided by the
aforementioned authority, decided to
settle what the voters did not, by
drawing lots. Lots were drawn, and
it happened that Mr. Fetterolf waa the
lucky one, and he was announced on
the return sheet as the winner.
This announcement created much
comment and the law was looked upon
the subject. On page 88 Trlcketts
Pennsylvana Borough Law, Edition,
1»93, notes that a tie vote for members
of Town Council results In no elect-ion,
and consequently in a vacancy;
and referring to the Act of June 1,
1883, Pennsylvania Laws, 55, Section
<, giving Town Council the power to
till vacancies until the next annual
election Trickett says:
"If there Is a tie between two candi-dates,
this Is probably the method of
filling the vacancy."
This question came up in Norristown
several years ago in the contest In the
Second Ward, where John Leitonberg-er.
Republican, tied with Jonas U.
Cassel. Democrat, and while not ex-pressly
decided by the Court the above
conclusion seemed to meet the views
of everybod concerned.
Every vote In the Third Ward was
polled with the exception of six-three
of each party.
Some one In the Third Ward who
did not wish to show partiality, voted
for every candidate on the ballot.
Matthias Ried, the Democratic can-didate
for Assessor in the Third Ward
received the highest vote of any can-didate
in a single ward—92.
John Smith who was elected to the
School Board, by the Democrats of the
First Ward. Is the youngest member
ever to enter tlie Board.
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