The Conshohocken Recorder, January 29, 1907

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TOWN NOTES
Mr. Theodore Baron, of Bridgeton,
N. .1.. is on a 10 days' visit to Frank
(acquot of 31J West Third avenue.
Daniel Hoey, proprietor of the For-rest
House, who suffered a badly brok-en
arm some weeks ago, is now slow-ly
recovering the use of this member.
The Misses Fly tin of Norristown,
were the guests of Miss Annie E. K.l
ly, of Fayette street, on Sunday even-ing
• lerbert Hallett has purchased the
»wo lots of ground ou the southeast
•orner of Tenth avenue and Fayetn
street, He expects to erect a house
there this year.
Druggist Neville will occupy the new
-•tore room of Taylor Heiff. on Fayette
Street, In the rear of his present phar-macy,
in this annex will be conducted
» paint and electrical supply house.
A neighborhood conference of the
Cirls' Friendly Society will be held in
the Parish House of Calvary Church
wn Wednesday evening, January :.oth,
at 8 o'clock. This meeting la called by
Mrs. Wilson, President of the Girls'
Friendly Society, in Pennsylvania, and
it is hoped that every member will be
present. The branches of the Girls'
ally Society in Norristown, Swede-land,
Phoenixville and Pottstown, are
dso Invited to attend.
A method of extracting nitric acid
from the atmosphere by a commercial-ly
profitable process is said to have
been discovered. If this be so—and
the eminence of the scientists who
made the discovery and who vouch for
the report permits no doubt—the bCQS-
' Sts resulting therefrom to commerce,
industry and in particular to agricul-ture
would be almost Inestimable.
Nitrogen is the chief food of plants,
and If the unlimited .supply of that ele-ment
present In the air can be reduced
to a form in which it can be absorbed
By vegetation—as it cannot be in its
free state—the most barren soil could
i ariched and be made productive,
while good land could be made proof
Insl exhaustion
All of the rats and mice from one
end of the world to the other are
rloomed to die. This is not a mere
prophecy for the health officials of
Milwaukee have learned of a new vlr-
I at will cause every rat and mouse
to die from a disease, tne symptoms of
wnich resemble pneumonia and the
virus will be introduced to make Mil-waukee
the centre of the war of exter-mination.
When a rat is inoculated
with the virus, the serum affects the
lungs and they go about gasping for
fresh air. It is believed that none
«t the victims will die within the walls
or In the basement. The disease is
-contagious and one rat or mouse affect-ed
may carry the germs to all other
rodent In the community. The best
of it Is that the disease cannot be
ismitted to any other animal or
fowl. A cat can relish a mouse that
is in the last stages and there will be
no danger.
If you have thrown your last eum-mi
r's straw hat on lop of tin ward-
>'" . thinking that next year it will
not be in Btyle and will come In han-dy
only lo wear around the house, get
it down, brush the dust off it and put
it away carefully. For next year the
name kind of straw hats will be worn
as last year. Split straw, sennit and
■oft brim will be just as much in de-mand.
Panama hats have not yet seen
their finish and one may wear his next
•ummer without fear of being laughed
at. The straw-hat manufacturers,
who are Just now at the height of
their season, are all making the same
kinds of hat that they made the sea-son
before. There will be perhaps
some little changes, but not enough
to be noticed. The Panama, it is ex-pected,
will be revived again, and the
oan-brlm straw hat, which can be
distorted to suit the taste of its wear-er,
will also be in demand. Lots of
soft straws with the pencil curl are al-so
being made. Nobody is thinking
much of straw hats now. Thoughts of
ear protectors and sealskin caps are
more appropriate, but the straw-hat
manufacturers are doing their sum-mer
thinking months ahead of time.
Harry Xiebsenger is laid up with in-juries
received by a fall.
Henry Beaver, of Fourth avenue, is
recovering from three weeks' illness.
Four person were baptized in the
Baptist Churcn on Sundny evening by
the pastor. Rev. A. J. Daviee.
It was Dr. J. B. Kuhn's birthday on
Sunday and Ins wife gave him a sur-prise
dinner in which a number of
friends participated.
Mr. John Kurtz and Mrs. Annie
ireitsschllohter were married on Satur-day
evening by Rev. W. F. Bare pas-tor
of the Lutheran Church. They
Will reside on Third avenue.
