The Conshohocken Recorder, February 12, 1907

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TOWN NOTES
To-morrow is Ash Wednesday
James Baldwin, ot -Sixth avenue, is
•unfilled to his home with two broken
ribs, sustained bj a tail on the Ice.
A vaientine social will be given in
St. Mark's Lutheran Church on
Thursday evening by the Y. L. S. C.
Iflsi Qeig«r*s Class of Calvary Sun-fay
school will hold a pie and cake
•ale in the Parish House on Saturday
afternoon and evening.
To-morrow evening, In St. Mark's
K\. Lutheran Church, the advent of
Lent will be marked by a special Ash
Wednesday service.
Mrs Keiuiah P. Kieiuann, a form-er
resident <>r this borough, but now
«t the Hospital for the Insane, who
has been critically 111, la slowly Im-proving.
\ reception to th Pi G
vary Parish was g evening In
Parish House of Calvary church
io meet the Rector, Rev. Archibald
ii. Bradshaw and Mrs. Bradshaw.
kites Bee lie i J mi a i ntertalned
thirty of her friends from this bor-ough.
Weel Conshi booken, NDrris-town,
Roxborougl . ICanaynnk and
Philadelphia at her home on Seventh
avenue Wednesday evening:. Music
and games were indulged in. after
which refreshments were served.
I.ast evening Mr. and Mrs. Howard
u. Bate celebrated the Bfth anniver-sary
of their wedding by entertaining
about forty of their relatives and
friends a- their home on Fourth ave-nue.
- he couple received a number
of useful and handsome presents.
Guests were present from Norristown,
Conshohooken and Philadelphia.
Susan, Widow of the late David
Hats, aged 81 years, died at an early
hour, Saturday, at the homo of her
ion, James Matz. NarclflSa. Services
and interment on Wednesday at Zion'e
Lutheran Church, Whitemarsh. De-erased
was a grandmother of Mrs.
Thomas Weiss and Mrs. H. K. Gilbert,
the latter of W. 9th avenue.
The Presbyterian supper on Thurs-day
evening will be a regular cmck-cn.
potato, salad ana ice cream sup-per.
At the cloak room one's bcloii!;-
can be left in safety. At the
n:>ron table you can buy your wife a
useful present, in the curio room you
can save the expense and bother of
costly trips. At the cake table I he
world Is before you. Come and help
i church mortgage fund and encour-age
earnest women workers.
A historic exhibition will be open
to pleasure seekers on Thursday ev-ening
in the lecture room of the Pres-byterion
Church. Relics of the Rev-olutionary,
Civil and Spanish Wars,
such as swords, sabres, muskets bul-lets,
etc., while heirlooms of different
old families of Conshohockeu will be
viewed by persons present. Foreign
and domestic curiosities will also be
promising to those interested. It
is hoped everyone will receive the
worth of their money.
All of Saturday and Sunday the
many gunners and expert wing shots
of Conshohocken and West Consho-hockeu
were attracted to the dam in
the Schuylkill river at this place with
a longing and B yearning for an open
season for wild duck- Saturday
morning several flocks of the fowls
oi tne air arrived at this point and
soon their shrieks and the flapping
of their wings attracted many per-sons.
As one gunner expressed it
"There were never so many wild
ducks together at one time before,"
Truly the gunners could have made
quite a slaughter for the ducks seemed
careless and allowed the curious to
come close It reahy seemed as though
tue birds knew that the season was
closed and that there existed a severe
penalty for anyone shooting them. All
me gunners could do was to watch and
wonder.
Mr. and Urn. Horace c. Junes are
In b lorida.
Mrs. Kllwood Nbblttt, Of Harry
street, win, this evening,
the Busy Workers.
A pobtal card surprise was given
Bilsa liessie Jones of Seventh avenue
on her birthday on Saturday. She re-ceived
fifty postalB.
An entertainment will be given in
the basement of St. Matthew's Church
this evening at 8 o'clock. A pleasing
program has been prepared.
As the "hatching and "selling" sea-son
is about here, below we give a
nice little problem for some one to
work out. How many cau solve it?
A man once set a number of hens
with the intention of raising chickens.
Under each hen he placed as many
were hens. Two-thirds
01 the egga hatched properly, but one-half
of the voting chickens died before
they were fledged. Of the other half,
a third was carried off by fozi \ As a
unal stroke of ill-luck, when the re-maining
chickens had grown to full
size, thelvea entered the roost by night
and stole most of Them. The next
morning, when the owner came to
count his possessions, he found that he
had only half U many spring chick-ens
left iis there had t>.-• n Betttni I I
How many did the thieves t.-i k«'?
