The Conshohocken Recorder, June 2, 1908

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MASS MEETING
A LARGE TURNOUT OF CITIZENS
LOOKED FOR AT TO-NIGHT'S
MEETING IN LITTLE'S OPERA
HOUSE.
\ general turnout of property own-ers
is expected at little's Opera
Bouse iiiis evening, when the ConsheJ
hocken Improvement Society will be
organised
The organisation is to be tormed
with the Idea of making Conshohock-en
more beautiful ami to aid in every
possible way in making our town
more attractive to out alders, so thai
they will look upon us as one of the
leading suburbs of Philadelphia.
At to-night's meeting many of the
prominent men of the borough will
give their views of such a society and
offer suggestions for the improvement
of Conshohocken. Those who have
signified their intention to speak are
Rev. James P. Parker. Rev. .1. F.
Sheppard, Rev. J. T. Gray, Rev. Will
F. Bare, Rev. A. H. Bradshaw, Hon.
James B. Holland. Charles lleber
Clark. David II. Ross. Benjamin Har-ry,
Fred I.. Clark. Burgess F. J.
Bloomhall and others.
The meeting is open to every one.
Any one who has any suggestions to
make on public improvements bring
them to to-night's meeting and put
them before the meeting. If you have
no suggestions now, come to the
meeting and listen to the other nun's
suggestions and probably you will
think of something that will be a
benefit to Conshohocken.
Conshohocken has public spirit, but
through all these years that spirit has
been lying dormant. It is high time
that this spirit be aroused and the
best way to arouse it is by the organi-zation
of such a society as to-night's
meeting is intended.
This work cannot be done in a day,
but with such a stepping stone as this
organization we should soon show
some improvement in our borough.
Your duty as a citizen demands
your presence in Little's Opera House
to-night at 8 o'clock.
Come, men, one and all.
HENRY C. MOSER DEAD
Well Known S. S. Worker Passes
Away at Home of His Son.
MAD DOGS
For general prudential reasons va-grant
dogs and cats should be extermi-nated,
but the danger of hydrophobia
Is not such as to keep the community
In a nervous condition, the condition
most favorable for developing convul-sions
from any injury. The symptoms
of hydrophobia are produced by oth-er
( aus. s than the bites of animals,
while the bites generally result In no
serious harm and sometimes where
the animal has rabies the results are
not serious. There are parts of the
country where a dog that has bitten
My one is immediately killed lest he
should at some future date go mad and
tlnn by ix post facto operation the
HI he bit would have hydrophobia.
This preposterous notion is entertain-ed
by fairly Intelligent people, and it
shows the i fleet ol' tear upon the hu-man
mind.
A New Yorks paper on Monday
mentions the fact that a dog catcher
on Staten Island, "although bitten
twice recently by dogs which exami-nation
showed to be suffering from
rabies, refuses to undergo the Pasteur
treatment that would render him im-mune."
In the public pounds hydro-phobia
is practically unknown. The
recent report of the New York So-
«lety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals said that each of the twenty-six
animal catchers employed by the
society had been bitten on an average
lour times a month. In handling
over a million animals in fourteen
years they had been bitten fifteen
thousand times, and not a case of hy-drophobia
had resulted. Yet these
are the animals most likely to be dis-eased.
Dogs that act peculiarly, especially
•when hungry or thirsty are scared
to death by boys throwing stones at
them, are not necessarily mad. It
very seldom happens that they are.
A state of public panic on the subject
of mad dogs will result in several
deaths from convulsions which will
be attributed to hydrophobia, but
there is no such danger of rabies as
to justify a state of panic or to war-rant
fear of hydrophobia whenever
one happens to be bitten. It Is a
good thing to have a doctor treat the
wound, but there Is no reason to All
oneself up with laudanum and die of
narcotics for fear of convulsions.
Henri C. Moser, aged HO years, for
over hair a century a well-known Bun-day
school worker, of this county,
■nd for many years recognized as one
of the most successful superintend-ents
ol such Institutions, died about
ii o'clock Sunday evening at the home
of his son, Jacob S. Moser, lit) West
Third avenue, a victim of apoplexy.
