The Conshohocken Recorder, April 12, 1907

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TOWN NOTES
Herbert D. Mallet is on a business
trip lo California.
The Women's Reiier Corps will meet
on next -Monday uight in the Post
room of G. A. R. Hall.
Don't forget the drama 'Valley
Kartn." to be given in the Parish
House on the evening of the 1!5 and
•:6th.
S. J. McLaughlin, of this borough,
attended the golden wedding anniver-sary
of Mr. and Mrs. John Kneas, of
Norrlstowu. last week, he being the
only person, not a relative, present.
Members of the star Conshohock-
>-n Lodge. No. 98, Shepherds of Bethle-hem,
request a lull attendance of their
members on Saturday evening, April
18th, 1907. as the final reading of the
by-laws will be acted upon.
Nellie, daughter of Thomas and
Cecilia MeOulre, of Elm and Cherry
street, and granddaughter of Patrick
and Elizabeth McGee, dud Wednesday
morning, aged three weeks. Funeral
took place yesterday; interment at Si.
Matthew's Cemetery.
Mrs. J. B. McKay, of Greens ville, S.
C mother of Mrs. J. F. Sheppard, of
this borough, died at her home on
Sunday evening, at seven o'clock. The
funeral services were held on Tues-day
afternoon. Rev. and Mrs. Shep-pard
were in attendance at the fune-ral.
All comrades are requested to meet
at the post room in <}. A. R. Hall, in
full uniform or dark clothes on Sun-day
evening, April nth. at 7 o'clock
sharp, to attend service in the First
Baptist Church. Am! on Saturday ev-ening,
April 20th, 1907. all comrades
'■quested to be present in uniform
sc dark clothes to receive the Depart-
■ I] i nder and Staff, who will
pay i he Post a visit on that evening.
On April 14th, 1865, occurred the as-natlon
•" Pr< sld n1 ' lucola its
try this y< on a Sun-day,
in vii w ol thai fact, '
Smith Tost, TO, Q '■ '■'■ ■ ■ > * with
the Women's Relief Corps and tin
SOIH of Veterans, will attend divine
m a body on Sunday evening
Mr. and Mrs. John J. I'imran and
family desire to thank their man]
friends for their kindness in their re-cent
bereavement.
Conshohocken people who have been
for several days enduring almost ze-"
ro weather are of the opinion that the
weather man mixed the mouths of
March and April. The former month
brought one continuous period of
spring weather and sunshine, but
April so far—everything else.
S. J. McLaughlin, proprietor of the
Philadelphia cash grocery, has placed
a new electrically driven coffee mill in,
his Btore. The machine is the only
one of its kind in the borough, and
is one of the beat and largest on the
market, and is a great Improvement
to bis already well-equipped place of
business.
The end of the souvenir postal card
craze has not been reached yet.
While every conceivable idea in the
way of ii card has been produced by
the publishers, a new variety has been
displayed on the local stands in the
shape of a series of pictures incidental
to the Thaw-White tragedy. Mrs.
Evelyn Nesblt Thaw is shown in an
endless variety of poses.
The baseball fans and players of
the Men's Club will meet again to-morrow
afternoon on the Twelfth ave-nue
grounds for practice. There has
only been one meeting on the field,
ami that was last Saturday at which
time the weather was rather bad for
baseball; but the boys seemed to be
enthusiastic and Captain Moore was
very much pleased with the initial at-tempt.
Walters played in fine form,
but is rather stiff as a result. Ben-nett
and Murray, two old local stars.
lent effort to the practice by thei: ex-
| rience on the diamond. Then there
Dennis, Woodward and Barle and
al more of the twirlers. who, it
is hoped by the club, will be on hand
to-morrow. It is also hoped that the
v .-iiner will be more agreeable than
last-Saturday. Don't lei the thoughts
of the annual b ' Monday night
interfere with > oui out Gel
together, now fellows, and we can
soon have a game. The club and ath-letic
commmittee, by the way. are
the soldiers on "Abraham Lincoln's
Mastery of Life."
John G. Dennis, of this borough,
has accepted a position as bonkkeep-rith
the Beech Creek and Eastern
Coal Company of Crescent Springs,
Pa. Mr. Dennis left for his new field
mi Wednesday. On Tuesday evening
next at the Baptist Church. The Pas-tor,
Rev. A. J. navies, will speak to Eery sorry to learn that the services
ot John Dennis, secretary of the rluh,
been lost. Mr. Dennis baa u
ted a position out of town.