John F. Smith, a former resident of
this borough, and the father of
ml Smith, of First avenue, died on
Thursday In Philadelphia, aged «s
years. The funeral services were held
on Sunday afternoon. The Interment
was in the Gulf Cemetery.
Thomas Nevens, one <>f the town's
oldest and most respected residents,
who resides at the corner of Forrest
and Marble street, is seriously 111. Mr.
Nevens was formerly an employee of
the Reading Ballwaj company work-in
n as night watchman at the West
Spring Mill tower for many -cars.
Hotel and saloon keepers In tl is bor-ough
are already preparing their bonds
and license applications to present to
the Court in March. These have to be
made out with great care as on sever-al
occasions the failure to comply with
ilie strict formalities of the law have
caused licenses to be held up and the
business closed down for several days.
It is said to be more difficult every
year to obtain bondsmen, who are ac-ceptable
to the Court. Years ago men
of no property signed and were accep-ted
but this does not hold good now.
It is understood that those applicants
Who now have only eating house 11-
- will again enter their formal ap-plications
again for full hotel privil-eges.
They were refused last, year and
appealed, but without success.
The Plrsl War I Democratic primary
meeting was held In the Borough Hall
"n Friday night, and the following
nominations were made:
Town council, John A. Harrold.
School Director, Patrick Lacey
Assessor. Michael Nevins.
Judge of Elections, Joseph Rafferty.
Inspector of Flections. John Smith.
I iii' Democratic primary meeting of
Plymouth township, West District,
wm held last night at O'Neill's Hotel,
ana Ute following ticket was named:
Supervisor, George w. nfullln.
School Directors, George F. Hall-man.
Thomas Lynch, Robert Lovett
assessor, William Casey.
I listant Assessor, George Kelly.
Auditor, Harry Foulke.
Judge of Flection, William C. Tracy.
inspector of Election, Stephen Mflr-pny.
IOHN A. HARROLD.
Nominated for Town Council by the Democrats of the First Ward. Mr.
Harrold is the present representative from that ward now serving in the
councilmanic body.
F- H LUBBE BEAD
Francis H. Lubbe, one of the oldest
and best-known residents, died on Fri-day
evening at his home. Spring Mill
avenue and Cherry street.
COUNTY OFFICES
A v.ew bill to be introduced into the
Legislature is the one proposing to
extend the Civil Service law which
now governs the appointment in Phil-
SAYS SHE WILL SUE
I';.rolled from the Lower Merlon no-
! Itlon, where She was taken upon
charges preferred by J, D. Bills, of
Narberth, Delia Coihold. threats!
bring suit against those who were i on-cerni
d In hi r arrest, claiming she was
falsely accused.
There was a fight between female
sen ml employed by Ellis Saturday
night, during which another maid was
rarely scratched as to need the
services of a physician. Sunday after-noon
Bills asked Justice McCIellan to
have the maid arrested, which was
done, but tie failed to appear at a hear-ing
and she was released on parole.
Mr. Lubbe had been ill for a number "delphla, and other cities to ah coun-of
weeks, and his end was not iinex- "rs 0| the state having a population
pected. °f 150,000 or over.
Tin- funeral services were held at Tue entire retinue of officers and ap-one
o'clock this afternoon. Rev. A. J. j Pointments in the counties of Alle-
Davics conducting them. The inter- j gheny. Berks, Lackamanna. Lancas-ment
was in the Montgomery Ceme-!***' I^werne, Schuylkill and West-tcry.
Norristown. I moreland, and possibly Montgomery,
■ . some under the provisions of the Civil
Mr. Lubbe has had a long an„ ! ^rvlce requirements, and good, worthy
honorable career. Born at Steinbeck :ln'> "ble ntirsons aPP°inted to fill >
in the parish or linger, count] of Her plarcs-ford,
in the province of Westphalia ™8 bil1 is t0 be known ^ the Com"
Kingdom of Prussia, Germany on : "u"nv' ■"' •""l County bill and is be-
Aprll 9, 1820. the son-of Herman am ' ' L ,hc Uvil Service Re"
Catberlne KUmman Lubbe, he landed lorin Assoclation. The civil Service
in America—at Baltimore-in im bi" WaS defeatl-,d °y the tart Legisla-
Ke proceeded to Philadelphia, and not tUW Bt ,!e tl,l;e phlladelphia reform
securing employment a.; his trade tsr- l>iM went thr0l,sh because it was de-r,
«n-«'ng. he continued to Bridge '''""l ,liat U,e exPonse of putting the
p."t. where he was employed for a
time before going ti Co tsbohocken,
wiitr- lie fo.'c up his residence.