JANSEN-POTTS
At noon on Saturday, in the historic
Christ (Old Swedes') Church, on the
west bank of the Schuylkill river,
swedesburg. Miss Carrie, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Potts, of
Swedeland, became the bride ol the
~"v Wlldemar Jansen, rector of St.
Bartholomew P. B. Church. Philadel-phia.
Thus culminated a romance begun
several yean ago, when the bride, a
member of the choir and the groom,
thnn a curate of Christ's, met In the
furtherance of the church work.
The quaint old edifice, the church
home of the ancestors of the bride for
aearly ISO years, was prettily decorat-ed
for tb on and filled with
an assemblage of the Immi
friends and met 1 the contract-ing
parties.
Miss Mary MeCarter presided at the
organs, rendering the strains from
Lohengrin, as the bridal party ad-l
io the altar, the bride on the
arm of her father, and meeting the
groom at the altar railing.
Mrs. John D. Paist, of Norristown,
a sister of the bride, was macron of
honor, and the bridesmaids wire Miss
.tgnes Jensen, Of Philadelphia, a sis-ter
of the groom, and Helen Poth. of
Swedeland. the bride's sister.
Attending the groom was Herbert
Jensen, his brother, of Philadelphia.
'1 he ushers were Rev. H. K. B. Ogle,
a former curate at Christ (Old Swedes)
Cnurch, and Rev. George D. Valenta,
both of Philadelphia, John D. Paist,
of Norristown, and Robert Tower
rotts, of Spring Mill.
The ceremony was performed by
ttev. Edgar Cope, of St. Simeon's
Cnurch, Philadelphia, assisted by Rev.
". II. W. Stocking, D. D.. rector of
Oiu Swedes' Church, and Revfl Edwin
i. Carson, of St. Paul's Church, Phila-lelphla,
the latter a brot- -r-in-law
if the groom.
THE FREE LIBRARY
The committee appointed by the
town meeting to promot" the fre<» li-brary
has requested Mr. J. haiwood
Lee to act as chairman of a finance
committee to solicit subscriptions for
the endowing of a library from the
business men of the town.
Any one desiring to contribute may
send their contn jut ions to Mr. Lee.
Mr. Lee has also agreed to act as
treasurer of the association until it Is
incroporated and a treasurer regular-ly
elected.
TO ASSIST HEVENER
i- relief from nr
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works with certainty and satisfaction.
Itching, painful, protruding, or blind
piles disappear like magic by Its use.
Try it and see!
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Evenings by appointment onlv. ♦
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Following out his policy of up-to-date
service for Ardmore, Postmastei
'.ect Benjamin F. Hevener, has an-nounced
the appointment of Albert A.
Francis, a young Ardmore business
nan, to be his assistant when he takes
office about February 15.
Of the present clerks in the office
Miss Lillian Smith and Miss Eniil.
Kane will be retained, and Miss Kane
appointed to act as money order
clerk.
Albert A. Francis, the new assistant
'•'»r •-• • we'l Known bit
man of Ardmore, where he conduct
a jewelery. He is also a musician of
■onsiderable ability. In his younger
davs he attended the Ardmore schools
md graduating, entered Into business.
He had always been a staunch Repub-lican,
and 4s at present Registry As-sessor
of the North Ardmore district.
UEAUTY MORE THAN SKIN DEEI
Every one who wants a good health?
color, and a clear skin free from bil-' siting and intense effect ever pro-
Phlla. Ledger.
A wave of literary sentiment is at
present sweeping over GonshohoV'ken.
-NO better evidence of the fact could be
dslred than the unanimous approval
with which a free library proposition
lias been received by officials, profes-sional
and business men, mechanics
and all the citizens. Nor is it pro-posed
to have anything but a well-conducted
library, tilled with a com-plete
catalogue of high-class fiction,
historical works, travel, science and so
on, all to be under the care of a trail
ed librarian.
The subject has been under consider-ation
for some time by the educators
oi the borough, but it is only within
the past few weeks that sentiment has
been roused in the literary- mind of
tne population generally. The net re-sult
of this united effort to dale is that
a large, well-ventilated and lighted
room in the centrally located High
School building has been set apart
for the new library; the 11000 volumes
In the old Calvary parish library have
been obtained as a nucleus: the sever-al
hundred volumes of the defunct
Franklin Literary and Debating Socie-ty
will be added thereto: the State
Hoard of EMUCatlon at Harrisburg has
promised the loan 01 tit least SOU vol-umes
from time to time, as well as to
lend its active co-operation; members
of the local School Board have pli
$;iOO each for Its support, in addition
to the heating and lighting of the
rooms; $2000 has been already sub-scribed
by private oltlsens, and from
Town Council is expected a liberal ap-propriation.