The executive commute of the Con-ard
family, descendants of John and
Sarah Conrad, of Whitpaiii township,
met Sunday afternoon to make arran-gements
for the fourth annual reun-l
number oi his friends tendered him ion. Those present were Lewis Con-
B farewell party at his home. 408 Har-ry
street Games, music, vocal and
instrumental and other amusements
formed the evening's pastime. At a
late hour all present did ample justice
to a most Inviting repast, and aftef
giving the host their best wishes for
success in his new line of employment.
those present returned to their re-spective
homes. Among those present
were Miss Sue, Bertha and Anna Rai-nier,
Hilda Smith. Bessie Jones. Mary
Uw. Margaret Kilpatrick, Carrie Ray,
Martie Campbell. Janet Gray. Maud
Shay, Edna and Maud Grennor.
Mary Ban-, Ethel Sudders. Ethel
Righter. Emily Bright, Helen Davis,
Dollie and Lidie Earl, Mrs. Kilpat-rick,
Mrs. McCord and Messrs. Clar-ence
Moore. Ambrose Hyde, Edwin
Hyde, Frank Grennor, John Grennor,
William Dale, Benjamin Merkle. Cla-rence
Westerman. George M. Benz,
Frank Herron, Alfred Hendricks. Wil-liam
Pickles. Andrew Long. Christo-pher
Woodward, Roy Dale. Amos Rex.
Lloyd Earl, Isian Dennis.
A good story was going the rounds
to-day concerning n well known young
man of this town and the predica-ment
in which he fund himself Friday.
The fellow, it appears, has been rath-er
sweet on Iwo fair ladies. Now the
ladies got into an argument Friday
as to which one was it and which one
kept company with the young man.
About this time the popular fellow
Himself hove in sight, and the ladies
agreed to put It up to him to decide.
Imagine this, all you who have been
there. Those who witnessed and heard
the trouble say it was great. It Is said
the other girl won out. Do you know
which one that was?
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83 Payer** Street
Bleetrteal Equipment.
Hours:—• A. Jn*. to 6 P. M
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ard. Isaac t'nnard, Emerson Couard,
Wm. B. Conard. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
C. Shoemaker and Henry Fassett Con-atd.
of Blue Bell; Lydia C. Webster
of Conshohocken. Several of the com-mittee
failed to attend, namely Mrs.
Theodore Fleck and l-'.mma Johnson,
ol Philadelphia, The members de-cided
to hold the next meeting at Wi'
low Grove park on June 15 if ar-rangements
can be made at the place.
L.wis Conrad, of Philadelphia, the
eldest of the two surviving children
Of John and Sarah, will make the
opening address, and Isaac Conard is
to prepare a paper uboui life and boj
hood da: J on' the 1 ■ i e m in
Whitnain. Wm. it. Conard Is to se-cure
the ground for the meeting. Em-erson
Conard an I Ellen Park are the
committee on printing. There are but
two of the 12 children of John and
Sarah Conard left. There are, howev-er,
more than 300 descendants and-those
who have married into the fam-ily.
Lewis Conard, the president, is
82 years of age. Isaac Conard, the
vice president, is 79 years old. Mrs.
John Park is secretary and H. F. Con-ard
is treasurer.
It snowed from 7 o'clock Tin
morning until 6.30 P. M. After that
it rained.
Unseasonable the weather unques-tionably
was. In the history of the
Weather Bureau there is nothing to
compare with this storm. True, it
snows more or less every April, some-times
up to-1he end of the month; but
since 1882 there have been only three
severe snowstorms in April, and this
one tops them all.
The three previous storms were on
April 5. 1898. snowfall 2.6 inches;
April 7. 1896, 1.7 inches; April 7, 1893,
two inches, tho best—or worst—pre-vious
record.
Tuesday's fall of snow was 5.5 In-ches.
That was enough in ordinarily
cold weather to be a serious storm In
midwinter, it gave ConsUohockeu Ihu
most disagreeable day in many win-ters.
Certainly no day of the winter
Evenings by .Appointmeat only, ♦'that everybody thought was ended
Bell 'Phone 61 W. Jj contained so much of positive and ag-
J»SMMM < »lpe88lre discomfort
Some girls are adorable and some
are pomp.idour-able.
Many a fellow will stand up for
himself, even if he has to lie to do it.
The most delicious home-made
bread, cake and candy will be on sale
in the Parish House by the Woman's
Guild of Calvary Church to-morrow,
I mm 3 to 6 o'clock.