V Lubbe successfully engaged it,
' I't.g end contract! i< until !s:0,
when he took up real estate and con-new'
scheme into operation would
more than eclipse the benefits to be
derived therefrom.
The provisions of the Act call for
the appointment of three Commis-sioners
in sympathy with the purpose
SELL POPLAR STREET
To the Recorder:
There was a very interesting letter
in your issue of January ISth. signed
by Mr. Joseph E. Kindregan. Jr., re-garding
the end of Poplar street which
was recently returned to the city by
the Alan Wood Company, owing to the
fact that they had not erected a steel
plant as provided iror In the original
[OH Of this street.
I was very glad, indeed, to note that
the borough had just come into poss-ession
of this property, which Mr.
Kindregan appraises at $10,000. it is
a pity thai such a valuable property
belonging to the borough should lie
Idle, especially when we are so in need
of funds for many purposes. Would
it not be well for councils to take
this property on the
market, oral least in the hands of
some reputable real estate agent? I
i I that the records show that
the Alan Wood Company purchased
about COO00 square feet of land ad-joining
the recently ceded street for
i 00. As the street is thirty feet
wide by about (100 feet long, it has an
ares of 18,000 sq. feet, and its value
at the rate paid by the Alan Wood
iany would therefore bo $2100.
The Bhai 0 the property the bor-ough
has thus acquired would, hi
ST, I"' rainsr against its sale for man-ufacturing
purposes at such a 1
Doubtless Mr. Kindregan can enlighten
us as to how $10,000, file price he
names, can be obtained.
I also think that Mr. Kiudregan's
suggestion that a wreath be placed
upon the brow of ex-Councilma/ Mich-ael
J. O'Brien, is a very timely one,
and there should be no delay in
promptly carrying it out. If there are
any wreaths left, Mr. Kindregan's
in calling attention to Mr. O'-
B lung neglected act should aol
ipotten.
POPLAR STRBE3T.
THE FREE LIBRARY
LICENSE VOTE
EVERY THIRD YEAR
\eyanclng. in which business he con-'01' tlu' Act not more than two 0!
tinned until about ten years age j W"0m bha" be adheren,s of the same
since when he has lived retired He po""cal Part>'- ne president of the
was instrumental in the organization boar'1 ls to get *3'500 sa,ary >"earl*
of building and loan associations !'ml tno mhe two mo™bers $2,000. They
which have been the boon to many a ar° ^ emjjl°y a chief examiner who
working man in the town. He served ' WiU alK° at:t as 8ecreUlrv an«* such
in various official capacities in the as- otner eIerks and otner exam««»ers as
sociatlons. To him was largely due n,ay be deemed necessary. Ine snlar-the
formation of the local electric ! ies of ,heso altachees are to be deter-light
company, of which he was pros- 1 n,,ncd "pon by the commission,
ident for a long time. F-"'h of the counties of the State
A Republican, he served as a School \ ,n"sl ""'vi'|p "nitable rooms for the
tor, and as borough treasurer. I 'v "n and »»Pn»" for tQe con-lie
was an Odd Fellow, and one of the | duct °f the same' Tne commission is
pillars of the Baptist Church, of which "' Dre8cribe. enforce and amend reg-he
was a charter member.
On .March 10, 1853, Mr. Lubbe mar-ried
Anna I.. Caster, and of three
children bin one survives. The eldest,
Charles, shortly after graduatting from
Annapolis Naval Academy, to which
he was endorsed by Congressman
illations subject to Gubernatorial ap-proval
for carrying the Act into ef-fect.
