The Conshohocken Recorder, November 14, 1911

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The Home of Conshohocken Lodge
No, 283, L. 0. 0. M,
MOOSE TO HAVE GREAT
INITIATION CLASS
SATURDAY WILL BE MOOSE DAY
HERE 75 NEW MEMBERS WILL
BE TAKEN INTO THE ORDER.—
THE BIG EVENT WILL TAKE
PLACE IN THE WASHINGTON
FIRE HOUSE.—A PARADE WILL
BE HELD.
"Howdy Pap!" will be the slogan
on Saturday next. The .Moose will
take possession of the town on that
day, th eoccasion being th" initiation
of seventy-live new members into the
local Lodge No. 2S'i.
The .Moose will have a gala time.
There will be visiting lodges here
from (an.den. Philadelphia, Norris-town,
I'ottstown and ltryn Mawr.
There will also be present, pioniin-ent
members of the Organisation.
The visitors will arrive here short-ly
after seven o'clock and aw line of
march will be formed at the Reading
station. The procession will be head-ed
by the Moose band, of the local
lodge and will march over the follow-ing
route: Form at P. & R. station
and proceed up Fayette street to Sec-ond
avenue, countermarch on Fay-ette
street to Hector to Ash; coun-termarch
on Hector street to the
Washington Fin- House and dismiss.
The initiation ceremonies will be
held in the Washington Fire House,
and the degrees will be conferred
by the Philadelphia Degree Team. An
address will be made by James F. Le-non,
of Philadelphia, and others high
in the order. After the lodge session
a banquet will be given to the visit-ing
members.
The local lodge, while it has been
in existence but a short time has
taken its place as one of the most
progressive ones In town and is be-coming
a strong and popular organi..-
atlon. As to the Order of .Moose, it
is national in its scope and is on
the foremost of beneficial orders.
The present order was founded in
J8SS in IxHiisville, Ky., by Dr. John
Henry Wilson for the purpose of pro-moting
sociability among those fol-lowing
the professions of law and
medicine.
The order lanquisheri aud upon the
death of Dr. Wilson in 190'.' the re-strictions
were removed and with-drawing
their limitations as to occu-pation
and accepting any white male
citizens between the ages ot L'l and
55. Tuey have made great strides
until at the present time they are
one of the moBt powerful organi/.at
ions in the United States. They now
number 707 lodges. The San Fran-clsco
lodge having 10, 000 members;
Pittsburg, 5000; Philadelphia, 8,000,
this under the law limiting each City
to one Lodge.
It Is anticipated that the headquar-ters
of the 1-oyal Order of .Moose
will be removed from Pittsburg to
Philadelphia, where the order "ill
build a $150,000 club house this win-ter,
according to the statement made
by the Supreme Organizer, James I.
Davis, of Tittsburg. Mr. Davis said
that the law of the order restricting
each city to one lodge had been chang-ed
at tii" recent Detroit convention,
seven l-odges of Moose would be or-ganized
in Philadelphia, with an ag-gregate
membership of 20,000. There
will be established, a Moose Indus-trial
school and a home for aged or
infirm members.
While the above may or may not
come to pass, the Editor has o
information that the Supreme Council
are considering propositions for a
location of a Moose institute and tech-
Officers of Conshohocken Lodge No. 283 L. O. O. M.
Hack row; K. Irvln Ambler, Secretary; Lawrence Carroll, trustee;
Samuel Lawrence, Dictator; William Russell, vice Dictator; David Mats,
Outside Guard; Herman Ambler, trustee: Front row: Standing George
Meyers, Trustee; Seated, Alexander Long, Past Dictator and Frank Noble
Installing Olhcer.
nical school, the matter of location Moose orchestra and a .Moose Glee
to be decided by the middle oi No- club, and they have a surplus in the
vember. This institute will be locat- treasury of $1500.
ed on a tract of ground not less than
800 acres and the Supreme Lodge will
spend $lt.0,000 in the equipment and
Improvemi at ot such location within
the flrai year. This movement is
something entirely new In the history
of Fraternal Orders. The local lodge
have secured a permanent home at
206 B, Hector Street having leased
the entire building for the use of its
members. It is comfortably and con-venient!]