Thomas McClain died at his home,
330 East Hector street, on Wednesday.
The funeral services will be held at
his late home on Monday afternoon
at 1.30 o'clock. The interment will
be in Barren Hill Cemetery.
The alarm bell in front of the Wash-ington
hose house rang at 8.30 Wed-nesday
morning and Miles Stemple had
theh orses hitched to the chemical ap-paratua
when the telephone operator
said it was a mistake and not a tire.
The euchre to be given by Division
No. 1. A. (). Ii.. at their hall. Second
avenue ami fa.', cite sin ei. lo-inorrow
evening, promises to be a very success-ful
event, judging from the large
number of tickets that have been sold,
and the generous interest manifested
by the residents of the borough in
donating the very many and valuable
prises to be contested for by the lov-ers
of the popular amusement. An en-joyable
evening is anticipated.
Manager James Courduff of the Con
shohocken Champions was present last
evening at the meeting of the mana-gers
of the Philadelphia Basket ball
League, at which time he was pres-ented
the well-earned pennant. Mr.
Courduff is convalescing from a re-cent
attack of illness.
The pennant, won by the Consho-hocken
team in the Philadelphia
League, is now displayed in the win-dow
of the Economy Clothing House.
A delegation Of live from Montgom-ery
Circle, No. 10. Brotherhood of
America, of Conshohocken, visited a
class initiation in Philadelphia the oth-i
i evening, and were so impressed
with the work that they are endeavor-to
get up a part; to attend an-other
in Philadelphia, which will be
hi ill on Friday evening, April 19th.
in the party were A. L. Haver-
Btiok, Joseph W. Stemple, Harry P.
Davis, Ralph W. Campbell and E. C.
Cripps. The party will take with them
several candidates to be initiated with
the class and promise them a good
Heal.
There is no question that the quan-tity
of sleep required steadily dimin-ishes
from infancy to old age. This
is a rather interesting exception to
the general rule that, as in so many-matters,
old age returns to the needs
of infancy. As regards sleep, old age
\: more remote in its needs from in-famy
than in any other period of life.
If elderly people obtain good sleep
during the first few hours, and if they
have not lost that delight in reading
which we all had in youth, but which
so many of us curiously lose, their
case is not to be grieved over. The
special value of the earliest hours
of sleep, by the way. has been proved
by psychological experiment. The
popular phrase "beauty sleep" is well
warranted. It is the early (the deep-est)
hours of sleep that makes our I
health and beauty.
The Men's club of Calvar; Parish
will have its Brat annual Dinner on
[toondaj evening. April' 15th at 7:15
. Members may procure tickets for
themselves and friends of Mr. K. S.
i Crawford or at the Church either on
Sunday after the services or Monday
Da befon the dinner. About one
hundred have already signified their
j intentions of coming.
The toasts and speakers arc as fol-lows:
Introduction by the President.
Mr. Wm. Cleaver
Toastmaster Mr. Frederic Clark
Our Club r. Benjamin Harry
Athletics Dr. Henry Jump
The Church Judge James B. Holland
The Bishop Bishop Talbot
The Rector. Rev. Aichibald Bradshaw
Thi Layman Mr. Wm. N. Litkens
Conshohocken Mr. David H. Ross
The dinner will be served by Mr.
George Ben/..
Special music has been prepared—
Mr. Anderson a noted player of popul-ar
airs will play for the men to sing.
A booklet of songs, new and old has
been goiten up for the occasion so all
can Join in.
Mr. Earnest Harry will have charge
of the decorations so the affair is
bound to be artistically arranged.
The entertainment committee con-sisting
of Messrs. Harry. Downs,
Steel, George Benz, Jr., Earl and
Woodward are doing all In their power
to make this first dinner a royal suc-eesa
r.r.d with the hopes of "liking it
an annual event for the Men of Con-shohocken.
A BIGGER AND
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BETTER FIRE HOUSE
The Washington Hose Company in-tend
to have one of the best equipped
and largest fire engine houses In the
state of Pennsylvania. As the first
step in this direction a committee
from the company consisting of John
J. Crimean, John W. Campbell, and
W. I. Heywood asked Town Council
Wednesday evening to give the com-pany
permission to erect another story
on the present small one-story building
between the Council Chamber and the
engine house. The ground on which
in.s building is erected is owned by
the borough and is leased to the hose'
company.
