The Conshohocken Recorder, March 25, 1913

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MANY WORSHIPPERS AT
EASTER SERVICES]
LARGE CONGREGATIONS WERE
PRESENT AT ALL THE CHURCH-ES
AND THE MUSIC WAS EXCEP-TIONALLY
GOOD.—ST. MATT
HEWS PARISHIONERS MAKE A
LARGE CONTRIBUTION TO THE
CHURCH.
HELD ON A SERIOUS CHARGE
Easter was celebrated In the vari-ous
churches of the town with special
services and speciil music. At all
services there were very large con-gregations.
At the Methodist c'jurch. Rev. W. I.
Reed, the newly appointed pastor,
preached his initial sermon, here, In
the morning. He w-.s greeted by a
large congregation avi he has already
snet with favor. The choir, under the
direction of Samuel Elsenberg, ren-dered
a fine musical rrogram at both
the morning and evening services.
There was also special music at the
session of the Men's Bible class.
At St. Mark's Lutheran Church, an
early service was held at six A M.
and there was a good attendance at
the service. The music at the ser-vices,
both morning and evening, was
sung by the choir under the direction
of Edward G. T. Davis.
At Calvary Church an early service
was held at 6:30 o'clock. Special
music was sung at the regular morn-ing
service and in the evening, the
Easter festival was held. The Sunday
School children assembled at the par-ish
house and formlug a procession
marched iuto the church, bearing
their "banners. The children were
seated in the fore part of the ehurch
and took part in the services. The
music was sung by the choir and the
school.
At every Mass «U St. Matthew's
church, the church WUB crowded to iU
capacity. There was special music at
the 8.30 Mass. The annual Easter
offering amounted to $1900.
At the Baptist «ud Presbyterian
churches largo congiegations were
present at both morning and evening
services. The churches were taste-fully
decorated and the special music
was splendidly sung.
At St. Mary's Catholic Church there
was a large congregation and on the
evening of Good Friday, hundreds of
persons visited the church where a
representation of th» tomb of the Sa-viour
was placed and guarded by
members of the church.
Barren Hill Man is Arrested on Com-plaint
of Father of Young Girl
Prank Kolb, of Springfield township
and who is connected with the County
Line restaurant, at (iermantown Pike
and County Line, was arrested last
evening by Constable James Gilmore,
of Whitemarsh township, on a war-rant
sworn out by Stephen Laubert, a
farmer residing on Germantown pike,
Whitemarsh township, charging him
with having committed an assault on
his daughter, Florence, aged fourteen
years, on July 11th, 1912.
The father charged that the girl
went driving with Kolb, who is 24
years of age, on the above date and
now the girl is In a serious condition.
The girl has been '1! for some time
and a few days ago n.ade a confession
to her parents, accusing Kolb with be-ing
res]K>nsible for her condition.
•Kolb was brought to the office of
'Squire Kilpatrick, at Spring Mill late
last night and was committed to jail
for a further hearing this afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. Kolb was locked up
in the local statioi house until this
morning and then was removed to
the county jail.
WANTED FOR COUNCIL
Charles Mullen, a young prosperous
energetic, business man, who is asso-ciated
with his brother in the tin-smithing
business, 1 as been urged by
his many Democratic friends to -an-nounce
his candidacy for Town Coun-cil,
representing the Fourth Ward.
Mr. .Mullen is very popular with all
his associates and as his sympathies
and interests have always been center
ed in the town, those who urge him
for council feel tint he would make
a very capable ma.'i and one who
would leave nothiu;; undone for the
advancement of the borough.
PROHIBITED FROM CHANTING THE APOSTLES'
CREED CAUSES A CHURCH RUPTURE
CHOIRMASTER OF GULF CHURCH REFUSED TO DIRECT THE MUSIC
AT EASTER MORNING SERVICE WHEN HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO
NOT HAVE THE APOSTLE'S CREED CHANTED WITH THE
WORDS OBJECTIONABLE TO EVANGELICAL CHURCH
MEMBERS, LEFT OUT.—CHOI RMASTER CONRAD AND
PASTOR BUTLER MAKE STATMENTS. MR. CON-RAD
IS ASKED TO APOLOGIZE.