furnished, in connection
wj'h their social enjoyments thej
have organized a Mm (I. a
COUNTY CHAMPIONS
AGAIN TRIUMPHANT
A LETTER FROM DR. LOWER
RELIANCE TRAILS THE COLORS
OF J. A. C. IN THE DUST FOR
THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE TIME
—ABSENCE OF LOCAL STARS
ALLOWS THE VISITORS TO
MAKE CREDITABLE SHOWING
IN THE FIRST HALF.
in one oi the hardest fought and
most exciting games of foot ball ever
played in the West Borough, Reli-ance
on Saturday, again duplicated
their performance of oher years and
trailed the red and blue of .1. A. ('.
in the mire of Pastime Park to the
depth of 6 to 0.
However outscored and beaten the
Juniors put up a great fight and out-played
the locals at different stages
of the game, particularly was tliis-the
case in the first half, but it seem-ed
that they played themselves out
during this time for beginning with
the second half, Reliance look a de-cided
brace and outplayed their op-ponents
la this halt, just as badly as
they were outplayed during the first
half.
Cognizant of the fact that the lo-cals
would be without the services of
Herron and F.llam, the J. A. C. came
to this borough fully confident of
winning the game. In order to
strengthen their team, they secured
the services of Gus Kruger the well-known
basket ball player, who has
performed before a Conshohocken
audience a score of times and When
lie appeared on the Held, was immed-iately
recognized.
On account of the crippled condi-tion
of the local team, two new men
were secured; one is Shean, who will
not be in the line-up again and the
other is Shaffer, a crack player who
was captain of the Norwood team,
who will finish the season with the
locals. He is a good punter and drop
kicker. He was signed to take the
place of Ellam, who is out of the game
for the balance of the season.
The game, like all other games at
Pastime Park this season was not
started until near four o'clock anc
was finished In the dark.
J. A. C. kicked off and the way the
men went tearing down the field
showed their determination to crush
the locals. Reliance received the
ball on their own ten yard line and
on the first line-up Kindregan sent
the old 'war-horse Ed. Fagan tear-ing
through the line for about seven
yards. Kindregan, himself on the
DeXt play gained a first down, but
here j. A. c. took a determined stand
and from then on throughout the first
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To the People of Conshohocken:
The homing Of public services is a
matter ol vital Interest t<> the people
Of the enure community. If a com-munity
is to prosper to-day it must
lie moral and the higher the moral
lone the better the community. To
make the community better is the
work of the churches of ever] creed
ami denomination. I have been ask-ed
to conduct services in your town
for two weeks. I do not come to
you as a stranger. A great man]
Of you I know and some intimately
' I shall look to you to help me in
1 these services as 1 am coming to
j help the i astors of the town. I am
! coming into your midst as I have
'come before, an humble minister of
! God's Word. My message will be
the old, old story of God's love for
every man. My gospel, is a gos|>el
of which Jesus Christ is the center.
1 believe the gos|>el is the power of
God unto every one that believeth.
I believe in the socialism of Jesus
as summed uu in the Golden Rule,
"As ye would that men should do to
you do you even so to them." I ask
your hearty co-operation in these
meetings, and with your co-operation
your earnest prayers. No work will
succeed without prayer. Let all
sectarian and denominational differ-ences
be put aside. I shall know-nothing
among you, save Christ and
him crucified. Knowing that you will
enter into this work with heart and
mind and hand and that you will loy-ally
support the pastors In this labor
of love for the community, I am,
Yours in His Name
WILLIAM HARNKS LOWER
KATE PICARD
SUMMONED BY DEATH
■BIG KATE" AS SHE WAS KNOWN
WAS A VICTIM OF TYPHOID
FEVER. — WOMAN WAS OF
GREAT SIZE AND A POWER
AMONG THE PLYMOUTH ITAL-IANS.
WILL NOT TRY TO
START BOILER WORKS
JOHN WOOD MANUFACTURING
CO.. HAS CLOSED DOWN ITS
ENTIRE PLANT OWING TO BE-ING
UNABLE TO REACH AN
AGREEMENT WITH THE STRIK-ERS.—
VIOLENCE WAS ATTEMPT-ED
ON FRIDAY EVENING.
