The Conshohocken Recorder, October 17, 1913

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POLICE CAPTURE
JAMES FOGARTY
HAS BEEN WANTED SINCE LAST
MARCH TO ANSWER A CHARGE
OF LARCENY PREFERRED BY
THE P. & R. RAILWAY COM-PANY.—
PRISONER IS NOW IN
COUNTY JAIL AWAITING A
HEARING ON TUESDAY.
Policeman David Mason last even-ing
arrested James Fogarty, Who DM
been a fugutive from justice since
last March. Fogarty was taken be-fore
Magistrate Light, this morning,
and committed to the county jail to
await a hearing next Tuesday morn-ing,
on a charge of the larcen.v Ol
scrap iron from a car of the Reading
Railway, on a side track on the Ply-mouth
railroad, near Sixth avenue,
last March. When the warrant was
issued, Fogarty left town. He 'said
that he went to Tacony where lie se-cured
work and stayed there until
about three weeks ago when lie re-turned
home. The police were aware
of his return but did not arrest him
until he came into town and icame to
his old haunts.
Last Marcli a quanity of scrap iron
was taken from a railroad car on the
Plymouth railroad and hid in the
tushes nearby. Fogarty went to the
Montagues, who were in the junk bus-iness
and offered to sell the iron.
Officer Mason had knowledge of the
iron and by his instructions, Mon-tague
bargained for the iron and haul-
«d it to his warehouse. The officer
was present when the iron was
brought in, but was concealed. Mon-tague,
was instructed to ascertain
who was the owner of the iron and
as the bargain was about to be com-pleted,
the officer made his appear-ance
and Fogarty escaped. William
and Frank Rinker, .Harry Stemple
and John Mc.Menamin were placed un
der arrest but at a hearing it was con-clusively
shown that these men had
no knowledge of the theft and Lhey
were discharged. a
The police did not bother search-ing
for Fogarty fully believing that
he would return here when he would
be arrested.
TRESPASS CASE BOTHERSOME
Last Monday evening Septemo Spin
neo, of North Elm street, brought an
action before Magistrate Light,
against Domiuick Pasuelano, a neigh-bor,
for the recovery for damage
done his corn field by reason or Pas-uelano
s horse trespassing therein. A
hearing of the case was held last ev-ening
and the plaintiff was represnt-ed
by J. Burnett Holland Esq., and
the defndant by J. Aubrey Ander-son
Esq. The plaintiff claimed he
loBt eighteen bushels of corn but
would refuse to answer any question
■which would determine whether his
estimate of loss was correct. Magis-trate
Light and the attorneys tried to
get information from him but he
steadfastly refused to give any other
information than that he lost eigh-teen
bushels of corn. The case was
dragged on until after nine o'clock
with the plaintiff still obtlnate. The
Magistrate ordered the case continu-ed
and another hearing will be held
at a time to be agreed upon by coun-sel
for the parties in the suit.
BELSHAW HELD FOR TRIAL.
Man Found on Porch at Home of Mrs.
.Webb, charged with attempt to rob..
Harry llelshaw, of Spring Mill ave-nue,
who was icaptured early Sunday
morning, on the rear i>orch at the
home of Mrs. Mary Webb, 240 East
Hector street, by druggist William .1.
Donnelly, was given a further hear-ing
before Magistrate Light, Wednes-day
morning, and committed to jail
in default of $500 bail for trial at the
December term of criminal court.
Officer Ruth, William J. Donnelly
and Miss Lillian Webb testified as to
capturing and arresting the man,
the evedence given being the same
as the account printed in these col-umns
last Tuesday.
Belshaw, who is a young man of
neat appearance, made a statement
in which he said he left a hotel near
the Webb residence at 12; 4* o'clock
Saturday night and as it began to
rain and the wind blew hard, he went
to the Webb porch for shelter. The
Magistrate asked him why he did
not take shelter in the doorways or
under awnings which were nearer
than the Webb porch? He replied
that he did not wish to sit on cold
stones. The prisoner said that he on-ly
intended to stay on the porch un-til
the storm ceased but aat in a
chair and fell asleep. All the witness-es
slated that the clothes of the pris-oner
were perfectly dry when he was
captured and Mr. Donnelly denied
the prisoner was asleep as he was
very wide awake and was not Sitting
in a chair when he (Donnelly) felt
him with his hand in the darkness
and commanded him to throw up his
hands with a threat to shoot.
The prisoner denied any knowledge
of the ladder which had been placed
against the bath room window.