WATER-BACK tXPLODES
DOCTOR'S AUTOS COLLIDE
Come Together on Fayette Street.—
But Little Damage Wat Done
Shortly before nine o'clock Friday
evening, the automobiles of Dr. J. Q.
Thomas and Dr. William M. Hall col-lided
on Fayette street at Hector
street. Dr. Thomas was driving his
Flanders' coupe down Fayette street
on the West side of the street. The
large truck of the Si burban Express
Company was standing on the east
side of the street at Stewart's store
unloading materials, this partially
obstructed the view from Hector to
Fayette street. Dr. (Hall had been
■called in consnltatim with Dr. Don-nelly
and they were driving up Hec-tor
street. Dr. Hall was driving Dr.
Donnelly's Ford car. Inturning the
corner from Hector street he made
a long turn to avoid what
traffic the truck might have hidden
from view and as he reached Fayette
street. Dr. Thomas' car was met just
right of the center of the street. The
cars came tcgether with a crash but
as both were Tunning slow no one
was hurt. The front axle of Dr. Don-nelly's
car was bent while Dr. Thom-as'
car was uninjured.
BANK STOCK SOLD
Ten Share* of First National Bank
Bought at $162.
Ten shares of First National Ban*
stock were sold, through a classified
advertisement placed In the Record-er
last Friday, on Saturday morning
last, at a price of $162 a share. This
is the first sale of this stock for some
time and it is considered that the pur-chaser
secured a geod bargain. The
bank has placed its dividend on a reg-ular
eight per cent, basis. The capi-tal
is $150,000 and the surplus $100,000
Harsh physics react weaken the
bowels, will lead to chronic constip-ation.
Doan's Reguleta operate dally
25c a box at all stores.
A serious fire was narrowly averted
at the residence of Mrs. Mary Webb,
No. 240 East Hector street, Friday
afternoon, when the water-back of the
range blew out. Mrs. Webb was en-gaged
in ironing In the room at the
time the accident oc(urred, but she
escaped injury. As the result of the
explosion the lids were blown off the
range, and it was damaged otherwise
to such an extent that it will be unfit
for further use. Fragments of iron
and debris in genera! were scattered
about the room. Fire from the range
communicated with the carpet and lln
oleum, and a portion of these were
consumed. Mrs Webb made an inef-fective
attempt to extinguish the
blaze, but when the beards in the floor
ignited she hastened she hastened to
alarm the neighbors. Several of
them came to her assistance and the
fire was extinguish?d with a few buck
ets of water. No alarm was sent in
to the fire companies. /
MUST PASS NEW
ABINGTON BUDGET
Taxpayers Win Out in Fight to Have
Commissioners Live Within Their
Moans.
The Board of Commissioners of Ab-
Ington township, of which Charles O.
Kruger, of Abington and Philadelphia,
is the president, will have to pass a
new Budget Ordinance for 1848, the
courts of Montgomery county, having
yesterday granted the injunction peti-tioned
for by the protesting taxpayers
of the township, who had alleged
that the Hoard of Commissioners had
made up a budget for the year which
was many thousands of dollars in ex-cess
of the actual revenue which
would be available. -
Judge Henry K. Weand granted the
Injunction, handing down his opinion
at N'orrhjtown. The venerable Montgo-mery
county jurist dees not recognize
the "$15,000 worth of hope" as an ac-tual
revenue; nor does he recognize
the "possibility of receiving $3000
from Cheltenham township ' as an ad-ditional
actual revenue.
Another point passed upon by the
jurist is of deep Interest and import
ance to volunteer firemen In all first-class
township. Judge Weand rules
that "a township of the first-class may
not appropriate money to the fir3 com
panies." If an arrangement along
this line be determined upon by the
municipal government, the money
must be spent by the authorities for
apparatus and "shall not go into the
treasury of the fire compp/ay or com-panies."
Objection to the use of the Apostles
Creed In the Easter morning service
at the Qulpb Mills Christian Church,
by the pastor. Rev. Murdock W. But-ler,
a few minutes before the service
was abou: to begin, led to an immedi-ate
clash between himself and the
Choirmaster, John W. Conrad Jr., and
members of the Board of Trustees. A
week previous, HI .Conrad went to
the pastor and asked him if there
would be any objection to chanting
the creed on Easter morning and he
said "No" that it would be all right,
that other churches used the creed.