When the request was presentetl to
Council Mr. Crimean told the in', n-tious
of the company. This is. to
make a three-story building out of
tin; present two story one, and the
one-story annex between the engine
house and the borough hall. In the
second story of the small building
three bedrooms will lie built, with
bath and toilet rooms, and a sliding
pole to the first floor. In this room
three members of the company will
sleep every night, so that when an
alarm of fire comes In there will be
three men ready to go at a mlnnte's
notice.
The third story will be one large
room, to be used as a recreation room.
On the motion of Mr. Royer the per-mission
to do the work was given, and
the Building Committee was given
charge of overlooking the work
affects the borough hall.
The company has some funds on
hand, and expects to have no trouble
in getting sufficient money to pay lor
the improvements when they are iln-
Ifthed about October first.
The entrance to the third story -ill
be on an in n st-irway on the side of
the building. The present alle:
beiween the building and the properly
of the First National Bank will be
used for the stairway. Entrances will
be given to the second and third sto-rli
irom this stairway. The present
tower will be taken down and another
erected on the front of the building.
• -it. is intended to have a complete re-wiring
of the building for electric,
lights, private telephones, and sig-nals.
The fire alarm will be placed in
the sleeping rooms.
CALVARY CHURCH
Friday. 7.30 P. M. Teachers' Meet-ing.
Saturday. 3 until 6. Pastry and cake
sale by the Woman's Guild.
Sunday:
7.30 A. M. Holy Communion. Short
address.
<t A. M. Sunday School.
10.30 A. M. Morning Prayer. Anti-
Communion and sermon. Subject,
"Heaven."
3 P. M. Confirmation Class. Senior
Division.
1 P. M Confirmation class—Junior
ion.
7.80 p. .vl. Special Musical Service.
Evening Praper, sermon. Subject.
"The Wnrldliness of Lot."
si., P, If. Brotherhood of St. An-drew.
Special business.
Monday. 7.15. Men's Club. Annur
dinner.
COUNCIL OPPOSES
FREE LIBRARY
Town Council has refused to help
maintain a free library in Conshohock-en.
At the meeting on Wednesday
evening, by a vote of nine to six the
request for a appropriation of 1300
was refused. Messrs. Bate, Little,
Meaney, Marks, Royer, Stemple, Frank
Thomas and Ross voting no, and
Messrs. Campbell, Famous, llarrold.
May, Dr. Thomas and Williams voting
yes.
Mr. Clark, representing the trustees
of the Library: asked Council to give
an appropriation oi $300.
He siiid that the School Board had
given $300 and the use of a room.
That books had been given by the
Schools, and by Calvary Church, ami
money by a number of citizens, and
the trustees wanted the borough to
appropriate $300.
Mr. Clark called attention to the
splendid return the borough was re-ceiving
from the money given n> the
lire companies, and he believed that
such things as free libraries band
concerts, and parka arc paying Invest-ments
for any municipality. The bor-ough
receives this year an increase
ol $1800 in its revenue and could not
get a better return to the people for
$300 of it than by investing in the
free library.
Mr. Ross opposed it. He said there
were too many ungraded streets in the
town; that at any time citizens might
go to court and compel the borough
to grade a street, and that Council
must find the money to pay for this
work.
Mr. Bale also opposed it on the
score of economy.
Dr. Thomas favored it He did not
see that $300 would pay for I he grad-ing
of much streel, and believed that
the return to the people would more
than repay for the expense,
The vote was then taken resulting
in the defeat of the motion.
OTHER BUSINESS
On the motion of Mr. Little Mr. Boss
was directed to petition tho Court to
appoint Frank J. C. Jones as borough
auditor for this year.
Mr. Bate wanted Council to have a
new digest of the borough ordinances
and resolutions made, but the other
members, on the score of economy,
decided not to have it done now.
The annual appropriation ordinance
was offered and adopted. It practical-ly
makes no change from the one of
the present year, except that the
street department has an increased ap-propriation.
SPRING MILL
If you have an item of new«. social,
personal, or otherwise, send it to the
Recorder.
LOCAL ITEMS
No branch of the Post Office dt
pnrtment has grown with such giani
strides as the free mail delivery in
the rural districts. It is so common
sense like and practical. At his gat-or
door letters and papers are deliv-ered
or received for 'postage. A man
and a team does what one or two
hundred would be required to do per
haps where each individual went to
the nearest postoflloe with or for his
mail. It puts the residents on the
line of the route is as good a posi; ion
as the resident of the city and really
better than the residents in the towns
where there is no free delivery. It
adds to the comfort and convenience
of country life. We are informed
that the increase at Hatooro dur-ing
the quarter just ended was 5000
pieces as compared with the previous
quarter. This is but an illustration
of what is going on all over the coun-try,
whilst the demand for new routes
is constantly on the Increase. We
have little doubt 1t will be self sus-taining
In a few years.