Shonld the Governor take no
rule or action upon an amendment
within 16 nays it would become as ef-re
as if approved. The cotft is
empowered to impose a fine of from
Alan Wood, Jr., was drowned at At-i^" '° *1'000 or imprisonment of not
lantlc City, while heroically endeavor- | mor<-' t|ian two years in jail or both for
ing to rescue a man from Philadelphia.
new Local Option bill entrusted
to Representative Frank Craven, of
ilhgton County, would require the
yuarter Sessions Court In every coun-ty
to order an election in connection
with (he genera] election in February
on the question of whether there shall
be permitted during the ensuing three
the sale, gift or delivery of any
BOrt of intoxicating liquor in that lo-cality.
>;||,s^ of the popular decision,
a similar election would occur 1
three years. The voting would be done
by marking a "Tea" or "No" on the
ballot with the names of can-didates
for office. The prohibition
against selling, giving or delivering la
to be enforced In the ca y per-son,
linn, company or corporation."
The penalty (or violating the law is to
be Horn $500 to $5000 line and from
twelve momns in jail.
The .Mil's friends seem to regard the
Law and Order Committee or each
"loaued' against it. Death In
■"i". » raven's family delays the intro-of
the bill.
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DR. J. B. MAHN
DENTIST
69 Fayette Street
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LOCAL ITEMS
The Pennsburg election Incident,
which was brought to the attention of
the Court by the allegation that Sher-iff
Matthew's election proclamation
Was misleading, iu that it made the
voting place at the schoo lhou.se when
it was at the town hall, is closed.
i lie Court yesterday decreed that the
proper place to hold the elections is
In iae town hall.
trtcal equipment.
rs:—9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
Bvenings by appointmeat only. ♦
Bell Phone SI W. ♦
The Board of Directors of the Mont-gomery
county Almshotise met at that
institution last Thursday with the ob-ject
of nling the vacancies for farm
hands. There had been several appli-cations
but not one appeared at the
meeting and In cot
no election. The directors were great-ly
disappointed. Another meeting will
'al>< plnce in the 1
That was August 4, 1809. The young-est,
Wilmer F., died of typhoid fever
February 6, 1889.
C A STAGER DEAO
Calvin A. Stager, freight agent for
the Reading Railway at Germautown,
died at his residence. No. 27.15 North
Thlrti
Sunday of an affection of the liver.
Mr. Stager was on Saturday evening
elected first vice president of the Qua-ker
City Association of Railroad Men.
Mr. Stager is a former resident of
this borough, and was a member of
Fritz Lodge of Masons here.
The funeral services will be held
this evening at his late home. The
Interment will be at Newport, Pa., to-morrow
morning.
violations of the law.
The provisions of the new bill
would affect the offices of the Record-
ANSWERS SHOTS
WITH THREAT
Discovering a burglar attempting to
break into his home on Wiaaor ave-nue,
Narberth, early yesterday morn-ing,
George W. Light fired three shots
er of Deeds, the Register of Wills, the after the man, who succeeded in mak-
Shcriff, the County Commissioners, the ing his escape. As he went, he ■topped
District Attorney, in addition to those I for an Instant, and shouted back over
officers commonly known in this coun-1 his shoulder: "All right. I'll fix you
ty as Deputies, the Clerk of the Quar- i for this some day," Light's costume
A very successful meeting was held
in the Parish Building of Calvary
Church last evening to further plans
for the establishment here of a (re-public
library.
Arthur G. Bugbee introduced John
Swan as the chairman of the meeting.
Mr. Swan introduced Mr. Bliss of
the Pennsylvania Free Library Asso-ciation
as the first speaker.
■Mr Bliss Stated that the State fos-ters
the establishment of free librar-ies
and if one be had in Coushohocken
the Association would lend it books.
as many as wantetl and as often as'
wanted.
He said that tree public libraries were
not only desirable but were necessary,
i bey were necessary supplements to
•lie public schools. In that they provia-l
proper reading for the children.
lamented by private subscriptions.
Price, the next speaker, had
some samples of literature which were
supplied the boys of ..ie town. She
stated that these sensational maga-zines
and papers were freely circui-ted
here, as well as literature which
is prohibitd by law. and unless the
boys were given other and better lit-erature
these would form their ideals.
Miss Price suggested that the proper
method or getting the library is to
have Town Council and School Board
make annual appropriations to its sup-port,
these appropriations to be imp-lemented
by private subscriptions.