The Magistrate asked Miss Webb
who owns the ladder. She said a
rough, home made ladder had been
placid in their yard about three
weeks ago and -she believed it belong-ed
to a neighbor. The neighbor no-ticed
the ladder and believed It be-longed
to the Webbs. The police
have not been able to trace the own-ership
of the ladder.
RINKER TO STAY AT JAIL
William Rinker, of this borough,
who in criminal court last week plead
guilty to a charge of forcible entry—
having entered the flour mill of Hen-derson
Supplee, in this borough—will
not serve sentence for the offence in
the Eastern Penitentiary.
Judge Solly has revoked the sen-tence
of from 5 to 7 years in the pen-itentiary,
which he imposed on Satur-day,
to 5 years in the Montgomery
county jail.
Warden Roberts informed the court
that Itinker, since his presence in the
county jail, following his arrest when
found on the mill premises, has not
only proved himself a model prisoner
but a most competent and capable
help at the county institution.
Under this sentence Rinker will be
entitled to some commutation by rea-son
of good behavior. Kinker assured
the court that his experience—the
facing of a possible 30-year term-had
sufficed to awaken him fully to
the errors: of his ways and that his
life henceforth would be changed.
SUIT AGAINST
TROLLEY SETTLED
The action for damages brought by
Mrs. Annie Green, wife of Frank
Green, of Newburgh, N. Y., and form-er
residents of this borough, against
the Reading Transit Company has
been settled without coming to trial.
Mrs. Green brought her action to
recover damages for injuries she sus-tained
by falling from a trolley car on
Fayette street above Hector street.
A trial of the case was had and a jury
awarded Mrs. Green $1500 and her
husband $225. The verdict was set a-slde
and a re-trial of the case was
set for this court. The attorneys tor
both sides reached an agreement and
a settlement was made. Attorney J,
Aubrey Anderson represented Mrs.
Green.
VOLUNTARY NON-SUIT
Attorney E. L. Hallman accepted an
involuntary non-suit after his client
had failed to appear when the case
was called. He represented T. R.
James & Sons, plaintiffs in the suit
against F. W. Thaison.
The case was scheduled for trial on
Monday '"'t was continued on the
plea of Attorney ('. T. Lanelere 10r
the defense. On Tuesday Mr. Larze-lere
was ready to go to trial, but Mr.
Hallman applied to the cgurt for time
to get his witnesses. Time was re-luctantly
granted by the court.
The case was a summons in assump
git.
MISSING BOY FOUND HURT
AT BOTTOM OF A WELL
After being missing slnoe Wednes-day
afternoon, James Bellendl, 12
years old, was found yesterday at the
bottom of a twenty-foot well at Con-naughhttown.
He was suffering from
cuts about the head. The well nad
not been used for a long time and
contained less than a foot of water.
Bellendl was chasing a rabbit when
he fell Into the well, which was part-ly
concealed by weeds. He called for
help, but as the nearest house was a
quarter of a mile away, no one heard
him. Yesterday a searching party dis-covered
the injured boy. He was suf-fering
from exposure but will recover.
J. ELLWOOD LEE TO
DIRECT NEW COMPANY
OCTOBER A POPULAR
WEDDING MONTH
IS VICE PRESIDENT AND GEN- MANY ATTEND THE BURT—Mc-
ERAL MANAGER OF THE HALL CAFFERTY NUPTIALS, AT
"ADVERTISE IN THE RECORPc.B"
COTTON RE-CLAIMING COM-PANY.—
NEW PROCESS TO SAVE
VAST AMOUNTS TO COTTON IN-DUSTRY.-
COMPANY IS A DELA
WARE CORPORAION.
The revolutionizing of the cotton
growing industry and a saving, repre-sented
in dazzling figures, to th
ton producers of the South is the
promise set forth by the Hall Cotton
Reclaiming Company, chartered in
Delaware and capitalized at $100,000.
J. Elhvood Lie, of this borough, of
the Lee Tire and Rubber Company, is
\ii,. president and general manager
of the Hall Company. The president
of the com, any and the inventor of.
the process is ohn B. Hall, who is
making his home at the Hotel Walton.
One of the directors is John M. Det-tra,
an attorney, of Norrlstown.
Mr. Hall's process, which has had
several practical demonstrations at
the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
is known only to a few persons who
are closely associated with him. It
embraces, first, artificial ripening of
the cotton bolls by chemical means;
and, second, mechanical treatment in
connection with ginning whereby it
is said, a superior fibre is produced.
