The Conshohocken Recorder, May 31, 1912

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POLICE CAPTURE
BURGLAR AT WORK
OFFICERS SLAVIN AND MASON
CAPTURE JOHN PURCELL, A LO-CALITE,
IN A MAPLE STREET
STORE, EARLY WEDNESDAY
MORNING.—GAINED ENTRANCE
BY REMOVING GLASS FROM
WINDOW.
John I'urcell, a member of the
"Sons of Rest" is now in the County
jail awaiting trial on I lie charge of
burglary. He wa8 captured by the
police in Falconero"s tobacco store, at
First avenue and Maple street short-ly
after midnight, on Wednesday
morning.
About mid-night on Tuesday, Of-ficers
Slav in and Mason were at the
corner of Fayette and Hector streets,
when the police alarm rang. Slavin
answered the call and was told that
an attempt was being made to enter
the tobacco store. Both officers
hurried to the scene and found that a
pane of glast 30x36 inches had been
removed iron tire show window. The
officers flasl fl their search lights
about the si re and suddenly, they
saw a head bob up from behind the
counter. Officer Mason htid his
light while Slavin entered the store
and brought the burglar to the street.
The man proved to be John Purcell,
of this borough. The man was then
searched and there was found on him
sixteen packages of cigarettes, a pack
age of smoking tobacco and s> stone.
Purcell used the stone to break out
a small section of the glass and then
removed the whole i>ane by -putling it
from the frame. Purcell was locked
up arid given a hearing on Wednesday
morning before Magistrate Light.
The Officers started an investiat-ion
of Purcell'8 night work and found
that he tried to gain entrance to the
grocery store of lxniis Di ('undo, at
206 Maple street. He tried to re
move a heavy plate glass but failed.
In trying to take out this glass, he
cut his hands severely. His right
hand Is badly scratched and the win-dow
sill, where he was working was
stained with blood. The man lost
much blood as the stains on the sill
and pavement showed.
At the hearing both ofll/cers testi-fied
as above and Frank Pater, a bak-er
employed at the Dembowski bak-ery
at First avenue and Maple street
testified that he was working in the
bakehouse across the street from the
Falconero store and came out to the
sidewalk for a little fresh air. He
heard some one tampering with the
glass in the store window and ran to
a telephone and notified 'the police.
He h«ard the crash of glass and
saw the arm of a man disappearing
through the window. He also testi-fied
to seeing the officers capturing
the man and searching him, finding
the cigarettes on him.
Steve Hammer, another baker, tes-tified
that Pater called to him to
come up out of the shop a.- a man
had entered the store across the
street and he corroborated hte testi-mony
of Pater as to seeing the offic-ers
make the capture and search the
prisoner.
Lena Falconero, wife of the propri-etor
of the store, testified as to the
window being broken and saw* Pur-cell
on the sidewalk, his rigiit hand
cut and bleeding, and saw him with
the cigarettes. She identified the
prisoner and the goods.
Purcell had nothing to say at the
hearing other than ask the officers to
take good care of his pocketbook and
cuff buttons. The iwcketbook con-tained
a number of buttons bearing
the portraits of base ball players.
Purcell aws released from jail only
two weeks ago, after having served
a term in jail for the robbery cf John
Young's store, at Plymouth Meeting.
NEW CATHOLIC PARISHES
Two Former Conshohocken Priests
to Be Placed in Charge.
Following the purchase several
weeks ago of several properties at
Twenty-third and Miftiin streets,
Philadelphia, for the erection of a
Catholic church, Archbishop Prender-gast
has announced that the new con-gregation
would be placed In charge
of Rev. Henry A. Naylon, assitant rec-tor
of the Church of the Annuncia-tion,
Tenth and Dickinson streets.
The parish will be organized immed-iately
to provide for the crowded
southwestern section of Philadelphia,
where the Catholic churches are
taxed beyond their capacity and
where there are not sufficient -priests
to meet the demands of the people.
The parish will be formed from those
of St. Charles' Twentieth and Christ-ian
streets; St. Thomas' Seventeenth
and Morris streets; and St. Gabriels
Twenty-first and Dickinson streets.
Father Naylon is well known in the
southern section of Philadelphia. He
was born in West Conshohocken, and
he attended St. Matthew's school.
He studied theology, in St. Charles'
Seminary, Overbrook, and sir.ee hit
ordination in 1895, was successively
stationed at the Catholic churches of
Chester, Shenandoah and h.: has
been assistant rector at the Church
of the Anunciation.