Charles Heber (lark told of the or-ganization
of the present library now
housed in the Parish Building of Cal-vary
Church.
He was the prime mover in its or-ganization
twenty years ago, when ho
was a member of the vestry of Calvary
Church. Giving freely of his own
books, getting subscriptions of money
and books from others, and finnlly
With the assistance of Rev. Dr. Atkins
persuading Qeorge Umlock, to givi
collection of books which had been
purchased for the use of his employees.
These books are now seldom used, and
A.r. Clark suggested that possibly the
rector and vestry of the church would
give them to form the nucleus of a
free public library for the borough. It
found inadvisable to have such
a library connected with a religious
corporation.
Rev. A. H. Bradshaw. the rector of
the church, said that the vestry and
rector had talked over the proposition
or giving away these books and that
the greater part of them would be
loaned or given to a free library of
Conshohocken. if it were organized
here.
Witiiam (leaver. Rev. .1. F. Shep-partf,
J. T Cray, Conrad Jones ,\. Q
Bugbee and others Bpoke in favor of
the project.
Finally action was taken l.y the se-
'cctteg of a committee of three, eon
g of Conard Jones. S. Gordon
Smytb and H. It Heywood to propose
to the meeting B committee of nine.
this committee to endeavor to secure
■ n ai-prnprialii.il tnnn Council and the
benool hoard, and to take such steps
as are a cessary to the establishing of
a lib: ary here.
The committee selected consisted of
the following: Frederic i.. Clark, Ed-mund
K. Williams, John F Rowker.
William Cleaver. Thomas I'. McCoy.
A. G. Bugbee W. I. Hey wood. William
Murray Frank Collins.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ter Sessions, the offices of all of the
Courts, the Board of Revision of Tax-es,
all City Controllers, and City
Th« Philadelphia bill
would 01 course remain unaltered, anil
the fight the Philadelphia element will
put up against the new bill will be tin
fiercest seen in the House and Senate
in many a session of the legislature.
William F. Graham to Winfield M
Griffiths. House, Hector near Pou-lar
street, $1500.
Bridget Devanny to Annie P. Bate.
JIousc, Third avenue near Wood street.
$1000.
The LADIES' STYLE BOOK
Such Indeed Is the February issue
of Dressmaking at Home. It contains
twenty-four pages of beautifully print- —Croup can positively be stopped in
ed dress designs and fashion plates.!"0 minutes. No vomiting—nothing to
was too aobreviated for him to follow
the man.
Several residents were awakened,
but as no further disturbance occur-the
Intruder made good hi
cape. It was discovered later thai he
had broken open a tool kit in the cel-lar,
and was at work on the inside
cellor dour when discovered. As a
result of this affair the Town Council
will be asked to provide needed police' " '° Ben'"'e a clloi(" ol soats Th'-
protection. .mice of all the reserved seats is the
, [same—60 cents,
To those who have purchased tick-ets
for the Minstrel show to he given
by the Knights or Columbus in Nor-
Hfltown on ncxl Friday night. we
prophesy an excellent entertainment.
To those who have not yet secured
I heir tickets we would suggest the ad
visabliity of doing so at once, in ord-
E..OSY A plain bell buckls with red
moire ribbon attached. Kinder will
leave the same at K< dmond's
CHARMING WOMEN
Nothing lends more to personal
rhnrtn than a dear rosy skin and
nothing is BU s :ra to free the skin
from moth spots, sallownese and the
effects of chronic constipation as the
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cents at Thos. F. McCoys Drug Store.; World. Sea ymr newsdealer about it
The rsading matter descriptive of the
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l.e easily comprehended. Dressmaking
at Home is a practical guido to mak-ing
one's own garments, and gives
splendid advice to those who have
their dp as made. This valuable
publication will be given free with
cv ry copy of next Sunday's New York
J
sicken or distress your child. A sweel
pleasant, and safe Syrup, called Dr.
SbOop'S Croup Cure, does the work
and does it quickly. Dp, Bhdbp'S
Croup Cure is for Croup alone, remem-ber.
It does not claim to cure a doz-en
ailments. It's for Croup, that's all.
Sold by All dealers.
If you have an Item of news, social
or personal, send It to The Recorder.
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