In his youth, .Mr. Moser was identi-fied
with St. John's Bv. Lutheran
Church, Centre Square, this county
and became one of its most active
workers, continuing until advancing
age, several years ago, necessitated
his retirement. Mr. J. Fitzwater, of
Port Providence, the late Henry Leh-man,
of Nonistown, and Mr. Moser.
formed a trio of venerable superin
tendents whose work will long be re-membered.
Mr. Moser was one of Worcester's
staunchest citizens, a leading farmer
and one whose family is highly es-teemed.
Since his retirement and en-feebled
health the past year, the aged
man has been residing' with his son,
at whose home he passed away.
A pathetic feature of his closing
life is the fact that a daughter, Flora,
is rushing across the continent from
her California home. It was her hope
that she might be able to reach the
parental bedside ere life was stilled.
Besides his elderly llfemate, Susan,
deceased is survived by the following
children: Abraham, a contractor,
Norristown; Jacob S.. contractor,
Conshohocken; Ellwood, Editor of the
CoNegevllle Independent; William,
butcher. Conshohocken; Rev. Oscar,
pastor of the Lutheran Church, Port
Royal, Junlata County; Naomi, wife
of Wm. Walton, of Blue Bell; Ella,
wife of Ellwood Anders, of Worces-ter,
and Flora, wife of Dr. A. Wagner,
now of Los Angeles, California.
Funeral arrangements are pending
the arrival of the daughter.
WILL OF REV. P. J. GARVEY
Overbrook Priest Directs the Saying
of 1500 Masses.
Guth Chocolates, at Neville's.
The will of Rev. Patrick J. Garvey,
rector of St. Charles' Seminary, Over-brook,
Pa., was offered for probate
yesterday morning in the office of
Register of Wills Edward J. Caine.
The will, date Januarq 29. 1907, pro-vides
for the payment of his debts and
funeral expenses, and then states:
"I desire to have said within a rea-sonably
short time after my death one
thousand masses for the repose of my
soul and there pose of souls of my de-ceased
parents, brothers, sisters and
relatives.
_"I desire to have five hundred mass-es
said for the repose of the souls of
those who have been forgotten by me
during my missionary life after their
friends had requested me to say mass-es
for them.
"I give, devise and bequeath to St.
Charles' Seminary, Overbrook, $5000,
the interest to be used for the sup-port
of a student preparing for the
priesthood.
"I give, devise and bequeath to St.
John's Orphan Asylum, St. Vincent's
Home and the Home of Good Shep-herd
$500 each."
The residue of his estate is be-queathed
to the executor, Rev. John
J. McCort, rector of the Church of Our
Mother of Sorrows. Forty-eight street
and Lancaster avenue, Philadelphia.
LOCAL ITEMS
Five Years for Horse Thief.
I-evl. Markley, whole sole a horse
from N. H. Selpt, of North Wales, and
was arrested at a bazaar In Philadel-phia,
was sentenced to five years in
the Eastern Penitentiary.
Regulate the bowels, promotes easy
natural movements, cures constipa-tion—
Doan's Regulets. Ask your
druggist for them. 25 cents a box.
Why not smoke Havana Cigars—La
Puro.
DPI MARTIN V- HAINES
DENTIST
69 Fayette Street.
Office Hours:
1 P. M. to 8 P. M. 8undays by ap-pointment.
MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES
THE MASTERLY ORATION DELIV-ERED
AT THE GULF ON MEMO-RIAL
DAY.
THE SERVICES AT THE DIFFER
ENT CEMETERIES ON MEMOR-IAL
DAY.
Itev. (I. Wayne Channel, of the Si-loam
Methodist Church of Philadel-phia,
was tlie orator at the Gulf Cem-etery
Oil Saturday.
owing to the rain the services, ex-cept
the decorating of the graves,
were held in the Gulf Church.
Mr. Channel is one of the best ora-tors
of the Methodisi Church and he
delivered a masterly oration in the
historic church. He said In part:
The Nation is to-day summoned to
the graves of its heroic dead. Amid
reverent stillness their honored names
are (ailed in stately cemetery, In pub-lic
hall and village church. No voice
of command, of friendship, or of love;
no bugle note nor drummer's call
awakens their response. The restless
winds sweep over their graves, but
their names are on a nation's roll of
honor, and their memory abides with
us forever.