So it may he - aid that the library
is not only an assured fact, but a cer-tain
success. Buperintendeni of
Schools Zlegler has been the prime
mover in the library proposition, sup-ported
by the teachers generally, and
finally backed up by the School Board.
While it is the intent to make the new
institution an Instrument tor the wider
diffusion of literature and culture
throughout the length and breadth of
the borough, a particular desire on
the part of the promoters Is to have
near at hand a library of reference for
the greater dissemination of knowl-among
the High School boys and
girls, and to aid both teacher and pu-pils
in their work, and the Councils
will lend Its official assistance there is
no doubt. Councilman ftfeany express-ed
the general sentiment of his fel-low
members when he said:
"Bven it some of us may he lacking
iii literary culture ourselves, and dis-inclined
to make an appropriation on
that selfish account, the sentiment
among both the men and women of
the town la greatly In favor of a li-brary,
and we would be most derelict
and obstinate not to listen to the act
favorably upon their wishes."
Suggestions that Andrew Carnegie
be appealed to for help in the matter
have been made. The leaders in the
movement, however, have discouraged
this for the present. They say that
decidedly tin better plan is to go ahead
with the project, fostered and encour-aged
in its inception by home people,
and then when a showing can be made
of not only Conshohocken's aspiration
for greater knowledge, but her proven
efforts to obtain It. Mr. Carnegie can
be appealed to with an almost certain
probability of success.
"UNCLE JOSH SPRUCBBY"
"Uncle Josh Spruceby," the best of
the many rural plays now being pre-sented
In the different cities, will be
seen at Little's Opera House on
Thursday, February 14th. ThlB pro-duction
is said to be different from all
others as it contains much comedy
as well as pathos, and the realistic
saw-mill scene is said to be the most
SPRING MILE VALENTINES
St. Valentine's day, which, with
its every return oeconies more and
uioro a general gift day. is only two
days off and Conshohocken merchants
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Evangelist Norton, of Croyer ;
inary, will conduct the evange
service at the Spring Mill Baptist
Cnurch Saobath evening, February Li.
Mr. Norton will also conduct the sing- j who deal in the pretty fancies |ip-ing
at Sabbath school to which Ber- I propriate to the season, are display-vice
all the boys and girls are urged to | mg inactive stocks of sentimental
tokens.
Books have come to be the favor-ite
valentine rememberance. Love
stories or volumes of verses, dressed i
up In pretty bindings, decorated with j
ii.,..ons and further adorned with dc- i
be present.
APPEAL FROM JUSTICE
'Lie firm of S. B. Wagner and Char-les
Wickershraan. feed dealers, have
filed an appeal in the Pronthonotary's
office from the decision of M. M. Mts-sinier,
justice of the peace, of Potts-town,
and have entered bail In the
sum of |860. Suit was brought against
the firm of M. P. Anderson, agent for
"~ B. Critchiield, secretary of the De-partment
of Agriculture of Pennsyl-vania.
The defendants were char
With violating the state law regard-ing
foou stuffs and a decision was giv-en
against them by the justice.
LOCAL ITEMS
Joel Harley, of Trappc. is confined
to his bed. seriously ill with pneu-monia.
His wife is dangerously Blck
with rheumatism. Her mother, Mrs.
Mary Wright, lies dead in the house.
Their son, James Harley, is confined
to his bed with the grip, and the hir-ed
girl, Mary Malloy, is convalescing
from a severe attack of pneumonia.
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Alleging that Solomon Regal had
threatened to thrust a long-blaced
knife into her and "drink her liie-blood,"
Mrs. Joseph Duuiee, of Nun:-
town, has brought suit, claiming 11500
damages.
Plaint.if and defendant lived as
neighbors In the suburbs of the town.
when the alleged threat was made, and
sne says It threw her Into an illness
of a permanent character.
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A fire caused by his four-year-old
son Paul playing with paper in the
Btov ' while his mother was on an er-rand
destroyed George W. Kno'■;'.-
home at I'ottstown Friday afternoon.
with all its contents; loss, $1500.
"Mamma. I have done somethin !"
the child exclaimed when his mother
came near the house and found the in-side
ablaze. The firemen had difficul-ty
in saving adjoining buildings.
CALVARY CHURCH
Services will be held to-morrow-
Ash Wednesday, at 7.45 P. M.
On Thursday evening Rev. T. W.
Lnmb. D. D., Rector of St Martins
Church. Radnor, will conduct the ser-vices.
^EAD 1 HE RECORDER fl.00 a yr.
tachable paper bands, inscribed with
tne words, "To My Valentine.' are
conspicuous in the show, as are pic-tures
of which the Christy and Harri-son
Fisher drawings have first choice.