BOWLING
The following are the scores of the
La* Cowling Team made in their
match with the Q. C. Rubber Co., on
Monday eening:
LEE TEAM
Herron 178 180 110—684
I,ee 163 143 164—470
Nyce 167 154 157—478
Wells 215 172 181—568
Hallowell 232 157 234—623
955 806 902—2663
Q. C. RUBBER CO.
Beekley 119 116 143—378
Middleton 136 152 121—409
Quinn 100 160 158—418
Rabbit 117 146 177—440
Strong 122 123 152—397
594 697 751—2042
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Kecora«»-
M is. Kate Picard who was one of
the best known residents in the
Italian section near Black II orse,
Plymouth township, died Saturday
Dlght aftSI an illness of several weeks
due to typhoid fever. Deceased who !
was a woman of remarkable size and
strength was a familiar figure at the
county courts where she freqently act
ad as interpreter for the Italians in
attendance. Mrs. Picard, although a
resident of Plymouth township was a
frequent visitor to this borough, where |
she was well known.
An idea of the enormous size of;
deceased may be obtained by the fol- I
lowing statistics given by Undertaker I
Ferry, who has charge of the funeral
He says that Mrs. Picard weighed
340 pounds. Her casket will be six
feet, six incheB in length and «2 inch-,
es in width. It is the largest casket J
that Undertaker Ferry has handled
in his long experience as funeral dir-ector
being eight inches wider than
an] coffin he has ever seen. The
casket was secured by special order
from the National Casket Co., of
New York. It is silver grey and is
said to be a handsome piece of work-manship.
The funeral of Mrs. Picard will oc-cur
on Wednesday morning from her
home on Diamond Avenue, Black
Horse and will no doubt be largely
attended by the Italians of the vicin-ity
all of whom knew the deceased.
The casket will not be taken to the
Picard home until shortly before time
for the funeral, as It will be necessary
to remove a window frame from the
house In order to carry it Into the
dwelling and again remove it.
Mrs. Picard was without doubt one
of the biggest women in this vicinity
and it would not be surprising to see
a large crowd of curiosity seekers at
the funeral because of her size. All
efforts, will, however, be made to
have the funeral conducted without
any demonstrations of any kind as de-ceased's
husband, who is a well known
Italian resident of Plymouth, is of a
rather retiring disposition and he
mourns the loss of his helpmate to a
considerable extent.
I^eaads in Prime Beef—Kindre-ga.
i's.
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The management of the John Wood
Manufacturing Company decided
terda) to dose down the entire plant
ami not attempt to keep any portion
in operation until ah understanding
can be reached with the striking em
ployes.
Yesterday morning a number of the
striking workmen congregated on
Ash street near the railroad but did
not trespass on the property ol the
Company nor did they interfere With
.workmen. Chairman of the Police
Committee and policemen were pres-ent
and had the crowd disperse.
On Friday afternon between 5 and
5.30 o'clock a large number of strik-er's
congregated near the Reading
railroad station. A number of them
were on the Fayette street bridge
and several stones were thrown to
the tracks and station platform be-low.
Burgess Ray was telphoned for
and was quickly on the scene of the
trouble and had the strikers disperse.
A great many of the men were for-eigners
and the Burgess had to talk
to them through an interperter.
Before the Bugress s arrival things
took a serious aspect. Agent Gheen
feared that there would be violence
upon the arrival of the 5.48 train
which train some of the men at work
in the plant use to go to their homes
in Norristown. He sent a hurry call
for railroad officers when the crowd
threw stones but the action of the
uurgess made their services unneces-sary.
On Saturday morning the Burgess
and the Police Committee had a con-ference
with Borough Solicitor Ander-son
and it was decided not to permit
the strikers to congregate about the
works.
On Saturday afternoon, Burgess
Ray and Chairman of the Police Com
mittee Bate attended a meeting of
the strikers at Cavanagh's hall, and
these gentlemen, together with Reese
P. Davis, president of the Business
Men's association, were asked to bo
an arbitration committee and meet Mr
Mauck, president of the company. The
strikers desired them to have the rate
of reduction cut in half. The Com-mittee
arranged a meeting with \..-.