It is held that 10 per cent of the
cott'on crop annually goes to waste
in loss of cotton during the maturing
iperiod and in immature bolls. These,
after the picking season, are plowed
under with the healthy stalks from
which the cotton has been taken.
By artificial ripening, it is contend-ed
by the Hall Cotton Reclaiming
Company, there will be no loss from
immature bolls and cotton ordinarily
weather-stained or lost In high winds
during the maturing period will be
saved. This, based on the estimates
of this year's short crop, would a-mount
to 1,500,000 bales, or about
750,000,000 pounds, which at the pre-vailing
price, would be worth approx-imately
$96,500,000. This is what In-ventor
'Hall's tests show, it is stated,
would be saved this year to the cot-ton
growers of the United States if
the process were In general use.
The last demonstration of the a-mazing
possibilities of the Hall pro-cess
was given about a week ago. Re-sults
of the tests were submitted to
Commissioner of Agriculture Watson,
of South Carolina, who is president
of the Southern Cotton Congress;
Governor O'Neill and Commissioner
Kolb, of Alabama; Governor Hall, of
Louisana and Governor Colquitt, of
Texas. All, it is said were favorably
impressed.
Not only will the Hall process save
nearly $100,000,000 a year in cotton,
as is claimed, but it is said tests show
that it will increase the production of
cotton seed and cotton seed oil. The
Commercial Museum tests, it is stat-ed,
show the following results from
seed:
Matured in then atural way—24 per
cent, oil and 32 per cent. fat.
Artificially matured—32 per cent,
oil and 61 per cent. fat.
Hut the achievements by the Hall
process nrH not to end with a saving
of $1,00(1,000,000 in cotton and seed.
By artificially maturing the bolls the
hibernating- period of the irecvll will
be so prolonged, it is held, that it
cannot survive, and it is therefore
proposed to exterminate the boll wee-vil.
A field test is to be held with the
Hall process In a few weeks. After
that, it Is stated, activities will begin
for Interesting every cotton grower in
the United States.
Mr. Hall is the Inventor of a pro-cess
which, it 1B claimed, enables him
to produce hard rubber from the stalk
of cotton piants. Rubber so produced
Is understood to have undergone se-vere
tests by experts, who are repre-sented
as saying that for Insulating
purposes it is not eualled by the hard
rubber of the present day commerce.
Moose Home Association
The Moose Home Association, of
this borough, will hold a special
meeting, Sunday afternoon next, at
two o'clock, in Cavanagh's hall, on
Forrest street when a number of im-portant
matters are to be considered.
A full atendance of the members is
desired.
BRIDGEPORT.—A LARGE RE-CEPTION
HELD.—COUPLE WILL
RESIDE HERE.—MR. HERBERT
METZGER AND MISS MATILDA
WICKERT QUIETLY MARRIED.
in the presence of a large assemb-lage
of relatives and CrlenfS, Miss
tirace McCafferty, daughter of Cor-nelius
McCafferty, of Depot and Ram-bo
streets, Bridgeport, and Mr. Deu-nia
Hurt Jr., son ol Mr. and Mrs.
pennla Hurt, LOS Forrest street, this
borough, were married at four o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, in St. Augus-tine'fl
church, Bridgeport The cere-mony
was performed by Rev. Father
(iateley, rector of the church. The
couple were attended by Miss Mam-ie
McCafferty, a sister of the bride, as
bridesmaid and Mr. I .en Hurt, a broth-er
of the groom, was best man.
After the ceremony a reception was
held at the home of the bride's fath-er,
from five until eight o'clock. The
house was prettily decorated with
autumn leaves and ferns. A wedding
supper was served after which the
newly married couple left fo r their
honeymoon which will be spent at
New York city and points of interest
in the State.
I'pon their return home, they will
reside at their newly furnished home.
103 Forrest street.
The groom is one of the borough's
best, known and most popular young
men. He is employed at the Schuyl-kill
Iron Work* of the Alan Wood
Iron and Steel Company.
The bride is one of Bridgeiiort's
best known young women and has
many friends in this borough,
o o o o o
METZGER—WICKERT
Costumes and Wigs, Robbing' Hair
Store, Norrlstown, Pa.—Adr.
Miss Matilda Wickert, daughter of
Mary and the late William Wickert,
of West Sixth avenue, became the
bride of Mr. Herbert Metzger, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Metzger, of E.
Hector street, on Tuesday evening.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
A. J. Davle3, pastor of the First Bap-tist
church in the parsonage.
After the cermony a reception was
held at the home of the bride's moth-er.