NO INCREASE FOR
COMMUTERS
Despite repeated assertions of rail-road
officials that commutation rates
must be increased if the companies are
to operate passenger business at a
profit under the two-cent fare law. it
developed yesterday that the possi-bility
of such a change being carried
•nit was remote. Officers of the Cen-tral
Passenger Association, at a meet-ing
in Chicago on Wednesday, dis-approved
of the proposition on the
ground that "it would be poor policy
for the railroads to manifest a re-vengeful
spirit against the public be-cause
of the new law."
Its action must first be ratified by
,he Eastern Passenger Association,
which governs the trunk lines in this
ioTtion of the country. Both organi-sations
usually work in harmony in
such matters, and there is every ex-pectation
that the Eastern body when
!t meets In New York next week will
tr-';e ;■ elinil r stand, and that an an-nnpnccfiicnJ
will be forthcoming froni
he various companies which will set
at rest the fears of thousands ol com-muters
that their present rates are to
be disturbed.
There are other ways, however, in
which the railroads are planning to
make up the "decrfeases" which they
expect will be shown In (heir passen-ger
earnings. One ol these is the
taking off of several trains, another
plan is to minimize the granting of
reduced rates for conventions aud spe-cial
trade excursions and to cut off
several classes of travelers which now
receive a reduction in fares.
Mr. rrank Embody spent yesterdaj
m Wlssahlckon.
Mr. Frank Kasksia spent a few
in Phoenlxvllle last week.
The Bell Telephone Company hr>.
placed a phone in the Frankcnr-.cK!
mill.
Mr. William Skilton of Mt. Pleas-ant
avenue, is convalescing after a
short speel of Illness.
Mr. Harry Hansbury has taken
charge as station agent, tit. the P & R.
Railroad .station here.
Bertha, the two-year-old daughter
of Samuel Brown, died at her home on
Center Street Wednesday morning.
Beatrice Payne, who has been
Dg of Ml. Pleasant avenue, ha.s
left for her former home in Baltimore.
Mr. Samuel Hiltntr. formerly of
Barren Hill, has taken possession of
the Righter farm, formerly occupied
by William Corry.
Mr. Hiram Morris has returned to
his home in Wissahickon after a
week's visit to his parents' home on
Mt Pleasant avenue.
Miss Edna and Master Wlllard Mac-
Farland of E. Elm street, were guests
at a baby party given by relatives in
Hoxborotigh on Tuesday.
The ferret owned by Mr. P. J. Har-kins
killed some of his young spring
chickens, having gotten out of its
quarters where he had it penned in.
Mrs. Joseph Prankenfteld was great-ly
surprised yesterday when the
mail carrier reached her door and
handed her 76 or 100 postals cards from
different parts of the State, in hon-or
of her birthday. On nearly all of
her p irds she was welcomed
with the best luck and best wishes.
Mr. Jesse Stemple. a young athlete,
of Conshohocken. paid a visit to
Spring Mill on Saturday evening and
showed the Spring Millers a very good
time in the Spring Mill park in honor
of his 21st birthday Before parting
Mr. Stemple sang the song entitled,
"Now. I'm a Man. if you don't believe
me ask Mother."
The Spring Mill Baptist Sunday
School sends out an invitation to all
the boys and girls ol the community
to enlist as pupil.- It is the inten-tion
of the pastor to teach the pupils
each Sabbath some new Gospel song.
So parents leave us have your child-ren.
We want to teach them the word
of God and to sing
DEATHS
BROWN—On April 10. 1907. Bertha,
daughter of Samuel and Frances
Brown.
The funeral services will be held
on Saturday afternoon at one o'clock.
Interment at Plymouth Meeting.
McCLAIN—On April 10, l!'o7. Thom-as,
son of Mary and the late John
McClain.
The relatives aud friends are re-spectfully
invited to attend the funer-al
services on Monday afternoon at
half-past one o'clock from the resi-dence
of his mother. 330 East Hector
street, interment at Barren Hill
cemetery.
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personal, or otherwise, send it to the
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Carpet weaving neatly and quickly
done at lvchoe's. Hector street, oppo.
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We've a Bell Telehone
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