One of the book novelties has tor
- name. Cupid's Game in Hearts."
It Is a love romance, told by corre-spondence.
Opon each page is f
ed what appears to be a genuine let-ter.
Telegrams come into this tale,
and there are newspaper clippings to
round out the story. The book is box-ed,
and with its illustrations by Chris-ty,
and white binding, lettered with
gold It is altogether a clever device for
the day when hearts are trumps.
The old-fashioned lace valentines.
with their tinsel decorations, cupidS,
hearts and flowers, and their senti-mental
posits, never lose their charm.
These in all their glory may be pur-chased
at the shops where valentines
are on sale, together with the huge
arrangements of delicately tinted pa-pers,
twisted and turned into flower-like
shapes and inclosed in boxes of
imposing style. 'i in .;. an
valentines and appeal especially to
those who like things thai are showy.
Vaientine post cards of all descrip-tions
figure in the display, and mere
are drop valentines in many differ-ent
shapes UP! designs which n ay
be nought at a variety of prices, be-ginning
with a penny, Wet?r colors,
mounted in art! lea, come into
the list a.so, and there are many oth-er
tol, "Sincere love." which are
pretty to hang on the walls until their
lied and they must
be laid away with Other bibelots of
i oi I Iren there are amusing
B iii the way of Buster Brown
and Foxy Grandpa figures. Then
there an Buster Brown hearts en-graved
with some one of this worthy
youth's maxims and there an
without number whose sole mission is
to create tun and laughter. One of
i In e is embellished with two hearts
entwined, and a cardboard represen-tation
Of a trunk, to Which are at-tached
a tiny ring and shoe. The mes-sage
this conveys is "How would you
like to have such things come your
way.'"
L'pou another of these cards is fas-tened
a nut, placed in decorative sur-rouniiings
and explained with the lines
"I'm going nutty for you;
Come soon or I'll skidoo."
Vaientlnes of this kind are the ar-huoerats
among the "comics," and
where only a jest is wanted they fit
the purpose, as they are always good
natured and harmless, and are fre-quently
witty.
I he florists make extra preparations
for St. Valentine remembrances and
will be well supplied with flowers,
especially those to which there are
tender meanings. Boston buds, vio-lets,
lilies of the valley, in fact all
the early spring flowers, are consid-ered
particularly appropriate, and
whether you can read their lore or
not, as a gift there is nothing lovelier.
For this reason the florists have in re-serve
some new and artistic arrange-ments
for flowers, in settings which
will enhance their natural beauty.
IO STOP POLLUTION
A loused by the State Board of
Health's ultimatum to citizens to dis-continue
using the Schuylkill River
as a dumping place for sewage, Town
Council of Pottstown is getting busy.
The Sewer Committee has practically
recommended that a storm drainage
and storm sewer pipes be laid, and that
the cost be paid by the property-ow-ners
in the way of a frontage tax.
Separate lines of sewage and storm
pipes will be laid, the borough paying
tor the latter, while the cost or the
former will be borne equally by the
property-owners on each side of the
street.
As it is now much of the sewage is
drained through natural water cours-es
into the Schuylkill River. A sew-age
disposal plant will be a necessary
adjunct of the proposed new system.
BUY FINE SUBURBAN TRACT
one of the most, etxenslve and im-portant
real estate deals in the su
ection tor many months, and one
that means much to the historic old
Abington, has, it is said,
just been consummated.
Twenty-four acres of land along the
Old York road, and fronting on one
side of Susquehunna avenue, has been
sold to a syndicate of five persous, the
negotiations having been conducted by
Mr. L. Konler, a Philadelphia real es-tate
dealer, who has figured largely
In suburban transactions recently.
The price is said to have been in the
neighborhood of S1400 per acre.
liOcal people said to be among the
syndicate of five persons are Beau-veau
Borie and C. O. Meade Large.
It is understood these two men con-template
the erection of splendid coun-try
homes on part of the tract.
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IF YOU
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ALUM
and look in the glass—you will see the effect
You can't help puckering—it makes
to think of tasting it.
By the use of so called cheap Baking
Powders you take this puckering, injurious Alum
right
and
into your system—you injure digestion,
ruin your
AVOID ALV
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constipation should get a package ol
Dainty Laxakola tonic tablets, natures
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pJrla Toms for girls 50c to ji.
Also college hats 75c. at Tracey's the
hatter, Norristown.
duced. The scenes of the play are laid
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gfves ample opportunity for portray-ing
the simple rustic characters in
i y o well ■ i the many Incldi nti
thai I" fall aim] le i ounl \ folk who
visit the metropolis.
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' than Alum but
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