Another new parish will be organ-ized
in the northwestern section of
Philadelphia, the church being locat-ed
at Twenty-eighth \ and Clearfield
streets. This parish will be formed
from those of St. Columbia and The
Precious Blood. By a peculiar coin-cidence
the rector selected for this
place is Rev. John J. Greensill, a life-long
friend of Father Naylon. He is
also A native of Conshohocken, and
attended St. Matthew's school and
St. Charles Borremeo's Seminary
with Father Naylon. They were or-iliained
on the same day and for a
number of years stationed together at
the Church of the Anunciation. Fath-er
Greensill has also been stationed
at Clement's, St. Stephens and the
Immaculate Conception.
The work of organizing the new-parishes
will begin at once. Until
the erection of permanent buildings,
the congregations will worship in
the residences purchased, which will
be temporarily altered for the hold-ing
of services.
'SQUIRE AROUSES
CORONER'S IRE
Edward Ashutz, of Fort Washing-ton,
was jolted off the cars near Beth-ayres,
and had the toes of his right
foot crushed so badly that when he
was removed to the Jewish Hospital,
It was found necessary to amputate
them at the first joint.
Upper Dublin township officials have
ordered a carload of road oil, to be
applied to the roadways as soon as
It arrives. It was found "by practical
experience last year that by the use
of oil the township saves in the ex-penses
of road repairs.
DIAMOND BARGAINS
I will offer this week only three
Blue White Wesselton Diamonds of
the finest American cutting and ab-solutely
perfect. The prices I offer
these diamonds at are less than any
other dealer would have to pay for
them at wholesale. Diamonds will go
up 20 per cent. In the dear future and
any one who can afl|ord to should
buy now. These three diamonds will
range in price $46, $57, and $195,00.
These are beautiful stones and are
worth investing In. Call and see.ih.em
at F. J. BLOOM HALL, Watchmaker
and Jeweler, Hector street. ** 2t
TO HOLD GREAT LAND SALE
Messrs. Sadler & Henderson have
purchased from the Manor Real Es-tate
& Trust Company that beautiful
tract of land situated on Ridge Pike
and School House Road in Plymouth
Township, one square this side of the
Black Horse Hotel. This fi.ie tract
of land contains about 1,000,0000 sq,
ft. of high, dry cultivated land and
is finely located on Trolley line be
twecn Conshohocken and Nonistown.
This tract of land with its admirable
facilities offers to investors all that
could be desired in excellent building
sites for the erection of dwelling
houses; in fact no better or more ad-vantageous
spot could be found In
the county and there is no reason why
men of capital should hesitate to pur-chase
lots here for investment and
accommodation of our working peo-ple.
Messrs. Sadler & Henderson
will hold a great land sale on the
above tract beginning Friday next and
continuing until June 11th. Read the
announcement of this great sale on
another page of this paper. •*
'SQUIRE COMLY SIGNS A DEATH
CERTIFICATE AS "ACTING COR-ONER"
IN A CASE OF SUDDEN
DEATH.—CORONER NEVILLE IN-STRUCTS
SOLICITOR TO HAVE
COURT PASS ON THIS ACT AND
OF RECOMPENSE. '
If you were elected to the office of
Coroner by a good majority of voters,
you would belieive that you were the
Coroner, now, wouldn't you? Then if
you took the oath of office and were
placed under bonds in the amount
of $30,000 dn order that you will per-form
the duties of the office and per-form
them according to law, you
would be sure that you were Coroner,
wouldn't you?
Now, suppose that you had made
many trips to remote sections of the
county plowing your way through snow-drifts,
a bitter wind chilling >ou to
the bone and the thermometer below
zero, in the i»erformance of the public
service, you would expect to be paid
for your service the same as any oth-er
official or any other workman
but if you were refused payment ft>r
your work, you would be cross, now
wouldn't you? Then, If you received
notice of a sudden death and after
you had prepared to go and view the
body some undertaker called you on
the telephone and told you, the Cor-oner,
it was not necessary that a
local Justice of the Peace per-formed
your duties for you, you would
get mad, now would'nt you? Well
this is just what Coroner Neville did,
and he Is still mad and on Wednes-day
he told some people how mad he
was and is going into court to try
and get paid for what he does and
to keep other people from interfering
with the work that he is sworn and
bonded to do.