The couple are well known resi-dents
of tlie borough and have a
large circle of friends.
PRIZES IN GARDEN CONTEST
Association's First Undertaking
Proves Unusually Successful
Awards were made yesterday for
the best and prettiest gardens within
their territory by the Main Line Citi-zen's
Association, when the board of
directors met at tlie Merlon Cricket
Club.
The gardening contest, which clos-ed
officially yesterday, was the first
undertaken by the association, and
was unusually successful, even though
started rather late in the summer. Ac-cording
to Wager Fisher, of Ilryn
Mawr, chairman of the Village Im-provement
Committee, remarkable re-sults
wer obtained through the con-test.
CHILDS FRICK LEASES
BRYN MAWR HOME
Childs Frick, son of Henry ('. Frick
who recently received $12,000,000
from his father as a wedding gift, has
leased the home of .Mrs. Charles Ran-dolph
Snowden, at Bryu Mawr. Mr.
Frick and his bride, who was former-ly
Miss Frances S. Dlxon, of Balti-more,
will occupy the home about
November, l. Mrs. Snowden was for-merly
Miss Bertha P. Churchman, a
daughter of William B. Churchman of
333 South Twenty-first street, Phila-delphia.
Mrs. Snowden is now in Eng-land
occupying a house near that of
K. E. Strawbridge. Mr. Snowden was
killed last summer In an automobile
acicdent.
Dr. Thomas' Electric OH is the best
remedy for that often fatal disease—
croup. It has been used with success
In our family for eight years.—Mrs. L.
Whlteacrf. Buffalo, N. T.
Costumes and Wigs, Robblns' Hair
Store, Norristowa, Pa.—Ad».
Costumes and Wigs, Robblns' Hair
Store, Norrlstown, Pa.—Adr.
A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE PARTY
Ladies Aid Society Entertains One of
Its Oldest Members
Mrs. Richard Head, of Eighth ave-nue,
this borough, was given a de-lightful
surprise by the members of
the BalHgomlngo Baptist Church, of
\V< ,-t Conshohocken, in the parson-age
on Ford street, last evening.
Mrs. Head is one of the oldest
members of the church and has just
returned from a month's visit to rel-atives
in Philadelphia. The members
of the Ladies' Aid Society, of which
she is one of the moving spirits,
planned to give: her a reception and
invited all of the members of the
church to take part. Mrs. Malin
Stiteler, a close friend of Mrs. Head,
extended her an invitation to spend
yesterday with her and accepting the
invitation Mrs. Head went to the
West Borough. After partaking of
supper at the Stiteler home Mrs.
Head insisted on returning home, but
in answer to a proposition to take a
short walk, she acquiesced and the
route extended up Ford street, when
opposite the parsonage, near Cedar
avenue, Mrs. Stiteler proposed that
they go in and see some repairs to
the interior of the building which
have only recently been completed.
The front door was soon reached and
in response to the ring of the bell the
two ladles were invited inside. Not
knowing that it had been planned as
a surprise for her especial benefit, as
soon as she saw the gathering, Mrs.
Head began to apologize and begged
to be excused for intruding and it
was not for several minutes afterward
the guest of honor could fully realize
that she had been so taken in such a
manner in her older age. After com-posing
herself Mrs. Head enjoyed the
surprise immensely and proved her-self
to be a real hostess.
The lower rooms of the parsonage
had been beautifully decorated for
the occasion great festoons of pink
and blue crepe paper entwined were
hung from one corner of the rooms
to another, while at different places
around the rooms were to be seen the
beautiful tinted Autumn leaves and
(lowers. The table decorations were
flowers and Autumn leaves.
The hostess was presented witli a
huge bouquet as a token of esteem
by the members of the church.
Music, reading and games, inter-spersed
with graphophone selections,
formed a program which was thor-oughly
enjoyed by all present.
At a late hour supper was served
in the dining room of the parsonage,
after which all departed for their
homes wishing their friend and host-ess
many more such pleasant sur-prises.
AFTER GARBAGE DUMPERS
Police Will Stop the Polluting of
Alleys
The Burgess has had many com-plaints
from owners of properties a-butting
on alleys that persons make
a dump of the alleys depositing ashes
and garbage on other iieople's proi>-
erty. In the lower end of town, the
property owners cleaned their alley
and_ shortly afterwards a pile of re-fuse
was dumped there. The owners
notified the burgess who instructed
the police to arrest any one caught
dumping refuse on private property.