To honor their memory, and tell
again the story of their valor; to give
expression to our appreciation of the
services they rendered, and pay a de-served
tribute to the surviving oon
rades; to inspire the loftiest patriot-ism
and keep alive the noblest aspi-rations;
to these high purposes this
day has been set apart; a day unique
and unparalleled In the history of hol-idays
or holy days. It is not simply
to be reminded of our victories that
we observe this day. Other nations
have kept their battle days in mem-ory,
but this nation alone commemo-rates
the cost at which its life and
liberty were won. -—
Other nations have erected monu-ments
to their victorious generals—
France to her Napoleon, Germany to
her Frederick, England to her Wel-lington,
but America, without forget-ting
her great leaders, rears in City
park and rural common, the sculptured
shaft to her private soldier, and with
Impartial hand plants the tiny flag and
lays the fitting wreath on the slum-bering
dust of both.
If there is an anniversary that
should command respect, excite eter-nal
gratitude and win unhackned ob-servance,
It Is this, the All Saints' Day
in our national calendar. The Fourth
of July celebrates our national crea-tion,
the 30th of May commemorates
our national regeneration.
" Twas great to speak a world from
naught,
'Twas greater to redeem."
And the day of redemption is deserv-ing
of more faithful commemoration
than the day of our creation. The in-tervening
years have been many and
long but neither time nor events have
availed to diminish the importance of
that scene or to lessen the value of
this Memorial Day.
While we call the roll of the veter-ans
who have gone to their reward
during the past year and pay tearful
tributes to their memory, our hearts
are filled with thanksgiving that so
goodly a number of illustrious sur-vivors
still abide with us. Comrades,
you are to us the embodiment of a
nation's noblest ideals, valiant in war,
virtuotis in peace, chlvalric in youth,
achieving in maturity, peaceful in old
age, you have founded a knighthood
that shall never fade so long as cour-age
is a virtue on earth.
We must not forget either the
wives and mothers wno, with break-ing
hearts, sent husbands and sons to
fight and. if need be, died for the
Union. Upon them rested the heav-iest
cross—the deep and silent anguish
of suspense. When the message
came that darkened their homes for-ever,
they pressed their lips more
tightly together and went forth to
fight life's battles alone.
Nor can we forget those noble wo-men
who. overcoming the timidity of
their sex, went as ministering angels
to the hospitals and battlefields. It
was woman's soft hand that stanched
the bleeding wounds and cooled the
fevered brow; it was woman's voice
that spoke comfort and hope to the dy-ing,
they were woman's tears that fell
upon the dead.
The struggle In which your com-rades
fell and you took part, was In
many respects the most remarkable
which history records. That is true,
whether wie consider the territory
over which it spread, the Immense ar-mies
it brought upon the field, the In-terests
that were at stake, the desper-
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The fast diminishing band ol the
boys of '61 visited the graves of their
comrades on Memorial Day and tend
•rly and lovingly placed flowers there
and listened to those or a later gener-ation
tell of their sufferings, their
deeds, their glories, and of how the
nation now is remembering them.
At eight o'clock George Smith I'osi.
attended by the Sons of Veterans
Drum Corps, left the hall in carriages.
The first stop was at St. Matthew's
Cemetery, where the burial service
of the Church was read by Rev. Father
Parker, and the graves decorated.
In connection with the ceremonies
of Post 79, at Plymouth Meeting, Rev.
A. J. Davies was called on for a brief
address. In responding he referred
fittingly to the Important historical
associations of the spot upon which
the ceremonies were being held,
Here are buried some of the soldiers
of the Revolution. Here also rest a
number of the veterans of the Civil
War.
This is not all. Near this spot al-so
lived Thomas Hovenden, one ot the
greatest of American artists. That
his touching work "Breaking Home
Ties" has a lasting place in the affec-tions
and estimation of the American
people cannot be questioned. With
that picture kept in mind, one might
have the whole story of the Civil War.
First of all, there was a "Breaking
of the Home Ties" on the part of the
Southern States. The deepest ques-tion
at Issue, deeper even than that
of slavery, was precisely whether or
not a State had the right to sever
the ties binding it to the National
Home. Columbia mourns as her
Southern Son takes this right in bis
hand and leaves the ancestral home.
Then, because the South broke the
Home Ties, it was necessary that
thousands of northern boys should
also break the ties that held them to
to homes that they loved, and go out
to bring back the wayward brother.