The Coroner's anger was brought to
the acting point by a case at Jenkin-town
on Monday last. On that morn-ing,
Alexander Benton, aged 42 years,
was found dead in bed. Coroner Nev-ille
was notified of the case and short-ly
after receiving the notification. Un-dertaker
George T. Nyce, called on
the telephone and notified the Coron-er
that his services were not needed
as 'Squire Charles Comly, of Ogontz,
had issuea a death certificate and
signed it as acting coroner. Coroner
Neville, on Wednesday, accompanied
by his solicitor, Carroll Hoover, went
to Ogontz and got a copy of the death
certificate and Interviewed Undertak-er
Nyce and 'Squire Comly to find out
where they got their authority for the
Squire to sign himself "acting coron-er."
Coroner Neville stated that they
told him Controller Jacobs gave them
the instructions. The Coroner upon
his return home. Instructed his solic-itor
to Institute proceedings Immed-iately
to find out the authority of the
Controller in authorizing Justices of
the Peaca to view bodies and to see
what action can be taken against
Justices of the Peace who perform
the duties of the Coroner under such
instructions.
MEMORY OF NATION'S
DEFENDERS HONORED
GEORGE SMITH POST DECORATED
GRAVES AND HELD SERVICES
IN SIX CEMETERIES YESTER-DAY.—
LARGE AUDIENCES AT-TENDED
THE GULF SERVICES
WHERE REV. C. L. ARCHIBALD
WAS THE ORATOR.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Ice Cold Skim Milk, 2 qts. for 5 cts.
at Harvey's Ice Cream Co., 116 W. 8th
avenue. ** tfn
Autos to hire, call 330-Moore'a.
Itching piles provoke profanity, but
profanity won't remove them. Doan's
Ointment is recommended for itching,
bleeding or protruding piles. 50c at
any drug store.
The pastor will give the address at
the preparatory service this evening.
Sabbath at 10.30 A. M., the Sacra-ment
of the 1-ord's Supper will be
administered and new members will
be received Into the church.
The iwstor will conduct the 7.80 P.
M. Preaching service.
Sabbath School and Men's Bible
Classes at 9.15 A. M.
Monthly business meeting of the Y.
P. S. C. B. on Monday evening.
Trustees meeting on Tuesday even-ing.
Monthly Missionary meeting on
Wednesday evening. A joint meeting
of the Mi/.pah Mission Circle and the
Women's Missionary Society will be
held at the Manse on Thursday even-ing.
The great alteration sale now be-ing
held at the Famous Department
store, 162-16 W. Main street, Nonis-town
will be continued until June 15
at the request of the many patrons.
On Saturday evening last, the rush
was so great that the doors had to be
closed at times in order that those on
the inside could be waited on. Read
the announcement of this sal" on an-other
page of this paper. *♦
Ice Cold Skim Milk, 2 qts. tor 6 cts.
at Harvey's Ice Cream Co., 116 W. 8th
avenue. ** tfn
Hundreds of persons from far and
near, including many war veterans,
assembled at the historic Gulf Ceme-tery
on the afternefcn of Memorial Day
to pay a tribute of honor and respect
to the memory of the departed heroes
who offered their Lives that this
great country might live. The ceme-tery
presented a fine appearance
with the stars and stripes waving
above the sacred mounds of the sol-diers
who a<re sleeping there last
sleep, and the garlands of many beau-tiful
flowers that adorned the graves
in the cemetery in general.
About noon the weather conditions
gave evidence of marring the Memor-ial
Day exercises at this Cemetery,
but every cloud has a ailver lining, and
when the rain had ceased there was
a good breeze and an ideal 30th of
May afternoon resulted. This was
refreshing to those who took part in
the exercises as well as the many
spectators. After completelug their
morning services and duties at Si. Mat
thew's, Barren Hill and Cold Point,
members of George Smith Post No.
79, G. A. R., a detachment of the
Sons of Veterans and the Independent
Fife and Drum Corps, of Conshohock-en
were conveyed to the Gulf Ceme-tery
in large coaches.
Here they were Joined by the Gulf
Mills Troui>e of Boy Scouts, with
Thomas Foy, Scoutmaster in charge,
and members of the Gulf Sunday
school. A procession was formed ami
headed by the drum corps and with
colors flying, the march was made in-to
the cemetery. The scouts and Sun-day
school children stood on each
side of the driveway while the othr
ers passed between them, after which
they formed In line and brought up
the rear.