Mr. Conrad, said yesterday that after
Mr. Butler had heard the choir sing
the creed, he was more than ever im-pressed
with the beauty of the cou;-
|K>sition and took cc.asion to con-gratulate
him u|K>n the splendid work
he was doing with the choir.
On Sunday morning, however, he
called the choirmast Ji aside and told
him that as there w.is so much objec-tion
to the creed !t wriild have ta be
eliminated from the service. Mr. Oon
rad, promptly told the pastor that
there was no objection, save from one
individual who was formerly the choir
master and who was prompted by a
spirit <>f jealously, owing to the rapid
strides the choir has made under the
present leadership.
"Knowing that to be true, Mr. But-ler,
and you knowing it likewise, I will
refuse to, i roceed with the Easter ser-vice
unless it is carried out act'ordinr;
to the prcgram which I prepared and
which you approved" said Mr. Conrad.
The pastor immediately called a
meeting Of the Trustees and when
they learned that Mr. Conrad had se-cured
premission to use the creed,
the majority agred that it was no time
now for the pastor to interfere. Th<;
president of the Board, John Zimmer-man,
severely criticised the pastor for
having failed to consult with the
trustees and deacons concerning the
matter and told him that he had lit
tened and talked to Frank V. Rlne-hart,
a former leader of the choir,
who was not an official of the Church,
about the matter and had consequent-ly
taken his present course.
Turning to Mr. Conrad, the pastor
said: "I hope you «ion't think I am a
coward?" "I certainly do, your actions
prove it. You believe in the Apostles
—you gave me permission to use their
creed and now at this critical mom-ent
you want to interfere with my
work which has raoulred weeks of
preparation,'' repliod Mr. Conrad.
"Change the Cre-'d so it won't be
objectionable" sugg-Mted the pastor.
"I have no more authority to change
the creed than I ha\ ■ to change the
lord's Prayer or the Ten Command-ments
and 1 certainly will not accede
to such a request,' said Mr. Conrad,
as he left the church.
In the afternoon Mr. Conrad was
waited on by members of the congre-gation
who urged him not to sever
his connection with the choir. He
was told if he left the choir, the
choir would leave too. Later he was
again waited on by members of the
Board of Trustees who expressed re-gret
at the action of the minister.
The trustees urged him to return and
conduct the Sunday School service,
which he had arranged for the oven-'
ing. Mr. Conrad finally consented.
The Church was filled to its utmost
capacity at the evening service. After
the procession by the Choir, it waa
found necessary to open the Sunday
School rooms for the accommodation
of the two or three hundred people
who were awaiting admission at the
doors. At the conclusion of the ser-vice,
members of the congregation
and likewise the trustees stormed the
'Choirmaster with congratulations, de-claring
the service and the work of
the choir to have been the best in tho
history of the church.
When Mr. Conrad was asked yes-terday,
what his future course would
be, he said:
"I am undecided at the present mo-ment.
I shall consult the Board of
Trustees, since they elected me choir-master.
I have ao desire to offend
any one's sensibilities, but I must say
that the mind that takvs except! in to
the Apostles Creed is a mind so big-oted
and narrow th.it you could get it
on the head of a pin. I regret to give
up my work amoim the young people,
especially the children as we have
been getting along together splendid-ly.
The way they stug the difficult
music, which we have been using is
indeed remarkable. I don't say this
in a spirit of egotism I am not seek-ing
personal glory. My only desir-3
has been to improvj conditions at the
church from a mushal standpoint and
to assist In an educational way, the
children who have come under my su-pervision
as choirmaster. When one
goes into a Sunday school and can't
find a single boy or t'lrl who can say
the Ten Commandments or the Apos-tle
Creed and don't even know there
is such a thing as the Apostles Creed
its pretty near time that some one
should start teaching the children, if
not the pastor, the choirmaster and
this is what the choirmaster has been
doing, among other things, at the Sat-urday
afternoon rehs>rsals. If the
pastor attends the choir rehearsals
regularly he might learn something
too."
« • «
REV. BUTLER'S STATEMENT
Rev. Mr. Butler, ij an interview
stated to a Recorder man that he re-gretted
the matter has been given
publicity and explained the matter of
using the A|*ostles' creed In the ser-vice.