In the performance of that duty, how
many of them were compelled to
break other ties, the ties that bound
them to this earth-home, and from the
battle fields of the South departed to
the home from which "they shall go
no more out."
We recall, however, that there is a
companion picture to "Breaking
Home Ties" which is called "Bringing
Home the Bride," and which depicts
the gladness which may eventually
come from severing the ties of home.
So our northern soldiers who broke
their home ties at duty's call, even-tually
brought back to the nation
union, peace and prosperity.
In concluding, Mr. Davles referred
to the manner in which Mr. Hoven-den
had come to his death in the en-deavor
to save a child from disaster
on the railroad nearby. Opportunities
to serve the nation in war may nev-er
come to us who are the later gener-ation,
but there always will be the
opportunity to give ourselves in some
way for the sake of mankind. So
"Whether in the quiet fields.
Or in the battle's van.
The fittest place for man to die.
Is where he dies for man."
At the Cold Point Cemetery, while
the rain was falling fast, Mr. John R.
Kauffman, of Pennsburg, gave a splen-did
address.
At Barren Hill Cemetery the oration
was delivered by Rev. J. F. Sheppard,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
this borough.
Notwithstanding that Memorial Day
was one of the most inclement char-acter,
especially In the afternoon,
when rain fell in torrents at times,
the usual observance was held at his-toric
Gulf Cemetery, where .a large
crowd gathered to witness and parti-cipate
in the exercises in reverence
to the American soldiers. The differ-ent
organizations from Conshohocken,
including a large delegation of Geo.
Smith Post. No. 79, G. A. R.. Sons of
Veterans, drum corps and others
were conveyed to the cemetery here
in large coaches. Instead of holding
the exercises In the cemetery, which
is usually the custom on previous Me-morial
Days, they were held in the
church building, and proved equally
as impressive as in former years. The
choir of the church rendered several
patriotic hymns and members of the
Sabbath school assisted In the pro-gram.
The orator of the day was Rev.
G. Wayne Channell, pastor of Siloam
M. B. Church, Philadelphia, whose
maiion was one of the best ever de-llevered
at the Quit church, and one
which everyone present appreciated,
especially the veterans. The church
was crowded to its inmost capacity.
In the basement the members of the
Ladies' Aid BOOtety sold all kinds of
refreshments, such as ice cream,
cakes, pies, sandwiches and con
ooo
it is a line tribute to the patriotic!
spirit which exists thai the bad weath
er on Saturday, which seems to have
extended pretty well over the whole
country, did not interfere with an
outpouring which showed that the
spirit ot man is unquenchable, in-die,!,
sad as it was to see the veter-ans
bedraggled in the wet, they made
an object lesson more Impressive
than could have been found in most
auspicious weather.
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May 30th, 1908.
At the regular muster of George
Smith Post, No. 79, G. A. R.. held this
date, it was unanimously resolved:
Thai the thanks of the Post are
hereby tendered to all the churches,
schools and individuals who assisted or
contributed in any way to the success-ful
observance by the Post of the serv-ices
and ceremonies in decorating the
graves of our comrades in this vicin-ity
on Sunday, the 24th, inst., and on
Memorial Day, 30th, 1908.
By order of the Post.
HENRY J. IIARROLD.
Post Commander,
Attest—ROBER HERRON
Adjutant.
The section of Corps No. 123, wishes
to thank our friends for the usual do-nation
for the memorial dinner in G.
A. R. Hall on last Saturday. Though
the weather was very inclement It
did not interfere with the comrades'
appetites as we had about two hun-dred
all together with the drum
corps, cab drivers, etc.
Despite the downpour of rain, Geo.
Smith Post. No. 79, G. A. R.. of Con-shohocken,
omitted none of the cere-monies
incident to Memorial Day at
the various cemeteries in their
charge. Through the courtesy of
Miss Bertha Staley the address at
I-afayette Hill was delivered by Rev.
J. F. Sheppard in the school house
at that place, and the church at the
Gulf was kindly tendered by the pas-tor
for the address of the Rev. G.
Wayne Channel. Much credit is due
the Sons of Veterans for their assis-tance,
whilst the comrades of 79 nev-er
faltered In their duty to their fal-len
comrades.
AN EXPENSIVE PARADE
Any town that is preparing for a
celebration of some magnitude will do
well to prevent the publication of ad-vance
particulars in the Philadelphia
newspapers.