About the grave of Peter B Rob-erts,
a late member of George Smith
Post, and who belonged to the 119th
Pennsylvania Volunteers, the ritual of
the Post was held in charge of Joseph
O. Jones, chairman of the Memorial
Day Committee.
These ceremonies were openvd
with prayer by Rev. H. D. S. Coates,
pastor of the Balllgomingo Baptist
Church after which the ohoir of the
Gulf Church and assemblage rendered
"Nearer My God to Thee." Post
Commander George W. Williams, in
an address paid a fLtting tribute to
the memory of those whose graves
were being decorated. Addresses
were made by Joseph V. Wilkinson,
George M. Williams, Henry J. liar
rold. Chaplain William Crawford, .Mrs.
William Lowery and Mrs. Geo. Pit-man,
representing the Woman's Re-lief
Corps of the Post, and James
Wilfong. After a dirge by the drum
corps "America" was rendered. Lin-coln's
address at Gettysburg was
given by Henry Ji Harrold.
The assemblage then repaired to
the rear part of the cemetery where
Joseph C. Jones introduced the orator
of the day, Rev. Mr. Archibald, of
Rosemont, who delivered the addivss.
The Sons of Veterans fired three vol-leys
over the graves, and (he an-nual
Memorial Day exercises in the
historic burying ground at Gulf .Mills,
were over. With the drum corps play-ing
a selection, the) veterans of the
greatest strife of modern times, and
the Sons of Veterans marched from
the cemetery and returned to Con-shohocktii.
At 7:30 o'clock, in the morning, the
\'i i runs escorted by a drum corps
and Co. F. Sons of eterans marched
from the Post Room to St. Matthew's
cemetery where the graves were dec-orated
and a salute fired. Rev. Jam s
P. Parker delivered a memorial ad-dress
after which the Veterans and
their escorts, in carriages and coach-es,
went to the cemeteries at Ply-mouth
Meeting, Cold Point and Bar-ren
Hill where like ceremonies wei
conducted. The Veterans returned |.,
thviir hall at noon and were served
with a fine dinner by the Women's
Relief Corps.
Rev. Mr. Archibald spoke as fol-lows:
Our Dead Veterans
Revelations 14 chap., 3 verse
"Their works do follew them.''
WHO WILL SPEND
•1«200 IN CELEBRATING?
THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY IS ON
DEPOSIT IN A BANK WAIT-ING
FOR SOME ONE TO SPEND
IT.—THE PROVISION IS THAT
IT MUST BE SPENT IN CELE-BRAING
THE FOURTH OF JU-LY.
REV. C. L. ARCHIBALD
Who delivered the Memorial Ad-dress
at the Gulf Cemetery yesterday
afternoon.
We have assembled here this after-no
MI to pay tribute to the deceased
soldiers of the George Smith Post No.
79, G. A. R. It is a custom in Eastern
laauls for the believera in Allah to
make an annual visit to the graves
of their prophet. To the shrine did
adherents of that faith come with each
passing year^ to gather new inspira-tion
and new courage to contend
against^ difficulties which the
pathway to the happy realms is be-set.
Their fervor which ni.iy have
lost something by contact with the
World is again kindled. Their zeal
is here renewed and tiny depait with
their nerves braced to continue the
good fight they have commenced. You
have come this afternoon" to commem-orate
your fallen comrades, who stood
by your side during the Civil War,
and who have been associates With
you since in the pursuit of peace
As one by one these veterans pass
away were Instinctively carried back
to those days—Nearly a half a cen-tury
ago—when our citizen soldiers
turned from their firesides and loved
ones and went forth in defense of
the Union. It is an impressive fact
that two generations have come up
on the stage of uction since to whom
the exciting events of that war are
only tradition. For the purpose of
education our youth alone—such an
occasion as this should be of inesti-mable
value.
Such services remind us of the Sane
tity ^of Defensive war. Our war was
a righteous and imperative snuggle
between good government and despc-tlsm.
Heaven forbid that I a minister
of that religion, the birth of whose
lounder was announced by the song
of angels crying "Peac*. on earth,"
should ever defend war for its own
sake. I know full well that unjust
wars have been the sport and pas-time
of kings through all h'story.
"War is a game which, were there
subjects wise. Kings should not play
at." Nevertheless there are wars,
which are just, and in their prosecut-ion,
we may invoke the benediction
of the God of battles.