He said: "About a week before
Easter, Mr. Conrad aKked 'If there
would be any objection to using the
Apostles' Creed.'' I said that I had
no personal objection and believed
the congregation wculd not object.
But Mr. Conrad did not use the creed
used in Evangelical churcnes, but the
one used in High Episcopal churches.
A few days before Easter, I heard
complaints from members of the con-gregation,
objecting to the words of
the Creed. So on Saturday, I saw Mr.
Conrad and told him of the objections
and for the sake of harmony, asked
him to omit it from the program, as
it had but a small place In the exer-cises
and its omission would not be
serious. Mr. Conra-1 refused. Again
on Sunday morning, I asked Mr. Con-rad
to omit the part which was ob-jectionable
to a number of the con-gregation,
but he again refused and
left the church."
Continuing, Rev. Mr. Butler said:
"I greatly regret this happening as I
have fully appreciated the great ser-vice
rendered by Mr. Conrad in his
work as choirmaster and while he Is
not a member of -«iy church, but of
the Episcopal denomination, the con
gregation and myself have given
every encouragement Ho him in his ef-forts
to give us good music. We all
appreciate his ability and are proud
of the success he achieved in bringing
our choir to such a state of proficien-cy."
Rev. Mr. Butler raid: "The Execu-tive
Commltte of th» church, to-day,
«ent a letter to Mr. Conrad, stating
he had 'openly offered insults to the
Pastor and until these statements
were withdrawn and apologies are of-fered,
'You will not be permitted to
direct, nor lead our church music."
In regard to the Trustees waiting
on Mr. Conrad and requesting him to
return to conduct the music at the
evening services, Mr. Butler said:
"The Trustees have no more authori-ty
to change churcn services than any
other members in good standing;
their authority Is confined to the
management of the church property."
ASSOCIATIONS PAY $86,400
Many Savers Received
Easter Presents
Handsome
This mouth, there la being distribu
ted among the stockholders of the Cit-izens'
Saving Fund and loan Associa-tion
and the Consliohocken Saving
Fund and loan Association, $86,400.
Of this amount, $29,400 pays off loans
and the money is received by the
savers in cash.
On February 24th, the Citizens' As-sociation
matured its third series of
stock which amounted to $38,000. This
Beries ran for twelve years and four
months, and $12,500 paid off loans
borrowed from the Association and
$25,500 in cash goes to the share-holders.
The Consliohocken matured its
sixth series on March 4th, in twelve
years and one month. The amount of
the matured stock is $+8,400 of which
the shareholder-, 'ecelved $31,500 In
cash and the balance $16,900 cancel-led
loans. Both associations loan their
money at four and one-half per cent.
The Associations have been very
prosperous and together they have a-bout
eight thousand shares of stock
subscribed. The Citizens' have as-sets
of $266,000 white the Consho-hocken,
the older association has as-sets
of $272,800.
These institutions were established
for the convenience of the working
l>eople and other persons of ordinary
means to make it easy to secure
homes. Most of the homes in this
town have been built through the va-rious
association's, witch are all do-ing
a good business, but the distribu-tion
of money shows that the people
of this town are thrifty and saving in
that the big bulk of the money goes
to the savers, there being $57,000
distributed among them. The loans
cancelled in the amcunt of $19,400
means that a number of mortgages
have been lifted fiom a number of
houses.
The associations are used by many
savers to put away a little money
each month so it will not inconven-ience
their mode of living but yet ac-cumulate
an amount worth while In a
Tew years. The average distribution
to the savers in those series is $1000,
The largest amount 'paid to any one
shareholder is $4000. . The savings
represent the putting away -each
month from $1 to $20.
OWLS TO ORGANIZE
Nest of 150 Members to be Instituted
On Sunday Next
NEW FIRM WILL ERECT
SIX DWELLINGS
GROUND PURCHASED FROM SAM-UES
DEWEES E8T., WILL BE IM-PROVED
BY THE ERECTION OF
SIX MODERN DWELLINGS.—THE
JONES BROTHERS HAVE FORM-ED
A FIRM AND WILL DO THE
WORK.