Ambler had a big Bremen's parade
recently, ami the Philadelphia news-papers
printed ample details before-hand.
Then, on the day of the parade
an army of pickpockets from Phila-delphia
swooped down upon Ambler;
and, as the one man polce force was
riding at the head of the parade, the
crooks had a clear field for operations.
Their daring is indicated that they
even went so far as to rob an editor.
In all they got about $1000.
Hereafter it may become necessary
to send the State police into small
towns that are about to indulge in
parades.
What is a cold in the head? Noth-ing
to worry about if you treat it with
Ely's Cream Balm. Neglected, the
cold may grow into catarrh, and the
air-passages be so inflammed that you
have to fight tor every breath. It Is
true that Ely's Cream Balm masters
catarrh, promptly. But you know the
old saying about the ounce of preven-tion.
Therefore use Cream Balm
when the cold in the head shows It-self.
All druggists, 50c, or mailed
by Ely Bros.. 56 Warren Street, New
York.
La Puro, 5 cent cigar, as good as
the best and better than the rest.
Lucas Paints, at Neville's.
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GARDEN FETE
Arrangements Nearly Completed for
the Most Novel of Novelties.
The Women's Guild of Calvary
Church are not wasting an hour ot
time this week In their endeavors to
complete arrangements for the Paris-ian
Garden Pete to be held in G. A.
R. Hall on Friday and Saturday even-ings
or this week.
All of the carefully laid plans for
the success of this novel entertain-ment,
which have been shaping them-selves
for weeks, will be completed
with in the next two days, so that
with the opening of the garden on
Friday evening the smallest detail will
be i ompleted.
One ol the hading ieatures ol this
event will be the continuous enter-tainment
provided for the "garden pa-trons"
each evening. This entertain-ment
will not be of the ordinary
class, but promises to surpass any en-tertainment
ever given in this bor-ough.
To accomplish this, the finest
talent possible bas been obtained in
order that the promise already made,
that "full value of the price of admis-sion
will be received in the entertain-ment
alone," will be fulfilled.
The decorations are also to be of
an elaborate nature. The venerable
(J. A. R. Hall will be converted into
a bower of flowers, typical of the Par-ision
garden, and in this no expense
nor labor will be spared to make the
"garden" most attractive.
Now the only thing needed to make
this affair a success is patronage.
A large number of tickets have al-ready
been sold and from reports the
"fete" is expected to surpass, in at-tendance,
anything ever given in this
borough. If you do not go you will
miss a rare entertainment and also
lose an opportunity to see a Parisian
Garden in Conshohocken.
MEN'S CLUB MEETING
Interesting Meeting Closes the Club
for the Summer Season.
The June meeting of the Men's Club
held in Calvary Parish House last ev-ening,
marked the close of the club
for the summer.
Last night's meeting was equal to
any that has been held this year, ex-cept
that the attendance was not up
to the standard.
Dr. Adams, Dean of the Veterinary
Department of the University of
Pennsylvania, gave an interesting talk
on "The Horse," the talk being full
of practical advice to the horseman
and suggestive of many things bene-ficial
to the health of the horse.
Rev. A. H. Bradshaw extended an
Invitation to the club to attend divine
service in Calvary Church next Sun-day
evening. The club accepted the
invitation and all members are re-quested
to meet In the Parish House
at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening next.
It will be remembered that the club
attended services in Calvary Church
last year, when 110 members attended.
It is hoped that this year's attendance
will be even larger.
The refreshment committee served
ice cream and cake and then the mu-sical
part of the program was started.
The quartette, Messrs. Baker, Cross-more,
Baker and Campbell rendered
several selections, after which the
"choir" livened things up for almost
an hour.
FIRE BESIDE THE ALTAR
A fire that caused considerable ex-citement
and some damage occurred
Sunday night during service in the
Methodist Church at Evansburg. It
was caused by the breaking of a chain
which supported one of the oil lamps.
Immediately there was a pillar of
fire before the altar; the carpet
caught fire, the pulpit ignited, and
the Bible was endangered, when Sex-ton
Jesse Warner ripped up the car-pet
and extinguished the flames.
One woman in the congregation
fainted, and men who were present
rushed outside and secured buckets of
water to assist the sexton.
Guth Chocolates, at Neville's.
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