Such was our war against disunion.
Many were the prayers offered un-to
Almighty God for the success of
our cause and he answered our pray-ers.
There were moments of great dark
ness and doubt. Strong men trem-bled
for the safety of the republic,
but thousands of good women and
good men were clinging to God and
in the fullness of time. He dispelled
the clouds and caused the sun to shine
forth upon a free and undivided coun-try.
All honor to the brave men "who
left all and followed our flag to bat-tle
and to victory!"
It is eminently fitting Dial we
should celebrate the patriot/i.-in of
our country's martyrs! Those gallant
men. WhOM privileges It was to hal-low
the close of the- Nation's century,
as the Revolutionary heroes had sanc-tified
its dawn; who taught us that
Chivalry did not die with mailed
knighthood; who have shown the
world that simple manhood, accustom-ed
only to toil for bread, could, under
Che inspiration of a noble purpose
' in this, our country, deeds of
valor unsurpassed In any age. The
heroes of the war have become to us,
what the demi-gods of the early days
were to the later Greece and Rome—
more than human and only less than
divine.
In In noting tli ■ heroes of our Civ-il
War, we do net forgot the patriot-ism
and valor of the soldiers of the
(Continued on Page Five.)
Who wants $200 with which Lo cele-brate
th<* Fourth of July? This
amount of money is on deposit at tha
Tradesmen's bank credited to the ac-count
of Matthew Vercoe, treasurer.
Mr. Vercoe will gladly give this money
to any committee of local citizens
who will guarantee that it will be
spent in celebrating the Nation's
birthday, here.
I^ast year, the town had a fine
Fourth of July celebration, in fact,
it was the best ever seen here. More
money was collected than needed and
a balance of $200 was left. It was un-derstood
when the treasurer made his
report that the balance would be
turned over to any crganization that
wili head a movement for a celebra-tion
this year. Dp to the piesent
time no one has applied for the
money.
Last year's celebration was on a
larger scare than ever before at-tempted
here, nearly all the local or-ganizations
were represented in the
parade and a fine patriotic meeting
was held. In the evening the display
of fireworks was enjoyed by hundreds
of people and the day was ,. great
success. The only objection heard
was from the marchers who complain
ed that the route of parade was en-tirely
too long.- This was true and
1*. Is being put forth as an argument
against a parade this year. This ob-jection
can be easily overcome by
shortening the length of the route.
If there is to be a celebration
here, some c-f the organizations will
have to get busy pretty soon as there
remains but a month to make the
preparations, but this will give am-ple
time for a small but fitting cele-bration
cf the great day. The $200
WiD go a good way In helping to de-fray
the expenses. A public meeting
can be easily arranged but the most
difficult part of the celebration would
be in arranging for a parade. If &
few laottv* members of the various
organizations would get together and.
start a movement for n celebration
and make it positive 'hat a short
route of |erade would be adopted, it
is likely that nearly every organiza-tion
in tiwn would support th«_ move-ment.
The majority of the citizens
ot! this borough are Americans ia
whom the spirit of patriotism is not
dead.
Nearly every village and hamlet
in the land will celebrate the day
and this' community of 7.">00 people
should not let it pass as if it means
not'ling.
Letters Testamentary Granted
Richard J. Bulger, ot Conshohock-en,
to Alice A. Bulger,. Mis wife, who>
is sole legatee. The will was exe-cuted
on Hay 4, 1913, and he died on.
May Hi.
Sarah .1. Kelly, of Plymouth to Jno.
. Kelly. Estate bequeathed to her
children: John, George, William and
Joseph, in equal shares. Will execut-ed
May 21, 1912 and her death oc-curred
the next day. She signed by
her mark.
Directors Chosen
.At the annual meeting of the stock-holders
of the Norristown Trust Com-pan]
Tuesday afternoon the follow-ing
directors were chosen to serve for
three years:
Henry M. Tracy, Horace C. Cole-man,
John Walton, Ashley P. Hunter.
N. II. Larselere, George W. March,
J. Frank Boyer.
The Cheltenham school board has
purchased a four-acre tract In the rear
of the high school building ;n Abing-tonj
The additional space will be
used for training, football, base-ball
and tennis.
Former Recorder III
Henry T. Ilunsicker, former Recor-der
of Deeds of Montgomery county,
is critically ill at his home in Iron-brldgi.
l.\change your Prest-O-Llte lank at
Moore's. *•