Mauck and met on Saturday evening
at the borough hall. They submitted
the proposition of the men rei
the reduction but Mr. Mauck stated
that on Hie prevlo
spent 'I'J hours with a committee
from the men and verified his state-ments
as to the necessity ol th
duction I" the books of the company.
He believed at thai time I hat an
uu nt would be reached but at a
meeting of the men they decided to
remain awaj from work. Mr. Mauck
st iteii that he would like io |
the men on Monday morning, at the
works and have a talk with them but
that he would not treat with a com-mittee
again.
The arbitration committee reported
the result of their conference to the
strikers at a meeting held on Sunday
afternoon. The men refused the pro-position
and said the] would send a
COCtmittee. Mr. Mauck rejected this
oiler owing to the unsatisfactory deal-ings
with the former committee.
The situation remains unchanged
except that the company instead of op-erating
part of the plant has closed
down every department.
he rumor that the State Police wait
to come to town was entirely unfound-ed.
The hearing in the injunction pro-ceedings
brought by the Company
against the local union will come up
for hearing on Thursday morning.
CALVARY CHOIR TO BE
HEARD IN CONCERT
,THE WELL KNOWN MUSICAL OR-GANIZATION
UNDER THE DIR-ECTION
OF H. GREY STEELE,
WILL GIVE AN EVENING OF
SONG.—WELL KNOWN MUSIC-NIANS
WILL ASSIST IN THE PRO-GRAM.
Thc UNION MEETS3S
The I'nion Meetings in the Bap-tist
church have had an auspicious
begining In spite"* of the storm of
Sunday night and the cold of last ev-ening.
Dr. Lower preaches with his
customary simplicity, point, earnest
and attractiveness. Everybody sings.
An atmosphere of earnest interest
pervades the people. These two
weeks constitute a great opiwrtunity
for the community to advance the
kingdom of Christ in winning con-verts.
MAY CONTEST ELECTION
Democratic Committee It Making In-quiry
of the Election Judges.
The Democratic and Keystone Coun-ty
Committees are sending out Inquir-ies
to the Judges of Election of the
various districts to find out whether
ballots were marked for the District
Attorney and Controller in both the
Democratic and Keystone squares al-ter
the name of the candidate and how
j such votes were counted or whether
they were thrown out. The Democrats
seem to believe that enough such bal-lots
were thrown out as to warrant a
contest of the election. Several Judg-es
In ihis section b ed B
to how many such ballots were poll-ed
In their districts and sever
them have said that no such ballots
wore cast
Calvarj Church will give Its Annu-al
Concert, In the Parish House. this
11 i. daj ' vi nlng No en ber 16th at
B '. M, 'i be choii has prei ated a
\er> attractive program and a most
enjoyable eveutng's entertainment is
promised. The assisting soloists will
be Airs. n. B. Rice, Mrs. w". w. Craw-ford,
Miss C. C. Ray, Miss EC. li.
Jones and Mr. J. B. Holland
The following is the programme:
Prologue—"Pagliacci'' .. Leoncavallo
Mrs. Rice and Mr. Steele
Two Happy Faces Smart
Fairy Voices Halley
The Choir
In a Harden Cad man
At Dawning Cadman
The Sum ol Love Cadman
Mrs. Crawford
My Love Nell FOK
Young Tom O'Devon Russell
Mr. Holland
An Old Cardan Temple
On the Wild Rose-Tree Rotoli
Miss Ray
Kashmiri Song—Indian l.ove Lyrics
Wood forde-Flnden
Till I Wake—"Garden of Kama''
Woodforde-Finden
Miss Jones
Come out into the Sunshine
"Sylvia"—Rhys-Herzert
See the Harvest Moon is Shining
"Sylvia"—Rhys-Herzert
The Choir
By Moonlight Bendei
I .a Fontaine Lysberg
.Mrs. Rice
Mlgnon dilardelot
My Jacqueminot Johnson
Miss Ray
On the Road to Mandalay ... Speaks
Mr. Holland
Oood bye Tost!
Mrs. Crawford
Spirit of Music Taylor
Calm be thy Slumbers Bishop
The Choir
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