Councilman George W. Jones, who
has been a contracting bricklayer for
a number of years snd his brother,
Howard W., who has been engaged la
the plumbing busine3o here for a num-ber
of years, have rormed a partner-ship
and will engage in the building
and contracting bus ness. They havs
purchased from the estate of Samuel
Dewees a dwelling atd ten lots of
ground situate on Ninth avenue be-low
Harry street. The dwelling us
located on two lots and next fall will
be remodeled into two dwellings with
modern conveniences. On the eight
lots will be built six, two and one-half
story brick dwellings. The house*
will be built in pairs with a frontage
of forty feet on Nin:h avenue. They
will be steam heated and contain all
modern conveniences. It is the pur-pose
of the contractors to have them
finished during the coming summer
and to sell them for about $2509
each.
The plans end specifications for ths
operation are complete and work will
be started this week. Bids are now
being asked for the furnishing of ma-terials.
A. H. Jones will supervise
the carpentry work.
These houses will be erected on an
avenue recently Improved by the bor-ough
and is ideally located for resi-dences.
The ground ie high and com-mands
a fine view of the river and
the Merlon hills. It Is near the trel-ley
line and is within a few minutes
walk of the mills, .et so situated that
none of the smoke from the mills or
railroads can at any time become an-noying
or objectionaMe.
The shortage of houses and the la
creased number of persons from out
of town employed here has been ths
cause of starting tins operation and
the promoters believe they will havs
no trouble in disposing of the houses.
Many Children sre Sickly.
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A local Nest of Owls will be insti-tuted
here on Sunday afternoon, at
two o'clock, in the D O. S. of A. hall.
There will be 150 cv didates initiated
into the order. The crack degree
team of the Trenton Nest 1065, of
Trenton, N. J., will do the ritualist-ic
work.
The Owls is a rapidly growing or-der
and has Nests all over the coun-try.
The Order gives liberal bene-fits
and its policy is sc attractive that
the membership of the order is con-stantly
increasing.
Members can join the local "Nest"
this week at cheaper rates than in
the future as all MI take advantage
of being charter members.
The lodge will stsrt with a good
membership of representative citizens
The organizers have not sought to
take In a large number of men for
the purpose of boosting membership
but have chosen men who are joining
for their own benefit and for that of
the order.
The organizers have an office at 68
Fayette street where applications for
membership will be received and in-formation
pertaining to the order will
be given.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
At a dinner given by Mrs. I^aura
Wood, at her home. Fifth avenue and
Hallowell street, on Easter day, the
engagement of Miss Elizabeth long,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Crawford of "Drofwarc-Knoll," Ijower
Merlon, to Mr. Wayne Sensenlng, of
Boodville, l-aucastsr County.
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with success. Noises or buzzing In
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RED MEN VISITORS
About twenty members of Peoos
tribe No. :;27 of Schuylkill Hares,
paid a visit to Washita tribe of this
borough last Saturday evening.
The visitors arrived on an early
train and were met at the station by
a committee and escorted to the hall
of Washita tribe, where a good supper
and a large number of the members
of Washington tribe were waiting for
them.
After supper, which was enjoyed by
visitors and home members, cigars
and speeches were in order of the ev-ening.
Among the visitors were:
P. S., F. A. Binckley. P. S., C. L. Bay-lor,
P. S., D. Siebert P. S., C. A. Men-gle
Harry Boyer, E. W. Lukins, E. W.
Frey, Walter Whlttnvan, Frank Otto,
Wm. Stauler of Schuylkill Haven.
Dep, Great Sachum, Thomas Wells, of
Mlniconee No. 198. P. S„ Samuel Ely
P. S„ Jessie Ely, of Wawatam No. 63.
Robert Retton, Andastake No. 14.
Newport, Delaware.
In a short speech, P. S., C. L. Saylor
presented in behalf of his tribe, a very
handsome rug, with the Red Men em-blem
and designs, which was receiv-ed
by S. J., Kline Hiltner.
Among the speaker of the evening
were Wm. F. Smith, Esq., George W.
S. Light Esq., C. H. Thwalt, A. Young
of Washita and Samuel Ely of Wawa.
tarn.
At a late hour the visitors were tak-en
to the different homes of the mem-bers
of Washita tribe where they re-maind
over night and spent the Sab-bath
in going to church in the morn-ing
and viewing the town in the after-noon.
They returned to their homes
in the evening tired but well pleased
with their visit.
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