PARIS BROUGHT HERE
The display windows at Warner's
department store, Norrlstown, lias
brought a bit of Paris to this county
which will delight the hearts and the
eyes of all the ladies who appreciate
neat and fashionable dresses. In the
windows are shown the latest Paris-ienne
novelties in dress trimmings,
the pretty designs In buttons, appli-ques,
brocades, braids and neck wear
which will be used by stylish women
this fall. On the second floor show
rooms is shown a full line of coat
suits, coats and ready-made dresses.
The display is beautifully arranged
and a corps of competent and court-eous
salesladies are in attendance to
give all information regarding the fall
styles to the patrons of the store.
Confidential credit system at J. B.
RAY'S.—AdTt.
Costumes and Wigs, Robblns' Hair
Store, Norrlstown, Pa.—Adr.
READ THE RECORDER, 1140 A YR.
LOCAL TEACHERS TO BE
ACTIVE AT INSTITUTE
WILL READ PAPERS AND PARTI-CIPATE
IN THE DISCUSSIONS
ON VARIOUS TOPICS PERTAIN-ING
TO PEDOGOGY. PROMIN-ENT
INSTRUCTORS WILL
SPEAK AT THE INSTITUTE.
WHICH WILL BE OPEN ON THE
27th.
The Montgomery County Teachers'
Institute will hold its SSrth annual
session, in the Norrlstown High
School and Grand Opera House, from
October 87th to .list. Inclusive. The
morning sessions will be held In the
school building, while the afternoon
lectures will be delivered in the thea-tre.
Conshohocken, West Conshohocken
and Plymouth teachers will take a
prominent part in the institute. Su-perintendent
Cloud will be in charge
of the First and Second Primary Sec-tion.
Miss Mauguerite Jacoby will
read a paper on the subject: "Making
Moral Teaching Practical" and the
discussion will be opened by Miss
Marion Smyth. In the Commercial
section. Miss Minnie Schultz will dis-cuss
"Construction Work'' in the Rur-al
section. Tlie discussions will oc-cur
at the sessions of Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Prof. T. J. Stelti,
of West Conshohocken, will discuss
on the subject: "Primary Spelling-
Its Scope and Method." Miss Maude
Liggett will open the discussion on
the paper: "Method of Composition.''
Miss Kiln Farrell, of West t'onsho
hocken, will open the discussion on
the paper: "Phonics in the Primary
Grade." Miss Ethel M. Sudders, of
Plymouth will participate in the
round table conference, in the rural
section, on the subject "Oral Repro-duction
of Stories the Basis of Writ-ten
Reproduction," she taking as her
subject "Content."
The program for this year's insti-tute
follows:
THE INSTRUCTORS.
Supt. Payson Smith—State Superin-tendent
of Public Schools, Agusta,
Maine.
Dr. David Snedden—State Commis-sioner
of Education, Boston Mass.
Supt. James M. Coughlin—City Su-perintendent
of Schools, Wilkesbarre,
Pa. Member of Pennsylvania Board
of Education.
Prof. Raymond G. Laird—'Head of
the Department of Business Techni-que,
High School of Commerce, Bos-ton,
Mass.
Mr. O. H. Benson—Specialist in
Charge of Club Work, Bureau of
Plant Industry, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Miss Margaret T. Maguire—Super-vising
Principal, Wharton Publie
School, Philadelphia.
Miss Rose II. Fetterolf—Expert As-sistant
in Drawing, Vocational Divi-sion,
Department of Public Instruc-tion,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Prof. Wilmer M. Bean—Instructor
in Music.
MONDAY MORNING.
The enrollment of teachers, etc., at
the High School Building.
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
Devotional exercises.
Address of Welcome. Rev. Thomas
R. Beeber D. D.
The Contract with Lire, Supt. Pay-son
Smith.
Appropriate Incentives, Miss Mar-garet
T. Maguire.
Announcements.
MONDAY EVENING.
Lectures, Sour Graiies, Dr. Edward
Amherst Ott.
TUESDAY MORNING.
'High School Section, Vocational
training.
Grammar School Section; How the
Teaching by Civics in Grammar
Grades May Be Made Practical.
First and Second Primary Grades,
Making Lesson Plans.
Rural School Section, Illustrating
Lessons and Stories by Drawing, Pio-tures
and Construction Work.
Commercial Section—Training for
Speed in Shorthand.
Manual Arts Section.
Music Section.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
Music.
Devotional Exercises.
Penmanship. Prof. Raymond G.
laird.
Music.
Educational Obligations, Supt. Pay-son
Smith.
Announcements. -